• The trial of Chen Liangyu (陈良宇), Shanghai's former Communist Party chief and the highest party official to be ousted in more than a decade for corruption, has just begun in Tianjin.
• Vegetable prices in Shanghai have plummeted by as much as 20 percent as a vast amount of produce from neighboring provinces flows into the city
• Shanghai's Metro Line 2 will dispatch its first train at 5:55am from today, half an hour earlier than before, said Shanghai Metro Operation Company officials yesterday.
• Tongji University has developed an automated greenhouse which protects plants from snow and frost while saving energy.

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