More than a thousand kilometres away, people in Yinchuan were coming to terms with a restaurant explosion that killed 31.
For restaurant owners in the newly crowned barbecue capital of China, business was thriving as usual on Friday , the midpoint of the three-day Dragon Boat festival.
That included checks in Zibo, a city in the eastern province of Shandong. Provincial and municipal governments embarked on a new round of safety inspections, saying they would investigate “barbecue shops, hotels, restaurants and night market stalls”.For Zibo, much is riding on safety and keeping the customers coming.
The hope is that the boom will enable the industrial city to overcome the decline in its economic mainstay, the chemicals industry. “It was quite a miracle that our city has shot to fame all of a sudden, I think many of us are very serious about protecting our hard-earned reputation,” he said. The interest highlights the pressure that Beijing and other local governments are under to find ways toWhile retail sales continued to grow in May, rising 12.7 per cent year on year, that was down from the 18.4 per cent gain in April.
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