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A question atop Zhihu — why can China achieve 'vegetable freedom' when Europe cannot? — drew answers ranging from agronomy to national pride. The short version: Europe's climate fights its leafy greens, and China's entire food culture is built around them.
Three years after a one-point loss to the Philippines ended China's run at the Hangzhou Asian Games, a rebuilt Chinese men's team beat the defending champions 105-61 in Nagoya on Sunday — the group-stage statement of a tournament that now heads into the knockout rounds.
New bank loans collapsed to 60 billion yuan in August as Chinese households kept paying down mortgages. For the first time on record, companies raised more money selling shares than banks lent in a month — the latest sign that China's savers are choosing stocks over property.
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Wuzhishan, in the mountains of Hainan, logged its heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 68 years, setting off flash floods, a school-slope collapse and a tornado in Wanning as more than 42,000 people were moved to safety. With the rain now easing, the island is watching a new system offshore: Typhoon Azalea, which could reach super-typhoon strength just ahead of China's busiest holiday fortnight.
Believing online claims that iodine feeds thyroid nodules, a Zhejiang mother put her whole family on non-iodized salt through pregnancy and breastfeeding. Her two-year-old daughter, diagnosed with hypothyroidism, is the cautionary tale doctors are now using against a persistent health myth.
China's doctoral enrollment passed 200,000 students a year for the first time in 2025, and the academic job market cannot hold them. The most visible consequence: elite secondary schools in Shenzhen and other rich cities now staff their classrooms with Tsinghua, Peking University and Cambridge PhDs.
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