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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-03-06 09:15

Korean TV shows' use of traditional culture is what's winning fans everywhere, and don't blame the high price of high-speed trains, it's that salaries in China are too low.

Wang Qishan: Korean TV more advanced

Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan said Korean TV is more advanced than Chinese shows, and at its core is the use of traditional culture. Beijing News reported.

Wang joined a panel discussion on Wednesday. He mentioned the recent Korean hit My Love From The Star and said he was thinking about how Korean dramas can capture the Chinese market or even the Western market. "Sometimes I watch Korean drama myself and I found that the soul of it is the use of traditional culture," Wang said.

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Ticket price not to blame

Ticket prices for high-speed rail are not too high, but low salary is to blame, said Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, while addressing complaints about expensive train tickets.

"Ticket prices for high-speed rail is still at an experimental stage. Our high-speed rail technology is in a leading position in the world. Compared with other countries, the ticket price in China is absolutely low, what we need to do is raise people's incomes," Wang said.

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Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei to be integrated

"We are working on the joint development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. We need to find a way to integrate the three regions instead of simply transferring Beijing's problem to the other two areas. Traffic problems such as how to make public transportation easier and environmental problems such as industrial transformation are the core problems," according to Beijing Vice Mayor Li Shixiang, Beijing Times reported.

Li also said that by integrating the three regions, housing prices in Beijing can return to a reasonable level. "As the functions of Beijing get distributed, many people can live and work in Tianjin or Hebei, which will ease the housing price in Beijing," he said.

Official held in nurse beating

Yuan Yaping, former deputy director of the Jiangsu Science and Technology Museum, is being held on suspicion of beating a nurse at Nanjing Stomatology Hospital , Beijing Times reported.

Her husband, Dong Anqing, has been relieved as head of the provincial procuratorate publicity department. He did nothing to stop Yuan from beating the nurse and shoved a doctor himself.

Chen Xingyu, the nurse who was beaten, still has not recovered a week after the incident. The police in Nanjing's Xuanwu region said a final judgment will be made according to the injury.

Youngest billionaire named by Forbes

Ji Kaiting, 24, has been listed as the youngest billionaire worldwide by the Forbes magazine on Monday, Xiao Xiang Morning News reported. The woman, who has a net worth of $1.3 billion, replaced Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, to win the title. Her father, Ji Haipeng, is board chairman and CEO of Logan Property in Shenzhen. With not even a photo of herself available in the media, Ji is virtually unknown to the public.

Lake cleaner finds 151 gun cartridges

A cleaner found a plastic box containing 151 gun cartridges as he collected trash at Ziyang Lake in Wuhan, Wuhan Evening News reported on Wednesday. The cartridges, thought to be rifle rounds, were handed over to police, who are investigating how they ended up in the lake.

Taobao vendors allow verbal venting

A 28-year-old woman has turned to Taobao, China's largest e-commerce platform, to vent her pent-up emotions, Xinjiang Metropolis Daily reported. The service, provided by some online vendors for 10 yuan ($1.63), allows Fan Ni to speak out for 40 minutes in whatever way she chooses, including badmouthing. The shop that Fan visited has 10 part-time employees for the service, and the owner said he could get more than 60 orders each month.

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Password-seeking laptop thief nabbed

Police arrested a man for allegedly stealing a laptop aboard a train heading from Shanghai to Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, eastday.com reported on Wednesday. The suspect, surnamed Leng, reportedly stole the computer from a woman passenger, but was unable to use it because he didn't know the password. He then sent a text message to the woman offering 500 yuan ($82) in exchange for the password. Police used the text message to track him down in Jiujiang.

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Registration fees for marriages removed

People who want to get married will no longer have to pay the 9 yuan ($1.47) registration fee starting this month, according to the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau. Exemption of the fee also applies to those who file for a divorce, according to the bureau. A total of 163,650 couples got married last year in Beijing, and 54,520 couples filed for divorce during the same period.