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BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Report on the quality of air in 47 major Chinese cities (12:00 July 5 to 12:00 July 6, Beijing Time), released by the China Environmental Monitoring Center:

City         Major Pollutant                  Air Quality Level
Beijing      particulate matter                       III1
Tianjin      particulate matter                        II
Shijiazhuang particulate matter                        II
Qinhuangdao  particulate matter                        II
Taiyuan      particulate matter                        II
Hohhot       particulate matter                        II
Shenyang     particulate matter                        II
Dalian       particulate matter                        II
Changchun    particulate matter                        II
Harbin       particulate matter                        II
Shanghai     particulate matter                        II
Nanjing      particulate matter                        II
Suzhou       particulate matter                        II
Nantong      particulate matter                        II
Lianyungang  ------------------                        I
Hangzhou     particulate matter                        II
Ningbo       particulate matter                        II
Wenzhou      particulate matter                        II
Hefei        particulate matter                        II
Fuzhou       particulate matter                        II
Xiamen       ------------------                        I
Nanchang     particulate matter                        II
Jinan        particulate matter                        II
Qingdao      ------------------                        I
Yantai       ------------------                        I
Zhengzhou    particulate matter                        II
Wuhan        particulate matter                        II
Changsha     particulate matter                        II
Guangzhou    ------------------                        I
Shenzhen     ------------------                        I
Zhuhai       ------------------                        I
Shantou      ------------------                        I
Zhanjiang    ------------------                        I
Nanning      ------------------                        I
Guilin       ------------------                        I
Beihai       ------------------                        I
Haikou       ------------------                        I
Chongqing    particulate matter                        II
Chengdu      ------------------                        I
Guiyang      particulate matter                        II
Kunming      ------------------                        I
Lhasa        ------------------                        I
Xi'an        ------------------                        I
Lanzhou      particulate matter                        II
Xining       ------------------                        I
Yinchuan     particulate matter                        II
Urumqi       particulate matter                        II

The center classifies air quality in China's urban areas into five levels: level I or excellent (pollution reading: not exceeding 50), level II or fairly good (pollution reading: 51 to 100), level III or slightly polluted (pollution reading: 101 to 200), level IV or poor (pollution reading: 201 to 300), and level V or hazardous (pollution reading: over 301).
The 47 cities monitored by the center include the four municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, provincial (or autonomous regional) capitals, and major cities in economically developed coastal areas, and tourist attractions.

XINING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A herd of Tibetan antelopes gallops unhindered to breeding grounds at the other side of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, contrasting concerns that the railway has disrupted their migratory-breeding route.
"I see groups of them bouncing through migration overpasses beneath  the rail every summer," said truck driver Li Jingui, who has driven alongside the railway for years.
The 1,956-kilometer-long railway on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau runs through Sanjiangyuan, Qiangtang and Hoh Xil nature reserves, -- China' s least populated area -- where masses of Tibetan antelopes migrate to breed in May.
The antelopes' migration hasn't been obstructed by traffic since the first train to Lhasa began five years ago, according to Xiao Penghu, deputy chief of Hoh Xil Nature Reserve administration.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, even before laying its first track, was flooded with worries of disruption to the antelopes' migration pattern, which some suspected would be detrimental to the graceful creatures that were already critically endangered due to ruthless poachers after their  ultra-fine wool.
To alleviate concerns, 33 migration overpasses have been built in concert with construction of the railway.
During an afternoon of migration season, around 200 pregnant Tibetan antelopes march near a migration overpass. Hoh Xil rangers block traffic allowing this herd of soon-to-be mothers to pass through a migration overpass.
Miao Xiaohua, vice-president of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company, says that its employees are required to postpone or suspend ongoing projects if they interfere with antelopes' migration.
Qinghai and Tibet environmental protection authorities also claim the migration route wasn't fractured along the railway, which coincides with the conclusion in a letter from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 17, 2008 to Nature, an esteemed science journal.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway's success in balancing the antelopes' welfare with the construction of a massive railway has inspired designers of other ambitious projects.
The builder of the Yi-Wan Railway in southwest China initially planned a tunnel through the Yangtze River but later replaced it with a bridge. This 30 million yuan substitution is to secure the breeding grounds of the Chinese sturgeon, a prehistoric-age fish.
Now, more Tibetan antelopes roam amid snow-capped mountains on the vast prairie. Hoh Xil alone has 70,000 -- an increase of 10,000 over five years.

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) said on Wednesday that high temperatures will continue to plague the country's southern regions over the next few days, while rainstorms are expected to sweep southwest China.
The center continued its high temperature alert on Wednesday, citing a persistent heat wave that has lasted for five days in south China.
Temperatures in some parts of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Hubei, Anhui and Fujian provinces, as well as Chongqing municipality, will reach 35 to 37 degrees Celsius, the NMC said in a statement on its website.
Some of these regions may even experience temperatures as high as 38 to 39 degrees Celsius, the statement said.
Torrential rains are forecasted to pelt parts of the Sichuan Basin, as well as the provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and Hubei, over the next few days.
The NMC recommended that authorities in these regions should take action to prevent rain-triggered natural disasters such as floods and landslides.

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The ChiNext Index, launched by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) on June 1, 2010, jumped 10.86 points, or 1.23 percent, to finish at 894.28 on Wednesday.
The index, together with the Shenzhen Component Index and the Shenzhen SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) Board Index, makes up the three core indices reflecting the performance of China's stocks listed on the exchange.
The ChiNext Board, which started trading on Oct. 30, 2009, is a Nasdaq-style growth enterprises board, and mainly lists high-tech companies and those with high growth potential.

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The Hushen 300 Index reflecting the performance of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges closed at 3,113.71 points on Wednesday, down 8.79 points, or 0.28 percent, from the previous close.
About one fifth of the total stocks listed on the two markets are chosen as samples of the Hushen 300 Index, accounting for 60 percent of the market value in China's stock market.

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The Shenzhen Component Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange dropped 5.88 points, or 0.21 percent, on Wednesday to close at 12,425.68.
A Share Index: 13,580.97 points, down 9.86 points, or 0.07 percent;
B Share Index: 5,533.06 points, up 29.43 points, or 0.53 percent;
Total Turnover: 97.18 billion yuan (about 15.02 billion U.S. dollars).

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 2,810.48 points on Wednesday, down 5.88 points, or 0.21 percent, from the previous close.
A Share Index: 2,943.88 points, down 6.27 points, or 0.21 percent;
B Share Index: 282.97 points, up 1.66 points, or 0.59 percent;
Total Turnover: 122.09 billion yuan (about 18.86 billion U.S. dollars).

BEIJING, July 6  (Xinhua) -- A top official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has called for European political parties to conduct regular communication with the CPC in order to promote China-Europe relations.
"Chinese and European parties should should have regular communication and hold in-depth talks about the long-term, strategic and fundamental issues in China-Europe relationship, so that they play bigger roles in pushing forward the the sound and stable development of China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership," said Xi Jinping, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Xi made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with a delegation of the Party of European Socialists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The delegation was led by Nyrup Rasmussen, the party's president.
Rasmussen congratulated China on the achievements it has made under the leadership of the CPC.
Rasmussen said he and his delegates have learned a great deal about the CPC's rule and China's development during their visit. He expressed his hope for more exchanges and cooperation between his party and the CPC.
Xi, who is also China's vice president, called for more political trust, reciprocal cooperation and cultural exchanges between China and Europe.
China's 12th Five-year Plan and Europe's development strategy for the next ten years will bring important opportunities for the development of China-Europe relations, Xi said.

BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The weakness of banking shares weighed on Chinese stock markets, pulling the benchmark indices in Shanghai and Shenzhen modestly lower to close on Wednesday.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 5.88 points, or 0.21 percent, to close at 2,810.48 after trading between intra-day high 2,811.82 and the day's lowest 2,780.73.
The Shenzhen Component Index skid 0.12 percent, or 14.69 points, to end at 12,425.68. The index dropped 0.16 percent at opening and fell to the day's lowest of 12,311.15 in the morning session. It once moved out of the negative territory and peaked at 12,446.78 in the afternoon trading before closing.

XI'AN, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen people were confirmed dead and four others injured in a rain-triggered landslide that lashed Lueyang County in northwestern Shaanxi Province Tuesday, local authorities said Wednesday.
Torrential rain hit Lueyang County from 3 a.m. to midday Tuesday, triggering a 5,000-cubic-meter landslide that engulfed a two-story building in the county seat at 11:15 a.m., the government of Hanzhong city said in a statement.
The local government sent more than 400 people to the site for rescue operations.
Rescuers reached 22 people, but 17 were already dead, and one died after treatment failed. Four others were injured and are hospitalized.
Also in Lueyang, an 80-year-old villager, Sun Guiying, remain missing after she was swept away while crossing a torrential river Tuesday.
As of midnight Wednesday, the downpours that have also wreaked havoc in 10 other counties of Hanzhong City have affected 102,300 people and forced evacuation of nearly 5,000.  
The Hanzhong government said the torrential rains had leveled 1,341 houses and damaged 5,442 more, and nearly 6,000 hectares of farmland were submerged.
Initial statistics indicate that the flooding has caused a direct economic loss of 160 million yuan (25 million U.S. dollars).
More heavy rains are expected to hit the southern part of Shaanxi over the next 24 hours, said the Shaanxi Meteorological Center.
From 9 a.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday, the eastern area of Hanzhong City is expected to receive precipitation of more than 50 mm, according to the meteorological center.
Flood control authorities in Shaanxi are on high alert and are evacuating people living in low-lying areas and places threatened by possible heavy rains and ensuing mountain torrents.