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Xi Jinping hosted Oman's Sultan Haitham in Beijing on a visit state media framed around two monuments — one in Guangzhou, one in Salalah — commemorating a maritime friendship dating to an 8th-century Omani voyage to Tang-dynasty China, the voyage said to have inspired Sinbad.
A Shanghai woman checks into a hotel on Monday and out on Friday, paying 3,600 yuan a month with breakfast and cleaning included — cheaper than a local flat. Hotels are courting the trend, and lawyers say the contracts are the catch.
A short video alleging that the rattan baskets restaurants use for Instagram-friendly meals trap sauce, crumbs and insects has left China's aesthetic-dining scene reeling — and turned a food-safety worry into the week's defining meme.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Zhong Xue Gao, the 'Hermès of ice cream' whose 66-yuan ECCO-branded bar once made it a byword for premium excess, has relaunched on JD after bankruptcy — and shoppers are finding the same brand at single-digit prices, a small case study in what happens to China's premium boom when the mood changes.
Lijian-2, the modular rocket built by CAS Space, completed its second flight on November 3 by deploying 18 satellites for China's Qianfan broadband constellation — the first constellation-scale launch for a rocket designed to be assembled like building blocks, with its makers citing costs benchmarked against SpaceX.
The first mass-market wave of Chinese EVs is crossing the eight-year battery warranty line, and replacement packs that cost more than the cars are worth are forcing owners — and now regulators — to confront what an aging electric fleet is actually worth.
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