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Editor's Note:
In early 2026, the phrase "Very Chinese Time" went viral on global social media platforms. Content centered around China's everyday life has been widely viewed and discussed, bringing the Chinese experience into the international public sphere in an extremely down-to-earth way. However, this phenomenon goes beyond mere online popularity - it is unfolding amid the ongoing reshaping of the global order and the accumulation of anxiety in Western societies. A deeper transformation is emerging, as China's lifestyle, pop culture and technological practices are increasingly recognized, discussed and used as references around the world.
This series uses "Very Chinese Time" as an observation lens to go beyond a single internet trend and systematically showcase how the Chinese experience is entering global everyday life. This is the sixth installment of the series.
"This is way harder than any weights I lifted in the gym. I never felt so much pain and struggle as when I was carrying those watermelons," Kevin Loi-Heng could not help thinking as he learned to carry two baskets of watermelons on a shoulder pole, just as local farmers do.
The 29-year-old traveler from London had seen China's modern megacities on previous business trips. But two weeks spent working on farms in the countryside of Fenghua, Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, gave him a chance to see a very different side of the country.
China's inbound tourism boom has continued into 2026. Inbound tourism maintained strong growth, while data from the National Immigration Administration showed that 22.91 million foreigners entered China in the first half of the year, up 20.4 percent year-on-year, according to a report about 2026 tourism market insights for the first half of the year released by the China Tourism Association.
As "China Travel" continues to trend across social media, a trip to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Shenzhen is no longer the only way foreign visitors explore the country. Increasingly, they are heading into villages, farms and fields.
Videos posted by foreign travelers show visitors picking fruit, harvesting rice, feeding livestock, learning traditional farming techniques and simply spending time with local villagers.
Through these immersive rural experiences, they are discovering a different China, one that is earthy, vibrant and deeply human, a tourism expert told the Global Times.
See a different side
Kevin's own company focuses on research into sustainable agriculture and soil health, so working with the land was not entirely unfamiliar territory. Yet he found that China's countryside taught him a great deal.
"One question I had before coming to China to do farm work was: With 1.4 billion people, how does China feed all of its people?" Kevin told the Global Times. "I had this picture in my head that China was very large, and that remote rural communities would have different ways of living and different land practices. I wasn't sure if they would accept a foreigner like me."
The fact is, this land welcomed everything.
To get to the mountain fields and start working, Kevin and his fellow participants would get up as early as 4 am and begin working by 6 am. They picked local white peaches, harvested watermelons and dug up peanuts.
Beyond picking crops, Kevin helped prepare the land and soil, plant seasonal crops such as chilies, prune overgrown trees and clean up farmland. He also fed pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, checked agricultural equipment at the local rural market and spoke with farmers and agricultural workers about the challenges they face in their daily lives.
"One of the first tools I used was a backpack sprayer. It was actually very practical," he recalled.
Kevin said the experience broadened his understanding of China. "I saw that the working people are very humble, but also very hardworking."
Over the past year, China's countryside has emerged as a new growth area for inbound tourism.
According to data released by Trip.com, a large online travel agency, on February 11, its affiliated rural resort farms saw inbound tourism bookings increase by more than 50 percent year-on-year in 2025, while the number of room nights booked by international visitors rose by more than 75 percent. "Visiting the Chinese countryside" is becoming a new option for international travelers who once focused overwhelmingly on major cities. Singapore, the US, Australia, Germany and Malaysia were among the major source markets.
Many overseas vloggers are turning their lenses toward China's countryside, hoping to find a different perspective from which to observe the country.
In March, US content creators Ludwig and Michael were cycling through a village in Central China's Hunan Province, when they encountered villagers preparing for a traditional funeral. Mistaking the gathering for a busy restaurant and the people dressed in white mourning clothes for cooks, they initially misunderstood what was happening. But rather than being offended, a local villager surnamed Li invited the two travelers into his home for a meal. The three chatted about their cycling adventures along the way and eventually sang a song together before parting ways.
After Ludwig uploaded the footage to YouTube, the video received more than 2 million views, offering overseas audiences an unexpected glimpse into culture in a Chinese village.
The appeal of countryside
As overseas audiences increasingly encounter images of China's highly modernized cities across various online platforms, some travelers are showing greater interest in experiences that offer a sense of authenticity, simplicity and contrast, Zhang Lingyun, a professor and the executive editor-in-chief of Tourism Tribune journal, told the Global Times.
After Kevin showed the video on social media, a lot of his friends found it quite unexpected. "They found it interesting and funny. One of my friends remarked, 'You're always doing side quests,' and said he wished he could live an adventurous life like me," Kevin recalled.
The criteria by which travelers evaluate an experience have changed, Zhang emphasized.
Zhao Mai, an English-speaking tour guide who works extensively with international visitors, has observed this shift firsthand.
Zhao told the Global Times that many young foreign travelers are increasingly interested in participating in everyday activities and interacting directly with local people rather than moving from one landmark to another.
There is another attraction: value for money. China's rural tourism destinations can offer international visitors a combination of affordability, quality and variety that is difficult to match, Zhao said. The diversity of China's countryside is also a major advantage.
In 2025, among the hundreds of "best tourism villages" selected by UN Tourism, China alone accounted for 19, spanning a vast geographical range from the eastern coastal regions to the western plateaus, and from the water towns of Jiangnan to the mountain villages of the southwest, according to the CCTV News.
But Zhao believed the most important factor is still the rise of experiential tourism itself.
"Experiential tourism has become one of the key forces driving the global tourism industry," he said. "And that is where China's countryside has a natural advantage. Rural areas in China offer natural scenery, local traditions, community life and opportunities for deeper participation."
Kevin said working in the village in Zhejiang gave him a new perspective on self-sufficiency and sustainable living.
The experience was so meaningful that he returned to China for a second trip, this time spending another two weeks doing agricultural work in Qufu, East China's Shandong Province.
A teacher living in the local Confucius Institute community spoke to him about the "qi" of the soil, an idea that, Kevin noted, is largely unfamiliar in the Western context.
"In the West, I was accustomed to explanations and theories in which soil is seen simply as a resource with physical and chemical properties that can be exploited," he said.
The trip helped him understand soil in a broader way, not merely as an agricultural resource, but as something essential to community life and health and as a connector between humans and the environment, or biosphere.
"I wish I could speak Chinese and understand local people's thoughts better, so I could learn more about Chinese rural agricultural life and local history," he said.
In May 2026, a village in Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, held its annual Terraced Fields Plowing Festival. Across the layers of terraced fields, local residents demonstrated traditional farming practices, attracting visitors from both China and abroad, the news outlet chinanews.com reported.
He Chengxi, a deputy manager of the media department of Guilin Longji Tourism Co., Ltd., told the Global Times that foreign visitors are particularly drawn to this immersive experience as they are intrigued by this traditional method of farming, and found Chinese farming culture novel and meaningful.
And social media shows that the phenomenon goes beyond short-term tourism. For example, some foreigners who have married Chinese partners have shared their enjoyment of rural life online.
From tourism traffic to lasting connections
Zhao believes the growing interest in rural tourism should be viewed against the broader backdrop of China's efforts to revitalize the countryside and integrate agriculture, culture and tourism.
China unveiled its "No. 1 central document" for 2026 on February 3, outlining plans to advance agricultural and rural modernization and to promote all-around rural revitalization, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
According to estimates from the data center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China received 793 million rural tourism visits in the first quarter of 2026, up 12.2 percent year-on-year. Rural tourism revenue reached 457 billion yuan ($63.5 billion), up 10.9 percent, Xinhua reported.
The direct economic impact of foreign visitors to rural areas, however, is harder to measure. Zhang said it seems that that rural inbound tourism remains a relatively small trend amplified by social media rather than an established industry at scale.
Zhao believes their most important contribution may therefore be something less immediately measurable: international visibility.
There is also a less visible effect. The arrival of foreign tourists can prompt local residents to reconsider the value of their own everyday lives, Zhao noted.
"Farmers who are accustomed to regarding planting, harvesting and tending livestock as routine work may suddenly find outsiders treating those same activities as something worth traveling thousands of kilometers to experience," he said.
That outside perspective can give ordinary agricultural work, local food and traditional customs a new sense of value, not only as tourism products, but as elements of local identity, Zhang said.
How can this social media traffic be turned into lasting tourism demand? Zhang believed that the key might not be intervening too heavily in the specific products that villages offer, but improving the basic conditions that allow international visitors to access them.
The government's role, the expert suggested, is to help bridge the "last mile," making rural destinations easier and safer to reach and navigate, while leaving room for villages and travelers themselves to determine what kind of experiences are meaningful.
And beyond economics, Zhang said, these encounters carry cultural exchange value.
"People-to-people exchanges can help dispel misunderstandings and allow the world to see another side of China: ordinary Chinese people, like people everywhere, value peace, stability and a prosperous life. That deeper cultural encounter may ultimately be one of the most valuable things international tourism can offer," he explained.
Kevin has not stopped thinking about the people and places he encountered in China's countryside. The experience changed his impression of rural China and made him want to return and stay longer.
"I would like to know more about what other people who have experienced these agricultural activities think," he said. "Is now the time to reconnect with this ancient practice?"
。 本文来源：时代周报 作者：朱成呈 今年WAIC，“超节点”在现场火了。 走进世博展览馆，华为、阿里巴巴、百度、中兴通讯、中科曙光、天数智芯、沐曦股份、摩尔线程等国产算力厂商，几乎都把各自最新的超节点产品摆在展台最显眼的位置。
二 | 一排排没有屏幕的黑色机柜，成为最引人关注的展品之一。
三 | 真武M890×磐久AL128超节点 时代周报记者摄 时代周报记者注意到，中科曙光带来全国产十万卡AI超集群"曙光8000（登峰）"，阿里巴巴展示"真武M890×磐久AL128超节点"，中兴通讯推出OEX超节点，百度带来天池512超节点，沐曦股份展示曦景S600超节点，壁仞科技发布支持1024卡Scale-up扩展的下一代NPO光互连分布式解耦架构超节点，华为则首次线下展示1024卡昇腾950超节点真机。
四 | 这些外观并不起眼的黑色机柜前，许多观众举着手机排队拍照，不少厂商甚至安排机器人在机柜旁互动，让原本冰冷的算力设备成为展会"打卡点"。
五 | 这种变化并非偶然。过去几年，AI产业竞争更多集中在单颗芯片的算力、功耗和制程；而随着大模型训练和推理迈入万卡、十万卡时代，行业开始意识到，仅有高性能芯片已经不足以支撑模型持续扩张。如何将数百、数千甚至上万张AI卡高效连接，并通过网络、软件和调度系统充分释放集群性能，正成为新的竞争重点。
六 | 换句话说，AI产业竞争正逐渐从芯片本身，转向芯片之上的系统能力。 这一趋势同样体现在大会官方评选中。今年WAIC三项"镇馆之宝"均与超节点相关，分别为中科曙光AI超集群"曙光8000（登峰）"、阿里巴巴"真武M890×磐久AL128超节点"以及中兴通讯"OEX超节点"。 在业内人士看来，这不仅意味着几款产品获得认可，更意味着国产AI算力竞争正在进入新的阶段。 "随着大模型加快进入各类业务场景，算力需求正从训练进一步扩展至推理和边端计算。
七 | 峰值性能仍是重要指标，但产品的实际表现，越来越取决于芯片、软件、集群和应用之间的协同效率。"天数智芯副总裁邹翾在WAIC期间表示。 “单卡时代”过去了？ 如果说过去AI产业竞争比拼的是发动机，那么如今比拼的更像是一整套动力系统。 随着模型参数规模持续增长，先进大模型训练往往需要数万张GPU协同运行。此时，真正影响训练效率的，不再只是单颗GPU性能，而是整个系统如何组织这些GPU完成高效协同计算。 曦景S600超节点 时代周报记者摄 业内通常将通过高速互连，将数百甚至上千张AI卡组织成统一计算资源池的系统称为"超节点"。例如，摩尔线程MTT C256 超节点，就是用一层scale-up网络把256张GPU变成一台数据中心级计算机。 不过，超节点远非简单地将大量GPU堆叠在一起。一名摩尔线程现场工作人员向时代周报记者表示，“我们通过高效液冷散热、三盲插设计、完善的RAS机制和集群管理系统，来保障超节点在大规模部署下的稳定性和可维护性。这是基于真实万卡级训练经验沉淀下来的产品化能力，而非单纯的概念堆砌。” 不同厂商也在尝试不同的系统方案。天数智芯现场工作人员向时代周报记者称，天数超节点面向大模型训练与高并发推理场景，以国产通用GPU为核心，实现144芯高速全互联，通过高带宽互联、统一资源调度和软硬件协同优化，提供稳定、可靠、可扩展的高质量算力。 阿里云现场方面，一名工作人员则表示，磐久AL128超节点服务器是阿里云面向AI大模型时代打造的硬件基座，单柜集成128颗芯片，通过自研ALink互连架构，最大化GPU集群的协同计算效率。 在摩尔线程高级副总裁董龙飞看来，超节点要解决的是在一个大的系统里，如何把一个更大的模型，更大的上下文窗口放进来，还可以更快的推理出来。因为推理的速度慢了之后，调用工具就非常慢，超节点主要是为解决这个问题。
八 | 业内人士呼吁算力产业开放 相比单颗芯片，超节点竞争涉及的环节更多，也更加依赖产业链协同。 天数智芯副总裁宋煜认为，对通用GPU而言，实验室指标能够反映部分性能，但客户业务中的长期运行，更能检验产品在复杂负载和系统协同下的实际能力。算力能否转化为效率改善、成本下降和资源利用率提升，是衡量其产业价值的重要标准。 这意味着，行业评价标准也正在发生变化。 过去，人们关注TOPS、TFLOPS等芯片参数；如今，更关注训练吞吐率、网络时延、GPU利用率、集群稳定性以及整体拥有成本等系统指标。 由于一套成熟的超节点涉及芯片、交换网络、光互连、液冷、软件平台等多个环节，仅依靠一家企业已很难完成全部能力建设，开放生态因此成为国产算力发展的另一条主线。 中兴OEX超节点 时代周报记者摄 今年WAIC期间，中兴通讯联合壁仞科技、沐曦股份、燧原科技、天数智芯等合作伙伴，共同推出基于OEX+dOCS架构的国产高性能Matrix超节点，正是这一趋势的体现。 曦智科技创始人、董事长沈亦晨认为，当前最亟需补强的，是在庞大算力产业链中构建真正开放的产业生态，使计算、存储、交换、软件、应用等各环节的优秀企业最大化发挥各自优势，共同驱动中国算力基础设施的升级。 如果说芯片时代，比拼的是单点技术突破，那么系统时代，比拼的则是整个产业链的协同能力。 而超节点，也只是更大规模AI基础设施的起点。 “超节点更多是一个高密度的计算单元，把大量AI加速卡通过高速互连组织在一起，相当于把一台‘超级服务器’做得更强。”一名中科曙光技术工程师向时代周报记者解释，而超集群是在超节点基础上，通过高速网络把成百上千个超节点连接起来，实现十万卡级资源统一调度和协同运行，是一个完整的AI基础设施系统。 该技术工程师进一步指出，真正的挑战不在节点内部，而在节点之间。随着集群规模从千卡、万卡走向十万卡，跨节点通信会成为影响训练效率和系统稳定性的关键因素。
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