A family discovers that a 69-year-old woman spent 225,800 yuan over two years on micro-payments to unlock short-drama episodes, one 0.9-yuan click at a time. The case exposes how frictionless payments and binge-friendly plots turn small change into a life savings problem.
A retired-life guide to Tumxuk, a small city in China's far-western Xinjiang region, argues that good walking routes and shade matter more than a shopping mall. The city reports 43.58% green cover and 18.2 square metres of parkland per resident.
A 139-kilometer desert highway along Xinjiang's Tarim River runs between the Taklamakan and the world's largest wild poplar forest. In late October the trees turn gold, and the drive is almost entirely toll-free.
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