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A Weibo blogger's five-sentence story — cut face, no iodine on any shelf, a 7-Eleven clerk lending the staff's own first-aid kit, and a dramatic kowtow of thanks — became the weekend's favourite read on everyday kindness and the thin first-aid layer of Chinese convenience retail.
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.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A primary-school teacher was moved off teaching after a parent reported him for making a queue-jumping student wait two minutes for lunch. His case, and others recounted this week, describe a rising tide of formal complaints against Chinese teachers — and a system where the report box has replaced the conversation.
A dermatologist-endorsed list of four items to pack for any hotel stay — towels, cup, pajamas, toothbrush — is crossing Weibo, and the reason it lands is less the science than the documented housekeeping shortcuts that have kept Chinese travelers wary of the room they are paying for.
The second China–EU trade consultation ended with a consensus on hybrid and electric car trade — and China's industry association plus eight major carmakers, from BYD to Great Wall, issued endorsement statements in a single day, as trade barriers push Chinese exporters toward building cars inside Europe instead.
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