China Scene: Central
Zoo's race to save rare turtle from extinction
An 80-year-old rare spotted turtle thought to be one of five left in the world will be sent from its home at Changsha Zoo in Hunan's provincial capital to Suzhou Zoo in Jiangsu Province to match it with a potential mate during the Spring mating season.
The turtle, which is 80 centimeters long and 50 centimeters wide, weighs more than 40 kilograms, and comes from Huangpu River in east China. It has been living in the zoo for more than 50 years. The China Association of Wildlife Protection requested the zoo find a mate to save the rare species, which international zoologists believe could be the only living female spotted turtle left alive.
(Sanxiang Metropolis News)
Student learns lesson of the real world, pays tax
An entrepreneurial senior from a key university in Wuhan of Hubei Province, has become the first university student to pay income tax in this Central China province.
Yang Ming, who majors in mathematics science, paid personal income tax of 800 yuan ($104) to the local taxation department in Hongshan District of the Hubei provincial capital city last Friday. Yang, who does private tutoring work in his spare time currently earns more than 1,300 yuan ($168) a week while his monthly income reaches more than 5,000 yuan ($645).
(Hubei Daily)
(China Daily 04/04/2007 page6)
