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鈥?Jiang Xiaowei
How we rang in From C1
the Chinese Year
Liu Zhihui work
of the Dog the Spring Festiva
ensuring that a
Chen Zhe and room in Shangha
his four-year old A Guai Station remaine
operating condit

The 27-year-o
sponsible for
waiting room for
ly, the disabled,
women and nurs
ers, and other pe
special needs. T
has facilities i

A Guai takes the Scis
Year of the Dog town
literally. The canine
took his online Ahead o
stardom offline expert wi
at a promotional used by C
campaign on them to p
Wujiang Road
during the Spring 鈥淚 didn鈥? Festival holiday. I wanted i
鈥?Jiang Xiaowei said. 鈥淧eo
and Zhu Gang I like it w
history of
The pug whose mug
is an online sensation His ges
had to tak
Chen Zhe, 31, who find the most comfortable place, came to h
runs an ad com- anywhere, to lie down for a rest. the 12 Ch
pany in Jing鈥檃n, And he loves to eat.鈥? was hard at work Paper-c
during the Spring Early last year, Chen decided Patterns
to share his pet with others. He from pap
Festival holidays. created a set of emoticons, invit- during fe
He was involved ing people to download them on weddings
WeChat. in modern
in a campaign to
promote online celeb- The emoticons, with a cartoon- To keep
rity A Guai, who will ish A Guai in different poses, temporar
be appearing through quickly went viral, downloaded events to
March 2 on Wujiang tens of millions of times. Encour- His 鈥渟tud
Road. aged by the growing fan base, elderly.
A Guai, which literally Chen opened a WeChat account
means 鈥渇reak,鈥?is Chen鈥檚 for A Guai, which now has more 鈥淚t鈥檚 sim
four-year male pug dog. than 500,000 followers. While S
鈥淢y friend sent him to Jing鈥檃n C
me four years ago,鈥?Chen 鈥淭hey can download wallpaper nearby w
said. 鈥淗e looks strange, and for mobile phones and buy relat- traditiona
his voice sounds like grunt- ed products, like A Guai stuffed coloring i
ing pig.鈥? toys,鈥?Chen said. 鈥淭he event on Jing鈥檃n Te
Despite the dog鈥檚 somewhat Wujiang Road will be our first 鈥淲e wan
unfortunately demeanor, Chen offline promotion.鈥? ting,鈥?said
said he fell in love with the pug. landmark
鈥淗e is an optimist who lives a Cardboard cutouts of A Guai will this instil
carefree life,鈥?Chen said. 鈥淗e is be placed there for people to take
afraid of nothing, and never flees pictures. Traditional handicrafts- Gra
from bigger dogs. He can always men have been invited to open
stalls, making dough and sugar White-col
figurines and doing paper cuts. Spring Fe
especially