Word: jiangsu
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...sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what he says are complex disputes between his home province of Guangdong and Jiangsu, which has the best provincial record in fencing and therefore first pick in forming the roster. So instead of heading to Athens, Xiao is spending this summer futilely training in Guangdong. Having spent more than half his life in the sports system, there is nothing else...
...with so many industries gobbling up coal, many coal companies are loath to supply power plants. As a result, coal reserves held by China's electricity sector were down 40% last month compared with the same period the previous year. One major power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that it had only three days' worth of coal reserves, according to an energy expert from the West who visited it last month. To cope, the plant is signing under-the-table deals with wildcat coal mines that had been shut down as part of a government campaign...
...central government is trying to curb rampant unauthorized development by local governments, promising punishment for those who ignore stop signs. Late last month, several Communist Party officials and a Bank of China manager were fired after they bypassed normal procedures to get loans for a steel plant in Jiangsu province...
...Snake is especially coveted, in part for its purported health benefits. In May, the director of the Center for Disease Control in the eastern province of Jiangsu was quoted in the local paper as advising citizens to eat plenty of snake to boost their immune systems against SARS. Despite the wildlife ban, mesh bags crawling with snakes are heaped on plywood counters in Shanghai's outlying Fengxian district, alongside hopping nets of wild frogs...
...Professor Kennedy Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong has run blood tests on birds, animals and people in the territory, in Taiwan, in Jiangsu province and in the Pearl River Delta. Especially in the latter two places, he found farmers with antibodies suggesting exposure to every single type of flu that exists in other species. So it's just a matter of time before one of those types adapts to human beings and takes...