Social Issues

A chronology of major events, 1992–2024

One viral video shows a minor dispute escalating into a knife fight involving multiple people, showing how everyday frustrations can quickly become deadly.

Tanker trucks, which had just unloaded coal oil, were immediately used to carry edible soybean oil, without any cleaning process.

The local residents are worried about how they and their families will cope following the floods, as their homes and farmland have been submerged.

Official oversaw extensive organ transplantation operations in Shaanxi Province.

The linguist and vocalist uses her talents to bring traditional Chinese poetry to life for Western audiences.

‘Young people feel hopeless, they are in despair,’ Chinese scholar Zhang Dandan said.

‘There is no way to prevent the economy from continuing to decline,’ one economist said.

Police in China arrested a man suspected of stabbing four instructors from Cornell College, Iowa.

‘It’s amazing that they can actually use a blank piece of paper to represent a formal legal document…There are no words to describe the madness and absurdity.’

China is facing a serious under-population problem, and it won’t be easily reversible, experts say.