One telling fact of the fake news is that most netizens, even those often very critical of the government, bought into the story almost immediately and applauded Xi’s move.

It’s another heavy smog day in Beijing, and the Chinese government finally decided to do something about it – to find PM 2.5 a proper Chinese name. To help their government, Chinese netizens weighed in with creative name suggestions.

Below is one of the most-shared pictures on China’s leading microblogging service, Sina Weibo, for the past 24 hours. Enjoy your one-day trip in Beijing!

But even with a PM 2.5 value several hundred higher than hazardous level, Beijing is still not the worst in China. While everybody is talking about the choking smog in Beijing, other cities with worse air quality received far less media attention. But at least someone is thriving during the airpocalypse. It’s 3M.

On November 19, Guo Dajun, graduate student at Beijing Institute of Technology, reported on his Sina Weibo account that his mom, Zhao Meifu, has been taken by police from their hometown of Lanzhou, Gansu province, and was sentenced to one year of labor camp after paying him a visit in Beijing.

A migrant worker family in Guangdong lives in a public restroom for 9 years so that the son can have access to basic education.

While two 11-year-olds raised questions about food safety and housing prices, two of the most-cared-about social problems in China, Liang Wengen, billionaire and CEO of machinery maker Sany, scored two of the Congress’ most-ridiculed answers.

This weekend, a once-52-years record snow storm hit Beijing. The whiteout on Saturday stuck over 1000 vehicles on highways for a whole nigh and killed 3 Japanese tourists stuck on the Great Wall.

With China’s 18th National Party Congress (or what Chinese netizens call “the Sparta”) right around the corner, people from across the country are busy “happily welcoming the 18th Congress”, while Beijing is on the edge of freaking out.

After being overwhelmed by CCTV’s coverage on Sandy, Chinese netizens called it “the conscience of the US” – that is the polite way of saying it. The impolite way is “CCTV is a stooge of the US.”