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Greenery rises on Tiananmen Square

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:56 Written by People Daily

Shrubs will soon sprout along the east and west sides of Tian'anmen Square, replacing the existing lawn to make the capital's most famous landmark more lively, local media reported. Currently the lawns on the two sides of the square occupy 9,600 square meters of land, symbolizing the 9.6 million square kilometers of land in the country. Now the city's landscape and forestry bureau plans to replace the lawn with shrubbery, Beijing News reported on Thursday. Previously, the bureau had remo ...

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Seychellois president meets visiting Chinese vice premier on bilateral co-op

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:52 Written by People Daily

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan called on the Seychellois President James Michel at State House in Victoria on Thursday before winding up an official visit in Africa. Wang highly commended the growing bilateral ties with abundant fruits in trade, investment, tourism, culture and health care sectors, since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1976. He said that President Michel's presence at 2006 Beijing Summit of Sina-Africa Forum, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2010 Shanghai ...

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Ministrys chief engineer under investigation

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:52 Written by People Daily

The Communist Party's discipline inspection body is investigating the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for an alleged serious violation of discipline, a spokesman of the ministry told China Daily on Thursday. According to ministry spokesman Wang Lijian, the Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has recently taken away the chief engineer, Su Jinsheng, for investigation, without elaborating on charges or if anyone else was also involved. ...

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Hainan to let travelers avoid duties

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:50 Written by People Daily

Starting April 20, mainland travelers will be able to buy duty-free goods in Hainan as long as they leave the island by air and return to the mainland, the Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday. The policy will prevent mainland visitors from paying various types of taxes on up to 5,000 yuan ($762) worth of imported goods bought at selected duty-free stores on the tropical island province in South China. With the change in place, the prices of certain goods in Hainan are expected to f ...

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Chinese German FMs discuss Libyan situation over phone

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:50 Written by People Daily

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle talked on the phone Thursday over the situation in Libya. Yang expressed China's great concern over the civilian deaths resulted from the air strikes launched by Western powers, and urged an immediate cease-fire by related parties. The crisis in Libya should be resolved by dialogues on the basis of respecting Libya's sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity, he said. China supports the di ...

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Farmland being lost to road rail projects

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:49 Written by People Daily

China is facing a severe shortage of construction land, and projects including road and rail expansion plan to illegally grab 700,000 hectares of protected farmland in 2011 to meet their needs. According to a survey by the Ministry of Land and Resources, China's provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities are planning to use 1.1 million hectares of land for construction in 2011. Around 40 percent is needed for roads and railways, said Vice-Minister Yun Xiaosu during a national video con ...

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Chinese inspectors to intensify inspections against unlawful land expropriation

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:48 Written by People Daily

China's inspection and supervision authorities will step up checking unlawful and forced land expropriations and house demolitions, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The commission has ordered greater efforts to target house demolitions cases in which the supply of water, heating, gas, power and road links are cut to force homeowners to move, said the commission in a statement to Xinhua on Thursday. Local inspection and sup ...

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Chinas top legislature launches new round of inspection on food safety law implementation

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:44 Written by People Daily

The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC) launched a new round of national inspections Thursday to ensure the country's Food Safety Law is properly enforced. This is the second time for national lawmakers to tour nationwide since the Food Safety Law took effect in June 2009. The first inspection was conducted from September to December 2009, according to a statement released after the first plenary session of the inspection groups. In written instructions forwarded ...

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At least 3 killed 85 injured in train bus collision in Xinjiang

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:19 Written by People Daily

At least three people died and 85 others have been injured after a train ran into a stalled bus on Thursday morning in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to the local rescue center. The bus lost control on a turn at 9:07 a.m. and veered off the road in the regional capital of Urumuqi City. It slid for more than 20 meters on the snow-covered land, coming to a stop on the railroad tracks after crashing through a fence and knocking down an electric pole. Kurwanaim M ...

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No casualties reported in downtown Beijing fire

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:18 Written by People Daily

&$Thick smoke arises from the site where a fire broke out in Chaoyang District of Beijing, capital of China, March 24, 2011. (Xinhua/Xu Nizhi) &$&$ Firefighters said that no one had been killed or trapped after a workshed caught fire in downtown Beijing on Thursday afternoon. The fire broke out on the third floor of a three-story workshed at a construction site, north of a school in the Hujialou neighborhoo ...

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Early morning fire kills 5 in central Chinese city

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:18 Written by People Daily

A fire gutted a private rental house in a central Chinese city early Thursday morning, killing five tenants and injuring another, local fire control authorities said. The blaze erupted in the three-story house on Wuluo Road in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province, at about 1:37 a.m. and raged for half an hour before it was put out at around 2 a.m., fire fighters said. Five of the 10-plus people in the house failed to escape and later succumbed to excessive smoke. The injured resident was ...

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By chance and by design Chinese singles bump into each other to find love

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:17 Written by People Daily

Ever dreamed of meeting that perfect somebody by chance, falling in love and living happily ever after? Well, a chunk of China's urban youth have become fixated on making that romantic ideal come true by micro-blogging little details about themselves, hoping to find their Mr. or Miss Right. "I board bus 51 at Qingshuihe Stop at around 8:20 a.m., wearing a black coat, black pants and leather shoes. If you see me, please say hi," posted netizen "Lanren 11" on his twitter-like microblog. His ...

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Eleven killed two missing after NE China coal mine explosion

Friday, 25 March 2011 09:13 Written by People Daily

&$A rescuer enters the Tonggou coal mine in Baishan City, northeast China's Jilin Province, March 24, 2011. An explosion occurred at the coal mine around 8:40 a.m. Thursday, causing 11 people dead, six injured and two missing. The investigation of the reason of the explosion is underway. (Xinhua/Lin Hong)&$&$ An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China's Jilin Province on Thursday morning left 11 people dead ...

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