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UPDATED: March 18, 2014 NO. 12 MARCH 20, 2014
People & Points No. 12, 2014
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Food Challenger

(XINHUA)

Cui Yongyuan, a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has called on the government to strengthen supervision of genetically modified (GM) crops during the committee's annual session, which concluded on March 12.

Cui, a former talk show host, said that GM crops, including GM corn and rice, are illegally grown on a large scale in some Chinese provinces when the government has only approved the production of GM cotton, and only on an experimental basis.

Fallen Official

(CFP)

Shen Peiping, former Vice Governor of southwest China's Yunnan Province, is under investigation for suspected serious violation of discipline and laws.

Shen becomes the fourth provincial-level official investigated this year. From 2007 to 2013, the 52-year-old Yunnan native worked first as the mayor and later Party Secretary of Pu'er in Yunnan. It is said that Shen improperly dealt with local petitioners.

"Helping parents who have lost their only children is easier said than done. There must be specific measures to assist them and organizations to evaluate their situations and issue them compensation."

Mo Yan, Nobel laureate and a CPPCC National Committee member, explaining his proposal submitted to this year's CPPCC session

"The premise of increasing salaries for civil servants is to make their pay and benefits system unified and transparent."

Li Chang'an, associate professor at the School of Public Administration, University of International Business and Economics

"An amendment to the Criminal Law has been included in the annual legislative agenda. The legislature will study the possibility of reducing the number of types of crimes to which the death penalty is applicable."

Zang Tiewei, an official of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, at a press conference on March 9

"Without regulations and arrangements at the top level, local pilot programs on publicizing officials' assets were, without exception, ephemeral. As publicizing officials' assets proved effective in curbing corruption and the public strongly call for it, the Central Government should take the initiative to make it regular."

Zhu Zhongbao, a netizen of People.com.cn



 
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