Violence in the home is rarely discussed publicly in China, making the debate somewhat of a breakthrough in a socially conservative country. It became a hot topic after the divorce of a high profile English teacher Li Yang, who mesmerized millions in China with his Crazy English program, and his American wife Kim Lee. Lee had accused Li of repeatedly beating her, and even posted photos to Sina’s Weibo microblogging service.

Despite being quite high profile at the time, many Chinese people are unclear if domestic violence is morally or legally wrong. The draft legislation makes clear that violence between married couples would not be tolerated. To drive the point home, state-run newspaper Global Times reported it this way:

If you are in a poor mood with which you vent upon your son or wife/husband by beating them, or unintentionally hit them, or if you want to demonstrate your authority within the family by oppressing your child and spouse through economic and mental means, then you are in violation of (this law)!

The bill appears to have hit a bottleneck due to problems on how to define “domestic violence”. Some rights groups claim the definition doesn’t go far enough, and should include couples who live together but aren’t married, as well as same sex couples. They also say domestic violence should include sexual or economic abuse.

Presiding judge Yang Wanming said that domestic violence is on the rise, and is a threat to social harmony. A women’s association in China said in 2005 that about 30 percent of China’s 270 million families experience domestic violence.

Eighty countries have specific anti-domestic violence laws on the books. Until families can be safe and receive the protection they need, victims looking for help in China can always call the China Women’s Hotline at 12338.

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So what is making workers so restless? Well, money. Forty-two percent say they want a higher salary; 38 percent say the future prospects of their company is a concern while other priorities included the potential for a promotion, company benefits, and work-life balance.

Here are the complete poll results, translated into English:

Percentage of Employees Who Intend to Switch Jobs
52.9 percent have already updated their resumes, and are actively looking for a new job.
30.5 percent intend to switch jobs.
12.5 percent are in the process of leaving their current job, and are entering a new position.
4.2 percent have no interest in changing jobs.

Motivating Factors to Switch Jobs
57.9 percent said they want a higher salary.
53.5 percent said they want better benefits.
44.3 percent are looking for a higher-ranking job.
44.3 percent want better training and skills.
39.1 percent are concerned with the future development of the company.
33.8 percent say company culture is important.
30.2 percent are looking for a happy workplace environment.
29.1 percent are trying to seek a balance between their work and private life.
14.4 percent cite commuting time as a factor.

Reasons for Dissatisfaction With Current Job
42.1 percent said their current salary is a factor.
38.8 percent said the future of the company is unclear.
33.5 percent cited current company benefits.
30.5 percent said they are stuck at the same position at their current job.
23.5 percent said their work and private lives are imbalanced.
10.8 percent cite problems with co-workers.
9.7 percent want better opportunities.
4.2 percent cite their relationships with co-workers.

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The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, which is actually a non-Communist political party in China unaffiliated with its Taiwanese counterpart, intends to submit a draft proposal aimed at reducing divorce rates across China, particularly among those couples with young children. The proposal, which is being made to “protect the rights of the children”, is expected to be raised during this week’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

The move comes amid skyrocketing divorce rates across China. From 2002 to 2013, marriage rates increased 71 percent while divorce rates increased 197 percent.

Given these statistics, the Kuomintang has proposed that the procedure to obtain a divorce be lengthened in order to give applicants more time to reconsider their actions, particularly where children are involved. While the proposal is still being revised and has not been submitted yet, one of the more controversial proposals has already been withdrawn.

Initially, the proposed language sought to ban divorce for parents with children under the age of ten:

At the same time as protecting the freedoms of marriage, so too do the rights of underage children need to be protected. The proposal calls for applicants with children under the age of ten to be unsuitable for any grounds of divorce, while ensuring applicants with children over the age of ten fully reveal their intentions to their children.

After the public caught wind of the proposed language, the section was revised. It currently reads:

At the same time as protecting the freedoms of marriage, so too do the rights of underage children need to be protected. For those that have underage children, applicants for divorce need to fully reveal their intentions to their children.

Whether the proposal will be put forward is still up for debate. However, even if the proposal is formally introduced, what is perhaps more debatable, is whether or not it would actually reduce divorce rates.

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A few years ago I was sent to the city of Changchun in northeast China’s Jilin province for a business story. One of the people I needed to interview for my article was an engineer at the headquarters of First Automobile Works (FAW), one of China’s large state-owned automakers.

The engineer, in his late 50s, was responsible for resurrecting FAW’s luxury line, Red Flag, once the automobile of choice among Communist officials. After China opened up to the world and cadres discovered how much nicer Audis were, Red Flag was all but forgotten – an embarrassing symbol of how ‘made in China’ couldn’t compete with the developed world. I started my voice recorder and began the interview.

“So, what have you done to make Red Flag more competitive with Audi and other foreign luxury carmakers?” I asked him from across his desk in his office.

He leaned back in his chair, gazing pensively at the ceiling behind me and proceeded to completely ignore my question.

“You know,” he said with a pause, “on weekends I like to drive through the countryside.”

“Uh, sure.”

“And now, everywhere I look, I see nothing but pointless real estate projects that are being built on what was once good farmland.”

“Right, so regarding the new and improved Red Flag…”

“Arable land is the most important resource a country has, why are we destroying it unnecessarily?”“Arable land is the most important resource a country has, why are we destroying it unnecessarily?”

Slightly thrown off, I managed to get the engineer back on topic and finished the interview. Irrelevant to my story as they were, his words come back to me often ever since I moved to a village in Hong Kong’s New Territories.

***

The rural area where I’ve been based since early 2013 is a narrow strip of land with densely populated towns featuring high-rise apartment buildings and shopping malls on one side and the mountainous restricted area that separates mainland China and Hong Kong on the other.

Having spent nearly all of the past 13 years in crowded mainland cities, I was thrilled to move to what felt like genuine countryside. I cycle everywhere I go, hike in verdant hills and never hear the sound of construction — which defined my last few years in the Mainland.

Best of all, there is a village nearby where I can buy fresh, locally grown, chemical-free produce. Despite being called Ma Shi Po (Cantonese for “Horseshit Place”), it is a pleasant collection of small farms, with no horses or horse droppings to be found.

After years of laziness, eating most of my meals at restaurants, or finishing leftovers at home, I am once again cooking for myself. Over the past year I have been lucky enough to have access to fresh seasonal vegetables such as salad greens, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, squash, cucumber, okra, broccoli, cabbage, sweet potatoes, beetroot, cauliflower, chili peppers and more, all basically organic. As a vegetarian, I have been happier than the proverbial pig in shit.

A recent veggie purchase from Ma Shi Po.

Ma Shi Po is on the northern edge of Luen Wo Hui, a town in Hong Kong’s Fanling area in the northern New Territories. The Hong Kong government has been working for years on pushing its Northeast New Territories New Development Areas (NENT NDA for short) project forward and is nearing the final stages before construction commences.

Ma Shi Po and several other villages are located within the land designated for the NENT NDA. Under the first phase of the US$15.5 billion plan, 60,000 new apartments will be built for more than 170,000 people. The first apartments are projected to come online in 2022.

***

Hong Kong has some of the world’s highest rents, a burden that weighs heavy on everyone here who isn’t well-off. Much attention has been paid in the past couple of years to people living in ‘shoebox homes’ or even literally living in cages like animals because that is all they are able to afford. These are working people with jobs. Following the global trend toward greater income disparity, 20 percent of Hong Kong’s population of more than seven million is now considered impoverished.

The Hong Kong government subsidizes housing for more than half of the territory’s population, but there are still tens of thousands in the queue for so-called public housing that does not yet exist. There is no doubt that Hong Kong needs more public housing. Sixty percent of the new apartments to be built under NENT NDA are designated to be public housing, but six years is a long time for people to wait.

In the meantime, 6,000 or more villagers, mostly older farmers, will be dislodged from an area that comprises one-third of Hong Kong’s remaining 1,000 hectares of arable land that is currently being utilized for agricultural production. I recently asked one of the villagers at risk in Ma Shi Po what her and her family’s backup plan was, and as tears welled up in her eyes, she said they didn’t have one. With an aging grandmother and parents who are lifelong farmers, their prospects in Hong Kong’s highly competitive job market are grim.

After speaking with different residents of Ma Shi Po I realized how precarious their situation is. Most are middle-aged or elderly, a few are in their 20s, but they all have the same thing in common: they are renting the land they farm, so none of them have a legal basis for challenging plans to destroy the village. For developers, large-scale greenfield development is much more cost effective and profitable than building one building at a time in places which would allow local agriculture to continue. Therefore villagers such as those in Ma Shi Po must be swept aside.

If all goes according to plan, Ma Shi Po (foreground) will resemble Luen Wo Hui (background) by 2022.

The role of developers in Hong Kong’s economy is hard to understate. Most of Hong Kong’s billionaires are involved in property, including Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong Holdings, as well as the Kwok brothers of Sun Hung Kai, Cheng Yu-teng of New World Development and Lee Shau-kee of Henderson Land Development.

Hong Kong’s top official, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, is a former surveyor and developer (he is the ‘Leung’ in DTZ Debenham Tie Leung, now known as DTZ). Leung and other property tycoons (former or current) including Li Ka-shing, Cheng Yu-teng and Lee Shau-kee have been given Hong Kong’s highest civilian honor, the Grand Bauhinia Medal. Land developers even have the right to vote in Hong Kong’s legislature via the real estate and construction seat under the territory’s functional constituency scheme, which enables certain industries that are deemed important to the economy to have direct representation in the local government.

Henderson Land has been particularly active in purchasing land in the areas to be developed by the government under the NENT NDA plan. According to research by JP Morgan, Henderson Land has acquired 2.7 million square feet of land within the area that is slated for development. Should the plan move forward according to schedule, JP Morgan estimates that Henderson Land could collect HKD2.1 billion to 3.2 billion (US$270.8 million to 412.7 million) from selling the land to the government.

One of the drills that has recently arrived in Ma Shi Po.

Villagers I’ve spoken with estimate that Henderson already owns 90 percent of Ma Shi Po. In recent weeks they say Henderson has moved drills used for geological surveying into Ma Shi Po – jumping the gun a bit, considering that the NENT NDA plan has yet to be formally passed by the government, although that appears likely. These gas-powered drills have brought an ominous noise to the once-peaceful village. For Ma Shi Po residents, especially the older ones, the drills and a recent government seizure of one of the farms have injected a sense of impending doom into the once-bucolic village. One villager in her 50s said she’s having trouble sleeping now and has lost more than 10 pounds in two weeks from constant worry. The younger villagers, who should be able to find some kind of work elsewhere if evicted, are no longer their chipper selves.

With no legal recourse against the NENT NDA, Ma Shi Po’s villagers have done their best to reach out to their fellow Hongkongers with the hope that with enough public opinion on their side, the NENT NDA could be shifted to other land not currently used for farming, such as the numerous lots used for scrap, parking and storage nearby.

The biggest potential source of alternative development land, however, is the 125-year-old Hong Kong Golf Club, which leases 176 hectares of land in Fanling from the local government for one Hong Kong dollar, or 13 US cents, per year. There are five other private golf clubs in Hong Kong, but many of the city’s wealthier residents believe building apartments on the Fanling course, which hosts the Hong Kong Open, would be devastating to the territory’s international image. There has been some government discussion of developing the course instead, none of it very serious.

The odds are certainly stacked against the villagers of Ma Shi Po. However, the lone weapon in their PR arsenal is a potent one: Hongkongers’ fear of mainland Chinese produce. The steady drumbeat of food safety scandals on the mainland, which is the largest supplier of vegetables to Hong Kong, has driven many young people, families and restaurants to Ma Shi Po and other villages in search of safe local produce. This has garnered the villagers a small but loyal support base.

Ma Shi Po villagers have petitioned the government and made their case for saving Hong Kong’s remaining farmland at public consultations and other government meetings related to the development plan. But so far the NENT NDA juggernaut cannot be stopped.

On April 14 last year, tired of feeling helpless and refusing to give up hope, a handful of Ma Shi Po villagers plus some of their supporters from areas such as Sheung Shui and Yau Ma Tei visited an apartment building in Hong Kong Island’s pricey Mid-levels where Henderson Land’s Lee – Hong Kong’s third richest man, valued at US$20.3 billion – supposedly lives while his home on Victoria Peak is being renovated. In addition to a banner and signs, they also brought a loudspeaker and a recording of Henderson’s drills at work in Ma Shi Po, plus pots, pans and ladles.

Just before 6pm, the 20-plus protestors occupied the private drive of the building and began their brief, peaceful demonstration, which would last all of 20 minutes. A young woman used the loudspeaker to explain to passersby the plight of Ma Shi Po and the importance of local agriculture to Hong Kong. Then she asked the woman from the village who has been losing sleep and weight to speak about Ma Shi Po, where she was born and has lived her entire life. Speaking steadily at first, she soon burst into tears, as did her daughter, who embraced her as her mother continued to speak. I’d discussed the NENT NDA with both of these women before and they had never shown anything but a steely determination to stop it. Seeing them cry was unexpected and jarring.

The tears begin to flow.

While the apartment building’s security guards took photos and video and phoned the police, the loudspeaker was used to play a recording of Henderson’s drilling activity in Ma Shi Po as demonstrators banged pots and pans with ladles. To pedestrians walking by or tourists on the Peak Tram a few meters away, it must have seemed a surreal hybrid of noise rock and Cantonese opera. This lasted five minutes, after which the protesters chanted several times:

Stop the drilling!

Stop the relocation!

Rent out the farmland!

Return the land to the farmers!

And then it was over. It is unlikely that Lee heard the noise down below, if he was even home. He probably didn’t see the poster of his likeness with devil horns that proclaimed Henderson Land a “Village Killer”.

The demonstration had blocked two cars which were trying to exit the apartment complex and one that was trying to enter. The drivers and passengers waited patiently and politely after they were told that one of their neighbors was involved in the destruction of a village in which some of the protesters lived.

Both of Hong Kong’s free television stations were present, as were local independent media. In a path next to the Peak Tram tracks, the villagers held an impromptu press conference. Lightened by the catharsis of having their voices heard for a fleeting moment, everyone walked down the hill toward Chater Garden, where, exhausted both emotionally and physically, they sat on the ground and rested in the shadows of Hong Kong’s tallest skyscrapers. White-collar office workers talking on their iPhones streamed around them as they shared dried fruits and nuts.

***

It will take a miracle to save Ma Shi Po, and the villagers appear to be doing all they can to create one. But the Hong Kong development machine appears to be unstoppable.It will take a miracle to save Ma Shi Po, and the villagers appear to be doing all they can to create one. But the Hong Kong development machine appears to be unstoppable. Even if the villagers do manage to find new farmland – they say they’re not interested in the fallow plots with limited access that the government is offering them as compensation – it’s difficult to say with any certainty that they’ll be able to work that land for long.

It seems that the rest of the remaining farmland in Hong Kong will be developed in the coming years. On April 12, the government unveiled plans to convert 152 hectares of rural land in Yuen Long district into a town with 33,700 apartments for more than 90,000 residents. When told that Hongkongers have less and less of an appetite for development of the territory’s rural areas, one Town Planning Board member brushed the comment off, saying that development of Hong Kong’s rural areas was “inevitable”.

Hong Kong currently imports 90 percent of its food. As the government moves to develop what little arable land remains, which can act as a short-term buffer when mainland food crises hit, it is also unbanning toxic substances from imported produce. This all but guarantees mainland produce with an even larger majority of the Hong Kong market.

Theoretically this former British colony is guaranteed autonomy until 2047. But losing the last vestiges of food security will render that autonomy increasingly superficial. Soon, Hong Kong too will understand that engineer’s lament over the needless destruction of farmland.

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China is again considering a nationwide ban on fireworks. With an official decision looming, people in China have sparked vibrant online discussions about how the festival is celebrated in China and whether changes are needed.

On one side are people who believe bans on things like fireworks, and a recent ban on smoked meat houses in Chongqing, won’t solve the pollution problem. They say the government’s attention should be directed at big polluters, like factories and cars. “Banning fireworks as a way to lessen smog is just lazy governing. All will be right if you go after the big polluters (instead) and have them locked up,” one person wrote online.

The other side says fireworks are a tradition that has long outlived its usefulness. One person listed all the reasons fireworks should be banned, including: “…noise pollution, littering the streets with used firework shells, the smoke adds to the PM 2.5 level, misuse will lead to injuries and financial loss, the manufacturing of fireworks is dangerous, and that it’s a waste of money among other reasons.”

There are other Chinese customs that have changed in the modern era. For example, young adults have gotten the right to choose their own marriage partner, and the use of endangered animal parts in traditional Chinese medicine has become prohibited by law. With that in mind, this could be a turning point that sees traditional firework use frowned upon in favor of electronic fireworks.

As residents in cities like Hangzhou have personally made the decision to stop setting off fireworks during Chinese New Year, an unspecified poll says that Chinese are warming up to the idea of using electronic fireworks instead. Forty-five percent of the poll’s respondents say that electronic fireworks are just as good as the regular ones, calling them “lively, festive, and full of lucky feeling”.

Here’s how the electronic fireworks work. But turn down your speakers!

This video provides a complete rundown of how an electronic firework works (in Chinese):

And for people on the go, here’s an fake firework app you can put on your phone.

Photo: People’s Daily Online

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“The divorce rate is growing by more than 10 percent each year,” said an official with the Shenzhen Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. “Many young couples broke up without careful consideration soon after finding out they can’t get along well,” he added, presupposing that the marriages themselves weren’t the rash decisions.

The paper has more:

A 33-year-old woman, surnamed Chang, is one of the many women who divorced their husbands last year. She said she found out that her former husband behaved chauvinistically shortly after they got married in 2013. She insisted that they get divorced. “Sometimes I didn’t know why I decided to marry him. I had to work, and I earn even more than him, but he still ordered me to cook and take care of all the housework,” she said.

According to the Longgang District marriage registration office, most divorces filed last year were by people under 35, particularly women. An unidentified representative of the office said that most people born in the 1980s are single children and that “they are very self-centered, intolerant and not good at communicating.”

Last year, a couple filed for divorce because they couldn’t agree on whose parents they should visit during Spring Festival.

Ning Yuan, a marriage counselor, said women are increasingly more economically independent in Shenzhen and usually demand equal relationships in the family setting.

However, many local men still expect their wives to handle all the housework, she said, and furthermore they just don’t know how to care for women. “In the past, a satisfactory family depended on the husband’s income. Now the circumstances have changed. Women have become more confident and aware of their independence,” said Ning.

Fu Xianyang, a lawyer from Guangdong Everwin Law Office, said the trend is a common phenomenon among countries going through transitional periods into the modern society. Many already modern societies have skyrocketing divorce rates, with the United States at 53 percent in 2011 and the European Union at 44 percent in 2010.

“From my experience, more and more couples have filed for divorce. Some divorced couples are younger than before. Some have been married for only less than five years,” said Fu.

Most of the world’s cultures have long attached stigmas to divorce and China is no exception. An ancient proverb admonishes newlyweds to “be married until your hair turns white.”

The situation of the majority of divorcees being those born in the 1980s contrasts with, say, the United Kingdom, where the over-60 set is the only demographic in which the divorce rate has risen. One of the reasons cited for this is a decreasing stigma attached to divorce.

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As the Chinese economy improves, and the standard of living rises, so too does the national divorce rate.

As reported on Yangcheng Online, divorces in China have steadily risen since 2004. In 2013, there were 3.5 million divorces in China, a 12.8 percent increase from the year before.

Guangzhou’s divorce rate is indicative of the general mood in China. In 2003, there were only 4,404 divorces in Guangdong; ten years later, there were 24,838; an increase of 564 percent.

If you’re thinking that the younger generation is driving the rising divorce rate, you’d be mistaken. Although people in Guangzhou between the ages of 30 and 39 are the most likely to get divorced (totalling 151,837 in 2013), the next largest segment are those aged 40 and up (totalling 136,766 divorces).

Check out the infographic to see for yourself.

Related:

• Guangdong Newlyweds Struggling To Stay Together
• New Census Data: There Are 5 Million More Men Than Women in Guangdong
• Domestic violence drives up Guangzhou’s divorce rate, but few charged
• Controversial Class Teaches Women to Have “Absolute Obedience” to Husbands

Photo: Life Dayoo

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Despite the threat of a looming real estate bubble, according to the National Statistics Department of China, real estate prices have actually fallen.

Data shows that, with the exception of Xiamen, housing prices have dropped in 69 out of 70, large and mid-sized Chinese cities. Additionally, prices for resale property have also dropped, with many Guangzhou real estate intermediaries reporting that prices and sales are down across the board.

There is however one exception in Chinese real estate that remains steadfast in the face of the downward trend, reports Xinhua. People are purchasing real estate in prime school districts for the sole reason of procuring a hukou residential permit that allows their children to attend the local school. Given that parents are not concerned about living in the area, or even renting out the apartment, these units tend to be quite small; but, since demand is driving up their value, they are extraordinarily expensive.

Wang Wa, a real estate broker, says these types of properties continue to rise in value while the value of other residential properties decline. Wang describes one such example of this trend in Beijing:

Because of the competition for places next to excellent, well-known elementary schools, the prices for these places has risen. We just closed a RMB 1.35 million deal on a place that is just 4.4 square meters large. Each square meter of this location is worth RMB 310,000.

The trend has hit Guangzhou as well. Buyers that purchased real estate to obtain a hukou residential permit accounted for 8.8 percent of all Guangzhou housing sales in September 2014, a rise of 2.3 percent from August.

Huang Tao, a real estate company manager had this to say:

Compared with last year, there has been a slight 2% rise; now, concentrated areas of second-hand properties in school districts are now worth RMB 35,000 to 40,000 per square meter.

The competition to enrol children into good schools is a Chinese phenomenon that starts in kindergarten. While a good school will no doubt provide a child with good education, the school’s reputation is central to the child’s future enrolment in good, if not better, schools in the future.

Photo: house.sina

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A woman reads single men’s profiles posted on a dating board.

Guangdong, the most populous Province in Southern China, is not only a draw for migrant workers; it also draws large numbers of single women. According to a list released by dating website, jiayuan.com., Guangdong has the second largest population of “leftover women” in China, second only to Beijing. Single women aged 27+ are generally considered to be ‘leftover women”, while men aged 30+ are considered “leftover men”.

The dating site attributed the high numbers of single women to the Cities’ work pressures, fast pace and lifestyle: about 80 percent reported that their life revolved around going to work and returning home. About 30 percent said they had no time for a relationship.

According to the report, Henan is home to the highest rate of bachelors, or “leftover men”, with 74 percent. The Yangcheng Evening News cited another report, indicating that “leftover” men and women invariably work as journalists, lawyers or public relations professionals. Journalists account for almost 20 percent of the China’s total leftover population, followed closely by lawyers at 18 percent, the report said. Among leftover men, computer techs are most likely to have a hard time finding a partner because, “they are introverted and socially awkward”.

Photos: China Daily 

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China’s one child policy has long been seen as an oppressive regulation that infringes on basic human rights, however exceptions to the law have long existed for certain families, such as those from certain areas or belonging to ethnic minorities. Some predicted a baby boom once the policy was lifted on a larger scale, but that hasn’t happened.

A CCTV poll found 30 percent of parents said they are not willing to have a second child because they don’t have enough money. Of those who want to have a second kid, providing companionship for their first born was the top reason for doing so (40 percent).

China’s one-child policy mandated children to have only one child at most, however the relaxation allows any couples with a parent who is an only child to have a second kid.

China’s only-child generation is growing up with some substantial burdens. Without any other siblings, a single child will be responsible for at least four elderly adults who will need care in their old age (father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law).

China’s elderly population is growing fast and putting more demands on social welfare and medical services. In Shanghai, a third of the registered population is classified as elderly.

Photo: CCTV

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