Several Chinese cities are awarding a “snail award” to sluggish cadres among their measures to eliminate a “lying flat” mentality among workers, after repeated calls for greater diligence by President Xi Jinping and Chinese disciplinary authorities. In the eastern city of Taizhou in Jiangsu province, a snail award has been given to workers who do … Read more
Shenzhen-based software developer Peter Li was laid off from a leading internet company last month – his first job since graduating from university – after failing to meet department performance targets. He joins a growing group of young victims of China’s grim job market. While the 24-year-old expects to find another job eventually, Li said … Read more
Move over, Pokémon Go. A new collecting craze is taking over Chinese social media, with the most coveted finds not digital critters but… mushrooms. Morels, black tiger palm mushrooms, milk-caps, blackening brittlegill, termite mushrooms and matsutake are just some of the species for which young fungi fans have been foraging across the country, before posting … Read more
A task force will be set up to address the problem, and dating events held across towns for unmarried men of different age and interest groups, the government said. The trade union of Dali will also hold 13 dating events before the year-end to “promote a correct view of marriage and love among young people … Read more
Knifeman kills 2 and injures 21 in attack at hospital in China’s Yunnan province At least two people were killed and 21 injured in a knife attack at a hospital in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, police said on Tuesday. The suspect was identified as a male villager armed with a knife from Poji, … Read more
Since leaving full-time employment in 2015 – a seven-year, post-university stint as an accountant for professional services network Deloitte – Wang’s interest in railways, and photographing them, has morphed from a hobby into his raison d’être. Photographer Wang Lu. He spends three to five months of every year travelling to photograph railway scenes in China. … Read more
Developing | 500 evacuated as rescuers search for more than 40 trapped in China village landslide More than 500 people have been evacuated from a village in southwestern China as rescue workers scrabble to reach 47 of their neighbours who were buried under a landslide early on Monday morning. State broadcaster CCTV reported that 18 … Read more
