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How a Rare Blood Type Settled a New Father's Paternity Doubt

A Shenzhen father of type AB and a mother of type A faced a newborn with type O blood — schoolbook evidence of infidelity. The hospital's answer was CisAB, a blood-type subtype rarer than 'panda blood' that fuses the A and B genes onto one chromosome and lets an AB parent pass on an O.

Feng Yuanzheng, head of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, says drama schools now send only tall, camera-friendly graduates — leaving the company unable to cast character roles like the bustling Huang Pangzi in Lao She's 'Teahouse'. The complaint reopened China's argument over a single, narrowing standard of looks.

Wang Yuxuan, a 21-year-old junior at a Hangzhou university, turned a hand cart of Huzhou-style lemon milk into a 20-store chain in seven months — 60,000 to 70,000 cups a month and more than a million yuan in monthly revenue — on 30,000 yuan of startup money and secondhand machines. Her story is this season's template of low-cost, student-run franchise entrepreneurship.