Ex-official sentenced

ZHAO ZHENGYONG, former Party chief of Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a court in Tianjin on Friday for taking bribes of more than 717 million yuan (US$103 million).

207m railway trips

A TOTAL OF 207 million passenger trips were made on trains in China in July as summer vacation drove up travel demand, the latest data showed.

The figure is 24 percent higher than that in the previous month, according to the China State Railway Group.

July saw 6.67 million passenger trips made each day on average, with a peak of 7.9 million registered July 25, the highest daily number since this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, the company said.