Government News
Counterfeit publications destroyed - April 25, 2017
A total of 190,000 illegal publications — including pirated books, software and audio and video products — were destroyed yesterday. The measures were part of an effort to combat counterfeit publications
Demolition for illegal structures - April 24, 2017
SHANGHAI will demolish more than 50 million square meters of illegal structures by the end of September. Xu Zhihu, director with Shanghai City Management and Administration Execution Bureau, said on
Power of print ‘helps with deep thinking’ - April 24, 2017
PUBLISHING houses, libraries and universities in Shanghai held various activities over the weekend to mark World Reading Day yesterday. Shanghai Educational Publishing House launched a service to allow
Tongji signs up Nobel teacher - April 21, 2017
BARRY Marshall, Australia’s Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2005, will teach at the medicine school of Tongji University. Marshall will set up a laboratory of bacterium Helicobacter
Changning and university collaborate - April 21, 2017
CHANGNING District government will collaborate with East China Normal University to offer better education and medical services to its residents, officials said yesterday. The downtown district and the
Shanghai’s GDP races to better start - April 20, 2017
SHANGHAI’S economy raced to a better-than-expected start this year, with gross domestic product growing 6.8 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, Shanghai Statistics Bureau said yesterday. The
Innovative base set up in Shanghai for overseas Chinese - April 20, 2017
Shanghai established an innovative and entrepreneurial base and enterprise cluster in Yangpu District for overseas Chinese on Wednesday. To attract investment and wisdom from overseas Chinese into innovation
Pledge to clean up polluted city waters - April 19, 2017
NEARLY 2,000 kilometers of waterways have been identified as polluted, said the head of the city’s water authority. The waterways, identified by remote sensing and satellite technologies, would be all
Foreigners’ bravery rewarded - April 19, 2017
THREE foreigners — two Russian students and a French teacher — were awarded a total of 10,000 yuan (US$1,450) yesterday by the government for rescuing a drowning girl last year. Together with nine others,
An Oxford duo won champion in international debate open - April 18, 2017
A DUO from Oxford University won the champion at the 3rd Shanghai International Debate Open (SIDO) 2017 over the weekend at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The 3-day event, co-hosted
