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China Taps Private Insurance for Costly New Drugs

Timely reports on issues and events from across China. Drawing on a vast range of sources, these succinct articles provide insights into the significance of each issue in a wider context.

NEWS

China is asking private insurers to cover certain pricey innovative drugs, pushing toward a multi-tier health-care system that goes beyond state funding.

Stuck in the Mud: Climate Chaos Deepens Divide on China’s Farmlands

Articles that cut to the core of contemporary China. In-depth, informed, and carefully crafted, every piece is carried by the voices of the story’s participants.

FEATURES

Climate change is accelerating an uneven reshuffling of rural China, pushing smallholders out while only scaled-up farms can weather the uncertainty.

China’s Cliff Coffins: DNA Ties a 3,000-Year-Old Enigma to the Living

Suspending coffins on sheer cliffs is a mysterious and 3,000-year-old burial tradition. New genetic evidence shows how it may have spread in China and beyond.

China’s Boar-Hunting Drones Fly Into a Legal Vacuum

Drones modified to hunt boars operate in a legal gray area, leading to illegal hunting and livestock theft and prompting calls for tighter regulations.

Chinese Men More Likely to Cheat When Less Educated Than Wives: Study

A new analysis of more than 4,000 married Chinese adults found male infidelity rises sharply when wives are more educated and earn less.

After Hong Kong Fire, China Orders Sweeping High-Rise Safety Check

The country has more than one million high-rises. Authorities face growing pressure to manage the fire risks as these buildings age.

Carbon Copies: China Moves to Regulate Plagiarism

Amid China’s push to curb governmental bureaucracy, local plagiarism scandals have triggered national regulation and dialogue.

Late Bloomers: Climate Change Delays the Onset of Fall in China

Netizens have been avidly discussing the country’s new autumn timeframes on social media, with videos going viral of swallows in the suddenly frigid northeast trying to stay warm.

‘Huge Lesson’: A Beijing Farmer Learns to Live in Climate Extremes

As climate extremes grow across China, one farmer’s flooded fields outside Beijing show how quickly the country’s weather, and way of life, are being rewritten.

China’s Paper Chase: ‘Paper Mills’ Help Academics Commit Fraud

A recent investigation has brought to light a network of underground firms helping doctors and researchers get ahead with ghostwritten publications.

Scoop, Tilt, Swirl: Old Mining Towns Ride a Gold-Panning Boom

Surging gold prices are driving Chinese tourists to former mining towns, where gold panning has become the newest form of industrial tourism.

In China’s Small Cities, ‘Cabbage-Priced’ Flights Promise the World

Local governments are betting on cut-rate airfares and visa-free policies to turn provincial airports into global gateways.

China’s NeuroWorm Inches Its Way Toward Brain Disorder Breakthroughs

The groundbreaking mobile neural implant developed by Chinese scientists seeks to treat neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease.

Massive Fireworks Display on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Backfires

The fireworks, designed by artist Cai Guoqiang and commissioned by outdoor brand Arc’teryx, caused outrage over environmental concerns, prompting apologies and an official investigation.

Living the Loop: The NPCs Bringing China’s Fantasy Parks to Life

In China’s booming immersive tourism industry, “non-playable characters” are thousands of young performers in costume, working marathon shifts of duels and dances to keep tourists entertained.

For a Team of Chinese Scientists, the Oyster Is Their World

Inspired by oysters’ natural grip, a team of researchers from Zhejiang have created a bio-glue to fuse shattered bones, a world first.

China’s Summer of Climate Whiplash Brings Heat, Floods, and Drought

This summer brought a climate reversal, with floods in the north, drought in the south and other extreme weather.

Painkillers, Tickets, Labubu: What China’s Gen Z Is Leaving at Tombs

Young Chinese are honoring historical figures with playful, personal gifts tailored to each legend’s quirks and stories.

Trainee Faked Her Way Into Elite Chinese Hospitals, 19 Punished

What began as a marital scandal spiraled into a corruption case that sparked public outcry, after a trainee with no medical background entered China’s top hospitals on falsified records and family ties.

Robots Run, Dance, and Clean in World’s First Humanoid Games

More than 500 robots from 16 countries will compete in the inaugural tournament, with events ranging from Olympic-style sports to real-world tasks like hotel cleaning and medical sorting.