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2013-10-26

A 22-year-old woman from Henan province recently went abuzz online for her pioneering spirit and beautiful appearance. Li Peiyu opened a small restaurant whose major offering is pig trotters after graduation from Xi'an Polytechnic University in the summer of 2013, a period said to be the hardest time to seek a job.

Starting on Friday, consumers can slide their bank cards and get powdered milk from automatic vending machines in five drugstores in Beijing, The Beijing News reported. One can also pay by Alipay, an online payment service, but cash and health insurance cards are not accepted. Eleven brands were on sale, among them seven Chinese brands including Yili, Mengniu, Feihe, Sanyuan and Beingmate, and four foreign brands including Wyeth, Abbott, Dumex, and Nestle.

The parents of a 16-month-old girl, who suffered brain damage after an 18-day medical rescue failed, decided to donate the baby's kidneys, liver and eyes after her death,West China City Daily reported Friday. The heartbroken 22-year-old mother said she wished other families could avoid the pain of losing a child. Two hours after the organ harvesting, the girl's liver was transferred and saved another baby girl.

The controversial move to lower English language total points in the national college entrance exam (gaokao) in Beijing sparked Chinese internet users to backlash against what they really hate in the exam - math, a too difficult subject that contains algebra and geometry.

As of the end of 2012, 2.64 million Chinese people went abroad for study, but only 1.09 million came back to China, a great loss of 1.5 million, xinhuanet.com reported, lamenting China's massive talent outflow.

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