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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2017/12/20/top-10-society-news-stories-of-2017/" target="_blank">Top 10 society news stories of 2017</a></h3>
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<p>Source: Sup China (12/19/17)<br />
<a href="http://supchina.com/2017/12/19/nanny-arsonists-and-maggot-infested-chicken-a-top-10-list-of-society-news-in-china-2017/">Nanny Arsonists And Maggot-Infested Chicken — A Top 10 List Of Society News In China, 2017</a><br />
By Jia Guo</p>
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<p>Search engine giant Baidu released a <a href="https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309614186294065439375&utm_source=SupChina&utm_campaign=badb43db89-20171218-442+TrumpChinaNatSec&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_caef3ab334-badb43db89-164723633" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> (in Chinese) on Monday, highlighting the most significant news, events, and people throughout the year in 2017. One of the lists in the report is the “Top 10 society events” of the year.</p>
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<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/11/27/needle-marks-and-sleeping-pills-beijings-worst-kindergarten-abuse-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beijing kindergarten scandal</a>: A high-end kindergarten in Beijing operated by the New York Stock Exchange–listed company RYB Education, was accused of child abuse in November.</li>
<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/06/15/kindergarten-explosion-kills-least-8-injures-66-chinas-latest-political-current-affairs-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kindergarten explosion</a>: At least eight people were killed and 66 were injured in an explosion on June 15 outside a kindergarten in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38793011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tiger attack</a>: A man was mauled to death by a tiger when he entered into its enclosure at a zoo in Ningbo in January.</li>
<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/08/24/doubts-misuse-donations-kidnapped-chinese-scholar-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zhang Yingying missing</a>: Zhang Yingying 章莹颖, a 26-year-old Chinese citizen, <a href="http://supchina.com/2017/07/03/man-arrested-chinese-scholars-disappearance-u-s-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went missing</a> on June 9 near the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a visiting scholar. A man was arrested for her abduction, and the police presume she is no longer alive, although they have not yet found her remains.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/chinese-court-debt-collector-ruling.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Man killed creditor who had harassed his mother</a>: A court in eastern China’s Shandong Province sentenced a 22-year-old man to five years in prison for killing a debt collector who had harassed his mother. The case stirred heated debate nationwide about family honor and filial piety.</li>
<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/05/30/dongguan-zhengzhou-become-first-tier-cities-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China’s </a><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/05/30/dongguan-zhengzhou-become-first-tier-cities-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new first-tier cities</a>: On May 25, financial news group <em>Yicai</em> released its <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/c4OvVBT_yJ103V2hmYzIqA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2017 ranking of Chinese cities</a> (in Chinese) according to their business appeal. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen stayed in their top four positions as “first-tier cities.” Following them are 15 “new first-tier cities,” listed in the following order: <a href="http://supchina.com/2017/02/14/supchina-guide-chengdu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chengdu</a>, <a href="http://supchina.com/2017/01/25/supchina-hangzhou-directory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hangzhou</a>, Wuhan, Chongqing, Nanjing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Xi’an, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Dalian, Dongguan, and Ningbo.</li>
<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/06/29/case-nanny-arsonist-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nanny arsonist in Hangzhou</a>: On June 22, a mother and her three children in Hangzhou were killed in a fire set by the family’s nanny in their luxury apartment. The 34-year-old woman was arrested by the police on charges of arson and theft.</li>
<li><a href="http://news.china.com/socialgd/10000169/20170524/30561776.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maggot-infested KFC chicken</a>: In May, a woman in Zhejiang Province claimed that the chicken she bought from a KFC store was infested with maggots. She gave photos of the maggot-riddled chicken to Chinese media.</li>
<li><a href="http://supchina.com/2017/10/25/dead-young-men-pyramid-schemes-chinas-latest-society-culture-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pyramid scheme company</a>: In July, two young men who were involved in a pyramid scheme on the recruitment website <a href="https://www.zhipin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boss Zhipin</a> were found dead. The incident have sparked an uproar over pyramid scheme gangs in China, and prompted <a href="http://supchina.com/2017/08/15/government-cracks-pyramid-schemes-shares-herbalife-nu-skin-tumble-chinas-latest-business-technology-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a nationwide crackdown</a> in August.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1783933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School bullying</a>: In September, 14 Chinese girls, aged 15 to 17, were sentenced to time in military-style training camps for bullying by Tongzhou District People’s Court in Beijing.</li>
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