{"id":6309,"date":"2010-07-23T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T07:10:30","slug":"floods_oil_spills_and_party_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/floods_oil_spills_and_party_hi.php","title":{"rendered":"Floods and 20 million in Beijing, but not much about the oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Modern Express<\/i>, July 23, 2010<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Typhoons and flooding in the south are on many Chinese newspapers front pages today. The Modern Express<\/em>, a regional paper owned by Xinhua and published in Zhejiang, reports that a five-storey high tree fell over in Nanjing, while in Changzhou a three-storey building collapsed. Other papers cover flooding and heavy rains along the Yangtze on their front pages.<\/p>\n

The top headline of the paper is the government announcement of the next big gathering of the Party: the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee will take place in Beijing in October. The aim of the meeting is to discuss China’s 12th Five-Year Program (2011-2015).<\/p>\n

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New Life Post<\/i>, July 22, 2010<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Not a single newspaper has the Dalian oil spill in a prominent place on the front page, although yesterday, the Kunming newspaper New Life Post<\/i> featured one of the by-now famous photos of two men drowning in the oil slick. One was rescued, the other died.<\/p>\n

Most of the Beijing newspapers today front with a story on Beijing’s population reaching the 20 million mark, of whom city officials say 12.4 million have a Beijing residence permit (hukou<\/i>) while 7.26 million are migrants who have been in the city for more than half a year.<\/p>\n

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