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In Aral City on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, farmers are raising mud crabs, grouper and shrimp in salt-alkali ponds engineered to mimic seawater — the headline act of China's autumn harvest season, and a serious bet on turning wasteland into food security.
A Weibo question about why clip-on earphones are suddenly everywhere drew thousands of answers this week: inflamed ear canals, 'oily ears,' and a pivot from noise-cancelling immersion to all-day situational awareness — with Shokz's new OpenDots 2 signaling the category's maturation.
Zhang Xue Motorcycle, a Chinese manufacturer, will start Saturday's WorldSSP race at Magny-Cours from first and second after French rider Valentin Debise took pole in 1'39.585 — after crashing in the same session. The result ranked second on Baidu's national hot board.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Wu, the man who abducted Sun Haiyang's four-year-old son in 2007, walks free in three weeks after serving the five-year maximum for child abduction. Sun says he fears for his family's safety — and is still chasing the 420,000 yuan a court ordered Wu to pay.
He Yong, whose 1994 album 'Garbage Dump' made him one of the founding voices of Chinese rock, died in Beijing on September 1 at 57. His death sent a generation back to the one album, and the one concert, on which the scene's legend rests.
A diner's video of a parent catching a child's urine in a cup at a Beijing Sushiro went viral after staff said they had no way to intervene — the third such incident at the chain's China stores in three weeks. Chinese commentary is asking why the reforms Sushiro adopted in Japan have not crossed the sea.
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