The city of Guangzhou has 100 thousand waste pickers working in the city dump. The children of these waste pickers were born and raised in trash heaps.

Wang XIaoshan, famous account on Sina Weibo, stood up against Mengniu, China’s leading dairy product brand deep in food safety scandals. Withe netizens’ help, he made a boycotting-Mengniu ad and had it played on LED billboards in several cities in China.

A new US government rule that may significantly impact the operations of the many Beijing-sponsored Confucius Institutes affiliated with US universities stirred up heated discussions on Sina Weibo about China and its promotion of soft power.

We’re talking about trust among ordinary people in China. The crave for quick money, fame and power erodes people’s morality and most of them won’t hesitate to assume of the worst in other people.

There are too many young girls who want to become famous, but not nearly enough sugar daddies.

Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China and a prominent figure of China’s internet sector, modified lyrics of What A Wonderful World to mock what it’s like to live in China right now.

When the world’s major media (except Chinese ones) and people on Weibo and Twitter are all celebrating the arrival of Chen GuangCheng, China’s blind activist, in New York City. Someone is clearly not happy.

Chinese new graduates shared their biggest regrets in collage online.

If there will ever be a war between China and the Philippines over disputed waters in South China sea, the outcome is a no-brainer in the eyes of Chinese netizens.

Wang Yang, newly rweelected Party Secretary of Guangdong Province, said he read comments on Sina Weibo every day. Unfortunately, Chinese netizens are not buying into the pitch.

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  Rumor: Peking University graduate with failed start-up initiative killed local Communication Bureau official

  Refuted: 100% fabricared

  Rumor power: 2/5

  Original weibo post: 6389 retweets

  On April 2, 2012, a Weibo post emerged about a tragic story where a recent Peking University graduate Mr.Wang went back to his hometown after failing to land a job in Beijing. He then started a children education website. But local Communication Bureau shut down his website, saying that education related websites required permits. Wang then filed 3 applications at the Bureau, which were all rejected. However, he was told that if he was willing to pay a 1000 permit-approval fee, he would get what he wanted. Instead of paying the fee, Wang took a knife and stabbed an official responsible for approving permits at the local Communication Bureau to death. To add more color to the story, Wang’s last words when he turned himself in were. “I have no regret for they took away my right to make a living independently.”

  The story was then found to be in existence since 2009 and 100% fabricated. However, it depicts a tragic underdog-standing-against-corrupted government story that many Chinese find easy to relate to. 

  
  

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