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15878,1906-07-07,2,b,,China news/ Change to civil service system in China; shift from central to local governments. Zhang Yuanji says all employees in the department of foreign affairs must speak a Western language. Zhang Zhidong entrusted to draft laws on foreign missionary work in China. Scholars from the Imperial Academy are sent to study in Japan and Western countries. Japanese want to control railway building in Fujian province. Scholars Shen Diemin and Wu Gongzhi in Shanghai collect donations in Western style for the victims of San Francisco earthquake and flooding in Hunan province. Shares for the Hankou-Guangzhou railway sell well in port cities along the Yangtze River.,China,http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801023,26801023