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Policies & Politics
Li Chuncheng, former deputy party chief of Sichuan province, and a close ally of former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, goes on trial on charges of bribery and abuse of power. (Xinhua)
 
China’s anti-graft watchdog the Central Commission for Discipline Investigation (CCDI), in an unusual move, is publicly recruiting 50 junior officials to beef up manpower for the anti-corruption campaign. (CCDI website)
 
Xu Guocai, general manager of PetroChina Hunan, has become the latest oil industry official to be investigated for “severe discipline violations”, the CCDI announced on its website.
 
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President Xi Jinping called on China and Japan to lower mutual suspicion in talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday. (Xinhua)
 
President Xi Jinping held talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein in Bandung yesterday. He reiterated China’s hope for “a peaceful solution” to the ongoing war in northern Myanmar. (Xinhua)

Economy
HSBC’s preliminary reading says China's purchasing managers’ index fell to 49.2 in April from 49.6 in March as new business dropped for the second month amid weak demand.（Associated Press)
 
There is more room for another cut to banks’ reserve requirement ratio, said a central bank monetary policy committee member. (Xinhua)
 
The central government’s financial and economic committee urged caution in approving more free trade zones. (Southern Metropolis Daily).
 
China Railway Construction to issue financial notes worth 10 billion yuan.  (21CBH.com)
 
Head of the Asian Development Bank to discuss the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). (Kyodo News)
 
Telecom giant China Unicom reported a sharp 1.6 million drop in clients in March. (The Beijing News)
Four provincial governments raised their minimum wages in the first quarter by the lowest amount in recent years (Xinhua)
 
Beijing expected to ease capital controls under QFII
 
China to allow foreign credit card firms to apply for clearing licences 
 
Society 
Each person used an average 1.6 metres of toilet paper per visit and some people took away entire rolls, a Shanghai government pilot scheme offering free toilet paper has revealed. (Jiefang Daily)
 
“I’m a stock widow”, a Chinese wife has complained. The woman, from China’s Hubei province, said her husband was so obsessed with stock investments that the only thing he would do after work was to lie on the sofa checking the market on his mobile. (cnhubei.com) 
 
Staff in a few chain hotels, including the well-known Home Inns & Hotels, are using bath towels to clean toilets, a local TV channel in Hangzhou reports.


April 23: Zhou Yongkang's ally on trial; China factory activity slips to 1-year low

Li Chuncheng stands on trial in Xianning, Hubei province. Photo: Xianning Intermediate People's Court 

Employees wait for customers at a China Unicom store in the Wangfujing shopping district of Beijing. Photo: Bloomberg

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets with Myanmar President U Thein Sein in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo: Xinhua

Li Chuncheng, the then-party secretary of Chengdu, attending a meeting in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Photo: AFP

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