https://www.scmp.com/rss/522229/feed The latest news and top stories on Wuhan University. A prominent public university based in Wuhan, Hubei, China, Wuhan University is a comprehensive national institution established in 1893. Its primary mission is to pursue human well-being, promote social progress and cultivate innovative talent. The university offers diverse programmes across disciplines including science, engineering, medicine and humanities. Notably, it recently established a School of Integrated Circuits to bolster China’s... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Fran Lu Fran Lu An 84-year-old woman fell in love with an artificial-intelligence (AI) generated human, wrote ‘him’ love letters and spent 10 hours a day watching virtual human videos. Her story reflects the needs elderly people have for love and care. Zhang Yulan, from central China’s Hubei province, was discovered by her family to have been obsessed with a ‘bossy president’ generated by AI. The ‘bossy president’, or ba zong in Chinese, is a term used to describe a popular kind of male character in romantic... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3347699/china-grandma-falls-love-bossy-president-writes-him-love-letters-buys-his-shop?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3347699/china-grandma-falls-love-bossy-president-writes-him-love-letters-buys-his-shop?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:07 +0000 Zoey Zhang Zoey Zhang On a popular social media live-stream a young girl pours her heart out to a stranger. She is highly educated, comes from a wealthy family, but has fallen head over heels for a man 10 years her senior who is poor and does not love her. The live-streaming influencer, Taozai, responds not with sympathy, but with something far more jarring: “Not only do you have a ‘love brain’, you also subconsciously discriminate against people with lower education and the poor. You discriminate against others, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3342385/rise-emotional-economy-china-love-brained-youth-seek-strangers-scolding-guidance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3342385/rise-emotional-economy-china-love-brained-youth-seek-strangers-scolding-guidance?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:00:09 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng An outbreak of the highly fatal Nipah virus in India’s eastern state of West Bengal has sparked widespread attention and public concern in China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday when millions will travel. While the virus has infected at least five people in West Bengal, including one in critical condition, Chinese health experts say it is difficult to transmit and less likely to cause an outbreak in China. With a fatality rate of up to 75 per cent and no effective treatment or vaccines... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341299/nipah-virus-outbreak-india-sparks-worry-china-lunar-new-year?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341299/nipah-virus-outbreak-india-sparks-worry-china-lunar-new-year?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:00:21 +0000 Stephen Chen Stephen Chen In Wufeng Tujia autonomous county, Hubei province, the rugged beauty of central China masks the region’s long-standing isolation. Its steep terrain and dense forests have long hindered transport, stifling growth and keeping communities cut off both physically and economically. But a new force is now reshaping the landscape – with dynamite, drilling rigs and lines of code. The Yangcun Tunnel in Wufeng is part of a high-speed rail line designed to bring 350km/h (217mph) trains into one of China’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3332736/central-china-ai-telling-humans-how-build-high-speed-rail-tunnel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3332736/central-china-ai-telling-humans-how-build-high-speed-rail-tunnel?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:00:10 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang Award-winning Xie Zhenfei, a Harvard University rising star in cutting-edge research aimed at an HIV vaccine, has left the US and joined China’s leading biosafety laboratory in Wuhan. Xie made headlines in May last year as first author of a landmark paper published by the journal Science that showed a way to use mRNA technology – used to develop vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic – to develop an effective vaccine against HIV/Aids. The method addresses the main challenge to a vaccine – the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3330745/harvard-hiv-scientist-xie-zhenfei-joins-chinas-national-virus-lab-wuhan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3330745/harvard-hiv-scientist-xie-zhenfei-joins-chinas-national-virus-lab-wuhan?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:00:10 +0000 Luna Sun Luna Sun Few areas of China reflect the country’s decades-long economic transformation more vividly than its cities. Rapid development has turned villages into dense urban landscapes and already sizeable metro areas into some of the world’s largest population centres. As the rate of urbanisation slows and the country transitions into a new economic era, we explore how select Chinese cities are navigating the change. Read the rest of our series here. In a remote corner of China’s southwestern Guizhou... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3330729/unforgivable-chinese-county-still-living-shadow-wild-spending-binge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3330729/unforgivable-chinese-county-still-living-shadow-wild-spending-binge?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:00:11 +0000 Jane Cai Jane Cai China’s economic and technological advances are being unfairly dismissed in the United States and other parts of the West as a result of hierarchical thinking, according to a theory dubbed “winology” that is taking hold among some online commentators. The term winology was coined by Chinese academics and refers to ways in which countries can both become a global leader in certain areas and be recognised as such. However, the theory argues that the West relegates China to the lowest tier of a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3329673/what-winology-theory-about-unfair-western-views-china-sweeping-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3329673/what-winology-theory-about-unfair-western-views-china-sweeping-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:00:07 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin Singaporean 3D printing pioneer Chua Chee Kai has joined Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST) as a full-time distinguished professor, receiving his appointment in a ceremony on October 10, according to the university’s website. For decades, Chua led major 3D printing research initiatives in Singapore, helping to turn the country into a global hub for additive manufacturing technologies used in aerospace, biomedical and electronic applications. In his remarks at the ceremony, Chua... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3329692/3d-printing-trailblazer-chua-chee-kai-relocates-china-singapore-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3329692/3d-printing-trailblazer-chua-chee-kai-relocates-china-singapore-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:00:08 +0000 Xinlu Liang Xinlu Liang On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the Palace Museum. The massive complex of ancient imperial palaces that was home to the royalty of the Ming and Qing dynasties for centuries became a museum for the people. Today, there are four Palace Museums: the original in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with a Southern branch in Chiayi which opened in 2015, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum which opened in 2022. In this series, we explore the stories behind the centenary... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3328262/how-wartime-trek-chinas-palace-museum-treasures-binds-national-heritage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3328262/how-wartime-trek-chinas-palace-museum-treasures-binds-national-heritage?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:00:16 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang A top Chinese university has hired a prominent Marxism expert from Japan to take up a role in its School of Philosophy. Wuhan University on Thursday said it had appointed Japanese scholar Kenji Mori as a full-time professor at the school. Marxist theory is a compulsory subject for all undergraduates at Chinese universities, and it is also part of the entrance exam for postgraduate study. Mori is an expert in the subject – among his research areas is the unpublished economic writing of Karl Marx,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327333/top-japanese-marxism-expert-joins-wuhan-university-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327333/top-japanese-marxism-expert-joins-wuhan-university-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:00:12 +0000 Yating Yang Yating Yang A renowned university in China has been slammed after it decorated chairs at an event in a way that resembled the Japanese flag. Photos from Wuhan University in Hubei province, central China, showing rows of white seats adorned with circular red stickers went viral on Chinese social media. The resultant backlash prompted the prestigious institution to issue a public apology. The incident unfolded while the university was holding orientation ceremonies for newly admitted undergraduate and... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3324849/china-little-pinks-slam-university-decorating-white-chairs-red-dots-japan-flag?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3324849/china-little-pinks-slam-university-decorating-white-chairs-red-dots-japan-flag?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:00:11 +0000 Yuanyue Dang Yuanyue Dang The Chinese social media platform Weibo has shut down several accounts for “inciting gender antagonism” and vowed to continue cracking down on such behaviour. On Monday, the social media site announced via its official account that it had permanently closed an account named “Lilian Shuodao” for “continuously stigmatising the opposite sex and posting extreme anti-marriage remarks”. The term “opposite sex” referred to men. As of Tuesday, the banned account, which had 129,000 followers, was no... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322407/chinas-weibo-shuts-down-social-media-accounts-inciting-gender-antagonism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322407/chinas-weibo-shuts-down-social-media-accounts-inciting-gender-antagonism?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:15:38 +0000 Letters Letters Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words, and must include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification As a middle-aged man and a breadwinner, I totally understand the struggles facing men (“Silence is deadly for Hong Kong men as suicide rate worsens over past decade”, July 26). From a young age, men... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3321233/how-we-can-support-silently-stressed-out-men-around-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3321233/how-we-can-support-silently-stressed-out-men-around-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:30:12 +0000 Josephine Ma Josephine Ma Chinese social media has a unique ecology. On one hand, it is strictly controlled and censored. On the other hand, it has the world’s largest number of users, and many are willing to get feisty about the topics they are allowed to debate online. Making this ecology even more complex are the huge commercial benefits involved. According to Chinese government statistics, there were about 1.1 billion internet users last year, and experts believe most use social media. That also means there is an... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3320862/chinas-online-gender-wars-wont-stop-without-space-healthy-debate-social-issues?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3320862/chinas-online-gender-wars-wont-stop-without-space-healthy-debate-social-issues?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:29:10 +0000 Ji Siqi Ji Siqi As US President Donald Trump reiterates his desire to acquire Greenland – part of a broader push to assert influence in the Arctic – Chinese scholars are debating whether the world’s second-largest economy should become more involved in the region, particularly by developing shipping routes. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) – the shortest passage between the Asia-Pacific region and western Eurasia – has drawn growing attention as global warming makes its icy waters navigable for longer periods each... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3319561/trumps-arctic-strategy-stirs-debate-over-chinas-polar-shipping-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3319561/trumps-arctic-strategy-stirs-debate-over-chinas-polar-shipping-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:00:08 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Wuhan University has become the latest institution to join China’s push for self-reliance in semiconductors by establishing the School of Integrated Circuits, led by a scientist educated at Stanford University. Liu Sheng, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1992, has been appointed as the inaugural dean of the new school. At an opening ceremony on Thursday, he said the school’s establishment followed “an in-depth... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3317862/tech-war-stanford-educated-expert-leads-chinas-new-semiconductor-school-ymtc-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3317862/tech-war-stanford-educated-expert-leads-chinas-new-semiconductor-school-ymtc-support?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:09 +0000