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Marketing2,000 People Did Yoga on China's Great Wall Because Lululemon Went All Out
What do you get when you combine ancient Chinese architecture with modern wellness culture?
RetailHARMAY turns a mall into a school with nostalgia-driven store concept
Remember those plastic school chairs, metal lunch boxes, and the smell of chalk dust?
TechXiaohongshu Just Scored the 2026 World Cup Broadcasting Rights in China
Plot twist nobody saw coming: Xiaohongshu, the app where you go for skincare routines and aesthetic cafe recommendations, just became China's exclusive World Cu
RetailDuolingo’s green owl just invaded MINISO, and Chinese shoppers are not safe
Duolingo and MINISO have launched one of the funniest brand collaborations in China right now: a full “shop while you study” takeover that turns casual retail t
TravelSichuan Airlines let kids become “little flight attendants” for Children’s Day
Sichuan Airlines gave some of its youngest passengers a very cute upgrade for Children’s Day: a chance to experience life as “little flight attendants.
Food & BeverageCHAGEE just turned its signature tea drinks into Geelato
CHAGEE just turned its signature tea drinks into Geelato! CHAGEE is no longer satisfied with being something you drink on a hot day.
Huawei-backed Maextro S800 is coming for Rolls-Royce and Bentley's old-money club
Traditional ultra-luxury brands like Rolls-Royce and Bentley sell a very old kind of dream: century-old heritage, hand-finished details, aristocratic…
A Chinese mall hosted a "don’t let the teacher catch you eating" contest
A mall in Ningbo, Zhejiang just turned one of China’s most relatable school memories into a real competition: secretly eating in class without getting caught…
Shanghai now has a Givenchy breakfast pop-up with 3 RMB youtiao
Givenchy just gave Shanghai one of its funniest luxury crossovers: a three-day breakfast pop-up where the French fashion house is serving classic local morning…
DeepSeek once challenged ChatGPT on a tiny budget. Now investors are lining up.
DeepSeek used to be the quiet kid in the AI classroom.
A low-budget Teochew dialect film just became China’s biggest box office dark horse of 2026
A low-budget Teochew dialect film just pulled off one of the wildest box office comebacks of the year.
A 140-year-old Chinese diplomacy book is going viral for its hilarious flag drawings 😂
A Qing Dynasty foreign affairs book from around 140 years ago has unexpectedly gone viral on Chinese social media — not for the treaties, but for the flags.