China submits bid to host Winter Olympics in 2022, man buys car with coins and 1-yuan notes and workers in Shanghai are the best paid.
Beijing bids for 2022 Olympics
China's capital has submitted its application for 2022 Winter Games before the International Olympic Committee's deadline, officially kicking off competition with other four cities, Kazakhstan's Almaty, Poland's Krakow, Ukraine's Lviv, and Norway's Oslo. Beijing will co-bid the Games with Zhangjiakou, a city in North China's Hebei province and the result will be announced in July, 2015.
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Online Credit cards spark debate
Central bank has suspended online credit cards issued by Tencent and Alipay and code scanning payments over security concerns, which has triggered heated debate. Some experts support the suspension because they think online credit cards may lead to chaos in China's financial market, while others believe that the central bank should be more open-minded toward financial innovation.
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Students forced to donate cash
Pupils are forced to donate money for an environment project in some primary schools in Yongkang, East China's Zhejiang province, which has angered their parents. Tian Zhongchao, director of the education bureau of Yongkang, criticized those schools' behavior, saying such donations should be carried out under the principle of voluntariness. Tian has urged the schools to halt the donations and refund the money.
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Man buys car with coins and 1-yuan notes
Man in Handan, North China's Hebei province, used coins and small change to buy a car worth 119,300 yuan ($19,439) on Wednesday, China News Service reported on Friday. The man, surnamed Li, has been a snack vendor for years and had collected a large amount of small change. The car salesman asked a bank to help count the money, which included 16,300 one-yuan coins and 103,000 one-yuan notes.
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Shanghai leads nation in salaries
Average white-collar worker's salary has reached 7,214 yuan ($1,173) per month in Shanghai. Zhaopin Ltd, a recruitment company, said in a recent report that the city's office workers earn more than in any other Chinese city, but they face fierce competition as each job opening attracts at least 48 candidates, Labor Daily in Shanghai reported on Friday. Beijing office workers earned 300 yuan less on average, and Shenzhen came in third at 6,819 yuan per month.
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Officer attacked by gangsters kills 1
Police officer in Pingxiang, Guangxi province, killed a man after being attacked by a crowd of gangsters armed with guns and knives on Thursday afternoon, chinanews.com reported on Friday. Tang Weixuan, an officer at a local police station, also caught one of them with the help of his colleagues, but he himself was injured and sent to a hospital. The police seized a self-made gun, five cartridges and three machetes.
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Workers hospitalized after ammonia leak
Twenty-six workers fell ill when ammonia leaked at a food processing plant in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Friday morning. The incident occurred around 10 am, when liquid ammonia, a caustic chemical with a pungent smell, leaked from a pipe in the freezing-and-drying area of Gaojian Food Co in Hulan district. All 26 workers were taken to hospital and all are in stable condition.
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Prosecutors probe former Hubei official
Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on Friday that a senior official in Hubei province has been placed under criminal investigation. Chen Baihuai, former vice-chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is under investigation on suspicion of abuse of power and accepting bribes, prosecutors said. Chen was expelled from the Party and removed from public office on March 7.
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