“Even though people can read a wide variety of things on their phones, [this content] is also a kind of literature, albeit on the short side. Every good play takes a good script and all good storytelling takes language. So, literature is ubiquitous, and i

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Mo Yan

“Hong Kong is undergoing a transition from governance to prosperity [following the 2019 protests], but the problems related to land, housing, youth employment and development remain. If those problems are not solved well, or they become more severe, even if school education is improved in terms of Chinese culture and history, from textbooks and teachers to curriculums and even public opinion [about the Chinese mainland], it isn’t enough. National identity cannot exist without economic and social foundations.”

Huang Ping, director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Research Center under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, on fostering national identity among Hong Kong people in an interview with news portal guancha.cn on November 24, 2023

“Mini-app short-form content already started getting popular last year when the pandemic created a void in the film and TV industry and demand for theatrical releases declined.”

Li Jin, producer of the web series Got Old Recently released on Tencent Video in December 2021, on the increasing popularity of short-form content in an interview with news outlet The Paper in late November 2023

“The range of China’s inflation target is no more than 3 percent. The government will not feel anxious if inflation falls below 3 percent. Also, the public believes that the lower the CPI the better, as prices have dropped, consumers have benefited, and everyone is happy. But we should also pay attention to the adverse impact that too low of an inflation rate can have on enterprise profits and employee wages.”

Economist Yu Yongding suggesting that the government set a target inflation rate slightly higher than 3 percent during the economic slowdown in a recent article for guancha.cn