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Livestream rooms on Chinese video platforms have been passing off spliced recordings of old table-tennis matches as live games — complete with fabricated scoreboards, an invented 30:28 finale and ads for face masks sold under a star player's name — while more than 200,000 viewers cheered along, unaware.
For decades viral hepatitis was the liver disease Chinese people feared most. Better hygiene and vaccination have pushed it down — and a fattier, more sedentary way of life has pushed metabolic fatty liver to the top, with prevalence estimates of 30 to 40 percent and a firm grip on the young.
Chinese platforms released 13 times as many micro short dramas in the first nine months of this year as in all of last year, with AI-made shows above nine in ten; costs have fallen to as little as 30,000 yuan a title and cycles to days — and the actors and studios who built the genre are watching the floor drop out.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
An American couple sold everything to live permanently on a residential cruise ship. Two years, recurring fees and a fuel shortfall later, the cancer patient was told to disembark in Cambodia within seven hours — and Weibo is reading it as the prepaid-card trap, afloat.
Jing Di asked a seatmate twice, via the crew, to lower his phone calls. He got louder. The hour that followed has trending boards revisiting the one fix rail passengers keep proposing: a quiet carriage you can pay for.
Mou Qianwen, a 35-year-old Porsche saleswoman in Qingdao, finished 2026 first in the brand's China standings — won through a short-video following and a customer base that is more than 60 percent women, at the age China's job market usually starts rejecting people.
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