The injured were taken to hospital, state broadcaster CCTV News said after the blast at about 8 a.m. in the county of Sanhe, roughly 80 km (50 miles) from Beijing, the capital, where key annual political meetings had just concluded.
China Skyscraper fire: The building where the fire broke out was the office of a state-owned telecommunications company, China Telecom, according to China s state broadcaster CCTV.