60b-yuan loan for infrastructure
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01/11/2002
The Guangdong governor, Lu Ruihua, and the president of the State Development Bank, Chen Yuan, signed a loan contract in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, on Tuesday, reports Guangzhou-based Nanfang Daily. According to the contract, the State Development Bank will grant a 60- billion-yuan (US$7.23 billion) loan to Guangdong Province. The loan will be used to improve the province's infrastructure and develop new and high-tech industries and projects during the next five years. Residents urged to take flu shots The Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Health has urged people, especially the elderly and children, to take anti-influenza vaccines before the epidemic spreads to the province, reports Shenzhen Special Zone Daily. Biggest park of the city Shenzhen Special Economic Zone will build its biggest park this year, reports Guangzhou-based New Express News. Work on Meilin Park, to be spread over more than 200 hectares, will begin before the end of 2002. Work on four other parks, in Caitian, Weiling, Huanniunong and Dashahe, too will start this year. 27 county-level officials probed Twenty-seven county-level Party and government officials were investigated for corruption in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone last year, reports Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis News. Also, the Shenzhen Intermediate Procuratorate handled 148 corruption cases involving 159 Party and government officials. About 141 million yuan (US$16.99 million) and HK$2.07 million (US$266,452.44) of graft money was seized. And 203 million yuan (US$24.46 million) and HK$2.673 million (US$322,048) in direct economic losses were recovered during the investigations. 11.5b yuan to curb water pollution The Shenzhen municipal government is planning to invest 11.59 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) to check water pollution during the 10th-Five-Year-Plan period (2001-05), reports Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis News. Apart from construction of sewage treatment plants, the fund will be used for pollution-prevention projects. More than 5 million trees will be planted every year along the city's rivers. Cancer patient wins top lottery prize A migrant worker suffering from cancer won the 5-million-yuan (US$602,409.64) top lottery prize in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on Wednesday, reports Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis News. The winner, surnamed Liu, had spent only 12 yuan (US$1.45 million) to buy the lottery tickets. Liu said he had spent all his savings on his medical treatment since being diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago. So now he will leave the prize money for his family because he is in the terminal stage, Liu said. Finger painting sets record A 37-metre-long painting done with fingers in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone is a new Guinness Book record, reports Shenzhen Commercial Daily. The finger-painting, titled, A Hundred Tigers, is the work of local artist Wang Jinhua. Wang was born in a fingerpainter's family. His works were first published in China Children News when he was only nine years old. Transparent snake caught by farmer A transparent snake was caught by a farmer in Haiji County in the northwestern part of Guangdong province, in June last year, reports Guangzhou Daily. The farmer, Du Shishen, has kept the snake in his house. The organs of the 70-centimetrelong, 200-gram, red-eyed snake can be seen clearly. And it has been attracting many visitors to Du's home everyday. The farmer hopes to have the snake displayed in zoos.
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