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Two Ming-era volumes of the Yongle Dadian, the 15th-century encyclopedia of 11,095 volumes, surfaced at a French auction in 2020 and were bought back for 65 million yuan by a Zhejiang collector; they are now formally housed at the Hangzhou National Archives of Publications and Culture.
Customised 'science and technology study tours' of Chinese factories and robotics labs now cost foreign investors about 100,000 yuan for five days, and demand is strong; CCTV Finance traces the boom to the rise of China's AI and humanoid-robot industries.
A small Zhejiang slipper maker prints missing-children alerts on its supermarket hangtags — portrait, description and a QR code to the Baby Back Home database — and destroys the tag the moment a child is found. Shoppers are buying the slippers deliberately to widen the search.
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A colorectal cancer patient in Guiyang hid a blade inside a silk thank-you banner and stabbed a young doctor who was not even his physician. After two days in intensive care the doctor is stable, the suspect is in custody — and China's doctors are once again asking, publicly, why they stay in the job.
Down a set and 0-5 in the deciding set against Madison Keys, Zheng Qinwen saved a match point and reeled off seven straight games to reach the US Open round of 16 — the latest act in a comeback season that began a month ago in qualifying, ranked 121st in the world.
Computer science has fallen out of China's top ten admission-guidance rankings for the first time in years, and electrical engineering has taken the top spot, riding AI and the power-grid boom. The grumbling has already started: grid jobs are harder to land, and private-sector paths carry involution and layoff risk.
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