Word: chengdu
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...sight startled visitors. There, in the center of Longzhao, a prospering village on the outskirts of the city of Chengdu, were the crumbling remains of a mud-brick house, its thatched roof scattered around it like straw dandruff. The hut, obviously abandoned, was surrounded by freshly constructed brick-and-concrete apartments. The eyesore was cleared away a few weeks ago, but why had it remained so long? "We kept it there so that people would remember what it was like five years ago," explains Ru Furong, director of Longzhao's garment factory. "We used it to educate the young...
...industrial operations. Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant No. 3, for instance, manufactures rolled sheet steel for the Post and Telecommunications Equipment Factory, three miles away. Under the old system, the material had to be shipped to a central government warehouse 150 miles away in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, and was then transported back to Chongqing. Ending such practices has helped increase industrial output and raise revenues...
...world's second-largest economy was not entitled to a permanent seat because it "lacks the confidence of neighboring countries." In China, opposition to Japan's U.N. bid started out as an Internet petition drive that gathered 25 million signatures and culminated in mobs vandalizing Japanese department stores in Chengdu and Shenzhen. "Japan's final aim is to dominate Asia by military force. China has an obligation to stop Japan from doing so," says Tong Zeng, one of the petition's organizers...
...COMMUTED. The death sentence of TENZIN DELEK RINPOCHE, 54, prominent Tibetan monk jailed by Chinese authorities; to life in prison, by the Higher People's Court of Sichuan province; in Chengdu, China. In 2002, Delek was convicted of participating in terrorist bombings and secessionist activities in a closed-door trial widely criticized by international human-rights groups, who made numerous appeals on his behalf...
...Kang isn't alone in asserting this connection. In the western city of Chengdu, an 18-year-old "continuously improved his skills" in murder by watching China's top-rated reality cop show, "China's No. 1 Criminal Cases," learning not to leave behind clothing fibers and to destroy murder weapons, according to the Tianfu Morning Post. In the same city, a gang of 14-year-old students mimicked the Hong Kong gangster film series Young and Dangerous by robbing people after urinating on their heads and burning them with cigarette butts, according to state-run media...