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Zhang Xin Cheng and Song Zu Er’s Created in China exceeds 22,000 on heat index on Tencent

Michelle Topham July 10, 2025

Created in china popularity exceeds 22000 poster

The soon-to-end contemporary Chinese business-themed drama Created in China has exceeded 22,000 on Tencent’s heat index for the first time.

Tencent Video dropped a new poster in celebration earlier tonight, along with the comment:

#Created In China# The popularity of Created in China (淬火年代) on Tencent Video has surpassed 22,000, blazing with fiery energy!

Keep watching, comrades, as Tengfei Factory and its crew fight against the odds and chase their original dreams! 

The Zhang Xin Cheng and Song Zu Er-led C-drama (although, weirdly, the actress doesn’t appear until Episode 15)  premiered on June 18th on CCTV and Tencent Video in China, and is scheduled to end its 34-episode run tomorrow.

Outside China, Created in China is currently streaming on the CN Drama channel on YouTube for free, although currently around 12 episodes behind its Chinese broadcast, and with English subtitles that aren’t perfect — but understandable enough.

Considering YouTube is just about the only legal place to watch it as, for some reason, WeTV decided not to license Created in China internationally, we have to put up with it as it is what it is then, eh?

RELATED: New stills release for C-drama Created in China as first episodes now streaming on Tencent Video

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Michelle Topham

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British-American journalist currently residing in Vienna, Austria and obsessed beyond measure with C-dramas, a subject I have been writing about for more than two decades. How many C-dramas have I watched? Many many hundreds. How many are still in my backlog? Hundreds more.

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