China’s Official 2026 Holiday Schedule

Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Arrangements for Certain Holidays in 2026

State Council Telegram [2025] No. 7

Immortality Is Just Eternal Loneliness

Today I saw a piece in the NT saying that China’s longevity industry is advancing at full speed and that people living to 150 is just around the corner. I searched the Chinese domestic news, and every story said people would only live to 120 — which turned out to be the press sparing the honored any embarrassment. Awkward.

• https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20251110/china-aging-longevity-science/
• https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20251109A024FN)00

Sometimes I think humanity’s greatness lies not in flying into space, but in never giving up its obsession with living longer.

Is the gold bull catching its breath, or is it over?

Gold is generally considered a safe-haven asset, typically shining when the economy runs too hot or too cold.

By Xu Xiaoqing Chief Macro Strategist, Dunhe Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Since the start of 2025, gold has climbed steadily from around $2,600 an ounce, at one point approaching $4,400 — a peak gain of nearly 69% for the year. But from October 20, it slid to as low as $3,900 within six trading days, a drop of 11%. Either this gold bull market has ended, or this is merely a pause for breath.

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Light and Fatigue in the Short Drama Factory

It was raining in Xi’an that day.

Autumn had just arrived. The wind on the Bailu Plain location was cold, and the rain refused to stop. A crew of nearly forty was stuck inside a faux-antique courtyard. The slate said it plainly: twenty-two scenes had to be finished that day.

I went back to my hometown today. Desolation everywhere — autumn wind, autumn rain, the season grinding the spirit down. Hardly any of the shops along the street were still open, the neon-and-liquor glow of years past has vanished who knows where, and the elementary school I once attended has been shut down.

The real China is not on the evening news, nor in the movies and TV dramas. It lives in the county towns and townships whose names you have never even heard. There are no spectacles there, only ordinary days.