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China – People's Daily Online » Police drops reporter arrest warrant
Wang Shengzhong, Vice Editor-in- Chief of the Beijing-based Economic Observer, confirmed that the Suichang Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province, has been mandated to remove a reporter's name from the list of criminals wanted. Meanwhile, Wang told&$&$ People’s Daily Oline &$&$that Suichang Police Bureau canceled a visit plan to negotiate with the newspaper without explaining any reason. Suichang Police Bureau issued … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Signal system failure delays Beijing Subway Line 4 this morning
Beijing Subway Line 4 was shortly delayed this morning. The running interval time of Subway Line 4 from Haidian Huangzhuang station to the Yuanmingyuan station increased significantly at about 6:55 p.m. The initial reports blame signal instability, which caused trains to run slowly, and the running interval time of following trains increased, according to the Beijing MTR Corporation (BJMTR). Yang … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Construction of more nuclear generators kicks-off in NE China
Construction of two more nuclear power generators has started at a nuclear power station in China's northeast. Construction of the two generators at Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station began Wednesday with an investment of 25 billion yuan (3.7 billion U. S. dollars) in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. The station will have six generators once completed and will be the first nuclear … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Death toll in east China plant explosion rises to 13
The death toll in a powerful explosion at a factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing Wednesday has risen to 13 after three more bodies were found under the debris, local authorities said Thursday. &$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Water supplies resume in northeast China city
Water supplies resumed in homes around in Jilin City, northeast China, Thursday, a day after 3,000 chemical-filled barrels were washed into a major river, causing contamination fears, according to the local water company. A spokesman for the city's water affairs group denied the suspension, which began around Wednesday noon, was due to fears of chemical contamination. He said supplies were … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Tangshan mourns on 34th anniversary of earthquake
&$ &$Local citizens present bouquets of flowers before the Tangshan earthquake memorial wall On July 28.(Photo by Yang Shiyao/Xinhua)&$&$ On July 28, the 34th anniversary of the Tangshan Earthquake, people from all walks of life in Tangshan city in China’s Hebei Province, rallied at the Tangshan earthquake memorial ruins to mourn victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred in 1976 … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Mexico sees huge potential in cooperation with China: FM
Mexico and China have great potential to expand the scope of cooperation, Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said Wednesday. After rapid growth of bilateral ties over recent years, plenty of room remains for the two countries to get closer, she told Xinhua on Wednesday in an interview ahead of the fourth meeting of the Mexico-China Permanent Binational Commission. At the meeting, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Chinese envoy to attend Colombia's presidential handover
Justice Minister Wu Aiying will attend, as a special envoy of the Chinese government, the presidential handover ceremony in Colombia on Aug. 7. Wu would attend at the invitation of the Colombian government, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday. Juan Manuel Santos, candidate for the ruling Social Party of National Unity, was elected as new president of … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Heat likely to plague northern China through July
The National Meteorological Center upgraded the heat alert from blue to yellow on July 28 and predicted that the high temperatures will further spread out to more than 15 provinces, regions and cities on July 29. In addition, the temperature in areas of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Gansu will exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Compared with … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Investigative journalist on the run
A Beijing-based business newspaper pledged Wednesday to stand firm in defending one of its journalists who became a fugitive from the law following his whistle-blowing investigative report of insider trading by a Shenzhen-listed battery manufacturer in east Zhejiang Province. Qiu Ziming, a reporter with the Shanghai bureau of the Economic Observer, found himself appearing on an online na-tional list of … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China's ranks first in high-speed railway mileage
The Chinese mainland's length of high-speed railways in operation has now reached 6,900 kilometers, ranking first in the world, and the length of high-speed railways under construction has reached 10,000-plus kilometers, according to the "Seventh World High-speed Railway Conference" held by the Ministry of Railways on July 28. The high-speed railway lines, including the Beijing-Tianjin, Wuhan-Guangzhou, Zhengzhou-Xi'an and Shanghai-Nanjing lines, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Senior political advisor sacked in east China province
The provincial political advisory body in east China's Jiangxi has decided to sack its vice chairman Song Chenguang, who is under investigation for discipline violations. Song, vice chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has also been deprived of his CPPCC membership, the standing committee of the provincial advisory body said on Thursday. … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Water supply resumed in northeast China city after one-day cut
Water supply was resumed Thursday after a day's suspension in Jilin City, northeast China, where 3,000 chemical-filled barrels were washed into a major river, causing contamination fears, said a source with the local water company. The sources said the suspension was caused by "repair of water supply facilities", while tests showed the water in the Songhua River was free of … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 88% of Chinese college graduates engage in 'job-hopping'
The recent "2010 Graduate Employment Report" pointed out that more than 20 percent of 2009 college graduates quit their jobs within six months, each of the 2006 college graduates has changed jobs twice within three years and 88 percent of college graduates have quit their jobs on their own, also known as "job-hopping," according to China Youth Daily. A survey … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Three Gorges Dam withstands flood peak test again
&$ &$Water sluices down at a maximum flow rate of 56,000 cubic meters per second at 8 a.m at Three Gorges Dam in the Yichang city, Hubei Province, on July 28, 2010.&$&$ The Three Gorges Dam successfully proved itself again by holding back the flood peak in the Yangtze River on July 28. The Three Gorges Dam, which is located … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Test shows river water chemical-free after barrels swept into NE China river
&$ &$Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows barrels containing explosive chemicals in the water of the Songhua River in Jilin City of northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Chen Guoman)&$&$ The water in a river in northeast China's Jilin Province tested free of chemicals Thursday, a day after floods swept thousands of chemical-filled barrels into the waterway. A Ministry of Environmental … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Workers rush to retrieve 3,000 chemical-filled barrels in major northeast China river
&$ &$Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows barrels containing explosive chemicals in the water of the Songhua River in Jilin City of northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Chen Guoman)&$&$ Workers were racing Thursday to retrieve the 3,000 chemical-filled barrels that were swept by floods into the Songhua River in northeast China's Jilin Province. Each barrel contained 170 kilograms of chemicals, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Chinese envoy to attend Colombia's presidential handover
Justice Minister Wu Aiying will attend, as a special envoy of the Chinese government, the presidential handover ceremony in Colombia on Aug. 7. Wu would attend at the invitation of the Colombian government, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday. Juan Manuel Santos, candidate for the ruling Social Party of National Unity, was elected as new president of … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Mexico sees huge potential in cooperation with China: FM
Mexico and China have great potential to expand the scope of cooperation, Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said Wednesday. After rapid growth of bilateral ties over recent years, plenty of room remains for the two countries to get closer, she told Xinhua on Wednesday in an interview ahead of the fourth meeting of the Mexico-China Permanent Binational Commission. At the meeting, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 1,000 evacuated as fire burns at natural gas well in NW China
A gas leak caused a fire at a state-owned natural gas well in northwest China's Shaanxi Province last Friday, and the fire continues to burn, authorities said Thursday. The accident happened at 11:20 p.m. as workers drilled a gas field 2,750 meters underground in Yanchang County, said Wang Fujian, a county government publicity official. The well is operated by Yanchang … [Link]
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