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Students smash canteen for price rise
By Lu Feiran |
November 25, 2010, Thursday
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A BOARDING school canteen in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province, resumed service today, three days after near 1,000 furious students smashed the canteen to protest over price hikes, Guizhou Metropolitan Daily reported.
The riot broke out in the city's No. 2 High School on Monday evening. All the windowns in the canteen were smashed but no one was hurt in the unrest, the school said.
The canteen had been contracted out to a company which had been operating the canteen for 24 years. And Monday's riot, the school would take back the management of the canteen to lower food cost, said the paper.
The drama occurred at about 10pm when students went to the canteen to protest against raised prices. They first quarreled with the canteen staff, then resorted to smashing. Police arrived 40 minutes later but the canteen was already a scene of mess, the paper reported.
Fan Guoqing, the school's principal, said that as food price rose by 37.5 percent in the city, the canteen asked to adjust its prices by 0.2 to 0.5 yuan. "The students were not satisfied and we tried to communicate with them," Fan told the paper. "But what could happen would happened."
The riot broke out in the city's No. 2 High School on Monday evening. All the windowns in the canteen were smashed but no one was hurt in the unrest, the school said.
The canteen had been contracted out to a company which had been operating the canteen for 24 years. And Monday's riot, the school would take back the management of the canteen to lower food cost, said the paper.
The drama occurred at about 10pm when students went to the canteen to protest against raised prices. They first quarreled with the canteen staff, then resorted to smashing. Police arrived 40 minutes later but the canteen was already a scene of mess, the paper reported.
Fan Guoqing, the school's principal, said that as food price rose by 37.5 percent in the city, the canteen asked to adjust its prices by 0.2 to 0.5 yuan. "The students were not satisfied and we tried to communicate with them," Fan told the paper. "But what could happen would happened."
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