Pollution closures
SHENZHEN closed 24 factories for heavy pollution last year, according to the city s environmental protection bureau. In an effort to improve air quality before the Universiade, gas turbines in city power plants would be using natural gas before the end of March.
New district chief
LI XIAOGAN was elected head of the Nanshan District Government at the eighth session of the Fifth Nanshan People s Congress, which ended Saturday. The two-day session dealt with building a pioneering district of national indigenous innovation, a demonstration district for modern services and a leading district in education and research in its five-year development program.
Medical dispute
LUOHU District People s Court had ordered a family to pay 30,000 yuan (US$4,546) in compensation to a midwife at Shenzhen Phoenix Hospital over a medical dispute in July last year. The nurse, identified only as Zhang, took the Chen family to court for slander in August after media reports quoted Chen as claiming Zhang had sewn his wife s anus closed on purpose during her delivery because Zhang was not satisfied with a cash bribe of 100 yuan they had given her before labor.
But medical experts later verified that Zhang just stopped her hemorrhoids from bleeding. Zhang said the reports and Chen s remarks had ruined her reputation. Chen said he would appeal.
Holiday travel
ABOUT 1.22 million travelers had left Shenzhen by 5 p.m. yesterday since the start the Spring Festival travel season. Trains carried 454,800 passengers while long-distance buses carried 541,900 passengers in the five days, the Shenzhen transport commission said yesterday.
Roadside labor
A YOUNG expectant mother gave birth on Shangnan Road in Bao an District on Thursday. The woman delivered with the help of two nurses from a nearby clinic and a senior woman pedestrian. She was later taken to Shajing People s Hospital. Both the mother and the newborn were well.
