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China's vertical-screen micro-dramas have entered the English language as 'duanju' — a word now listed on Wikipedia and used in overseas industry circles — as Chinese companies come to supply roughly nine-tenths of the international market for the format.
A regulation effective November 5 makes Shenzhen the first Chinese city to legislate dimming urban lighting for migratory birds — the codification of years of small surrenders, from dimmed park lamps to bird-friendly building design, along the edge of its mangrove reserve.
With marriage registrations down more than half a million couples year on year, villages and county governments across China are offering newlyweds cash grants, gift vouchers and even matchmaker bounties — a shift from nagging to paying that concedes what the real obstacles are.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A 38-year-old from Sichuan was tricked into flying to Thailand by a friend of more than a decade and sold into Myanmar's scam-compound economy — where traffickers deemed him too old to be worth selling, a judgment that helped save his life. His rescue, brokered by his sister, has pushed the fate of Chinese nationals in the compounds back onto Weibo's trending list.
Wang Shuqin, a septuagenarian in Zhengzhou who ran a scrap-collection station, sews sturdy stools from construction waste; her short videos have drawn half a million views and orders from as far away as the United States.
A short video of a Shandong family celebrating a daughter's first period — flowers, brown-sugar water and a “congratulations” from her father — has resonated across China, where menstruation has long been treated as something to hide.
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