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China's central government has officially approved the Shanghai Disneyland Project, the Shanghai municipal government announced Wednesday.
However, it will take another five years for the park's first phase of construction to be completed, according to a spokesman for the Pudong New District government.
An official involved in the project talks said the park's planned area was estimated at 7 square km. The project is expected to cost 25 billion yuan ($3.66 billion).
Officials with the foreign investment department in the district government said several big state-owned firms in Shanghai would form a joint venture with the Walt Disney Co. to invest in the project.
The government's information office said Wednesday that talks had started on details of the project.
Disney president and CEO Robert Iger said in a statement that China was one of the most dynamic, exciting and important countries in the world, and the approval marked "a very significant milestone" for the Walt Disney Company in China's mainland.
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China will set the future direction of its burgeoning ties with Africa at a multinational forum in Egypt this month, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Premier Wen Jiabao plans to attend the Nov. 8-9 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Yang said in an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency.
No details were given, but at the last forum in 2006, China pledged to double assistance to Africa by 2009, provide $5 billion in preferential loans and credits, cancel debts and establish a $5 billion fund to encourage Chinese investment.
Yang said those goals had all been met, while the upcoming meeting marks "another important occasion to boost China-Africa friendship and cooperation."
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A woman in Leqing, Zhejiang province who cut off her husband's reproductive organ following an altercation over his fidelity was sentenced to 13 years behind bars last week.
Hu frequently fought with her husband Nan, whom she often accused of having an affair with another woman.
In the early hours of July 13, when Nan was fast asleep, Hu severed his penis with a kitchen knife and immediately surrendered to the police.
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On Oct 28 last year, 43-year-old Professor Cheng Chunming was killed by Fu Chengli, a 23-year-old student at the university. Fu suspected his girlfriend, a postgraduate student surnamed Chen, had broken up with him because she was in a relationship with Cheng. Chen was applying for Cheng's PhD program. Fu was sentenced to death with a two-year probation at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court on Wednesday.
The wife of Cheng Chunming at the China University of Political Science and Law who was stabbed to death by a student, said she will not ask for compensation and does not hate the murderer.
Read more: Murdered professor's wife said doesn't hate killer
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Temperature checks tightened yesterday at Beihang University after the death of a freshman.
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