Around Shanghai: Random police checks, generous teachers and dressing down for summer

• Carry your passport with you wherever you go, says the Exit-Entry Administration of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau because police are going to step up on their random checks. Good times.
• Professors from Tongji University are now working on the preservation of historic and cultural relics damaged in the Sichuan earthquake, including a systematic protection plan for Dujiangyan's more than 2,000-year-old irrigation infrastructure.
• A 61 year old retired teacher has put up her 148 square metre Xujiahui apartment worth 4.5 million yuan up on a charity auction to help build a school in Sichuan.
• Government officials have been urged to dress down so as to reduce power consumption and reliance on air conditioners this summer.

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