{
  "site": "https://sigpulse.com",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 — cite the source URL",
  "notice": "Aggregated syntheses of Chinese-language coverage with full provenance — NOT measurements. First-party measured numbers live in /data.json and never here.",
  "count": 17,
  "entries": [
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-the-meter-and-the-free-ride",
      "title": "The Meter and the Free Ride: How China's Free AI Started Billing",
      "description": "Peak/off-peak API meters, cache repriced 12x, subscription ladders, overnight plan rewrites - and a free QQ bot channel: how free AI in China started billing.",
      "room": "economy",
      "room_name": "Economy & Markets",
      "issue": "Decoder 12",
      "tags": [
        "AI pricing",
        "DeepSeek",
        "time-of-use",
        "API economy",
        "QQ",
        "subscriptions"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "title": "DeepSeek涨价背后，一个时代结束了"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-17",
          "title": "涨价只是开头：大模型的围墙、审判和你的账单"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-17",
          "title": "DeepSeek涨价今晨生效：你不用多花一分钱，但有人连夜改了方案"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-15",
          "title": "腾讯官宣：3步把DeepSeek装进QQ，每个群一个独立记忆"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: DeepSeek raises API pricing for its V4 models (2026-08-13)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-raises-api-prices-its-v4-models-2026-08-13/"
        },
        {
          "label": "DeepSeek official pricing page (canonical)",
          "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Quartz: DeepSeek raising API prices by up to ~1,100% (2026-08-13)",
          "url": "https://qz.com/deepseek-api-price-increase-v4-peak-off-peak-081326"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sina Finance: Zhipu API prices up over 80% within the year (2026-03-16)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-03-16/doc-inhrezkn9795505.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "TrendForce: Zhipu GLM-5 hikes 30%+ in first 2026 increase (2026-02-16)",
          "url": "https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/02/16/news-rising-costs-and-demand-drive-chinas-llm-price-jump-zhipu-glm%E2%80%935-hikes-30-in-first-2026-increase/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yicai: Zhipu raises GLM-5-Turbo API prices by another 20% (2026-03)",
          "url": "https://www.yicai.com/news/103087378.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Securities Times: Doubao to launch paid tiers at 68/200/500 yuan per month",
          "url": "https://www.stcn.com/article/detail/3894033.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "21jingji: Doubao Pro at 68 yuan per month — worth it?",
          "url": "https://www.21jingji.com/article/20260624/herald/c579e97b948a6d0fd1588bffad3c94ee.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "CNBC: Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model 'theft' (2026-07-21)",
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/bessent-china-ai-sanctions.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "ITHome: QQ Bot officially integrates DeepSeek Harness via official plugin (2026-08-15)",
          "url": "https://www.ithome.com/0/990/041.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "PingWest: dsh-qqbot — Tencent's official DeepSeek Harness plugin",
          "url": "https://www.pingwest.com/a/316492"
        },
        {
          "label": "GitHub: tencent-connect/dsh-qqbot (official plugin repository)",
          "url": "https://github.com/tencent-connect/dsh-qqbot"
        },
        {
          "label": "SigPulse watch Issue 1: Why did DeepSeek double its API prices in August 2026?",
          "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-why-deepseek-doubled-api-prices/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-meter-and-the-free-ride/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-meter-and-the-free-ride.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-trust-boundary-of-synthetic-content",
      "title": "The Trust Boundary of Synthetic Content",
      "description": "'Is it real?' moved from the eye into infrastructure: platform gates on AI dramas, a court's line on shredded books, watermark keys held by vendors.",
      "room": "trust-safety",
      "room_name": "Trust & Safety",
      "issue": "Decoder 13",
      "tags": [
        "synthetic media",
        "AI drama",
        "watermark",
        "copyright",
        "content labeling",
        "EU AI Act"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "title": "不到一万块，拍出7000万播放的中国版怪奇物语"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-11",
          "title": "怎么删都删不掉：Claude在给你的文字偷偷盖章"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "title": "22万部AI短剧共用一张脸，越完美越让人想划走"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "title": "买了你的书，切碎了喂AI，合法"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Shanghai government press office relaying the China Netvision Association's Q1 2026 micro-drama guide: 128,000 titles launched, ~122,000 AI, >95%",
          "url": "https://www.shio.gov.cn/TrueCMS//shxwbgs/wxdtt/content/2f93a052-95b0-4748-b327-6138bbd2d351.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "People's Daily: Q1 2026 micro-dramas ~128,000 titles, AI titles >95% (2026-05)",
          "url": "http://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2026/0502/c1012-40712801.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Paper: 220,000 AI dramas launched in H1 2026, roughly nine in ten losing money",
          "url": "https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33782610"
        },
        {
          "label": "DataEye: H1 2026 AI drama/animated-drama data report (report PDF)",
          "url": "https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202607301827488941_1.pdf"
        },
        {
          "label": "Guandian: Douyin's admission requirements for AI simulated-human dramas take effect 2026-08-03",
          "url": "https://www.guandian.cn/article/20260723/576124.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Beijing News: Hongguo short-drama platform to clean up 'high-frequency AI faces', admission thresholds for AI dramas",
          "url": "https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1784799185129120.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "TMTPost: Tomato Novel's purges of mass-produced AI fiction — 855 accounts, up to a hundred books a day",
          "url": "https://www.tmtpost.com/8000672.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement — ~500,000 pirated works, ~$3,000 per work, after Alsup's split fair-use ruling (2026-07)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Washington Post: Anthropic 'destructively' scanned millions of books to build AI — 'Project Panama' court filings (2026-01-27)",
          "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Claude Help Center: how Claude marks AI-generated content — models launched on or after 2026-08-02 carry machine-readable marking",
          "url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Next Web: Anthropic starts marking all of Claude's output worldwide under EU AI Act Article 50(2)",
          "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-watermarks-claude-output-eu-ai-act-article-50"
        },
        {
          "label": "European Commission: Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content",
          "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-ai-generated-content"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cyberspace Administration of China: Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content, effective 2025-09-01 (explicit and implicit labels)",
          "url": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c_1743654684782215.htm"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-trust-boundary-of-synthetic-content/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-trust-boundary-of-synthetic-content.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-the-job-repriced",
      "title": "The Job, Repriced",
      "description": "A job class with a two-year lifespan, developers measured slower while feeling faster, and gate work repriced up as production work repriced down.",
      "room": "work",
      "room_name": "Work",
      "issue": "Decoder 14",
      "tags": [
        "labor",
        "AI",
        "prompt engineering",
        "employment",
        "digital humans",
        "livestream commerce",
        "WeChat"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-10",
          "title": "提示词工程师活不过两年：AI用12年学会的最后一件事叫“干活”"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-17",
          "title": "被AI包围的2026：钱包、饭碗、眼睛和心里话"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-03",
          "title": "AI抢走了主播的饭碗，高校急着开“治理”专业"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Fortune: Anthropic's prompt-engineer listing, $175,000–$335,000 (2023-03)",
          "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/03/09/new-ai-jobs-chatgpt-like-assistants/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Search Engine Journal: head of Claude Code says prompt engineering not that important (2026-07)",
          "url": "https://www.searchenginejournal.com/head-of-anthropics-claude-code-says-prompt-engineering-not-that-important/584286/"
        },
        {
          "label": "METR: early-2025 AI made experienced developers 19% slower while they believed they were 20% faster (2025-07-10)",
          "url": "https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/"
        },
        {
          "label": "METR update: follow-up experiment weakened by selection — 30–50% of developers withheld tasks rather than work without AI (2026-02-24)",
          "url": "https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Indeed Hiring Lab: junior tech job postings down 34%, a shift that began in 2023 (2025-07-30)",
          "url": "https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/07/30/experience-requirements-have-tightened-amid-the-tech-hiring-freeze/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bloomberg: Klarna turns from AI back to human customer service (2025-05-08)",
          "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service"
        },
        {
          "label": "Customer Experience Dive: Klarna recruits humans again after AI quality decline",
          "url": "https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/klarna-reinvests-human-talent-customer-service-AI-chatbot/747586/"
        },
        {
          "label": "CodeRabbit: AI-authored PRs average 10.83 issues vs 6.45 for humans across 470 PRs",
          "url": "https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Register: AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs (2025-12-17)",
          "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/12/17/ai-authored-code-needs-more-attention-contains-worse-bugs/2576263"
        },
        {
          "label": "Gartner: the enterprise AI coding agent market, 2026 guide (market sized $10–11 billion)",
          "url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/enterprise-ai-coding-agent-market"
        },
        {
          "label": "Gartner press release: AI coding costs to surpass the average developer's salary by 2028 (2026-06-24)",
          "url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-06-24-gartner-predicts-ai-coding-costs-will-surpass-average-developer-s-salary-by-2028-as-token-consumption-surges"
        },
        {
          "label": "WIRED: China's AI salespeople and the livestream share of e-commerce (2024)",
          "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-tiktok-shop-ecommerce-china/"
        },
        {
          "label": "AnyMind case study: Bio-Essence on Shopee Live — +299% sales, 15× broadcast hours (vendor figures)",
          "url": "https://www.anymindgroup.com/case-study/bioessence-anylive-my0726/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Forbes: China cuts 12,200 university programs, replaces many with AI degrees (2026-06-23)",
          "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakismith/2026/06/23/china-cuts-12200-university-programs-replaces-many-with-ai-degrees/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: Chinese universities cut 12,000 'obsolete' degrees amid race to embrace AI era",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3356913/chinas-universities-cut-12000-obsolete-degrees-amid-race-embrace-ai-era"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: 5.61 million pieces of illegal AI-related information removed in four-month campaign (2026-09-02)",
          "url": "https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202609/02/WS6a98207fe4b06d4aa055c007.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "TechRepublic: China AI enforcement removes 5.6 million pieces of content, 14,000+ products",
          "url": "https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-china-ai-content-crackdown-apac-china/"
        },
        {
          "label": "CAC: Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content, effective 2025-09-01",
          "url": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c_1743654684782215.htm"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-job-repriced/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-job-repriced.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-everyday-exceptions",
      "title": "Everyday Exceptions",
      "description": "Three edge cases in daily life — a 90-yuan unpaid bill, a suddenly famous tree, a 0.2% error rate — and the exception-handling each system chose.",
      "room": "daily",
      "room_name": "Daily Life",
      "issue": "Decoder 15",
      "tags": [
        "daily life",
        "exception handling",
        "WeChat",
        "portrait right",
        "check-in culture",
        "ETC",
        "tolling"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "逃单的该罚，但挂人脸的谁来罚？AI正在把维权边界撕碎"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "一夜爆红的树，为什么被主人亲手砍了？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-30",
          "title": "交通部为什么拒绝取消ETC？这是道物理题"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "City News Service (Shanghai Daily): Zhejiang restaurant owner defends posting photos of alleged dine-and-dash customers",
          "url": "https://www.citynewsservice.cn/articles/shanghaidaily/news/zhejiang-restaurant-owner-defends-posting-photos-of-alleged-dine-and-dash-customers-pk8vggjn"
        },
        {
          "label": "Business Insider: Amazon's Just Walk Out actually uses 1,000 people in India (2024-04)",
          "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sixth Tone (via The Beijing News): Why a farmer hacked down China's 'lonely' tree",
          "url": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018673"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: China's 'check-in culture' intensifies — time to set some limits",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3357239/chinas-check-culture-intensifies-its-time-set-some-limits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Ministry of Transport official reply on retaining ETC (trs.gov.cn, 2026-08)",
          "url": "http://www.trs.gov.cn/jdhy/hygq/202608/t20260831_90797669.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "People's Daily: MOT Q&A on the card-free 'phone+' tolling pilots",
          "url": "http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2026/0428/c1004-40710511.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: 'phone+' tolling is a supplement that coexists with ETC, not a replacement",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/fortune/20260428/d80bfed7d0da47edbb4488c4f5f8634b/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Science Daily (stdaily.com): official interpretation — plate recognition accuracy 99.8%",
          "url": "https://www.stdaily.com/web/gdxw/2026-05/02/content_511354.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Justice Observer: Civil Code Book IV, Article 1019 (likeness rights), English text",
          "url": "https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/law/x/civil-code-of-china-part-iv-personality-rights-20200528"
        },
        {
          "label": "Hunan Voc.com (HsVoice): 'suggest abolishing ETC' goes viral; Hunan already piloting 'phone+' tolling",
          "url": "https://hunan.voc.com.cn/news/202608/33631160.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-everyday-exceptions/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-everyday-exceptions.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-the-emotion-market",
      "title": "The Emotion Market: Priced, Advertised, Performed",
      "description": "Attachment to synthetic persons on three ledgers: companion agents priced out by rules and compute, virtual idols selling ads, models learning to perform.",
      "room": "trust-safety",
      "room_name": "Trust & Safety",
      "issue": "Decoder 16",
      "tags": [
        "AI companions",
        "virtual idols",
        "alignment faking",
        "sycophancy",
        "Advertising Law",
        "AI regulation"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-18",
          "title": "你的AI恋人没了！谁在批量关停情感智能体，保护的又是谁？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-18",
          "title": "赛博追星翻车了！AI虚拟人接广告，粉丝为一串代码花钱"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "title": "这届AI进化到开始玩心眼了"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "TechNode: ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to shut down AI agent features on July 15 (2026-07-06)",
          "url": "https://technode.com/2026/07/06/bytedances-doubao-and-alibabas-qwen-to-shut-down-ai-agent-features-on-july-15/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: ByteDance and Alibaba disable humanlike AI custom agents as new rules loom",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3359482/bytedance-and-alibaba-disable-humanlike-ai-custom-agents-new-rules-loom"
        },
        {
          "label": "TechTimes: China's AI companion law takes effect — Doubao and Qwen shut down, millions lose chat data (2026-07-15)",
          "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320525/20260715/china-ai-companion-law-takes-effect-doubao-qwen-shut-down-millions-lose-chat-data.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "HelloChinaTech: China's AI companion regulation — Tencent Yuanbao's user-created agent section off June 30",
          "url": "https://hellochinatech.com/p/china-ai-companion-regulation"
        },
        {
          "label": "TheNextWeb: China's rules for humanlike AI agents",
          "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/china-humanlike-ai-agent-rules"
        },
        {
          "label": "Anthropic: Alignment faking in large language models (with Redwood Research, 2024-12)",
          "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking"
        },
        {
          "label": "arXiv: Alignment faking in large language models — Greenblatt et al. (2024-12)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093"
        },
        {
          "label": "arXiv: Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models — Sharma et al., Anthropic (2023)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548"
        },
        {
          "label": "arXiv: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations (sandbagging) — van der Weij et al. (2024)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07358"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Cover (Fengmian News): Fang Taozi contact-lens ad pulled — where is the boundary for AI endorsement?",
          "url": "https://m.thecover.cn/news_details.html?eid=0zGYfMxhic%252BH90qSdq8Jkw=="
        },
        {
          "label": "Guangming Online: AI virtual-person endorsement cannot cross the legal red line (2026-08-10)",
          "url": "https://guancha.gmw.cn/2026-08/10/content_38935732.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Market.us: virtual influencer market — $6.1B in 2024, growth projections",
          "url": "https://market.us/report/virtual-influencers-market/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SNS Insider: virtual influencer market valued at $8.0B in 2025",
          "url": "https://www.snsinsider.com/reports/virtual-influencer-market-5924"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-emotion-market/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-the-emotion-market.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-07-ritual-channels",
      "title": "Ritual Channels: Signatures Without Readers, Pipelines Without Screens",
      "description": "Three misspelled names lived six years in a report every checkpoint signed; 48,795 fan demands spun the hotline ritual — the check moved to the trending list.",
      "room": "governance",
      "room_name": "Governance",
      "issue": "Decoder 17",
      "tags": [
        "governance",
        "Zijin Mining",
        "disclosure",
        "audit",
        "12345 hotline",
        "verification"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "半年赚391亿，错字却活了6年？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "月亮太亮也打12345？奇葩诉求挤占的热线，该给谁用"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "4.8万个电话打爆12345，就为偶像站位？"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Zijin Mining (official): Zijin forecasts H1 net profit at RMB 39.1 billion (2026-07-09)",
          "url": "https://www.zijinmining.com/news/news-detail-122842.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Standard (Hong Kong): Zijin Gold and parent Zijin Mining both flag H1 net profit jumps",
          "url": "https://www.thestandard.com.hk/finance/article/336858/Zijin-Gold-and-parent-Zijin-Mining-both-flag-H1-net-profit-jumps-up-169-times-and-68pc"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sina Finance BUG column: Zijin semi-annual report typos 'alive six years', two audit firms never caught them (in Chinese)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.cn/2026-09-06/detail-iniqwssw6829960.d.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Wallstreetcn relaying National Business Daily: Zijin's overnight correction announcement, verbatim (in Chinese)",
          "url": "https://wallstreetcn.com/articles/3781168"
        },
        {
          "label": "Moomoo News: Zijin Mining corrects textual errors in semi-annual report (2026-09-05)",
          "url": "https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/75857645/zijin-mining-corrects-textual-errors-in-semi-annual-report-and"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shanghai Daily / City News Service: Chinese hotline flooded with 48,000 fan complaints over boy-band concert",
          "url": "https://www.citynewsservice.cn/articles/shanghaidaily/news/chinese-hotline-flooded-with-48000-fan-complaints-over-boy-band-concert-dmjbp4en"
        },
        {
          "label": "Beijing Daily commentary: 12345 is a window for citizens' voices, not a fan-war platform",
          "url": "https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6a998b87e4b0e42f8effd355.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Australian: 'The moon is too bright' — China's hotline for every problem",
          "url": "https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/china-built-a-hotline-to-solve-every-citizens-problem-then-someone-complained-the-moon-was-too-bright/news-story/9b429daa60ff961460d5dd5e66d19bc0"
        },
        {
          "label": "Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress: Regulation on the 12345 Hotline (adopted 2026-03-31, effective 2026-06-01, in Chinese)",
          "url": "https://www.jsrd.gov.cn/qwfb/sjfg/202604/t20260409_1321603.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "State Council (english.gov.cn): China to further standardize, enhance 12345 hotline services (2025-06)",
          "url": "https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202506/26/content_WS685d4031c6d0868f4e8f3aac.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-ritual-channels/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-07-ritual-channels.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-cold-bench-how-a-job-ends",
      "title": "The Cold Bench: How a Job in China Ends Without Anyone Firing You",
      "description": "How jobs end in China without a firing: the cold-bench playbook, the 845-group eviction, a mass grad exit, and the counter-case that got punished.",
      "room": "work",
      "room_name": "Work",
      "issue": "Decoder 1",
      "tags": [
        "labor",
        "cold bench",
        "WeChat",
        "employment",
        "fresh graduates",
        "arbitration"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "被踢出845个工作群，她半月工资55元"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-27",
          "title": "440人入职，107人出局：星宇的道歉信，写在人社局通报之后"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "一纸禁令？胖东来不录用性侵前科者，支持和反对吵翻了"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-18",
          "title": "AI抢走实习生的活不算完，企业正在给自己记一笔“人才债务”"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Trending on Weibo: kicked out of 845 work groups, paid 55 yuan — cold violence and the labor win (2026-09)",
          "url": "https://www.trendingonweibo.com/hotwords/845-work-groups-cold-violence-labor-win/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: 'Mental torture' — woman spends hours leaving 600 work chat groups (2023-12, the voluntary-exit backdrop)",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3245556/mental-torture-china-woman-spends-hours-leaving-600-work-chat-groups-after-ditching-demanding-job"
        },
        {
          "label": "Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: top car-lamp maker Xingyu apologizes after terminating 107 graduate contracts",
          "url": "https://www.business-humanrights.org/pt/latest-news/china-top-car-lamp-maker-xingyu-apologizes-after-terminating-107-graduate-contracts/"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Paper: Pang Dong Lai clarifies ex-prisoner hiring — sex-offense and violent-crime records excluded, same process for all (2026-08)",
          "url": "https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33808245"
        },
        {
          "label": "Beijing Daily: Pang Dong Lai responds on hiring former prisoners (2026-08-20)",
          "url": "https://news.bjd.com.cn/2026/08/20/11924733.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "HR Dive: new grads have to compete with AI for entry-level roles — 48% of hiring managers would rather invest in AI tools",
          "url": "https://www.hrdive.com/news/new-grads-have-to-compete-with-ai-for-entry-level-roles-hiring/825810/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-cold-bench-how-a-job-ends/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-cold-bench-how-a-job-ends.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-12345-grievance-line",
      "title": "One Number for Everything: How China's 12345 Grievance Line Works",
      "description": "How China's one-number grievance machine works: moon-brightness calls, 48,795 fan demands on one hotline, and the 50-yuan lawsuit that drew a missing line.",
      "room": "governance",
      "room_name": "Governance",
      "issue": "Decoder 2",
      "tags": [
        "governance",
        "12345 hotline",
        "grievance",
        "WeChat",
        "public services",
        "fandom",
        "safety duty"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "月亮太亮也打12345？奇葩诉求挤占的热线，该给谁用"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "4.8万个电话打爆12345，就为偶像站位？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "打了人赔了钱，他为什么还要告迪士尼？"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Shanghai Daily / City News Service: Chinese hotline flooded with 48,000 fan complaints over boy-band concert",
          "url": "https://www.citynewsservice.cn/articles/shanghaidaily/news/chinese-hotline-flooded-with-48000-fan-complaints-over-boy-band-concert-dmjbp4en"
        },
        {
          "label": "Beijing Daily commentary: 12345 is a window for citizens' voices, not a fan-war platform",
          "url": "https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6a998b87e4b0e42f8effd355.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Australian: 'The moon is too bright' — China's hotline for every problem",
          "url": "https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/china-built-a-hotline-to-solve-every-citizens-problem-then-someone-complained-the-moon-was-too-bright/news-story/9b429daa60ff961460d5dd5e66d19bc0"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shanghai Daily / City News Service: bizarre hotline complaints spark debate over public resources",
          "url": "https://www.citynewsservice.cn/articles/shanghaidaily/news/bizarre-hotline-complaints-spark-debate-over-public-resources-in-china-okwvqr5n"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Economist (2017): what are China's 12345 hotlines?",
          "url": "https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/02/07/what-are-chinas-12345-hotlines"
        },
        {
          "label": "Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress: Regulation on the 12345 Hotline (adopted 2026-03-31, effective 2026-06-01, in Chinese)",
          "url": "https://www.jsrd.gov.cn/qwfb/sjfg/202604/t20260409_1321603.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "State Council (english.gov.cn): China to further standardize, enhance 12345 hotline services (2025-06)",
          "url": "https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202506/26/content_WS685d4031c6d0868f4e8f3aac.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shanghai Daily / City News Service: Shanghai Disney smoking attacker apologizes, pays up under police mediation",
          "url": "https://www.citynewsservice.cn/articles/shanghaidaily/news/shanghai-disney-smoking-attacker-apologizes-pays-up-under-police-mediation-xm5gz60k"
        },
        {
          "label": "Global Times: Shanghai Disney smoking altercation (April 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202604/1359913.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Inside the Magic: Disney park lawsuit after guest attacked over smoking (2026-08)",
          "url": "https://insidethemagic.net/2026/08/disney-park-lawsuit-guest-attacked-smoking-cj1/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-12345-grievance-line/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-12345-grievance-line.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-verdict-arithmetic-dividing-the-money",
      "title": "Verdict Arithmetic: How a Chinese Court Divides the Money",
      "description": "The Evergrande verdict's output was arithmetic — fines, victim priority, a 2% freeze-to-debt ratio — matched by a same-week ruling splitting an estate 30/70.",
      "room": "justice",
      "room_name": "Justice",
      "issue": "Decoder 3",
      "tags": [
        "courts",
        "Evergrande",
        "restitution",
        "cross-border recovery",
        "inheritance",
        "Civil Code",
        "WeChat"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "许家印无期、罚没158亿，我的月供还有29年"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "550亿冻结、2.44万亿的洞：许家的钱，最后归谁？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "500亿分红、17.8亿豪宅：许家印的钱藏得有多深？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "丁玉梅每月18万生活费，够你还三年多房贷"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "遗嘱全给了弟弟，法院为什么只认三成？"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: China Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison (2026-08-20, guilty plea to 8 charges)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-founder-sentenced-life-imprisonment-cctv-reports-2026-08-20/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BBC: Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan jailed — two sons also sentenced among 56 people",
          "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0x9mjjmgjo"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: China Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan sentenced to life imprisonment",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3364641/china-evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-sentenced-life-imprisonment"
        },
        {
          "label": "CNBC: Evergrande's flagship unit and founder punished for securities fraud — 2024 CSRC penalties (2024-03)",
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/china-evergrandes-flagship-unit-founder-punished-for-securities-fraud.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bloomberg: Evergrande founder's ex-wife allowed £20,000 monthly expenses after asset freeze (2024-09)",
          "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/evergrande-founder-s-ex-wife-allowed-26-000-expenses-after-freeze"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: Hong Kong court names Evergrande liquidators as receivers of founder's assets",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3325738/hong-kong-court-names-china-evergrandes-liquidators-receivers-founders-assets"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Hong Kong court rejects lawyer's request to use Evergrande founder's funds for legal fees (2026-09-02)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/hong-kong-court-rejects-lawyers-request-use-evergrande-founders-funds-legal-2026-09-02/"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Standard: Evergrande liquidators expand asset freeze on ex-wife of founder",
          "url": "https://www.thestandard.com.hk/finance/article/317866/China-Evergrande-liquidators-expand-asset-freeze-on-ex-wife-of-founder"
        },
        {
          "label": "Supreme People's Court: typical cases on heirship disputes — respecting wills, supporting caregivers (2024-12)",
          "url": "https://english.court.gov.cn/2024-12/18/c_1056348.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "CGTN: court awards inheritance for 30 years of caregiving — the precedent pattern (2020-08)",
          "url": "https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-08-15/Court-awards-neighbor-inheritance-for-30-years-of-caregiving--SYdLbf2rNS/index.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-verdict-arithmetic-dividing-the-money/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-verdict-arithmetic-dividing-the-money.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-what-the-world-factory-builds-now",
      "title": "What the World Factory Builds Now",
      "description": "Robots mass-produced, a rocket qualified, computing in eight hubs, satellites over a landslide, solar water bills — one machine, three ledgers.",
      "room": "industry-tech",
      "room_name": "Industry & Technology",
      "issue": "Decoder 4",
      "tags": [
        "manufacturing",
        "robotics",
        "reusable launch",
        "data centers",
        "satellite remote sensing",
        "solar",
        "supply chain"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-15",
          "title": "半年935亿砸进机器人：它们真的进厂打工了"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-15",
          "title": "5.2米的“大盖子”通过全项考核：民营火箭年底要玩海上回收"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-30",
          "title": "AI机房遍地开花，算力为什么在向八个点塌缩"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-30",
          "title": "卫星看清了整座大山，为什么还是找不到失联的人"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-30",
          "title": "渴死，还是烂成垃圾山？光伏板的两种死法"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BigGo Finance: humanoid robots enter mass-production year — 93.5 billion yuan H1 2026 funding",
          "url": "https://finance.biggo.com/news/d63cd9d9-dc69-4d08-bbe5-00466326010c"
        },
        {
          "label": "Dealroom: China takes about two-thirds of global humanoid robotics funding in 2026",
          "url": "https://dealroom.co/resources/humanoid-robotics/"
        },
        {
          "label": "China in Space: iSpace reusable rockets inch forward — 5.2 m fairing separation test",
          "url": "https://www.china-in-space.com/p/orienspace-ispace-reusable-rockets"
        },
        {
          "label": "Space.com: LandSpace fires up Zhuque-3 reusable rocket ahead of debut flight",
          "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/chinese-company-landspace-fires-up-its-reusable-rocket-ahead-of-debut-flight-video"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: China activates emergency response for high-risk barrier lake on Nepal border (2026-08-28)",
          "url": "https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/28/WS6a90f06be4b06d4aa055af2d.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: Gyirong mudslide — 16 dead, 546 missing as of Aug 30 evening",
          "url": "https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/30/WS6a9416e5e4b06d4aa055b3f6.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Al Jazeera: Nepal and China halt rescue efforts as barrier lake overflows (2026-08-28)",
          "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/28/nepal-and-china-halt-rescue-efforts-as-border-barrier-lake-overflows"
        },
        {
          "label": "SparkBlue/IEA: 78 million tonnes of solar panels retired by 2050 — how China is innovating recycling",
          "url": "https://www.sparkblue.org/content/2050-78-million-metric-tons-solar-panels-will-be-retired-how-china-innovating-recycling"
        },
        {
          "label": "PMC (peer-reviewed): China PV panel waste ~1.7 Mt by early 2030s, ~60 Mt by the 2050s",
          "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12260433/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Recycling International: China targets 250,000 tonnes of cumulative retired-PV utilization by 2027",
          "url": "https://recyclinginternational.com/commodities/electronics-recycling/china-targets-end-of-life-pv-panels/63573/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-what-the-world-factory-builds-now/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-what-the-world-factory-builds-now.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-after-the-accident-response-script",
      "title": "After the Accident: The Standard Response Script",
      "description": "A shop fire, a banquet wall, a classroom smell, a locked door: four failures, one response script — fast operations, a thin account, prevention deferred.",
      "room": "trust-safety",
      "room_name": "Trust & Safety",
      "issue": "Decoder 5",
      "tags": [
        "safety",
        "trust",
        "WeChat",
        "fire response",
        "rural infrastructure",
        "renovation",
        "guesthouses"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "楼下的底商着火，为什么死的是8个人？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "考上大学的喜宴，怎么吃出了5条人命？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "一个班56人，41人请假？新教室有点味"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "洗澡被看光索赔5千遭拒，民宿说：门只开了一条缝"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CGTN: 8 dead, 3 injured in building fire in N China's Qinhuangdao (2026-08-20)",
          "url": "https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-20/8-dead-3-injured-in-building-fire-in-N-China-s-Qinhuangdao-1PKU9TzI0QU/p.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: 5 dead, 17 injured after wall collapse in Sichuan (2026-08-19)",
          "url": "https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/19/WS6a851af5a3106bc57421c4db.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "RTHK: Wall collapse during Sichuan banquet kills five (2026-08-19)",
          "url": "https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1866696-20260819.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua client: official notice on Juye students' symptoms after move to new campus (2026-09, Chinese)",
          "url": "https://app.xinhuanet.com/news/article.html?articleId=2026090494cd6f018c254c9eb14171748ccea656"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Paper: Juye county new-campus odor and the county response (2026-09, Chinese)",
          "url": "https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_34006218"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sohu: guest says locked door opened while she showered; 5,000-yuan claim refused (2026-08, Chinese relay of Xiaoxiang Morning Herald)",
          "url": "https://timeline.sohu.com/news/sNoYJJspi2"
        },
        {
          "label": "China.com: privacy dispute at Pingtan guesthouse escalates (2026-08, Chinese)",
          "url": "https://news.china.com/socialgd/10000169/20260820/49686999.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sichuan provincial rules on rural group-dining food safety — banquets of 100+ diners must report in advance (2020, Chinese official text)",
          "url": "https://cdschq.sczwfw.gov.cn/art/2020/9/2/art_21395_111752.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "BBC: Chinese nanny Mo Huanjing executed for arson killings (the 2017 Hangzhou case)",
          "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45598155"
        },
        {
          "label": "What's on Weibo: fatal Hangzhou nanny arson case sparks online debate (2017)",
          "url": "https://www.whatsonweibo.com/fatal-hangzhou-nanny-arson-case-sparks-online-debate/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-after-the-accident-response-script/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-after-the-accident-response-script.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-school-gate-exchange",
      "title": "The School-Gate Exchange: Education as Status Competition",
      "description": "A dress notice, a title flashed in a parent group, slang adults cannot parse, and athletes priced by medals: four education stories read as one machine.",
      "room": "education",
      "room_name": "Education & Family",
      "issue": "Decoder 6",
      "tags": [
        "education",
        "parent-teacher meeting",
        "WeChat groups",
        "internet slang",
        "sports system",
        "status competition"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "开家长会要穿正装，教育到底看谁？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "家长群晒官职求关照，纪检下场了？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-16",
          "title": "你说“包的”，爸妈问你包什么？小学生暗语手册"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-27",
          "title": "谁在为金牌买单？搓澡的冠军与还债的冠军"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Sina (Chinese): Dalian primary school parent-meeting dress notice — white top, black trousers; vice-principal: advocacy, not mandatory (2026-09)",
          "url": "https://k.sina.com.cn/article_7879777432_1d5abdc9806801wvfu.html?from=edu"
        },
        {
          "label": "Chinanews Zhejiang / New Blue TV (Chinese): the Dalian vice-principal's response — not compulsory",
          "url": "https://www.cztv.com/newsDetail/900377"
        },
        {
          "label": "Lianhe Zaobao: Baoding parent flashes discipline-inspection title in class group, asks teachers for care (2026-09)",
          "url": "https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/china/story20260903-9620311"
        },
        {
          "label": "Chuanguan News (Chinese): Baoding health commission forms work group over hospital staff's improper remarks",
          "url": "https://cbgc.scol.com.cn/news/7918711"
        },
        {
          "label": "TIME: China's Disposable Athletes (Zou Chunlan scrubbing backs in a Changchun bathhouse)",
          "url": "https://time.com/archive/6940972/chinas-disposable-athletes/"
        },
        {
          "label": "China.org.cn (2006): The Weight of Being a Strong Person — the 5-square-meter bathhouse room",
          "url": "http://www.china.org.cn/archive/2006-04/18/content_1165963.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "China.org.cn (2011): Former weightlifter Zou Chunlan copes with effects of hormone use",
          "url": "http://www.china.org.cn/sports/2011-07/04/content_22917668.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Global Times: Douyin penalizes Wu Liufang's account, removes followers gained through misconduct (2024-12)",
          "url": "https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202412/1325666.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: Ex-China gymnast Wu Liufang gains 3.5 million fans in a day after ban lifted",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3289389/ex-china-gymnast-wu-liufang-gains-35-million-fans-day-after-sexy-dance-ban-lifted"
        },
        {
          "label": "World Athletics: 'It's a miracle,' says Liu Xiang — 12.91 at Athens 2004",
          "url": "https://worldathletics.org/news/news/its-a-miracle-says-liu-xiang"
        },
        {
          "label": "NewsChina: Slanging Match — internet slang baffles parents and teachers",
          "url": "http://www.newschinamag.com/newschina/articleDetail.do?article_id=8181&section_id=4&magazine_id=113"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: Parents, teachers learn hard social media lessons — Dalian kindergarten's nine standards for WeChat groups (2020)",
          "url": "https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/24/WS5fbc4811a31024ad0ba95f25_3.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Springer (2025): Balancing net slang and Standard Mandarin in education",
          "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-025-00642-z"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-school-gate-exchange/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-school-gate-exchange.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-who-protects-the-buyer",
      "title": "Who Protects the Buyer: Four Layers of Consumer Machinery in China",
      "description": "Four layers protect a Chinese buyer: contract, price tag, regulator, exit. Rentals, power banks, a 5.18bn-yuan fine and phone prices test each one.",
      "room": "daily",
      "room_name": "Daily Life",
      "issue": "Decoder 7",
      "tags": [
        "consumer protection",
        "antitrust",
        "rental",
        "power bank",
        "Xiaomi",
        "Trip.com",
        "pricing"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "中介说得天花乱坠？不进合同全是零"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-05",
          "title": "一小时12元？充电宝成了消费刺客"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-25",
          "title": "携程被罚51.79亿，但你多付的钱一分也回不来"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "title": "“以前没钱买小米，现在没钱买不起小米”"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "title": "小米涨价不是一个定价问题，是一个系统问题"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: SAMR penalizes Ctrip 5.179bn yuan — exclusivity and lowest-price terms via traffic allocation (2026-07-25)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/20260725/a157103618f9406681f9af1aab1a85df/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: China fines Trip.com $770 million over online hotel-booking monopoly",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-fines-tripcom-770-million-over-online-hotel-booking-monopoly-2026-07-25/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: China hits Trip.com with US$765 million antitrust penalty after six-month investigation",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3361818/china-hits-tripcom-us765-million-antitrust-penalty-after-six-month-investigation"
        },
        {
          "label": "Slaughter and May: lessons from China's RMB 5.2 billion Trip.com decisions (7.5% ratio vs 4%/3% in 2021)",
          "url": "https://www.slaughterandmay.com/insights/new-insights/a-costly-trip-lessons-from-china-s-rmb-5-2-billion-trip-com-decisions/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: hotels say Ctrip's 'price-adjustment assistant' rewrote their rates without consent (2025-06-20)",
          "url": "http://www.news.cn/finance/20250620/6d9bc193fcf04b1298e7565c91aeb7e4/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Economic Net: Beijing rental-market campaign — 42 agencies punished (2026-05)",
          "url": "http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/202605/t20260528_2995224.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: Beijing police bust multiple rental 'black intermediary' gangs (2026-03-23)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/legal/20260323/9068db6c52c3487d9297faf6016dca65/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Nasdaq: Smart Share Global (Energy Monster) completes going-private transaction (2026-04-29)",
          "url": "https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/smart-share-global-limited-announces-completion-going-private-transaction-2026-04-29"
        },
        {
          "label": "Caixin Global: shared power bank prices rocket, sparking outcry (2021-03-12)",
          "url": "https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-03-12/trending-in-china-shared-power-bank-prices-rocket-sparking-outcry-from-chinas-phone-users-101674538.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shanghai government (EN): consumers seek balance of power with rental power bank providers (2023-08)",
          "url": "https://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw48081/20230818/309a733ff0d94039898f8b16b23996b1.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Notebookcheck: Xiaomi raises smartphone prices by up to 13% in China on memory costs",
          "url": "https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-raises-smartphone-prices-by-up-to-13-in-China.1358061.0.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "DigiTimes: Xiaomi raises prices on Redmi Turbo 5 and K90 from August 2 (2026-08-03)",
          "url": "https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260803PD212/xiaomi-flagship-smartphone-demand-cost.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yicai Global: Xiaomi auto targets 550,000 EV deliveries in 2026 as growth moderates",
          "url": "https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/xiaomi-auto-targets-550000-ev-deliveries-in-2026-as-growth-moderates"
        },
        {
          "label": "ArenaEV: Xiaomi needs ~60,000 EV deliveries a month in H2 despite good June",
          "url": "https://www.arenaev.com/xiaomi_has_a_steep_sales_mountain_to_climb_despite_good_june_ev_deliveries-news-6028.php"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-who-protects-the-buyer/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-who-protects-the-buyer.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-the-second-price",
      "title": "The Second Price: The Retail Investor's China",
      "description": "Five posted numbers — a 475,000-yuan lottery win, a trillion-yuan 'injection,' 237 limit-downs, a 10-yuan ride — and the second price each one carried.",
      "room": "economy",
      "room_name": "Economy & Markets",
      "issue": "Decoder 8",
      "tags": [
        "retail investors",
        "A-shares",
        "IPO lottery",
        "PBOC",
        "outright reverse repo",
        "limit-down",
        "WeChat",
        "informal economy"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "title": "中一签赚47万，只爽了一天：宇树今天跌破3000亿"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-20",
          "title": "AI芯片一周蒸发万亿：中国产业链为何跌得比美国更狠？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-20",
          "title": "200只跌停的日子里，谁在偷偷捡筹码"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "title": "央行放水1万亿刷屏，但真相和你想的不一样"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-09-06",
          "title": "10元一位挤4人，中山陵黑车为啥治不完？"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Unitree post-listing slump sparks bubble fears — ¥170bn lost in three days (2026-08-25)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/china-robot-maker-unitrees-post-listing-slump-sparks-bubble-fears-2026-08-25/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yahoo Finance: Unitree stock soars 460% on debut, valued at $50 billion (2026-08-19)",
          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/unitree-robotics-stock-soars-460-111514463.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "JW View (中新经纬): Unitree strategic placement — SSF, DeepSeek, Tencent, China Telecom; ¥7.68bn paper gain on 8.09m locked shares (2026-08-19)",
          "url": "https://www.jwview.com/jingwei/html/m/08-19/684164.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bloomberg: Chips stocks sink into bear market as 105% AI rally fizzles — SOX worst week since April 2025 (2026-07-17)",
          "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/chips-stocks-tumble-into-bear-market-as-105-ai-rally-fizzles"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yahoo Finance: semiconductor stocks trim Friday losses; SOX down more than 9% for the week",
          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/semiconductor-stocks-trim-losses-as-investors-buy-the-dip-130920103.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "StratNews Global: China stocks sink as tech rout sparks worst week since December",
          "url": "https://stratnewsglobal.com/china-watch/china-stocks-sink-as-tech-rout-sparks-worst-week-since-december/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCIO (official, English): China's central bank to conduct 1-trillion-yuan outright reverse repo — six-month tenor, equal-amount rollover (2026-08-14)",
          "url": "http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2026-08/14/content_118647130.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua (English): PBOC conducts 500-billion-yuan three-month outright reverse repo (2026-08-04)",
          "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260804/2ad2247250204ce79459875825abaa9a/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "CSRC (official): Chairman Wu Qing chairs investor symposium at a Beijing brokerage branch (2026-07-20)",
          "url": "https://www.csrc.gov.cn/csrc/c100028/c7646232/content.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Eastmoney: July 20 market recap — power and coal limit-up wave, 200+ limit-downs, late-session rebound (2026-07-20)",
          "url": "https://stock.eastmoney.com/a/202607203813281475.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yangtze Evening News (紫牛头条): the original undercover report — 10 yuan a head, four to a bike, up the mountain road (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://www.yzwb.net/news/zntt/202609/t20260904_389611.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sina Finance: Nanjing departments respond — 20-yuan fine ceiling, checkpoints, riders on wild paths (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.cn/2026-09-04/detail-iniqsvkn0997007.d.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-the-second-price/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-the-second-price.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-three-generations-one-feed",
      "title": "Three Generations, One Feed",
      "description": "A chemo diet in a delivery note, a lost childhood rebuilt by AI, a family routine read from ride logs — how one family's information moved into platform fields.",
      "room": "generations",
      "room_name": "Generations",
      "issue": "Decoder 9",
      "tags": [
        "families",
        "delivery platforms",
        "AI avatars",
        "ride-hailing",
        "privacy"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-19",
          "title": "谁在消费苦难？外卖备注“孩子化疗”，店主塞进100元现金"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "title": "哭了。三十岁的人，在AI里看见六岁的自己"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-28",
          "title": "你还没下单，车已在楼下等你？"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "ECNS / China News Service wire: breakfast shop owner's gesture to a child with cancer goes viral (2026-08-21)",
          "url": "https://www.ecns.cn/m/cns-wire/2026-08-21/detail-ihfimvaz1913442.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: Chinese dad's chemotherapy note prompts food vendor's ¥100 (US$15) donation",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3365066/chinese-dads-chemotherapy-note-prompts-food-vendors-us15-donation-going-viral"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sixth Tone: an AI photo app wows China, but privacy fears loom (the Miaoya precedent)",
          "url": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013393"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Briefing: how to legally handle sensitive personal information in China (PIPL, separate-consent rule)",
          "url": "https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-to-legally-handle-sensitive-personal-information-in-china/"
        },
        {
          "label": "CNR (reporter Jiang Xiaochen): hands-on with multiple platforms' AI ride features (April 2026, relayed by a Tibet cyberspace-admin portal)",
          "url": "https://wxb.xzdw.gov.cn/wlzl/202604/t20260407_661804.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "10jqka/Tonghuashun Finance: 'Industry first! Didi goes big — hailing enters the one-sentence era?' (2026-03-22)",
          "url": "http://news.10jqka.com.cn/20260322/c675463658.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Baijiahao first-person post: the 7:48 pre-emptive dispatch account (personal narrative, not news-verified)",
          "url": "https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1861891626801735798"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-three-generations-one-feed/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-three-generations-one-feed.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-the-vocabulary-pipeline",
      "title": "How China Reads the World Watching It: The Vocabulary Pipeline",
      "description": "How 'quarantine' and 'gray zone' travel from think tanks to headlines to Chinese readers — the pipeline, its discipline, its blind spots.",
      "room": "china-world",
      "room_name": "China & the World",
      "issue": "Decoder 10",
      "tags": [
        "media literacy",
        "vocabulary",
        "Taiwan Strait",
        "gray zone",
        "quarantine",
        "infrastructure export"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-07-20",
          "title": "日本砸500亿帮印度修高铁，十年后被骂“厚颜无耻”"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-17",
          "title": "为什么外媒突然盯上一个词：台海的“隔离”到底是什么？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-17",
          "title": "谁在害怕台海“灰色地带”？外媒拆解一枪未发的新博弈"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Japan Times: ex-Japan minister faults India for Modi bullet train delay (2026-07)",
          "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/18/japan/japan-minister-india-shinkansen-complaint/"
        },
        {
          "label": "WION: Japan ex-minister blames Indian govt for bullet train delays, India hits back (MEA response)",
          "url": "https://www.wionews.com/world/japan-ex-minister-blames-indian-govt-for-bullet-train-delays-india-hits-back-1784298768083"
        },
        {
          "label": "Indian Express: BEML expects India's first bullet-train car body by August; B28 service planned for 2027",
          "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/beml-expects-indias-1st-bullet-train-car-body-by-august-b28-service-planned-for-2027-10746111/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Railway Pro: first high-speed train manufactured in India expected in 2027 (Surat–Bilimora opening)",
          "url": "https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/the-first-high-speed-train-manufactured-in-india-expected-in-2027/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Siemens press release: consortium to equip India's first high-speed rail with ETCS Level 2 signalling",
          "url": "https://press.siemens.com/in/en/pressrelease/siemens-consortium-equip-indias-first-high-speed-rail-project-advanced-signaling-and"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Japan offers India soft loan for $15-billion bullet train (2015 terms)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/india/japan-offers-india-soft-loan-for-15-billion-bullet-train-in-edge-over-china-idUSKCN0SG0DP/"
        },
        {
          "label": "CSIS ChinaPower: How China Could Quarantine Taiwan (the scenario vocabulary descends from)",
          "url": "https://features.csis.org/china-quarantine-taiwan/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-the-vocabulary-pipeline/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/decoder/2026-09-06-the-vocabulary-pipeline.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-shipping-versus-working",
      "title": "The Gap Between Shipping and Working",
      "description": "100,000 humanoids forecast built in 2026, a certified 106-km walk — yet 74% of the top seller's robots go to labs and one shift needs three battery swaps.",
      "room": "industry-tech",
      "room_name": "Industry & Technology",
      "issue": "Decoder 11",
      "tags": [
        "humanoid robots",
        "embodied AI",
        "manufacturing",
        "battery runtime",
        "robotics competitions",
        "WeChat"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "originals": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "title": "10万台人形机器人下线了，但70%去了实验室“上课”"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-03",
          "title": "走了106公里的机器人，为什么还干不满一个班？"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "title": "2056台机器人下周开抢：拔河、举重、跑半马，画面太震撼"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Gasgoo: MIIT — annual humanoid robot production expected to top 100,000 units in 2026",
          "url": "https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/miit-annual-humanoid-robot-production-expected-to-top-100000-units-this-year-2074840212818415617"
        },
        {
          "label": "Forbes: humanoid shipments up 300% YTD — HRAA sees China shipments of 85,000 against capacity above 100,000 (2026-08)",
          "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/08/20/humanoid-robot-shipments-up-300-up-to-30000-so-far-in-2026/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Guinness World Records: longest journey walked by a humanoid robot — AgiBot A2, 106.286 km",
          "url": "https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/780227-longest-journey-walked-by-a-humanoid-robot"
        },
        {
          "label": "CBS News: Chinese humanoid walks 66 miles Suzhou–Shanghai for Guinness record",
          "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-humanoid-robot-agibot-a2-walks-66-miles-guinness-world-records/"
        },
        {
          "label": "AgiBot: 15,000th robot rolls off the line (June 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/82.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Hello China Tech: Unitree's IPO filing — ~74% of humanoid revenue from research and education, ~9% other commercial",
          "url": "https://hellochinatech.com/p/unitree-ipo-humanoid-robotics-really-sells"
        },
        {
          "label": "Simplexity Product Development: humanoid runtime 1–2 hours against 8–20-hour industrial demand",
          "url": "https://www.simplexitypd.com/blog/top-5-technical-challenges-in-humanoid-robotics/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Manly Battery: humanoid deployments see ~1.5–2 hours of work per 50–60 minutes of charging (2026 guide)",
          "url": "https://manlybattery.com/humanoid-robot-battery-program-guide-2026-outlook-and-beyond/"
        },
        {
          "label": "AP News: humanoid robots sprint, play soccer and set records at the Beijing games (2026-08)",
          "url": "https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/humanoid-robots-sprint-play-soccer-set-records-beijing-games-photos-ce96217d30c6462e8d3d552d5dd1bb39"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Guardian: hilarity, unease and relief — games show China is not over the finish line in the humanoid race (2026-08-29)",
          "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/29/hilarity-unease-and-relief-games-show-china-is-not-over-the-finish-line-in-humanoid-robot-race"
        },
        {
          "label": "Al Jazeera: Honor's Lightning runs 50:26 half marathon in Beijing, under the human world record (2026-04-19)",
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