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The back cover of yesterday's Xinmin Evening News featured the photograph to the right accompanied by an article centered on Mr Ding, a worker who has been employed at Shanghai historic Jiangnan Shipyard for 42 years. The reason that the photographer wrote the article is because he finally got the chance, through a photography contest, to tour the limited-access factory that was founded in 1856. And the reason that the newspaper published the article is that the factory is set to be moved to a new location; the buildings are being repurposed to serve as logistics, administration and public service bases, and supermarkets for the 2010 World Expo Park.

In case you needed reminding, M:I:3 may not be screened in China, where 20 percent of its scenes were shot, because:

Obviously, the filmmakers didn't model their characterization on Shanghai's adroit and fast-acting anti-jaywalking force. Despite 20 percent of Tom Cruise's M:I:3 being shot in China, its China release has been "delayed indefinitely," primarily because the skin of local officials appears to be as thin as that found on a finely prepared xiaolongbao. From the Shenzhen Daily:

OK, that's a little misleading. This happened in Jinshan District, which might as well be Anhui Province. But still, a buffalo was shot and killed along an expressway in the outskirts of Shanghai on Thursday. They couldn't get the obviously lost (and huge ... 500 kg) animal off the road, and then, reportedly, the buffalo started to charge police cars. They ended up calling in a sharpshooter. It's a really sad story:

This Xinmin Evening News story (in Chinese) tells of Mr. Zhang, a labourer from outside of Shanghai, who arrived in our blurry city to find work. He correctly thought it was pretty cool to be a security guard, even if there is an element of risk involved. The recruitment methods of one company caught his eye, which effectively rents out guard dogs to other security companies and guards. If you are an employee of this company, you can earn an extra 200 RMB by simply recommending other people to fill positions as security guards. (Our pal Mr. Zhang earned 600 RMB this way.)

Xinmin Evening News tells us (article in Chinese) that although a bowl of wonton usually costs several yuan, Mr. Shao paid over 3000 -- in fact 3103.18 RMB.

• Good to see Chinese entrepreneurial spirit is still going strong -- this time in Hunan province. Thirty-five-year-old Pang Zeng Sheng has seen a gap in the panda diplomacy market, and has bought 16 website domain names that are related to the two pandas that China gave Taiwan -- Tuantuan and Yuanyuan (maybe Jen Chung would be interested?). He has set his sights on 500,000 yuan bounties for sites featuring both names, and 100,000 yuan for a single name. He opined, "I am confident about these websites, which should be valuable. They are legal, because they don't violate anyone's rights", however some are saying that the government may snatch them from his hands as they are of public interest.
• More and more Chinese people are travelling abroad ...
• ... although finding a seat on a train inside the country, after the Spring Festival, is still mission impossible.

According to this article (in Chinese) published in the Xinmin Evening News paper this evening, a good time was not had by all on Chinese New Year. Disturbing in many ways:

The good news is this:

Did you happen to look to the Pudong skyline for capitalist inspiration yesterday only to see it shrouded in smoke? The fire broke out at a construction site related to the Tomson Seaview Gardens, among Pudong's ritziest pieces of real estate, and eventually covered an area of 70 square meters before firefighters were dispatched and put it out. What you didn't know, however, is that journalists, among them photographers and reporters from Shanghai's Morning Post, got harrassed while trying to do their job, with at least five security people pushing them around and threatening to beat them up. One unlucky photojournalist got flipped to the ground while the security guards tried to strip him of his camera. The reporters tried to get to the bottom of this with the "help" of the Pudong police, and finally managed to get one of the vice-managers of the site to come out and promise that they the journalists would be compensated for damages to their persons or equipment, and would also be allowed free rein to do their jobs. However, this vice-manager was somewhat unwilling to call the five security guards back and either make an open apology to the reporters or else bring them into the police station for questioning.

A couple of weeks ago, Shanghai was beset by rumours of UFO sightings. According to a story in the Shanghai Daily:

That Shanghai Daily headline wouldn't surprise most of us. But what comes next in the three-paragraph blurb might. According to the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, eight days is the longest stretch of time that the city's air quality has been "not good" in four years.

It's good news for shouting, as more people now have more phones to do it on. There were 6.2 million mobile phone owners in Shanghai at the end of 2001, and in China 55 million people joined mobile phone networks in 2004. Peer pressure, "fashion", and keeping up with the Zhou's is still on the up and up, it seems.

Ba Jin, one of China's foremost writers of the 20th century, passed away in Shanghai on October 17. Ba Jin was known as an anarchist intellectual that attacked the traditional Confucian family orthodoxy as well as capitalists and other scumbags he didn't like. He was condemned during the Cultural Revolution and eventually "rehabilitated" in 1977. His literary career started in the 1929 with the publication of his first novel, Miewang, but he only became known as one of China's literary lights with the 1931 publication of the novel Jia 《家》(Family). Post-1977, Ba Jin began to take stock of his own life and past, writing several memoir books, the most famous being Random Thoughts, or 《随想录》 as it's better known in Chinese. Ba Jin also has been the chief editor of Harvest or 《收获》 literary magazine since 1957, a magazine which focuses on discovering new literary talent. This magazine is still going strong today; you can easily find it in any bookshop or even in some of the magazine and periodical stands on the street.

Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) recently decided to allow two Chinese regional papers, Shanghai's Xinmin Evening News (新民晚报 or Xin Min Wan Bao）and Guangzhou based Southern Metropolis (南方都市报 or Nan Fang Dou Shi Bao) to station journalists in Taiwan.