Trending across China

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-02-17 09:16

Migrant workers in Beijing have a love/hate relationship with the city, children question parents' legal right to take their gift money, and this year, Chinese visitors spent even more shopping in South Korea.

Gift money

A 22-year-old college student in Wuhan, Hubei province, has raised a question on the Internet about whether it is legal for parents to take away "gift money" received by their children during Spring Festival.

Gift money, or yasuiqian, usually refers to newly printed currency notes given to young by older family members to wish them a prosperous new year.

This has sparked wide discussion on the Internet, with some lawyers participating.

"Our gift money was mostly taken by our parents during childhood, as they think we are too young to manage cash," some said. "And this tradition just keeps going on. Why can't we manage the money that is given to us?"

Lawyers said that legally, as the "gift money" is presented to children, it is an asset belonging to the children and no one can take it from them. But reality is usually more complicated than the law.

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Shopping in Korea

What Chinese consumers spent in South Korea has soared dramatically during the 2014 Spring Festival, Korean media reported. The sum of money by spent by each Chinese visitor in Korea is almost equal to the purchase price of a car.

Yonhap News Agency reported that according to figures from Lotte Department Store, one of the most popular shopping sites in South Korea for Chinese buyers, sales for this year's Spring Festival holiday visitors from China increased by 125 percent from last year.

Figures from Shinsegae also show that this year, the number of visitors at the store during Spring Festival more than doubled from last year.

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Sichuan crackdown

More than 600 entertainment venues were cleaned up and 335 suspects were caught in Chengdu, Sichuan province, during the city's recent campaign of eliminating pornography.

More than 6,500 police from Chengdu Public Security Bureau participated in the campaign from Feb 10 to 15, and three entertainment sites were closed down.

Gold market

China now ranks first in the world in terms of gold consumption, surpassing India in 2013, according to the China Gold Association. The country has become the fastest growing gold market in the world.

In 2013, gold production in China reached 1,176 tons, a 40 percent increase from 2012.

Guangdong apology

Party secretaries from four townships in Dongguan, Guangdong province, made their apology to the public for their dereliction of duty and tolerance of widespread prostitution and sex trade.

After media exposure of widespread prostitution in Dongguan last week, local police waged a large scale crackdown on the sex trade. At least nine cities in eight other provinces are also working to clean up the local sex industry.

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Waiting to retire

Former NBA player Wang Zhizhi's application to retire from basketball has not yet been approved, and his retirement ceremony, which should take place on Sunday evening after his last game in the CBA, was canceled.

Beijing survey

A recent survey by a newspaper in Beijing reveals that the city of Beijing is luring young people with its wide range of opportunities, but at the same time making things difficult for them with its soaring housing prices.

A total of 101 people, most of them migrant workers, participated in the survey, "Why are you staying in Beijing?" About 60 percent said that they are staying in Beijing because it provides a broader vision with more work opportunities, but they suffer from the terrible traffic and high housing prices. Despite that, 60 percent believe that the city is open and comparatively fair, and will bring them a better future.

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Hotels top Valentine destination for taxis

A taxi-booking application showed that the destination of nearly half its users in Changsha, Hunan province, on the evening of Valentine's Day was a hotel, a report said.

The report was released on Saturday by Kuaidi Dache, a major taxi-booking app, which collected data of taxi booking in 40 cities after 7 pm on Friday. Changsha topped the list with 48 percent of taxi-booking going to hotels, followed by Chongqing with 35 percent and Shanghai with 32 percent.