Award-Winning Director

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Chinese Director Gao Qunshu won the Best Director Award for his film Detective Hunter Zhang at the 10th Chinese Film Media Awards on August 18. The movie also won the Best Film Award at the 49th Golden Horse Awards in Yilan, Taiwan.

Gao, 47, reaped fame for directing TV crime dramas. He then turned to movie directing, with the recent films Tokyo Trial (2006), The Message (2009) and Beijing Blues (2012), gaining favorable receptions.

New Vice Minister

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Fu Zhenghua, Director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, was appointed Vice Minister of Public Security, according to the ministry's official website.

Fu, 58, started his career as a criminal investigator. Two months after assuming his last post in 2010, he shut down Heaven Earth night club in the nation's capital, which managed a major prostitution racket.

"It is important for the government to implement incentive policies to facilitate private investment in elderly care services."

Xu Yongguang, Vice President of Narada Foundation, a charitable foundation in Beijing, on August 18.

"Police and other law enforcement officers will face heavier punishment in line with laws, and Guo's case indeed demands introspection on the part of all public security agencies."

Wang Hongjun, director of public security management with the People's Public Security University of China, commenting on Guo Zengxi, a policeman in Henan Province, who is being investigated on suspicion of taking a 7-month-old girl from her father's arms and throwing her to the ground on July 20

"Milk powder has a strong ability to absorb other substances. The smell released by traditional Chinese and Western medicines in storage might alter the flavor of infant formula and accelerate its deterioration."

Wang Dingmian, former Director of the Dairy Association of China, in response to the China Association of International Trade's announcement that domestic and foreign baby formula will be sold in 20 pharmacies across Beijing and Jiangsu Province from October, as part of a pilot program that will be extended to 20,000 pharmacies in 500 cities by 2015

"Many newspapers are suffering through hard times due to declining subscriptions and advertising revenue, so the daily paper may have relaxed its review of ads due to operational pressure."

Li Xing, a professor of journalism at South China University of Technology, commenting on the low quality of some media ads today