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China's National Day holiday closes with the year's biggest managed migration in reverse: officials count 2.13 billion cross-regional trips over seven days, flag 44 congestion-prone expressway sections, and explain why an empty road ahead can still mean a jam.
A video blogger's line that 'the power of 10,000 yuan is badly underestimated' opened one of the week's biggest conversations about money, as Chinese social media converted abstract figures back into rice, hospital bills and half-years of farm labor.
At his 2026 Mars stadium concert, pop star Hua Chenyu told the audience that despair does not always need a reason, described researching bipolar disorder, and asked fans not to dismiss a friend's nameless suffering as 'moaning without an illness' — the very phrase that is the stigma.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
China's men's team lost 1-0 to Tajikistan in Chongqing on Tuesday — the first defeat by the Central Asian side in the teams' 29-year history. Captain Wei Shihao was sent off for elbowing an opponent, sealing a third straight friendly defeat in which China failed to score.
Novak Djokovic won a seventh China Open title in Beijing on Sunday — a seventh title in seven appearances at the tournament — after Alex de Minaur retired injured in the final. At 39, he is now 34-0 in Beijing, the best unbeaten start at a single event in the Open Era.
The dance-poem production inspired by a Song-dynasty landscape scroll reaches 1,000 performances with a symphony edition at the Water Cube — a milestone for China's touring stage industry and its heritage aesthetic.
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