HOW TO LIVE BETTER
Read the concise How To Live Better guide online: 34 chapters and 640 suggestions about health, safety, money and everyday choices. Use the chapter directory, search and evidence filters to find relevant topics; you do not need to read in order or act on every suggestion.
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How To Live Better is a guide to everyday decisions by eternity4719. Its original Chinese title is 高性价比人生指南, which conveys a guide to getting more value from life. Value here means weighing benefits against money, time, effort and risk, rather than simply spending less or prescribing one lifestyle for everyone.
This reader is based on the September 30, 2026 concise PDF and contains 34 chapters and 640 suggestions. It preserves the headings, key points, evidence grades and disputed points. It is not the full book. Ellipses reflect omissions in the source; each entry links to the original explanation and references, which may be in Chinese.
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This site translated the same concise edition into English. Both versions use matching chapter and entry numbers so you can compare them. The translation does not turn China-specific costs, services or rules into advice for every country.
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Chapter 01
This chapter covers fatal accidents and injuries such as traffic crashes, fires and poisoning; a few vaccines and screening tests with particularly strong evidence; and symptoms worth getting checked. The benefit figures come from randomized trials, long-term studies following large populations, or official statistics.
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Wearing a front-seat belt roughly halves the risk of being killed in a crash; in the front of a light truck, the reduction is about 60%. Among people who died in US vehicles in 2022 whose belt use was known, half were not…
A properly fastened helmet reduces a motorcyclist's risk of death in a crash by about 40%, and head injuries by about 70%. Tighten the strap; a helmet resting loosely on your head does not count.
A working smoke alarm can reduce the risk of death in a house fire by about 60%. Around 40% of people are asleep when a fire starts; smell alone will not wake them reliably.
A compliant hose costs tens of yuan. Replacing it when due is a user obligation under China's Urban Gas Management Regulations. Altering pipes or removing gas meters yourself is expressly prohibited.
In 2025 alone, China recorded 828 mushroom-poisoning incidents, affecting 2,165 people and killing 13. Another 34 previously unrecorded poisonous mushroom species were identified that year.
Taking electric bicycles into corridors or elevators, or charging them at home, is expressly prohibited by China's fire-safety regulations for high-rise residential buildings.
Each 10 mmHg reduction in blood pressure reduces major cardiovascular events by about 20%, stroke by 27%, heart failure by 28%, and mortality by 13%.
A blood test costing tens of yuan can identify prediabetes before symptoms appear. The US official screening recommendation covers overweight or obese adults aged 35 to 70.
Each 1% increase in average speed raises the risk of a fatal crash by about 4%. There is no safe threshold at which a little alcohol is harmless; risk starts rising even at low blood-alcohol levels.
Car seats reduce fatal injury risk by about 70% for infants under one and about 50% for children aged one to four. Holding a child offers no comparable protection; you cannot hold on during sudden braking.
A pair of restrictors costs tens of yuan. After New York City supplied high-risk households with free window guards and education, reported child falls in one district halved over three years.
People wearing a life jacket when they fall into water have roughly half the drowning risk. Drowning remains the leading cause of death for children aged one to 14 in China.
Balance exercises such as tai chi two or three times a week reduce falls by about 23% and the number of people who fall by 15%. Non-slip surfaces and handrails at home can reduce falls by another roughly 20%.
Testing costs tens of yuan. In the 30-year Qidong trial, people vaccinated at birth had an 84% lower risk of primary liver cancer and a lower prevalence of hepatitis B infection…
Once tetanus develops, about one in ten patients dies. Deep and soil-contaminated wounds carry the greatest risk. A dirty wound with at least five years since the last dose calls for a booster.
In data on 1.67 million Swedish women, those vaccinated before age 17 later had about one eighth the risk of invasive cervical cancer compared with those not vaccinated.
Mammography every two years for women aged 40 to 74 is expressly recommended in US official screening guidance.
In a rural Indian trial, women who had just one lifetime HPV test had roughly half the risk of dying from cervical cancer and about 50% less late-stage cervical cancer.
A stool blood test costing tens of yuan every one or two years reduces colorectal-cancer mortality by about 16%; among those screened at least once, the reduction was 25%.
In a trial of vaccination after a heart attack, one-year mortality fell from 4.9% to 2.9%.
In phase-three trials, the vaccine prevented 97% of shingles cases, with similar results across age groups. The drawback is two doses costing 3,000 to 4,000 yuan out of pocket. That buys a 97% reduction in incidence.
In a trial of 84,500 older adults, the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine prevented about 46% of pneumonia caused by covered strains and 75% of the most dangerous invasive infections.
In a 22-year trial in Linqu, Shandong, people whose H. pylori was eradicated later had roughly half the risk of stomach cancer and about 40% lower stomach-cancer mortality.
Eligible heavy smokers receiving annual low-dose CT had 20% lower lung-cancer mortality and 6.7% lower overall mortality than those receiving chest X-rays alone.
Evidence for removing lethal means is growing: restricting painkillers reduced related suicides by 43%; installing barriers at common jumping locations reduced them by 86%.
All four are on China's Ministry of Emergency Management list of 11 household emergency supplies. A set costs a few hundred yuan and is a one-time purchase.
After one episode of visible blood in urine, around 2.8% of people over 60 were ultimately diagnosed with bladder cancer; among those aged 40 to 59, the figure was about 1.2%.
Men with erectile dysfunction later have about 40% more cardiovascular disease and 60% more heart attacks. The difference is greater in younger men. This problem often appears before chest pain.
Managing cardiovascular risk factors can improve erectile function itself. Average questionnaire scores rise by two to three points; the scale totals 25, with scores of 22 or above considered normal.
Consistent condom use reduces heterosexual HIV transmission by more than about 70%. Using them most of the time offers little improvement over not using them. They also protect against syphilis and gonorrhea.
HIV testing at China's disease-control centers is free. National testing rules prohibit staff from disclosing your name, address or test results.
Nearly half of people who survived a suicide attempt reported no more than ten minutes between the thought and the act. Often the immediate challenge is getting through those few tens of minutes.
Paraquat has no antidote, and more than 40% of those who ingest it cannot be saved. It inflames and progressively scars the lungs, with kidney and liver damage as well.
Only 5.5% of people admitted to a trauma ICU after falling from a height died, but injuries were severe and treatment prolonged.
Among carefully screened, formally monitored kidney donors, 31 per 10,000 developed end-stage kidney disease over 15 years, compared with four per 10,000 equally healthy non-donors.
Radiation has no smell, color or temperature. Many radioactive sources look like ordinary pieces of metal, so looking harmless is not a reliable test.
People treated in hospital for gambling problems had 15 times the suicide mortality of their peers and 1.8 times overall mortality. Depression was a warning signal for subsequent suicide.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis means taking an antiviral before infection. Consistent users can reduce infection risk by over 70%; intermittent users gain little protection.
Chapter 02
This chapter includes chronic risks with a large effect on overall mortality or strong evidence, ranked by cost-effectiveness. Randomized trials compare randomly assigned groups and provide the most reliable results here. Other figures come from observational studies that follow people without assigning treatments.
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Smokers live more than ten years less on average than non-smokers. Quitting before 40 removes about 90% of the excess mortality risk from continuing. The earlier you quit, the more you regain.
Around 600,000 people worldwide die from secondhand smoke each year; nearly 30% are children. Long-term exposure raises hypertension, heart disease and stroke risks by roughly 30%.
Most people cannot quit by enduring cravings alone. Varenicline more than doubles cessation rates versus placebo. Nicotine patches or gum raise success by about 50% compared with no medication.
At six months, 22% of people who stopped abruptly on a planned date remained smoke-free, compared with 15.5% of those who gradually reduced their smoking.
Medication and regular follow-up are separate tools that work best together. Those receiving both were almost twice as likely to quit as people given only brief advice.
Switching to nicotine e-cigarettes produced about 60% more successful quits than nicotine patches, a well-supported finding. They are not harmless, and long-term safety data are still lacking.
People drinking more than two bottles of sweet drinks daily had about 20% higher mortality during follow-up than those who rarely drank them. One to two bottles also meant an increase of over 10%.
Betel-nut users had about 20% higher mortality during follow-up and nearly 50% higher risks of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Oral and esophageal cancer risks are additional.
Among stroke survivors or people over 60 with hypertension, switching to low-sodium salt reduced five-year mortality by about 12% and stroke by about 14%.
Daily floss or interdental-brush users had about 10% lower mortality during follow-up. Older adults with no teeth had about 90% higher mortality; those with fewer than 20 teeth had roughly twice the risk.
People taking 5,800 steps daily had about 40% lower mortality during follow-up than those taking 3,500. At 7,800 steps, the reduction was about 45%.
Each 10 mmHg blood-pressure reduction cuts mortality by about 13% and stroke by about 27%. Lowering LDL cholesterol by one unit with statins reduces mortality by about 10%.
Those consistently sleeping under seven hours had about 10% higher mortality during follow-up. Irregular schedules added risk; the most regular sleepers had 20% to nearly 50% lower risk than the least regular.
Those brisk-walking 150 to 300 minutes weekly had about 30% lower mortality during follow-up than inactive people. Even less reduced it by 20%. At three to five times that amount, the reduction plateaued near 40%.
Regular tennis, badminton or table-tennis players had roughly half the mortality during follow-up and 56% lower cardiovascular mortality than non-players. Swimmers had about 28% lower mortality.
Otherwise inactive people doing three daily bursts of one or two minutes had about 40% lower mortality during follow-up and nearly half the cardiovascular mortality of those doing none.
People strength-training 30 to 60 minutes weekly had 10% to 20% lower mortality during follow-up. More was not necessarily better; combining strength and aerobic exercise worked best.
Those sitting the most had 2.6 times the mortality during follow-up of those sitting the least. Long uninterrupted sitting adds a separate risk.
Those eating the most processed meat had about 20% higher mortality during follow-up than those eating the least. An additional daily serving also raised risk by 20%.
Above 100 g of pure alcohol weekly, higher consumption was linked to earlier death. That amount is roughly 2.5 liters of beer.
Abruptly stopping heavy daily drinking can cause withdrawal: tremors, sweating, palpitations and insomnia in milder cases, or seizures and delirium tremens in severe cases. These can be fatal emergencies.
A few minutes reviewing intake, risks and a target with a doctor reduced average weekly consumption after one year by 20 g of alcohol, roughly half a liter of beer. Longer conversations offered no extra benefit.
Regular nut eaters had about 20% lower mortality during follow-up than non-eaters. Once weekly already showed about a 10% difference; a daily handful showed the strongest difference.
Two additional weekly servings of processed or red meat were linked to about 3% higher mortality during follow-up. The same extra servings of fish or poultry showed no increase.
An extra 90 g of whole grains daily was linked to about 17% lower mortality during follow-up. That is roughly three servings; the decline continued up to around 200 g daily.
Habitual tea drinkers had about 15% lower mortality during follow-up. From age 50, they averaged 1.26 extra years of life and 1.41 extra years free of cardiovascular disease.
Those drinking three to four cups daily had about 17% lower mortality during follow-up than non-drinkers.
Each additional 200 g daily was linked to about 10% lower mortality during follow-up. Five portions versus two meant around 13% lower mortality; more did not reduce it further.
The highest consumers had about 20% higher mortality during follow-up and 50% higher cardiovascular mortality than the lowest. This evidence was rated uncertain, so treat the figures cautiously.
Coal or wood cooking was linked to about 10% higher mortality during follow-up, and heating with them to about 14% higher mortality. Those switching to electricity or gas had 13%–33… lower mortality than continuing users.
Very hot tea was linked to eight times the esophageal-cancer risk of warm tea; merely hot tea to twice the risk. Drinking within two minutes of pouring carried five times the risk of waiting at least four minutes.
Women who deliberately avoided sunlight had 0.6 to 2.1 years less life expectancy than those with the most exposure. Sun-avoiding non-smokers had similar longevity to smokers with the most exposure.
Mortality risk was lowest at BMI 20 to 25. At 27.5 to 30 it was about 20% higher, at 30 to 35 about 45% higher, and at 35 to 40 nearly doubled.
Those doing so had about 23% lower mortality during follow-up and roughly one-third lower cardiovascular mortality than those rarely eating chili.
Those having at least two servings daily had about 17% lower mortality during follow-up than those having none.
Each additional half a whole egg daily was linked to about 7% higher mortality during follow-up. Replacing that half with egg whites, fish, poultry or nuts was linked to lower risks across causes of death.
Near-daily bathers had about 28% lower cardiovascular-event risk and 46% lower cerebral-hemorrhage risk than those bathing fewer than twice weekly.
Naps under an hour showed no increase in mortality or chronic disease and somewhat better alertness. Longer naps were linked to about 30% more coronary disease and 20% more diabetes and obesity.
Those not recovering lost sleep the following night had about 15% higher mortality risk than regular sleepers; severe shortfall without recovery meant about 42% higher risk. Recovery showed no detectable increase.
Night workers had about 13% more cardiovascular disease and 27% more cardiovascular deaths. Each additional five years of night shifts added roughly 7% more cardiovascular disease.
Damp, moldy peanuts can contain aflatoxin, an established carcinogen that mainly harms the liver. After Guangzhou regulated small oil workshops, abnormal liver function among regular users of self-pressed oil fell about 35%.
Replacing saturated fats such as lard and butter with vegetable oils reduced heart disease and stroke events by about 17%, but showed no detectable change in overall mortality.
Chapter 03
This chapter counts energy and time: usable daily attention, reaction speed, mistakes and recovery after interruption. All figures are measured directly in experiments or studies following groups of people, known as cohort studies.
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A phone notification lowers attention-task performance even when you neither look at nor touch it. The effect is similar to actually taking a call or sending a message.
The least regular fifth of sleepers had body clocks about 2.5 hours later than the most regular fifth, effectively living with persistent jet lag. Students with more regular sleep schedules also had better grades.
Two weeks of six-hour nights brought cognitive performance down to the level of two nights without sleep. The problem is that people often do not notice the decline themselves.
A large coffee containing 400 mg of caffeine six hours before bed reduced objectively measured sleep by over an hour. Participants' own sleep diaries did not detect the difference.
The same people compared two weeks. In the week they checked email only three times daily, stress was noticeably lower despite sending and receiving the same number of messages.
An interruption averaging 2.8 seconds doubled the chance of an error in the next action. A 4.4-second interruption tripled it.
Switching tasks slows reactions and increases mistakes. Frequent multi-screen users had not developed better multitasking abilities; they performed worse on task-switching tests.
Reading a lit screen before bed delayed sleep by about ten minutes versus paper, suppressed melatonin by 55%, and shifted the next day's body clock by over 1.5 hours, increasing morning sleepiness and recovery time.
In 2025, people in China averaged 6.97 hours of nighttime sleep and fell asleep at 00:10. Pre-bed phone or tablet users were more than twice as likely to get insufficient sleep, and their daytime-sleepiness risk was…
Well-rested people quickly learn to avoid high-risk choices. After two sleepless nights, they repeatedly choose risky options instead, especially at older ages.
A ten-minute nap improves alertness immediately for up to 2.5 hours. Five minutes has little effect; a 20-minute nap takes about half an hour to show benefits.
Increasing background noise from 39 to 51 decibels reduced word recall, increased fatigue and lowered motivation.
Records from British munitions factories during World War I showed output proportional to hours up to 49 weekly. Beyond that, each extra hour produced progressively less additional work.
Repetitive rumination does not produce an answer. It worsens depression, entrenches negative thoughts, impairs problem-solving and action, and can wear out people willing to listen…
In a 20-year twin study, each increase in pessimism level was linked to about 13% higher mortality during follow-up and 20% higher cardiovascular mortality.
A draining person has a larger and more consistent negative effect than a supportive person's benefit. Remove sources of strain before adding support.
This lacks strong evidence. The original finding that making choices depletes willpower failed to replicate in two large-scale studies.
Reframing an event or taking the other person's perspective measurably reduces emotion, with perspective-taking more effective. Simply suppressing outward expression does not help.
For depression, brisk walking and jogging had the strongest effects, followed by yoga and strength training; higher intensity helped more. Light exposure works strongly for seasonal depression and also helps non-seasonal depression.
These workers operate under role-specific rules, paperwork, deadlines and oversight. Their manner has little connection with whether your matter gets handled or how quickly.
Habitually comparing yourself online with people doing better is linked to worse mood and lower self-esteem. Deactivating Facebook for four weeks slightly improved well-being but reduced knowledge of current events…
People entering a room in an embarrassing T-shirt thought nearly half the observers could identify the person printed on it. In reality, fewer than a quarter could.
People who feel others demand perfection and will reject them for falling short are more prone to suicidal thoughts. Self-imposed perfectionism has a much weaker link, only a third… of the former.
Activities that increase arousal, such as punching bags, smashing objects or running, do not generally reduce anger. Slow breathing, mindfulness and meditation noticeably reduce anger and the urge to act…
Expressive writing has a small average benefit, but reviews disagree; two found no effect. It costs almost nothing and may be worth trying.
Chapter 04
This chapter counts hours saved per day, week or year, or improvements in completing tasks on time. Time is not converted into lifespan or money. Where money is involved, a calculation method is provided rather than a universal conclusion.
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Replace “I will do this” with “At my desk at 8 a.m. Tuesday, I will start the introduction.” Across 94 tests, people using such plans achieved goals noticeably more often, a medium-to-large… effect.
Write a rule such as “If this metric is not reached by this date, stop.” Combined studies show this helps people disengage from goals they cannot achieve.
Money and time already invested make people more inclined to continue. Across 98 datasets, this tendency was consistent.
Students expected to finish a thesis in 33.9 days but actually took 55.5. Only 29.7% finished within their own estimate.
Meetings with advance agendas were more often considered useful. In an experiment, seated meetings lasted 34% longer than standing meetings without any difference in decision quality.
More meetings in a day meant greater fatigue and perceived workload. Canceling a meeting saves its full duration, without discount.
People do not automatically break tasks down when estimating time. Listing subtasks reduces underestimation, and smaller steps are easier to begin, reducing delay.
With externally imposed deadlines, 80.6% of students finished in time. Only 38.7% finished by their own predicted completion time.
Procrastination has little connection with laziness or personality. Stronger predictors are how unpleasant the task feels, confidence in completing it and susceptibility to immediate distractions.
People take less when items are farther away. Moving identical snacks farther away reduced intake with a moderate effect. Offering fewer choices also noticeably reduced taking them.
Rewards can be paid after success, or a deposit returned with a bonus after success. Among people willing to join either scheme, deposits raised success by 13 percentage points.
There is no basis for the “21-day habit” rule. In a 12-week study, becoming automatic took as little as 18 days or as long as 254.
Distressing procrastination can be treated. Ten weeks of cognitive-behavioral self-help, either guided or entirely independent, worked noticeably better than doing nothing.
People in China average one hour 17 minutes of housework daily; those actually doing it that day spend one hour 59 minutes. People paying to save time report higher life satisfaction.
People in China average five hours 37 minutes online daily; those online that day average six hours three minutes. The comparable figure in 2018 was only two hours 42 minutes.
Americans aged 15 and above watch 2.6 hours of TV daily, half their leisure time. People in China average one hour 40 minutes, while those aged 75 to 84…
Most long-term Word users still click toolbar icons. Controlled experiments found keyboard shortcuts faster than both menus and icons.
Longer commuters report worse well-being, and higher wages or better housing do not compensate for the loss. Cutting 30 minutes each way saves five hours weekly.
Chapter 05
This chapter counts money saved, annual differences in returns and long-term average returns, without converting them into lifespan or time. Investment entries explain calculations using verified historical data; they are not investment advice.
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This saves subscriptions you stopped using but still pay for monthly. Reviewing automatic payments in Alipay, WeChat, Apple and Android takes under 20 minutes.
Refunds are common if you worked only part of the year, changed jobs, or omitted deductions for children's education, mortgage interest, rent or elder support. It takes roughly ten to twenty minutes on a phone.
The new Chinese regulations list nine withdrawal situations, including renting, renovating your own home and paying property-management fees.
Older plans often cost tens of yuan more monthly than new ones, wasting hundreds annually. Without a valid reason, carriers may not refuse number portability or delay…
Chinese rules require at least 50% of number-lottery sales to be paid as prizes; the Double Color Ball lottery pays 51%.
Regulators say to question returns above 6%, consider those above 8% very dangerous, and prepare to lose all principal above 10%.
Minimum repayments are not a discount: they are loans with daily interest equivalent to around 18% annually. Using them removes the interest-free period and charges interest on outstanding principal throughout.
Chinese gamers spend about 480 yuan each annually on average, usually unrecoverable. The law allows refunds for minors' spending without parental approval, but adults do not have that protection…
If spending is clearly disproportionate to a child's age and understanding, and parents neither approved nor ratified it, the transaction is invalid and a refund can be sought.
These six scams differ in approach but always end by asking the child to transfer money using a parent's phone or read out a verification code.
Extended warranties usually cost 10% to 50% of the product price. Their profit margin is more than ten times that of ordinary products.
China's second procurement round cut prices by 53% on average and up to 93%. By April 2026, 11 rounds had covered 490 medicines.
Once linked, your personal employee-insurance balance can cover your spouse, parents and children. Without linking, it remains usable only by you.
Beijing's first-tier water rate is about 0.005 yuan per liter. Bottled water at one yuan per 500 ml costs two yuan per liter, a 400-fold difference.
The most frequent traders averaged annual returns of 11.4%, versus 17.9% for the market. Trading costs consumed almost all of the gap of over six percentage points.
If borrowed stock investments fall below the threshold and you cannot add funds, positions are forcibly sold. Paper losses become real immediately, without the chance to wait for a recovery.
Active funds' combined holdings already resemble the whole market. Their additional management fees are deducted directly from your returns.
Each additional annual percentage point in fees reduces the amount you receive by about 18% after 20 years and 26% after 30.
If assets do not move perfectly together, diversification can reduce fluctuations without changing average expected returns.
Each yuan contributed saves tax at your marginal rate minus 3%. Contributing the full 12,000 yuan saves 840 yuan at a 10% rate and 204… at a 20% rate.
In three years of US data, members choosing contracts above 70 dollars monthly attended only 4.3 times monthly on average, paying over 17 dollars per visit.
Businesses accepting prepayments must sign a contract explaining refunds. Serious operating difficulties should trigger a halt to collections, with advance notice of closure or relocation.
This saves purchases you no longer want the next day. Under Chinese online-shopping rules, eligible goods can be returned without a reason within seven days of receipt.
People anchor judgments to the first number seen and adjust insufficiently afterward. “Originally 999, now 499” therefore systematically makes the bargain look bigger…
The insurer does not guarantee dividend and return components. Documents must state in bold that future policy dividends are non-guaranteed benefits.
When liable, China's compulsory cover pays up to 180,000 yuan for death or disability, 18,000 for medical expenses and 2,000 for property damage. These limits are separate and cannot be transferred between categories.
Accessible savings cover unemployment or illness without loans charging 18% annual interest or selling investments at a loss…
Early repayment effectively earns a certain return equal to the mortgage rate. Compare it with sustainable after-tax investment returns: if those are higher, repayment can wait; if lower or uncertain, repay.
Under Chinese consumer law, fraud can require compensation of three times the purchase price, with a 500-yuan minimum. A platform knowingly tolerating infringement can share liability.
Not knowing whom to sue is a common dead end. You can demand the livestream operator's and promoter's information and relevant business records from the platform.
Keep expired or spoiled food, packaging and receipts as evidence. You can seek ten times the price or three times losses, with a minimum of 1,000 yuan.
China inspected 25,250 product batches in 2024; 14.3% failed. Online channels were worse: of 7,297 batches, 23.5% failed.
Prices include consumption tax: watches costing at least 10,000 yuan each carry 20%; gold, silver, platinum and diamond jewelry 5%; other jewelry and jade 10%. VAT is additional…
Certificates can be forged, so verify the institution issuing them. Laboratories providing public reports require accreditation and must print the CMA mark.
Sellers must prominently show rules, odds and limited-edition quantities; manipulating outcomes or including empty boxes is prohibited. Guaranteed rewards and spending or draw limits are merely encouraged.
Chinese law requires ingredient lists only for prepackaged food. Loose-food counters need only show the name, production date, shelf life and producer.
People instinctively sell winners and hold losers. Seven years of records from 10,000 US accounts showed winners over 50% more likely to be sold; the same investors preferred adding to losing positions.
The Shanghai exchange studied 40 million accounts during the 2014–2015 boom and bust. The smallest 85% of household accounts earned less through frequent trading than by holding…
From May 2026, offshore brokers such as Tiger, Futu and Longbridge may not open accounts for mainland residents. Existing accounts have two years for sales and withdrawals only, not new purchases.
Part of premiums funds insurer costs and profits, so not all is paid back. Insurance is worthwhile for rare losses a household could not afford, such as serious illness or injuring someone while driving…
Term life covers a fixed period and pays the family if the insured dies during it. It supports dependents, for example while the mortgage is unpaid or children are young.
Such policies have cooling-off periods. For bank-sold policies, the period is 15 days from receipt, with at most ten yuan in processing charges deducted.
Banks may sell insurance but may not describe it as a deposit. The cover must prominently say “insurance contract” and name the insurer, without “deposit” or “savings.”
Online agents promising full refunds with no fee on failure are often unlawful. They take 30% to 50% of refunds and request ID documents, bank cards and verification codes.
Without a beneficiary, or if they die first, proceeds enter the estate and settle the deceased's debts first. Naming “my wife, [name]” followed by divorce is treated as no designation when the insured event occurs.
Chapter 06
This chapter examines things that look cheap and effective but whose original studies show near-zero, zero or negative benefits. Priority depends on how much people spend and how strong the evidence is; earlier entries are worth stopping first.
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Fourteen thousand male doctors took multivitamins for 11 years. Major cardiovascular events and deaths were no less frequent than among non-users.
Two large trials included 26,000 people and 15,000 people with diabetes. One gram daily did not reduce major cardiovascular events or deaths versus no fish oil.
Among people without deficiency, five years of supplementation did not reduce cancer, cardiovascular disease or deaths.
This is not merely ineffective. Across 78 trials involving nearly 300,000 people, antioxidant users had slightly higher mortality.
After 24 weeks, 60% of placebo users reported less pain. Glucosamine or chondroitin improved that by only four or five percentage points, small enough to be chance.
Daily vitamin C generally does not prevent colds, and starting after symptoms has inconsistent effects. Daily use shortens a cold by about 8%, roughly half a day; whether that merits a year's three-to-five…
Asymptomatic screening mostly produces false alarms. Over 80% of whole-body CT users had at least one abnormal finding and nearly 40% were recalled, but most findings were benign.
On the same diet and exercise program, overweight tracker users lost 3.5 kg over two years, versus 5.9 kg among those without trackers.
There is no strong evidence of greater nutritional value. Only three studies examined health after consumption, and none found a difference.
China's supplement regulator requires packaging to state that health foods are not medicines and cannot replace medicines for treating disease.
Across 45 trials in healthy adults, probiotics did not permanently change gut bacteria; stopping restored the original state. Blood lipids did not improve either.
In a 3,018-person trial, cold-shower users took sick leave 29% less often, but total sick days were unchanged, so they were not necessarily less ill.
The detox industry is large, but supporting clinical evidence is sparse. Commercial detox diets have not been rigorously tested.
An investigation of this rule found no supporting study. Food and other drinks already provide substantial water, so that much additional water is unnecessary.
In a classic classroom experiment, everyone received an identical “personalized” personality analysis, yet most judged it accurate. The same mechanism makes fortune-telling seem correct.
Blue-light lenses cost hundreds to over a thousand yuan extra without benefit. Compared with ordinary lenses, they did not improve eye fatigue or visual clarity, and no retinal protection was established.
Claims that donation detoxifies or prevents heart attacks are unreliable. Regular donors are healthier to begin with; adjusting for this reduced the mortality association per extra annual donation from nearly 20% to 7.5%…
Regular generic checkups did not reduce overall, cardiovascular or cancer mortality. Use the specific screenings supported for your age and sex.
For elevated uric acid without gout attacks or tophi, the American College of Rheumatology recommends initially avoiding medication. Twenty-four people must take it for three years to prevent one attack.
Most people with painless gallstones never develop symptoms. In an Italian study following 580 such people for nearly nine years, 78% remained symptom-free.
People with calcium-oxalate stones are often told to cut calcium, but trials show the opposite. Men with recurrent stones who ate normal calcium while reducing animal protein and salt had five-year recurrence only… of the low-calcium group.
No verifiable evidence supports these claims. As with fortune-telling, sufficiently vague statements let you supply the personal fit yourself.
Greater materialism is linked to lower happiness, but weakly and without establishing causation. Other research finds experiences make people happier than objects.
Among people with equal incomes, higher-earning neighbors were linked to lower reported happiness, but only when neighbors had similar education and regular contact.
The popular claim says one act of self-control weakens the next. Twenty-three laboratories with 2,141 participants repeated the experiment using a common protocol; the result…
The claim is that skipping breakfast causes overeating later. Trials found the opposite: breakfast skippers ate over 200 fewer calories daily and weighed slightly less.
No study says masturbation damages health. A large US study instead found about 20% less prostate cancer among men ejaculating more often.
An American Psychological Association panel found that conversion does not change orientation and may cause harm. A US survey found nearly 90% more suicidal thoughts among those subjected to it.
Chapter 07
This chapter counts money and support: benefits, waived costs, available services and eligibility. It does not convert them into lifespan. Policies change yearly and vary locally; use your area's published current amounts and thresholds.
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In China, after employer and employee contributions for at least one year and involuntary job loss, registering unemployment permits benefits. One to under five years of contributions allows up to 12 months.
Call China's 12333 or complain to local labor inspection. An accepted case is investigated within 60 working days; employers can be ordered to pay, with overdue nonpayment attracting an additional 50…
Unpaid wages, maintenance, social-insurance or minimum-living benefits, and losses from helping others qualify for free legal aid. Call China's 12348 or visit the local legal-aid center.
China's assistance stations provide food, shelter, medical referral and family contact, plus tickets home if needed. Stays usually last at most ten days. Entry and departure are voluntary; no cash is paid.
Public employment centers and labor markets provide job matching, career guidance, policy advice and employment or unemployment registration free of charge.
If fire, a crash or sudden serious illness overwhelms basic living needs, apply to the township government or neighborhood office. Existing minimum-living-benefit status is not required.
Household per-person income must fall below the local threshold and assets meet local rules. At the end of 2024, China's average urban standard was 798.1 yuan per person monthly; rural…
Disabled people in minimum-living-support households may receive a living allowance. Those with grade-one or grade-two disabilities needing long-term care may receive a care allowance. Both can be claimed together.
Individuals pay from 400 yuan yearly, with roughly 700 yuan per person in government subsidy. Extremely disadvantaged people receive full contribution support; minimum-living recipients receive fixed subsidies.
Follow the prescribed order. Before cross-province hospitalization, register through China's National Healthcare Security Administration WeChat account so discharge costs settle directly without full upfront payment.
Replacement cards are issued within 60 days of application. Temporary cards can be requested immediately, issued within three days and remain valid for three months.
Once recognized, self-paid social-insurance contributions may be subsidized, generally up to two thirds of actual payments for at most three years.
Eligible training and certificates attract subsidies, up to three claims per person, so you need not bear training costs yourself.
People receiving job-search coaching were 2.67 times as likely to find work. Useful elements included concrete search skills, presenting yourself clearly, explicit goals and proactive outreach…
Employers may not retain your ID, collect deposits or charge under other names. Intermediaries must refund their fees if they do not secure a job.
You must lack local housing or have less than the space standard, and meet income and asset limits. Migrant workers also need the required duration of stable local employment. Waiting periods are locally published.
In China's 2025 per-person spending, food was 29.3% and housing 21.7%, together over half. Reducing those two is most effective.
Pension eligibility counts total rather than consecutive years; gaps do not reset it. Under the source's rule, 15 accumulated years at retirement age allow monthly benefits.
Released prisoners may not face discrimination in employment, education or social insurance, and governments help those in hardship resettle. Records for offenses committed under 18 with sentences under five years are sealed; military service and job searches…
This covers costs left after public insurance and losses from stopping work. Without an explicit renewal guarantee, the product may be withdrawn or cost more next year.
Airport and railway waiting areas offer toilets and power for an overnight emergency, but no official evidence establishes safety. Keep belongings close, refuse strangers' food or drinks and avoid isolated corners.
Chapter 08
This chapter counts money and personal freedom, not lifespan. It covers legal liabilities, avoidable financial losses and procedural rights. Article numbers were checked against official texts. The largest potential losses with the simplest preventive actions come first.
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Under the source's Chinese-law account, fleeing defaults to full responsibility, revokes your license permanently and voids vehicle-damage and third-party cover, leaving potentially hundreds of thousands of yuan payable yourself.
The short interval after transfer is the only window. Police can suspend payments and freeze funds, with banks required to cooperate. Once money is dispersed through layers, recovery is unlikely.
If asked to transfer money, share a screen, install an unfamiliar app, click a link or read a code, hang up and call an official number to verify.
Seeing or hearing someone is insufficient. For any transfer, call back using an established number from your own contacts or check with a mutual acquaintance.
You can engage a lawyer from the first questioning. A detention center must arrange requested access within 48 hours, without monitoring the conversation. You may decline questions unrelated to the case.
Voluntary surrender can reduce sentencing by up to 40%, with exemption for minor circumstances. Truthful admission after discovery can reduce it by up to 20%. Fleeing or denial gains neither.
In China, drink-driving can mean six months' license suspension and a 1,000-to-2,000-yuan fine; repeat offenses add detention and revocation. Drunk-driving revokes the license, bars retesting for five years and creates a criminal record affecting background checks and…
Renting, lending or selling these accounts is itself unlawful. Fines are one to ten times illegal gains, or up to 200,000 yuan without gains; more serious cases…
Use China's central-bank credit-reporting website or mobile banking; the check takes ten minutes. Avoid third-party credit-check apps, which…
Assault can mean five to ten days' detention and a 500-to-1,000-yuan fine. Group assaults, attacks on vulnerable people or repeated assaults mean ten to 15 days and 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.
Stopping an ongoing unlawful attack on yourself or others can be legitimate defense even if injury results. Against violent assault, murder, robbery, rape or kidnapping, injuring or killing the attacker is not treated as excessive defense.
The worst result through legal channels is unrecovered money. Revenge can leave the money unrecovered while costing your own life.
Even without injuries, dangerous-method public endangerment starts at three years. If someone dies, punishment can be over ten years, life imprisonment or death.
The window between thought and action can be short. Among 82 suicide-attempt survivors, 47.6% reported at most ten minutes between first thought and action.
If a family member makes such threats, close relatives may take them directly to hospital, which may not refuse diagnostic assessment.
Public insults or defamatory rumors can bring up to five days' detention or a fine up to 1,000 yuan; serious cases bring five to ten days.
Your signature counts. “I did not read it” or “I thought it was something else” rarely stands in court. Read fully, ask about unclear points and keep photographs.
Include lender, borrower, amount, interest, term, repayment method and both signatures. Transfer funds rather than paying cash to support any later claim.
The civil period begins when you know your rights were harmed. Courts do not raise expiry themselves, but the opponent can; the debt remains while recovery may fail…
Transferring homes to companies or money to relatives is specifically covered by refusal-to-enforce offenses, with up to three years, or three to seven in particularly serious cases.
Spending restrictions and defaulter listings are distinct. Listings require one of six qualifying situations and have a two-year term under the source's account.
Platforms often act fastest using deposits and sanctions. Fraud of at least 3,000 yuan meets the criminal filing threshold; smaller cases may receive administrative detention of five to…
Once money is handed over, it generally cannot be recovered. Unconditional revocation is normally possible only before ownership transfers to the recipient.
Chinese law prohibits extracting property through marriage. Returns can be sought without registration, without actual cohabitation after registration, or when premarital payments caused the payer hardship.
Premarital assets do not become jointly owned just because the marriage lasts. Spouses may agree in writing to separate ownership of assets before and during marriage.
Bigamous marriages are invalid. Marrying while already married, or knowingly marrying someone with a spouse, can mean up to two years' imprisonment.
Appliance repairs must disclose fees and provide receipts and invoices. Invented faults or deliberate replacement of working parts are prohibited; serious cases attract fines up to 30,000 yuan.
The law assumes the registered legal representative is responsible. Being merely a figurehead who knew nothing is not an exemption.
China's consular advice says not to carry others' luggage, particularly prohibited items or things you do not understand.
Owners generally pay for dog injuries regardless of personal fault. Only proof of the victim's intent or gross negligence may reduce or remove liability.
An unconscious or sleeping person cannot consent; sex in that situation is legally rape, with a basic sentence of three to ten years.
Threats of reporting or sending images to obtain money constitute extortion. Preserve everything and report immediately; a first payment usually invites a second.
Inventing allegations to trigger criminal or administrative punishment is itself unlawful. The PDF's summary states up to five days' detention or a fine up to 1,000 yuan.
Criminal procedure requires evidence verified through lawful procedures and proof beyond reasonable doubt from the whole case. Without that, acquittal is required.
Eligible wrongful detention can attract daily compensation. From May 18, 2026, the rate stated in the source is 495.94 yuan daily, one…
Claiming compensation from the wrongdoer has a legal basis and does not automatically become extortion merely because the requested amount is high.
Immediately enable platform protections, save evidence with quick-capture tools and report through shortcuts. You can then seek a court injunction to stop the conduct first.
Buying death-benefit insurance secretly for a family member makes the contract invalid. If the policyholder intentionally kills the insured, the insurer does not pay.
The receipt is your proof of reporting. Police declining a criminal filing should issue a written notice of non-filing.
Paying to settle a matter is a separate criminal offense, not only the recipient's wrongdoing. Bribery can bring up to three years' imprisonment.
Loans, debts, compensation, refunds and labor disputes may sound settled on a call, but without a record both sides can tell different stories months later.
A close-up alone may later reveal nothing about location. Start with a panorama showing the junction, address, vehicles, people and surroundings, then their positions…
Over a third of murdered women worldwide were killed by partners, often following prolonged abuse. Among abused women, prior strangulation was linked to a higher later homicide risk than no strangulation…
Courts do not protect gambling-table debts, or loans knowingly made for gambling. One spouse's gambling borrowing cannot automatically become a debt both must repay.
Chapter 09
This chapter counts personal freedom and money. Everyday acts people consider harmless can lead to detention, fines or imprisonment. Each entry gives statutory figures and cases published through official channels; the legal context is China.
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Knowingly sharing false reports is punished as seriously as creating them: five to ten days' detention and a 1,000-yuan… fine, even if someone else invented them.
Lesser offenses bring five to ten days' detention or fines of 1,000 to 3,000 yuan; more serious cases bring ten to 15 days.
The provisions described penalize dissemination rather than viewing. Reposting, group sharing and supporting comments can count as dissemination during investigation.
Private viewing is not covered by the cited penalty. One group post disseminates to the whole group, carrying ten to 15 days' detention and up to 5,000 yuan in fines; serious cases can mean up to two years' imprisonment.
Such work may earn hundreds of yuan but leave a criminal record. One person took an ID and one bank card to a specified location, assisted transfers and withdrawals, and earned over 500 yuan.
Packaging false loan applications for commission is treated as fraud. A 126-person group presented unemployed people as premium clients and obtained fraudulent loans from over 80 banks totaling 3000…
Keeping found property of a legally significant value and refusing to return it can mean up to two years' imprisonment; very large amounts mean two to five.
One genuine account claiming one coupon is outside the cited penalties. Fake users or self-dealing to obtain extra rewards constitute fraud; 3,000 yuan can bring three years…
Even without hitting anyone, throwing objects downward can bring five days' detention and a 1,000-yuan fine; serious cases mean ten to 15 days.
BB and air guns reaching muzzle energy of 1.8 joules per square centimeter are classified as firearms under the cited Chinese standard.
Unregistered flight can bring a fine up to 200 yuan, or 2,000 to 20,000 in serious cases. Unauthorized controlled-airspace flight can mean up to 500 yuan, with serious cases involving confiscation…
Secret filming, voyeurism and spreading private information can mean up to five days' detention or a fine up to 1,000 yuan; serious cases mean five to ten days.
Small-stakes play among friends and relatives is not targeted. Taking a cut or organizing for money changes the nature; substantial-stakes gambling can mean up to five days' detention or a fine up to 1,000 yuan.
Eating nationally protected wildlife leads to confiscation and fines of two to 20 times its value. Buying, transporting or selling rare endangered animals can mean up to five years, or five to ten in serious cases…
A real debt does not permit detention. The law expressly treats holding someone to collect a debt as unlawful confinement.
Lending, renting or transferring an ID brings a warning and fine up to 200 yuan. Using another's ID or a fraudulently obtained one brings 200 to 1,000 yuan or detention of 1…
Obstructing enforcement can bring a warning or fine up to 500 yuan, or five to ten days' detention in serious cases.
Under the source's Chinese-law account, sex with a girl under 14 is punished more severely as rape regardless of consent, with a basic three-to-ten-year sentence. Under 12, you are deemed to have known her age.
One assault can bring five to ten days' detention plus a 500-to-1,000-yuan fine. Legally classified minor injury makes it criminal, up to three years; serious injury means three to ten…
There is a lawful route: adoption registration through civil-affairs authorities. The adoption relationship exists only from registration.
Insurance fraud involving a legally significant amount can bring up to five years' imprisonment and fines from 10,000 to 100,000 yuan.
Living organs may be donated only to spouses, direct blood relatives or collateral relatives within three generations. Buying and selling are unlawful. In a Beijing case, a seller received over 20,000 yuan while the patient paid 18…
The default statutory penalty is ten to 15 days' detention, potentially plus a fine up to 5,000 yuan.
Chapter 10
This chapter separates money, time, health, legal risks and relationship quality. Each account uses traceable figures from official statistics or meta-analyses combining multiple studies. It makes no moral judgment and does not choose for you.
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Two speed-dating studies collected over 100 preference measures beforehand. They predicted who generally likes others or is generally liked, but not chemistry between a particular pair.
From January 2026, continuing messages or waiting for someone after explicit rejection is an administrative offense in China, carrying up to five days' detention or a fine up to 1,000 yuan.
After 52 stranger pairs talked for roughly ten minutes, they identified absence of flirting fairly accurately but struggled to detect actual flirting.
Your sense of their commitment and appreciation, and how often you argue, explain relationship quality better than the partner's external attributes.
Strangers alternating through 36 increasingly personal questions felt much closer after 45 minutes than those chatting casually for the same duration.
They can be more stable while apart because infrequent meetings encourage idealization. The real difficulty arises after moving together.
China registered 6.106 million marriages in 2024, about 20% fewer than the previous year, and 3.513 million divorces.
Married people had about 12% lower mortality during follow-up than unmarried people; never-married people had about 24% higher mortality than married people. Co-occurrence does not prove marriage caused the difference.
China's time-use survey puts daily unpaid housework and family care at one hour 52 minutes for men and three hours 29 minutes for women.
Without a written agreement, post-marriage wages, bonuses, business and investment returns, and inherited or gifted assets default to joint property under the source's account.
Before marriage, parental contributions default to their own child alone. Unspecified post-marriage contributions count as joint property. From February 2025, where one spouse's parents fund the full price without specifying it is solely for their…
If borrowing clearly exceeds everyday family expenses and you neither signed nor later accepted it, it is not automatically your debt.
From May 2025, applicants need ID and a declaration of no current spouse and no direct or collateral blood relationship within three generations…
Failure to disclose a serious illness allows the other spouse to seek annulment in court within one year of learning about it.
Better marriage quality is associated with better health, but the link is weak, comparable to dietary habits' association with health.
Either spouse can withdraw within 30 days of applying. After that, both must personally collect the divorce certificate within another 30 days or the application is deemed withdrawn.
Their peace of mind, social standing and relief from urging you are real benefits, but do not automatically improve your health or relationship quality.
Better couple relationships are linked to somewhat better health and lower mortality. The association is modest, comparable to that of diet and health.
Chinese legal close relatives include spouses, parents, children and siblings, not an unmarried partner. Without advance documents, one partner cannot make decisions for the other during serious illness.
Concealed orientation does not make the marriage invalid or voidable under the source's account. Convenience marriages also carry normal marital treatment of earnings and debts.
Chapter 11
This chapter counts personal freedom and money: avoiding imprisonment and financial liability. Technical workers may see these acts as merely technical issues, but they correspond to criminal offenses or specific civil damages in China.
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Ask whether the manufacturer, platform or company will report the matter. Server logs, payment records and group chats can all be obtained during investigation.
Sales to 20 users or gains of 5,000 yuan can bring up to three years; particularly serious cases bring three to seven.
Sending requests faster without modifying memory or cracking systems can still lead to conviction once gains reach 5,000 yuan or losses 10,000.
Data requiring login, tokens or signature cracking involves bypassing protection, carrying up to three years or three to seven in serious cases. Personal information adds further risk.
High-paying, vague commissions can make you an accomplice in a gambling operation: up to five years, or five to ten in serious cases, more severe than ordinary assistance capped at three years…
Employer-issued credentials do not authorize use after departure. Logging in may constitute unlawful control, carrying up to three years.
Even code you wrote may belong to the company; customer lists can be trade secrets. One employee taking security-system code to a new employer received five years and a fine of 50…
Unauthorized control of 20 devices can bring up to three years, or three to seven in particularly serious cases.
Authorization and what was obtained matter more than intent. Obtaining 500 ordinary credential pairs, gaining 5,000 yuan or causing 10,000 yuan in losses can bring three…
China's vulnerability rules also cover individuals. Before a vendor provides a fix, disclosure of the vulnerability or details affecting operating systems is prohibited.
Using unauthorized international channels can prompt disconnection orders, warnings, fines up to 15,000 yuan and confiscation of illegal gains.
Noncompetes last at most two years after departure and require monthly compensation. Without an agreed amount, it is 30% of average wages over the preceding 12 months…
Software relying mainly on company equipment, networks or business data, with the company bearing responsibility, belongs to it; you retain attribution. Contractual assignments can have the same effect.
Copyright damages are based on the owner's losses or your gains. Intentional serious infringement can lead to damages of one to five times the base amount.
Unnecessary collection is not permitted, and children under 14 need guardian consent. Violations first require correction and may result in app suspension.
Filing is free and generally takes weeks through a cloud provider. Mainland hosting without filing can prevent domain resolution and lead to closure; omitting the filing number on the homepage means fines of 5,000 to 50,000 yuan.
Services capable of influencing public opinion or mobilizing people require assessment and filing before launch, plus amendment or cancellation procedures when changed or stopped.
Chapter 12
This chapter counts money and legal responsibility, not lifespan. Which business decisions can expose your own, family or spouse's assets, and how can liabilities be separated beforehand? The most damaging yet easily avoided risks come first.
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Sole-trader debts are repaid from personal assets. If the business cannot be distinguished from a family operation, family property may be used too.
A joint-and-several guarantee lets the creditor bypass the company and demand payment from you. An ordinary guarantee requires proceeding against company assets first, then pursuing the remaining shortfall.
Sole traders and general partners repay all debts. Limited-company shareholders' liability is limited to their promised capital contributions.
Being registered makes you legally a shareholder. Promised capital must be paid on time; failure requires payment plus compensation for company losses.
The franchisor must operate two directly owned stores for at least one year and file with commerce authorities within 15 days of contracting.
Registration fees have been abolished since 2015. There are five material categories: application, identity or eligibility proof, premises documents, articles or partnership agreement, unnecessary for sole traders…
Unlicensed operation can mean closure, confiscation of gains and a fine up to 10,000 yuan. Exclusive goods, securities, futures, insurance or payment settlement may involve…
Producing food for sale, including snacks, cooked meats, baking or pickles, requires licensing. Selling only others' packaged food instead requires filing with market regulators at county level or above.
Packaged food requires a label with nine mandatory items, including production date and shelf life.
Ordinary foods cannot claim disease prevention or treatment. Except medical services, medicines and medical devices, advertising cannot claim treatment or use drug-like… wording.
Unlike monetary penalties, this can mean imprisonment. Diseased or failed-inspection meat, or serious pesticide, veterinary-drug or heavy-metal contamination, can be criminal if sufficient to cause serious poisoning, without…
No earnings still requires a return with zeros. Failure initially brings fines up to 2,000 yuan, or 2,000 to 10,000 for serious cases.
Small taxpayers under simplified assessment are exempt from VAT when monthly sales are below 100,000 yuan or quarterly sales below 300,000.
Tax authorities do not ask by phone for bank passwords, payment passwords or SMS codes, or give a private account for transferring taxes.
China distinguishes statutory earnest money from an ordinary advance deposit. With earnest money, your breach forfeits it and the other's breach requires double repayment. Any part above 20% of contract value lacks that treatment.
Without a written contract after the first month, double wages are payable from the second month until one year of employment.
Wages must be paid fully and on time. Employees can seek a court payment order for arrears. Oral raises, bonuses and advances leave the party lacking proof disadvantaged in disputes.
A study followed 116 new Italian firms for about a year. Founders testing hypotheses through market feedback performed better and changed direction more readily, without earlier…
The difference between one sample and a thousand units is where cash is tied up. Yield sets real cost, minimum orders and payment terms set upfront cash, and inventory sets when cash returns.
Selling counterfeits with gains of 30,000 yuan or sales of 50,000 can bring up to three years. Unsold inventory can count too.
Altering backgrounds or adding logos still uses another's work without consent. Commercial copying can trigger liability at gains of 30,000 yuan, production of 50,000 yuan, or…
For nurses, the regulations require immediate physician notification of critical illness and raising unlawful orders with the prescribing physician.
With no debts or unpaid wages, taxes or insurance, investors can declare eligibility and deregister after a 20-day notice without objections. Sole traders need no public notice and can deregister after ten objection-free days.
Chapter 13
This chapter explains what to do first, next and not at all. First-aid and wilderness entries count cause-specific deaths and survival; threats and scams count money and freedom. They are not converted into one another. Priority reflects frequency multiplied by the survival difference between right and wrong actions.
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You are most likely to help family: 79.2% of cardiac arrests occur at home. With bystander compressions, survival to discharge rose from 3.9% to 16.1%.
The focus is older relatives and familiar people. Check breathing first; if absent, follow entry one and perform firm chest compressions.
Call immediately for these stroke signs. Treatment to reopen a vessel within three hours makes regaining basic independence around 1.75… times as likely as no treatment.
Checking only face, arm and speech misses over 10% of strokes because some start without facial droop or arm paralysis.
A blocked retinal vessel damages more retina the longer it persists. It is also an ischemic warning, with elevated stroke risk over the following days.
These are signs of acute glaucoma. Blocked fluid drainage rapidly raises pressure and damages the optic nerve irreversibly; delays increase the damage.
Call for symptoms lasting over 15 minutes. Among patients whose vessel was reopened within 55 minutes of hospital arrival, 30-day mortality was 2.8%.
Say the pain feels tearing and travels downward. Mortality for this condition without surgery, using medication alone, was 58%.
Speed to peak matters. About 6% of severe headaches peaking within an hour involve bleeding from vessels on the brain's surface.
Blood may accumulate only around the third week, even after an initially uneventful bump the person forgot. Postsurgical recurrence can reach 33% and mortality 32%.
Get a leg-vein ultrasound promptly. Sudden breathlessness, pain on deep breathing, rapid heartbeat or dizziness may mean a clot has traveled to the lungs…
Apply firm hand or clothing pressure, then a limb tourniquet if needed and call 120. Do not loosen it once applied. Battlefield survival was 90% with application before shock versus only 10% afterward…
Rabies is almost 100% fatal after symptoms begin. Washing and vaccination are the preventive route: alternate soap and running water for 15 minutes, then vaccinate that day.
Doing this within three hours reduced later grafting risk to about 60% of the uncooled group. Use cool rather than ice water; icing worsens injury.
Tell the dispatcher “suspected anaphylaxis” so emergency staff bring adrenaline. The combination of rash with breathing difficulty or dizziness warrants this response.
Move hard objects away and position them on their side with the mouth downward. Do not restrain, force the mouth open or insert anything; that injures teeth and jaw.
Use sugar cubes or a small juice carton for 15 g. Check again after 15 minutes and repeat if still low.
Cut power or separate it with a dry stick before touching the person. Pulling them directly can create a second casualty.
Get everyone outside before calling. Do not remain to investigate or return to close a valve.
The PDF says not to induce vomiting because corrosives can burn the esophagus again. It advises some milk or egg white, then immediate hospital care with the container and instructions.
First remove contaminated clothes and shoes because trapped chemicals cause worse injury. Then rinse skin and eyes for at least 15 minutes; Hunan emergency-management guidance…
Hot red skin, slurred speech and confusion signal heatstroke. Dizziness can progress to coma in tens of minutes, with very high mortality.
Only conscious people should drink. Give 500 to 1,000 ml per hour in small amounts. Large quantities can cause vomiting and dangerous aspiration.
Crawl beneath smoke toward an exit. Feel the handle and door; if hot or leaking smoke, choose another route. Open slowly and shut immediately if thick smoke enters.
A drowning person may instinctively pull a rescuer underwater. Order: shout, call, offer a long pole or rope, then throw a life ring…
Ask whether they are choking and can speak. If they can cough forcefully or make sounds, let them cough. Otherwise alternate five back blows and five abdominal thrusts until the object comes…
The vehicle is your largest shade source. Send location before calling if there is signal, shelter, conserve water, avoid daytime movement and move only when cooler at night, and do not wander…
Below 35°C is hypothermia, with shivering, slurred speech, unsteadiness and confusion. Replace wet clothes with dry layers or a thermal blanket and warm the torso before hands or feet.
Immobilize the bitten limb and remove jewelry before swelling. Reach a hospital with antivenom, the only intervention reversing most venom effects.
In buildings constructed to post-2001 standards, if escape requires stairs and a lobby, shelter under a sturdy table, protect head and neck and hold a table leg.
Bears run fast uphill and downhill and both black and brown bears climb trees. Stand still, speak softly, then retreat sideways when the animal stops moving.
No outdoor location within a thunderstorm is safe. Convertibles, motorcycles, tents, gazebos, trees and overhanging rocks do not count as shelter.
The relevant altitude is where you sleep, not your daytime maximum. Risk begins above 2,450 meters. Above 3,000 meters, increase nightly sleeping altitude by only 500 meters…
Grip the head near the skin and pull steadily outward. Oil, burning or twisting may force pathogen-containing fluid into the skin and leave mouthparts behind…
The PDF states that waterborne microorganisms die within seconds at boiling temperature and an extra minute provides a margin for misjudgment, without extra boiling for altitude.
Do not fight or argue. The robber risks three to ten years for ordinary robbery, or over ten years up to death for armed or home robbery or serious injury or death.
Physical intervention can turn mediation into participation. Group fighting can mean up to three years, or three to ten for large, road-based or armed fights. Bystanders can be injured too.
Seventy-two hours is the deadline; ideally start within two hours. The course lasts 28 days.
Injured rescuers receive treatment before payment. The wrongdoer pays medical costs; if absent or unable to pay, basic medical insurance is used.
Removal can cause major bleeding and complicate assessment. Call 120, press around the object with hands or dressings, and stabilize it so it does not move.
Being able to stand or move does not exclude fracture; X-rays are needed. Support the injured part or immobilize it with a sling or rigid board in its existing position…
Chapter 14
This chapter counts money and personal information. Account intruders may steal money, impersonate you to contacts and effectively take your identity.
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A second check confirms identity beyond the password. Phone prompts requiring a tap blocked over 90% of phishing account theft in the cited evidence.
Stolen passwords from another site may unlock your email. Once email is compromised, every account recoverable through it can be lost too.
The SIM receives verification messages. A thief can move it to another phone, receive codes and reset your accounts one by one.
Order matters more than speed. Suspend the SIM to cut off codes, lock the phone, change email and payment passwords from a computer, then obtain a police receipt and assess…
You need not prove it was not you; the bank must prove it was. Without proof it must compensate, provided you promptly reported and froze the card upon discovery.
Logged-in devices are phones and computers that can still use your account. Intruders often remain dormant before acting.
If information is not necessary to provide the service, an app cannot refuse use because you decline it. Collection is limited to what the service needs.
Companies must honor these rights. They should delete data when service ends, retention expires or you withdraw consent.
If cards, passwords or ID can perform the same task, facial recognition cannot be the sole option. Refusal must not be met with “then you cannot use the service”…
Chapter 15
This chapter counts money. Deposits and agents are the common rental losses; mortgage interest and information known to the seller but not you are major purchase costs.
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Agree all three before signing. At move-out, a landlord cannot invent deduction grounds absent from the contract.
Chinese regulations prohibit these methods of forcing termination or departure. A police response record supports later compensation claims.
Regulations prohibit agents collecting and forwarding rent or deposits. Passing money through them creates another chance for them to disappear with it.
If it fails, both the deposit and remaining months' rent may vanish. A linked rent loan is worse: the operator disappears while your monthly repayments continue.
The new owner must honor the existing lease until expiry. You need not move or renegotiate the rent.
Common total losses involve paying a non-owner or a home already mortgaged and later seized. Check title and mortgages at the property-registration center first.
Purchase sums can range from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan. They must pass through the agent's dedicated bank account, not a personal WeChat transfer to the salesperson.
Basement storage rooms are also excluded. Enforcement against such housing may force you to move.
Chinese national rules expressly prohibit urban residents buying rural homestead land, farmers' homes or informal small-property-rights housing.
Chapter 16
This chapter counts overall mortality and money. A chronic diagnosis often leaves decades ahead; the question is how to manage them.
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People adhering to prescriptions had about half the mortality during follow-up of intermittent users. Treat that figure cautiously.
Hypertension, diabetes, outpatient cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy, uremic dialysis and post-transplant anti-rejection treatment can use insurance directly elsewhere without paying first and claiming back at home.
Trends over time matter more than single results. Record dates, measurements, medication and dose together.
Stopping has established harms while alternative benefits are uncertain, exchanging a known loss for an uncertain gain. Tell the treating doctor before trying supplements.
If the condition and medication are stable, a community health center can supply 12 weeks at once, saving monthly half-day hospital trips and queues.
Basic service packages use insurance; personalized packages are entirely self-funded. For an upgrade, ask which kind it is, whether it is filed and the annual…
Diabetic eye and foot damage can be barely noticeable until sight is lost or ulcers develop. Early detection leaves treatment options.
Without action, about a quarter of first-time calcium-stone patients recur within five years. Adequate-water users had only a little over 10% recurrence, more than halving it.
Gout requires sustained urate control below that target, not just painkillers when attacks hurt.
Chapter 17
This chapter mainly counts money and personal freedom. Many problems stem from undocumented wishes rather than lack of money. The final entry separately counts mortality from pressure ulcers and is not compared with the others.
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A notarized written document costing a few hundred yuan specifies who will act later. Without it, when decision-making capacity is lost, who signs and manages…
Chinese law recognizes six will forms, but formal mistakes can invalidate the entire will. A handwritten will must be fully written by the person, signed and dated with year, month and day.
Scams selling supplements, collectibles or investments to older people follow the same pattern: months of relationship-building followed by a large financial hit.
Sales and scams exploit embarrassment about saying no. Agree beforehand on “I need to discuss this with my family,” giving an easy exit.
Retirement offers demanding advance payment and promising returns follow the same scam pattern across membership cards, beds, apartments, travel retirement and meeting-based product sales.
The legitimate form described is an insurer's reverse-mortgage pension product, still a pilot. Door-to-door schemes instead persuade older people to mortgage homes and invest the borrowed money in their…
It helps fund paid care. If a household member has severe disability lasting over half a year, apply to the medical-insurance authority where they are insured.
Older hip-fracture patients with ulcers before surgery had about 20% higher 30-day mortality. Powered air mattresses reduced new ulcers by about 60%; properly implemented turning reduced them by about 70%.
Chapter 18
This chapter separates money and time rather than choosing for you, as with the marriage chapter. If already pregnant and needing procedures, see chapter 27.
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Children born after January 1, 2025 and still under three qualify under the source's account. One parent applies where the child's household registration is held.
At least 98 days of leave includes up to 15 before birth. Difficult births add 15 days, and each additional baby adds another 15.
Violations during these periods attract fines of 1,000 to 5,000 yuan per affected person under the source's account.
Convert daily care hours and nighttime waking into time, then multiply by the caregiver's hourly earnings. The result usually far exceeds formula and diaper costs.
Early costs depend on who provides care: parents, grandparents or paid carers. Primary through junior-high costs center on housing and extracurricular activities; later costs center on further education.
Others' wishes can matter, but time and money still fall on you. Depending on children in old age is a separate gamble on another person's financial ability twenty years later…
Chapter 19
This chapter counts money, signatures and deadlines. Early entries cover money due while working, then departure, then occupational illness and injury. Work-injury amounts are much larger than redundancy payments and deadlines stricter; occupational damage cannot simply be reversed.
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Ordinary overtime pays 1.5 times wages; rest-day work without compensatory leave pays double; statutory holidays pay triple and cannot be replaced by…
Across all employers, one to under ten years earns five days annually; ten years earns ten, and 20 years earns 15.
Contracts under one year allow at most one month's probation; one to three years allow two months; over three years allow six.
Each full year earns one month's wages; six to under 12 months count as a year, and under six months earns half a month.
The source describes one month's wages beyond N when the employer sends you away without the required 30-day written notice, commonly called N+1.
This is commonly called 2N. Whether a termination is unlawful depends on the circumstances.
Such a declaration usually forfeits both compensation and unemployment benefits. Voluntary departure generally falls outside compensation grounds, except circumstances such as wage arrears or missing insurance…
Once company devices and accounts are returned, records may be inaccessible. Arbitration on wages or overtime still depends on evidence you hold.
Benefits start from registration, so registering a month late can cost a month's benefits. Review your noncompete at the same time.
The contract must disclose hazards, protection and entitlements. Concealment permits refusal of that work without lawful dismissal on that ground.
Pneumoconiosis, noise deafness and chemical eye burns are recognized occupational diseases. Damaged lungs and hearing may not recover. You have rights to hazard information, protective equipment and facilities.
Commuting crashes qualify when you are not primarily responsible. Without recognition, medical costs, continued wages during recovery and disability benefits can be lost.
Recognition of sudden illness as work-related requires onset during working hours at the workplace. Becoming ill en route before arrival does not qualify under the described rule.
Lack of contributions changes the payer, not the benefits: the employer must pay all the same items at the same standards.
One-off disability allowances use your wages: grade five equals 18 months, grade six 16, grade seven 13…
Do not discuss only one of them. The funeral allowance equals six months of the locality's prior-year average employee wages.
Bullied workers later had about 60% higher heart-disease and stroke risk, increasing with exposure. Suicidal thoughts a few years later were about twice as likely.
Chapter 20
This chapter counts infant mortality and money, including only substantial differences with strong evidence. It does not cover ordinary soothing or care techniques. Pre-birth and discharge procedures are in chapter 27.
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Keep pillows, quilts, bumpers, stuffed toys and shaping pillows out of the baby's sleep space.
About 95% of those infected in infancy or early childhood develop chronic hepatitis, according to the source.
Providers may not charge for these vaccines. Nursery and school entry check immunization records and identify missed doses for catch-up.
Start within the first hour after birth. At six months add complementary foods, including iron-rich animal foods daily, and continue breastfeeding until…
Formula is not sterile and may contain Cronobacter sakazakii. Reported mortality in infected newborns ranges from 40% to 80%.
This includes honey water, honey in complementary foods and honey-containing cakes. Honey may contain bacteria causing botulism.
Newborn vitamin K stores are low. Deficiency can cause bleeding, and late-onset bleeding often occurs in the brain.
Do not observe at home or give fever medicine first and wait.
Babies have large heads and weak necks. Violent shaking can cause brain and eye bleeding, death or lifelong disability.
No official body ranks the best brand. Check market-regulator quality inspection reports and investigations into particular incidents.
Strollers, cribs, wraps and toys are used briefly and widely available secondhand. Borrowing first, buying used next and new only if needed often saves over 1,000 yuan.
Among infants starting regular peanut intake at four to 11 months, peanut allergy at age five was 1.9%, versus 13.7% among those avoiding it.
Chapter 21
This chapter counts money and personal freedom, with some entries covering physical safety. Abroad, local law applies rather than Chinese law; Chinese consular help has explicit limits.
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There are four risk levels, with that label the highest. Avoiding high-risk countries and regions entered administrative regulations from September 15, 2026.
From China call 12308; abroad call +86-10-12308. The hotline has handled over three million calls since opening.
If arrested abroad, consulates can verify facts, request lawful fair treatment, visit and observe hearings. They cannot overturn judgments or take you away.
Chinese public insurance generally does not reimburse foreign care and consulates do not advance payment. Severe-injury hospitalization and repatriation, possibly requiring a dedicated aircraft or… can overwhelm a household.
Warning signs include no experience requirements, no proper contract, assembling at border cities and someone keeping your passport. Once there, neither your movement nor passport may be under your control.
The cap is per person per calendar year, combining all bank cards including supplementary cards, not per card.
Consulates can issue a return travel document if you prove identity. Copies of identity and visa pages plus entry/exit records speed replacement.
The international permit is a translated document recognized among the 103 parties to the 1949 Geneva convention; mainland China is not a party.
From September 15, 2026, such intermediaries must file with immigration authorities under the source's account.
False invitations or applications expose the issuer to fines of 5,000 to 10,000 yuan and confiscation of illegal gains.
If you disappear abroad, relatives can seek consular guidance on local reporting and follow-up. Someone at home must know where you should be and when contact is due.
Chapter 22
The first half counts money and freedom in entertainment venues; the second counts energy and overall mortality in stress relief. These are not converted into one measure. Chapter three gives initial actions for low mood; here the methods are more specific.
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During business, evacuation routes and exits must stay clear, unlocked and visibly marked. Internet cafes may not seal doors or lock windows either.
Venues must display prices and proactively show a price list. Extremely expensive drinks commonly arise when prices were not checked and oral rates are used afterward…
Venues allowing drug sale, supply or use can be closed for three to six months or lose licenses. Personal drug use attracts administrative punishment.
Drugs may look ordinary. Vapes containing synthetic cannabinoids resemble normal devices and are offered in bars, karaoke venues and hotels.
Cafes must verify and register identity and retain usage records for at least 60 days, available to police and cultural authorities.
A 2022 notice from five Chinese departments prohibits these locations, including basement level two and below.
Brisk walking and jogging showed the strongest improvement, followed by yoga, strength training and tai chi/qigong with modest differences. Higher intensity helped more; strength and yoga were easiest to maintain.
Diagnosed anxiety patients improved almost as much as those taking escitalopram. Nearly 80% of medication users had adverse effects and some withdrew.
Five daily minutes for a month improved mood and slowed breathing more than equal-duration mindfulness. Among breathing methods, extended-exhale cyclic sighing worked best.
Limited social contact was linked to about 30% higher mortality during follow-up, loneliness to about 25% higher and living alone to about 30% higher, especially below 65.
Greater vegetation within 500 meters of home was linked to lower mortality during follow-up: about 4% lower per 0.1 increase in vegetation index.
Chapter 23
This chapter counts money and time, with entry two separately counting mortality. The first six ask whether to continue education: legal options, education and lifespan, then the population's education profile.
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Junior-high graduates are commonly 15 to 16, near the boundary. Employing an under-16 child is unlawful under the source's rule and attracts that monthly fine.
The average reduction was 1.9% per year, strongest at ages 18 to 49 with 2.9%, versus 0.8% above 70.
China's 2020 census found about 15% had junior-college education or above, or 15,467 in every 100,000.
Public vocational-secondary schools waive tuition for rural students, urban agricultural majors and hardship students. Grants for vocational and ordinary senior-high students rose to 2,300 yuan yearly in spring 2025.
China's 2022 vocational-education law gives vocational and general education equal status. Vocational colleges must reserve places or separate exams for vocational-secondary students…
Early work earns three years of low-entry wages once. Continued education offers an annual earnings difference multiplied by the remaining 30 to 40 years.
Personal annual income rises about 9% per extra year, with consistently higher returns for women. This concerns formal schooling, not automatically any paid course.
Authorities have addressed misuse of new-occupation and skills labels for excessive fees, indiscriminate certificates and impersonation of authoritative bodies.
China planned over 30 million subsidized training participations from 2025 through the end of 2027.
One US estimate put about 47% of jobs at high computerization risk; later task-based estimates were much lower.
China promotes a new eight-level skilled-worker system linking wages to grade, with exceptional workers able to advance without normal seniority requirements.
Local subsidy levels reflect shortage urgency and training costs, giving a clue to actual local demand.
Policy favors quick employment training and vocational-college micro-specializations. Ask whether completion yields a concrete role you can apply for.
Rereading feels familiar without securing memory. Self-testing works substantially better; classroom quizzes produced medium-sized grade gains.
Across 317 experiments, distributed practice consistently improved retention. Longer intended retention calls for longer review intervals.
Highlighting and rereading ranked in the lowest tier among ten common techniques, alongside summarizing, keyword mnemonics and imagery for text.
Blocked practice feels fluent immediately but may not teach method selection. Mixed practice has better long-term effects of moderate size.
Few rigorous studies test matching instruction to styles; almost none support it, and some results…
Across 192 comparisons involving over 10,000 people, retrieval practice transferred to changed question formats, application and reasoning, with small-to-medium… effects.
China has 27 title series, generally with junior, intermediate and senior levels progressed sequentially. Employees apply after employer review and public notice.
Passing replaces separate assessment in these series. Assistant accountant requires senior-high education or above; accountant eligibility includes a bachelor's degree plus four years' accounting work, or…
False materials, ghostwriting or plagiarism lead to revocation. The three-year integrity record also enters the national credit platform.
Titles support hiring, evaluation and promotion, but award and appointment differ. Public institutions generally assess within post ratios, so award commonly leads to appointment.
Chapter 24
This chapter counts money and time: where to start, referrals, savings, emergency triage, and assessments or certificates after severe injury. Benefits are in chapter seven and long-term chronic care in chapter 16.
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Community referral to hospital can make the initial self-paid deductible count only once. Going straight to a tertiary hospital then returning to community rehabilitation may require paying it twice.
The same inpatient bill receives a higher reimbursement rate at lower-tier hospitals. Local policies are expected to separate tiers by about ten percentage points.
Large hospitals must reserve some appointments and beds for referrals and create a center or designated department, with full coverage targeted for 2027.
Such assessment generally comes from secondary or tertiary hospitals. Reimbursement for temporary out-of-area care differs from same-tier local hospitals according to local rules.
Tertiary hospitals increasingly focus on emergencies, severe and complex illness. Routine follow-up clinics are gradually reduced, with the same specialists providing ordinary clinics in communities.
You have a legal right to inspect and copy outpatient and inpatient records, lab reports, imaging, surgical and anesthesia records, pathology and itemized charges.
Both parties should attend, list, sign and seal the records, retaining copies. If records are incomplete, seal the completed portion first.
Emergency care uses four severity levels rather than arrival order. Classification happens at the entrance triage desk, not registration.
China's emergency medical assistance fund pays emergency costs for people whose identity cannot be established or who cannot pay.
Compensation depends mainly on the grade, based on residual functional impairment after treatment. Assessment standards require treatment completion or stable clinical outcomes.
The certificate enables benefits rather than merely proving injury. Seven categories cover vision, hearing, speech, physical, intellectual, mental and multiple disabilities, each graded one to four.
Payment cannot buy priority in appointments, beds, scarce medicines or surgery. Afterward, gratitude is welcome, but cigarettes, alcohol or cash envelopes would violate rules if accepted.
Chapter 25
This chapter counts money and explains procedures: immediate steps, itemized fees, recoverable account balances and matters close relatives may handle.
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Only police can issue the relevant certificate for these cases. A disturbed scene makes both the facts and certification harder to establish.
For hospital death, ask the treating facility. For natural death at home, use the local community center or township hospital; clear causes are certified within one day.
Transport, storage, preservation, preparation and cremation belong to funeral homes. Hospital mortuaries provide only temporary storage, not funeral services.
With hospital freezing facilities, the period can extend to seven days. A close relative's signed consent is also required.
Take the death certificate and household register to the police station. Delays can block inheritance transfers, benefits and insurance cancellation.
The national basic list includes body transport, storage, farewell, cremation, ashes storage and ecological burial, plus public-institution ash niches.
Rules specifically prohibit missing price lists, extra unlisted charges, forced funeral-goods bundles and compulsory use of other providers' paid services.
Unfiled intermediaries are excluded from the authorities' funeral-service information system.
Heirs can withdraw housing-provident-fund balances, often overlooked because they are not bank accounts. Remaining personal pension-account funds can also be inherited.
They may do so for their own lawful legitimate interests. Platforms refusing must explain why.
Chapter 26
This chapter counts personal freedom and money. It asks what business your website or app legally constitutes, which permits it needs, where servers may be located, and who is responsible for user content and collected payments.
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Money passing through your account before reaching sellers constitutes payment business under the source's account. It requires central-bank approval and 100 million yuan in actual capital.
Value-added telecom permits are issued only to companies, not individuals. Free websites need filing, which is free of charge.
Livestreaming and game commentary require a provincial cultural license explicitly covering online performances. A decision is due within 20 days of acceptance, and the permit lasts three years.
File before launch through the hosting provider. Filing is free and normally takes days to weeks.
Verify identity, address, contact details and permits, then create records. Recheck at least every six months.
Platforms are responsible when user content causes problems. Establish registration, post and comment review, daily checks and incident handling, with a prominent reporting entry.
Collect it when enabling those services. Users refusing cannot be allowed to use them under the described rule.
At 16 or older, identity verification and parental or other guardian consent are required.
With preliminary evidence, promptly remove, block or disconnect the material and forward the notice to the seller.
Sending mainland users' information to foreign machines is an overseas transfer. Hosting abroad does not mean no transfer occurred.
The three tiers differ in what you have when problems happen. Major providers offer filing channels, public qualifications, outage notices, compensation terms and reachable staff.
Chapter 27
The first half counts maternal and fetal mortality risks; the second money and travel time, without combining them. It covers when to do what, excluding pregnancy nutrition or prenatal education with weak evidence or small effects.
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Daily supplementation around conception reduces neural-tube defects by about 70%, including anencephaly and spina bifida.
China funds at least five prenatal checks, postnatal home visits and the 42-day postpartum check. Register the handbook before 13 weeks to access them.
These tests are free. A positive result is not the end of the road.
Smoking increases prematurity, small birth size and cleft lip/palate. Abnormal bleeding in pregnancy and childbirth doubles, and sudden infant death risk rises too.
High-risk factors include prior preeclampsia, multiple pregnancy, chronic hypertension, pre-existing diabetes, kidney disease or autoimmune disease.
Gestational diabetes is high glucose developing during pregnancy. Half a morning for a glucose drink and repeated blood draws can detect it.
Seek care the same day for persistent or worsening headache, vision changes, fever of 38°C, severe hand or facial swelling, breathlessness, chest pain or rapid heartbeat; do not wait overnight.
Do not slowly pack before leaving. The source advises lying down immediately, elevating the hips and calling; walking can accelerate fluid loss and allow cord prolapse.
An epidural reduces childbirth pain more effectively than other methods and does not make surgery more likely.
WHO states that once an area's cesarean rate exceeds 10%, further increases do not further lower maternal or newborn mortality. Medically necessary cesareans should still be performed.
Employer contributions fund childbirth medical care and maternity-leave allowances. An unemployed spouse can also receive the medical-expense component.
It is needed for household registration, insurance and school. Initial issuance is only by the delivery facility; returning after discharge adds procedures and documents.
These can detect hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria and hearing impairment when the baby appears entirely normal.
Online enrollment can precede registration. Covered inpatient costs can settle at discharge, making a large difference for expensive newborn hospitalization.
The deadline is one month, not whenever convenient. Registration affects vaccination, nursery, school and ID; delays require more documents.
It includes blood counts, vaginal-discharge testing and postpartum-depression screening. Serious problems can arise throughout the first year, not just the first month.
Chapter 28
This chapter covers appearance-changing interventions: starvation, pills, injections and surgery. Decisions often follow comparison with others, but all costs fall on your body and many changes cannot be reversed.
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People with anorexia nervosa have about 5.9 times their peers' mortality. Per 1,000 people followed for a year, 5.1 die; one in five deaths is suicide.
Needles, surgery or devices breaking skin or entering the body are medical care. They require an appropriately licensed facility and registered practicing physician.
Over half of filler-related blindness cases involved nasal injections, followed by the glabella, forehead and nasolabial folds. Over 80% involved hyaluronic acid.
A commonly detected hidden ingredient is sibutramine, a former weight-loss drug withdrawn in China in 2010.
Men testing positive for gym performance-enhancing drugs had three times their peers' mortality risk and more than double the annual hospital visits.
Online prescription sales also require a genuine prescription and real identity. A shop with no consultation or prescription either supplies something different or violates rules.
This concerns safe use, not whether to use them. Transgender women taking estrogen had more blood clots than peers: about four extra per 1,000 over two years and about 17 over eight years…
About 15% of cosmetic-surgery seekers have body dysmorphic disorder, magnifying barely noticeable perceived flaws until they disrupt life.
Chapter 29
Bereavement, serious diagnosis, unemployment and divorce share a finding: the body as well as mood is affected. Highest risk concentrates in the first weeks through the first year.
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Heart-attack risk on the first day after a loved one's death is 21.1 times normal, declining afterward. Among 60-to-89-year-olds within 30 days of a partner's death, heart attack or stroke…
In the first week after cancer diagnosis, suicide risk was 12.6 times that of people without a diagnosis and cardiovascular mortality 5.6 times.
Subsequent mortality was about 60% higher than among employed people, especially men and younger people, highest in the first ten years.
Within five years after a spouse's suicide, diagnosed mental-disorder risk was about 80% higher for men and 70% for women than the general population, and 70% to 100% higher than after other spousal deaths.
Mortality during follow-up was about 40% higher in the first six months, dropping to 15% higher afterward. Men showed about 23% higher risk; the female estimate was small enough to be chance.
Ensure someone can discover an emergency and that meals and medication happen regularly. Use written lists and alarms rather than memory for the latter.
Losing a parent before 18 was linked to about 50% higher early-adult mortality; accidental or suicidal deaths to about 80% higher, illness deaths to about 30% higher.
About one in ten bereaved adults remains stuck, with prolonged longing preventing eating, work or childcare, numbness and a sense that life lacks meaning.
Counseling all bereaved people has only small, short-lived benefits because most recover naturally.
Premature mortality is higher than among still-married people, especially men and younger adults. This may reflect pre-existing health or income differences rather than divorce causing it…
The national 12356 psychological-assistance hotline is free. The 12355 youth service provides another route for minors and young people.
Judgment of opportunities is poorest then. Claims of contacting the deceased, recovering lost money, relocating for a new start or joining business partnerships may target you.
Suicide within a life policy's first two years does not trigger the death benefit, only refundable policy value. It is not a work injury, so the three death-at-work payments are absent. Debts are paid from the estate first.
Chapter 30
Chapter 20 covers the first year, and chapter 18 the money and time of parenting. This chapter covers the intervening years from three to 18.
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Some conditions depend on hours. Sudden one-sided scrotal pain may be testicular torsion, twisting the blood supply and cutting it off.
Scoliosis bends the spine sideways. A rigid brace while bones grow kept 75% of children from reaching surgical severity; among those merely observed, only…
Bullied children had about 2.2 times the suicidal-thought risk and 2.6 times the suicidal-behavior risk of non-bullied children.
Adding 40 minutes of daily outdoor lessons in first grade reduced new myopia over three years from about 40% to about 30%.
China's health guidance also limits schoolchildren's individual non-study sessions to 15 minutes.
Myopia does not simply resolve or reverse, and is more than needing glasses. Even mild myopia carried over ten times the myopic-macular-disease risk; above six diopters…
Reports particularly flag overweight, obesity, malnutrition, abnormal spinal curvature, poor vision and dental decay, all easily neglected.
US preventive guidance supports major-depression screening at 12 to 18; evidence under 12 is insufficient. Suicide is the second leading cause of death at ages ten to 19.
China's market regulator states current medical technology cannot cure myopia and targets claims of recovery, reduced degree, cure or prescription repair.
Guidance specifies ten hours' sleep for primary pupils, nine for junior-high and eight for senior-high students. Classes generally start no earlier than 8:20 in primary school or 8:00 in secondary school.
Parents or guardians apply, the school confirms and higher authorities approve. Further leave requires a new application after expiry.
Eye drops relax focusing muscles before measuring the prescription. This is performed in hospital and provides the most accurate myopia diagnosis.
Resin seals chewing-surface grooves against food debris. After two years, decay risk was about one eighth that without sealing.
About two or three people per hundred meet gaming-disorder criteria. Low questionnaire thresholds or adolescent-only samples can inflate estimates.
Among Chinese secondary students, same-sex or bisexual attraction was linked to about three to 5.5 times the annual suicide-attempt rate of others.
Chapter 31
This chapter counts money and time, with refusal of military service also affecting freedom. It is a map rather than a full manual: statutory entry requirements, military benefits, public-sector routes beyond civil-service exams, university choices…
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Employment starts at 16. Male military enlistment starts at 18, with the maximum age extended to 24 for bachelor's graduates.
Registration is a legal duty, not an enlistment application or a commitment to serve. Men turning 18 that year must complete it online before October 31.
Civil service, state enterprises and public institutions cannot recruit you. For two years, overseas travel, further study and returning to school are barred under the source's account.
Current students, new graduates and incoming students receive tuition support during service: up to 20,000 yuan annually for undergraduate/junior-college students and 25,000 for postgraduates…
Guaranteed placement is not universal. Most two-year conscripts do not fall within the six qualifying categories.
The first is the one-off payment for the self-employment route, based on active-service years with additional amounts for meritorious service.
Projects such as teaching, agriculture, health and poverty support enable eligible graduates after two years and satisfactory assessment to enter targeted recruitment.
Eligibility centers on bachelor's education, mainly teacher-training majors, age no more than 30 and the relevant teaching qualification.
Neither universally requires junior-college education. Firefighters recruit ages 18 to 22 with senior-high education; college graduates and veterans may qualify up to 24…
Self-study exams have no age or prior-education limits under the source's account, though full-time enrolled students cannot apply. Adult examinations and open universities are other formal channels.
There is no employer paying the other share. Policy calls for lifting household-registration restrictions for flexible-worker insurance, with some megacities allowed gradual implementation.
Each order receives coverage and the worker contributes nothing personally.
The state funds study, and graduates serve at designated locations for six years. State-funded teacher programs recruit in the early admissions round at six ministry-affiliated teacher universities.
Only qualified, registered enterprises may organize overseas labor under China's rules.
Source follows where the work occurs, not where payment originates. Working remotely from China creates income taxable there.
Individual loans can reach 300,000 yuan for up to three years, with government paying half the interest.
Chapter 32
This chapter counts money and personal freedom, without judging whether to go or comparing schools. Know how to maintain visa status, work-hour caps, mandatory insurance and charges, and whether the degree can be recognized on return.
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Using the degree for civil-service exams, state enterprises, household registration or professional titles requires recognition by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange.
The US proposal would cap status at four years and require departure within 30 days after completion. A federal court paused it the day before its scheduled start.
Exceeding limits can lead to visa cancellation, removal and questions on later applications.
Work eligibility disappears on leave, withdrawal, expulsion or periods without classes during transfer. Continuing work then is unlawful under the described conditions.
Failure is itself unlawful and also risks missing immigration correspondence.
These warn about recent safety or policy conditions unfavorable to Chinese students in specific destinations.
Overseas Student Health Cover is a visa condition, not optional. Renewals or insurer changes must leave no coverage gap.
The source's rate means a two-year visa requires £1,552 upfront to access the National Health Service.
That is review time alone. Recruitment peaks or returned documents can make it longer.
China's recognition center names institutions for enhanced scrutiny and suspends applications from some schools.
Chapter 33
Prevention is in chapters one and 13. This chapter treats distinct measures separately: mortality for emergencies and complications, money for benefits and litigation, and time for education and administrative tasks, without converting them into one another.
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Disrupted warning pathways mean a full bladder or tight clothing may go unnoticed while blood pressure surges. Sudden headache and sweating are signals.
Emotional collapse in the person or family is common and not a willpower failure. Long follow-up at two UK spinal-injury centers found five times the general-population suicide rate.
A relative's or employer's request alone is insufficient. The cited law permits it for actual or threatened self-harm, or actual or threatened harm to others.
Caregiver exhaustion is real. A US study followed over 800 older adults for four years; strained carers of disabled spouses had higher mortality than non-carers. The concise PDF truncates the size of the increase at “six…”.
Ordinary foam can cause slow-healing, infection-prone skin injury. Nursing-home pressure-relief cushions reduced sitting-bone ulcers, though including tailbone ulcers removed a detectable overall difference…
Medical, drug and device advertising may not guarantee outcomes, state cure or success rates, or use testimonials under China's advertising law.
The certificate itself pays nothing; it unlocks separate benefits, each requiring its own application rather than automatic delivery.
China's age-zero-to-six scheme covers surgery, assistive devices and rehabilitation training through county disability federations.
The accessibility law requires support and guidance for household adaptations and appropriate subsidies for eligible disabled and older households.
The required employment proportion is at least 1.5% of staff, with the exact local ratio set by the province.
National law permits reductions but leaves amount and duration to provincial governments, so rules differ.
Law calls for access for guide, hearing and assistance dogs. Valid credentials allow free urban buses, metro and ferries for blind people; disabled people may carry… free of charge.
Options include Braille or large print, listening-test exemption, separate rooms, hearing aids, wheelchairs and extended time.
Kindergartens, schools and ordinary vocational schools must accept eligible applicants with disabilities.
Applicants who can sit steadily and meet upper-limb requirements may qualify for adapted automatic cars. People missing one palm can also apply.
Taking someone home to wait passively is a common mistake. Organized multidisciplinary stroke care increased one-year survival and the chance of living at home.
A three-year trial of nearly 1,000 people found no overall difference establishing the dementia-prevention claim.
Relatives, employers and neighborhood committees cannot independently make such a legal determination.
The sequence is spouse, parents and children, other close relatives, then other willing people or organizations.
Discrimination is prohibited in hiring, regularization, promotion, titles, pay and social insurance. You may complain to the responsible authority or sue.
Chapter 34
Fever, pain, cold, stomach and diarrhea medicines are often sold without prescriptions, but that does not make every use safe. This chapter covers simple actions avoiding serious consequences rather than prescribing for each disease.
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Many cold remedies contain it, so two boxes can double the dose and harm the liver. In US acute liver failure caused by it, nearly 30% died before transplantation.
Aspirin is linked to Reye syndrome affecting brain and liver. About 30% of affected US children died; cases fell by over 90% after warnings.
Ibuprofen, naproxen and aspirin can harm the stomach. High-dose trials found about four times the bleeding or perforation risk with ibuprofen versus none.
China's drug regulator required warnings on 14 pediatric combination cold products advising use only under doctor or pharmacist guidance for this age.
Most amniotic fluid then comes from fetal kidneys. These drugs can damage those kidneys and reduce fluid.
Enteric-coated tablets became non-prescription in China in 2022, but instructions limit self-use to seven days and prohibit another course within two months.
They do not speed recovery, while adult adverse-effect risk more than doubles. Purulent nasal discharge under ten days also has no established benefit from antibiotics.
Hydration matters more than stopping stools. Mix salts as instructed; juice is not a substitute because excess sugar can worsen dehydration.
Daily painkillers for recurrent headache can worsen it. International classification calls this medication-overuse headache.