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We tell stories of the earth and will eventually return to the universe.”

Southwest Petroleum University website, in a tribute to Li Shiqin, an assistant professor in its School CHINA of Geoscience and Technology, who died in a mudslide, along with three of her students CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Briefly Celebrating new homes Abbot accused of SICHUAN Mudslide disrupts railway traffic sexual harassment A mudslide caused by contin­ By CAO YIN Shi Xianqi “forged materials, uous rain in Yuexi county, [email protected] distorted facts and posted the Liangshan Yi autonomous untrue report”. prefecture, buried a section of China’s top religious affairs It said the report had the Chengdu­Kunming rail­ regulator said on Thursday brought harm to the religion way on Thursday morning, that Master Xuecheng, abbot and misled the public, and resulting in the suspension of of the Beijing­based Longquan asked the government to several trains, China Railway Temple and head of the Bud­ establish a team to investigate. Chengdu Group said. No dhist Association of China, is Master Xuecheng, who is trains were passing by when under investigation after also a national political advis­ the mudslide occurred. being accused in a 95­page er, posted the temple’s Emergency workers are rush­ report of various violations, response on his Sina Weibo ing to repair the line. including sexual harassment account on Wednesday night. of several nuns. According to Chinese news GUANGDONG “We’ve paid attention to the website ifeng.com, Fenghuang­ 9 killed, 2 hurt in whistle­blowing report online, ling Natural Scenic Spot, where and received related the temple is located, highway crash materials,” the State had closed to the pub­ Nine people were killed and Administration for lic. Staff members two were injured when a Religious Affairs said working there said truck overturned and struck in statement. “We have the closure was two cars on Wednesday in begun to investigate to ordered by govern­ Guangdong province, verify the accusations.” ment authorities, according to local police. On Wednesday, the according to the web­ The crash occurred at report spread across Master site. around 2:40 pm near You­ Chinese social media. Xuecheng Longquan Temple mayuan village, Huidong It includes allegations in northwestern Bei­ county, when a cement truck by Shi Xianjia of the jing has expanded its overturned. The deaths were Residents of the Dong ethnic group celebrate moving into their new homes with a large banquet in Xuan’en, Hubei province, on Wednes­ Longquan Temple and Shi name globally as a technology­ confirmed after rescue work day. They were relocated as part of the local government’s poverty alleviation effort. SONG WEN / FOR CHINA DAILY Xianqi, a former monk there, oriented temple that attracts ended early on Thursday that Master Xuecheng sexual­ highly educated monks, morning. The injured were ly harassed several female including those from the in stable condition. monks by sending them country’s top universities. obscene messages and forcing The venue became more HAINAN them to have sexual relations popular with the public after New vice­governor with him. its cartoon character, Xian’er, Govt sets sights on fixing Xuecheng was also accused was introduced in 2015. The of province named of illegally expanding the scale character was later made into Shen Danyang, director of of the temple and embezzling a talking robot with artificial the policy research office of donations from believers. intelligence. Last year, the the Ministry of Commerce The temple denied the alle­ robot monk in a yellow robe and a spokesman for the gations late on Wednesday, was said to have learned ministry, was appointed vice­ students’ nearsightedness stating that Shi Xianjia and English. governor of Hainan province on Thursday, based on a deci­ sion made at a meeting of the Expert: Vision problem influenced by prehensive measures to curb 600 million, nearly half the Duds for dogs Hainan People’s Congress. the problem among school­ country’s population. Born in 1965 in Zhangzhou, both genetic, environmental factors children. Dennis Lam Shun­chiu, an Fujian province, Shen holds a The percentage of primary eye specialist from Hong PhD in economics. school students with myopia Kong, said many youngsters By ZOU SHUO “It’s just an aesthetic issue. should be capped below 38 in China nowadays increas­ BEIJING [email protected] She will have to get used to percent by 2030, with less ingly indulge in computer Ship crew honored the glasses,” she added. than 60 percent of middle games and other electronic as role models Yu Ting’an was 5 years old “Many people even wear school and 70 percent of high products, which has led to an when she started wearing them without the lenses just school students nearsighted, increasing rate and severity of The Publicity Department of glasses for nearsightedness, for fun, so I don’t think there the guideline said. nearsightedness. the Communist Party of Chi­ or myopia. is anything to worry about.” Prevention and control of The underlying cause of na Central Committee on “We didn’t pay much atten­ However, myopia has myopia will be used to evalu­ nearsightedness is believed to Thursday honored the crew tion because we thought she grown to such worrisome ate local government per­ be a combination of genetic of the Navy missile destroyer just wanted to concentrate on proportions in China that the formance, it said, adding that factors — with high risk for Haikou as a “role model of the details of games she plays Ministry of Education and schools and local govern­ children born in a family with the times”. Representatives on the phone,” said her moth­ the National Health Commis­ ments with worsening stu­ a history of the condition — of the crew received medals er, Xie Jun, from Changsha, sion issued a draft guideline dent eyesight for three and environmental factors, and certificates of honor, Hunan province. on Thursday laying out com­ consecutive years will be held including spending long peri­ and outstanding highlights accountable, it said. ods focusing on near objects of their service were Parents and schools should and excessive time spent Dressed stylishly by their trainers on Wednesday — Army Day — acknowledged. The ship has work together to ensure at indoors, he said. rescue dogs from a firefighting unit in Hangzhou pose for pho­ primarily played a role in least one hour of outdoor Parents and society as a tos. The units are organized under China’s Armed Police force. guarding the South China activity every day, enough whole should realize that NIU JING / FOR CHINA DAILY Sea. It has also completed sleep, reduced academic shortsightedness is a serious multiple escort missions in workload and less time spent threat to health, as it can lead the Gulf of Aden. on electronic devices for stu­ to conditions including glau­ dents, the guideline said. coma, macular degeneration GUANGXI According to a research and retinal detachment, he 113­year­old report released by the World advised. Teacher, 3 students woman dies Health Organization last year, Parents should guide their the myopia rate among Chi­ children to engage in more A 113­year­old woman died nese juveniles is the highest outdoor activities and control killed in mudslide on Wednesday in a county in the world at 70 percent for the time spent on electronic known for longevity in the high school and college stu­ devices, he said, adding that By ZHU LIXIN dents, age 23 and 24, and one Guangxi Zhuang autono­ dents and nearly 40 percent parents and teachers should [email protected] male student, 24. mous region, local authori­ A primary school student gets a vision test in Handan, Hebei for primary school students. also teach students to keep a The university’s Sina Weibo ties said. Huang Magan was province, during the summer holiday. Summer, especially the The WHO report said that proper distance from books A teacher and three stu­ account, which has turned its born in 1905 and lived in days before school resumes, is a peak season for such tests. the number of nearsighted and screens and take regular dents from Southwest Petrole­ logo black and white in memo­ Bama Yao autonomous HAO QUNYING / FOR CHINA DAILY people in China has reached breaks during study. um University were killed in a riam, said the four will be county. Huang and another sudden mudslide during field remembered forever. woman, Huang Maxue, were research in Aksu, Xinjiang “We tell stories of the earth married at some point to the Uygur autonomous region, on and will eventually return to same man before the found­ Prosecutors: Nurses beat mentally ill patient Monday. the universe,” it said. ing of the People’s Republic The university, located in Photos posted by Hu on Sina of China in 1949. They lived Chengdu, Sichuan province, Weibo showed the team doing as one family until the man By LI YINGQING in Kunming who immediately retaliated ing that false reports have been going to court. In that proc­ confirmed the deaths on Sina research in a barren area. The died in 2005. Huang Maxue and ZHANG YI in Beijing and struck the patient, the Xis­ removed from the internet. ess, Chen initially asked for a Weibo and said on Thursday team had done field research died in 2012. The county has han district procuratorate said. When Chen found her compensation of 500,000 that the four victims’ bodies in Sichuan’s Mount Emei area 300,000 people, including Five nurses from a private Surveillance video from the father’s face was swollen and yuan ($73,100), but the five had been recovered. starting on July 10 and then 90 centenarians. hospital in Kunming, Yunnan psychiatric ward posted by he told her he felt a tightness nurses could only offer Family members of the vic­ went to Xinjiang on July 25. province, who allegedly local media show four nurses in his chest, the nurses told 150,000 yuan, Bao said. tims arrived in Aksu on A student at the school, sur­ YUNNAN assaulted a mentally ill patient holding Li’s legs as a male her it was caused accidentally “The family members of Wednesday. named Zhang, who took class­ Endangered relative in January, were accused of nurse jumps on the bed and in treatment. But she then the victim hit the suspects, According to statements es from Li was cited by news of walnut found intentional injury on Wednes­ kicks the patient, including asked to see the surveillance who are all from rural areas from the university, Li Shiqin, website thecover.cn as saying day by local prosecutors. kicks to his head. video, after which she report­ with low family incomes. The an assistant professor from that field trips are mandatory A 45­meter­tall endangered The five nurses — four males The nurses then covered ed the incident to the police, nurses knelt down for three the School of Geoscience and for structural geology majors. Annamocarya sinensis, a and one female between 20 the video camera, and two of the newspaper said. hours to apologize, but Chen Technology, led four postgrad­ Every winter and summer, stu­ rare species of the walnut and 26 years old — at Daguan them beat the patient again, A prosecutor dealing with still wanted the money and uate students on a geological dents take trips with teachers. family, was found in the Hospital in Kunming’s Xishan the procuratorate said. the case, who wished to said if it wasn’t paid she survey trip for scientific “There are not many female Wenshan Zhuang and Miao district stood on trial in Xishan The victim’s daughter, Chen, remain anonymous, said that would go to court.” research. geology professors like Li, who autonomous prefecture in People’s District Court. The told Kunming­based Chunch­ two of the five nurses did not Chen took the matter to The mudslide struck around devoted herself to scientific Yunnan province, according verdict will be released later. eng Evening News that she had have medical qualification prosecutors in March. 7 pm on Monday, killing Li and research,” Zhang said. “She to the local forest police. A On Jan 29, a woman sur­ no idea about the violence certificates, and the procura­ The hospital dismissed the three of the students. A stu­ spent most of her time on aca­ research team found the named Chen sent her mental­ when she visited her father that torate informed health five nurses soon after the inci­ dent surnamed Hu survived demic research with students.” plant, which has a diameter ly ill father, Li, to the night. Chen is a reporter for the authorities of the situation. dent and will strengthen its and was hospitalized for treat­ Li also had a child in kinder­ of 7.7­meters, in Malipo coun­ psychiatry department of the newspaper, according to the Bao Cuili, office director of training and management of ment of injuries that were not garten, Zhang said. ty. The tree may be one of the hospital for rehabilitation. hospital’s legal consultant, Li the hospital, told China Daily staff, Bao said. life­threatening. The Sichuan education largest of its kind in the As the five nurses were con­ Yongjiao, and others. Chen that immediately after the Li, 38, held a PhD in struc­ authority urged all schools to world, according to the team. ducting a physical exam on Li contributed to the initial news incident, the hospital and Contact the writers at tural geology from Zhejiang check students’ group activi­ as he lay on a bed, Li kicked a reporting of the assault with police tried to negotiate a set­ zhangyi1@ University. She was killed ties during the summer vaca­ CHINA DAILY—XINHUA male nurse, surnamed Mei, false information, Li said, add­ tlement with Chen to avoid chinadaily.com.cn along with two female stu­ tion to ensure safety.