Beijing was covered by smog on Friday with the China Environmental Monitoring Center’s reading showed the air quality ranging between poor and hazardous in the city, signifying the first air pollution spike of the new year. Weather forecast authorities in the capital issued a yellow alert at 5 pm on Friday, warning that heavy...
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Some 5,000 local people, including soldiers, police and workers, have been involved in the cleanup in Changzhi, Shanxi province after the aniline leak. By Wednesday, 670 tons of contaminated ice and more than 750 tons of wastewater had been removed. Zhang Wei / China Daily The Changzhi aniline spill wasn’t the only safety incident...
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Shanxi province has announced that it now has 11 cities that have work on a digital city construction project. Of the 11, Taiyuan, Jincheng, Jinzhong, and Yangquan have already hit the construction target, while the seven others — Changzhi, Datong, Xinzhou, Shuozhou, Yuncheng, Linfen, and Lvliang – will get to work on the digital...
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TAIYUAN, (Xinhua) — The company whose recent aniline leakage aroused great concern in north China’s Shanxi Province was ordered to suspend production for safety overhaul, a senior provincial official announced Tuesday. Li Xiaopeng, acting governor of the coal-rich province, said the provincial government ordered the Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group to stop all production...
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Shanxi now ranks sixth in culture industry development, according to a 2012 culture industry development index of Chinese provinces and cities compiled by Renmin University and the Culture Ministry’s culture industry department, and published at the end of December 2012, Shanxi Daily reported on Jan 6. The index of Chinese provinces and cities is...
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Xinhua/Zuma Press After a dangerous chemical spill polluted north China waterways–and delays in reporting it raised the specter of the second cover-up of an industrial accident in weeks in Shanxi province–the problem is seeping into the political system. In the latest incident, nine tons of a 39-ton spill of the chemical aniline from a...
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As part of China’s 12th Five-year Plan (2011-16), Shanxi province has its own 12fth Five-year Plan for New Industrialization, which includes an Industrial Park and Industrial Demonstration Base Construction, at a cost of 200 billion to 300 billion yuan, as well as more than 10 other demonstration bases, for more than 10 billion yuan....
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The Shanxi Brave Dragons have lost one of their leading players, but have apparently already found a replacement. Prolific scorer Marcus Williams was banned for using drugs this week, but the Brave Dragons’ General Manager, Ma Lianmin, said the club has already found a new foreigner to replace Williams, but he declined to provide...
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BEIJING — Drivers in China are seeing red over a new crackdown on running through intersections when the lights are yellow. While announcing new rules that double the penalty for traffic light violations, officials also have stressed that running a yellow light will now be considered equivalent to running a red one. Drivers accustomed...
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By Sharon Kwok While big cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong let off beautiful fireworks, a small village in Jishan, Shanxi province chose to ring in the New Year by throwing a dog fighting competition. The competition was held on New Year’s Day by a local stone industries company, with famous dogs of different...
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