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A Wuhan School Put Parents on Evening-Study Duty, and the District Is Investigating

Parents at a middle school in Wuhan were assigned to take turns supervising the school's extended evening study sessions — the student's own mother or father only, with instructions to note down misbehaving students. The school calls the rota voluntary 'home-school cooperation'; the district education bureau has opened an investigation.

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Why Chinese Hospitals Are Closing Their Night Clinics

A dental hospital in Fujian, a county TCM hospital in Guizhou and a large general hospital in Jiangxi have all suspended evening outpatient services in recent weeks, citing staff shortages and ageing equipment rather than any drop in demand. The closures have reopened an old argument about where China's stretched medical workforce should spend its hours.

In a new CCTV interview, Elon Musk put numbers on the next twenty years — a billion humanoid robots within a decade, a trillion within twenty — and suggested China could ease its chip and lithography constraints in as little as two to three years. Days earlier, Nvidia's Jensen Huang told an American podcast that China will have advanced lithography systems of its own by 2030.