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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) At least 30 people died and several others were missing Friday after hail and torrential rains battered a mountainous region in northwest China, authorities said.
The storm affected around 35,000 people of Minxian county in Gansu province, Xinhua reported. At least 29 people were missing and 40 have been hospitalised.
Roads were blocked, houses collapsed, and farmland destroyed due to the extreme weather, officials said.
About 2,000 officials and 800 soldiers and militiamen have reached the region to rescue trapped villagers from storm-battered areas.
The provincial Red Cross sent 1,000 quilts and 1,000 coats to help in disaster relief efforts. The provincial finance bureau has earmarked two million yuan (around $320,000) to repair damaged facilities.
The storm disrupted power in six townships, damaged several homes, hospitals and schools, and destroyed over 7,000 hectares of crops.
Minxian is a mountainous county with a population of 450,000. It is located 150 km from Zhouqu, where a rain-triggered mudslide killed more than 1,500 people in August 2010.
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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) A 50-year-old man was executed in Beijing Friday for killing two and injuring 14 others in a stabbing spree in the Chinese capital in 2009.
Zhang Jianfei, from northeast Jilin province, was found guilty of endangering public security in Beijing’s Dashila area Sep 17, 2009, Xinhua reported.
Tourists, security guards and roadside salesmen were among the victims.
Zhang, a former worker at a primary school in Jilin, blamed his actions on him becoming emotionally distraught while looking for a job.
He said he was drunk at that time, but forensic doctors concluded after a probe that he was only slightly drunk and had the full ability to control himself.
Zhang’s death penalty was announced by a court in November 2010.
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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) China has launched a monitoring programme through which it is collecting visual information of its about 4,000 islands lying around the country, a report said.
According to the ministry of land and resources, the information is being collected via ground vehicles, planes and satellites, China Daily reported.
All the data are being processed and put into a database to strengthen island management, the report said.
The government last year released a list of uninhabited islands available for development across the country.
Ocean-related industries in China last year earned 4.56 trillion yuan (around $725 billion), an increase of 10.4 percent from 2010. This figure accounted for 9.7 percent of the country’s GDP.
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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) A man in China jumped out of his moving car to save his two-year-old daughter who had fallen out at an intersection. The driverless car eventually rammed into a tree.
The baby just suffered cuts and bruises in the May 9 incident that was captured on CCTV in Wenzhou town.
China Daily said the CCTV images show the girl opening the front door and falling on to the road as the car turns left at the intersection.
The next frame is of the driver who quickly shifts to the passenger seat and jumps from the moving vehicle.
A taxi brakes and the father picks up his daughter. The driverless car then hits a roadside tree.
The driver, named He, told police his daughter crawled from the back into the front seat which has no child safety lock.
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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) A man in China is trying to trade his two expensive dogs for a BMW car since he needs to travel with his ailing wife, a media report said.
Pan, 61, sits by the roadside in Hangzhou town along with his two pedigree Tibetan mastiffs, one golden and one black, reported China Daily citing news website Rednet.
The man, who once had as many as 100 dogs, said his wife was suffering from cancer and he now wants to trade his two best mastiffs for a BMW or other car so that he can take his wife to her hometown and other places.
“Maybe she will recover from the illness during the travel,” he was quoted as saying.
Tibetan mastiffs originate from China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau. They are large and potentially ferocious, very aggressive to strangers but placid with their owners.
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Beijing, May 11 (IANS) China’s inflation eased slightly in April as warm weather led to a drop in food prices, building up confidence that the government’s annual targets set for the area could be met.
China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 3.4 percent year on year in April, according to new data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Friday.
The growth eased slightly from the 3.6-percent rate registered in March. It hit a 20-month low of 3.2 percent in February, reported Xinhua.
The Chinese government is aiming to keep CPI increases to around 4 percent.
Food prices, which account for nearly one-third of the weighting in the calculation of China’s CPI, increased 7 percent last month from one year earlier. The growth compared to the 7.5-percent rate registered in March.
On a monthly basis, food prices dropped 0.9 percent from March, the NBS said.
Statistics from the Ministry of Commerce showed that despite a small rebound at the end of April, farm produce prices continued falling in the month, with prices of vegetables and pork significantly down.
Meanwhile, China’s Producer Price Index (PPI), a main gauge of inflation at the wholesale level, fell 0.7 percent in April from a year earlier.
The data marked another month of decline yea on year after China’s PPI saw a drop in March for the first time since December 2009, NBS data showed.
The country’s CPI climbed 3.8 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the previous year. On a monthly basis, the CPI edged down 0.1 percent in April, the NBS added.
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