Has China Fallen Out of Love With Love?
Facing mounting uncertainty, many young Chinese are asking if love is too much of a risk. As uncertainty deepens, many young Chinese are coming to see love less as destiny than as a risk to manage.
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China’s Next Megaprojects Are Built for Big Science
Data shows how China’s infrastructure drive is beginning to include new scientific instruments built to explore the frontiers of physics, astronomy, and energy.
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A stone Buddha’s eyes are symbols of its religious power, but many have been lost over the years. Can collectors help them find their way home?
“With technology advancing so fast, maybe robots will be the ones taking care of us.”
For decades, a small number of couples built lives without children. As more Chinese choose the same path, their experiences offer an early glimpse of what a child-free future may demand.
As stand-up spread beyond the big metros, one club in Kunming shows how comedians turned punchlines into careers, and learned where the line is.
This story is part of Sixth Tone’s 10-year anniversary series, Ten Years in Transition.
AI has spread across China with startling speed. Ten people describe what it now allows them to do, what makes them uneasy about it, and what life might look like without it.
This story is part of Sixth Tone’s 10-year anniversary series, Ten Years in Transition.
As China’s attention economy matures, creators face constant pressure to produce, adapt, and remain visible in an increasingly crowded and competitive system.
China has opened enrollment at its first university dedicated to barbecue, or shaokao, a ubiquitous street food nationwide, complete with degree offerings, course textbooks, and a talent pathway to jobs at famous local barbecue restaurants.
The geography of power consumption reveals both established patterns and emerging shifts. Major economic provinces like Guangdong in the south and Jiangsu, Shandong, and Zhejiang in the east are still the country’s biggest power consumers.
The secondary sector still dominates China’s power grid, accounting for 64% of China’s total electricity consumption in 2025.
China’s power usage now exceeds the combined consumption of the EU, Russia, India, and Japan as renewables drive a cleaner energy mix.
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China’s National People’s Congress approved the nation’s first Ecological and Environmental Code on Thursday, the final day of the annual Two Sessions political meetings in Beijing.
Days after Chinese regulators approved what officials describe as the world’s first invasive brain-computer interface device cleared for commercial use in patients, Shanghai announced three new research centers aimed at accelerating the technology’s development.
The format pairs players with paid “love companions,” selling intimacy through staged dates and private scenes where expectations and rules are often set in real time.
A global study of over 50,000 adolescents reveals an unexpected link between household chores and aggressive behavior at school.
In early 20th-century Shanghai, jazz was made by composers, performers, and bandleaders from across Asia and beyond. This is the first article in a four-part series tracing how that sound took shape, and who made it matter.
Unveiled in 1947, the MingKwai typewriter was the product of a Chinese novelist’s yearslong obsession to build a machine that tackled the problem of typing Chinese decades before personal computers arrived.
A Chinese-developed acne vaccine has entered domestic clinical trials for the first time, marking a national milestone in efforts to treat one of the world’s most common skin conditions.
Why Young Chinese Think the World Is a ‘Ragtag Troupe’
A 2025 buzzword speaks to how many in China have grown disenchanted by once highly respected companies and institutions.
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In a break with older generations, young Chinese are opting for self-love without first imposing hardships on themselves.
You and Me, a free experimental music festival in Beijing, grew from one teenager’s search for refuge. Now it faces demolition, debt, and an uncertain future.
China will ban retractable car handles beginning Jan. 1, 2027, amid growing safety concerns that electrically powered designs can prevent passengers from escaping or being rescued after mishaps.
As ultrashort dramas boom in popularity in China, writers are reliant on storylines that require the use of preschool performers. The work is fast-paced, with children sometimes having to endure long days of filming and handle scripts that involve adult themes far beyond their comprehension.
Created by Hainanese migrants in Southeast Asia, the brew returned with re-migrants in the 1950s. Now, a new generation is pushing it into the future.
Chinese cinemagoers are increasingly discerning. They prefer high-quality movies over holiday blockbusters, and pick films that appeal to their demographic.
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“Society is constantly changing, and so are people, but ‘change’ does not solely mean ‘progress.’”
After leaving education at 16 to work in factories, Zhang Sai is turning factory life into literature and documenting the people and pressures of China’s vast factory workforce.
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Created by Hainanese migrants in Southeast Asia, the brew returned with re-migrants in the 1950s. Now, a new generation is pushing it into the future.
