1) Beijing will further raise the price of water for both public and industrial use this year. (The price for household use may rise from 3.7 yuan to 4.5 yuan for each cubic metre)

2) Lighting firecrackers will be allowed in Beijing for the 15 days long Spring Festival, China's Lunar New Year.

Today, the front page of The Beijing News feature another 2 hot livelihood topics.

The leading headline is: eight plans has already launched to resolve the traffic jam in Beijing.

The photo on front page is about a policeman deal with a petitioner. In the next three months, all of the 3,000-strong local Chinese police chiefs will receive petitioners face to face, aiming to address long-sanding accusations of police abuse within a certain time limit.