Southern China is experiencing widespread chaos due to torrential downpours, leading to significant flight delays at major airports like Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and forcing thousands to evacuate homes in Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. Emergency response levels have been raised as forecasters predict the rain belt will persist.
A Teochew-language film exploring Chinese migration and heritage has achieved significant box office success in China, while also igniting discussions across Southeast Asia regarding China's soft power and influence among Chinese diaspora communities.
Yao embroidery, a nearly 2,000-year-old craft from Guangdong's Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, is experiencing a revival. Facing challenges of an aging artisan base and market disconnect, initiatives involving local government, universities, and young designers are integrating traditional techniques with modern aesthetics, boosting incomes and ensuring the craft's future.
A 13-year-old one-legged boy from a poor village in Sichuan, China, gains viral fame for playing basketball with a wooden crutch made by his father, later receiving a donated artificial limb.
A dog slaughterhouse owner in southern China, Huang, has closed his facility and is transitioning to a new livelihood with support from animal advocates, just days before the controversial Yulin dog meat festival.
A 56-year-old Chinese farmer from Guangdong province underwent surgery after discovering a 1.3kg, 10cmx13cm bladder stone causing severe urinary issues for three years, leading to bilateral hydronephrosis and risking uraemia.
China Weather Network reports that from May 26-27, heavy rain is expected in Guizhou, Hunan, and Chongqing, with potential for secondary disasters. Meanwhile, heatwaves persist in Jiangnan and South China. Northern regions will see a return of heat later in the week.
Engineers are constructing a 13km high-speed rail tunnel over 100m below the seabed in China's Pearl River Estuary. The project faces challenges from unstable ground and immense water pressure, requiring specialized machinery for precision and stability.
A 13km high-speed rail tunnel is being bored 113m below the seabed in China's Pearl River Estuary, linking Shenzhen and Jiangmen. Engineers face unstable ground and immense water pressure, using specialized machines to maintain stability in this complex engineering feat.
Chinese scientists discovered new rare earth deposits in Heilongjiang and Jilin. Unlike southern clay-rich areas, these northern formations are loose sand and gravel, potentially making extraction cheaper, more efficient, and environmentally friendly, bolstering China's global dominance.
A new discovery of rare earth deposits in China could alter the established understanding of their distribution, potentially rewriting the 'heavy in the south, light in the north' pattern. The findings were published by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A man in southern China has been apprehended for allegedly poisoning Xiaobai, a French Bulldog famous online for collecting plastic bottles. The dog's owner reported the incident after receiving screenshots of an animal abuse group planning to harm the pet.
NPR's Steve Inskeep visits Shenzhen, a city in southern China, known for its skyscrapers and urban villages.
A 15-year-old Chinese girl who has been suffering from a severe blood disorder most of her life is slowly recovering after receiving a transplant from her newborn brother. Xiaoyan from southern China’s Guangdong province is now only 140cm tall, and weighs just 25kg. She was diagnosed with thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder, at three months old. Her father, a construction worker, and her jobless mother did not arrange standard treatment for her except for regular blood transfusions. It was...
Huaqiangbei, home to the world’s largest electronics marketplace in southern China’s tech hub Shenzhen, is reinventing itself as the world’s artificial intelligence showroom, drawing back foreign traders and tourists hunting for the latest gadgets. For first-time visitors like Abigail Slagveer from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the sheer scale of Huaqiangbei’s electronics market is overwhelming. “I came here one and a half hours ago through that front door,” she said, pointing to an entrance just...
A 14-year-old boy from Hainan Island, China, has become an internet sensation after state media reported he handcrafted turbo engines in his living room. Che Jingang, who calls himself "rocket boy" on social media, claims to have self-studied calculus and aerodynamics since Primary Three. His mother runs his account with 30,000 followers. The story has sparked heated debate about his background and whether the coverage is appropriate.
The 6th Asian Beach Games in Sanya, Hainan Province (April 22-30) are driving rural tourism to surrounding villages. Journalists toured Xidao island, discovering serene villages that attract up to 5,000 tourists daily during peak seasons, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lodging and services. The event features 14 sports across 15 disciplines with 62 medal sets.
In a tragic and mysterious ancient custom in China, unmarried girls were chosen as brides by a legendary “Cave God” and sent to live in caves, where they would fast to death as a form of sacrifice. The practice, known as Luo Hua Dong Nv is a folk legend from the Miao communities in Xiangxi, located in western Hunan province in southern China. It is an ancient practice which no longer exists and its origins are unclear. The custom has been described as a “marriage between humans and deities” and...
Physical artificial intelligence (AI) – the marriage of advanced machines with “brains” that allow them to interact with their environment – is expanding rapidly in China. It’s fuelling the development of smarter robots, drones and driverless cars that are appearing on roads and factory floors, in the skies and even on stage. Delivery drones have taken flight over cities like southern China’s Shenzhen, while delivery bots are riding city subways. The first autonomous vehicles are plying public...
A 74-year-old British grandmother who set off on a solo trip to China received an unexpected outpouring of support from Chinese netizens who took turns to guide her on her journey. The heartwarming story began with Xiao Yue, a senior university student from Hezhou in Guangxi Province, southern China, who first met the British grandmother while volunteering in Phuket. The woman, Gill, 74, has travelled to 72 countries on her own and has also volunteered in many countries before. Recently, Xiao...
A female employee of Mala Wangzi, a spicy snack company in Changsha, Hunan province, won seven days of paid 'rain leave' in a company raffle, sparking widespread envy online. The company's annual sales exceeded 1.5 billion yuan (US$220 million) in 2024. Founded in 2009 by Zhang Yudong, the company's head of online marketing Zhang Zilong documented the lucky draw on social media, where it went viral.
A 1995-born woman surnamed Qin from Guilin, Guangxi province, returned to her village two years after graduating from university to help her father raise snakes. She now manages over 60,000 venomous reptiles, including 50,000 five-step snakes and nearly 10,000 cobras, earning more than 1 million yuan (US$147,000) annually. Her father initially opposed her entering the dangerous snake farming industry.
Surgeons in southern China have removed an 8cm-long worm from a woman’s brain after she suffered from multiple mystery health problems. The 61-year-old had brain surgery at a hospital in Guangdong province in early April, the Shenzhen Evening News reported. Doctors said the existence of the parasite may have been due to an experience the woman had when she was young. She recalled that when she was a teenager, her mother caught a frog in the wild and inserted the croaker’s leg into her tooth...
For pet food container seller Chen Junbin, customs used to be a major bottleneck when shipping from Shenzhen in southern China to his customers in the US. “In the past, we had to handle all the paperwork and coordinate with multiple logistics suppliers ourselves; a single [customs] inspection could delay our shipment by a week,” said Chen, founder of Shenzhen Lightning Technology. As one of the first sellers to test Amazon’s Global Warehousing and Distribution (GWD) facility, the US giant’s new...
