CISA's New Head

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Zhu Jimin, Board Chairman of the Shougang Group, one of China's leading steel companies, was elected new chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on February 21. Zhu will succeed Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp.'s Chairman Deng Qilin in taking the helm from 2011 to 2013.

Zhu, 65, was born in Anhui Province and has worked in the iron and steel industry since college graduation. He started working for the Shougang Group in 1999, becoming its general manager in 2000 and board chairman in 2003.

CISA has 232 members and covers almost all iron and steel corporations in China. It plays a vital role in the yearly price negotiations for ironstone and makes suggestions to government on the industry policy making.

New Railways Minister

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Sheng Guangzu, former Chief of the General Administration of Customs (GAC), has been appointed new minister of railways, replacing 58-year-old Liu Zhijun, who was dismissed from the post by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China since he is under investigation for "serious disciplinary violations."

Sheng, 62, was born in Jiangsu Province. He began his career in the railway industry in 1968 and was the vice minister of railways from 1999 to 2000.

Writer's Ambition

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Liu Xinwu, a famous Chinese writer, said recently he has written a new ending for Chinese literary masterpiece A Dream of the Red Mansions by Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin (1724-1764), and will publish his work in April this year.

Liu, considered an expert on the classic work, holds Cao completed work on A Dream of the Red Mansions, but only the first 80 chapters have been passed down. There have been various versions of the ending to the classic written over the years.

Liu said his ending took seven years to finish and has been added to his own take on the great novel. But his actions have aroused much discussion on whether modern writers are able to convey well the essence of the ancient classic. Liu, 69, began publishing in 1958. His short novel Class Adviser was a sensation when first published in 1977.