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Chongqing's 'Landing-Visa' Motorcycle Photo Trend Is Drawing State-TV Warnings

A photo ritual that greets visitors to Chongqing — stunt poses on fast motorcycles — has grown into a commercial operation CCTV found weaving through live traffic, uninsured, while residents along the route beg for it to stop.

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A Shanghai Officer Politely Declined a Tourist's Hug — and Started a Debate on Both Sides of the Camera

Video of a Shanghai SWAT officer gently fending off a foreign visitor's embrace during a holiday photo-op drew praise at home, criticism of the tourist abroad, and a fresh argument about the etiquette of inbound tourism.

Sports

A 19-Year-Old Japanese Player Is Table Tennis's Youngest-Ever World No. 1 — and China Is Out of the Top Three

Matsushima Sora's rise to men's singles No. 1 at 19 years, 5 months makes him the youngest in the sport's history and the first Japanese man on top in 46 years; the mechanics involve expired points as much as proven form.

A candidate for teaching posts in Guangdong's Puning says the education bureau used an 'unqualified' HIV test to press him into signing away the job, reigniting the argument over who China screens — and why.

Health

Barred From a Teaching Job Over an HIV Result, a Candidate Takes His Case to the Internet

5 Oct 2026

Zheng Jiyan says a national industrial-data project concealed rigged bidding worth tens of millions of yuan; after two years of internal reports went nowhere and cost him his job, he has gone public in his own name.

News & Politics

Fired After Reporting Fraud, a China Telecom Employee Took His Allegations to the Party's Top Watchdog

5 Oct 2026

A three-part documentary airing this week traces how Myanmar's scam compounds rose under local militia protection — and the survivor at its centre includes a man who was sold between fraud parks and forced to surrender a kidney.

News & Politics

CCTV's Documentary on Myanmar's Scam Compounds Puts Faces to the Industrial Scale of the Trade

5 Oct 2026

A symbolic 10,000-yuan crowdfunding target for the sequel to a beloved Chinese indie game blew past 20 million yuan this week. The producer's response — livestreamed appeals, a kowtow to the camera, a plea not to be 'made into a god' — has become the story.

Culture

Why the Creator of 'ICEY 2' Is Begging China's Gamers to Stop Donating

4 Oct 2026

Golden Week crowds met the same goods at every scenic area in China — the hand cream, the fridge magnet, the photogenic ice cream that melts before it is eaten. A survey published with Southern Weekly's trend piece found cost, not variety, is what finally broke the habit: 59 percent of respondents call the souvenirs overpriced.

Travel

Hand Cream, Fridge Magnets, Ice Cream: Young Chinese Tourists Are Done With the Souvenir 'Sucker's Trio'

4 Oct 2026

Qilian county in Qinghai — population about 50,000 — received over 100,000 visitors in a single Golden Week day. With every hotel full and night temperatures at minus four, the local culture and tourism bureau housed nearly 500 people in school dormitories for free, and its staff answered more than 400 calls in seven hours.

Travel

100,000 Visitors, 50,000 Residents: a County Opens Its School Dormitories to Stranded Tourists

4 Oct 2026

A paper posted over the Golden Week holiday by Kaiming He's group at MIT argues the world's best models have been sitting the hardest AGI exam effectively blindfolded, fed a 64×64 grid of numbers instead of the game screen. Restore the image and add a searchable visual memory, and Claude went from 40 to a perfect 100.

Tech

Kaiming He's Team Finds Top AI Models Were Taking the AGI Test Blind — and Claude Scores 100 With Its Sight Restored

4 Oct 2026

Entertainment

Kevin Tsai Is Photographed at a Pro-Independence Rally, and Leapmotor Scrambles to Cut Him Loose

4 Oct 2026

News & Politics

Over 100,000 Pregnant Women's Blood Samples Smuggled Abroad, China's State Security Ministry Warns

4 Oct 2026

A new artifact in China's hit animation 'Renegade Immortal' — a stone coffin said to raise the dead — sent fans hunting for its real-world model. They found it in Xi'an's Beilin Museum: the Sui-dynasty sarcophagus of a nine-year-old court girl, carved with a curse that reads 'whoever opens it dies.'

Culture

'Renegade Immortal' Fans Trace a Cartoon Coffin to a Real 1,400-Year-Old Sarcophagus

4 Oct 2026

Sweden's Truls Möregårdh has published his autobiography in Chinese just as the WTT China Smash opens in Beijing. The pages racing around Weibo are the ones about Wang Chuqin — written not as score-settling but as a thank-you letter to the man who beat him.

Sports

Why Truls Möregårdh Thanked Wang Chuqin for Every Loss

4 Oct 2026

On the fourth day of China's Golden Week, state TV told hundreds of millions of holidaymakers which invisible systems are carrying them: six national networks — water, power, computing, communications, buried pipes and logistics — pitched as one investment program worth trillions.

Tech

Water, Watts, Clouds and Pipes: CCTV's 'Six Super Networks' Show Where China's Next Trillions Go

4 Oct 2026

Culture

'Slave-Labour Theory': China's Viral Argument Over Who Sets the Quality of Service

4 Oct 2026

Retired Olympic diver Zhang Jiaqi ended her reality-show year with a long post about her mother: the missed years are real, the distance is real, and time does not run backwards. The post drew tens of thousands of likes within hours and pushed China's running argument about the 'family of origin' back to the top of the feed.

Life Stories

Zhang Jiaqi, Out of the Pool and on TV, Faces the Distance From Her Mother

4 Oct 2026

Li Leyou, the rural girl whose twelve-year sponsorship by a stranger's family became China's best-loved reality-TV sequel, has moved out of her benefactor's home. A falling-out aired on livestream — allowances cut, a noodle shop refused — has the country arguing about gratitude, adulthood and who owns a life story.

Life Stories

The Warmest Ending in Chinese Reality TV Turns Into a Public Family Quarrel

4 Oct 2026

The Douyin account of Huihui Baobao — an influencer whose staged 'gifts to street cleaners' videos collapsed under scrutiny this week — has been cleared and blocked, the platform's most visible punishment yet for charity performed as content.

Culture

Douyin Wipes the Account of Huihui Baobao, the Influencer Who Turned Charity Into Content

4 Oct 2026

News & Politics

No Heirs, No Will: A Beijing Court Sends a Solo Woman's ¥4 Million Flat to the State

4 Oct 2026

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Chongqing's 'Landing-Visa' Motorcycle Photo Trend Is Drawing State-TV Warnings

A Shanghai Officer Politely Declined a Tourist's Hug — and Started a Debate on Both Sides of the Camera

A 19-Year-Old Japanese Player Is Table Tennis's Youngest-Ever World No. 1 — and China Is Out of the Top Three

Barred From a Teaching Job Over an HIV Result, a Candidate Takes His Case to the Internet

Fired After Reporting Fraud, a China Telecom Employee Took His Allegations to the Party's Top Watchdog

CCTV's Documentary on Myanmar's Scam Compounds Puts Faces to the Industrial Scale of the Trade

Why the Creator of 'ICEY 2' Is Begging China's Gamers to Stop Donating

Hand Cream, Fridge Magnets, Ice Cream: Young Chinese Tourists Are Done With the Souvenir 'Sucker's Trio'

100,000 Visitors, 50,000 Residents: a County Opens Its School Dormitories to Stranded Tourists

Kaiming He's Team Finds Top AI Models Were Taking the AGI Test Blind — and Claude Scores 100 With Its Sight Restored

Kevin Tsai Is Photographed at a Pro-Independence Rally, and Leapmotor Scrambles to Cut Him Loose

Over 100,000 Pregnant Women's Blood Samples Smuggled Abroad, China's State Security Ministry Warns

'Renegade Immortal' Fans Trace a Cartoon Coffin to a Real 1,400-Year-Old Sarcophagus

Why Truls Möregårdh Thanked Wang Chuqin for Every Loss

Water, Watts, Clouds and Pipes: CCTV's 'Six Super Networks' Show Where China's Next Trillions Go

'Slave-Labour Theory': China's Viral Argument Over Who Sets the Quality of Service

Zhang Jiaqi, Out of the Pool and on TV, Faces the Distance From Her Mother

The Warmest Ending in Chinese Reality TV Turns Into a Public Family Quarrel

Douyin Wipes the Account of Huihui Baobao, the Influencer Who Turned Charity Into Content

No Heirs, No Will: A Beijing Court Sends a Solo Woman's ¥4 Million Flat to the State