SICHUAN

Panda base welcomes heaviest newborn cub

A chubby panda cub weighing 219 grams was recently born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province and is believed to be the heaviest panda cub born there. The mother panda, Aili, gave birth to the female cub at around 1:06 pm on Friday, the base said on Monday. On the same day, giant panda Yuanrun gave birth to another female panda cub, which weighed 172.6 grams, at the base. Experts said the two newborn cubs and their mothers are very healthy.

GANSU

Snow leopard spotted in Northwest China

An infrared camera has captured the night movements of a snow leopard in a national nature reserve in Gansu province. The reserve's management authority said on Monday the footage was recorded by the camera installed around 4,200 meters above sea level in Gahai-Zecha National Nature Reserve and was retrieved recently. It was the first time a snow leopard was captured by cameras in the reserve. A total of 34 infrared cameras have been set up by the reserve since May 2018 to monitor wild animals. The snow leopard is a Class A protected animal in China and is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It mainly inhabits the Himalayas in central and southern Asia at an altitude of 2,500 to 4,500 meters.

HUNAN

Family of slain worker receive 880,000 yuan

A county government recently classified the death of Deng Shiping－a school maintenance worker in Hunan province who was killed and buried by gangsters over 16 years ago－as a work-related injury and gave 880,000 yuan ($124,000) to his family to help it cope with his death and funeral expenses. A lawyer for Deng's family said on Monday that the human resources and social security bureau of Xinhuang Dong autonomous county announced the classification in February. Deng was a maintenance worker at Xinhuang No 1 Middle School in the county, which is in Huaihua, Hunan. He was reported missing in 2003 after he exposed problems with the quality of a sports ground construction project at the school. His body was later found buried under the school's sports ground. Gang leader Du Shaoping was found guilty in Deng's death and was executed in January.

Xinhua - China Daily