Extra! Extra! Mobile phones and environmentally friendly towns

How many towns in China were labeled "environmentally friendly" in 2005? Would you believe 99? Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shandong provinces are at the top of the list, each having 37, 14 and 13 towns earning the honor, respectively. (Maybe these are the towns that have figured out how to export their pollution to Los Angeles.)
The reintroduction of fireworks to Beijing was a success: No one died.
An update on the efforts to register all of China's mobile phone users. Have you registered yours yet?
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