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In a Shaoxing community workshop, weavers in their eighties and nineties spent six hours on a basket that sold for 6 yuan, when anyone noticed it at all. A team of university students redesigned the product line for a younger market — and the baskets now sell out at ten times the price, with most of the money going back to the weavers.
A three-year-old in Foshan spent days in paediatric intensive care with nitrite poisoning after being fed long-stored leftovers, a case doctors traced to his family's habit of saving every dish. The story has become the season's warning about a thrifty kitchen practice that food scientists have long advised against.
Renren Video, the fan-subtitle group whose 2021 prosecution became China's best-known copyright case, is back on app stores as a fully licensed streaming service charging 25 yuan a month. The relaunch tests whether two decades of accumulated goodwill can survive a paywall.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A woman died after a caesarean section at a Shandong maternity hospital in 2024. Three successive forensic reviews — district, provincial and national — flipped from 'no accident' to the hospital bearing main responsibility, and this week the penalties drew national attention.
As 195 firefighters rotate through the buried Gyirong border crossing in Tibet, Typhoon Saudel made a record third landfall and drowned Fujian's coast under rain totalling 821 millimetres in three days.
A clip of Shenzhen pupils converting their desks into recliners for the lunchtime nap has gone viral, as the city pledges 200 more schools with 'peaceful lie-flat sleep' — against new national data showing nearly half of Chinese students are myopic.
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