Perhaps. As border patrol tightens, distribution supply chains have been forced to adapt. God knows your upstairs neighbor may be rented out to makeshift meth labs.

Are sewage in Kunming being refitted with wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) systems? Forget about facial recognition AI, our piss & poop could now be analyzed, nec vi, nec clam, nec precario:

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Ms. Li took home the finish line ribbon. Not many among us can achieve such a monumental feet (pun intended).

She should kuaidi the ribbon back to her parents in Lincang. Typical, traditional Chinese parents will proudly brag to family & acquaintances of their daughter's running accolades, albeit disapproving in front of her for going off the beaten track so to speak.

Hopefully she'll garner greater visibility and sponsorships in the future!

The deposit-free standard of this industry will thwart market entries by new players w/ smaller balance sheets.

You may have noticed another turquoise colored bikes that entered the bike-sharing market. These deposit-free bikes are called "Qingju," and is launched by Didi Chuxing car hailing app (450 million registered users with 20 million car hailing orders a day).

Didi, who was also Ofo's largest 25% stakeholder, will integrate with money-stricken Bluegogo, among others smaller bike-sharing service platforms. Their spinoff turquoise Qingju bikes (one month free) are here to compete with Tencent backed Mobike, which just announced the refund all deposits back to riders. That's 1 billion rmb (US$150 million worth of deposits. Fyi, Meituan's (food delivery app) acquired Mobike not long ago for US$2.7 billion.

Btw, the aforementioned bike graveyard has been cleared.