At Jinan’s annual winter swimming competition, participants from across China and around the world plunge into icy waters, as a sport practiced mostly by older residents begins to catch on more widely
Once ridden with air pollution, the northwestern Inner Mongolia city is reinventing itself as a desert-lake tourist destination
Once a constant companion of commuters and late-night listeners, radio stations in China are shuttering amid declining listenership and shrinking advertising revenue. But the medium’s core elements are reemerging elsewhere in new forms of listening.
Once again, the Chinese New Year—or Spring Festival—is just around the corner, arriving on February 17, 2026. As the biggest annual celebration in China kicks off, the dynamic Horse, the seventh zodiac animal, gallops into the spotlight, taking the reins and replacing the Snake to usher in a year of ambition, bravery, and strength.
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As millions of Chinese enter old age, their adult children are now grappling with the financial and emotional burden of being their parents’ only caregivers. Even as government and business efforts are rolled out to ease the pressure, stigma around retirement homes and traditional expectations of filial duty continue to shape how people spend their later years.
Even without a blockbuster like 2024’s Black Myth: Wukong, China’s gaming market continued to grow robustly in the past year, fueled by exciting new titles and a more stable regulatory environment
Pushing back an increasingly online world, Shanghai art-game collective “rect repair” wants people to put down their phones and rediscover life in the city
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