One-line news
March 6, 2017 Category One-line news, Weekly
- DJI Innovation Technology Co, China’s largest commercial drone manufacturer, has unveiled the Matrice 200 drone series (M200), designed for professional use, such as aerial inspections and data collection from offshore oil rigs, wind turbines, power lines, telecommunications towers and bridges. The market for China’s civil drone industry is expected to reach CNY11.1 billion next year, according to Analysys.
- China Unicom has become the country’s first mobile network operator to offer unlimited data plans for nationwide use. It launched two nationwide unlimited 4G data plans, called “Ice Cream Packages”, for CNY198 and CNY398 per month with no contract requirement. The landmark initiative comes four weeks after Unicom warned that its net profit for 2016 would fall by 94% on an annual basis from 2015.
- Former China Resources Group Chairman Song Lin has pleaded guilty to corruption and embezzlement involving more than CNY33 million at a hearing in the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. Song is one of the most senior Hong Kong-based executives of a state firm to be prosecuted by mainland authorities since Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
- A total ban on smoking in indoor public places came into force in Shanghai. By the end of last year, 23.3% of Shanghai residents between 15 and 69 smoked, down 3.6 percentage points from 2010. The survey found 46.8% of men smoked, compared with just 2% of women.
- Shanghai authorities have ordered 137 officials’ relatives to withdraw from private businesses. A total of 11 officials had their positions adjusted, 10 were removed from their posts, while one resigned. An article on the front page of the People’s Daily could imply that the policy to force the relatives of officials out of businesses may be implemented nationwide.
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