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Mission Completed

Astronaut Jing Haipeng safely disembarks from the return capsule of the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship after it touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 31, 2023. The crew of the Shenzhou-16 mission returned to Earth after five months in space. Xinhua

No Time For the Toilet Between Classes? 

Impractical recess times in Chinese schools have been subject to heated discussion on Chinese social media recently following reports that some students don’t even have enough time to use the toilet due to classes dragging on and starting early. Some primary schools are also restricting movement of students during recess for fear of being held liable for accidents. Now the People’s Daily is weighing in, saying that adequate downtime for students is a crucial part of a healthy education. The official party paper also called on parents to abandon the idea that their kids are in a “race against time.”

Taking Names  

On the ‘Real’ Kung Pao Chicken 

The ‘Real’ Kung Pao Chicken — And Why I Hope I Never Find It

With Funeral Portraits, a Photographer Gives Dignity to Rural Elderly

Seeing that most elderly villagers in a rural part of Shaanxi province do not have access to cameras, let alone professional photographers, to take portraits of them for their funerals, local journalist Yang Xin and her team decided to step in.