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China Tightens Social Security Enforcement With Triple Fines, Sparking Public Outcry

Beijing's new nationwide tax penalty standards and plans to identify uninsured citizens through data analysis have sparked backlash over financial pressures on already-struggling b...

China's 'red tourism' boom draws families to Communist Party landmarks

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Thousands Gather in Guizhou as Villagers Push Back Against Mandatory Cremation

The latest gathering follows months of clashes in China's Guizhou, where villagers have pushed back against cremation requirements they say disregard generations of traditional bur...

More Men Than Women, Yet Fewer Matches: Inside Shenzhen’s Dating Paradox

Despite Shenzhen’s massive male majority, its matchmaking scene tells a different story shaped by economic pressure, social class, changing expectations, and an increasingly narrow...

Young Chinese are choosing healthy relationships over toxic filial piety

As the Chinese saying goes, “Even an upright judge finds it hard to settle family matters.” Whenever Chinese TV channels air reality shows that centre on couples or parent-child re...

Study Says China’s Population Could Be Far Smaller Than Official Data Suggests

A new analysis argues that China’s population may be substantially smaller than official figures suggest, raising questions about the country’s labor force, consumer market, and l...

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A woman dressed in imperial style costumes poses for a selfie beside the moat which surrounds the Forbidden City in Beijing. -AFP

Economic Strain Is Pitting China’s People Against Each Other

Unable to question the government, Chinese are taking their economic frustrations out on each other.

A Reporter Returns to China to Find it Richer, but Also Highly Paranoid.

Returning to China after decades away, a correspondent finds bullet trains, dazzling skylines — and a surveillance state more paranoid and pervasive than ever.

China’s ‘Social Security Loans’ Draw Backlash as Beijing Pushes Workers to Enroll

China is expanding efforts to bring more people into its pension system even as local governments and banks offer loans to workers who cannot afford contributions, raising fears ov...

From Welfare Housing to Mortgage Debt: China’s 50-Year Property Transformation

In 1978, the average urban Chinese person had only 3.6 square meters of living space, even less than the 4.5 square meters recorded in 1950. Nationwide, 8.69 million urban househol...

From Party Applicant to Staunch Critic: One Chinese Student’s Political Awakening

Once a patriotic university student hoping to join the CCP, Wan says censorship, political favoritism, and suppressed history gradually pushed her toward openly criticizing the sys...

China’s succession crisis: a generation of entrepreneurs is retiring, but are their children ready to take over?

Family run private businesses helped power China’s economic miracle, but the next generation is finding it difficult to carry on the work of their parentsGrowing up, Ayu would watc...

China Turns to Big Data to Find Uninsured Workers, Sparking Backlash

Chinese authorities say they will use government data to identify people who are not enrolled in social insurance and encourage them to join the system, prompting criticism from Ch...

How China Works author on the data economy, robots and AI

Lan Xiaohuan is a professor of economics at China Europe International Business School. His book, How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, has so...

Social Media in China Is Getting Really Dark

The Chinese Communist Party has spent years trying to make “positive energy” the dominant mood of the country’s internet. It’s no longer working.

Young people in China are fangirling over a professor who gets their anxiety

China's economy and tech have developed at breakneck speed, but there is plenty worrying its Gen Z.

Is China’s Cultural Revolution really over?

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Why China Living Inside Short Videos — And What the West Can Learn From It

What if I told you. China isn’t just addicted to short videos — it’s actually living inside them.Continue reading on Medium »

After Decades of Political Persecution, Former State-Sector Worker Leaves China

Chen says decades of political campaigns, family separation, imprisonment, and the death of his wife gradually reshaped his view of China’s political system and ultimately led him...