Official expelled

HE XUEWEN, a former director with the Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Area Administration Committee, was expelled from the Party and removed from his post over alleged serious Party disciplinary violations, Shenzhen’s Party disciplinary inspection commission announced on its official website.

An investigation showed He violated Party rules to hide personal assets, took cash gifts, engaged in profit-making activities and abused his power to take bribes during his tenure as a Bao’an District official, head of the Shenzhen Branch of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade and director of the cooperation area. He’s illicit income has been confiscated.

Fugitive caught

A MAN surnamed He who had been on the run for 17 years after allegedly killing an 11-year-old girl in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, has been arrested by Shenzhen railway police.

He was caught Friday when he got off a train at Guangzhou South Railway Station.

The 51-year-old native of Hunan had been wanted for allegedly killing and raping the girl.

The investigation showed that He was drunk and playing with a mobile phone while hitchhiking on the roadside in 2000 when a girl approached and asked to use his mobile phone for a while. Later, He was offered a ride in a truck and wanted to leave, but the girl didn’t want to give back his phone and turned to run away. He chased the girl onto some farmland and choked her until she was unconscious. After retrieving his phone, he raped the girl and began his fugitive life after he realized that the girl might have died.

He escaped to Guangdong and lived his life cautiously.

FTA development

THE number of registered Hong Kong enterprises in Qianhai-Shekou Free Trade Area has reached 4,654 with registered capital of 420 billion yuan (US$64.24 billion), according to a report released by Qianhai administration bureau. Some top 100 Hong Kong enterprises, including HSBC and The Bank of East Asia, started their businesses in Qianhai. The E-Hub, an incubation platform jointly built by Qianhai administration bureau, Shenzhen Federation of Young Entrepreneurs and Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, has incubated 106 startups for Hong Kong youths. Among them, Delight Power Products Ltd. has received 100 million yuan in financing.