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A clip of Shenzhen pupils converting their desks into recliners for the lunchtime nap has gone viral, as the city pledges 200 more schools with 'peaceful lie-flat sleep' — against new national data showing nearly half of Chinese students are myopic.

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.

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Windfall From a Typo: A 1,000-Yuan Top-Up Became 2.6 Quadrillion Yuan, and a Court Ordered It Back

An employee who typed a 16-digit account ID into the amount field credited a Hunan man with 2.64 quadrillion yuan of virtual points; he spent 250,000 yuan of them in twenty days, refused to return the money, and has now lost in court on unjust-enrichment grounds.