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An AI-generated adaptation of Jin Yong's wuxia classic trended this week on a striking claim — that the machine-made version looks better than the human-acted ones — and the argument it set off runs from cheap-CGI complaints to an AI revival of the 1983 classic's cast.
A Weibo question about why young people shun wet markets collected a ledger of small betrayals — pork you cannot refuse once cut, prices that rise for young faces, meat flattered by colored lamps — and a hundred-thousand-like answer that prefers the supermarket's clear prices and absence of small talk.
Hubei province's quarterly list of major labor-law violations cites China Construction Seventh Engineering Division — a subsidiary of one of China's biggest central state-owned enterprises — for owing 118 migrant workers 3.2 million yuan, and for missing the deadline to fix it.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
As China's biggest online shopping festival opens its pre-sales, the most shared advice on Weibo is not where the discounts are but how to escape them: paste your cart into a chatbot and let it write a do-not-buy list. The platforms, meanwhile, are answering with AI-made dramas and AI livestream hosts of their own.
DeepSeek's chatbot and developer API went down for nearly five hours on Thursday, the Chinese AI lab's second service failure in three days. The company responded with a gesture few Chinese internet services have made: refunding every API customer's spending from the past week, in credit, automatically.
Jiang Jinfu, the actor whose career ended after two domestic-violence scandals, is trending again — not for a comeback, but for gym videos showing a 6.8 percent body-fat physique and a life of running and climbing. The reaction split down the line China has drawn before: admiration, and the question of who gets to be forgiven.
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026