From messaging to social media to a marketplace to browsing the internet, WeChat is the app the does everything. While Western companies and app developers race to unbundle their services into efficient single-purpose apps, WeChat continues to add feature after feature.

Famous for its strict censorship laws, the Chinese government is now set on banning 'erotic' banana eating from increasingly popular live-streaming sites. The likes of Douyu, Panda.tv, YY, Zhanqi TV and Huya have come under fire for hosting content that it claims is 'harming social morality'.

China is the world’s most socially connected market, even ahead of the US. As titans Tencent and Sina Weibo prepare a more aggressive push to monetise in 2016, advertising revenue is set to skyrocket to $5.33 billion, surging 56%. And foreign advertisers are riding the wave.

What’s got so many Chinese thinking about themselves? Why are so many women filing for divorce? And how is China’s pollution problem fuelling on-demand culture? This Cultural Snapshot uses local statistics and case studies to explore behavioural norms shared by China people in 2016.