As loneliness and emotional pressure grow, young people are turning to online "tree hole" listening services and anonymous spaces for relief.
With bullet comments, memes and dorm-room stages, Gen Z is reshaping the Spring Festival experience through creativity and community online.
Hong'an handloom cloth, a traditional coarse textile native to Hong'an county in central China's Hubei province, was once seen as old-fashioned and rustic.
As soft meditation music filled the room, several young participants lay down, closed their eyes, and began to move slowly, imagining they were trapped in a sleep they could not wake from. Moments later, they were asked to picture themselves as children again — loosening their bodies and letting their faces settle into the most innocent, carefree expressions they could remember.
One late night, I came across a video introducing the Rusty Lake series. Its visual style — built on desaturated colors and crisp geometric lines — instantly caught my eye.
From October to November 2025,50 Thai students spent six weeks at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, Hubei province. As part of Thailand's ODOS Summer Camp — held to mark the 50th anniversary of Sino-Thai diplomatic relations — they explored the city with curiosity and wonder. Two months later, that trip turned into a special photographic exhibition, Digital Footprint: My Six-Week Journey at HUST, which opened on Jan 10 at ICONSIAM, a cultural landmark along Bangkok's riverside.
CHONGQING/TAIYUAN — As the cool moonlight filtered through a plum orchard in the Jielong township of Southwest China's Chongqing, 44-year-old Tao Heng could be found setting up her phone in a nearby studio.
In an immaculate 6,000-square-meter processing facility in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, the air carries a chill, maintained by a precise temperature control system. Stainless steel glistens like a surgical theater. Conveyor belts hum in measured rhythm.
After witnessing a demonstration from Zhao Qiubao on how he books and completes rides alone using his phone and AI, a taxi driver in Guangzhou gained a profound new understanding of the visually impaired community.
This year's eight-day National Day holiday, which is one day longer than usual and overlaps with Mid-Autumn Festival, has driven greater popularity in the tourism market than previous years, according to industry insiders.
A painful setback can sometimes act as a catalyst for meaningful change. When the Baiji dolphin named Qiqi died in 2002, there was gloom in conservation circles. Qiqi, the sound of which means "rarity" in Chinese, had been living in captivity since it was rescued from the shallow waters of the Yangtze River in 1980.
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