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SCMP Reporter

Beijing
Ageing population
More than one-fifth of the capital's population are aged 60 or above, the China News Service reports. Figures from the city's civil affairs bureau said about 2.8 million permanent residents in the capital fell into that age bracket as of the end of last year. People aged 80 or above numbered 474,000. Officials said the capital's ageing population posed a severe challenge to the city's health system and other government services. The number of women aged 60 or over in the capital is slightly higher than men.
Record drug hauls
Police in the capital have cracked 2,060 drug cases and arrested 10,455 people connected to the crimes so far this year, both record highs, the China News Service reports. More than 130kg of drugs were seized. Police said they received 1,710 tip-offs about the drugs trade over the past nine months, up 18 per cent on the same period last year. A police officer told the Beijing Times in August that the sale and use of drugs in the capital was spreading from central to suburban areas and that more people on lower incomes were developing a drug habit.
 
Guangdong
Patient transfer initiative
The province's government is considering setting up a system to transfer patients between hospitals in several cities and Macau, the news website Chinanews.com reports. A pilot scheme will soon start operating in Zhuhai , Zhongshan , Jiangmen and Macau. The health authorities are also pushing for greater medical cooperation between Guangdong and Macau in other areas, including inviting doctors from the region to work in the province.
Plea to remove walls
People living in four villages in the Panyu district of Guangzhou want the authorities to pull down six-metre-high walls which were built four years ago as part of the preparations for the Asian Games, the news website People.com.cn reports. The walls were designed to separate villages from events during the games, but the media alleged they were used to mask "ugly" areas from view. Villagers said the walls stopped the flow of fresh air and shopkeepers allege they made it harder for customers to reach their stores.
 
Hainan
Killed by explosives
A 44-year-old man from Wanning died when he was making explosives at his home to throw into water to kill and catch fish, the Nanguo Dushi Bao reports. His younger brother who was helping him was also injured. He is recovering in hospital. Manufacturing explosives without a licence is illegal on the mainland.
Murdered neighbour
A villager living near Wenchang killed a woman with a knife who lived next door and then hanged himself at his home, the Hainan Special Zone News reports. Both of their relatives said the two families were not involved in any kind of neighbours' dispute and the motive for the killing was unclear. Police are investigating the killing. The man's body was found last Thursday.
 
Henan
Road used to dry crops
Two-thirds of a 5km stretch of newly built road in Zhengzhou has been covered in corn as farmers dry their crops in the sun after the harvest, Xinhua reports. The report said the authorities had yet to stop farmers from abusing the new highway.
Canal death warning
The government in Anyang county has warned the public to be careful near a canal after a 16-year-old boy drowned in it last week, the Dahe Daily reports. The canal is part of the country's South-to-North Water Transfer Project that carries water from the Yangtze River to the northern part of the mainland.
 
Hunan
Man dies in flat fire
A man died in a fire at his apartment in the Kaifu district of Changsha on Saturday evening, the Sanxiang City Express reports. Firefighters had to shoot water from 200 metres away to put out the blaze because the community where the man lived has narrow roads, stopping them from getting close to his apartment.
Rise in new businesses
A record number of new businesses have started operating in the province so far this year after the government loosened the requirements to register a company, the Hunan Daily reports. Nearly 73,000 new businesses are running, a 95 per cent increase on the same period last year. Rules including needing a minimum amount of registered capital have been scrapped. The time taken to register a business has been cut to only half an hour.
 
Jiangsu
Accused of corruption
The Communist Party chief in the town of Qingyang in Sihong county is under investigation for alleged corruption, the news website Chinanews.com reports. The town's affairs came to national prominence in July after seven people tried to kill themselves by drinking pesticide outside the offices of the China Youth Daily in Beijing in a dispute over the demolition of their homes. The report said several officials in the county were placed under investigation for alleged corruption after the incident. The town's government chief, Shi Shaobin, is also the head of the party's standing committee in Sihong county.
Vice gang broken up
Nanjing police have broken up a prostitution ring operating in the city and in provinces of Hubei and Guangdong, the Nanjing Daily reports. Police caught four prostitutes in Nanjing, a man in Guangzhou who was their agent and four people in Hubei who were in charge of soliciting customers online. The prostitutes charged 400 yuan (HK$505) for sex and gave 50 yuan of the cash to their agent and 180 yuan to the gang members in Hubei.
 
Jiangxi
Illegal homes inquiry
The urban planning department in Nanchang is to investigate after receiving a tip-off that illegal villas and townhouses have been built in the city's Wanda Cultural Tourism Zone constructed by the property development giant the Wanda Group, the Information Times reports. Nanchang officials said they had not approved any villa or townhouse projects over the past few years and permission had only been given for flats.
Night markets plan
Eight night fairs are to be built in Nanchang by the end of next year to help attract more tourists to the city, the Jiangnan City Daily reports. Businesses in the area will get subsidies from the city government to develop their operations. The markets will serve food and beer and will encourage shopping in the evenings.
 
Sichuan
Pyramid scheme arrests
Six leaders of a pyramid selling scheme in Guangyuan have been arrested, the news website Newssc.org reports. The city wants to remove all pyramid selling schemes from the area. Three police officers were attacked and injured in July after breaking up a pyramid selling group. The police authority has encouraged the public to give tip-offs.
Rider in hit and run
A man who knocked down a street cleaner in Chengdu on his electric bike disappeared after telling witnesses he was going to withdraw money from the bank to help the injured woman, the West China  City Daily reports. Witnesses said the man at first helped the cleaner and stayed at the scene of the crash. He then rode off, supposedly to the bank. Police are investigating. Rules only came into place on Friday in which people in the city buying electric bikes have to show their ID and register the purchase. Police in several mainland cities have warned of the dangers of speeding electric bikes.


Guangzhou villagers want Asian Games walls torn down; inquiry over new homes in Jiangxi tourism zone; Nanchang to build eight night markets

More than one-fifth of Beijing's population are aged 60 or above.

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More than one-fifth of the capital's population are aged 60 or above, the China News Service reports.


Guangzhou villagers want Asian Games walls torn down; inquiry over new homes in Jiangxi tourism zone; Nanchang to build eight night markets

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}More than one-fifth of the capital's population are aged 60 or above, the China News Service reports.

More than one-fifth of the capital's population are aged 60 or above, the China News Service reports.