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A fresh WeChat notice on account-name fraud — fake government bureaus, bogus 'news media' handles, unverified professional titles — reported 91,226 accounts disciplined so far this year, up sharply from a month earlier. The campaign is part of the wider Qinglang cleanup of China's internet.
A survey of AI hiring by the business outlet 36kr found doctoral interns at ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba earning up to 6,000 yuan a day — more than many white-collar workers make in a month — as China's AI talent war pushes starting researcher pay past 2 million yuan a year.
On World First Aid Day, Chinese state media spread a revised version of the Heimlich maneuver for choking victims: five hard back blows before abdominal thrusts, with a schoolyard hand-game mnemonic to make the sequence memorable. The update shot up Weibo's health topics.
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Beijing's courts have ruled that a one-page 2000 family agreement — eldest daughter pays the housing-reform price, parents live out their lives, flat passes to her — was a binding contract, not a will, and ordered two sisters to return the 4.02 million yuan their father left them after selling the home. A retrial is now pending, and China is arguing about what it means.
China had nearly 30,000 fewer primary schools in 2025 than in 2020, the Ministry of Education's newly released bulletin shows, and with enrolment down four million pupils in a single year, villages are quietly turning their empty schoolhouses into nursing homes, elder canteens and factories — the clearest sign yet of how fast the country's demographic turnaround is redrawing everyday life.
Xiaomi's founder turned up at the Xuzhou leg of the Su Super League on Friday night and watched from the general stands with everyone else — the latest signal of how China's city football leagues have become the summer's most valuable seats, with Hubei now launching its own version.
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