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Why Bike-Sharing in China Is a Myth
China’s bike-sharing services are currently in the midst of an all-out war for market share. Even as pictures of abandoned, destroyed, and dismembered bikes have flooded Chinese social media, the two...
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Chengdu Homebuying Restrictions Crush Out-of-Towner’s Dream
She was just one step away from buying a house, but then it all came tumbling down. The woman had made the down payment on a home in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province, and...
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For Returning Professionals, Hangzhou Is Heaven on Earth
In China, the eastern city of Hangzhou is famous for its tourist attractions, but the city’s job openings are also a major draw for overseas Chinese to return home. In a recently released study by...
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No Hukou, No Grave, Says Suzhou
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Shanghai Migrants Face Eviction From Their Boat Houses
On a sunny spring day, the hodgepodge of house boats moored along Shanghai’s willow-lined New Chapu River look almost idyllic. But their inhabitants face immediate eviction. The boats — about 60 in...
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Beijing Bans Misleading Wording in Property Ads
The Beijing government is pulling out all the stops to arrest the city’s rapidly inflating housing prices. The most recent measure: ordering real estate websites to remove some of their favorite...
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Disgruntled Tenants Attack Shanghai Police
Shanghai police were in an hours-long standoff with local residents on Thursday afternoon after personnel from a demolition company were attacked while working inside a building that had been...
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One Senior’s Struggle to Start Her Own Retirement Home
When retired factory worker Liu Xixian saw on TV that the government wanted more privately funded retirement homes, she thought starting one herself would be great way to grow old with her friends....
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Xiongan Poets’ Society Fights to Protect Literature of the Lake
HEBEI, North China — A boatman rows a flat-bottomed vessel across the wide, languid waters of Baiyang Lake, or “Baiyangdian.” Behind him, new willow and poplar leaves quiver in the early spring...
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Beijing Enlists Dancing Grannies to Deter Jaywalkers
If anything can distract China’s would-be jaywalkers from their law-flouting ways, it’s dancing grannies and small children — or at least that’s the logic behind a new video from the Tongzhou District...
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