As one Chen Jie said in an interview with the newspaper Shanghai Daily, she constantly receives letters written to a completely different woman. "Every time I have to pass letters to her, and her office is two floors up."
The second most popular combination of surname and given name is Zhang Min, borne by 3,751 people. Zhang is the most common surname in Shanghai: it belongs to almost 900,000 residents; and Min is a very popular character meaning quickness of mind.
According to the US Daily, all these seemingly amusing coincidences actually represent a serious social problem. The government is now trying to convince the population of the need to choose more unusual names for their children, but parents are still limited by the list of standard Chinese characters.
Meanwhile, the latest report from the Chinese Statistical Bureau contains other interesting information. Thus, in Beijing there are more than 1.5 million people sharing the surname Wang. In total, China has more than 700 surnames, but in reality the vast majority bear one of the 20 most common.