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Five million dollars for clean air at a Beijing school. Foot massage center inspections rub owner the wrong way. Bribes draw punishments. Some turboprop aircraft grounded.

Clean air stadiums cost $5 million in Beijing

The International School of Beijing spent $5 million building two indoor stadiums with clean air domes to protect their children from pollution. The two extraordinary stadiums cover 8,000-square-meters and are equipped with separate air filtration systems, Beijing Times reported.

Before the fresh air flows into the stadium, it is filtered three times by the clear air system. According to the report, when particulate matter from outside air reaches a density of 0.143 milligrams per cubic centimeter, there is just a density of 0.002 milligrams per cubic centimeter in the stadium.

Massage center complain local police

Liping massage center was inspected by four groups of local police officers five times in four hours in Mianyang, Southwest China's Sichuan province, Feb 23, 2014. The owner of the center called a media hotline for help, Huaxi Metropolis Daily reported.

"Those police officers seriously disturbed my business", the boss said.

The police chief of local Public Security Bureau has apologized for their action and said that they aimed to crackdown on the sex trade.

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Hubei cancels birth certificate for first child

Hubei province officially announced on Friday that local lawful couples who want to have their first child do not need to obtain birth certificates for their first child. Also, the process of birth certificates for second-child will be simplified.

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Largest number of sacked officials

As many as 14 NPC and CPPCC members have been removed from their posts during the past year, Beijing Youth Daily reported. Owing to the anti-graft campaign of the central government, the past year has seen the largest number of sacked two sessions members since 2003.

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Tie Fan Wan not favored

The craze for becoming a civil servant, known as Tie Fan Wan (iron rice bowl), which means a stable source of income, cooled down in East China’s Zhejiang province, with only 226,000 candidates applying for the exam in 2014. That is a 25% decrease from the previous year. This is the first time the number saw a sharp decline since 2010.

Though the main cause is fewer positions are offered in this year’s exam, experts think central government’s austerity measures remain the deeper reason.

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Bribes for promotions draw punishments

The Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee announced three cases on Friday of officials who bribed their superiors to get promotions. A total of 99 government employees and State-owned enterprise employees were found to have offered bribes to high-ranking officials in local governments in exchange for job advancements.

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15 turboprop planes suspended for checks

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has ordered the suspension of 15 MA-60 turboprop regional planes, which are operated by two Chinese airlines and four carriers in Laos, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Bolivia, for maintenance checks. An MA-60, operated by Beijing-headquartered Okay Airways, encountered a malfunction of its landing gear signaling system before landing at Shenyang airport on Tuesday.

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Legalized private loans to begin in Wenzhou

China will start testing the waters of legalized private lending this weekend in the pilot city of Wenzhou, where a liquidity crunch in underground lending in 2011 caused a credit crisis. Detailed rules of the Wenzhou Private Financing Regulation will take effect on Saturday.

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