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Dai Haifei has lived in an egg-like house, which he built at the cost of 6,427 yuan ($964), since the end of National Day Holiday in October, the Beijing News reported Wednesday.
Last year an estimated 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) was spent on cosmetic surgery and the figure is expected to rise 20 percent annually, a China Central Television report concluded.
Beijing's auction industry is enjoying a record-breaking year and things look set to get even better with major auction houses announcing plans for more high-profile sales.
A rare hand scroll copy of ancient Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi's work fetched a staggering 308 million yuan ($46.40 million) at the China Guardian autumn auction in Beijing on Saturday.
The world's largest night-shining jewel, with a diameter of 1.6 meters and a weight of six tons, was shown to the public for the first time in the Palace of Valuable Jade in China's southern Hainan province, chinanews.com reported Sunday.
A growing interest in religion among the Chinese has boosted the country's fledging religion-related tourism market over the past decade.
The government of Wuhan, Hubei province, has promised to build more cheap cemeteries amid mounting complaints about costly funeral and interment services.
Chinese netizens have conducted heated online discussions to choose the character of the year, with (zhang), indicating price rises, the most popular so far.
A courtyard house next to Beihai Park that was once part of a Qing dynasty palace is being advertised online for 420 million yuan and attracting the interest of State-owned enterprises.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | 2,794.27 | -0.58% | Thur |
| Shenzhen | 12,392.93 | -0.26% | Thur |
| HSI | 22,530.18 | +0.06% | Thur |
| NIKKEI | 10,071.14 | -0.11% | Thur |
| Dow | 12,719.49 | +0.74% | Thur |
| Nasdaq | 2,872.66 | +1.36% | Thur |