From national pride to social distrust, these are the most noteworthy trends and topics dominating Chinese social media recently.
The impactful, the humorous, the surprising, the iconic – these are stories to remember as we reflect on a decade of What's on Weibo.
Chinese online reactions to the war in the Middle East are intertwined with echoes of China’s own national suffering and its modern history.
Within a short time frame, three Chinese young doctors received cancer diagnoses after working in the same laboratory at the Zhongshan Second Affiliated Hospital.
Two men allegedly beat the Chinese woman, leaving her in a pool of blood on the streets of Matsudo.
On Weibo, the topic "Comrade Li Keqiang Passed Away" (#李克强同志逝世#) garnered over 1.8 billion clicks.
The pee incident, that occurred at a subsidiary Tsingtao Beer factory, has caused concerns among consumers.
Chinese perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict are influenced by China's historical context and perceptions of its role in the world today.
The author suggests that comparing Singapore a small county in contrast to the giant nation that is China not only reflects negatively on Singapore but also on the Chinese individuals who use this term.
In Shanghai, people paid tribute to the victims of the Ulumqi fire by lighting candles, and also found other ways to vent their frustrations.
"Tonight is the night when students are flooding the internet," some on Weibo said during a dark night filled with students' bright lights.
"They say it's cleared, so it is cleared. The building was on fire, now the internet is on fire."
The first woman who came forward to accuse Kris Wu in 2021 celebrated his sentencing in a livestream.
As people mourned the victims of the Urumqi fire, they also expressed anger over how the last 100 days of their lives were spent in lockdown.
Fed up with Foxconn, employees vented their frustrations and started a riot at the Zhengzhou factory campus.
Bluffing in Zhengzhou: "Nothing scarier than the newly acquired power of people at the lowest rung of society."
As Covid-19 cases are on the rise, Beijing is not opening up, but closing down.
Some on Weibo joke that Elon Musk is "promoting Chinese culture" through his new approach to Twitter.
On Weibo, many people held different views on the incident regarding two women being tied up after violating Guangzhou anti-epidemic rules.
China-Canadian relations haven't exactly been warm and friendly recently. This short Xi-Trudeau encounter made it all the more clear.
"Will there also be gold, premium, and diamond Covid-19 test VIP packages in the future?"
Shijiazhuang is trending on Chinese social media as "the first person to eat the crab" for implementing updated, looser Covid measures.
There's online outrage about excessive and senseless Covid anti-epidemic measures in Heilongjiang after two shop incidents went viral.
These are China's new rules regarding the "further optimization of the Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control."
