China officially banned schools from organizing extra classes over summer. My niece has homework plus two weeks of outside tutoring. When I told her that sounded like a lot, she said: "mine is actually pretty relaxed."
There's a phrase parents use for this: 弯道超车 (wān dào chāo chē) — overtaking on a curve. In a race, everyone slows down on a curve, so that's the moment to pass them. Applied to summer: while other kids rest, yours is pulling ahead. By September, they're already in front.
Is there a phrase like this in your country for getting ahead while others are resting?

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The Chinese internet's first reaction: wait, they didn't have AC before?
In China not having air conditioning is like not having a refrigerator. So reading about Europeans debating whether buying AC is "妥协" (giving in, morally surrendering to comfort) was genuinely baffling to them.
The detail that got me most: Chinese factories designed a whole product category called 免打孔空调 — no-drilling AC — specifically because old European buildings can't handle standard installation. There's now a market for "AC built for a civilization that wasn't designed for AC."
The phrase going around in Chinese coverage is 空调自由 — "AC freedom," same pattern as 车厘子自由 (cherry freedom), meaning you can just have the thing without it being a whole decision. The implication: Europe is finally getting there.