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Daydream believers lift 'lunch-break economy'

By ZHANG XIAOMIN in Dalian, Liaoning | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2026-04-27 00:00
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From massages, cinema naps to oxygen therapy, workers find healing window

Contestants rest on a lawn in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on March 21. The sleep competition invited 1,000 participants to set aside their phones and focus on healthy sleep by wearing masks and earplugs, aiming to raise awareness of sleep health. WANG SHUCHENG/FOR CHINA DAILY

At 12:00 pm on a Wednesday, Lin Yihan, a 43-year-old legal counsel at a firm in Dalian, Liaoning province, is lying fully reclined in a massage shop a 10-minute walk from her office.

Soft ambient music plays. An eye mask covers her face. She has paid 100 yuan ($14.7) to escape the open-plan office and be somewhere that is not her home or workplace for the next 60 minutes.

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