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Cold Comfort: What Europe’s Heat Wave Means for Chinese Factories

As summer heat waves send global orders for cooling solutions soaring, one Suzhou plant shows how China’s SMEs are absorbing the pressure.

White Night Workshop

No Smoke Without Ire: China’s Campuses Struggle to Stub Out Cigarettes

A lack of anti-smoking policies at Chinese universities is forcing students affected by secondhand smoke to suffer in silence — or take matters into their own hands.

The Paper

1,300 Meters Up, a Sichuan Soccer Hero Brings the Game Home

In the remote mountains of China’s Sichuan province, viral online soccer star Jifu Lama is spreading his love of the game to help ‘left behind’ Yi ethnic children find a sense of purpose.

Caixin Global

Do the Math: Why China’s First Fields Medals Are Just the Beginning

From basic research to breakthroughs — Tsinghua dean Shing-Tung Yau says the awards for two Chinese mathematicians point the way for producing more homegrown talent.

Check in, Log on, Stay for Months: Life at China’s 9-Cent Internet Café

After slashing prices to survive, a small-town business attracts strugglers from far and wide seeking a low-to-no-cost lifestyle.

Shaw in Shanghai: How the Irish Writer’s 1933 Visit Inspired China’s Literati

After George Bernard Shaw’s whistlestop wartime visit, left-wing Chinese intellectuals hailed the playwright and polemicist as a “loyal friend of the oppressed.”

Sixth Tone

Love’s Labor’s Found: The Beijing Scholar Speaking Up for Hired Hands

A Tsinghua University Ph.D. student who took on a series of short-term gigs for research shines a light on the pressures and pride felt by Beijing’s day laborers.

Game Changers: China’s Female Football Commentators Take Their Shot

Sports broadcaster Liu Chang on her road to the 2026 FIFA World Cup final and why she refuses to shy away from gender-based criticism.

Fir  Record

Alone and Adrift: How a Chinese Businessman Survived Six Days in Open Water

Jellyfish, raw crabs, and endless ocean — an entrepreneur’s relaxing trip in South China turns into a nightmare ordeal.

Shanghai Boy Defies Fatal Diagnosis to Become a Star Student

A 12-year-old primary school student with a rare muscle-wasting disease gives his peers and teachers a lesson in resilience.