News and stories from China

18 stories set in China, including Shanghai, China, Beijing, China, northern China, Lintong, China, Sichuan, China, Guangxi, China, Leigudun, China, Lhasa, Tibet.

Stories in China

Shanghai Masters: why it’s trending on Google today (News · Shanghai, China) — Why “Shanghai Masters” is trending on Google on 8 October 2026 (2000+ searches). Latest headlines, related searches, and what the spike mean
Ben Shelton: why it’s trending on Google today (News · Shanghai, China) — Why “Ben Shelton” is trending on Google on 11 October 2026 (2000+ searches). Latest headlines, related searches, and what the spike means.
Casper Ruud: why it’s trending on Google today (News · Shanghai, China) — Why “Casper Ruud” is trending on Google on 12 October 2026 (1000+ searches). Latest headlines, related searches, and what the spike means.
Learner Tien: why it’s trending on Google today (News · Shanghai, China) — Why “Learner Tien” is trending on Google on 12 October 2026 (1000+ searches). Latest headlines, related searches, and what the spike means.
Sabalenka: why it’s trending on Google today (News · Beijing, China) — Why “Sabalenka” is trending on Google on 4 October 2026 (2000+ searches). Latest headlines, related searches, and what the spike means.
Qin Great Wall: a world wonder of c. 221 BCE (World Wonder · northern China) — c. 221 BCE, northern China. Qin Shi Huang linked older state walls into a northern barrier of rammed earth — the political ancestor of the s
Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang: a world wonder of c. 210 BCE (World Wonder · Lintong, China) — c. 210 BCE, Lintong, China. An estimated 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, horses, and chariots buried to staff an underground empire.
Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: a world wonder of c. 210 BCE (World Wonder · Lintong, China) — c. 210 BCE, Lintong, China. Sima Qian described a buried map of empire with mercury rivers; the mound is unexcavated, the army only a satell
Dujiangyan irrigation system: a world wonder of c. 256 BCE (World Wonder · Sichuan, China) — c. 256 BCE, Sichuan, China. Li Bing split the Min River without a dam, watering the Chengdu Plain for 2,300 years — a living Warring States
Lingqu Canal: a world wonder of c. 214 BCE (World Wonder · Guangxi, China) — c. 214 BCE, Guangxi, China. Shi Lu connected the Xiang and Li rivers so Qin could move troops and grain between the Yangtze and Pearl basins
Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng: a world wonder of c. 433 BCE (World Wonder · Leigudun, China) — c. 433 BCE, Leigudun, China. A Warring States burial with a 65-bell bronze bianzhong set still playable — a concert hall underground.
Ming Great Wall: a world wonder of c. 1500 CE (World Wonder · northern China) — c. 1500 CE, northern China. Ming engineers rebuilt earlier walls in brick and stone into the postcard rampart that snakes over ridges for th
The Forbidden City: a world wonder of c. 1420 CE (World Wonder · Beijing, China) — c. 1420 CE, Beijing, China. Nearly 1,000 buildings on a north–south axis — Ming imperial geometry as a city within a city.
Potala Palace: a world wonder of c. 1645 CE (World Wonder · Lhasa, Tibet) — c. 1645 CE, Lhasa, Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s winter palace rising 13 storeys on Red Hill — a white-and-red cliff of rooms.
Three Gorges Dam: a world wonder of c. 2006 CE (World Wonder · Yangtze River, China) — c. 2006 CE, Yangtze River, China. The world’s most powerful hydroelectric plant — a wall that remade a river and relocated over a million pe
Shanghai Tower: a world wonder of c. 2015 CE (World Wonder · Shanghai, China) — c. 2015 CE, Shanghai, China. A twisting 632-metre tower — double-skin façade and stacked sky lobbies like vertical neighborhoods.
Beijing National Stadium: a world wonder of c. 2008 CE (World Wonder · Beijing, China) — c. 2008 CE, Beijing, China. Herzog & de Meuron’s “Bird’s Nest” — a chaotic steel weave for the Olympic Games.
Beijing Water Cube: a world wonder of c. 2008 CE (World Wonder · Beijing, China) — c. 2008 CE, Beijing, China. ETFE bubbles cladding a swimming cube — soap-foam geometry as architecture.

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