1+ day, 3+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 3+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (111+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A county court in Xinjiang has listed a volume titled 'Yongle Encyclopedia' on Alibaba's judicial auction platform with a starting price of 1 yuan — and told bidders…...

3+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 13+ 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,…...

4+ day, 2+ 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…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (126+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. From October 1, compliant childbirth in Shanghai will cost patients nothing out of pocket, with a 4,500-yuan prenatal allowance and full reimbursement for delivery. The same week,…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (195+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A month after Changzhou automotive lighting supplier Xingyu let 107 of its newest graduate hires go — offering a 'voluntary' resignation with minimal compensation or a forced move…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (482+ words) Trending on Weibo Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A Holiday Road Trip, the Pill, and a Pulmonary Embolism: China's Viral Health Lesson A 26-year-old woman who had taken oral contraceptives for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (118+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. An employee who typed a 16-digit account ID into the amount field credited a Hunan man with 2.64 quadrillion yuan of virtual points; he spent 250,000 yuan of…...