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Rioters in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have besieged government buildings, attacked police officers and overturned SWAT team vehicles during protests this week against the seizure of farmland, said officials in Shanwei, a city not far from Hong Kong that skirts the South China Sea.

According to a government Web site, hundreds of people on Wednesday blocked an important highway while others mobbed the local headquarters of the Communist Party and a police station in the city of Lufeng, injuring a dozen officers. Some witnesses, posting anonymous accounts online, put the number of rioters at more than one thousand.

The protests continued Friday, with farmers gathered in front of a government building banging gongs and holding aloft signs that said “give us back our farmland” and “let us continue farming,” Reuters reported.

China's billionaire - Chen Guangbiao - control his Smasher to break his Benz into pieces for more green life.

Two preschoolers and four adults were fatally attacked by an axe-wielding assailant Wednesday morning on a street in the city of Gongyi in central China's Henan Province.

One of the preschoolers and three of the adults died at the scene, while the other two victims died in hospital after emergency medical treatment failed to save their lives, according to a city government spokesman.

Both of the preschoolers were girls, aged one and four. The adults included one man and three women. They were attacked on a street in Gongyi's Shecun Township at 8:40 am.

China will launch a new subsidy policy for energy-saving vehicles next month in a bid to encourage automakers to increase green-technology investment and reduce oil consumption.

Energy-saving cars weighing between 1,205 kilograms to 1,320 kilograms should consume no more than 6.3 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers in order to obtain subsidies as of October 1, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on its website.