北京多數4S店銷售將失業

Car dealers in Beijing may lay off up to 70 percent of their sales staff in the wake of measures to limit new car sales and improve traffic.?

《中國經濟時報》報道，受北京限牌治堵政策影響，京城4S店或將裁員達70%。目前，至少有4000人在亞運村汽車市場從事汽車銷售工作。銷售李楓說：“亞市更嚴重，10個銷售有8個得下崗。”

官二代未畢業已享事編

據新華社報道，湖南一名官二代被取消了通過關系內定的工作機會。冷水江市人事局局長為其仍在讀大四的兒子安排了同市財政局的一個工作，并讓其享受事業編制。不過局長的申請報告流傳到了網上，諸方批評和壓力迫使他放棄了這一請求。

偽造轉讓發票罰款提高

據中新社消息，修訂后的《發票管理辦法》將于明年2月1日起施行。按照規定，對違法不當使用發票行為的罰款上限由5萬元提高為50萬元。

湘車禍致多名學生死傷

據新華社消息，今日上午7時30分，湖南衡南縣一輛校車沖入溪流中，造成車上學生9人死亡、10人受傷，還有一人失蹤的慘劇。車禍事故原因正在調查之中。

中國成全球第二大經濟體

中國網消息，中國社科院的報告顯示，中國已取代日本成為全球第二大經濟體。同時，中國的并購交易額居全球第二。

Beijing car sales staff losing jobs

Car dealers in Beijing may lay off up to 70 percent of their sales staff in the wake of measures to limit new car sales and improve traffic, the China Economic Times reported. There are currently at least 4,000 sales staff working at the Beijing Yayun Automobile Trading Market. "80 percent of them will be laid off if the situation gets worse," said salesman Li Feng.

Boss's son fails to land plum job

The son of a government official in Hunan Province has been denied a job obtained by exploiting connections, Xinhua reported. The boy's father, the director of the Human Resources Bureau in the city of Lengshuijiang, had secured his son -- still a college senior -- a post with the city's Finance Bureau, and put him in the government payroll. But the father's application letter was leaked on the Internet and, amid criticism and pressure from all sides, he withdrew the application.

China cracks down on fake receipts

The revised Regulation on Invoice Management which comes into force on Feb. 1 next year will shift the war on counterfeit receipts up a gear, China News Service reported. The maximum fine for misuse of receipts will be raised tenfold to 500,000 yuan from 50,000 yuan.

School bus crash kills nine

A school bus crashed into a river at 7:30 am today in Hengnan County, Hunan Province, killing nine students and injuring ten, Xinhua reported. One person is still missing. The cause of the accident is being investigated.

China world's 2nd largest economy

China has replaced Japan as the world's 2nd largest economy according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.org.cn reported. And the country's volume of corporate mergers and acquisitions is the second largest in the world.

(China.org.cn December 27, 2010)