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Following Premier Li Keqiang’s expression of frustration at the speed of reforms, China’s state council has issued a notice stipulating that all approved documents must be issued within seven days, and unclassified documents should, in principal, be put online on their issue dates. (Beijing Times) Read full SCMP story here
 

China has formed a Soccer Reform Leading Group, a "supra-ministerial coordinating committee", to officially kick-start the nation's ambitious campaign to boost the sport and push China to the top of the game worldwide. The group is led by Politburo member and Deputy Premier Liu Yandong. (Soccer News)
 
The Ministry of Environmental Protection says two agencies have disaffiliated since it ordered environmental rating agencies to end connections with it by the end of 2015. (Beijing Times)
 
Waging war against pollution: the state council is pushing to introduce clean oil products earlier. (People.cn)
 
Diplomacy
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Vietnam shipped missiles to their large-scale reclamation sites around two dozen reefs in the South China Sea, the subject of territorial disputes between China and seven other nations and territories. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs website)
 
President Xi Jinping welcomed Algeria to join the ‘One Belt One Road’ trade initiative in a meeting with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, the first Algerian head of government to visit China since the country's independence in 1962. (CCTV)
 
Economy
The number of migrant workers in China increased by 5 million last year, 1.9 per cent more than a year before, to reach 274 million. (21CBH) 
 
China’s big five state-owned banks post weak profit growth and record rising bad loans in their first-quarter results. (Bloomberg)
 
Beijing plans to gradually reduce shale gas subsidies over the next five years from the current 0.4 yuan per cubic metre to 0.2 yuan by 2020. (China Business News)
The sum of provincial GDP figures in first quarter exceeds national GDP by 240 billion yuan (US$39 billion). Experts said it is due to duplicate calculations and false statistics. (Beijing Youth Daily) 
 
China will gradually wind down subsidies to the electric car industry in the next five years. (Beijing Youth Daily)
 
Money and Wealthy
Forbes study reports a decline in the number of people willing to migrate overseas and a lower ratio of possessing overseas properties among China's 13.8 million affluent middle-class population. (Forbes) Read SCMP full story here
 
Society
More than 70 million people nationwide are enjoying minimum living subsidies, with an average monthly payout of 284 yuan (HK$360) for urban residents and 131 yuan for rural residents. (Xinhua)
 

A court in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region upholds a death sentence for Zhao Zhihong, dubbed the “smiling killer”, who admitted the 1996 rape and murder of a woman for which an innocent teenager was executed. Zhao was also found guilty of murdering 10 people and raping 13 women and young girls between April 1996 and July 2005. (China News Agency).
 
Sichuan police launch manhunt for a death-row prisoner who fled a hospital when taken for medical treatment. (The Beijing News)
Beijing traffic authorities to impose fines of up to 1,000 yuan on beggars and street artists in subway stations and trains, its latest effort to tackle the issue. (Beijing Times) 
 
Guangdong police seized 159kg of meth and arrested 18 suspects in the nation's largest armed drug trafficking case. (Guangzhou Daily)
 
Fifteen pupils in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, were rushed to hospital after eating rat poison that they mistook as sweets. (Southern Metropolis Daily)
 


April 30: State council acts on premier’s frustrations; Beijing to fine beggars on subway    

Li Keqiang has publicly expressed the frustration at the speed of reforms. Photo: AP

Li Keqiang has publicly expressed the frustration at the speed of reforms. Photo: AFP

Beggars and street artists in Beijing subway stations and trains will be fined up to 1,000 yuan starting from June. Photo: AP

Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Photo: AP

The number of migrant workers in China reaches 274 million, though its growth slows in the fourth consecutive year. Photo: AFP

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