Car accident

The Ministry of Public Security dispatched a work group to handle and conduct an on-the-ground investigation of a fatal traffic accident in East China’s Jiangsu Province on Sunday.

At around 1 a.m. Sunday, four vehicles collided on the Shenyang-Haikou expressway, leaving 11 people dead and 19 injured. Preliminary investigation shows that a truck suddenly crossed the fence lining the middle of the road and crashed into a passenger bus, causing the latter to overturn as well as the rear-end collision of another two trucks. The cause of the accident is under further investigation, said the ministry.

Scientists clone pigs

Chinese scientists have completed a somatic cell cloning experiment, successfully facilitating the births of five pigs native to China, which will help reduce the threat of African swine fever on pig breeding.

The pigs, with black hair and white feet, were cloned by a scientific team in Taicang City in the eastern province of Jiangsu. They are currently in good health. If an outbreak of African swine fever were to occur at a breeding farm, it would pose a risk to genetic porcine resources, so the biological breeding technologies are necessary to strengthen the protection of such resources, said team researcher Gong Yuqing.

Flood season

North China is expected to see multiple pluvial regions during this year’s flood season, with several major river basins forecast to encounter severe flooding, according to the National Climate Center.

From June to August, heavy rains will batter regions including the eastern part of northwestern China, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China, said Jia Xiaolong, deputy head of the center.

Ruins discovered

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of large-scale ruins dating to the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) in Xi’an, capital of northwestern China’s Shaanxi Province.

Deduced from a sacrifice-related animal bone pit unearthed at the site, experts said imperial ancestral temples in the period could be found in the nearby areas.

The site was found in the ruins of Haojing, the capital city of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Archaeologists have been excavating the building complex since 2019, according to the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology.(SD-Agencies)