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Reporter's Log: Exhausted, but raring to go
By Cao Huan
For the first time, China Daily is able to use a media studio in the Great Hall of the People for the duration of the NPC and CPPCC sessions.
Expat's view: 'For the sake of mankind'
BY MARK HUGHES
During his keynote address before the National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People on Friday in Beijing, Premier Wen Jiabao rose to urge the nation to fight "a tough and prolonged battle" against pollution, to conserve energy and protect the environment.
Voices from the sessions
China Daily
"There is a labor shortage in coastal areas because the inland is developing fast and providing more job opportunities. Migrant workers have more choices near their hometowns. The inland is beginning to demonstrate an advantage over coastal areas in labor cost. The key issue now is whether labor-intensive industries should move inland with the shift in labor resources."
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Soundbites
China Daily
"China has held a negative attitude towards its own culture, while totally and uncritically accepting Western culture for quite a long time."
BY EDMOND TANG/CHINA DAILY
Twenty-four Filipino tourists visit the Peak yesterday. The Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong arranged a free tour for the stranded tourists after they were allegedly cheated by their travel agent.
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City governments fined for Yellow River pollution
Xinhua
XI'AN -- The governments of Xi'an and Xianyang, two major cities in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have been fined a total of 500,000 yuan ($73,530) for polluting a tributary of the Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, the local environment watchdog said Thursday.
Chinese feverishly engaged in e-Congress
Xinhua
BEIJING - Zhang Jianwei, a 22-year-old hairdresser in Beijing, has never been inside the Great Hall of the People and takes little interest in TV news or newspapers.
New loans tops 700b yuan in Feb
By Hao Yan
Chinese banks issued 700.1 billion yuan ($102.6 billion) in new yuan-denominated loans in February, down 34.67 percent from 1,070 billion yuan a year earlier and almost by half from January's 1.39 trillion yuan, the People’s Bank of China announced Thursday.
Google prepared to leave China
By Tan Yingzi
WASHINGTON - A second Google executive said on Wednesday that the company had not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese language search site and it was prepared to shut down the website if necessary.