Domestic media report on the Nobel Prize with headline "Linyi-born scientist Xue Qikun regretfully missed out," drawing mockery from netizens
After the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, some local media outlets and official accounts in China ran reports with headlines such as "Linyi-born scientist Xue Qikun regretfully missed out," and netizens in the comments sections mocked: "regretfully missed out means I signed up too."