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Doctors in Fuzhou diagnosed a 25-year-old online seller with 'digital dementia' — not Alzheimer's but a memory gone idle from outsourcing itself to the screen — after her daily phone use passed ten hours and her forgetfulness began to frighten her.
China's 21-year-old air-rifle star won the world title in Doha, the one major medal he lacked, and in the same stroke secured a Chinese quota place for the Los Angeles Olympics four years after he first stood on an Olympic podium at sixteen.
Traffic police in Nanjing ruled that a chain of rear-end collisions set off by an elderly man dashing across an expressway were the drivers' fault, not his — a verdict that, a week after the mediated Jiuzhaigou scuffle, has pushed the question of age and accountability back into the open.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A vocational-school student in Jiangxi used money she earned over the summer to see a show in Hong Kong; two months later, her family's minimum living allowance has been cancelled. The case has become a referendum on how China polices the poverty line — and on whether a little pleasure is a disqualifier.
A video of a 62-year-old tourist punching a 27-year-old visitor at Jiuzhaigou swept Chinese social media, but the case ended not in court: police mediated, both sides apologized, and the file was closed — a routine outcome under the country's public-security rules that many readers found hard to accept.
Hongguo, ByteDance's free short-drama app, has climbed to fourth among all Chinese apps by daily users — and the debate over how much time it takes has moved from Weibo jokes to state-media features about attention, algorithms and platform responsibility.
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