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A photograph of a 51.7万元 restaurant bill at Shanghai's landmark Peace Hotel — complete with a 230,000-yuan bottle of wine — spread widely on Chinese social media before the hotel said it was forged and police opened an investigation. The case has become a lesson in how cheap AI fabrication has made 'receipts' untrustworthy.
A woman in Xiangtan, Hunan discovered her savings were gone when a 7-yuan breakfast payment failed: scammers had silently cancelled her bank's SMS alerts, redeemed her funds and moved the money to Hong Kong in digital yuan over six days. Banks and courts say the alert-quieting trick is now a standard part of the fraud playbook.
Tesla's Model Y sold 7,807 units in China in October, down from 50,359 in September, dropping it from the top of the domestic sales chart to 66th — a collapse one analyst attributes to production capacity being redirected to exports, and which reflects the state of Chinese EV competition.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
The fireball seen across four provinces on November 6 dropped fragments onto farms near Shijiazhuang. Hunters arrived within days, and one twenty-kilogram chunk may end up with the Chinese Academy of Sciences — after the farmer who owns the piece is paid.
The Ningbo Charity Federation received a 1.11-million-yuan donation signed “其自” — the twenty-eighth straight year from the same anonymous donor, now 19.07 million yuan in total, all of it for student aid, and the identity has never been revealed.
An eighty-one-year-old Dongguan businessman left roughly 600 million yuan to his second wife of nearly forty years. After his death last July, the children from his first marriage discovered the notarized will weeks before his hundred-day memorial — and are now asking a court to void it on claims of fading capacity and money that was never his alone to give.
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