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A front-row proposal at Zhao Lei's Bird's Nest concert in Beijing — complete with candy thrown to strangers — met a chant of 'sit down' from the rows behind, and security. The clip has opened a wider argument about etiquette in China's booming live-music market: whose evening is a ticketed show for?
The 'Chinese Football Youngsters' project run by commentator Dong Lu — built outside China's state sports system — won its age group at the Brava Cup in Barcelona, then celebrated with trophy, medals and a Chinese flag on the podium. For Chinese fans weaned on national-team disappointment, the sight of a private program winning abroad carried more meaning than a trophy usually should.
A viral question — why would Japan sell a chip-making chemical to China below cost? — has answers in this week's trade data: Beijing imposed anti-dumping deposit rates as high as 99.2% on Japanese dichlorosilane on September 8, alleging subsidised dumping meant to squeeze out a Chinese competitor just as it qualified with major wafer fabs.
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Yu Donglai, founder of China's most admired supermarket chain, announced that all new hires will be 'trainees' on four-year contracts that are never renewed, with graduates' names published online — a policy that has Chinese social media asking what a good job now even is.
The National Healthcare Security Administration disclosed that staff at Hebei Medical University Second Hospital took bribes 46 times over 11 years, totalling 184 million yuan, from more than 30 drug and device firms — a rare, itemised look at how kickbacks are built into China's hospital procurement.
A fresh WeChat notice on account-name fraud — fake government bureaus, bogus 'news media' handles, unverified professional titles — reported 91,226 accounts disciplined so far this year, up sharply from a month earlier. The campaign is part of the wider Qinglang cleanup of China's internet.
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