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When the Red Army crossed Guizhou in 1934, Shaozhai village built them a bridge from its own doors, and a commander promised a new countryside in return. The village has maintained that plank bridge ever since — dismantling it each flood season — long after a concrete bridge made it redundant.
ByteDance's Doubao assistant can read a phone's screen and tap through apps like a human. On October 14 its public-comment period closed with 151 apps — WeChat, Taobao, Alipay among them — formally refusing to let it operate, drawing the battle lines for AI agents in China.
A new hire screenshotted her boss's welcome message and the group chat instantly announced it to everyone. Behind the joke lies a default setting in WeChat Work and DingTalk — anti-leak screenshot alerts — that Chinese office workers learn to navigate before they learn anything else.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
China's customs agency reported 39.94 trillion yuan, about 5.8 trillion US dollars, in goods trade for the first nine months of 2026, up 18.8% in yuan terms, with September the first month ever above the 5-trillion mark. Integrated-circuit exports nearly doubled, and the same day the 140th Canton Fair opened in Guangzhou.
A front-row passenger finally told a fellow traveller to end an hour-long speakerphone call — "this is public space, not your living room" — and the railway's own answer exposed how little power anyone has to enforce China's civility rules.
A Beijing ultrasound doctor who spotted a pea-sized nodule told her patient to name its exact location at the next hospital. Two top hospitals failed to find the lesion until she did — it was early breast cancer, and China's annual-checkup system is taking the lesson.
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