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Red Cross has 3.5m volunteers in China

The nation's Red Cross currently boasts nearly 3.5 million registered volunteers and 34,000 volunteer service organizations, the Red Cross Society of China said on Monday. This year alone, the Red Cross has mobilized rescue teams on 2,580 occasions, involving a total of 29,921 personnel and volunteers, Wang Bin, vice-president of the Red Cross, said during a news conference. This year, the Red Cross also conducted 4.25 million emergency rescue certification training sessions and installed 86,000 automated external defibrillators in schools, communities, bus stations and other public facilities.

Former Ningxia official sentenced for bribery

Qi Tongsheng, former chairman of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes worth 111 million yuan ($15.76 million) by the Nanning Intermediate People's Court in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Tuesday. It was found that between January 2004 and November 2021, Qi leveraged his varied positions to assist enterprises and individuals with mining license issuance, project registration and approval, and project contracting.

China Daily