Beijing said on Thursday the momentum of dialogue that has grown during the Winter Olympics should continue and translate into interaction between Pyongyang and Washington.Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the remarks after the Republic of Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Seoul will try to promote talks between Washington and Pyongyang.Kang said it is important for the two sides to meet at the earliest date to pave the way for full-fledged dialogue on the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization, Yonhap News Agency reported.Kang also said her government will try through various channels to persuade Pyongyang to have talks with Washington.The ROK Foreign Ministry said it will work on channeling the peace momentum created by Pyongyang's participation in the Winter Olympics into efforts to peacefully solve the nuclear issue.Pyongyang and Seoul have been engaged in a series of positive interaction and friendly cooperation concerning the Winter Olympics, which Beijing welcomes and supports, Geng said.Geng emphasized that talks are the only way out for solving the stalemate in the peninsula, and said Seoul and Pyongyang have made the precious first step in this regard.All relevant parties should maintain the hard-won momentum, and expand the interaction between Pyongyang and Seoul into that between Pyongyang and Washington, Geng said.The spokesman urged parties involved not to take actions that will irritate each other, try their best to maintain the relatively stable situation in the peninsula and create conditions for talks.We hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States will grasp the window of opportunity, show their sincerity and work together. We also hope the international community will jointly encourage such efforts, Geng added. wristbands canadawristbands for eventsrubber band bracelets
Company was told to stop polluting; it secretly resumed production insteadThree officials responsible for a county in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region have been removed from their posts after a company that violated environmental protection rules resumed production without authorization.Qian Kexiao, Party secretary of Yongning county in Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan, and Li Runjun, head of the county government, have been held accountable for the situation along with Xu Qing, vice-mayor of Yinchuan, who oversees environmental protection in the city.Qian is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Committee of the Communist Party of China, according to a statement from Ningxia authorities on Saturday.The decision was made in a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Committee of the Communist Party of China presided over by Shi Taifeng, Ningxia's Party secretary. The committee also established a team to investigate the three officials.In 2016, environmental inspectors from the central government asked Ningxia Tairui Pharmaceutical Co in Yongning to rectify its environmental violations after finding that an "undesirable odor" emitted by the factory had affected nearby residents' lives.Tairui was ordered to suspend production after the inspectors revisited Ningxia in June and found it had failed to rectify the problem.The company released gas with an offensive odor at least once a day. The inspection team received 28 public reports on the first day after arriving in Yinchuan in June, with 17 of the complaints related to Tairui.Tairui said on June 22 that it would suspend production and relocate its factory.Local inspectors in Ningxia found during a recent visit to the company, however, that Tairui had resumed production without authorization."This is a case that's vile in nature and with especially flagrant circumstances," the meeting of the regional CPC Standing Committee said. The committee will launch an investigation into Tairui and its executives and severely punish its environmental violations, it said.Local authorities had shut down and sealed all the facilities that Tairui used for its clandestine production, as of 7 am on Saturday.The committee also vowed to comb through major companies in Ningxia for environmental violations and to ensure that any found are "completely rectified". Regular environmental inspections and law enforcement will also be enhanced, it said.Tairui, in Yinchuan Wangyuan Industrial Park, claims to be China's largest production and export base for veterinary antibiotics and a major global producer. Established in 2000, it has about 3,000 employees and boasts total assets of 6 billion yuan ($872 million)[email protected] (China Daily 08/20/2018 page4)
