I have been thinking about a number. 1000多万. More than 10 million delivery riders in China. That is the official count from Xinhua, published May 19, 2026. Ten million people riding electric bikes through cities I have never fully mapped,…
WeChat on HarmonyOS just got another test build, and this one is worth watching because it is less about one splashy feature and more about Tencent filling in all the awkward gaps that kept the native HarmonyOS app feeling like…
I noticed something last week. I was waiting for a friend outside a café in Shanghai, and she walked up apologizing: “My boss sent a 60-second voice memo on the way here, I had to listen to it.” She was…
On May 1, 2026, over 325 million domestic trips were recorded across China. That number comes from the five-day May Day holiday, and it sounds like a boom. But scroll through Xiaohongshu during those five days, and you will see…
WeChat dropped iOS version 8.0.74 this week, and if you are on Android you are still stuck on 8.0.72. That is two full versions behind. iOS WeChat has pushed four updates in under six weeks, which is either impressive or…
Before resigning from Chinese tech giant Baidu this spring, algorithm engineer Wei Ying spent a week on a new kind of handover: building an AI version of himself. Coworkers fed his code, documents, research, and chat histories into an internal…
WeChat iOS 8.0.74 rolled out on May 28, and the changelog is exactly what you expect: “解决了一些已知问题.” That’s it. No new features, no UI tweaks, just bug fixes that Tencent won’t name. I’ve been checking the build for two days…
China’s AI scene has been busy. Three stories stood out this week, and none of them involve benchmark-hugging press releases. Huawei’s “Tao’s Law” He Tingbo, Huawei’s semiconductor chief, took the stage at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai on May 25 and…
Travel anywhere during one of China’s week-long national holidays, known as “Golden Week,” and you’ll find yourself swept along by what the idiom renshan renhai describes: people mountain, people sea. Over 325 million domestic trips were recorded during this year’s…
Three products caught my eye this week out of Shenzhen and Nanjing. Two are shipping now. One is teasing a launch for May 29. All of them say something about where Chinese charging hardware is headed in mid-2026. Baseus PicoGo…