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Suspect Confesses to Bombing of Shijiazhuan Single-Handedly [CND, 03/29/01] JIN Ruchao, who was arrested for charge of the four co-ordinated Shijiazhuan explosions, was reported to have confessed to police how he acted alone to bomb the four dormitories of the No. 3 Cotton Mill in Shijiazhuang, the South China Morning Post reported quoting the People's Daily. The report said that Jin told police he started acquiring explosives last May from an illegal makeshift explosive factory run by WANG Yushun. Jin bought a dozen bags of explosives for 950 yuan and packed into a dozen yellow bags marked "chicken feed." He bought fuses and detonators from a miner at Luquan City last year and hid them under a pipe in a suburb. The day before the blast, Jin hired several vehicles and drivers to transport the explosives. He slept for several hours in a heating pipe at a power station in the city that night and then returned to the mill to make final preparations for the blasts before dawn, the report said. The four buildings Jin blasted were home to his stepmother, ex-wife, ex-parents-in-law, and neighbours. Jin's sister told police that Jin had a long fascination with dynamite and learned how to make it himself at home, according to the report. Jin was arrested on March 23 near a reservoir in Beihai City, Guangxi. An off-duty Beihai prison guard CHEN Xueqiu was awarded 50,000 yuan for his information that led to Jin's arrest, the report said. The explosive provider Wang Yushun and his business partner HAO Fengqin were arrested earlier. It is said that the government released Jin's confession details in an attempt to quell public fears for social instability linked to high lay-offs and rampant corruption. (Shiji SHEN)