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'No need kids, I can live on in my ideas,' says Peking University grad

Mr Zachary Yang and Ms Sun Yi do not plan to have children. Ms Sun aims to be a university professor in future and says she does not want to set unfair expectations for any child she has. PHOTO: COURTESY OF SUN YI
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BEIJING - The one time that Ms Sun Yi, 31, thought of having a child was after she watched Pixar's animated film Coco, which featured a Mexican festival - the Day of the Dead.

A line in the film touched her. "It is said that the living can bring back the dead when they remember those who have left them," she said.

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