Trending: Ferrari stands out in Jinan shantytown

Ferrari stands out in Jinan shantytown, Chengguan officers use eye contact to ward off customers and world's tallest towers to go up in Wuhan, it's all trending now across China. 

Ferrari stands out in Jinan shantytown

A young man in his twenties somehow has managed to buy a Ferrari sports car although he is not rich and lives in a shantytown in east China, iqilu.com reported Friday.

The presence of the Italian sports car presents a striking contrast to the run-down area where Zheng Jiajun lives in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province.

Growing up in his impoverished neighborhood, which has been referred to as a shanytown, Zhang earned a lot of money in 2009 from selling high-end imported screws for mountain bikes. He once earned 300,000 yuan ($48,000) a day on his best day, and his brisk business continued for an entire month.

He enjoys showing off his wealth and the luxurious side of his life on social networking sites like WeChat and Sina Weibo.

"I have no way to be low-key. If I had a hundred million yuan, I don't have to be high profile." he explained to reporters, "I am not the son of a millionaire. Without a good background, who would ever take notice of me if I kept a low profile?"

Phoenix Towers to be built in Wuhan

A pair of towers, which could become the world's tallest structures, will be built in central China's Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province, people.cn reported on Friday.

Designed by the UK architecture firm Chetwoods, the 1 kilometer-tall Phoenix Towers will cover seven hectares of ground on a 47-hectare site situated on an island in a lake in the center of the capital. The twin towers were named after a pair of mythical Chinese birds – a male "feng" and the female "Huang."

The project is still awaiting final approval from the Wuhan government before construction can begin.

Chengguan officers use eye contact to enforce urban order in Xi'an

50 urban management officials, or chengguan, set upon an illegal open air barbeque stand Thursday and used eye contact to persuade customers to leave, instead of resorting to violence.

Chengguan officers, who are supposed to enforce urban order, explained to the customers why the eatery operating in the street violated city regulations in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province. After 45 minutes, all of the customers at the stand's six tables left.

Chengguan, which literally means "city managers," regularly make the news, at home and abroad, usually for unpleasant encounters with the public. They were ranked as China's least popular officials in a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences earlier this month.

Birds killed during demolition

A total of 5,000 sand martins were killed due to a relocation project in a village in central China's Henan province, Zhengzhou evening news reported on Friday.

Two thirds of the slope at a construction site, which has been nesting by the sand martins was destroyed, and the dead birds could be seen everywhere along with several unhatched eggs.

According to one previous report, the construction had been halted for some time due to the large number of sand martins nesting in the slope.

Father forgives man who killed his son in Beijing

A man in Yanqing county of Beijing who killed two friends after drinking escaped the death penalty because one victim's father forgave him, Beijing Times reported on Friday.

The father asked for leniency from the judge, saying that he doesn't want the killer's parents to lose their son as well. The judge gave the killer a death sentence with a two-year reprieve.

Laboratory playing host to mosquitoes in Chongqing

A laboratory has been set up to feed a large number of mosquitoes, Chongqing Evening News reported on Friday. The lab, located in the life science college of Chongqing Normal University, is for scientific research, development of pesticides and finding new means to control mosquito populations. According to Chen Bin, professor and director of the college who has studied mosquitoes for more than 20 years, the lab has ideal conditions for mosquitoes and harbors insects of all ages - eggs, larvae, pupae and adults.

City halts construction of 'embarrassing' temple in Jiangxi

The Nanchang government has called a halt to a temple construction project because of local residents' objections.

The government planned to pull down two temples for monks and one for nuns and merge them into a new temple called Nanhai Xinggong. The principals of the temples are strongly against the plan because they want to keep their independence. They also regard putting monks and nuns together as "very embarrassing".

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Father, son arrested for hidden camera in Jiangxi

The police in Wanzai county in Jiangxi province arrested two men for allegedly using a hidden camera to record the delivery of various items of value to the home of a county official, Southern Metropolis Daily reported on Friday. Wang Donggen and Wang Jinliang, a father and son, went to Fengchuan township in Fengxin county on Sept 18 and used the camera at the home of Chen Hong, magistrate of Wanzai county. The pair were arrested in October. The police accused them of extortion.