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May 15, 2017 Category One-line news, Weekly
- Wang Bao’an, former Director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has pleaded guilty to accepting the equivalent of USD22 million in bribes between 1994 and 2016, and abuse of power, the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People’s Court heard. Wang was Vice Minister of Finance from 2012 until April 2015.
- Han Zheng was reelected Shanghai Party Secretary at the 11th Shanghai Party Congress. Ying Yong and Yin Hong were also reelected Deputy Party Secretaries. The other members of the Standing Committee are Dong Yunhu, Liao Guoxun, Wu Jingping, Zhou Bo, Chen Yin, Weng Zuliang, Zhuge Yujie and Shi Xiaolin. The last three are new on the Committee.
- China’s first national logistics laboratory – the National Engineering Laboratory for Logistic Information Technology – was set up in Shanghai over the weekend. It will focus on unmanned courier delivery and other artificial intelligence services.
- Chinese internet security company Qihoo 360 has made a software tool available that can recover data encrypted by the “WannaCry” malware attack. The software can operate without internet access and is free of charge. The recovery kit is in Chinese only. China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said the payment system in some of its gas stations could not function due to the virus.
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