A 10-year-old girl from Langfang, Hebei province in northern China started buying gold with her Lunar New Year lucky money three years ago. Her mother, Bai, said the girl began this in 2023 to prevent her parents from spending the money. She believes gold is easier to save than cash. The girl usually gets about 4,000 yuan (US$580) every year in red envelopes during the Spring Festival. When she first bought gold, the price was about 460 yuan (US$66) per gram. By February this year, it rose to 1,100 yuan per gram. Gold prices in China have jumped roughly 60 percent over the past year and nearly 30 percent just in January, driven by geopolitical tensions, US tariff threats, and central banks buying more gold. On January 30, gold prices fell sharply by more than 9 percent, the biggest one-day drop since 1983. This made many Chinese rush to gold stores to cash out. Bai revealed her daughter owns around 30 grams of gold and has not sold any yet. She plans to keep buying more. On social media, the girl is called “genius,” “the blessed investor,” and “the girl who travels back in time.” Many joked with Bai about her daughter’s next big investment. Bai replied, “Let me ask my daughter if she can predict the next gold rush.” Bai said her daughter is a better investor than her and she regrets not buying gold sooner. Online fans praised the girl as a future businesswoman and admired her smart use of lucky money: “We all remember our parents using up our lucky money when we were young.”