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Less than half of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou residents return home for dinner before 7 pm, according to recent polls by online fresh-food supplier Benlai.com and taxi-hailing app Didi Dache.

"I rarely go home for dinner with my husband, not because I don't want to, but because my work usually doesn't end until 7 or 8 pm."

Cai Qi, employee of a foreign bank in Shanghai