THE 10th CPC Shanghai Congress, running from yesterday to Tuesday, sets the targets and tasks Shanghai should meet within the next five years.
The congress also selects Shanghai's next municipal Party committee and representatives to attend the 18th national congress of the CPC to be held in Beijing late this year.
The results will be announced on Tuesday.
WATERMELONS sold at the city are safe to eat, Shanghai's agricultural authorities said yesterday in response to online accusations that Chinese growers improperly injected the fruit with food additives.
Authorities conducted an emergency inspection of local fruit markets yesterday and didn't find any watermelons that had been injected with sodium cyclamate, a banned artificial sweetener, or cochineal extract, a food coloring, to make them seem to ripen sooner. Neither additive may be injected into fruit.
LOCAL primary school students spend the least amount of time on outdoor activity but the longest time on homework, compared with students in other major cities.
The findings, in a study released yesterday, paint an overall portrait of children in Shanghai and four other major cities spending less time outdoors, largely because of academic pressure and indoor pastimes like TV and computers.
One-third of the Chinese primary school students studied spend less than one hour on outdoor play every day. A fourth have one hour or less of outdoor play per week, the study said.
A KOREAN man was stabbed and died yesterday in a shopping mall in downtown Zhabei District, police said. The incident happened in a clothing market at 183 Henan Road N near Qipu Road about 2pm, police said. The victim, not identified, was rushed to hostpial after being stabbed but was later pronounced dead. The suspect was detained by the police.
FIRE department officials are cracking down on illegal blockages of evacuation passages and fire hydrants at residential buildings. In a campaign yesterday, 19 iron doors blocking the corridors at three downtown high-rises in Changning District were removed, said the district's firefighters. Residents, however, expressed their concerns about their protection against theft after the doors had been removed.
SHANGHAI is expected to have a wet weekend with a drop in temperatures, forecasters said yesterday.
The city will see rain and drizzle on both today and tomorrow, and temperatures will range from 18 to 22 degrees Celsius. Yesterday's maximum temperature stayed above 30 degrees. Starting Monday, cloudy days will be back. Temperatures will range from 18 to 26 degrees. Next week's average is expected to be about 20 to 21 degrees, with two days of rain forecast during the latter part of the week, said the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau.
MORE undercover police agents are on patrol on the city's Metro system to protect female passengers from sexual harassment, which police said usually increases with warmer weather.
"We allow no leniency for such offenses. We are determined to nail down each harasser with our best efforts and send them for due legal punishment," Song Youguo, deputy director of Shanghai Metro police, said when asked about rising harassment claims lately reported by local media and on social-networking websites.
STUDENTS from 40 colleges in China will have a chance to showcase their talent during this year's Shanghai Student Television Festival from May 23 to 25.
The festival is part of the 18th Shanghai Television Festival which is to start on June 11. The festival organizer said outstanding short videos will be broadcast on TV.
The festival also includes a TV host contest among students, academic seminars and lectures by master TV producers.
SHANGHAI people can donate platelet at their workplaces or schools as the city became the first city in the country to collect blood with portable platelet agitators outside the blood center.
Employees of Lock&Lock Group, a South Korean manufacturer of food containers, donated their blood in their Shanghai factory in Minhang District today.