Japan’s got the porn [industry], Cambodia’s got the Khmer Rouge, but what does the Celestial Empire have? Choose three of what you think are the most symbolic terms to represent China from the following:

1.      Urban Management Cops  *7363 (24%)*
2.      Ditch Oil *1028 (3%)*
3.      Tofu-dreg project *886 (2%)*
4.      Income being in line with (African) standards  *704 (2%)*
5.      Housing prices being in line with (celestial) standards  *3229 (10%)*
6.      Three bottles of oil (China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation)  *424 (1%)*
7.      The Celestial Empire Red Cross *357 (1%)*
8.      Fifty cents *309 (1%)*
9.      Stumbled women [a new term lately suggested by the Ministry of Public Security to be used in place of “prostitutes.”] *178 (<1%)*
10.   National People’s Congress Representatives  *1181 (3%)*
11.   The Emperor Taizu [refers as Mao Zedong]  *409 (1%)*
12.   Brickspert *733 (2%)*
13.   The shouting beasts [refers to professors]  *345 (1%)*
14.   Relevant department *6387 (21%)*
15.   The masses who don’t understand the actual situation *1528 (5%)*
16.   Peasant migrant workers *235 (<1%)*
17.   Standing train tickets during the Spring Festival travel season  *485 (1%)*
18.   Forced demolition for administrative purposes *341 (1%)*
19.   “Don’t use law as your shield.”  *250 (<1%)*
20.   Sensitive words *4010 (21%)*

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Urumqi

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the “2007 Annual Nation-wide Urban Environmental Management and Regulation Report” (《2007年全國城市環境管理與綜合整治年度報告》), which blacklisted Xinjiang’s Urumqi as the most polluted city. While the report cannot be accessible online currently, the MEP made the following official statement:

An annual urban environment assessment report has blacklisted such major Chinese cities as northwestern Xinjiang’s Urumqi and central Hubei’s industrial Huanggang for their poor environmental record.

The report, released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Wednesday, said northern Inner Mongolia’s Bayannur and Ulanqab, northwestern Gansu’s Baiyin, Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi and Hubei’s Huanggang had “relatively poor” air quality.

It also listed cities having low-level water quality. They were Hengshui and Cangzhou in northern Hebei, Linfen in northern Shanxi, Fuyang in eastern Anhui, Tongchuan in northwestern Shaanxi and Wuwei in Gansu.

[...]The public satisfaction rate exceeded 90 percent in cities such as coastal Shandong Province’s Linyi, Dongying, Rizhao and Yantai, and the northernmost Heilongjiang Province’s Daqing and Heihe, the report said. Residents of Shanxi’s coal base Datong and southern Guangxi’s Hezhou were the least satisfied with their environment.

With the car ban policy in Beijing and the increasing anti-pollution monitoring effort, China continues to make effort against environmental pollution.

The report also includes a survey of public satisfaction in various cities. China Daily picks up on this interesting aspect of the report in its article “Public weighs in on environmental success”:

It was the first time for the public satisfaction survey to be included in the Ministry of Environment Protection’s (MEP)’s annual report assessing Chinese cities’ environmental management.

“After all, improving people’s life quality is the ultimate goal of environmental protection,” a senior MEP official told China Daily yesterday.

However, the methodology and the metrics of the survey need to be examined, given that such a public survey has never been done before.

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China’s Internet consumption hit 398.8 billion yuan (US$53.89 billion) last year and is expected to reach 581.5 billion yuan in 2008, up 45.8 percent, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The “Netguide 2008″ survey, which provides a wrap-up of China’s 2007 cyber world, polled more than 300 web sites and about 200 enterprises, with 50,786 interviewees around the country….[Full Text]

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The mainland’s environmental problems are grave and local governments are bent on economic growth at the expense of the country’s ecology, according to the majority of respondents to a nationwide online survey.

The survey, organised by the China Youth Daily and Tencent, China’s largest instant messaging service provider, found that about 95 per cent of the 6,600 respondents rated the nation’s environmental degradation as severe and 70 per cent felt local government paid little regard to green priorities.

Water pollution topped the list of respondents’ concerns, with 87.1 per cent of people worried about its effects, followed by air pollution, domestic and industrial waste, food contamination, desertification and noise pollution. [Full Text]

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Many of China’s biggest companies are intent on improving their environmental standards and practices, according to a survey by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization.

According to the survey, all the Chinese companies participating in the survey said protecting the environment was essential, with more than half indicating that it was part of their company’s core values.

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