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• Over 700 Shanghai officials punished in 2012
• HK welcomes touring Spring Festival show
• Cities see excessive pollution during holiday
• Beijing to construct new subway line
• Shanghai official probed over property
• 110 released from bird flu quarantine
• Chinese cities see excessive air pollution during holiday
• China leads successful wildlife crime crackdown
• NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation
• Holiday road travel favored due to free-pass policy
• Shanghai official probed over property
• Holiday road travel favored due to free-pass policy
• Shanghai official probed over property
• Abu Dhabi int'l defense fair starts on big note
• Beijing to construct new subway line
• NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation
• 110 released from bird flu quarantine
• SW China anti-graft official falls to death
• Police nab 17,900 suspects during holiday
• NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation

Over 700 Shanghai officials punished in 2012 Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST SHANGHAI - A total of 704 officials in Shanghai were punished in 2012 for administrative or Communist Party of China (CPC) discipline violations, local discipline authorities said Sunday. Among the officials, 73 have been transferred to judicial authorities on suspicions of legal violations, according to a plenary session of the municipal disciplinary committee of the CPC. Han Zheng, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC, said the public is most concerned about the issue of corruption, which is also the issue most harmful to the CPC. Han, also a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, vowed to take substantial measures in the fight against corruption.

HK welcomes touring Spring Festival show Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST A global performance tour featuring Chinese acrobatics, songs and dances received a warm welcome and applause from audience members in Hong Kong after a performance in the city's Convention and Exhibition Center Sunday night. More than 30 artists, including popular Chinese singers Dong Wenhua and Yan Weiwen, performed a selection of classic Chinese songs and dances to a packed audience of roughly 8,000, including Tung Chee-hwa, first chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The grand show, titled Culture of China, Festival of Spring, is part of a global tour launched in 2009 by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of China's State Council to entertain overseas Chinese during the Chinese New Year season. This season, 11 performance troupes will visit 57 cities around the world with large overseas Chinese populations. The annual show has taken the stage in Hong Kong since 2011 and has grown in popularity and influence, according to Yu Guochun, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Overseas Chinese Associations. "In 2011, the event was mainly known within the overseas Chinese community," said Yu. "This year, we've received support from 157 institutions and organizations." The global tour will move on to cities like Auckland, Sydney and Los Angeles before it ends in Macao in March.

Cities see excessive pollution during holiday Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST BEIJING - Festival fireworks caused readings of PM2.5 to skyrocket in many cities during the Spring Festival holiday, indicating worsened air quality, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said. Figures released Sunday by the ministry show that 42.7 percent of 74 Chinese cities reported higher-than-normal PM2.5 reading. The highest average reading in a single day was 426 micrograms per cubic meter, or 5.7 times the country's standard of 75 micrograms. PM2.5 refers to fine particulate matter that is 2.5 microns or less in diameter. PM2.5 readings were excessive in all 74 cities for about half of the holiday period, which lasted from February 9 to 15, the ministry said. North China's Tianjin muicipality saw PM2.5 level hit 577 micrograms per cubic meter from 10 a.m. February 9, or Lunar New Year's Eve, to 2 a.m. February 10. The readings were the highest among all 74 cities. According to the ministry, a certain proportion of the cities also saw excessive readings for PM10 and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The ministry blamed fireworks and unfavorable weather conditions for the worsened air quality.

Beijing to construct new subway line Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST BEIJING - Construction of a new subway line will start next month in Beijing to help ease traffic in the Chinese capital. The No.16 Line, which will link the Yongfeng high-tech industrial base in the north with Lugouqiao town in the south, will pass through downtown Beijing. It is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2016, the Beijing City Subway Construction Management Company announced Sunday. The line with 24 stations, including 11 transfer stations, will be 36 km long. It will cost about 36 billion yuan (5.78 billion U.S.dollars), according to the company. Beijing added four new lines to its operation on December 30, 2012, bringing its track length to 442 kilometers, the country's longest. The city's subway system is expected to carry approximately 10 million passengers daily this year, surpassing the world's busiest subway in Moscow, which transports 9 million passengers each day, according to statistics from Beijing's transportation department. By 2015, the number of subway lines in Beijing will reach 19, with a combined length of 561 km. By 2020, the total subway length is expected to increase to 1,000 km.

Shanghai official probed over property Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST SHANGHAI - Authorities in east China's Shanghai said on Sunday they are investigating a local official after he was reported to own a large villa, a property that would usually be out of the financial reach of such an individual. A recent Internet post claimed Lu owned a large house on 2,000 square meters of land. An initial probe showed the main building of Lu Ming, deputy head of the Pudong New District government, had a floor area of 247 square meters with a 63-square-meter affiliated one-story house, said a Shanghai discipline inspection source. Lu's family built the house in their own dwelling place, said the source, adding authorities were continuing the investigation. The surrounding walls of the house and land have been dismantled after the exposure. Several officials have been targeted with the exposure of their property scandals by whistle-blowers in China since last year as the ruling party vows to continue fighting corruption. In early February, a police officer was dismissed by authorities as he reportedly owned 192 houses with double national identity cards.

110 released from bird flu quarantine Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:10 AM PST GUIYANG - A total of 110 people who had close contact with two patients contracted avian influenza H5N1 in Southwest China's Guizhou province earlier this month have been released from quarantine, local health authorities announced on Sunday. Two residents of the provincial capital of Guiyang were reported to have contracted the H5N1 virus on February 8. The health authority put 110 people who had close contact with the two patients under quarantine, according to the provincial government's emergency response office. They were released as no abnormal symptoms were discovered. One patient, a 21-year-old woman, died of multiple organ failure on Wednesday. The other patient, a 31-year-old man, is still receiving medical treatment. No new avian influenza H5N1 cases have been reported, according to the office. The human-transmissible form of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is an acute respiratory infectious disease mainly caused by the deadly H5N1 virus subtype. Main symptoms include high fever and pneumonia. Human infections of bird flu are usually caused by the transmission from poultry to humans. There have been no reported cases of sustained human-to-human transmission.

Chinese cities see excessive air pollution during holiday Posted: 17 Feb 2013 05:28 AM PST Festival fireworks caused readings of PM2.5 to skyrocket in many cities during the Spring Festival holiday, indicating worsened air quality, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.

China leads successful wildlife crime crackdown Posted: 17 Feb 2013 04:04 AM PST Over 200 wildlife product trafficking cases were cracked and more than 100 criminal suspects apprehended in a multinational crackdown, China's wildlife watchdog said Sunday.

NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation Posted: 17 Feb 2013 05:45 AM PST The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon.

Holiday road travel favored due to free-pass policy Posted: 17 Feb 2013 03:03 AM PST Trips made by passenger vehicles nearly doubled during the Spring Festival holiday compared with the same period last year, boosted by the toll-free policy, the country's transportation authorities said on Sunday.

Shanghai official probed over property Posted: 17 Feb 2013 01:52 AM PST Authorities in east China's Shanghai said on Sunday they are investigating a local official after he was reported to own a large villa, a property that would usually be out of the financial reach of such an individual.

Holiday road travel favored due to free-pass policy Posted: 17 Feb 2013 04:57 AM PST Trips made by passenger vehicles nearly doubled during the Spring Festival holiday compared with the same period last year, boosted by the toll-free policy, the country's transportation authorities said on Sunday.

Shanghai official probed over property Posted: 17 Feb 2013 04:57 AM PST Authorities in east China's Shanghai said on Sunday they are investigating a local official after he was reported to own a large villa, a property that would usually be out of the financial reach of such an individual.

Abu Dhabi int'l defense fair starts on big note Posted: 17 Feb 2013 04:57 AM PST The biennial International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) 2013, which starts here Sunday, doubled in size compared to 2011 and puts this year a special focus on naval defense and unmanned aerial systems.

Beijing to construct new subway line Posted: 17 Feb 2013 03:29 AM PST Construction of a new subway line will start next month in Beijing to help ease traffic in the Chinese capital.

NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation Posted: 17 Feb 2013 12:08 AM PST The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon.

110 released from bird flu quarantine Posted: 17 Feb 2013 12:55 AM PST A total of 110 people who had close contact with two patients contracted avian influenza H5N1 in southwest China's Guizhou Province earlier this month have been released from quarantine, local health authorities announced on Sunday.

SW China anti-graft official falls to death Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:39 PM PST An anti-graft official in southwest China's Sichuan Province died Sunday morning after falling off a building, local authorities said.

Police nab 17,900 suspects during holiday Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:48 PM PST Police caught more than 17,900 people suspected of committing crimes during the Spring Festival holiday.

NE China's first nuclear power plant starts operation Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:52 PM PST The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon.

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