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A CCTV investigation, triggered by a data alert from China's medical-insurance system, exposed the 'recycled drug' black chain: subsidized medicines resold for cash, their origins laundered with forged receipts. Since 2025 more than 62,000 institutions have been investigated and 3 billion yuan involved — with spoiled, fake-cold-chain semaglutide the starkest case.

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200 Meters, 18 Overtakes: Chengdu Deploys AI Against Slow Drivers

Chengdu's traffic authority has turned an AI screening system on 'turtle-speed' drivers — cars crawling far below the flow, often because the driver is on the phone — after footage showed one sedan overtaken 18 times in 200 meters. Offenders face 100-yuan fines and three license points.

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What Long-Term Joblessness Takes From You: China Counts the Losses

A Weibo question about what long-term joblessness takes from a person drew more than 40,000 engagements over a working Sunday — the price of a holiday-swap weekend. The answers split into two ledgers of loss, revealing how little household slack sits behind China's work debates.