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China's Births Fall to 7.92 Million, a 17% Drop That Erased the Dragon-Year Bump

Figures showing 7.92 million births in China in 2025 — 1.62 million fewer than the year before, and barely three-quarters of the 2016 total — raced to the top of Baidu and Weibo, dragging along an argument about whether any policy can stop a fall that young people themselves describe as an answer, not an accident.

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Rescuers Reach the Flattened Core of the Gyirong Mudslide as Nepal's Toll Climbs to 579

Chinese rescue teams have reached the heart of the Gyirong port disaster zone and found buildings erased by a mudslide triggered on the Nepali side of the border, while the Politburo met in Beijing to order an all-out search. Nepal now reports 579 dead and 1,924 missing from the same flood.

A genre of Chinese short videos showing students abroad sawing rock-hard loaves — framed as proof of hardship — has been debunked by European food bloggers as staged content made with days-old bread. The correction spread across Weibo on August 28, drawing a reckoning with what users call "traffic-first" study-abroad storytelling.