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Father in Mind 　　Students in a fine art school in Xiangyang， central China’s Hubei Province， draw portraits of their fathers on June 21， Father’s Day. 　　 Parade Plans 　　China on June 23 announced plans to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II， including inviting foreign militaries to participate in a parade on September 3 in Beijing. 　　President Xi Jinping， General Secretary of the Communist Party of China （CPC） Central Committee， will speak at the event. Representatives of veterans， civilians who supported the army during the war and relatives of the fallen will take part in the parade. 　　The parade will be the first time China has marked the anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression， and the victory of WWII. 　　 Drug Abuse 　　China had 2.95 million registered drug addicts at the end of 2014， but the real number who have used narcotics is believed to exceed 14 million， the Ministry of Public Security said on June 24. That means one out of 100 Chinese may have used drugs， said Liu Yuejin， Assistant Minister of Public Security. 　　Although the spread of traditional drugs such as heroin has been largely curbed， the number of identified synthetic drug addicts has risen sharply to 1.46 million， six times the number in 2008. 　　Drug users are getting younger and younger， according to the ministry. Among the 480，000 newly identified drug users in 2014， 29，000 were under the age of 18 and around three quarters were under the age of 35. 　　Drug abuse is doing more harm to society. Around 49，000 of the registered drug users in China died in 2014. HIV has infected 3.5 percent of heroin users and 1.4 percent of synthetic drug users， according to the data released by the national drug abuse monitoring center. 　　 Soil Monitoring 　　The Environmental Protection Bureau of Beijing is planning to set up soil monitoring sites to help tackle the city’s soil pollution problem. 　　Most of the monitori