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(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-05-05 07:56

Community

Ride for fun at first bicycle festival

Beijing's first bicycle festival will be held on Saturday at Wangzuo town in Fengtai district.

A bicycle-riding competition will start from the county's World Geothermal Exposition Park and end at Qianling Mountain. The round trip is roughly 25 km. During the festival a bicycle museum will be open, showing the development of bicycles. There will also be an exhibition of various types of bicycles.

Those who want to be contestants in the festival can call 6211-5606 to register.

Culture

New center for entrepreneurs

A base for nurturing young entrepreneurs was founded in Songzhuang, Tongzhou district, on Tuesday.

With a spacious area of nearly 4,000 square meters over five floors, Songzhuang Youth Entrepreneurship Base can accommodate 30 small enterprises. Known as an artist colony, Songzhuang aims to attract talented people from the cultural and creative industries. Some 500 young people are expected to receive training there every year.

The district also gives financial support to creative industries. So far, 37 young people have received bank loans totaling 3.9 million yuan.

Accident

Fire in truck cooks 2,000 chickens

As many as 2,000 chickens were roasted when a delivery truck caught fire on Tuesday morning in Changping district, the Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday.

The truck, which was loaded with more than 4,000 live chickens, was traveling from Yanqing district to downtown. Overheating tires caused the fire.

The driver called the police after he failed to put out the fire and 28 firefighters extinguished the blaze, but half of the chickens had been burnt to death.

Firefighters reminded drivers that they should carry fire extinguishers in vehicles.

Environment

Residents' guide to city's best walks

Officials have released 196 top walking routes, as recommended by local residents, Beijing Evening News reported on Wednesday.

The information gathering, jointly conducted by the departments of environmental protection and transportation, started on April 22 and will last until May 20. Residents can log onto the website of the municipal environmental protection bureau and recommend routes they think are best for walking. Every week during the activity, 20 participants will be drawn to win a public traffic card.

To the end of April, 896 residents participated and 196 routes were recommended.

Crime

Junkie calls police to confess 'killing'

A man who imagined he had killed someone after taking drugs called the police to give himself up. The officers went to his home and found nobody had been killed but the man was under the influence of drugs, Beijing Times reported on Wednesday.

The man, surnamed Wang, bought 2 grams of ice on March 30 and, with his friend Liu, took the drug two days later. Hallucinating under the effects of the drug, Wang saw snakes, thought he had killed someone and called the police.

(China Daily 05/05/2011 page)