Jia Guo is from the coastal city of Qingdao. She has an M.A. in multimedia journalism from NYU and has worked at Facebook and Bloomberg TV in New York City.
Today is Chinese Valentine’s Day. On this day, couples express their love to each other by sending flowers, going on dates, or booking rooms at love hotels. While Japan is the world’s capital for the love hotel industry, with more than 30,000 locations, the industry is slowly catching up in China as the country’s sexual mores are changing.
A hospital in Shanghai offers acupuncture to pets who suffer from neurological diseases. More than 2,000 animals have visited the hospital over four years.
A video showing a man swimming the butterfly stroke in a flood went viral on Chinese social media. At first, many people laughed at his “strange” behavior and called him “crazy.” Later on, when people realized that the man was doing so to rescue a drowning person, they apologized.
An 87-year-old man invented a new way to stay healthy: Walk like a turtle or snake!
More than 200 piglets escaped when a truck carrying them rolled over inside a tunnel in Guizhou Province.
China’s WL Intelligent Technology created 1,069 robots, which set the new Guinness World Record for the “most robots dancing simultaneously.”
In 2016, there were about 61 million left-behind children in China, with more than a third under age 17. These children live in the countryside while their parents work in big cities. Who takes care of them? Why don’t migrant workers bring their kids to cities to live with them?
Typhoon Hato, maximum storm category 10, battered southern China including Guangzhou Province, Hong Kong, and Macau on August 23. At least three people were killed.
A woman fell into the water during a bungee jump at a park in Beijing. The park said the incident was caused by human error.