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Thirteenfold in Two Days: a State Machinery Maker Becomes China's Hottest Stock

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Thirteenfold in Two Days: a State Machinery Maker Becomes China's Hottest Stock

Shengu Group, a state-owned maker of industrial compressors priced at 4.39 yuan a share for its Shanghai debut, closed its second trading day at 57.77 yuan — up more than 1,200 percent from the IPO price — as retail investors battled over a free float so small the frenzy earned the stock a punning nickname, 'Magic Drum'.

Secondhand Homes Overtake New Sales as China Declares Its Housing 'Stock Era'

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Secondhand Homes Overtake New Sales as China Declares Its Housing 'Stock Era'

China's housing ministry said the country's property market has entered a 'stock era', with secondhand homes making up 52 percent of transactions in the first eight months of 2026. The same week, sellers on Weibo began trending for refusing to cut prices — the clearest sign yet that the world's largest property market is reorganizing around the homes it already has.

China's Annual Expo with ASEAN Reopens in Nanning, Built Around What ASEAN Wants

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China's Annual Expo with ASEAN Reopens in Nanning, Built Around What ASEAN Wants

The 23rd China-ASEAN Expo opened in Nanning under the banner of the CAFTA 3.0 trade upgrade, with a first-ever exhibition zone built around ASEAN countries' stated needs — and Chinese firms showing humanoid robots, robot dogs and smart home tech as the answers.

A CCTV-affiliated outlet's investigation claims major American AI models echo Japanese revisionist framings of Second World War history, and traces them to newly AI-friendly Japanese archives. The claim trended at No. 7 on Weibo during the Xiangshan Forum, where delegates were already warning about AI-borne disinformation.

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China's State Media Says American Chatbots Tell Japan's Version of Wartime History

17 Sep 2026

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More Chinese Buyers Are Paying for Homes in Full, in Cash

17 Sep 2026

Industrial output jumped 5.2% in August while retail sales managed just 0.4% — a widening gap between what China makes and what its people buy. The country's data analysts spent the week explaining why both numbers are telling the truth.

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China's Factories Are Racing Ahead of Its Shoppers, August Data Shows

16 Sep 2026

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A Funeral Rite, a DNA Test, Two Lost Suits: China's 'No Blood Tie' Inheritance Case Reaches a High Court

16 Sep 2026

When a doctoral student at Southern Medical University fell to his death in Guangzhou, Weibo decided within a day that an overbearing advisor was to blame — until the university's inquiry, chat logs and the student's own family said otherwise. The case has become a fresh test of how China's internet judges an advisor-student relationship it already expects to be abusive.

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Chat Logs Undercut the 'Exploitative Advisor' Story After a Medical Student's Death in Guangzhou

16 Sep 2026

An assistant engineer at an aero-engine research institute grew up in a welfare institution; a "Teacher Wang" funded him from secondary school through graduation, then began demanding internal documents. The case, dramatized by CCTV this week and trending at No. 2 on Baidu, shows how foreign services cultivate China's most vulnerable students — and how the state asks citizens to respond.

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He Reported the Man Who Paid for His Education: A Spy Case China Is Retelling as a Moral Test

16 Sep 2026

The first revision of China's Housing Provident Fund Regulation since 2019 takes effect on September 20: rent withdrawals lose their income-threshold test, renovation and property fees become eligible uses, and gig workers may join voluntarily — even as a court case over 2 million yuan in unpaid contributions shows the system's other face.

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China Rewrites Its Housing Provident Fund Rules: Rent, Renovation and Property Fees Now Qualify

16 Sep 2026

A vocational student from a welfare household in Jiangxi worked holiday jobs to pay for a concert trip to Hong Kong — and drew a People's Daily verdict that welfare 'is not a fixed benefit' and concerts count as high consumption, setting off a national argument over poverty, dignity and the surveillance of the poor.

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A Welfare Teenager's Hong Kong Concert Trip Tests the Limits of China's Dibao Rules

16 Sep 2026

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First in the Exam, Barred for Her Start: 'First-Degree Discrimination' on Trial in Shandong

16 Sep 2026

Xu Huping, who led the Nanjing Museum until 2017, was sentenced to three years for bribery after investigators found irregular transfers and sales of donated paintings and calligraphy. The verdict, announced with punishments for more than a dozen others, left Chinese readers asking whether three years for an 81-year-old counts as accountability.

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Nanjing Museum's Ex-Director Gets Three Years Over Donated Artifacts Scandal

16 Sep 2026

A former 1点点 employee says that after he reported stones in the tea leaves and filed for labor arbitration, three company representatives visited his elderly grandparents with surveillance footage and a warning that he had been reported to police. His account is China's most-read story of the day — and a parable of what happens to workers who use the system's own channels.

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Stones in the Tea: A Whistleblower Says the Bubble Tea Chain 1点点 Went After His Grandparents

16 Sep 2026

A student due to graduate next year from Southern Medical University's eight-year medical programme fell to his death in Guangzhou in August, and unverified posts say his supervisor had granted only three days' leave while his father was dead and his mother in intensive care. The case has set off a national debate over the near-absolute power supervisors hold over Chinese doctoral students.

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A Medical Student Died in Guangzhou; China Is Arguing About the Three Days of Leave His Supervisor Approved

16 Sep 2026

Three years after a 28-year-old lawyer was killed by a brick thrown from a Changchun high-rise — by a man who was executed in 2024 — a court has ruled that Wanda, the building's property managers and the night market's operator jointly bear 40 percent of the liability, a civil verdict with consequences for every Chinese business that operates beneath residential towers.

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Changchun Court Assigns 40% of Blame for Brick-Throwing Death to Wanda, Property Managers and Night Market

16 Sep 2026

The 134.2-kilometre Pinglu Canal opened to shipping on Wednesday, the first river-to-sea canal China has built with national coordination since 1949. Built in four years at a cost of 72.7 billion yuan, it cuts the journey from Nanning to the sea from 827 kilometres to 204 — and turns a landlocked provincial capital into a port city facing Southeast Asia.

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China's First River-to-Sea Canal Since 1949 Opens, Cutting 560 Kilometres Off the Southwest's Route to the Sea

16 Sep 2026

At the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, former ambassador Cui Tiankai declared that China would settle the Taiwan question 'once and for all,' calling it the red line among red lines. The vow went viral just as US-China security dialogue thaws and trade talks resume ahead of a possible Xi-Trump summit.

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Solve Taiwan 'Once and for All': Cui Tiankai's Xiangshan Forum Vow

15 Sep 2026