Life Stories

A logistics boss who twice contemplated suicide says that sharing half his profits with his staff, on the model of China's most admired supermarket chain, saved both his company and his life. Pang Dong Lai declined the 300,000-yuan car he tried to give back.

Life Stories

The Insurance Policy Named 'A Perfect Life' a Grandfather Secretly Left His Grandchild

Opening a first bank card, a Chinese university student found a passbook paying in money every year — traced to a policy their dead grandfather had bought in secret, named 'A Life of Perfect Happiness', which pays until they turn 80.

A retiree in Shaoxing who grew seven bottle gourds in a row became an unlikely tourist attraction — until an interview revealed he and his wife had lost their only child, and the strangers calling them grandma and grandpa were warming a grief two decades old.