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China sets up property registration conference
China’s State Council approved on February 28 to set up a cross-ministry joint conference working on the establishment of a unified property registration system. The conference will coordinate major issues concerning the establishment and implementation of a proposed property registration system. China aims to build a unified property registration system to curb speculation at the property market.
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Xi heads Internet security group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group. Xi stressed that Internet security and informatization is a major strategic issue concerning a country’s security and development as well as people’s life and work. “Efforts should be made to build our country into a cyber power,” Xi said.
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Five dead, 35 injured in China bus fire
Five people were killed and 35 others injured in a fire that broke out in a bus on February 27 in Guiyang City of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The provincial publicity department confirmed that the number of injured had risen to 35, and the injured have been rushed to four separate local hospitals. The provincial publicity department confirmed with Xinhua that the number of injured had risen to 35, and the injured have been rushed to four separate local hospitals.
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Chinese scientists plan better machine to hunt “God particle”
Chinese scientists are planning to build a better electron-positron collider, the latest effort in exploring the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” a Chinese research body said on February 25. The hunt for the Higgs boson has been a focus of particle physics research for decades. Scientists believe the particle does exist and its discovery is merely a matter of time. The machine is aimed at accurately measuring the nature of the Higgs particle and exploring the regularity of fundamental physics.
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Forbidden City shelters stray cats to scare away mice
Walking on his tiptoes, Ping’an strolls through Beijing’s Forbidden City, his suspecting eyes glowing in the dark of the palace that once housed emperors and their concubines. For years, the cat has roamed the empty lanes of the former royal palace after it has closed its doors to visitors, in search of his archenemy: mice. Some 200 cats have in recent years found a home in the Forbidden City.
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Pilgrims celebrate Sera Bengqin Festival in Lhasa
Although the Tibetan New Year is still days away, pilgrims in Tibet are already basking in festivity as they celebrated the Sera Bengqin Festival on February 26. At around 11 a.m., Tibetan Buddhists, with traditional white Hada scarves in hand, began a slow march while praying in a line stretching for kilometers outside the Sera Monastery, a renowned religious site in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Chinese president meets Trinidad and Tobago PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on February 26 and they pledged to boost cooperation between the two countries. Recalling his state visit to Trinidad and Tobago in June last year, Xi said he was deeply impressed with the hospitality of the Trinidadian people and that he was glad to see the consensus reached then with Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar being implemented in recent months.
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Xi’s smogbound hutong tour boosts populist image
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Beijing’s hutongs in the heavy smog on February 25, calling for strengthened efforts to address pollution and improved city management. Such a visit by Chinese leaders is rare, but it is not the first time Xi has made such a surprise appearance among ordinary people, moves that show his populist approach. Xi visited trendy Nanluoguxiang Hutong and walked along the banks of a nearby river.
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Shanghai relaxes one-child policy
Shanghai’s legislature on February 25 passed an amendment to relax the city’s birth control policy, becoming the sixth region nationwide to allow couples to have a second child if either parent is an only child. Currently about 370,000 families in Shanghai are eligible for the eased policy. The amendment will go into effect on March 1.
