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Doubao's Answer on Dying Before 70 Struck a Nerve Across China

A user asked Doubao, ByteDance's assistant used by hundreds of millions, what share of people die before 70 — and its census-based answer, roughly 35% overall and 40% for men, spread across Chinese social media as an unplanned meditation on mortality.

News & Politics

Beijing Releases 700 Million Parasitic Wasps Against an Invasive Caterpillar Wave

Beijing's trees are crawling with the caterpillars of the invasive fall webworm, and the city's response is biological: it has released nearly 700 million Chouioia cunea wasps this year, with 400 million more to follow from Monday — a pest-control campaign now front-page news across China.

Culture

WorldSkills Closes in Shanghai as a Technical School Reveals 101 Graduates Now Work at Peking University

The 48th WorldSkills Competition ended in Shanghai on Saturday after a week in which young tradespeople from 68 countries competed in everything from tiling to drone operation — and a Henan technical school revealed that 101 of its electron-microscope graduates have been hired by Peking University.