China

At women-led coding events across China, participants are turning overlooked problems — from menopause to workplace sexism — into products of their own.

The football association asked for a record $250 million from the country’s state-owned TV broadcasting company, with negotiations failing to bring the price down to what the network deemed acceptable.

Multiple domestic music platforms have updated the credits for modern songs to reflect the original writers, drawing netizens’ attention.

When hordes of foodies descended on a small shop in northwestern China, one cook’s exhausted expression broke the internet. Now his focus is flavor, not fame.

Launched by a local man, an anti-desertification initiative in the country’s arid northwest went viral after being featured on a popular show.

The 22-year-old is the second Chinese player to win the championship, and the first born after 2000 to do so.

Street food vendor Bai Xianying’s resemblance to the “King of Mandopop” made him an overnight hit — but he prefers flipping pancakes to chasing fame.

China’s rural data-labeling centers relied on mothers who could work, care for children and hold households in place all at once. Now many of those same women are being judged unfit for the future of AI.

Travelers first began posting online pictures of the textbooks, whose covers feature famous sites from around the world, before leaving the books there for others to discover and sign.

In the country’s less-developed hinterlands, labeling data to train AI models has become a poverty-alleviation tool.

Tourists are choosing to primarily take domestic road trips this year, with music and cultural events driving tourism.

For 15 years, Chinese farmer Cheng Yunfu had sold cheap hand-pulled noodles at a local fair — then a trending video sent his life spinning out of control.

The yaks were delivered naturally and without assistance using technology that cuts breeding cycles from 20 years to under five.

The city is piloting a system of relay stations and order tracking, in which riders can now formally hand off orders to runners installed in high-rises, making final deliveries to customers.

The world’s first clinical trial on congenital deafness gene therapy showed that injecting a missing gene back into ear cells can restore hearing.

Han Suzhen’s tiny alleyway store was overrun with customers after a post about her “hand-brewed coffee” went viral — and it almost cost her health.

In the 10 years since the game launched in 2016, there have been highs, lows, and everything in between. It is no exaggeration to say that Overwatch would not be what it is in China without the fans.

China’s parody journals are turning failed experiments, revision fatigue, and academic anxiety into comedy — and finding an audience.