CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | 5 CHINA
70 YEARS ON | HEBEI Roll with it Elderly residents play with hoops during an event organized by their community in Suzhou, Hebei forging Jiangsu province, on Monday. By bringing up traditional games that the elderly used to play, the event is organized to encourage elderly residents to enjoy a younger mindset. They all wore ahead on new red scarves, a signature of the Young Pioneers of China, a nationwide organization for children ages 6 to 14. It was also a celebration of the upcoming Children’s Day, which will fall era’s journey on Saturday. XU ZHIQIANG / FOR CHINA DAILY Construction begins on Xiongan, seen as province’s engine of development
Editor's Note: As the People’s struction company in Xiongan. Republic of China celebrates the “The express rail is in planning 70th anniversary of its founding and is aimed to provide conve on Oct 1, China Daily will feature nience for residents in the new area a series of stories about socioeco nomic development across the to take flights in the capital,” Wang country. The following is the first Dongfeng, secretary of the Com of the series. munist Party of China Hebei Pro vincial Committee, said on Tuesday. By ZHANG YU Wang made the remarks at a news [email protected] conference held at the State Council Information Office, for introducing Li Dalong, 30, was excited when the development of Hebei after the Court sued after faulty DNA test leads to wrong reunion he heard that an express rail will be founding of New China in 1949. built between Beijing’s new airport “The province has seen a big and Xiongan New Area in North change over the past 70 years,” By TAN YINGZI in Chongqing Now the mother is suing the He the Chongqing Evening Post. “And ties and death. It usually runs from China’s Hebei province, where he Wang said. Covering 189,000 [email protected] nan High People’s Court, which pro he also missed the chance to be about 50,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan. has worked for about two years. square kilometers, Hebei has a pop vided the erroneous DNA test. reunited with his own biological Zhu then filed a lawsuit, asking “Going back to Beijing will be ulation of 75 million. Almost five It’s a twisted tale of mistaken In September, Zhu Xiaojuan, 54, parents.” for 1 million yuan in compensation more convenient and it’s like the million were povertystricken peo DNA that’s resulted in a mother sued for compensation of 2.95 mil After consulting with legal pro for mental suffering and 1.95 mil capital and Xiongan form one ple in past, while the current num suing the court. lion yuan ($428,000). fessionals, Zhu decided to seek com lion for economic losses, including whole city,” he said. ber of poor is 400,000, of which 83 In 1992, a mother’s beloved The mistake came to light in Jan pensation from the court in Henan, living costs and education. Li used to work in Beijing before percent will get out of poverty this 1yearold son was kidnapped by his uary last year, when guilt over the which had made the DNA mistake. “The Henan high court thought 1 he went to Xiongan in May, 2017. year, according to Wang. nanny in Chongqing. The crime was kidnapping drove the nanny to con “The Henan court infringed the million yuan for mental suffering He had obtained a registered per The provincial gross domestic reported to the police, but three fess. He Xiaoping, 48, from Nan personal rights, including guardi was too high,” she said. manent residence, or hukou, in the product reached 3.6 trillion yuan years elapsed with no news. chong, Sichuan province, admitted anship, of the Zhu couple, of their The lawsuit was accepted in capital, which is treasured by many ($521 billion) last year, 889 times Then in 1995 the police found a to the 1992 crime. son and of the presumed son from March by the Chongqing Yuzhong as it is hard to get and comes with its GDP in 1952. boy, among other kidnapped chil When the case was reopened and Henan,” said Lu Lei, the team leader District People’s Court, and on Mon rights to various public services. The results were achieved through dren in Henan province, who fitted kidnapping records were checked, from Hezong Law Firm in Chong day the parties exchanged evidence However, he left the hukou a series of measures and policies, the physical description provided the police identified Zhu as the moth qing. and attempted to settle the matter behind to work in Xiongan, including industrial upgrading, by the distraught parents. And so er. Another set of DNA tests were per After initial negotiations in June through mediation. expecting a modern new city. strengthening reform and opening the mother — filled with joy — came formed — this time accurately. last year, the Henan court agreed to But they failed to reach an agree Xiongan New Area, set up in up, and adhering to green and inno to collect him. The new DNA test results, provid pay compensation of about 120,000 ment because of inconsistent stan April 2017 and spanning three coun vative development, Wang said. Just to be sure, a DNA test was ed by the Chongqing police, show yuan, including 50,000 yuan for dards of compensation. A trial date ties in Hebei’s Baoding about 100 He added that Xiongan is one of performed by a court, and the bio that the boy rescued in Henan — mental anguish. has not yet been set, Zhu’s lawyers kilometers southwest of Beijing, the province’s current two wings, logical link was confirmed. All was and raised by Zhu — has no biologi “This was far from what we said. entered construction stage this year. which are seen as development well. For the next two decades, the cal ties to the family. expected,” said Huang Min, a lawyer In court papers, the Henan High It will be built into a national engines. Except for the construction mother raised the boy to manhood. Zhu was devastated by the news. on the team. “In this case, the men People’s Court, the defendant, said model of highquality develop of Xiongan, Hebei has developed in The trouble is the DNA test was Since her divorce in 2008, she had tal loss for Zhu is huge.” it deeply regretted Zhu’s misfortune ment and a new engine for the an integrated manner with Beijing wrong. raised the boy alone. Huang added that in China, the and is willing to negotiate and settle modern economic system, accord and Tianjin, two big neighboring This wasn’t her son, after all. Her “Because of the faulty report, I average compensation for mental with her, to accept a proper, impar ing to a 20182035 master plan for metropolises, in the past five years. real son was still being raised by the stopped looking for my own son suffering is low, and typically arises tial verdict, and to take responsibili guiding the area’s development. It will also cohost the 2022 Winter nanny who kidnapped him. and raised a stranger’s boy,” she told in cases involving physical disabili ty for the mistake. The construction of infrastruc Olympic Games with Beijing. ture is one of the first projects the “With the national key projects area has started, for which Li came going on in Hebei, the province is to work at as a technician of pre becoming a hot spot for invest fabricated buildings with CRCC ment from home and abroad,” City in Shaanxi accused of running up hotel bills Xiongan Construction Co, a con Wang said. By ZHANG YANGFEI watchdog in February last year. The cipline Inspection and the Shaanxi [email protected] Paper said it received a copy recent 8.9 Supervisory Commission. ly. million yuan The financial staff of the hotel Antigraft watchdogs in Shaanxi The letter said Binzhou had run said the Binzhou government had The bill that the government of province are looking into accusa up a debt of 8.9 million yuan at the Binzhou, Shaanxi province, is paid a portion of the arrears and tions that the city government of Binzhou International Garden accused of running up at a hotel currently owed about 6 million Binzhou violated the eightpoint fru Hotel, and that payment was over yuan, according to the news report. gality code of the Communist Party of due because of the government’s The Binzhou government did not China and that it had run up a bill of longterm squandering of money on are scared to speak out because of respond to China Daily’s request for more than 8.9 million yuan ($1.2 mil food and drinks and giving unautho pressure from the government.” an interview. A staff member from lion) at a hotel. rized or excessive gifts to guests from It added: “Party members have the government’s administrative News portal ThePaper.cn report 2013 to 2018, ThePaper reported. seriously violated the eightpoint office was quoted earlier in Chinese ed on Monday that it had received a It also said the government had frugality code and been engaged in Business View, a local newspaper, letter from the Stateowned assets instructed Li Bin, director of the hedonism” and that such behavior saying that she was not clear about supervision commission of the city’s reception office, to get the violates the spirit of the Party. It also the arrears. Xingtai municipal government in hotel to transfer the arrears out of requested the provincial antigraft The hotel had previously been Hebei province, claiming that the the name of the city and apply it to watchdogs in Shaanxi to investigate. described on the city’s website as the government of Binzhou had serious the personal accounts of two gov The letter attached a breakdown bestfurnished, most fashionable, Papercutting artist Gao Dianliang displays his work depicting the ly violated Party discipline and ask ernment staff members, Zhang Jia of the debts from July 2012 to Febru modern and most luxurious future leaders of the Communist Party of China at Xibaipo, Hebei prov ing for an investigation. The hotel and Yao Yuanyuan. ary 2018 showing the total amount fivestar hotel in the area, but that ince, where the CPC headquarters was located before moving to belongs to a Stateowned company “The hotel has a huge financial overdue, ThePaper reported. introduction was removed from the Beijing, at Tuesday’s news conference. ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY in which Hebei province invested. burden and is having difficulty oper The original letter had been sent government’s website, Chinese The original letter was sent to the ating,” the letter said. “Employees to the Shaanxi Commission for Dis Business View reported. Briefly Beijing to establish parking areas for shared bikes SHANDONG for Discipline Inspection of the 3 dead, 2 missing in Communist Party of China and the National Supervisory Commission. Bikesharing companies will Dongcheng district has desig metro tunnel collapse Mo, born in 1953, fled overseas in charge users a dispatch fee if they nated another 6,100 sites for park Three workers have been confirmed August 2013, the statement said. park bikes outside designated are ing bikes that will be surrounded dead and two others are still missing as in central Beijing starting from by electronic monitors. According following a collapse at a metro tun FUJIAN June, Beijing Youth Daily report to the newspaper, 106 sites near nel construction site in Qingdao, the Student arrested for ed on Tuesday. subway stations, hospitals and project manager said on Tuesday. Four popular bikesharing com stores will pilot the new system. Qingdao Metro said the collapse his mother’s murder panies, Mobike, Ofo, Bianlifeng Xicheng district will also imple occurred at 5:40 pm on Monday at a Wu Xieyu, a former Peking Universi and DiDi, have implemented the ment the new parking rules in the construction site of the No. 4 Metro ty student suspected of killing his new parking rules and have near future, the newspaper said. Line, when five workers were mother, was officially arrested on marked noparking zones on their Hu Xiangjun, deputy head of trapped. By Tuesday morning, res Monday with the approval of Jin’an mobile apps. Dongcheng’s urban management cuers had found the bodies of three district procuratorate in Fuzhou. Wu More than 150 electronically department, told Beijing Evening workers. The search is continuing. is suspected of intentional homicide, monitored parking areas and 17 News that they need to save room fraud and selling identity docu noparking zones have been set to set up parking zones. BEIJING ments. Xie Tianqin, the mother of up around the Forbidden City and “We plan to build one parking Red Notice fugitive Wu, was found dead on Feb 14, 2016, the Wangfujing shopping areas, zone about every 300 meters. turns herself in in Fuzhou. Xie was suspected to according to the authorities of Their sizes will be different have been murdered by her son after Beijing’s Dongcheng district. according to the sizes of their The designated parking area for shared bicycles in Wangfujing area Mo Peifen, one of China’s most they had a conflict on July 11, 2015. If users park their bikes outside locations. The longest will be 68 of downtown Beijing. WEI TONG / FOR CHINA DAILY wanted fugitives, has returned to Wu managed to borrow more than 1 a designated parking zone, their meters and the shortest 6 meters. China and turned herself in six million yuan ($145,000) in his moth mobile apps will send out a warn Every meter can hold three bikes. years after fleeing overseas, China’s er’s name after her death. He was ing message for the first violation. “And when a zone is full, staff Nine bike sharing companies new problems such as the random top antigraft authority announced captured on April 21 at Chongqing They will be charged a dispatch members from bike sharing com are operating in Beijing with and arbitrary parking of bikes on Tuesday. Mo, a former project Jiangbei International Airport when fee of 2 yuan ($0.29) for the sec panies will clear it. They will also more than 1.9 million shared that created challenges for city leader of a real estate company in he went to see his friend off. When ond violation, and 5 yuan for the arrive at the scene within 15 min bikes as of the end of April. management. Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is he was detained, police found more third and subsequent violations, utes when any illegal parking or China’s bikesharing business Many cities have set a limit on suspected of duty encroachment, than 30 ID cards Wu had bought the newspaper said. breakdown is reported through has grown rapidly. It has helped to the number of shared bikes. according to a statement from the online. The rental fee is generally 1 apps, to cope with these prob ease traffic jams and promote a website of the Central Commission CHINA DAILY—XINHUA yuan for a 15minute ride. lems,” he said. healthy lifestyle, but also caused CHINA DAILY—XINHUA