VILLAGERS CHOOSE

PHOTO BY / FOR CHINA DAILY Paper ballots are distributed as 2,762 voters in the village of Julong in Chongqing’s Yongchuan district gather to elect their new leaders on Saturday. The district has 42,478 people taking part in elections in 13 villages on the same day. restaurant next to a subway exit captive at knifepoint. Police talked with the man, from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, for more than two hours. Then, managing to distract his attention, they rushed him and disarmed him. of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Congress, has been dismissed from his post, an official with the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee confirmed on Sunday. The news came after the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Friday that Chen was under investigation.