Well, I got this phone call about half past ten this morning asking "你是王博吗？" (Are you Wang Bo?), having no idea who was calling, I hesitantly responded "是" (yes). And then he said my HSK results were waiting at the front desk of the foreign students'...

It's a small article without a lot of detail, but still, 京报网 reports that a small company in Daxing is making pencils out of waste newspapers and doing very well out of it, too: 大兴废报纸做铅笔出口欧美 Daxing makes pencils out of waste newspapers, exports to Europe...

Wow, I just noticed Cui Jian's getting a lot of love in 新京报/The Beijing News today. First is this article, reproduced, inexplicably, with a different headline and buggered up "related news" here, and another article, reproduced under the "related news"...

新京报/The Beijing News' Jiang Yanxin reports that Beijing is about to start a new programme of relocating rural residents from areas prone to mud and rock flows: 两万农民将搬离泥石流易发区 20,000 rural residents to be moved from areas prone to mud and rock flows 北京启动新一轮山区农民搬迁工程，今年搬离居民每人补贴1.3万元...