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Getting Tanned in Hangzhou

Fitness enthusiasts tan at a rooftop swimming pool at a hotel in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, July 20, 2022. Temperatures went as high as 37 degrees that day. VCG

On the Mortal Danger of Carbon-Driven Heat Waves

Summer (and Spring, and Fall) Heat Waves Are the New Normal

Digital RMB Adoption Growing

University Hiring Grads From Philippines School Raises Doubts

A Chinese university is suspected of hiring diploma mill graduates to game the rankings.

Date With a Test Tube

Literally meaning “tube appointment,” it’s a way to band together with your friends to avoid being suspected of COVID-19. China frequently conducts PCR pool testing, putting ten people’s samples in one tube. If your tube contains a positive sample, you could be quarantined for follow-up tests. Residents of Beihai, a coastal city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, have complained that they’ve been taken directly to isolation centers without follow-up testing. So Beihai people have started arranging pods of likely negative friends to share a test tube.