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CX Daily: The Grueling Fight to Get China’s Depressed Teens Back to School

Published: May. 28, 2026 9:00 a.m. GMT+8

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This marks the third year since Xuan Xia, a student from Nanning in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was diagnosed with depression, and her second year out of school.

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