Guardrail collapse

　　FAN QI, principal of the No.2 Middle School in Fengzhen, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was detained for negligence over the school’s guardrail collapse Monday when at least 21 students were killed and another 47 injured.

　　Others found responsible for the accident were also detained by the local security department, including the deputy principal, a department head, the security chief and a building developer.

　　The local security authority’s investigation found that the collapse was due to ill-management in the school with damaged lamps, excessive student numbers and negligence.

　　Genetic ID card

　　CHINA has developed the technology on trial to produce bar-coded identification cards containing the cardholder’s genetic information, Science & Technology Daily reported yesterday.

　　The Genetic Institute of the Henan Provincial People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China’s Henan Province, created a test ID card earlier this week for a Zhengzhou resident, according to the newspaper published by the Ministry of Sciences and Technology.

　　About the size of a traditional ID, the card is the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland.

　　CDMA subscribers

　　THE CDMA (Code Division MultipleAccess) mobile telecommunications network, that started official operations in China in early January, now has more than 100,000 subscribers in Shanghai, the country’s largest city.