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A 13-year-old boy has successfully sued his father for the return of his lucky money in accordance with a local court in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong province, on Thursday. The father has been ordered to return the red pocket money to his son.

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What happened

 

It is a Lunar New Year tradition in China to give children money in red packets, known as “Hongbao”.

In ancient times, hongbao was used for “exorcize evil spirits” or “protect their children”. 

 

As time goes on, although there are different ideas and opinions to red pocket, this kind of tradition has survived.

 

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According to a summary of the case published by the court on Weibo, Su had deposited 3,045 yuan into the child’s bank account between February 2014 and March 2015 without his son’s permission. The money had been given to the boy in red packets.

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Father’s argument

 

The father Su argued that the boy’s mother, whom he had divorced years ago, was taking advantage of a change in custody arrangements to take the money for herself.

 

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According to the court’s post, the boy lived with Su until his mother, surnamed Huang, applied for custody in December 2015, which was granted in April the following year.

In March 2016, Su withdrew the entire amount, claiming the money was given to the child by his friends and relatives who were unrelated to the mother. 

 

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He also said he had promised his son to return the money, together with the interest, when he grew up.

The judge ruled the child had rights to manage the savings in his own bank account and ordered the father to return the full amount of 3,045 yuan to his son.

 

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The case raised controversial opinions on Weibo, with some comments supporting the child’s action while others were against. 

“As parents, you should set a good example. No one has the right to take away others’ things without their permission,”

 

“This is too much. Without family and parents, you are just an individual in society. Who would give a stranger red packets if you are not related to anyone?”.

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Suggestions

 

• Save money in the bank or buy insurance

• Use for studying

• Build a small library for the child(improve their interest)

• Develop their good will( like buying gifts for friends)

• Make a family trip

China has managed to maintain a positive growth trend in foreign direct investment against the downward trend of the globe in this field. Last year, China used 885.6 billion yuan ($130 billion) of overseas investment, up 0.9 percent from a year ago.

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Multiple foreign enterprises have increased investment in China at the beginning of 2019, including Exxon Mobil, which is planning a chemical facility in Huizhou Daya Bay Chemical Industrial Park, southern China’s Guangdong province, and British Telecom which has become the first overseas company to obtain a nationwide operating license in China.

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Consumption upgrade 

increases the demand 

for high-quality services 

Last year, the retail sales of consumer goods rose by 9 percent year on year, and final consumption expenditure contributed 76.2 percent to the growth of GDP, up 18.6 percentage points from a year ago.

The per capita income of the Chinese people is rising and new demands will be created through the upgrade of consumption, said He Fei with Bank of Communications, who noted that the Chinese residents need more high-quality medical, financial and education products, which multinational corporations are good at providing.

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Royal Dutch Philips Electronics Ltd., which established its first joint venture in China in 1985, now has about 432,000 medical facilities assembled at 5,000 Chinese hospitals.

The Chinese market is making larger contributions to the revenue growth of foreign-invested companies in recent years, said Bai Ming, deputy director of the Ministry of Commerce’s International Market Research Institute.

US company General Electric, which hires more than 20,000 employees at 30 manufacturing bases in China, received orders worth $8 billion and purchased raw materials worth more than $ 6 billion in China in 2017.

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China to encourage more 

foreign-invested companies 

to enter its market  

On Jan 29, 2019, British Petroleum’s first petrol station was launched in east China’s Shandong province, as part of its 5-year plan to build 1,000 petrol stations in China.

A person responsible for the company said he is totally confident that the plan will be smoothly implemented as China removed the restrictions on foreign investment in construction and operation of gas stations, as well as the proportion of foreign equity.

China has sent a strong signal to open itself wider to the world, which is of great significance against the backdrop of the global economic slowdown, said Dr. Robert Dieter, counselor of the economy bureau of the German Embassy in China.

German carmaker BMW announced last year that it would increase 3 billion euros of investment in China after the country relaxed restrictions on the proportion of foreign equity in the Chinese auto industry.

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Jochen Goller, President and CEO of BMW Group Region China, said the company has deeply taken part in China’s reform and opening-up in the past two decades and benefited from it, adding that it will maintain long-term confidence in China’s efforts to deepen reform and open up, and register long-term and sustainable economic growth.

To further improve the legal environment for foreign investment, China is actively working on formulating a foreign investment law to protect the lawful rights of foreign investors, to build and improve the mechanism to facilitate overseas investment, and provide a stable, transparent, and predictable investment environment.

Meng Wei, the spokesperson of National Development and Reform Commission, said in the future, the country will make sure that foreign companies receive the fair treatment as their Chinese counterparts do in areas such as government procurement, standard making, industry policies, technology policies, among others.

Recently, a gold shop in Huai’an City because of renovation, the store’s safe boxes have to be upgraded. So, the boss sent several safe boxes that contain lots of gold jewelry to the bank vault temporarily.

Waste in salvage station

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However, the careless boss unexpectedly left one of the safe boxes in the shop.

Following the boss’s instructions, the staff of the gold shop sold a safe box worth nearly 3 million gold jewels as waste with other wasted safe boxes to the salvage station.

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When the boss found out and found the salvage station, he was dumbfounded. The safe box had been cut, and the gold jewelry inside was gone. The overwhelmed gold shop owner chose to call the police for help.

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At the scene, when the owner of the salvage station noticed that there were millions of high-quality gold jewels in the safe box, he was also dumbfounded.

Taken away

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According to his word, when he used oxygen welding to cut the safe box, he found that there were many “golden jewels” inside. 

Although there were also nameplates on the top of “golden jewels”, he thought it was fake just like the fake product with poor quality on the roadside stall, and then it would be scattered on the ground from the inside of the safe box.

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Coincidentally, when he was cutting the safe box, someone came to sell the waste. They took it home to give their child as a small toy, neglecting its real value and regarding it as a fake product.

A large amount of gold jewelry that has not been taken away was put up in the woven bag by the owner of the salvage station. The police then found the bag in the garbage dump and opened it. There was precious jewelry such as gold, jade, gold inlaid jade and diamonds and so on.

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After counting, there are gold jewels worth more than 2 million in the woven bag.

Seraching

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Because there is no monitoring inside and outside the salvage station, and it is impossible to conduct video tracking to find people who were taking away these gold jewelry.

Fortunately, after careful inquiry, “It took less than 12 hours to help the gold shop owner to retrieve nearly 3 million gold jewelry. We are also deeply surprised by this result.” Pengcheng and Deng Zhangyang the police who handle this case told the reporter that the gold shop owner had claimed there were gold jewels worth more than 1 million in the safe box at the time he called the police.

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Finally, when handing over the gold jewelry, the boss determined that the items sought were the left one.

Recently, during the Spring Festival holiday, a large number of passengers have appeared in major air ports around China. During this period, some smugglers who took chances to think that the border inspection would be relaxed due to the Spring Festival but they were wrong.

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What’s wrong?

 

At noon on February 7 (the third day of the Chinese New Year), it was the peak of the inflow of passengers and the check-in hall of Chengdu Airport was full of passengers. In the queue, a foreign passenger constantly looked around and changed the queue several times. The suspicious behavior caused the attention of the police on duty.

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“Hello, please show your passport.” After repeated inspections by the police, the passport and Chinese visa of the passenger are true and valid.

“Are you traveling alone in China? Where do you live? Is there a friend to pick you up?” The police asked the passengers. 

 

Perhaps because of the guilty conscience, the passenger was very nervous when asked by the police. He answered the question and started sweating on his forehead.

A fake British visa was found

In order to ensure the rapid clearance of the passengers behind, the police handed over the passengers to the branch and reported his judgment. After the inspection of the passenger’s luggage, the police found clothes throughout the year and a large number of cooking utensils.

 

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The passenger’s purpose of entry was obviously suspicious, but he still insisted on traveling to China. After repeated inspections, a fake British visa was found in the trunk of the suitcase.

2 people were repatriated 

during the Spring Festival

“We have already punished and deported the passenger according to law.” Ge Fanjie, the duty officer of the entry and exit said. 

 

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The foreign passenger finally admitted that he wanted to use the illegal way to sneak into the UK from Chengdu, and said that he thought the border inspection would be relaxed because of the Spring Festival, .

Ge told reporters that during the Spring Festival, 33 people were investigated and punished for violations of laws and regulations, and 2 people were repatriated. The nationality of this foreign traveler is currently unknown until we posted this article.