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A man high on drugs thought he was proposing to popular Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (pictured), but it turned out to be his colleague. Photo: SCMP Pictures
BEIJING
Harmful fake drugs seized
Beijing police seized nearly 600 million yuan (HK$758 million) of counterfeit food and drugs and arrested 760 people involved in the trade last year, Xinhua reports. The knock-off goods – mostly sold as health products that stimulate weight loss or improve sexual performance – severely threatened the health of those who took them as they contained harmful chemicals, the authorities said.
Last pet market to shut
Beijing authorities have ordered the city’s last downtown pet market to close after January 1 next year, the Legal Evening News reports. The market, near Taoranting Park in the south, sells a wide range of animals including fish, birds and crickets. Beijing has been shutting down its pet markets in recent years as animal rights activists’ protests over the pets’ living conditions have affected the city’s image.
FUJIAN
‘High’ time for marriage
A hallucinating man in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, declared his love for his colleague, believing that she was the popular Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, Chinanews.com reports. Police found the 27-year-old kneeling beside a car with the woman seated inside, declaring that he wanted to present her with roses and propose to her. Officers detained him for five days after a urine test confirmed that he had been taking drugs.
Child’s play goes wrong
A child in Fuqing, Fuzhou, accidentally burned down a villa on Tuesday after playing with a lighter, online news site Strait City Daily reports. Firefighters managed to get the flames under control within 10 minutes, but everything in the villa had already been reduced to ashes by the time the blaze was put out. No one was hurt.
GUANGXI
Armed man knocked down
A teacher ran over an armed man with a car on Tuesday after the man rushed into a secondary school in Beihai intending to hurt the pupils, Sina.com.cn reports. The 34-year-old man from Qinzhou, who was drunk and carrying a knife, was subdued by the time police arrived. No one was hurt and police are investigating.
Dogs’ dinner
Dogs may have feasted on the body of their owner, who lived alone in a Nanning village, after he died, Modern Life Daily reports. Neighbours found the 65-year-old man’s body, with parts missing, lying on the bloodstained kitchen floor and his two dogs nearby. They suspected the hungry dogs might have eaten parts of the body as there were no signs a struggle had taken place. The man’s son, who lives outside the village, returned to arrange for his father’s funeral but declined to involve the police.
HENAN
Studious sperm donors
Students and teachers are the Henan provincial sperm bank’s most active donors, the Henan Business Daily reports. About 60 per cent of the bank’s new sperm was from students and more than 30 per cent from teachers. But the quality of the students’ sperm was much higher than that of the teachers, the bank said. The donors tended to be more open-minded than the general population and also had more time on their hands, it added.
Setting low standards
The Henan government has targeted just 190 non-polluting days in its humble plan to cut air pollution in the province this year, the Henan Daily reports. Last year, the province had already recorded 199 “blue sky” days by the end of the first nine months, thanks to its slowing economy. Bigger cities such as Zhengzhou saw considerably fewer clean-air days than the smaller ones.
JILIN
Thriving exports
Jilin city’s export business grew 64 per cent last year even as the province’s overall economy struggled, Chinajilin.com.cn reports. A few large firms – mainly in the chemical, steel, machinery and pharmaceutical sectors – contributed strongly to the city’s US$851 million (HK$6.6 billion) exports. The city government said the export business would be given more incentives to keep up the growth.
Closing the income gap
The Changchun city government has paired 10,000 of its poorest families to 10,000 government officials in an effort to narrow the city’s widening income gap, the Changchun Daily reports. The officials have been tasked to do whatever they can to improve the families’ economic situation and living standards within three years, and are required to visit them at least three times a year.
SHAANXI
Drink-driving cop held
A policeman in Yulin city faces serious punishment after he injured three civilians by driving a police car while drunk, Hsw.cn reports. The sedan hit three cars on Monday night and three people, including a child, were hurt and had to be hospitalised. The officer tried to flee the scene but was apprehended and arrested.
Fireman fetish exposed
A homeless man with a penchant for watching firefighters in action was arrested for setting vehicles ablaze, Hsw.cn reports. The man said he enjoyed hearing the fire engine’s siren and watching firemen put out the blaze. Police said the man started at least three fires this month that destroyed over a dozen cars.
SHANXI
Bonus with a bang
A Jincheng official was issued a serious warning by the city’s graft-busters on Tuesday after he gave his staff fireworks as a year-end bonus, the Shanxi Daily reports. The official, from Zezhou’s work safety bureau, gave his subordinates almost 400,000 yuan of firecrackers using the government budget, the authorities said, adding that his behaviour violated party discipline.
Game over for tomb raider
A tomb raider in Lin county turned himself in to police last week after an accident while raiding a tomb in Inner Mongolia killed his two teammates, the Shanxi Evening News reports. The 49-year-old said the team of three had entered an ancient tomb in Erdos last month and found a large number of bronze wares, but the tomb collapsed as they were moving out the items and only he managed to escape. He said he surrendered himself and the loot out of guilt.
SICHUAN
Burglar hits the roof
A burglar broke into a Chengdu supermarket by cutting a hole in the building’s roof, the West China City Daily reports. The shopkeeper turned up on Monday morning to find three huge holes on the roof of the supermarket and more than 10,000 yuan in cash as well as 50,000 yuan worth of wine and laptops missing. Motion detectors and burglar alarms on the doors proved ineffective, she said. Police are investigating.
Spotted: snow leopards
Wild snow leopards have been captured on camera at the Feng Tong Zhai nature reserve in Yaan for the first time, Chinanews.com reports. The blurry black-and-white photo was taken by an infrared camera at more than 4,000 metres above sea level, said a manager at the reserve. Snow leopards, which are extremely rare and an endangered species, have a global population of around 4,000, with half of them in China, according to the global conservation body WWF.
The Chinese man who surprised commuters by riding on the Beijing subway with a "watermelon head mask" appeared to be drunk. Photo: SCMP Pictures
BEIJING
‘Melon head’ on metro
A man who rode the Beijing subway with a “watermelon head mask” was taken into custody by police, Beijing Morning Post reports. The man – who had on a mask made out of watermelon rind with carved holes for the eyes and mouth – was holding bottles of alcohol and walked unsteadily, passengers said. Police took him off the train after railway authorities were notified.
Nail found in bun
A woman injured her mouth after biting into a bun that contained a nail, Beijing Evening News reports. She felt a sharp pain when she took a bite out of the bun, bought from a 7-Eleven store, and promptly spat it out. She found her mouth bleeding and a 1cm-long nail in the bun. A representative from the factory that made the bun apologised to the woman and vowed to investigate the matter.
CHONGQING
Traffic-stopping cat
A lost cat on a busy road in downtown Chongqing caused a half-hour traffic jam, Chongqing Shang Bao reports. Drivers had to slow down or stop completely to avoid the wandering feline, witnesses said. Police caught the cat and a volunteer cared for it before its owner arrived.
Gardeners put out blaze
Two gardeners risked their lives putting out the flames on a burning cargo truck that had caught fire, preventing an explosion in downtown Chongqing, Chongqing Evening News reports. The pair emptied their gardening truck’s water tank, spraying eight tonnes of water on the blazing vehicle that had stopped outside a school. Firefighters said an explosion could have injured pupils.
GUIZHOU
Illiterate smoker fined
A migrant worker was fined after he smoked in a train toilet, triggering the smoke detector and delaying the train for several minutes, Guizhou Du Shi Bao reports. The man, from a remote Guizhou village, said he did not understand the warning message broadcasted in Putonghua on the high-speed train travelling from Nanning, Guangxi province, to Guiyang. The man, who neither reads nor speaks Putonghua, was fined 500 yuan (HK$630) – half his monthly salary – but escaped jail.
Hungry dog-hunters held
Two men were arrested by police in Zunyi for killing four dogs with poisoned arrows, Guizhou Du Shi Bao reports. Police found the dead dogs, a bow and poison-coated arrows in the trunk of the pair’s car. The men said they killed the dogs, which belonged to nearby farmers, because they were hungry and craved dog meat.
HAINAN
Preschoolers on the rise
The number of kindergarteners in Hainan rose more than 70 per cent from 2010 to last year because more schools were available, Hainan Daily reports. From 2010 to 2014, the number of kindergartens increased from about 1,000 to more than 1,800, and the pupil population rose from 180,000 to 310,000. The provincial government said it had spent over a billion yuan building new schools across the province, especially in the rural areas, so that more children could receive early education.
Hit by runaway car
A woman in Haikou was hit and injured by a car without a driver, Hinews.cn reports. The sedan slid down a slope at high speed and hit the 50-year-old woman who was standing on a sidewalk, witnesses said. She was hospitalised and treated for bone fractures. The car owner said he had applied the handbrake before parking the car outside a supermarket. Police confirmed that the handbrake was on and are investigating the accident.
HEBEI
Turtle invasion
The Shijiazhuang zoo has received more than 20 invasive species of turtles from residents over the past few months, Sjzdaily.com.cn reports. The residents had given them to the zoo after realising that their pets were alligator snapping turtles that eat native fish and damage local ecology. A zoo worker said one person dropped off six turtles at a go. The turtles, which are native to the United States, grow quickly, eat a lot, and can become highly aggressive.
Coins for a new ride
A man in Shijiazhuang bought a car with 150kg worth of coins, Yanzhao Evening News reports. Workers said they spent hours counting out the money until their hands cramped up. The man, who paid almost 20,000 yuan in one-yuan and 50-cent coins, said he had more coins at home and planned on spending them slowly rather than depositing them at a bank.
HUBEI
Queue for a living
Three people were arrested for providing queueing services at a public hospital in Wuhan, Xinhua reports. The trio charged patients between 40 and 60 yuan to get them a queue number and stand in line for them. They made a total of 60,000 yuan from their business last year, but police said the service was illegal as it disrupted social order.
Kiss of life – not
A seven-month-old boy in Wuhan developed high fever and an infectious disease because his parents kissed him too often, Chutian Metropolis Daily reports. His parents would press their lips to his every few minutes, transmitting a virus that was harmless to adults but that affected children, his doctor said. The boy’s symptoms went away soon after his parents stopped kissing him.
HUNAN
Well-hung pork
A Changsha resident hung salted pork on a tree in a street because he had no space to dry the meat at home, Xiao Xiang Chen Bao reports. The man, who said he had been doing so for years, nailed more than 20kg of pork on the trunk of the tree, just within arm’s reach. Other residents said they were concerned the man’s behaviour would harm the tree as the nails he used were long and thick.
Adventurous toddler
A one-and-a-half-year-old toddler shocked Changsha residents by leaving home alone and boarding a bus, Xiao Xiang Chen Bao reports. The bus driver and passengers were surprised to see him and the driver spent a day trying to locate his parents. Police said the boy’s parents owned a grocery store near the bus station and that they had reported him missing.
LIAONING
Wrong measure used
A Shenyang primary-school pupil’s mother found out that his ruler had inaccurate measurements after he failed to score full marks in a maths exam, Liaoshen Evening News reports. The mother informed the child’s teacher, who then discovered that the rulers her pupils were using all gave different measurements, varying by as much as 3mm. A stationery shop owner who sold some of the rulers said no one had ever asked about the discrepancies.
Teen cuts off own hand
A teenager in Dandong chopped off his hand with a kitchen knife after arguing with his parents, Shenyang Evening News reports. The 14-year-old only child had quarrelled with his parents before running into the kitchen, grabbing a knife and cutting off his left hand. He was rushed to hospital, where his hand was reconnected after a 10-hour operation. While recovering in hospital, he ran away but was found by a taxi driver who took him to the police before he was eventually returned to his parents.
