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Unable to Pay the Mortgage, a Woman Asks Her Ex-Boyfriend to Reclaim the Flat He Bought Her

Unable to Pay the Mortgage, a Woman Asks Her Ex-Boyfriend to Reclaim the Flat He Bought Her

A viral video from Huizhou shows a woman asking her ex-boyfriend to take back the flat he down-paid for her: the home is worth 700,000-800,000 yuan against a 1.3 million yuan mortgage. The plea failed to win sympathy, but it captures what China's property downturn means for the households caught inside it.

State Media Calls for a Full Mukbang Ban After a 24-Year-Old Streamer's Death

State Media Calls for a Full Mukbang Ban After a 24-Year-Old Streamer's Death

A month after mukbang streamer Ganfan Yingying died at 24 following years of extreme eating and purging, state-affiliated outlet ThePaper has called for China's eating-show genre to be banned outright, turning mourning into a debate about the traffic economy that paid for the spectacle.

A Porsche Saleswoman Says She's the World's No. 1 — and China Is Arguing About Whether to Believe Her

Mu Qianwen, a saleswoman at Qingdao's Porsche Centre who has sold hundreds of luxury cars a year, announced she now ranks first in the world. The claim trended — along with a counterargument about team-pooled sales, manufactured idols, and an economy where attention itself is the prize.

Screenshots of Olympic diving champion Zhang Jiaqi's WeChat exchanges with her mother — lectures, forwarded cautionary videos and criticisms — have become the most-discussed parenting text of the week, reviving the debate over China's tradition of upbringing by criticism.

Olympic Champion Zhang Jiaqi's Chat Records With Her Mother Fuel a Parenting Debate

7 Sep 2026

She Donated Monthly for Years. When She Stopped, the Charity Called to Ask Why.

6 Sep 2026

After tourists' laser pens, shouted greetings and livestream crews drove a 75-year-old Shaoxing man to cut down the seven gourds that made him famous, the story has turned again: he has refused offers to buy them — 'priceless,' he says — visitors are thinning out, and the city's tourism bureau has sided publicly with his quiet.

'Calabash Grandpa' Refuses to Sell His Seven Gourds as the Crowds Recede

6 Sep 2026

A small Zhejiang slipper maker prints missing-children alerts on its supermarket hangtags — portrait, description and a QR code to the Baby Back Home database — and destroys the tag the moment a child is found. Shoppers are buying the slippers deliberately to widen the search.

Why Some Slippers in Chinese Supermarkets Carry a Missing Child's Face

6 Sep 2026

Ten days after an elderly couple in Shaoxing became China's favorite viral neighbors, the man known as 'Calabash Grandpa' cut down the seven gourds that made him famous, saying the crowds on his unrailed riverbank had become unsafe. The farewell — a song, a wave, and 'you can all go home now' — closes a story that began with an open door.

'Calabash Grandpa' Cuts Down His Seven Gourds, Ending the Viral Saga That Overran His Riverbank

5 Sep 2026

He Jiaolong, the Xinjiang official whose red-cloaked snowfield gallop made her the face of local-government tourism promotion, has died months after a January riding accident. A People's Daily memorial revealed her burial in a plain grave — and her mother's refusal to let anyone build a statue.

He Jiaolong, the Red-Cloaked Rider of Xinjiang's Tourism Boom, Dies; Her Mother Asks for No Statue

5 Sep 2026

Deep in Debt and Ready to Give Up, a Henan Man Copied Pang Dong Lai — and Repaid 1.05 Million Yuan

4 Sep 2026

Opening a first bank card, a Chinese university student found a passbook paying in money every year — traced to a policy their dead grandfather had bought in secret, named 'A Life of Perfect Happiness', which pays until they turn 80.

The Insurance Policy Named 'A Perfect Life' a Grandfather Secretly Left His Grandchild

3 Sep 2026

A Man Who Grew Seven Gourds in a Row Became 'Grandpa Calabash' — and Reopened a Grief Twenty Years Old

3 Sep 2026

An employee who typed a 16-digit account ID into the amount field credited a Hunan man with 2.64 quadrillion yuan of virtual points; he spent 250,000 yuan of them in twenty days, refused to return the money, and has now lost in court on unjust-enrichment grounds.

Windfall From a Typo: A 1,000-Yuan Top-Up Became 2.6 Quadrillion Yuan, and a Court Ordered It Back

3 Sep 2026

A post asking why one person should have to hold a job and keep a home became one of Weibo's most-argued-over questions this week. The answer, for many Chinese women, is obvious — and so is the pushback.

'Why Must I Work and Do the Housework Too?' A Viral Complaint Reopens China's Second-Shift Debate

3 Sep 2026

A grandmother who moved from her hometown to Changsha to look after her grandson lost 20 kilograms in six months and was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Her case landed on Baidu's top board as Chinese families confront the physical toll on the grandparents who do much of the country's childcare.

A 59-Year-Old Grandmother Lost 20 Kilograms to Anxiety While Caring for Her Grandson

3 Sep 2026

A driver on one of China's most popular self-driving routes hit a flock of sheep, paid 84,800 yuan in compensation — and was told the dead animals were not his. The reason is a corner of tort law that city drivers keep rediscovering.

He Paid 84,800 Yuan for the Sheep He Killed. He Still Couldn't Take Them Home.

2 Sep 2026

In a first-grade parent group chat in Xichang, Sichuan, one family proposed chipping in 600 yuan a month for a classroom cleaner — and the parent who asked "why not two nannies while we're at it?" found herself muted by the teacher. The education bureau is now investigating.

Why a Proposal to Pay for a Classroom Cleaner Set Off China's Parent Group Chats

2 Sep 2026

'Mum Never Said She Wouldn't Buy It': A Dragon Fruit Scene Reopens China's Guilt-Parenting Debate

1 Sep 2026