A total of 53 laborers in Beijing have recently won the title of "Outstanding Beijing Peasant Worker".
Graduates in the village cadre program all wanted to reduce poverty and have a positive impact, but many simply filed papers and acted as secretaries.
Hu Yuegao, a professor at the college of agriculture and biotechnology at China Agriculture University, has directed his research focus towards cunguan, or village officials, since 2004 and published a report on the group earlier this year. He talked with METRO reporter Meng Jing about his views on the status quo and the development of the group.
Zhang Yu, 28, has worked as a village official in Beijing's countryside for more than two years. Xiaopu village, where he now works, is the central village of Songzhuang, known far and wide as China's largest artist colony. A recent record of a day in his life by METRO reporter Qin Zhongwei shows it ranges from the mundane to the rewarding:
As many as 1,000 German beer waitresses, chefs and musicians will come to Beijing to stage a month-long German-style Beijing International Beer Festival from May 1 next year.
Thousands of landlords are selling their apartments to dodge a tax that will be levied on property transfers from next year.
Wang Xin was all-smiles as she drove off in her first car, bought at the Yayuncun auto trade market in north Beijing yesterday.
Many Chinese couples are planning to marry in the 2010 lunar year, despite it being a "widow's year" and considered bad luck for brides.
A total of 50 villages located on the rural outskirts of the capital will be demolished or relocated next year, according to a meeting of the standing committee of the Party's Beijing municipal committee on Tuesday.
Not a single household in a survey of 250 from 21 communities in Haidian district agrees with a government proposal to immediately raise the price of water by 0.90 yuan to 4.60 yuan per cu m next year.
School uniforms produced by two Beijing companies and used by some major schools can lead to cancer or cause skin rashes, the city's quality supervision bureau said.
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