A fire that engulfed a commercial-residential building in central China has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property damage.
Economic loss resulting from a fire in downtown Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, has been estimated at nearly 300 thousand dollars. Local officials say 12 businesses were affected by the blaze, but an investigation into the structure found the building is not in danger of collapse.
Since September 2007, a scheme backed by the German government has brought the very best in German technology to second-tier cities around China. The fifth exhibition of the series recently kicked off in Wuhan in central China and Mark Dreyer was there to check it out.