School bullying

A total of 5,750 people have been prosecuted* for school bullying since the start of 2018, according to an official with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP).

Meanwhile, 3,407 people had their arrest formally approved by Chinese procuratorates*, said Shi Weizhong, chief of a department for juvenile* prosecution with the SPP, at a press conference on Monday on the protection of juveniles ahead of Children’s Day.

Big data expo

The China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019 opened on Sunday in Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, focusing on the latest innovation of the technology and its applications.

President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the expo on Sunday. “The new generation of information technology, represented by the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, is booming at present and has significant and profound impacts on the economic development, social progress and people’s lives of all countries,” Xi said.

Rare all-white panda

A rare all-white panda has been captured on cameras in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the reserve management authorities said on Saturday.

The panda was captured in mid-April by an infrared* camera about 2,000 meters above sea level in the wild, the authorities said. The panda has no spots on its body and its eyes look red. It was crossing the forest at the time.

High-speed train

China rolled off the production line a prototype* magnetic-levitation* train with a designed maximum speed of 600 kilometers per hour in Qingdao on Thursday, filling the gap in travel speed between aviation and high-speed rail passenger transport in the country, according to its manufacturer.

Launched in July 2016, the train is designed and manufactured in CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co. in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing-headquartered China Railway Rolling Stock Corp., the largest rolling stock manufacturer in the world.

(SD-Agencies)