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Why Zheng Qinwen's Champion's Check Is Nine Times Wang Manyu's

Two Chinese champions crowned in the same October week — Zheng Qinwen at the China Open, Wang Manyu at the WTT China Smash — took home prize cheques of $1.15 million and $135,000, and the nine-fold gap has become China's sharpest running argument about what athletic stardom is worth.

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Mi Chunlei, Husband of TV Host Dong Qing, Formally Steps Down as Chairman of Shanghai Life

Mi Chunlei — the financier who received 59 court orders limiting his spending over disputes worth nearly five billion yuan — has stepped down as chairman of Shanghai Life Insurance, the insurer he ran for eleven years and which has not published an annual report in five.

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China Opens an Investigation Into Pay-to-Enter Access at the FAST Telescope's Core

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has opened an investigation into reports that visitors paying for a hotel room — 2,688 yuan a night, or a 598-yuan 'experience' — could drive into the electromagnetic core zone of the FAST telescope, where phones are normally surrendered at the gate.