Beautiful China engagement report
@PDChinaLife - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 17 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.665% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 120 interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Beautiful China's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 13% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, Beautiful China sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.047% |
| 75th percentile | 0.325% |
| 90th percentile | 2.60% |
| 99th percentile | 357.9% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 2% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | +13% | +10% to +15% | 6.4K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 2% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 336 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 13% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 13, 20267.1x their median
In pics: View of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. https://t.co/lg275ojOpg
- Aug 21, 20265.1x their median
A science teacher from east China's Ji'an City recently led teachers and students from across the country to design and build heavy-lift water rockets using basic materials, with all 17 rockets successfully launched. https://t.co/cpYeXb9c3C
- Aug 17, 20264.4x their median
Watch as a monorail train glides seamlessly along its elevated track amid the stunning cityscape of southwest China's Chongqing. https://t.co/NKU8ceg0JC
- Aug 18, 20263.8x their median
A gorgeous rainbow and sunset glow painted the sky over the Summer Palace in Beijing after the rain. https://t.co/vwxXdLpPd8
- Aug 13, 20263.1x their median
“All clear. You may proceed!” A vehicle encountered a herd of sheep on the road recently in Hulun Buir, north China’s Inner Mongolia. A dog quickly herded the sheep to the grassland and then turned to the car as if signaling the road was safe to pass. https://t.co/uPTfY9ZHUA
- Aug 13, 20262.7x their median
'Film plus' model boosts consumption across China A wave of well-received films has hit Chinese theaters this summer, drawing audiences into a broader cultural experience and generating economic impact that extends far beyond the box office. Movie ticket stubs have increasingly become a gateway to a wide range of experiences, from dining and accommodation to transportation, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment, as new business models tap into the broader potential of the film industry. Read full: https://t.co/bOOpQYiwRz
- Aug 12, 20262.6x their median
No more dangerous climbs. No more sheer cliffs. Children in southwest China's mountainous Yunnan Province now ride elevators and cable cars over the mountains to get to school. https://t.co/bKQ70q311c
- Aug 13, 20262.4x their median
Feel the passion radiating from this Uygur dancer in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang. Known for their lively rhythms and expressive spins, Uygur dances bring vibrant energy to every performance. https://t.co/aWEioCKfcQ
- Aug 12, 20262.4x their median
A set of 25-layer wooden nesting dolls featuring beautiful pyrographic designs has been crafted by an artisan in Luoyang, central China’s Henan Province — even the smallest is made with sheer intricacy! https://t.co/FafmAH8jOi
- Aug 18, 20262.3x their median
Love is best shown through actions! A pair of Swinhoe's white-eyes was spotted enjoying a moment of preening each other in Rizhao, east China's Shandong Province. https://t.co/ojdGcHTyXF
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 17 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.665% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 120 interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
- What is Beautiful China's engagement rate on X?
- Beautiful China (@PDChinaLife) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 64 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,838,742 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Beautiful China sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @PDChinaLife have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @PDChinaLife post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.