Beijing decides not to supply heat early this year

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Beijing Times, October 27th, 2010

With the daily lowest temperature barely hovering above freezing point, winter seems come to Beijing earlier this year. Here at Danwei’s headquarter, your correspondent has put on a feather jacket to fortify against the biting chill, huddling over the only non-human heat source in the office – a laptop.

According to Beijing Times, responsible authorities in Beijing conferred yesterday and decided that Beijing would not switch heat on before November 5th, citing that the average temperature in the next five days is unlikely to drop below 10 °C. The current policy dictates that the heat will be turned on only when the average temperature in five consecutive days drops below 5 °C.

Above the advert banners at the bottom, a small headline announced that a previously unknown super-bacteria had been discovered in three patients. Two carriers were newborn babies and the third, a 83-year-old cancer patient, had been pronounced dead.

The big image shows a new high speed railway between Shanghai and Hangzhou which started to operate yesterday. The domestically manufactured bullet train which travels at a maximum speed of 350 km/h, has reduced the travel time between the two cities to 45 minutes.

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