And here we go:
More on the Tonghua Iron and Steel incident. The death of Chen Guojun:
Almost every burglary-proof door on the second floor of the Old Coking building was smashed. There was a big hole in the wall and broken glass all over the floor. When people realized that Chen Guojun had disappeared, they searched the rooms one by one. So Chen Guojun was eventually found. But Chen insisted on maintaining his tough attitude. "He said, 'If I so much have one breath left in me, I will make sure that all of you are fired tomorrow!'" The reaction was an even more severe beating. Eyewitnesses said that Chen Guojun was beaten at least three times. On the last occasion, he was sent tumbling down from the second floor to the first floor by a kick.
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He laid on the ground, breathing heavily. He could not speak anymore." The time was 16:30 or so. The remaining blast furnace number 7 had also shut down and ceased production. The Tonghua Steel and Iron Factory was totally idled.
Xujun Eberlien adds:
The workers gradually dispersed only after the Jilin provincial government announced its on-the-site decision to have the private company withdraw from Tonghua Steel's business. Some Chinese netizens called the event "the first workers movement since 1949" – the year Communist rule in China began.
Vegetable soup is good for children:
A 4-year-old girl in Penglai, Shandong province, loves beer so much that she wants to have a glass of the alcoholic beverage with each meal. The toddler first tasted beer about a year back, and has since refused to eat if there wasn't a glassful beside her plate.
Insert "last scene of Animal Farm" comparison here.
Police endorsed bouncers issue instant justice in China too.
China’s statisticians are writing poems to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the New China. And statistics.
Why is it that statistics
Put a calm smile on my face?
Because of statistics
I can solve the deepest mysteries
Because of statistics
I will not be lonely again, playing in the data
Because of statistics
I can rearrange the stars in the skies above
Hangzhou prostitution ring uses pigeon blood to fake virginity:
According to Dong's confession, his methods included cutting a scrubber sponge into rough cylinders the size of a man's thumb. Then he would snip a pigeon wing and collect the blood, and then dip the sponge into it until it fully absorbed. The blood-soaked sponges would be sealed in plastic bags and stored in the fridge.
The theory of local truth:
The official invented a “theory of local truth.” He said: [certain phenomenon] may be true if you take a local perspective, but if you take the perspective of the whole, it is not true. For example, riots occur locally, it is true. But if you take the perspective of the whole country, [the society] is stable and peaceful; therefore to say our country has riots is not true.
This reminds me of the editor of the Sun saying that because only a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war, then that was evidence that the vast majority of people supported it.
Inside Beijing’s swine flu dragnet.
Finally, some Xinjiang backstory: Eight thousand Hunan maidens go up a mountain.
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