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In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, a new late-night ritual is quietly spreading: young professionals hauling cardboard and bottles down to the recycling station after 11 p.m., hoping not to run into the retired women and men who have worked these beats for decades. Phoenix Weekly spent a week selling scrap to understand why.
Gold's slide below $4,000 an ounce on October 23 — its first time under that mark since July — rippled immediately into Chinese jewellery counters, where brands cut their per-gram prices by up to 30 yuan overnight, and investors asked whether to buy the dip.
As a new CCTV documentary revives attention on Southeast Asia's fraud compounds, an anthropologist who spent 60 hours interviewing escapees describes the particular pipeline that traps women — and why some are never redeemed even when they meet their sales targets.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
After a customer was reminded five times in ninety minutes, Starbucks China has made 'consumption to sit' a national policy — and the debate over who owns cafe seating has pulled in its own customers, Weibo and the Shanghai Consumer Council.
A 41-year-old unmarried Beijing woman died with no will, no spouse and no children — so her apartment escheated to the state and nine aunts and uncles who sued for the rest split only part of her savings. The verdict is being read as a warning to China's growing ranks of single, childless adults.
The return of a popular Chinese medical reality show backfired when a trainee guessed a brain tumor on camera and bragged about grade-4 surgery, drawing an unusually pointed rebuke from People's Daily and rare public agreement from working doctors.
22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026