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On November 6, during the local People's Congress representative elections in parts of Beijing, multiple voters reported receiving cash subsidies and daily necessities at the neighborhood committee sites.

The Jiangxi Pingxiang Provincial Games cost over 100 million, with sponsorship fees apportioned to banks and urban investment companies; the opening ceremony is restricted to those inside the system, with 1.8 million citizens competing for 700 tickets.

On November 2, Shanghai University of Engineering Science notified that classes would be suspended for half a day on November 16 to facilitate the district-level People's Congress representative election, organizing teachers and students to participate in the voting, and requiring affected courses to make up for the progress; previously, East China Normal University had also announced a daytime class suspension for the same day.

On November 4, Ministry of Civil Affairs data showed that 4.648 million couples registered for marriage in the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year decrease of 504,000 pairs, a drop of 9.78%, with the third-quarter decline widening to 14.9%, while divorce registrations increased slightly to 2.082 million pairs.

Regarding rumors of a seven-year consecutive decline of 83 million in resident medical insurance enrollment, National Healthcare Security Administration official Zhang Chenguang explained on November 5 that it was due to clearing duplicate data, transfers to employee medical insurance, and population decline, which is a reasonable decrease.

On November 6, the NPC Standing Committee voted to pass the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, consisting of 6 chapters and 47 articles, effective immediately, providing a legal basis for recovering fugitive assets.

On November 3, Shanghai Bendibao reported that starting in 2030, the minimum contribution period for pensions will be gradually increased from 15 to 20 years. Netizens in the comments section mocked the policy, pointing out that social security has become equivalent to a tax.

On November 4, the fourth day of Shenzhen's new anti-honking regulation, drivers are afraid to honk and can only shout or get out of their cars to knock on windows to warn pedestrians to move aside; netizens complain it's becoming increasingly surreal.

On October 27, the Election Committee of Gong County, Yibin, Sichuan, issued a document stating that all preliminary candidates for the new session of county and township people's congress representatives were selected from a pool of approximately 2,200 people coordinated by the County Party Committee Organization Department, and all candidates were jointly vetted by departments including the discipline inspection commission and the police (Public Security).

On November 2, the draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of China was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for deliberation, proposing to explicitly write 'prohibition of presumption of guilt' into the law for the first time and to narrow the scope of application for residential surveillance at a designated location.