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Written by admin on 15 May 2012
Beijing, May 15 (IANS) China will spend 600 million yuan ($95 million) over the next three years to protect Hongjiannao Lake, the country’s largest desert freshwater lake, from shrinking, authorities announced Tuesday.
Hongjiannao has been included by the finance ministry on a list of national lake preservation projects, reported Xinhua.
The lake has shrunk by over 40 percent in the past 15 years. It covered 7,000 hectares in 1996, but has shrunk to 4,000 hectares, and its water level is falling by 60 cm annually, data from the lake’s management committee showed.
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Written by admin on 15 May 2012
Beijing, May 15 (IANS) The outlook for China’s foreign trade remained grim but the full-year target of a 10-percent rise is still achievable, authorities said Tuesday.
The country might register a trade surplus in 2012, which will narrow from last year’s trade surplus of $155.14 billion, Ministry of Commerce (MOC) spokesperson Shen Danyang said at a press conference in Beijing.
“China’s foreign trade will be basically balanced this year with a small surplus,” Xinhua quoted Shen as saying.
As for April’s weak trade data, shrinking external demand, rising labour and raw material costs and increasing trade frictions weighed on export growth, Shen added.
“The external demand was worse than expected. Demand from the European Union [EU], the country’s biggest trade partner, dropped significantly,” he said.
China’s exports to the EU dropped two percent year-on-year in April, according to official data.
Slowing domestic demand, a moderation in the processing trade and falling global commodity prices slowed China’s import growth in April, Shen noted.
China’s exports rose 4.9 percent year-on-year in April, down from the 8.9-percent increase registered in the previous month. Import growth fell to 0.3 percent from 5.3 percent in March.
The country’s trade surplus expanded to $18.4 billion last month.
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Written by admin on 15 May 2012
Beijing, May 15 (IANS) The outlook for China’s foreign trade remained grim but the full-year target of 10 percent rise will still be possible to achieve, authorities said Tuesday.
The country might register a trade surplus in 2012, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shen Danyang said, reported Xinhua.
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Written by admin on 14 May 2012
Beijing, May 14 (IANS) A woman teacher in China lost both of her legs while trying to save students from an uncontrolled bus outside the school.
Zhang Lili, a 29-year-old teacher at a school in Heilongjiang province, also suffered major fractures of her lumbar vertebrae, weight-bearing portion of the back, and pelvis in the accident, People’s Daily reported Monday.
The accident happened last Tuesday when some students were walking to a van and two buses lined up to take students home.
The bus at the end suddenly lurched forward and hit the other bus, pushing it toward the van and a car in the opposite lane. Several students were passing between the van and the bus.
Zhang, who was crossing the road, rushed to the students and pulled them to safety. But she was knocked down and the bus ran over her legs.
At the hospital, doctors had to amputate her legs to save her life.
She was in stable but critical condition after being moved to a larger hospital.
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Written by admin on 14 May 2012
Beijing, May 14 (IANS) Rescue workers in China’s Shanghai city Monday saved a man who attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the top of a bridge.
The man, who appeared to be aged, climbed to the top of the bridge around 8 a.m. and was sitting on it facing the Huangpu river, said witnesses.
He was trying to jumping off the 107-metre-long, steel-based Waibaidu Bridge, over the Suzhou Creek, Shanghai Daily reported.
Rescuers cordoned off two of the three lanes on the bridge during the morning rush hour.
While police officers kept him engaged in talk, firefighters inflated a large air cushion underneath the man, said witnesses.
As the negotiators were still talking, two rescuers approached the man from behind and took him under control, and finally brought him down safely.
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Beijing, May 14 (IANS) Police in the Chinese capital were on a rare mission last week-end — to catch, on the municipal authorities’ order, a stray that had dug its canines in 30 people in the Beijing city.
Police officers in six districts of the capital were on high-profile chase from Saturday after the municipal public security bureau ordered them to use monitoring devices and other tools to capture the dog, according to the bureau’s website.
The dog was finally caught, the China Daily reported.
Two patrolling policemen managed to nab the dog in the city’s Fengtai district Sunday afternoon. They later confirmed canine’s identity from residents, said an official.
“Later, we sent the dog to the capital’s agricultural department. Our police saw it lying on the community ground at about 5.00 p.m. Sunday,” official Liu Chunjiang added.
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