BEIJING http://www.tampabaylightningteamstore.c … ont-jersey , Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's petrochemical industry profit in 2017 grew at the fastest pace in six years, according to the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation on Wednesday.
The sector's 2017 profit is estimated to exceed 850 billion yuan (about 130 billion U.S. dollars), up 30 percent.
Revenue from core operations totaled 14.5 trillion yuan last year, up 12.5 percent, while imports and exports as a whole increased by 22 percent to 560 billion U.S. dollars.
The petrochemical industry has been hindered by overcapacity along with security and environmental constraints. A State Council guideline issued in August 2016 said China must increase the competitiveness of the industry.
By 2020, energy consumption per yuan of output should be cut by 8 percent from the 2015 level, with carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption reduced by 10 percent and 14 percent.
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Some 99.8 percent of fresh milk products in China were up to standard, according to the latest dairy quality spot check result Tuesday.
"The quality of domestic fresh milk products has never been better than today," said an official with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).
The spot check detected no illegal additives, such as melamine, according to the MOA.
The quality of milk and dairy products has improved as China has taken a string of measures over the past years, including improving regulations and industry standards, and tightening supervision.
The MOA has implemented specialized supervision campaigns for fresh milk products for nine years in a row.
The supervision covers more than 8,100 dairy farms, 5,400 fresh milk product purchasing stations and 5,200 transport vehicles across the country.
The country's milk industry has recovered from the 2008 safety scandal, when infant formula produced by Sanlu Group, then a leading dairy company, was found to contain melamine, killing six babies and leaving thousands seriously ill.
China produced 37.12 million tonnes of milk and 29.93 million tonnes of dairy products in 2016, ranking third after the United States and India.
From time to time, extreme child abuse cases are exposed which challenge commonly held attitudes toward discipline. It is sad to read such news stories, but even sadder, they are just a tip of the iceberg. In China, where it is still common to beat children to "educate" them, too many cases of child abuse have gone unnoticed just because they are not so extreme.
A girl tries to hide behind a wall. Photo: CFP
Around this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day, an April national holiday in which people show respect to their ancestors, an 11-year-old girl named Wenwen (pseudonym) was killed by her father after he beat her for two hours.
As the teachers at her school in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province later revealed, they knew Wenwen was suffering from abuse and had criticized her father. He told them he beat his child to "educate" her because she "liked lying" and he didn't think she worked hard enough.
This tragedy occurred not long after Li Zhengqin, a mother in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, who was jailed for half a year for beating her adopted son to "educate" him, was released and made headlines across China. Li was arrested after photos showing the boy's bruises and scars were exposed online, which Li said were inflicted after the boy lied about his school work.
These types of news stories, though extreme, are sadly common. Some have even labeled them "Chinese-style child abuse" to stress how normal they are among Chinese families to "teach" them by beating them.
According to the Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center, there were 697 reported child abuse cases from 2008 to 2013, 359 of which involved the death of a child, many of which involve long-term abuse and are particularly extreme. The details of these cases are shocking in their violence, including fatal beatings, children being scalded with hot water or having cigarettes stubbed out on their skin.
Tong Lihua, lawyer and director of the center, pointed out that these cases are just the tip of the iceberg as the vast majority of less extreme cases are never discovered.
"The entire society should reach a consensus that hurting children, even one's own children, are illegal," Tong told the Global Times.
The wounds Li Zhengqin inflicted on her adopted son. Photo: Yangtze Evening News
An open secret
When Li Zhengqin was arrested half a year ago, some showed surprise that beating one's own child constitutes a crime. In China, beating children is just considered normal.
Lu, a 32-year-old from Yunnan Province, told the Global Times that most men he knows were beaten when they were boys.
Zhang, who is in her 60s and lives in Beijing, had a hot temper when she was young. And her children were the victims of her anger.
According to Zhang, when her children were little, they lived in a village surrounded by a pond and sometimes children fell into the water and drowned. So she would make her child. Wholesale MLB Jerseys From China Wholesale NHL Jerseys From China Wholesale NBA Jerseys From China Wholesale Baseball Jerseys Wholesale Authentic Soccer Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap College Baseball Jerseys Wholesale Nike NBA Jerseys