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A Tsinghua-led report for the Lancet Countdown, released on October 29, quantifies what a warming China is already losing: a record year of heat days, roughly 20,000 heat-related deaths, 47.7 hours of work and 22.7 hours of sleep lost per worker — alongside the first drop in coal power in a decade.
When "Xiao Xiao Xu," a 24-year-old blogger from a village in Yiliang, Yunnan, invited strangers to his wedding, thousands of people from across China actually came — bringing gifts, cooking two tons of chicken, baking a 6.6-meter cake, and sleeping in villagers' homes when the hotels filled up.
The gufeng singer Wuen died on October 30 at 41 after nearly seven years with gastric cancer. Within hours, Chinese social media had turned his obituary into the country's biggest health story of the day: an explainer on signet-ring cell carcinoma, a rare stomach cancer whose early symptoms mimic ordinary gastritis.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A businessman who fell asleep mid-massage in a Renshou County spa woke to an act he never ordered; the spa called it part of the package, police opened a prostitution case, and the standoff over compensation has split the comment section.
'Hou Hui You Qi' gathers celebrities and esports players who fell out publicly — a 2006 Super Girl rivalry, a benched pro gamer and his old teammate — and has taken the top of Douban's trending chart with a formula China's internet can't stop reading.
When the world's No. 2 in women's table tennis faced France's Alex Lebrun in a training-hall exhibition, she declined any handicap and started 0–0. She won a set; the gender argument she started has run for days.
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