This is a scam. I couldn’t help blurting that out the moment I bought the ticket on my phone screen. The app showed that only a few first-class and second-class seats were left. Or sometimes the unfortunate words “Sold Out” would appear on the screen. I stood on the platform, but the moment the doors opened with a rush of wind, a train appeared before me. Yet all that remained was empty space. Look there. The train had already passed Suzhou and was heading toward the big city. The train was bound for Changzhou. Normally, it would be packed with passengers and luggage, making it difficult even to stand. However, even though I kept filming, no one appeared in the frame. This was not a staged production. This was the original recording, completely unedited. It felt as if I were the only person there. The silence was so deep that it seemed as though we were alone inside that enormous mass of steel.

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"Pears rotting in the fields become fertilizer. You think you can survive by working hard? That's the biggest lie we farmers tell ourselves."
"What price do you have to drop to before you buy? The production areas are overflowing with fruit; we can't sell it and have to dump it. We finally got a bumper harvest, hoping to turn things around in March, and now it's all ruined, all stuck in our hands. The market is completely stagnant."
"Look at these apples! My God, all wasted. They just dumped them all here, really expensive apples, just wasted like that."
Originally, they thought the New Year of 2026 would bring a good start, but unexpectedly, fruit is piling up across the country. Truckloads of oranges, apples, watermelons, pears… are all becoming fertilizer. The fruit farmers are devastated and crying.

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Shanghai’s city center shows a stark contrast—one street bustling with life while another stands empty. As China’s real estate slump deepens, even resilient Shanghai is struggling: home prices are falling, jobs are scarce, and daily life is becoming harder for many residents.
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What is the final ending for a “Beijing drifter”? Today I received a message on WeChat from a high school classmate. Because they still cannot obtain a Beijing hukou, they have no choice but to take their child back to their hometown for middle school later this year. This is already the third friend I know who has quietly packed up and left Beijing this year. After drifting here for more than ten years, the problems that once seemed distant—hukou restrictions, unbearable housing prices, children’s education, and aging parents—have suddenly become heavy chains dragging down countless “Beijing drifters.” More and more families are quietly leaving, their suitcases filled not with success, but with exhaustion and disappointment.

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China's economic downturn has persisted for some time, and statistics show that the age of homeless people is decreasing. In many large cities, an increasing number of young people are spending the night in parks or under bridges.
On September 26, 2025, Caixin.com published a report stating that Chen Ronghui of the National Bureau of Data Science organized 34 provincial-level survey agencies to conduct a comprehensive survey of the homeless population nationwide. Data showed that as of the end of August, there were approximately 47.5 million homeless people in China, a 5.3-fold increase compared to 2020. Of this group, 61% were under 33 years old, and 25% were over 60 years old.

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China’s High-Speed Rail Crisis: Japan–Germany Ban Stops Critical Supply

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