Cheering Festival

People from the Rukai ethnic group in Taiwan participate in celebrations for Siyueba in Fenghuang ancient town in central Chinas Hunan Province on May 6. Siyueba is a traditional festival observed by a number of ethnic minorities on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month.

Security Measures

Chinese authorities will launch special operations against domestic terrorists， according to a senior security official.

Law enforcement agencies will implement the leaderships arrangement for counter-terrorism， said Meng Jianzhu， head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China Central Committee， at a meeting of officials from law enforcement and judicial departments in Beijing on May 6.

Meng vowed that authorities will strike back against terrorists. Law enforcement agencies and judicial departments will deploy new technologies to detect and remove security threats.

On March 1， assailants killed 29 civilians and injured another 143 at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming in Yunnan Province. Three other people were killed and 79 more were injured in an attack at a railway station in Urumqi， capital of northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region， on April 30. The two incidents were both confirmed as terrorist attacks. On May 6， a male suspect carrying a knife attacked people at a railway station in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. The nature of this attack has not yet been confirmed.

Credibility System

China will soon release an outline for building a government-led national social credibility system to assess individuals and organizations on areas ranging from tax payment to judicial credibility.

On May 5， Economic Information Daily reported that the outline， the drafting of which was led by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Peoples Bank of China， focuses on credibility building in four areas—administrative affairs， commercial activities， social behaviors and the judicial system.

According to the outline， China will also establish an integrated platform by 2017 to collect credibility information on financial， industrial， and commercial registration， taxes and social security payments， as well as traffic violations. To facilitate the process， individuals and organizations will be coded based on identity card numbers or organization numbers.