Tesla has been a major trending topic on Weibo this year


Tesla regularly appears in the trending topics of Chinese social network Weibo. — Reuters

A mini-report released this week has offered a look at some of the topics that have been “trending” regularly on the Chinese social network Weibo in the first half of 2021. While vaccines and the pandemic are high on the list, car company Tesla is in the news a lot – for both good and bad reasons.

Tesla regularly kindles passionate commentary among web users in China. In Weibo’s ranking of the topics that trended most on the social network, the American company is in fifth place.

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