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Chinese Youth Rework Lunar New Year Rituals: From Obligation to Boundary-Setting
As Chinese young adults face intrusive questioning during Lunar New Year visits, they are adopting new strategies—preparing stock answers, diverting conversation, avoiding visits or educating elders—to protect personal boundaries. These practices reveal broader tensions between ritual obligations and modern pressures such as urbanisation, housing costs and delayed family formation.
China’s Urban Order Shifts: Beijing Hits New Milestone as Provincial Capitals Close the Gap
Beijing became the second mainland city to top RMB 5 trillion in 2025, while the top‑ten city framework stayed largely intact. Substantial movement occurred below the summit: provincial capitals strengthened, export‑dependent ports like Ningbo underperformed, and resource or legacy industrial cities proved volatile, highlighting the shift toward consumption, services and technological upgrading.
Guangdong’s Demographic Leap: China’s Economic Engine Secures Its Place as the Nation’s Most Populous Province
Guangdong reached a record 128.59 million permanent residents in 2025, growing by about 790,000 and cementing its position as China’s most populous province. The rise is driven more by inward migration than by births alone, making Guangdong a demographic outlier that is simultaneously an economic engine and a key contributor to national birth numbers.