Not long ago the "Made in China" tag was almost a synonym for cheap rip-offs. But not anymore. From big brands to small ones, from the long established ones to new kids on the block, from hi-tech products to Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), many of the Chinese products stole the global thunder in 2016. Get your shopping list ready and let's walk down the aisle.
Recently, a photo showing a doctor in her thirties from Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center, Zhejiang Province, giving closed-chest cardiac massage to a 40-year-old man who had suffered a sudden cardiac death, went viral on Wechat.
Chewing Upon Words, a well-known linguistic magazine in China, yesterday published the 10 most popular words and phrases used by Chinese people over the year, among which five in particular are frequently employed in online chats.
A 63-year-old retired woman in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province made headlines two days after she posted an advertisement on her Wechat page, in which she said she wanted to find a young female companion for a trip to Sanya, China's Southern Hainan island, Zhengzhou-based Dahe Daily reported.
Stop, don't breathe. Hold it! OK, first pay 1.2 yuan ($0.17) if you want fresh air to reach your lungs.
The killing of a marbled eel, considered the "king of fish", in the Lingwan Lake of Nanning, capital city of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has generated anger.
Wang Chunhua, a traffic police officer in Chongqing municipality, has become an Internetcelebrity after photos of him directing traffic were posted online.
The man surnamed Ning spent nearly 8 million yuan ($1.2 million) recently to buy and ship a retired Boeing 737-300 from the US for personal collection, according to Chengdu Commercial Daily on Monday.
Airport authority thought setting up female-only checkpoints was a good way to promote efficiency and enhance privacy of female passengers, but some internet users and experts view it differently.
A man from East China's Shandong province achieved global fame after his heroic Spider-Man-like rescue of a two-year-old toddler dangling from a window on Oct 27.
On Monday, 43-year-old Pang Chuanxing and his son, Pang Yi, returned to their starting point in Chengdu, marking the success of their travels across China, reported by Chengdu Economic Daily.
Stickers of a young Red Army soldier have been growing in popularity on Wechat, and have begun to dominate other forms of social media in the lead-up to the 80th anniversary of the Long March victory.
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