13 h. ago China’s video game sales reach record in 2025 amid overseas expansion, AI investment

China’s video game industry revenue grew 7.7 per cent to a new high this year, as domestic titles from the likes of Tencent Holdings and NetEase continued to expand globally and bets on artificial intelligence paid off, according to data released on Friday by the country’s semi-official gaming industry association. The country’s gaming market posted total sales of 350.8 billion yuan (US$49.8 billion) for the year, breaking the previous record of 325.8 billion yuan set last year. The numbers were...

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13 h. ago China’s video game sales reach record amid overseas expansion, AI investment

China’s video game sales reach record amid overseas expansion, AI investment  South China Morning Post

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3 d. ago Rapid advances in China’s AI video space lead to widespread tech adoption

China’s artificial intelligence video market is heating up as companies race to launch generative tools, promising to produce high-quality, realistic clips, fuelled by the growing adoption of AI in video creation across industries. Beijing-based Shengshu Tech, the first mainland Chinese firm to roll out a challenger to OpenAI’s Sora video generation tool, on Tuesday unveiled an AI agent it said was a “one-click professional video creation tool”, capable of turning images into high-quality,...

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3 d. ago China ‘one yuan girl’ featured in old renminbi banknote located after nearly 50 years

Nearly 50 years after she featured on the renminbi banknote, a woman who became known as “one yuan girl” is back in the spotlight due to a recent viral video of her. An influencer in southwestern China’s Guizhou province posted the video on November 26. It featured 65-year-old Shi Naiyin. Shi is an ordinary peasant woman of the Dong ethnic minority in Congjiang county, Guizhou. However, her nickname, “one yuan girl”, is known nationwide. At the age of 16, Shi went to the market in a town near...

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5 d. ago Frenchman cycles 18,000km from hometown to China to support other Lyme disease patients

A man who cycled 18,000km from his hometown in France to China to realise a Silk Road adventure dream has trended on social media in China. Frenchman Killian Le Guyader, 24, began his journey in the northwestern city of Rennes at the beginning of this year. He arrived in China not long ago and a video showing him standing on the Great Wall in Beijing went viral on mainland social media in early December. “Mum, I made it. I rode from France to China, covering 18,000km and crossing more than 30...

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5 d. ago Video: Flying in China vs USA — The Passenger Experience Will Surprise You!

Video: Flying in China vs USA — The Passenger Experience Will Surprise You!  Sam Chui Aviation and Travel

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6 d. ago China husband makes wife kneel, beg him to buy down jacket in shop, sparking public outrage

A video of a woman kneeling in a shopping centre in central China, pleading with her husband to buy her a down jacket, has gone viral on social media, igniting widespread outrage against the man. The clip was recorded in early December outside a clothing store in a shopping centre in Xiaogan, Hubei province. In the video, the woman is seen on her knees, begging her husband to purchase a 299-yuan (US$40) down jacket for her. Meanwhile, the husband berated her for several minutes, according to a...

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7 d. ago VIDEO: “Trojan Horse: China’s Auto Threat to America” | The Select Committee on China

VIDEO: “Trojan Horse: China’s Auto Threat to America” | The Select Committee on China  Small Wars Journal

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8 d. ago China husband seeks help after late wife’s virtual house ‘legacy’ in video game was torn down

A Chinese man has sought help from a mobile game to restore the virtual house his late wife built so that he can continue remembering her, moving many people online. The Beijing man posted under the handle @chuwengeileyan on November 26 that the virtual houses he and his wife built in the game ShanHai suddenly disappeared. ShanHai is an open-world survival crafting game based on the ancient Chinese mythology Shanhai Jing, translated in English as “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”. A user can...

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8 d. ago China husband seeks help after late wife’s video game house ‘legacy’ is torn down

China husband seeks help after late wife’s video game house ‘legacy’ is torn down  South China Morning Post

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9 d. ago Bear attacks handler in harrowing incident caught on video at wildlife park in China

Bear attacks handler in harrowing incident caught on video at wildlife park in China  ABC7 Los Angeles

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9 d. ago Made in Vietnam: Trump Tariffs Ended China’s Monopoly on US Video Game Consoles

Made in Vietnam: Trump Tariffs Ended China’s Monopoly on US Video Game Consoles  Bloomberg.com

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1 week ago Macron pins video of highlights from China visit, posts ‘Thank you China for your warm welcome!’ in Chinese

Macron pins video of highlights from China visit, posts ‘Thank you China for your warm welcome!’ in Chinese  Global Times

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2 w. ago China Outlines Future Plans in New Video, Including Finding Earth 2.0

China Outlines Future Plans in New Video, Including Finding Earth 2.0  Universe Today

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2 w. ago Luxury brands face probe over alleged Chinese worker exploitation in Italy

Italian prosecutors on Thursday named Gucci, Prada, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent as among 13 luxury brands suspected of using subcontractors who exploited migrant workers in Italy, as part of a growing investigation into sweatshop conditions. Milan prosecutor Paolo Storari issued requests for information about alleged abuses by the brands, although they are not yet under formal investigation. It is the biggest expansion to date of a probe launched last year into the luxury sector, which has...

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2 w. ago Fifth Annual Understanding China: "China in the Eyes of the Young" International Short Video Screening and Award Ceremony Successfully Held in Guangzhou

Fifth Annual Understanding China: "China in the Eyes of the Young" International Short Video Screening and Award Ceremony Successfully Held in Guangzhou  Laotian Times

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2 w. ago Macron in Beijing as EU–China relations enter a tense new phase [VIDEO]

Macron in Beijing as EU–China relations enter a tense new phase [VIDEO]  TVP World

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2 w. ago Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability

Chinese short video platform Kuaishou on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence video generation model to challenge OpenAI’s Sora and start-up Runway in the global market for AI content creation. Kuaishou, which competes with TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin in China, said Kling O1 was the first unified multimodal video model in the industry, based on an architecture that integrated diverse video creation tasks – generation, precise and controllable editing and understanding – into a...

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2 w. ago ‘It is fake’: why US industry leader refused to believe China’s robot march clip

On November 14, Chinese robotics firm UBtech released footage showing hundreds of Walker S2 humanoid robots standing in precise formation inside a warehouse. The machines turned their heads in unison, waved their arms and marched into shipping containers – a scene so visually arresting it evoked sci-fi blockbusters like I, Robot. Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of leading US robotics company Figure, responded with disbelief. He immediately took to social media to suggest the footage was...

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2 w. ago Video | Why China's Bogus Arunachal Pradesh Claims Keep On Returning

Video | Why China's Bogus Arunachal Pradesh Claims Keep On Returning  NDTV

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