Among 97 tourism destinations in Shaanxi, Mount Hua has the most expensive entrance fee with 180 yuan during the peak season and 100 yuan in the off season. The ticket price during Mount Hua's peak season is now more than 10 percent of the average monthly income per capita of Shaanxi Province, according to yangguangbao.com.

@雅乐GAGAKU: Did the authorities obtain any profit from raising its ticket prices?

@水邪天.兰: Shaanxi should learn from the examples made by a few southern provinces with their abolishment of ticket prices instead of developing a support facility, which could earn more revenue than income generated from ticket sales, rather than blindly raising the entrance fee and adding to the burden of their visitors.

Ministry of Health urges efforts to defuse medical disputes

At a news briefing on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health urged local authorities to further promote the people's mediation system to handle medical disputes, according to the Beijing Times.

The remarks came after a recent medical dispute happened in Hengshan county, Shaanxi Province. Hospital employees at the Baixin Hospital in Hengshan county were forced to kneel down and kowtow to the deceased patient at the funeral after the patient died of gastric perforation while receiving a gastric lavage.

The hospital and the family reached an agreement, which demanded that the hospital shut down for three months, otherwise an economic compensation of 3 million yuan would need to be paid to the deceased patient’s family..

Changantong on trial for charging parking fees

Drivers in Xi'an could use Changantong, a public traffic IC card to pay for parking fees beginning Tuesday in twenty parking lots and at 500 parking spaces throughout the city. Cash and Changantong are both accepted at the parking spaces which have installed a POS machine, according to the Xi'an Evening Post.

The city of Xi'an will set up another thirty parking lots and install more POS machines by the end of May to make trips more convenient.