Front Page: August 1

The Beijing city government has opened six fields of infrastructure construction projects including rail transit, urban road and waste water disposal to private contractors from the State-owned monopoly, reports Beijing Youth Daily.

Amid the lingering heat wave, Shanghai Morning Post has published seven proposals to guide the residents' behavior to help the city suffer less from the scorching days. They bizarrely include not running a red light to ease a traffic policeman's job, not dropping litter carelessly to reduce cleaners' work, refraining from online shopping to alleviate the burden of delivery drivers and sharing cars with your colleagues to reduce emission and ease the traffic.

The Southern Metropolis Daily asked its readers in Guangzhou about the locations of the 18 old city gates that were demolished in 1918 and due to be reconstructed. It released five locations for the 18.

A woman from Chongqing who traveled to neighboring Guizhou province to escape the hot weather unexpectedly found a relative at the rural villa where she stayed, who is her female cousin, and was abducted by human traffickers 40 years ago, Chongqing Morning Post reports.

Wuhan city government has seen a sharp decline in spending on official receptions and overseas trips, respectively down by 40 percent to 15.7 million yuan and 24 percent to 7.8 million yuan, reports Chutian Metropolis Daily.

About 40 percent of schools in Chengdu reject the public's access to its exercise facilities during the summer vacation despite the city's regulations to require all schools to open its exercise facilities to public for at least eight hours a day during annual summer holidays, Chengdu Evening News said.

Thanks to the swelling amount of applicants, a well-known primary school has to expand its enrollment plan by increasing one first grade class and expanding class numbers from 42 students to 51, which is contrary to other ordinary schools, reported Qianjiang Evening News.

Residents in Nanjing city may be free to take the bus and subway if they have the same-day ticket for the Asian Youth Games which will open on August 16, Modern Express reports.