Language service firms

THE country had 9,652 language service firms as of the end of June, according to an industry report released yesterday.

“The rapid development of China’s language service industry, especially its translation business, comes together with the country’s reform and opening-up,” said the China Language Service Industry Development Report 2018.

The report was released at a forum held by the Translators Association of China in Beijing on innovation and development of the industry and also in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up.

Disputes concluded

DOMESTIC courts concluded 223 criminal cases concerning disputes between passengers and bus drivers, from 2016 to Oct. 31 this year, according to the Supreme People’s Court yesterday.

The number increased by 4.8 percent from 2016 to 2017, with drivers attacked by passengers in more than half of cases.

Nearly 30 percent of passengers involved were found to have grabbed steering devices from the drivers.

Nearly 60 percent of the disputes were caused by misunderstanding over charging and the location of bus stops. Nearly 70 percent of offenders were passengers, and about 20 percent were drivers.

Ex-official expelled

WANG TIE, a former senior legislator in Central China’s Henan Province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office over serious violations of discipline and law, according to a statement by the top anti-graft body yesterday.

The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission conducted an investigation into Wang, former deputy Party secretary of the Standing Committee of Henan Provincial People’s Congress and vice head of the Standing Committee of Henan Provincial People’s Congress.