China RoundUp July 3

• Source: Global Times
• [00:03 July 03 2009]
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Wen meets dignitaries

Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday met with several foreign dignitaries who were in Beijing for a summit.

The guests included Romano Prodi, former president of the European Commission, Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, and Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

They are in Beijing to attend the Global Think Tank Summit, which runs from today through Saturday and is being organized by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a nongovernmental organization.

Hottest June in 58 years

Beijing this year reported its hottest June since 1951, with the average temperature up 3.7 C on last year, the city’s weather bureau said.

The mercury climbed above 35 C for eight days, compared with the normal 2.5 days.

“Last month’s rainfall was 30 percent less year-on-year and the total in the last 10 days of June was only 10 percent of the normal volume,” Zhang Qing, its chief engineer, said.

Temperatures will remain high through this month and August, he said.

Mob storms hospital

Relatives of the A (H1N1) flu patient who died “accidentally” in Zhejiang Province yesterday stormed the hospital where she died.

More than 20 people rushed into the No. 1 People’s Hospital of Xiaoshan district in Hangzhou, where the 34-year-old woman died. They threw rocks at security guards.

The mob said the woman had been electrocuted.

The woman was found dead at 7:35 am Wednesday in a hospital lavatory. The case is under investigation.

Cheat refused uni place

A student who lied about his ethnicity to gain additional points in the national college entrance examination has been refused a place at Peking University.

He Chuanyang, who scored the highest marks in Chongqing Municipality, was denied admission by the university, his parents said yesterday.

The university’s admissions office confirmed the cheat had been denied a place.

“We checked all the facts and decided to turn down his application,” Liu Mingli, head of the university’s admissions office, said.