Word: hubei
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...Members." All 68 million rank-and-file Party members will spend the next 18 months "finding problems in their thought, work and behavior" and writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build a bridge to his village, and was so modest that he scratched his name off a tablet listing the bridge's builders. Hu may be hoping that by strengthening the Party he will etch...
...LAID TO REST. SUN ZHIGANG, migrant graphic designer whose beating death in March by fellow inmates and attendants in a vagrants detention center in Shenzhen led to the reform of China's strict residency laws; in his hometown of Huanggang, Hubei province, China. Although Sun had the requisite residency papers for Shenzhen, the 27-year-old wasn't carrying them when he was stopped by police for a random check. His death created an uproar in China, and in June, President Hu Jintao signed an executive order forbidding police from detaining migrants simply for lacking the proper identification...
...most new arrivals is a local labor bazaar. Hopefuls put on their best clothes, pay a dollar for admission and enter a hall packed with hundreds of brokers offering jobs and better lives. On May 26, Zhang Ping, a long-haired, 19-year-old woman freshly arrived from Hubei province, left the Senxin Labor Market with such a broker. "I shouted after her to leave her mobile phone on," says Zhang's father, who had accompanied her there...
...DIED. XIE XIANRONG, 37, one of China's most-wanted suspects, after he was shot during a police raid; near Zhanggang, Hubei province. Xie was wanted for the murders of four people in a September bank robbery and the 2001 killing of a cab driver. Xie was gunned down after he fired at officers who surrounded a fishing boat on which he was hiding, the Xinhua news agency reported...
...ended differently, Sun Zhigang's life might have been a testament to his country's progress. The 27-year-old carpenter's son had worked his way out of a remote village in China's central Hubei province to a university in the provincial capital of Wuhan. He graduated with an arts degree, then later moved to Guangzhou, landing a job as a graphic designer and the chance to make a home in new China's glittering boomtown. But three weeks into his new life, Sun's luck ran out. On his way to an Internet caf?, he was stopped...