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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing. Here is the news.

China's airlines are encouraged to use Chinese aircraft, including the regional jet model ARJ21.

China's civil aviation authority says the country will accelerate the development of regional aviation and routes in central and western areas.

Civil Aviation Administration of China will help airlines in developing regional routes and encourage them to use domestically manufactured jets.

The ARJ21, short for Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century, is a regional liner model designed and manufactured by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. It has obtained around 300 orders.

The administration will also seek to export aircraft and strive to ensure their safe operation.

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China will severely punish businesses using poppy capsules as food additives after a series of scandals.

Several state departments will jointly hold a comprehensive field inspection over food producers, dealers and suppliers of poppy capsules, taking a "zero tolerance" policy to any violations.

Food and drug administrations will focus on inspecting restaurants, especially hot pot restaurants and snack bars, punishing all violations if poppy capsules are found.

Police will inspect market places, condiment wholesale and retail markets, and traditional Chinese medicine stores that supply and use poppy capsules.

The authorities urged police nationwide to search and find out the sources of the poppy capsules and set up systems to connect tip-offs and reward whistle-blowers. Crime cases will be publicized.

Poppy capsules are a narcotic drug under state-control. However, some food industry practitioners use it as food additive.

The authorities have cracked down a series of crime cases involving poppy capsules, but it is still hard to eradicate them completely due to huge economic profits involved in the crime.

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Upgraded versions of car-hailing apps are facing problems in China, with transportation departments in many cities considering declaring these services illegal.

Shanghai has started cracking down on unlicensed car-hailing services provided via the Internet.

The Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission has seized 12 cars providing such services through "Didi Zhuanche", which focuses on high-end travelers using the Didi Dache app. Car owners were each fined 10,000 yuan, roughly 1,600 US dollars.

The commission says that standard car-hailing services connect passengers with professional taxi drivers, while the upgraded "Zhuanche" service hires car owners who are non-taxi drivers; and the cost of the service is two to three times higher than regular taxi fares.

The commission says the service is illegal because all the cars it hires are registered for private use and are not licensed for passenger transportation.

The "Zhuanche" service was launched in August last year as part of Didi Company's strategy to enter the high-end market.

The company has more than 100 million registered users and over a million registered drivers. With a maximum 5 million transactions a day, its service covers more than 300 cities in China.