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• Real estate developers in Beijing can expect to face restrictions concerning the use of wetlands as the city plans to introduce a law to protect them, according to the Beijing Daily.
• Sales rocketed by 15 percent during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday in the nation's capital compared to last year, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce. (BJMCC)
• Registration for optional courses at Beijing universities in 2010 is drawing to a close, with courses like finance, management and Japanese animation attracting many students while Chinese traditional culture courses have been snubbed.
  

[China's Champion] 2,000km Walk to Save a Son's Life
A Mother's love is the sweetest and most delicate of all, something that science is unable to fully explain. It consists of deep devotion, sacrifice and pain, endless and enduring. Chen Yurong, a 55-year-old Chinese mother, has displayed all of these qualities. She has been walking 10 kilometers everyday for seven months in order to fund a liver transplant to save her son's life. In doing so, she was recently chosen by China Central Television as one of the "Top Ten People Who Inspired China in 2009".

[Cultural Voyage] Thousands of Students Take Art Academy Entance Exams
Spring always supplies people with hope and energy. Every year at this time, many high school students who dream of becoming an artist take the entrance exam at various art institutes in China. This year, hundreds of thousands of students are enrolling to take the exam and they are open to some new majors.

[Tour Tips] Altai, or "Gold Mountain," borders Mongolia in the northeast and Russia and Kazakhstan in the northwest. Located in the north of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the area belongs to Ili Kazak Autonomous prefecture. Half of its population is Kazak.

• Jay Leno's first two weeks back as host of NBC's "Tonight Show" features a celebrity-packed lineup as NBC tries to revive the late-night franchise.
• Vancouver police have confirmed to that Andrew Koenig former star of the family sitcom "Growing Pains" is missing, and that an ongoing investigation to find him began on February 18th.
• A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book.
• Among the many things one should do the week before being sentenced to prison, of course signing up for a Twitter account must be high on the list!
  

[Strange News]

• A 12-year-old boy in Guizhou Province is breathing a bit easier now after doctors removed a 2-centimeter long whistle that had been lodged in his right lung for two years.
• Mourners whose expensive shoes were stolen by a serial thief have been invited to come forward and claim their footwear.
• A Scottish brewery is reclaiming the title of the world's strongest beer from German rivals �C with a 41 percent brew named Sink the Bismarck.
  

[Real China] Costly Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the most important holiday for Chinese people to celebrate and have family reunions. But many young people complain that the holiday has become too costly for them.