08-28-06

中国人大罢免天津检察院检察长 (Chinese Legislature Dismisses Tianjin Chief Prosecutor)

中国撤销了北部港口城市天津市检察院检察长的职务，理由是他“严重违反纪律”。

新华社说，中国最高立法机构全国人大常委会在6天会议的最后一天决定撤销天津市检察院检察长李宝金的职务。但是当局没有具体解释他的罪名。

人大常委会星期天还撤销了另外3个人的职务。

上海市劳动和社会保障局局长祝均一被控在负责管理政府退休金期间收受贿赂和违反国家财务规章。

前福建省工商管理局局长被控贪污。

四川省棉阳市党委书记被指责酒醉驾车撞死了一名少女，然后逃离现场。

China has dismissed the chief prosecutor of the northern port city of Tianjin for "severe breach of discipline."

The Xinhua news agency says China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, decided to remove prosecutor Li Baojin at the end of its six-day legislative session Sunday. Li's alleged crimes were not explained.

The legislature also dismissed three members Sunday.

The director of the Shanghai Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau (, Zhu Junyi,) allegedly received bribes and violated state financial rules while overseeing the use of government pension funds.

The former director of Fujian's Bureau of Industry and Commerce (, Zhou Jinhuo,) was accused of graft.

And the secretary of the communist party committee in Sichuan province's Mianyang city (, Huang Xuejiu,) allegedly fled after he hit and killed a teenage girl with his car while driving drunk.

中国要把青藏铁路延伸至尼泊尔 (China to Extend Tibet Railway to Nepal)

西藏自治区主席表示，中国新铺设的青藏铁路将延伸到邻国尼泊尔。

新华社说，西藏自治区主席向巴平措星期天在西藏首府拉萨会见尼泊尔副首相奥利时宣布了这个计划。奥利说，这将促进双方的贸易往来，并有助于把边远的西藏和南亚地区连接起来。

青藏铁路从中国的西部城市格尔木通往拉萨。这是世界上海拔最高的铁路，80%的路段海拔高度达到4千米以上，某些路段甚至高于海拔5千米。该铁路7月开通了客运服务。

按照计划，青藏铁路在明年要延伸到西藏的第二大城市日喀则。

新华社说，中国和尼泊尔之间有5个过境点，但是只有一条公路。

The chairman of Tibet's government says China's new railway to Tibet will be extended to neighboring Nepal.

China's Xinhua news agency says Qiangba Puncog announced the plan Sunday during a meeting with Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Oli said the link will promote business exchanges and help remote Tibet connect to South Asia.

Stretching from the western Chinese city of Golmud (in Qinghai province) to Lhasa, China's railway into Tibet is the world's highest. Eighty percent of the line is above four thousand meters in altitude, and it rises above five thousand meters in some places. Passenger service opened last month.

Plans are in place to extend the railway next year from Lhasa to Xigaze, Tibet's second largest city.

Xinhua says China has five border crossings with Nepal, but only one highway.