The Brave “Spiderman Cleaners” Risking Their Lives to Keep China’s Mountains Trash-Free
With millions of Chinese visiting the country’s sacred mountains every year, keeping them trash-free is incredibly difficult. Luckily, that’s where the Spiderman cleaners come in. These dedicated men an women risk their lives on a daily basis, rappelling down steep cliffs to reach plastic bottles, bags and various other garbage thrown there by uncivilized tourists. […]
Chinese City Installs Automatic Pedestrian Gates to Prevent Jaywalking
Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan have recently equipped busy intersections with automatic pedestrian gates that only open when the traffic light turns green. The measure is aimed at preventing jaywalking, which has become a serious problem in many urban centers across China. Chinese officials have been cracking down on jaywalkers for years. Jaywalking in […]
Chinese Man Spends 36 Years Chiseling at Three Mountains to Bring Water to His Village
Driven by a desire to improve the living conditions in his home, Huang Dafa, chief of Caowangba, a small village hidden deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province, China, spent 36 years digging a 10-kilometer-long water canal through three mountains. The Chinese legend of Yu Gong speaks of an old man whose house was separated from the nearest […]
Man Gets Back at Noisy Upstairs Neighbors with “Building Shaker” He Bought Online
Fed up with the constant noise made by his upstairs neighbors, a man in China got his revenge by giving them a taste of their own medicine. He bought a device known as a “building shaker” online and left it on for a whole weekend. A resident of Xi’an, China’s Shaanxi province, the man – known only […]
Ocean Park Charges Visitors $145 for the Chance to Scoop Polar Bear Poop
An ocean park in Wuhan, China, has come up with an original way to learn more about animals and makes a small profit in the process. For a fee of about $145, visitors can learn more about animals by cleaning their pens and preparing their feed. The Wuhan Haichang Ocean Park recently made international headlines for […]
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Builds Himself a Robot Wife
Zheng Jiajia, a 31-year-old artificial intelligence expert from Hangzhou, China, recently made headlines after marrying 1-year-old Yingying, a “female” robot that he built himself. Zheng graduated from Zhejiang University in 2011 with a master’s degree in artificial intelligence, and spent 3 years working for Chinese tech giant Huawei, before joining Hangzhou’s Dream Town, a base for internet and tech […]
This Chinese Boy Band Is Actually Made Up of Androgynous Girls
One of China’s newest pop sensations, a group called Acrush, puts a new twist on the concept of “boy band”, as its five members are in fact androgynous women. Acrush is set to release their debut music video at the end of this month, but the band is already causing a stir online with its unique concept. The […]
Claw Machine Master Collects 15,000 Plush Toys in Just One Year
They say claw machines are rigged to prevent users from actually catching a prize, but one Chinese man seems to have learned their secret. In just one year, Chen Zhitong has amassed a collection of over 15,000 plush toys from claw machines. When we first heard about Chen Zhitong, about a year ago, he was making […]
Crowded Chinese City Has Train Passing Straight Through 19-Floor Residential Building
Due to the unique topography and high construction density of Chongqing, one of the most populated cities in China, architects and city planners had to come up with a unique way of developing a vital monorail line. Their solution – having the train pass straight through a 19-floor apartment building. With the Daba, Wushan, Wuling, […]
Facial Scanners Installed in Beijing Public Toilets to Combat Toilet Paper Theft
To combat the rampant toilet paper theft in public toilets, local authorities in Beijing, China, have begun installing high-tech facial scanners that prevent users from taking any more toilet paper if they show up again within a certain period of time. The public toilets at the Temple of Heaven, one of the most popular tourist […]
Chinese Man Proposes to Girlfriend with “33-Tonne Meteorite”
Proposing with a diamond ring is nice, but it’s been done millions of times, so, in a n effort to be more original, a Chinese man decided to pop the big question to his sweetheart with a different kind of rock – a 33-tonne “meteorite”. Liu Fei, a young man from Urumqi, China, recently made […]
Chinese Nun Has Adopted Over 30 Girls in the Last 37 Years
A Buddhist nun has melted the hearts of millions of Chinese after it was revealed that she has adopted and raised over 30 girls abandoned at the gate of her temple over the last 37 years. Master nun Changmiao, who joined the Buddhist Hailian Temple, in Ningdu, when she was 15 years old, adopted her first […]
Chinese Villagers Become Millionaires Selling Yarn Online
A few years ago, most of the 2,000 or so villagers in Donggaozhuang, northern China, were struggling to put food on the table by growing wheat and corn. Now, dozens of them are millionaires and more on well on their way of making six-figure fortunes after switching to selling yarn online. Donggaozhuang’s success story started with […]
Lungs of Steel – Chinese Man Inflates Tyre Tube with His Nose
Tong Junhai, a 44-year-old man from China, recently achieved international fame, after a video showing him inflating a tyre tube using only one of his nostrils has gone viral online. On February 25, Tong Junhai stunned a crowd at Huancheng Park, in the city of Xi’an, northwestern China, with a very unusual stunt. Dressed as a Kung […]
74-Year-Old Man Dresses as a Woman to Make His Mother Happy
Every weekend for the past 14 years, Li Yinglai, an elderly gentleman from Kunming, China, has been entertaining visitors at the city’s Green Lake Park by dressing up in traditional women’s clothes, dancing and posing with tourists. But while he loves the attention, he claims that he’s not your usual busker, he’s just doing this to make […]