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Xinxiang's Hongqi district issued a formal apology after a volunteer blogger who removes construction ground nails from city streets was stopped by officials citing dust rules — and then adopted his cause as a district-wide hazard sweep.

News & Politics

A Court Froze a Town Government's Bank Accounts Over Unpaid Construction Debts

Hujiafan town in Shaanxi lost a 10-million-yuan construction-contract lawsuit, defaulted on the settlement it signed, and had its basic-expenditure account re-frozen by an intermediate court — leaving staff without August salaries and suspending medical-insurance deductions.

Culture

Why 'Disenchantment' Is the Word Young China Uses for Growing Up

The question "What did you first stop idealizing after growing up?" sat near the top of Weibo on Saturday, and the answers — family, friendship, elite degrees, prestige jobs, even adulthood itself — sketch a generation talking down its own expectations.