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Top News
Sea change
Being the nearest to downtown Shanghai among the three islands in the Yangtze estuary, Changxing has been a popular weekend destination for people from the city. It also boasts the biggest orange plantation base in the country. From this June, the island will add another feather to its cap as it becomes the largest shipyard in the world with the completion of the first phase of a $3.6 billion project.
Fashion frenzy
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Cover
Ships shape up
In a Shanghai shipyard, a gigantic 8,530 TEU container ship is ready for its maiden voyage. At the same time, in a drydock in northeast Dalian, a 300,000-ton oil tanker is ready for delivery.
Low tide
Plugging the leaks
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Energy/Environment
Seeds of disaster
One of the greatest errors of our time is believing that increasing food production can be achieved by fighting nature. Killing all insects in an area and destroying the soil by applying vast amounts of chemicals to nurture a single crop on thousands of hectares have turned fields into sterile factories, not food-baskets.
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Charity China
Three-way dream
After standing on a lectern of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) for nearly two hours delivering a lecture, 75-year-old American Sheldon L. Glashow seems tireless and answers students' questions with a smile and humor.
No smoking
Shine a light
IN BRIEF (Page 8)
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IPR Special
Top 10 IPR events
To mark World IP Day on April 26 and China IPR Week last week, the Intellectual Property Protection in China (IPR in China) website of the Ministry of Commerce unveiled voting results for the 2007 China Top Ten IPR Events last Thursday in Beijing during a news conference.
Financial games
IN BRIEF (Page 9)
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Up Close
Breaking the rules
Shi Yuzhu has a fondness for tracksuits. He wears them in almost all occasions, even when he rang the Wall Street New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) bell celebrating the initial public offering of his company in New York last November.
Giant leap
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