Call to strike hackers hard
TOUGH new legislation is called for by Shanghai municipal police department to combat rising on-line crime.
Shanghai's Gubei 'India town'
GUBEI New Area is becoming Shanghai's "Indiatown" with more and more Indian people settling there.
Silver trading market opens
CHINA has ended its central purchasing of silver and opened the silver market for the first time since 1949.
Expanding market key to Swiss watchmaker
AUDEMARS Piguet (AP), a Swiss watchmaker, is eager to enlarge its share of the already well subscribed Shanghai market.
Pudong gets a slating at the People's Congress
DEPUTIES to the third plenary session of the city's 11th People's Congress have said Pudong International Airport (PIA), put into use last October, is desperately lacking in appropriate supporting facilities.
Doctor wins award for reconstructing penises
A SURGICAL procedure, which has helped at least two men without penises to resume normal sexual activity and even become fathers, has recently won a Chinese doctor the Shanghai Science and Technology Prize, a top prize presented by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
Is China the real thing for Coca-Cola?
FAMILIAR to city slickers and remote hill tribes alike, few products can claim to have transcended as many cultural borders, and met with such welcome, as that icon of the 20th Century, Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola tops in China
COCA-COLA has been named China's favourite soft drink for the fifth straight year, according to a China Central Television survey released on Wednesday.
Small talk helps language students
LOCAL foreign students are increasingly participating in language exchanges with their Chinese friends, which they say makes them feel more at ease in Shanghai.
Three Gorges habitants turns to island
By Shi Hua
CHINA'S third largest island, Chongming Island, in the estuary of the Yangtze River at the northeast of the city, will become the country's first location to accommodate the trans-provincial Three Gorges immigrants. By the end of September this year, the first batch of 600 or so people of 150 families will be relocated in their new homes on the island. In two or three years' time, Shanghai will absorb a total of 5,500 Three Gorges immigrants, all from Yunyang County of Chongqing, China's fourth municipality. About 125,000 trans-provincial immigrants in the dam area will be resettled in 11 provinces along the Yangtze River and the eastern and southern coastline. Of the total, 70,000 are from Chongqing and the rest from Central China's Hubei Province. Several batches of government officials have been sent to the dam area to study the issue. The city has set up a special office in charge of the Three Gorges immigrants. "The Three Gorges Project is for the benefit of the whole nation," said Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi. "Shanghai should shoulder its own share of responsibility commensurate with its status in the country." The newcomers will be distributed among 48 villages, where they will continue their farm-work or secure jobs in many of the island county's township factories. A senior Chongming government official said the county has begun construction of new homes and infrastructure, including tap-water and electrical facilities, which are essential for all families on the island. The houses will be built using government funding, interest-free bank-loans and the money from the immigrants themselves. Chongming is Shanghai's largest county with a sparse population. It covers the total 1,200-square-kilometre island, close to one-fifth of the city's territory, but the population is 725,000, only one-eighteenth of the city's total of 13 million. For decades, the island county has made persistent efforts to reclaim cultivatable and habitable land from the sea. Half a century ago, Chongming Island was only half of its present size but silting has increased the land area. China will inject about 40 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) into relocating the residents affected by the Three Gorges Project, which will dam the Yangtze River in Hubei Province near Chongqing Municipality. From 1993 to the end of 1999, 220,000 people were relocated to higher elevations in the Three Gorges area. By the end of 2009, the scheduled date for the completion of the Three Gorges Project, a total of 1.13 million people will be removed. "Of all the 1.13 million people, 85.5 per cent come from Chongqing," said Hu Guanyao, deputy director of the Chongqing government's Shanghai Liaison Office.
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