New Year’s Eve fireworks scrapped: govt

BEIJING – The nation’s lawmakers yesterday started deliberating a draft revision to the Organic Law of the State Council.It marks the first revision of the law, which was adopted in December 1982 when the country’s current Constitution was formulated.The law has played a significant role in ensuring that the State Council performs its duties in accordance with the Constitution and other laws, said Li Hongzhong, vice chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee,

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement yesterday that after investigating the overturned fire engine incident that occurred earlier this month, it confirmed that the vehicle was operating normally.According to the statement, when the bureau checked the speed of the fire engine, it found that it was doing 19 km/h at its fastest and, on average, the vehicle was being driven at 11-14 km/h. The statement said that even though the fire engine was part of an emergency operation, the data