A group of Chinese construction workers was hung from a gate by their harnesses at a building site as a training exercise after they forgot to wear safety gear at work. A video of the “training” that many onlookers saw as a punishment and public shaming had 7.5 million views online after a passer-by filmed…
HONG KONG — In a year full of geopolitical uncertainty and rising trade barriers, Chinese automakers are not backing away from global markets but instead ramping up their expansion efforts. On Tuesday, Xpeng said it is targeting more than doubling its overseas sales to over 40,000 units and expanding to over 300 sales and service…
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. Chinese politics have fallen into an eerie lull. Source link
Two boys from China have made history at a prestigious international street dancing competition by achieving a remarkable Top 4 ranking, marking the best result ever attained by Chinese contestants at this event. The news from Song Haoming and Fu Junxi, aged 10 and 12 respectively, who dazzled on the stage of Juste Debout –…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. US House Republicans set to introduce bill to block Chinese from student visas Republicans in the US House of Representatives plan to introduce a bill on Friday to block…
Chinese youths have transformed “playful begging” into a trend, engaging in smoking, drinking, chatting, and taking photos, while rarely soliciting money – viewing it primarily as a mode of socialising. Recently, groups of young individuals, dubbed “professional and playful beggars”, have been seen lounging on the roadside in Dali, a renowned tourist destination in Yunnan…
Famous US-born Hong Kong actor and filmmaker Daniel Wu has garnered extensive attention on Chinese social media following the launch of an English-language course aimed at teaching his fans authentic spoken English. On February 26, Wu shared a video on his newly established social media account, “Daniel Wu Teaches English”, which has swiftly attracted over…
After a successful meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan, Russia, India, and China have made significant progress, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, March 7. Wang Yi made the remarks addressing his annual press conference and said that China stands ready to work with India. “China…
An 18-year-old man has been successfully rescued after being lost for 10 days in the frigid, mountainous terrain of northwestern China. During the harrowing period when he faced food shortages, Sun Liang managed to survive on river water, melted snow, and even toothpaste, as reported by Jimu News. Sun began his solo hiking adventure on…
In late January, a Chinese start-up unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) model that it says outperforms its peers. As familiar as this sounds, the company in question is not DeepSeek. Rather, what the appearance of another Chinese AI model like Moonshot’s Kimi k1.5 shows is that China’s rapid AI iterations are no anomaly – they…