Weird, as far as I can tell this result was essentially achieved in February; at least that's when the register reported on it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/06/china_shows_how_fusi...

EAST seems to be connected to ITER, and is testing confinement methods like those planned for ITER. Here is an ITER press release about EAST hitting that 32 s H-mode confinement: https://www.iter.org/newsline/291/1783

And here is a later article about EAST receiving an upgrade and shooting for those 100 seconds in 2014: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/1916