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January 25, 2016 Category 
One-line news, Weekly
- Former Shanghai Vice Mayor Ai Baojun has been removed from office and expelled from the Communist Party for “serious discipline offenses”. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said his misdeeds included accepting gifts and money as well as abusing his position to benefit himself and others. His illicit earnings have been confiscated and his case transferred to judicial organs.
- Nearly 300 Chinese cities still failed to meet national standards for air quality in 2015. The national average concentration of PM2.5 was 50.2 parts per cubic meter, exceeding the World Health Organization’s guideline of an annual average of less than 10 micrograms. China allows for a yearly average of 35 micrograms per cubic meter.
- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country’s biggest oil and gas producer, plans to increase natural gas production this year and maintain crude output near 2015 levels. Natural gas output will go higher and oil production will remain stable, Deputy General Manager Wang Donjon said.
- The number of mobile internet users in China jumped to 620 million at the end of 2015 – up by 63 million on 2014 – as over 90% of people who surf the web in the country now do so on their smartphones and other mobile devices, according to a report by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). China now has 668 million internet users, accounting for 48.8% of the country’s total population.
- Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong announced that Shanghai’s total population will be kept below 25 million to ensure better urban planning, reasonable distribution of public resources and efficient management of the society. Only migrants with skills that could help the city grow will be allowed to move to Shanghai. Including non-registered migrants, Shanghai has a population of about 30 million.
- Chinese prosecutors have pledged to crack down on economic crimes, including irregularities in internet finance, as well as crimes related to securities and futures trading. Prosecutors also vowed to protect equally the rights of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), private businesses, small and micro companies, and foreign-funded enterprises.
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