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'If I Had to Pay for Training, I Would Never Have Made It': Zhang Guowei Defends China's State Sports System

'If I Had to Pay for Training, I Would Never Have Made It': Zhang Guowei Defends China's State Sports System

Retired high jumper Zhang Guowei, who now funds his own comeback through a 70-million-follower influencer career, waded into China's state-versus-self-funded sports debate this week with a defence of the system that raised him — read as a rebuttal to the Liu Xiang retirement fight.

A Court Is Auctioning a 'Yongle Encyclopedia' From 1 Yuan, Without Checking If It Is Real

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A Court Is Auctioning a 'Yongle Encyclopedia' From 1 Yuan, Without Checking If It Is Real

A county court in Xinjiang has listed a volume titled 'Yongle Encyclopedia' on Alibaba's judicial auction platform with a starting price of 1 yuan — and told bidders it never authenticated the object, selling it strictly as a handicraft, as is. More than 600 people are watching.

From the Losers' Bracket to the Title: Guangzhou TTG Wins the KPL Summer Final 4-3

From the Losers' Bracket to the Title: Guangzhou TTG Wins the KPL Summer Final 4-3

Guangzhou TTG came through the losers' bracket to beat Chongqing Wolves 4-3 and win the Honor of Kings Pro League summer championship on Friday night — then their star jungler, who left Wolves for TTG, wept through a victory interview aimed squarely at his old club.

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Beijing Court Orders Sisters to Return ¥4 Million From a Flat Their Elder Sister Paid For in 2000

12 Sep 2026

China had nearly 30,000 fewer primary schools in 2025 than in 2020, the Ministry of Education's newly released bulletin shows, and with enrolment down four million pupils in a single year, villages are quietly turning their empty schoolhouses into nursing homes, elder canteens and factories — the clearest sign yet of how fast the country's demographic turnaround is redrawing everyday life.

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As Pupil Numbers Fall, China Is Converting Empty Primary Schools Into Nursing Homes

12 Sep 2026

Xiaomi's founder turned up at the Xuzhou leg of the Su Super League on Friday night and watched from the general stands with everyone else — the latest signal of how China's city football leagues have become the summer's most valuable seats, with Hubei now launching its own version.

Lei Jun Chooses the Stands Over the VIP Box at a Jiangsu City League Match

12 Sep 2026

At China's Hottest Comedy Show, 1,000 Scalper Tickets Were Turned Away at the Door

12 Sep 2026

When pre-orders for the iPhone 18 opened in China on Friday night, Apple's own storefront buckled under the traffic — while ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao let users buy the same phones with a spoken sentence, and Huawei's costlier tri-fold went on sale the same morning.

iPhone 18 Pre-Sale Day: Apple's Store Crashes, and China's AI Chatbots Become the Checkout

12 Sep 2026

A six-day-old girl was wheeled out of her mother's room for a feeding at a Guangzhou postpartum center and was declared dead two hours later; doctors suctioned milk residue from her airway. Police have accepted a negligent-homicide complaint against her caregiver — while the center stays open, blames a pre-existing illness, and neither side will release the surveillance video.

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A Newborn Died at a Guangzhou Confinement Center With Milk in Her Airway

12 Sep 2026

Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for the 18th BRICS summit — his first trip to India in seven years — and met Narendra Modi the same day, as Putin mocked the G7's shrinking share of world GDP and Beijing prepared to take over the bloc's chairmanship in 2027.

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BRICS Gathers in New Delhi as Xi Pays His First India Visit in Seven Years

12 Sep 2026

Two national-level trade fairs — CIFTIS in Beijing and CIFIT in Xiamen — closed a week of courting foreign buyers and investors, with state media promoting them as one story: 'two expos, China's opportunity.' The tech on show, from computing-power services to humanoid robots, marks how China now sells itself.

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Two Mega-Fairs, One Pitch: China Courts the World With Services and Robots

12 Sep 2026

Youth-literature author Rao Xueman is reviving her classic novel The Left Ear as a short drama starring Li Bara, the doomed heroine whose fate broke a generation of readers. The transmigration premise — a fan rewrites the story from inside the book — shows China's booming short-drama industry coming for millennial nostalgia.

The Left Ear Returns as a Short Drama, This Time With a Happy Ending

12 Sep 2026

A 66-year-old internet-famous Thai abbot accused of diverting 92 million baht in temple donations was defrocked this week, with police seizing gold and cash that required money-counting machines to tally. The case has gripped Chinese social media, where the saffron robe is a familiar figure from millions of tourists' holidays.

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Famous Thai Abbot Defrocked Over $3 Million Temple Donation Scandal

12 Sep 2026

Zhou Qihao's 1-4 loss to Japan's Harimoto Tomokazu in the Macao quarterfinals completed a full wipeout of China's men at the WTT Champions event, three exits that landed hardest with a fan base used to total dominance of its national sport.

China's Men Leave WTT Champions Macao Without a Semifinalist

12 Sep 2026

Counterfeit Alipay interfaces able to display any balance or transfer went viral on Weibo, prompting the payment giant's security center to tell users to trust only money that actually arrives. The panic points at something structural: in China's mobile-payment economy, a screenshot of the screen is often the receipt.

Alipay Issues Warning as Convincing Fake Payment Screenshots Circulate

12 Sep 2026

Twenty-five Fields Medalists, among them Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, have signed an open letter warning that the race to show off AI models solving famous math problems is damaging the discipline itself. The statement promptly rose to the top of China's question-and-answer and search boards, setting off a debate about the benchmark culture of the AI industry.

25 Fields Medalists Warn That AI Is Damaging Mathematics

12 Sep 2026

China's Trending Life Advice Is to Stop Caring About Everyone Else

12 Sep 2026

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Chengdu's Traffic Police Are Coming for Slow Drivers

12 Sep 2026

A private high school in Taikang County, Henan, handed its 50-plus senior-year teachers 1.81 million yuan in cash bonuses on Teacher's Day — up to 76,000 yuan each — pegged directly to their classes' college-entrance-exam results.

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A Private School Marked Teacher's Day by Handing Its Gaokao Teachers $250,000 in Cash

12 Sep 2026

Surveillance footage from Zhengzhou showed a father lifting his wife out of bed and dropping her on the floor so she would get up for the night feed. The clip drew more than 11,000 likes and reopened China's argument over who gets up at 3 a.m.

A Father Dropped His Wife Out of Bed So She Could Make the Baby's Formula

12 Sep 2026