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Front Page of the Day
A submerged plane in YantaiPosted by Banyue, August 14, 2007 2:45 PM
Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper. Today's page comes from the paper's website. Chutian Metropolis Daily is a commercial daily published by the Hubei Daily Newpaper Group, which also publishes Special Focus, a digest magazine aimed at men.The Chutian Metropolis Daily, like most newspapers nationwide, features the fast-rising Consumer Price Index among its top headlines. As announced by the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday, the CPI, one of the main standards used for measuring inflation, rose 5.6% in July, the fastest in ten years. On the food market, meat and meat products reported the biggest increase, up 45.2 percent, followed by a 30.6 percent rise in the price of eggs, and a 30.1 percent rise in cooking oil. For more information, see China Daily. The CMD front page photo shows airport staff pushing a plane off of a submerged runway in Yantai, Shandong Province. Because of continuous rainstorm, the Yantai airport was completely flooded and was forced to shut down temporarily. The headline below the picture announced that police destroyed a major drug lab hidden in a pig farm in Zhijiang, Hubei Province. |
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The Shanghai Xinmin Evening Post used nearly the same headline, but included an amusing exclamation mark after the CPI figure:
5.6%！上月CPI增幅近十年最高