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Companies That Won't Hire Workers Over 35 Now Face a Boycott From Them

A Douyin joke — don't buy from companies that won't employ anyone over 35 — is trending on Weibo as a real boycott call, attaching consumer consequences to China's infamous '35-year-old threshold' just as the state begins dismantling age limits in its own hiring.

Xi Orders Accountability After 25 Die in Cargo Ship Fire at Qingdao Shipyard

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Xi Orders Accountability After 25 Die in Cargo Ship Fire at Qingdao Shipyard

A fire aboard a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier under repair at a state-run Qingdao shipyard killed all 25 people listed as missing, and President Xi Jinping has ordered an investigation and accountability. The daylong rescue exposed how lethal fires in enclosed ship compartments can be.

'Aunt Mei' Indicted for Child Trafficking — and Her Own Family Disowns Her

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'Aunt Mei' Indicted for Child Trafficking — and Her Own Family Disowns Her

As prosecutors ready the child-trafficking case against Xie Jiamei — the 'Aunt Mei' of Chinese criminal legend — her first husband, son and relatives have come forward to disown her, sketching a biography of abandonment that readers are debating as character evidence, not excuse.

A parents' committee at a prestigious Taiyuan middle school crowdfunded some 5,000 yuan of Teacher's Day gifts — MAC sets, Parker pens, bouquets — before a leaked screenshot reached regulators; the district education bureau has ordered an investigation, on the holiday itself.

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A Parents' Chat, 5,000 Yuan of Cosmetics and an Inquiry: Teacher's Day's Gift Problem Returns

10 Sep 2026

Two weeks after China's housing ministries rewrote the country's sales rules, land auctions in Xiamen, Lishui and Guangzhou already require finished-home sales — the clearest sign yet that the pre-sale model behind China's unfinished-tower disasters is being phased out.

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China Begins the Shift to Selling Flats Only When They Are Built

10 Sep 2026

Beijing has dismissed a joint NSA-FBI-CISA advisory accusing Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Alibaba of distilling American models at industrial scale, calling distillation a neutral, universal practice — the sharpest official response yet in the AI fight between the two countries.

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Beijing Rejects US Accusation That Chinese AI Firms Distilled American Models at 'Industrial Scale'

9 Sep 2026

A 2010 registration photograph has revealed the real face of 'Aunt Mei,' China's most notorious child trafficker, as her trial opens — ending a decade in which the country knew her only through a police sketch her own neighbours doubted.

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China Finally Puts a Face to 'Aunt Mei,' the Country's Most Notorious Child Trafficker

9 Sep 2026

A viral video claimed a team leader at CATL's Yibin battery complex barred workers from toilet breaks. The company calls it a fabricated rumor about a site that is not its own and has reported it to police — but much of the internet is asking which factory the footage actually shows.

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CATL Denies Viral Video Claiming Workers Were Denied Toilet Breaks, Reports It to Police

9 Sep 2026

Police in Xi'an have closed one of the city's oldest unsolved killings: a 20-year-old woman invited to dinner by her neighbours in 2004 was killed and dismembered, and the couple fled for 21 years. The case's return to the news has been nearly as much about how it was told — a husband 'protecting his pregnant wife' — as about the crime itself.

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A 21-Year-Old Suitcase Murder in Xi'an Is Solved — and Its Framing Becomes the Story

9 Sep 2026

New details from Guangzhou show that 'Aunt Mei', the most wanted woman in China's child-trafficking docket, spent her years on the run in a 10-square-metre rented room in Baiyun district, selling cut mango at night and collecting scrap to survive. Neighbours say her real appearance matches no published portrait — a fact that helps explain one of China's longest manhunts.

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Aunt Mei Sold Cut Mango From a Tricycle for Years Before Her Arrest — and Her Neighbours Say the Police Sketch Was Wrong

9 Sep 2026

The United States and Iran have traded strikes across the Gulf for a third day — oil tankers, destroyers, airbases in Jordan — and on Chinese social media the war is being followed with interceptor counts, missile analyses and gold charts. It is also being felt: oil-linked inflation and the price of gold are the local angle on a distant conflict.

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Tankers Sunk, Bases Struck: China's Internet Watches the US–Iran Conflict Escalate

9 Sep 2026

Geng Hongwei, the science blogger whose misconduct exposés have toppled senior academics, has been hired as a specially appointed lecturer by Zhejiang Media University. The hire is being debated as either the professionalization of online accountability — or its domestication.

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Academic-Misconduct Blogger 'Geng Tongxue' Hired as a University Lecturer

8 Sep 2026

From October 1, compliant childbirth in Shanghai will cost patients nothing out of pocket, with a 4,500-yuan prenatal allowance and full reimbursement for delivery. The same week, Wuhan sealed an underground assisted-reproduction lab and detained eight people — two edges of China's struggle to make having children affordable and safe.

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Shanghai Makes Childbirth Free as Wuhan Seals an Underground IVF Lab

8 Sep 2026

Geng Hongwei, the science blogger whose misconduct exposés have toppled senior academics, has been hired as a specially appointed lecturer by Zhejiang Media University. The hire is being debated as either the professionalization of online accountability — or its domestication.

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China's Pinglu Canal, First Major Canal Since 1949, Opens September 16

8 Sep 2026

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A Bridge Deck Gave Way Under a Man Visiting His Hospitalized Grandmother; She Died Nine Days Later

8 Sep 2026

China's customs administration on September 8 reported August exports up 25 percent year on year and imports up 28.2 percent, the fourth straight month of double-digit growth on both sides of the ledger — a boom powered by car exports and AI-chip price gains that sits beside a strikingly weak domestic consumer economy.

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China's Exports Accelerate Again, Up 25% in August, as Autos and AI Chips Power a Trade Boom

8 Sep 2026

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China and Britain Signal a Reset as Xi Holds First Call With New PM Burnham

8 Sep 2026

A Xiaohongshu influencer posted a photoshopped receipt showing a 1 million-yuan donation to the Guangxi Red Cross during July's typhoon flooding. The Red Cross found no such gift — only a one-yuan donation under her name — and lawyers say she could be made to actually pay the million.

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Influencer Banned After Million-Yuan Flood Donation Claim Turns Out to Be One Yuan

8 Sep 2026