Illustrations: Ruohan Wang

BREAKING BAO

Jackpot

How two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China’s biggest bank robbery of all time

Handan is an industrial city of three million people in northern China, about a two hour bullet train ride from Beijing. Pollution from coal-burning factories regularly fills the sky and blots out the sun. On April 16, 2007, the fuzzy, grey star had just set…