China Scene: East

A sow in Quanzhou, Fujian province, gave birth to a litter of 28 piglets last month.

Although two piglets died four days after being born, the remaining 26 are healthy. Wang, the owner, has to feed them in two different groups each day.

She said the sow was very heavy before it became pregnant, weighing more than 200 kg. After it became pregnant, it had a large belly and had difficulty walking.

(Strait News)

20-year-old wins top spot on village committee

A 20-year-old girl in Waidang village, Yongjia, Zhejiang province, received 200 of the 353 votes cast during an election to choose a chief for the village committee on April 17. She is one of the youngest village committee heads in China.

Hu Xiaoji, who was born on Feb 6, 1988, left the village when she was four and seldom returned. After graduating from a sports school, she returned to the village and found it very poor. Most of the young residents had left for jobs in the city and only the old remained.

She wanted to help the villagers so she competed in the village committee election. She pledged to let villagers have access to cable TV, build a path linking the mountainous village to the outside, help plant cash crops and develop the aquaculture.

Although some doubted if such a young person could lead the village on a prosperous path, most villagers who wanted a change supported her.

(Shanghai Morning Post)

Police keep quarrel from becoming gang fight

Earlier this month, Feng, a security guard at a textile factory in Changle, Fujian province, caught a man named Zhang chatting with his girlfriend in her dorm room.

He was so jealous that he cursed Zhang and drove him away. He was so unhappy that he got together a group of more than 50 people from his dormitory to surround his girlfriend, Feng.

Feng in turn called up some 50 friends to challenge Zhang and his friends.

As a fight loomed, police arrived and arrested Zhang and Feng, dispersing the crowd.

(Southeast Express)

(China Daily 05/07/2008 page6)