Archive for the ‘Tales of Cities’ Category
China’s National Day
Today is China’s National Day. The People’s Republic of China has been founded for 61 years. There are many celebration activities across the country.
10am this morning, at the Tiananmen Square of Beijing, China’s present Hu Jintao, premier Wen Jiabao and other country’s leaders placed baskets of wreaths at the Monument to the People’s Heroes. And about 200,000 people attended the flag-raising ceremory.
World Record Speed of China’s High Speed Railway
Yesterday, the new generation China Railway High-Speed train runs up to 416.6 kilometers per hour. It breaks the highest world record of experimental railway speed.
The newly finished high speed railway is between Shanghai and Hangzhou. It launched on Feb. 26, 2009, and completed on Aug. 6 this year. The whole railway is 202 km long and it takes 38 minutes from Shanghai to Hangzhou with the so high speed, which is 40 minutes shorter than the current highest CRH trains.
The Train Tickets Are Hot
Even though the railway system has been upgraded quickly in the recent years, it is still difficult to buy a train ticket during long holidays, like the coming National Day. The train tickets are still in huge demand currently.
Yesterday, I went to the train ticket agency and wanted to buy two tickets. There was an about 200 meters long queue in the front of the agency. I gave up and had to delay my travel. A news reports that a woman surnamed Chen waited 9 hours in order to buy a ticket from Shanghai to Guizhou.
Jiangxi Self-Immolation Incident
On Sept. 18, eight local officials of Yihuang county have been reported to be investigation by Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee of Jiangxi Province. A severe demolition self-immolation tragedy took place in Yihuang during last ten days.
More than 100 people that’s from Public Security Bureau, Construction Bureau, department of housing management and other about 10 departments went to Zhong’s family on Sept. 10. They wanted to control the family to demolish the house. The family protested against the demolition and three members of Zhong’s family went up to the roof, dump oil and burn themselves.
Elementary Education in Rural Area of China
Population and family planning has been established in China for about 30 years, along with the urbanization, there are much less children than ever before in China’s rural area. Less children mean less elementary schools, which means that not all children can go to school near the houses. This is a problem in many countrysides of China.
In the past, there used to be tens of elementary schools in a town, and there was a school within several kilometers. In that situation, children were convenient to go school in the morning and walk home in the afternoon.
