• Female Lawyer Plans to Cross 13 Countries by Piloting a Plane

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  Chen Jingxian from southeast China's Sichuan Province has made plans to travel across the world by piloting a plane, local media reported on July 27.

• Beijing doles out cash rewards for exiting chemical plants

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  Beijing is offering cash rewards as an incentive for chemical plants that leave the nation's capital. Eighty hazardous chemical plants should be out of the city by 2018, the local work safety watchdog said on Thursday.

• Shanghai Dama Defends Stranger from Mob Attack

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  An anonymous Shanghai heroine aged around 60 stepped forward to bravely protect a stranger from being beaten up by attackers late at night on July 6. Video footage of the event was posted online and quickly went viral.

• Harvard Graduate Praises China after Multiple Overseas Journeys

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  It is no secret that the Chinese are obsessed with the Ivy League, Harvard especially. Recently, netizen gossip moved in the direction of a speech entitled The State in Strength, The Youth in Strength by Xu Jiru, who recently graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.

• Charitable Woman, 84, Shows Her Love by Making 700 Bed Sheets

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  An 84-year-old caring woman from Hangzhou, the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, has made more than 700 bed sheets by hand and free of charge to convey her love to others over the past few years.

• Heroic Nurse Saves Life on City Sidewalk

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  An off-duty nurse who saved the life of a woman who fell from the top of an elevated highway earlier this month said: "I just did my job."

• Chinese put 'happy' before gymnastics

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  In a room full of bright-colored cubes and giant mattresses, giggling children climb bars, try somersaults and walk gingerly on a low balance beam. Some stand on their hands, showing off their bellies under the guidance of four coaches.

• Five killed when new seaplane veers into a bridge

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  At least five people were killed and another five injured in a seaplane crash on Wednesday in Shanghai.

• Loving Couple Bloom with 'Largest Private Garden in China'

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  A Chinese couple have created a garden of over 80 hectares, with more than 600 varieties of flowers, which has been hailed as the "largest private garden in China."

• Chinese Woman, 21, Wins Internship at UN Headquarters

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  Wei Chang, a 21-year-old from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has been working as an intern at the UN headquarters in New York, after standing out from competitors from around the world to win the position earlier this June.