There are three firsts on the front page of today’s Daily Sunshine:
Maiden flight of China’s first stealth fighter: A prototype of the new J-20 had its first test flight yesterday. The plane, whose existence was revealed last month when a series of photos of runway tests circulated on the Internet, completed its “astonishing” 20-minute flight just hours before Chinese president Hu Jintao met with US defense secretary Robert Gates.
First transition from private to public charity: Jet Li’s One Foundation, which had been operating privately under the authority of the Chinese Red Cross, is now registered in Shenzhen as a public charitable foundation. The transition, which took place in December, is the first of its kind in China, where non-profits are typically required to have an authorized sponsoring organization. During an interview with state TV in September, Li compared the charity to an undocumented child, and said the One Foundation, which lacked an independent bank account, might be forced to discontinue its fund-raising and charitable activities until its murky legal status was clarified.
First network police station established: To combat online scams, public security authorities in Shenzhen’s Futian District have set up shop on the Internet. Police have had an online presence in the form of net cops Jingjing and Chacha; Futian’s initiative assigns some forty-four officers to serve on the virtual station’s hotline and QQ space.
- Daily Sunshine (Chinese): Futian establishes country’s first network police station
- China Daily: Jet Li’s One Foundation goes public