The China Daily said that in the past few weeks, pirates in the East China Sea off the coast of Shanghai, Zhejiang province and Fujian province have stolen the catches of fishing boats and assaulted and kidnapped fishermen.
On Sunday, Ofelia was bearing down on the Chinese province of Zhejiang, but its winds had weakened to 50 mph, forecasters said.
Childhood engagements in the coastal province of Zhejiang have resulted in illegal marriages and disrupted efforts to hold down population growth, according to the overseas edition of the People's Daily.
Meanwhile in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, a standoff continued between 56 black Africans and Chinese at the Zhejiang Agricultural College.
Meanwhile in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, a standoff continued between 56 black Africans and Chinese at the Zhejiang Agricultural College.
The most devastating of numerous typhoons to strike the southeastern coast killed 120 in Zhejiang province in August.
The incident at the Zhejiang Agriculture University in Hangzhou took place against the backdrop of continued anti-black demonstrations in Nanking, where Chinese students are demanding that African students involved in a Christmas Eve brawl be punished.
In coastal Zhejiang province, one farmer was found living in a four-room tomb he had built for himself, his wife and his late parents.
The scheduled start-up of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in coastal Zhejiang province next December and of the Daya Bay plant in southeast Guangdong province in October 1992 will mean a substantial increase in China's production of nuclear waste.
Zhou Zhenxian, an official at the headquarters, said areas along tributaries of the Yangtze River in southwest China, the coastal province of Zhejiang, and Guangdong province in the south have been particularly hard hit by the annual summer floods.
Another study in Zhejiang province in central China found that more than 80 percent of families in one county do not make their elementary school age children to do any housework as long as their grades are good.
Ezaki Electric Co. has established a six million yen ($48,000) joint venture in Zhejiang province to produce electric wire and automobile parts.