Starting January first, few of Chinese luxury hotels and popular restaurants will no longer be serving shark fin soup to help keep the species from becoming extinct.

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2 weeks ago, china, a country with over 300 million smokers, launched a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and all public spaces.

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China is planning to invest in huge over traffic  buses which can carry 1400 passengers at once, and by doing so, to reduce traffic jams by1/3. Cars which are 2 meters and below in height will be able to drive below the bus.

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China is estimated to have in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau “Combustible ice” reserves equal more than 35 billion tones of oil which could supply China energy demands for 90 years. The “ice” contains low proportion of impurities which makes it generating almost no pollutants. The country now invests in researching this type of energy.

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In a Chinese aquariuma a diver, who was participating in a diving competition, dived to a depth of four metres when she began suffering sudden cramps in her legs. Mila, the beluga spotted the problem first and pushed her out of the water.

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At a northern China zoo, in Taiyuan in  Shanxi province, two red panda cubs were abandoned by their mother right afetr giving birth. A white dog nurses the two cubs.

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