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You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Beijing's transportation authorities have issued a new list of items that subway passengers are banned from carrying onto the network.
For the first time, the list rules out several everyday household items, including containers of 2 liters or more of white spirit, perfume, hair gel and more than five cigarette lighters per person.
Viruses or bacteria being used for research are also banned from entry onto the system.
Folding bicycles are not on the list, but passengers cannot clear them through the security check. The authorities explained that large or bulky items are banned because they are an inconvenience to other passengers.
Since the start of this year, public transport authorities have seized more than 73,000 prohibited items, including 25,000 knives or daggers and 20,000 flammable or explosive items.
University student Zheng Bei-xi commutes on the Beijing subway every day; he said a more efficient checking procedure is needed, as he is often held up in long queues before the security check, especially at peak times.
Compared with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou ban far fewer items from their subway systems.
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
Chinese actress Peng Dan has won the Most Popular Actress Award at the Sino-American International TV Festival in Los Angeles, USA.
In her acceptance speech, Peng said Los Angeles is her lucky place. She said in fluent English that she won the titles of Best Actress and Best Director in the Sino-American Film Festival last year in the city.
Peng was an art student in a U.S. university several years ago and has performed on Broadway and at the Lincoln Center in New York. She has long craved recognition in the U.S. for her role in a home-made Chinese TV drama.
She said today it was like a dream come true to be in Beverly Hills, and expressed gratitude to the directors she had worked with and her mother, as the event coincided with Mother's Day in the United States.
