Dead seaweed and rotting fish in the water around Nanhuangcheng Island in Shandong province, which is close to the site of a recent oil leak, suggest the local waters were polluted by the incident, say observers.

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A fisherman rows a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province July 3, 2011. Algae outbreaks have repeatedly hit the lake in recent years. (China Daily Photo)

\”The oil leak will definitely influence the fishing industry nearby but we must carry out further investigations to see if the oil leak is the direct reason for the dead seaweed and fish,\” said a representative from the fisheries association in Changdao county. The county administers Nanhuangcheng Island.

\”The environmental impact caused by the oil leak is long-term,\” the man named Xiao told China Daily on Monday.

Nanhuangcheng Island is about 40 nautical miles (74 kilometers) from the offshore oilfield in Bohai Bay where the leak originated.

A local fishmonger surnamed Gao told China Daily some pollution definitely exists in the area.

However, an official surnamed Song from Nanhuangcheng\’s local government told China Daily on Monday that the authorities have not yet received any reports of pollution.

The State Oceanic Administration plans to brief the media on Tuesday afternoon about the oil leak but has not commented on it so far.

According to a report from ConocoPhillips China, the company that operates the Penglai 19-3 oilfield from which the leak originated, an oil sheen was first seen on the surface of the sea \”in early or mid June\”, a spokesperson from the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) said in an e-mailed statement on Friday.

Cleanup work has almost finished and the source of the spill has been identified and brought under control, the statement said.

The affected area was only about 200 square meters, China National Radio quoted a representative from CNOOC as saying on Sunday.

The reason for the oil spill is under investigation but no injuries or reports of an impact on wildlife, fishing or shipping activities were detected, the report said.

Those claims were repeated by ConocoPhillips China spokesperson Donna Xue. She said in an e-mailed statement to China Daily: \”The size of the sheen is under investigation. There have been no reports of any impact on wildlife or fishing and shipping activities.\”

Zhai Yuxiu, deputy director of the Yellow Sea fisheries research institute at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, said on Monday 200 square meters is a relatively small area, so the environmental impact is likely to be slight.

According to earlier media reports, the oil leak was not publicized by the authorities at the time it happened but was exposed on Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging site, on June 21.

The leak was not the first that the public was told little about. On May 13, an oil leak was reported to the North China Sea branch of the State Oceanic Administration but few details were made public. And on April 22, the CNOOC said that a problem detected in its oil storage equipment in Bohai Bay led to four oilfields being shut down, but again offered few other details.

CNOOC, which was founded in 1982, is a large State-owned enterprise and the largest offshore oil and gas producer in China. It produced 65 million tons of oil in 2010.

China Daily was unable to reach a CNOOC spokesperson on Monday.

[i] Zhou Yan contributed to this story.[/i]

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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China has acted to clean up its raw milk industry to ensure safety at the source of the industrial chain, but some experts say the nation is implementing a very low standard.

Gu Jicheng, secretary-general of the Dairy Association of China, said agricultural departments have eliminated a total of 6,890 disqualified raw milk stations during a three-year campaign that began in 2008.

In the wake of the campaign, a total of 13,503 raw milk stations and 7,980 raw milk transportation vehicles throughout the country are subject to the monitoring of local authorities, Gu said in an interview with the People\’s Daily.

\”All the stations are now either run by dairy companies, cow farms, or cooperatives established by dairy farmers,\” said Gu, who used the rise of machinery-milking to 87 percent from 51 percent nearly three years ago as an example of improved hygiene standards.

Despite that, Guo Benheng, president of Bright Dairy & Food, said that China\’s raw milk standard was nearly the world\’s lowest, according to a report Sunday by SINA, a leading online media company.

The country\’s raw milk standards of protein content and colony-forming unit (CFU) is much lower than those from the United States and the European Union, the report said, citing Wang Dingmian, an industrial expert.

\”International standards for the dairy industry also require checks of antibiotics and nitrites in raw milk, but China does not even make such requirements,\” Guo said.

The credibility of China\’s dairy industry was severely damaged in 2008 when milk laced with melamine, a chemical added to milk products to make the protein content seem richer, sickened nearly 300,000 children and killed at least six.

China\’s milk processing technologies are among the world\’s best, but the problem lies in the low standard of the raw milk, said Guo Benheng, adding that the priority now should be focused on the improvement of raw milk quality.

Since 2009, agricultural departments have paid great attention to the safety and supervision of raw milk, and strictly cracked down upon illegally adding substances such as melamine to raw milk.

Additionally, the nation\’s top quality regulator in January ordered that dairy product markers must obtain new production certificates this year, and those with weak quality guarantees will be shut down.

By the end of March, only 643 dairy firms among a total of 1,176 companies had passed the examinations, said Ren Fazheng, a professor with the China Agricultural University.

Ren said this overhaul promoted restructuring in the dairy industry and was beneficial to the improvement of quality and safety of the country\’s dairy products, as both dairy output and consumption surged last year.

According to figures provided by Ren, dairy output reached 21.59 million metric tonnes last year, up 48 percent compared to 2006; meanwhile, per capita spending on dairy products by residents in 36 large and medium-sized cities reached 277 yuan ($43), up 40 percent compared to 2006.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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In less than two years, Rena Abdurrahman has gone from being a frightened young mother in a dangerous slum in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to being the owner of a successful small business and something of a community leader.

Those personal changes mirror the transformation of that former slum in the Heijiashan area of Tianshan district in Urumqi into a safe, pleasant community. The transformation was sparked by the riot in the city in July 2009 that left 197 people dead.

Rena\’s small handicrafts shop has become an informal meeting place, a venue where local women can learn crafts and a busy production center.

\”Neighbors drop into my shop, have a chat and help me make some handicrafts,\” said Rena, who is teaching needlework to three girls who live nearby.

\”I feel comfortable living in this area now. But this comfortable life was absolutely impossible two years ago,\” Rena told China Daily.

Two years ago, Heijiashan was one of the city\’s most notorious shantytowns. It was inhabited by young jobless or low-income migrants from the poorer areas of Xinjiang; and Rena was one of them.

The 34-year-old Uygur woman moved to the slum with her daughter from a small town in Kashgar, in southwest Xinjiang, in October 2008. She later bought a small, dilapidated, earthen bungalow.

Rena said there was no drinking water in the houses and residents also had problems with sewage. But public security was an even bigger problem.

\”Quarrels, bullying and crimes were very common,\” she said.

Rena never allowed her daughter to go out alone in those days.

Changes in the slum began after order was restored in the wake of the 2009 riot, which erupted in Urumqi on July 5 that year.

Rena was at her work place far from the riots that day and luckily escaped the chaos that engulfed the slum. Five days later, she ventured back home and saw horrifying scenes.

\”My work place was about 30 kilometers from the slum,\” she said. \”It was the hardest hit area in the riot and no taxis would take me home. I had to get out and walk back.\”

On the way home, Rena saw burnt cars, looted shops, and stern-faced passers-by. \”Police cars were cruising around near my house, tracking the rioters,\” she said.

Shortly after the riots, local authorities sped up their improvement project in the slum.

Since 2009, the city government has spent 2.7 billion yuan ($417 million) on the project and has vowed to complete it within five years.

\”By now, 887 houses from a total of 1,855 have been cleaned up,\” said Zhang Long, from the Heijiashan slum transformation office. \”They now live in new residential buildings that have good infrastructure and the area has schools, kindergartens and clinics.\”

Rena and her daughter now live in a bright two-bedroom apartment.

\”The environment has changed tremendously,\” Rena said, pointing to two excavators near her shop, which were demolishing some earthen houses.

Rows of beautiful apartments replaced the old squatter houses. A community management office was opened at the end of 2009, providing various services to the residents.

\”Now I don\’t need to worry about security here. It\’s safe,\” Rena said. \”Members of public security teams patrol the community 24 hours a day. My daughter can play outside whenever she wants.\”

With only 2,000 yuan in her savings in 2010, Rena was considering setting up a handicrafts shop in the community.

\”I discussed my idea with workers at the community management office, and to my surprise, they happily offered to help me,\” Rena said. \”With their help, I got a 30-sq-m apartment in our community for free and a loan of 50,000 yuan for the business.\”

Rena\’s shop now makes about 200 handicraft products a month, with a net income of 30,000 yuan. Her products have sold to Kazakhstan, Pakistan and other Asian countries.

\”Fourteen women from poor families in the community have joined my business this year and they earn at least 1,200 yuan a month.

\”My life has improved a lot, thanks to the community\’s help.\”

Rena plans to buy a bigger apartment this year, so her 11-year-old daughter has more room to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer.

\”I will find a new apartment in this community and will continue to live here. It\’s a nice place,\” Rena said.

Rukhyar contributed to this story.

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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It has been a weekly routine for Yao Weihua, a housewife in Zhengzhou, the capital city of central Henan Province, to get vegetables for her family from a small garden she rents in the city\’s suburb.

The garden has lettuce and other fresh vegetables that are grown without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides, Yao said.

Her weekly trip to the garden spares her from shopping at local vegetable markets, where Yao fears produce could be tainted with harmful chemicals, as the media has frequently reported on.

The excessive use of agricultural chemicals became a grave concern of Yao years ago, when she had intense cravings for cucumbers during her pregnancy, but found that the cucumbers she bought would swell up to unnatural sizes after being stored for just a few days.

This prompted Yao to seriously consider growing food by herself, an idea resonated with a group of 20 parents, who in 2010 founded the Safeguard Homeland Green Consumers Association.

\”It\’s an association of mothers who joined to find safer food for their children,\” said Yao, who noted that the membership has grown to 80 this spring.

The association made a deal with an eco-farm that uses earthworms to help fertilize the crops. The farm leased out small pieces of land, usually 20 square meters as a share, to every member of the association at the monthly rent of 100 yuan (about $15).

Members could either plant vegetables themselves or hire farmers to do the work for 280 yuan for each month.

\”Now I can finally put my mind at ease, as the vegetables are grown right before my eyes on ecologically fertilized land,\” said Zhang Lushuang, one of the association\’s members.

[b]Mutual benefits[/b]

Like the members of \”Safeguard Homeland,\” urban consumers, eager to secure a safer diet, are rushing to manage the production of their own food, by directly engaging in the farm work or commissioning production to eco-farms.

It helps consumers bypass the sophisticated food chain, a chief supplier of chemicals in Chinese food, Yao said.

The surge in the number of customers has also encouraged rural eco-farmers, as it suggested a boost in the sluggish market of organic products, said Zhang Yanbin, secretary of the Communist Party of China branch of Nanmazhuang village, which has spearheaded the eco-farming in Henan Province.

\”When we first promoted the production of organic foods, we deeply believed that money would keep flowing in,\” said Zhang.

However, sales proved difficult in a market where goods are often labeled as \”organic,\” even if they are not.

He Huili, a professor at the China Agricultural University and an early proponent of eco-farming in Nanmazhuang, said a lack of information made it difficult for consumers to build trust in genuine organic foods.

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Photo taken on July 4, 2011 shows the wreckage of the vehicles involved in a rear-end accident on the Xiantao section of the Suizhou-Yueyang Expressway in central China\’s Hubei Province. The death toll in the accident has risen to 26 while 31 others were injured after a long-distance coach was hit by a truck and caught fire Monday morning, local police said. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
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[b]Red old days[/b]

The red campaign seems to be well supported by people who grew up before the 1980s when revolutionary songs and dances were among the few entertainment available — there were virtually no pop songs or rock\’ n\’ roll. Young people joined various choruses organized by party cells or tuned in the radio looking to learn the revolutionary songs.

\”Every time I sing these songs, I am reminded of the old times, \” said Wei Anliu, a laid-off worker in the city of Changsha, capital of Hunan.

Wei is among the estimated tens of millions of urban youth sent to the countryside from the 1950s to the 1970s, a mass campaign in which Chairman Mao ordered young people from cities to learn from the peasants by eating, working, and living together.

Back then, Wei was a top student who strictly followed the party\’s call and immensely loved arts.

\”We had almost nothing, but we were truly happy and sang the red songs in high morale,\” said Wei, who has been laid off for seven years from a cradle-to-grave style factory closed amid market competition. \”The time when the whole society is upbeat is worth remembering,\” she said.

Zhao Baozhu, a retired factory worker in Beijing, agreed.

\”The passionate tunes remind me of my youth, and at that time, people sweated blood but felt full of energy,\” Zhao said.
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A new round of heavy downpours in southwest Sichuan Province that began Monday evening has left one dead and another missing, bringing the rain-triggered death toll to seven since June 30, the provincial flood control office said Wednesday.

At 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, a villager from Wangcang County was killed when a wall collapsed while he was discharging water from his yard.

Earlier on the same day, a student from Guangyuan City was swept away by flood waters while walking to school and is now listed as missing.

Continuous downpours have wreaked havoc in Sichuan since last Thursday.

Eight people have lost contact with their families due to floods, which have forced 27,600 people to relocate, according to the flood control office.

Rain-triggered mudslides have cut off access to a pivotal highway in the province, State Highway 213, which was referred to as a \”lifeline\” by rescue workers following the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the province.

Repair work on the highway is under way but was greatly hindered by new cave-ins.

At least 400 meters of the highway was totally damaged by the roadside river as the course of it was diverted as a result of a mudslide, said Gao Feng, head of the provincial traffic bureau.

Direct economic losses are estimated to reach 500 million yuan (77 million U.S. dollars) as a result of the flooding.

The National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast that rainstorms would continue lashing southwestern regions till Thursday.

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The names of some senior officials from government and State-owned enterprises have disappeared from the list of candidates who will participate in the second round of competition for academician vacancies at the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) this year.

The names of 163 candidates were published online on June 30, and any queries or doubts about the candidates\’ qualifications will be welcome before Aug 15, CAE announced on its website.

However, anonymous complaints will not be accepted, it said.

The qualifications of some candidates triggered fierce debate when, in the first round of competition on May 25, 485 candidates were named in the race for 60 academician vacancies at CAE.

Chinese netizens thought many candidates were senior officials from government or State-owned enterprises.

The heavyweights from State-owned enterprises on the list included Fu Chengyu, chairman of the Sinopec Group, and Hu Wenrui, a former senior executive of China National Petroleum Corporation.

The incumbent or former senior officials on the candidate list included Vice-Mayor of Shanghai Shen Xiaoming and Wu Qidi, former vice-minister of education.

Many netizens criticized the criteria for selecting the candidates, arguing the list showed that the academy had been bureaucratized and the honor of academicians simply means more research funds, better income and benefits.

In response to the critics, an unidentified official at the academy said the selection criteria focus on the \”candidates\’ contribution to the country\” and \”academic background\” rather than their general background, and only senior engineers, researchers and professors could be nominated.

Although some candidates are officials or senior executives, they used to work for the country\’s science and technology development and some contributed to cutting-edge engineering technology, the official said.

Some officials, including Fu Chengyu and Shen Xiaoming, have been removed from the list, but others remain.

Hu Wenrui and Wu Qidi are on the new list, although doubts about their qualifications have been raised.

The new list also includes: Cao Yaofeng, deputy general manager of Sinopec Group, Zhang Xiaolu, vice-president of China Power Investment Corporation and Zhang Yuzhuo, general manager of Shenhua Group.

\”They should volunteer to give up their academic honors if they choose to become officials,\” said a netizen called bestall1234 on Sina.com, a major information portal in China.

\”It is contempt for justice and fairness when CAE lists senior officials of government or State-owned enterprises for academician vacancies,\” said another netizen called Huanguangguanguang.

However, some netizens support the CAE\’s decision to include officials and executives in its list of candidates.

\”Modern enterprises are not only assembly lines for producing things,\” said a netizen named Baqianlilu. \”Scientists in enterprises can also invent and contribute to the country.\”

CAE, established in 1994, is a national organization composed of selected academicians with the highest honors in Chinese engineering and technology. It has 739 academicians.

Existing members will elect new academicians and the final list will be released in November.

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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A victim of the fatal bus crash is comforted by family at a hospital in Xiantao, Hubei province. (Source: China Daily)

A survivor of a road crash that killed 23 people on Monday has spoken of how her hero husband was swallowed by a raging bus blaze.

Lu Yufeng, 22, and her younger sister were among 29 people who escaped from the accident, which occurred at about 3:50 am on the Suizhou-Yueyang Highway in Hubei province.

Police say the long-distance coach they were traveling on was hit from behind at high speed by a truck close to Xiantao. Both vehicles then caught fire.

\”I remember just before the crash I was sitting alone in front of the bus, and my husband and sister were sitting together in the back,\” she said at Tianmen No 3 Hospital on Tuesday. \”They were both sleeping deeply.\”

She recalled that a female passenger had asked the driver to get off, so he stopped and opened the door. The massive collision came just minutes later, with both vehicles careering off the expressway.

\”At first the fire was not so big, so my husband (Zhang Chao) pulled my sister out and then helped rescue another passenger,\” said Lu. However, the blaze grew quickly and 26-year-old Zhang was unable to escape in time.

During the interview, Lu\’s attention kept drifting and several times she began muttering: \”Where are you? Where are you?\”

Lu\’s 16-year-old sister was lying close by. \”I\’d just finished my secondary school examinations and was visiting my sister\’s home in Guangzhou,\” she said. She did not want her name used.

Zhang Meirong, Zhang Chao\’s elder sister, said her brother and his wife run a clothing business in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, but had been visiting family.

The bodies of those killed were transferred to Xiantao on Tuesday, where relatives have begun to gather. DNA tests will be carried out to identify the victims.

Chen, a Hubei highway worker who did not give his full name, said his team has been on duty for 24 hours to clear the wreckage from the road. \”The section where the accident happened will reopen on Wednesday,\” he said.

[i]Source: China Daily[/i]

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China\’s meteorological authority on Saturday forecast high temperatures in south China over the next three days following the easing of torrential rains.

Temperatures in parts of Sichuan Basin and Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, as well as most areas south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and south China, will rise to 35 to 37 degrees Celsius over the coming three days, the National Meteorological Center said in a statement on its website.

However, rains are forecast to linger in the country\’s northern regions.Parts of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and northeast China will have moderate rains while rainstorms are expected to pelt areas along the Yellow River and the Huaihe River and north China, the statement said.

Local authorities in those areas were urged to enhance measures to minimize the impact of torrential rains, gale and hailstorms, as well as to prevent inundation during the rainy season.

[i]Source: Xinhua[/i]

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