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      <title>Juvenile inmate gets beaten for violating disciplines </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 01:56:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Prison management agrees to improve after the video is leaked out by one of the inmates. In theory physically beating or torturing inmates is not allowed by law, not to mention beating juveniles.

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According to Xinhua News Agency, May 13

10 afternoon, the deputy director of the Heilongjiang Province juvenile correctional Cong new confirmed to reporters that video is true, said the video exposure management there is a big loophole, would seriously sort out, &quot;does not cover, do not evade a a take effective measures to rectification. &quot;

Unmanaged term &quot;One day in May 2012, the training District of criminals, surnamed Guo Yang Moumou to the offender by mobile phone, on the same day the phone to the same district criminals Lv Moumou.

About 8:00 am the next day, the offender Lee in training district production workshop accomplice non-compliance with labor field discipline, has to beat a prisoner with wooden Cai Moumou, Liang Moumou Moumou This process is Lv Moumou with mobile phone record, and on the third day will keep a video phone to the offender, surnamed Guo, after surnamed Guo, turn the phone back to criminals Yang Moumou by Yang Moumou release monitoring when there are video phone storage cassette.

Heilongjiang Province minor delinquents also acknowledged that the management where there is a big loophole, a very profound lesson.</description>
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      <title>Construction accident leads to building left engulfed in flames</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:24:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>03/11/2013   Haerbin, Heilongjiang, China

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      <title>Driver fell asleep and the result was a devastating and fatal crash that killed 4 people (updated)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:16:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>02/27/2013 Wuying, Yichun, Heilongjiang, China

A driver fell asleep at the wheel and this devastating accident was the result. 

The car can be seen jumping the central divide and smashing the Audi Q7 with devastating force. Four people died in the crash.

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      <title>China woman held in morgue for three years</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:02:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>China woman held in morgue for three years
Agence France-Presse 3:06 pm 
 Friday, January 25th, 2013
BEIJING-A Chinese woman was held in an abandoned morgue for three years after serving hard labor for complaining about her husband's own detention, state-run media said Friday.
Chen Qingxia was guarded by sanitation workers at the facility in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, the Global Times said. 
Her difficulties began in 2003 when her husband was sentenced to &quot;re-education through labor&quot; for attempting to escape quarantine during a SARS epidemic.
After he was freed, his body showed bruising and his mental health deteriorated, prompting Chen to travel to Beijing to petition higher-ranking authorities about his treatment.
As a result she served 18 months in a re-education camp herself - a common punishment for would-be petitioners - and after finishing her sentence was kept in the morgue.
She was &quot;now confined to a wheelchair and her health has severely deteriorated&quot;, the Global Times said, adding that her husband was diagnosed with schizophrenia after his release and eventually sent to a mental hospital.
Local officials had promised her compensation, the paper said.
The re-education through labour system has come under criticism in recent months and state media quoted a senior legal official as saying this week that it would be abolished this year.
Victims of the controversial scheme can be sentenced to up to four years by a police panel, without an open trial.
Opponents say the system, initially set up under Mao Zedong to punish mild offences, is used to silence government critics and petitioners.</description>
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      <title>Land subsidence is happening across China.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:57:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>The road collapse in Taiyuan city is far from being an isolated case. Similar collapses have happened across the country.

How much is too much? Seven cases of land subsidence occurred within eight days in August in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province.

The most serious one was on the August 14th. Four pedestrians fell into the hole, including a fourteen-month-old girl.

The rescue work lasted for nearly five hours.

Sun Xiaoming, team leader of Nangang Fire Brigade, Harbin, said,&quot;The collapsed area is nearly ten square meters. It's more than twelve meters deep. There's too much sludge down there, making rescue work difficult.&quot;

All four people were rushed to hospital, where two of them were pronounced dead.

Luckily, the baby girl escaped the accident with only minor grazes to her head.

In the same month, a ten-meter-deep hole opened up in Beijing because of a burst drainage pipe.

&quot;I pass this place every day. The last land subsidence took place only three days ago. Workers fixed the hole. I never thought it would happen again so soon.&quot;

Earlier this year, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a serious collapse took place in a village on the outskirts of Liuzhou city. Nearly 1,700 people had to be evacuated.

&quot;The land subsidence started from my house. It started to split from one side of the wall. After several minutes the entire house collapsed. Luckily we ran outside before that happened.&quot;

But that was not the end. The road started to split in other parts of the village. Villagers were evacuated immediately.

According to Ministry of Land and Resources, China will launch four projects to bring land subsidence problems under control by 2020.</description>
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      <title>Black bear chases farmers in field and gets caught</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:28:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>He wants to steal crops for the coming winter. One farmer is injured.

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Xinhua News Agency Xinhua recently, Dongning County, Heilongjiang Province, farmers Li Xiangtao work to their own corn, encountered a black bear, scratched. It is understood that, for some time, Heilongjiang has happened a number of wild black bear wounding event.

According to reports, in recent years, East County has occurred many black bears stabbing incident. Recently in the county's nine Buddhist ditch, a farmer black bear attacks and nose bitten off, eyes pull out one was seriously injured.

Ning'an in Heilongjiang Province, the black bear encountered a man named Liu Junbo farmers also work. Liu Junbo black bear struck down, nose fractures. Thanks to Liu dog desperately wrestled with the black bear is holding a black bear, and saved his life. Currently, Liu Junbo still in the hospital receiving treatment.

Wild black bear is the national animal protection can not be hunted, and local government departments have yet to find a way to solve this problem.
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      <title>Chinese Juvenile Prisoner is Beaten With a Board</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:59:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Grainy cell-phone footage captures one prisoner giving another the paddlin' of his life at a youth labor camp in Heilongjiang province.</description>
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      <title>North Korean got life imprisonment for drug trafficking</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:30:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>They smuggled totally 500 g of heroin from North Korea to China, with a North Korean woman being the ring leader.

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 Qilu August 8, Weihai City Intermediate People's Court recently &quot;2009713&quot; smuggling, trafficking, narcotics offenses the sentence had been passed, the side of a from North Korea and China's Jilin Province, Thailand four defendants were jailed.
 
       July 13, 2009, Weihai Border Detachment uncovered with trafficking narcotics offenses, and arrested three suspects, and seized over 300 g of ice, and destroyed the Israeli side, Thailand-based transnational smuggling gang drug trafficking crime. The gang from March 2009 to July, on three occasions in the Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Jilin Province, virus 521.303 g purchased from North Korea to take human infected back Weihai trafficking and profiteering.

According to the survey, Fang Moumou Koreans, and Thai certain, Cui Moumou, Meng Moumou, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The Weihai City Intermediate People's Court to trafficking, drug smuggling crimes punishable by Fang Moumou, Thailand certain life imprisonment and confiscation of all personal property and the Koreans Fang Moumou deported Mengmou defendant, Choi, were sentenced to 10 years, confiscation of personal 50,000 yuan and sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 30,000 yuan penalty.
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      <title>Chinese state factory decked out to look like the Palace of Versailles</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:46:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Oh la la! Chinese state factory decked out to look like the Palace of Versailles (much to the disgust of neighbours)


It looks more like a view of a luxurious palace for one of the world's richest leaders - but this is actually the interior of an office building.Even more surprising is that the block is in China, a country more known for its minimalist, functional approach.
Harbin Pharmaceutical Group appears to have modelled its factory in Harbin, in the northeast of Heilongjiang province, on the Palace of Versailles.

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The building contains three floors of offices and three more floors of a print museum belonging to the state-owned pharmaceutical firm The state-owned drug firm has caused outrage with the lavish decoration, which includes gold-tinted walls and chandeliers.
Citizens living near the building have reacted with anger to the pictures, insisting the money should have been spent on sorting out the factory's sewage problems. 
It is the latest in a series of rows to hit the company this summer.
One of its bottled water products was found to contain the carcinogenic chemical bromate in August,  according to Want China Times.
And back in June, it was exposed for the illegal discharge of wastewater, waste gas and industrial waste, chinawhisper.com said. 
 

One room in the factory appears to be set up for a board meeting but it looks more like the inside of a 19th century palace, with lavish decoration, an ornate chandelier and heavily decorated wallsIt said at the time that the company did not have the money available to move out of the factory and solve the problem. 
Of the photographs, a Harbin Pharmaceutical suggested to the website that they had been circulated as part of a 'smear campaign'.
He said the images shown were actually of the museum, which takes up three floors of the same building and is run by the company to showcase local art.
The firm's annual report for 2010 showed that it spent 19.6million yuan (lb1.9m) on environmental protection but 27 times more on advertising. 
 

The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles near Paris, which is startlingly similar to the Harbin factory
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      <title>Chained up with the dog: The Chinese boy kept as slave by uncle  </title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:32:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>This 12-ye ar-old Chinese boy has been chained up by his uncle for the past two years.It's claimed that this is for his own safety because he's mentally handicapped - but most people will find these images truly shocking.Cai Changqing, from Erlongshan village in Harbin, north-east China's Heilongjiang Province, is shackled each day to a shabby shelter outside his uncle's home. 
Dismal: Cai Changqing is chained in a shabby shelter every day - and it's claimed that it's for his own goodSqualor: Cai Changqingis plays in the dirty yard with a dogThe uncle, Cai Quan comments: 'The kid can't speak at all. Originally his parents thought he would speak late, but later they found he is mentally handicapped.' 
 More... Convicted paedophile molested 10-year-old boy just hours after release from secure unit   Tied to a drainpipe while she ponders whether to jump... how China deals with suicide attempts   According to Quan he has to chain his nephew up because, otherwise, he runs away. 
In 2009 Changqing ran out into the road in the city and was severely injured after being run over by a van. 
Quan was left to care for Changqing after the boy's mother died and his father was left paralysed from an accident.Heartbreaking: Cai Changqing ran off in 2009 and was hit by a van, which his uncle uses as a reason to chain him up
Following the van accident Changqing started to chain his nephew up each day, using a 16ft-long length of iron chain wrapped around the youngster's waist. 
His treatment brings to mind other instances of cruelty to children in China.Last December pictures emerged of 12-year-old twins Li Luqin and Li Shuangqin tied up by their father Li Wancheng in Yunnan Province.He began binding them ten years ago for fear they would hurt themselves.Twins Li Luqin and Li Shuangqin sit slumped after being tied up by their father Li Wancheng in Yunnan ProvinceThe family currently lives along the roadside in China's Yunnan Province. The father is trying to save enough money to get medical treatment for the girls.He is adamant his daughters are not safe to be allowed to roam and the pair have to make do with a life that involves being tied to a fence or a tree - or to each other - every day. 
Passers-by often react angrily as they watch the young girls trapped in their confines, with the ropes cutting into their wrists as they try to wriggle free.'When they were two they were found to be not normal,' says Wancheng. He hopes they can be &quot;cured&quot; once he pays for them to be seen by a doctor, but says: 'We only have 1000 Yuan (lb100) of savings. We don't have extra.' 
Another shocking case that came to light last year was that of a two-year-old boy, Cheng Jingdan, who was pictured chained to a lamp post to stop him getting away while his father worked as a rickshaw driver and his handicapped mother scavenged through rubbish. 
Jingdan has since become a pupil at a nursery in the Chinese capital Beijing thanks to the generosity of those who read about his plight.

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      <title>Man Sets Himself On Fire At Eviction Protest </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:04:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>(raw video)China 05/11/10 Among the most socially devastating consequences of the large-scale urban renewal programmes in China are the mass evictions taking place in blue collar neighbourhoods. The following video shows a desperate tenant setting fire to himself in protest at the evacuation of his building.
 
The scene takes place at the end of October in the city of Mishan, in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang. The man who climbs on a rooftop and sets fire to himself is called Cui Dexi. He is protesting against a demolition project in his neighbourhood, Ping An Jia, that would affect 45 homes, including his own. The day Cui Dexi set himself alight real estate developers had come to the planned construction site with a full police escort to negotiate a compensation deal with evicted residents.
 Protests, clashes with security forces, suicides: violent incidents linked to evictions are  commonplace in China. A Chinese Web user has drawn up a housing &quot;bloodshed map&quot; on Google to track such incidents.
&quot;Government authorities approve these methods&quot;
&quot;Xigua&quot; is a student in Nanchang, in the province of Jinagxi.
 
I took part in anti-eviction protests in May. University officials wanted to get rid of the restaurants and shops around the campus, which were on land that belonged to the university. Locals tried to protest, but they weren't even allowed to meet with officials and they were forced to leave.
This type of incident happens regularly all over the country, even in small cities. I remember one case in which a man took on bulldozers who had come to flatten his home, shooting fireworks at them.Because this is a very sensitive issue, national media hardly ever cover it  . In general, official media say that only real estate developers are responsible for these mass evictions, and that the government in Beijing opposes them. But everyone knows that in fact government authorities in Beijing approve these methods. This is made clear by the fact that every time evicted people have tried to go to Beijing to seek justice they were sent home.&quot;

&quot;All that's left for us to do is accept what they give us and leave&quot;
Li Xun, 32, is a wine salesman in Beijing. His family were evicted from their home.
 
My parents owned an apartment in Beijing, in the neighbourhood of Beishatan, not far from the Olympic Green. We had lived there for over 16 years when suddenly one morning a government employee knocked on our door and told us the neighbourhood would be destroyed to &quot;prepare for the Olympics&quot;. They wanted to build shiny new buildings.
No one asked us if we agreed, or indeed our opinion on anything. The employee just wanted to know what the surface of our apartment was. We understood why later when we discovered a sign in the entrance of our building saying residents would be paid 10,000 yuan (1,000 euros) per square meter if they moved out within two weeks. They put the sign up in the middle of the night to avoid having to face angry residents. My parents tried to negotiate with city officials for more, but it was no use.
 
&quot;Middle-class familes can no longer live in our old neighborhood&quot;
 
Our apartment was only 70m2, so the compensation money we received was not nearly enough to buy a new home in the same neighbourhood, let alone the city centre. Real estate prices have shot up in recent years. We finally found a place in Huilongguan, the northernmost tip of the city.
 
I visited our old neighbourhood not long ago: it's full of tall, modern office buildings and luxury condominiums. Middle-class people can never afford to live in this area. All that's left for us to do is accept what they give us and leave.&quot;</description>
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        <media:title>Man Sets Himself On Fire At Eviction Protest </media:title>
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      <description>Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, China - In a shocking scene 9am this morning, a nearly 70 years old man standing on the roof of his house doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire to protest at being forcibly evicted from his home. He suffered severe burns to his face and arms.</description>
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