5+ hour, 27+ min ago   (124+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. Yu Donglai, founder of China's most admired supermarket chain, announced that all new hires will be 'trainees' on four-year contracts that are never renewed, with graduates…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago   (110+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A constructed mother-daughter chat about a 1,260-yuan first salary became one of Weibo's most-liked posts this week — and beneath the durian jokes, a real argument about…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago   (175+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. Zhang Jinyun, the Shaoxing opera master known as Xiao Qilingtong and a standard-bearer of the 'Southern School' monkey-opera tradition behind China's most famous TV role, has…...

18+ hour, 28+ min ago   (123+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. 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…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (471+ words) A 20-something man in Changsha who failed China's civil-service exam four times over two years has spent 22,000 yuan — about $3,000 — traveling alone through six countries and 17 cities, a journey financed, in his mother's telling, by her own labor: "I'll carry the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (127+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. The restaurant's response, relayed by the account, was an ingredient list: oversized wontons made with the tenderest parts of Shanghai greens, black-hoof local pork, hand-rendered lard,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (231+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. 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…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (180+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. China's women exited the Basketball World Cup 61-90 against a French side ranked above even the United States, ending Han Xu's double-double streak — a quarterfinal defeat that…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (273+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. The Olympic hurdler ended an 11-year retirement-placement dispute on Wednesday, announcing a September 1 buyout worth 494,000 yuan and donating his entire state salary of 982,935 yuan — untouched since…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (492+ words) Trending on Weibo Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A Parents' Chat, 5,000 Yuan of Cosmetics and an Inquiry: Teacher's Day's Gift Problem Returns A parents' committee at a prestigious Taiyuan middle school…...