Most of the Chinese reports on this week's big fire in Beijing have centred on the fact that the bigwigs at CCTV have had to "make self-criticism" because the fire - in the complex which is to house the state TV station's new headquarters - was started by some "giant firecrackers" they'd decided to let off in celebration of the last day of the Chinese New Year holiday without permission.
I wasn't aware that there was an Outsized Fireworks Licensing Authority, but there you go. "You live and learn," as they say in the gulags.
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