Zhongnanhai is not only in the center of Beijing, but is also the center of political power in China.
For four years, He Youlin, an educator and deputy to the National People's Congress, repeatedly proposed the relaxation of China's family planning policy.
As a deputy at the National People's Congress, He Youlin has handed in more than 40 proposals to the annual two sessions during the past six years, all of them related to livelihood issues. His public work has seen He, the principal of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, gain the nickname You Min Ge, meaning a man who worries about people's lives.
As the death toll from Saturday's terrorist attack at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province rose to 29 and the number of injured topped 130, the search for the perpetrators continued.
Wang Yu and his parents arrived at the square of Kunming Railway Station at around 9:20 pm on Saturday. They were waiting for a train that would take them home to Harbin in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, when they saw a group of people dressed in black and wielding large knives.
My father phoned at 7 am on Sunday. "It's horrible! Dozens of people at a railway station were killed last night! Dozens! In Kunming!" he said.
Kunming is a favorite destination for foreign travelers and the city has a bubbling expat community.
"Fighting terrorism is a major challenge for every country and now we can see clearly that it is also a major goal of the Chinese authorities. Given the hidden nature of terrorism, it is a very difficult task to fight and prevent it, but the government should take firm action to root out terrorist activities and organizations. In the meantime, the authorities should offer as much information and communication as possible to the public as part of the efforts to fight and prevent similar attacks in the future."
The term Lao Niang Jiu, or "old uncle", a well-known character in Shanghai folklore, is frequently used by the city's residents to describe prying busybodies who are always ready to meddle in other people's affairs.
The Chinese aircraft manufacturer AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group said it has applied to the aviation authorities for permission to ground some of its (Modern Ark) MA-60 regional planes operating nationwide.
Among the world's best- known mega-cities, Beijing and Shanghai must be the only ones where house prices are still climbing rapidly, despite severe air pollution that will take years to solve.
Born and raised in Tianjin, an industrial powerhouse in northern China, Wang Jingyi has been aware of pollution since childhood.
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