Grandfather probed

A man in his 50s surrendered to local police on Sunday, saying he is the grandfather of a child who was found buried alive on a mountain in Jinan, Shandong Province two months ago, Shandong Business Daily reported.

The man said the baby is the younger child of a set of twins born at a local hospital. While his elder brother was in perfect health, he was diagnosed with multiple diseases at the time. The family decided to give up medical treatment on him, and they held a ceremony to bury the boy after it appeared he had died at home, he said.

Internet conference

The sixth World Internet Conference opened on Sunday in the river town of Wuzhen in Zhejiang Province.

President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the conference. Xi pointed out that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and new technologies, new applications and new forms of business — such as artificial intelligence and big data — are just unfolding, he said.

African swine fever

Scientists have unraveled the three-dimensional structure of the African swine fever virus, laying a solid foundation for developing effective and safe vaccines against the disease.

The research, jointly conducted by scientists at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Harbin Veterinary* Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ShanghaiTech University and other institutes, was published in the latest issue of the academic journal Science.

Mobile phone use

A recent survey shows that more than 93 percent of Chinese parents have given their children mobile phones for daily uses, the China Youth Daily reported on Thursday.

Phone ownership ratio is the highest among children attending junior middle school with the figure exceeding 97 percent, according to the newspaper, noting that primary school students from grades one to three reported the lowest rate. By city, the ownership ratio is highest among children living in second-tier cities and the lowest among rural students, it added.(SD-Agencies)