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• China Targets an Academic Culture of Cut-and-Paste

  

  The Christian Science Monitor reports on academic fraud in China:

  The latest fraud to rock Chinese academia centers on He Haibo, an associate professor of pharmacology at the prestigious Zhejiang University. He now admits to copying or making up material he submitted in eight papers to international journals and has been fired, along with the head of his research institute.

  The affair has drawn particular attention because a world-renowned expert in traditional Chinese medicine, Li Lianda, lent his name as coauthor to one of the fraudulent papers. His tenure will not be renewed when his contract expires soon, the president of Zhejiang University has said.

  “This biggest-ever academic scandal is for sure a wakeup call that the Chinese universities are facing a crisis of credibility,” editorialized the state-run “China Daily.”

  Academic fraud is not new in China; scandals have broken sporadically over the past decade, but most cases never come to light, says Fang Shimin, founder of a website for academics.

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  • March 23, 2009 9:00 PM

• Documentary: China’s New Faces Marrying into Her Family

  

  This documentary film investigates a Chinese tradition’s change in Zhejiang province - men from other provinces marrying into women’s families in Zhejiang. Beside longing for love, young people in Zhejiang think realistically to pursue a win-win situation: a woman wants new hope and energy to safeguard her family’s future, in the meantime a man doesn’t have to worry about the housing pressure while developing his career. The film concludes that such a phenomenon is the result of the One-child Policy, the fast growing economy in Zhejiang, and the strong sense of lineage continuity. From Youtube:

  The one-child policy has left some families with only one daughter. Feeling the need to carry on their family lineage, women now look for men who are willing to marry into their families so that their children could take up the mother’s surname. Meanwhile, men from other provinces are finding it hard to make ends meet in the cities, not to mention supporting a family. Because of this, some men are willing to do what it takes for a better life. With supply and demand in place, matchmaking agencies dedicated to this type of marriage are a thriving business.

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  • March 11, 2009 7:16 PM

• “Dubai-style” Office Stokes Anger in China

  

  From Reuters:

  An overly luxurious government building in east China some are saying would be more appropriate in Dubai is stoking public anger about waste and corruption in times of economic crisis, Chinese media said on Wednesday.

  The compound in Changxing county in Zhejiang, one of China’s richest provinces, had an “unimaginably spectacular” night view with colored lights shining on the surrounding fountains and an artificial lake, said a report on government website china.com.cn.

  “When I first saw it I thought I was looking at the Atlantis the Palm Hotel of Dubai,” the site quoted a comment posted by an Internet user as saying.

  The four buildings and attached facilities cost hundreds of millions of yuan and were being criticized as “an extremely typical extravagance and waste of money,” the report said.

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  • December 24, 2008 10:48 AM

• China Officials ‘Defect In Paris’

  

  From BBC News:

  Two Chinese officials have failed to return from trips to France, prompting speculation that they were seeking to evade possible corruption allegations.

  Xin Weiming, a Shanghai district chief, left a note for colleagues saying he was visiting friends in Paris.

  Zhejiang province official Yang Xianghong said he was staying in France to receive medical treatment.

  Hundreds of Chinese officials are said to have fled abroad in recent years to escape allegations of corruption.

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  • October 23, 2008 7:55 PM

• Zhejiang Province: A Free-Market Success Story

  

  Yasheng Huang, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written a piece in BusinessWeek that uses Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as economic models to explain why China needs to encourage entrepreneurship if it really wants to spread its wealth around:

  Jiangsu and Zhejiang represent two contrasting development models in China, a phenomenon first noted in 1986 by Professor Fei Xiaotong, China’s most prominent sociologist. The Zhejiang model is characterized by a heavy reliance on private initiatives, a noninterventionist government style in the management of firms, and a supportive credit policy stance toward private companies. Probably the most famous product of the Zhejiang model is Wenzhou, a city in southern Zhejiang province that today accounts for a disproportionate share of rich entrepreneurs, asset owners, and China’s manufacturing prowess.

  Although Wenzhou and Zhejiang represent the triumph of laissez-faire, broad-based, entrepreneurial capitalism, many outside analysts fail to appreciate why China should adopt free-market economics rather than retaining state-owned monopolies and state interventionism. Western observers and many inside the Chinese government focus on a narrow set of economic indicators. Specifically, they track economic performance by GDP data. In terms of GDP performance, the differences between Zhejiang’s economy and the more statist economies of Jiangsu and Shanghai seem to be minor. Zhejiang outperformed these two regions in GDP performance but not by a large margin. …

  … Entrepreneurship not only contributes to GDP growth but also to the income growth of average people. Statism, while maybe effective in producing impressive GDP numbers, does not make income grow that much. Between 1999 and 2004, Shanghai experienced a massive construction boom and exploding GDP growth, but an average Shanghai resident actually lost relative to the rest of the country. In Zhejiang, GDP also grew quickly but so did the income of average Zhejiang residents.

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  • October 20, 2008 2:11 PM

• Vice Mayor Arrested on Bribery Charge in East China

  

  Xinhua reports that a vice mayor of Shaoxing, in east China’s Zhejiang Province, has been arrested for bribery during the sale of farm land for development.

  Xie Weixing, Shaoxing City vice-mayor, allegedly accepted bribes in exchange for approving a housing project when he held the post of party secretary of the city’s Xinchang County, police said, without giving the amount of the money.

  Xie, 53, was arrested by the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department on Sunday, police said. He was promoted to be Shaoxing vice-mayor in 2003.

  He played a key role in ensuring the Xinchang-based Fengdao Group, a leading local company, won the bid for a nearly 90,000-square-meter block of farming land, according to the People’s Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province.

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  • September 9, 2008 2:13 PM

• Hundreds Of Migrant Workers Attack Police Station In China

  

  From AP:

  Hundreds of migrant workers angry over mistreatment of a fellow worker surrounded a police station in eastern China and smashed cars and motorbikes, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Monday.

  The three days of rioting began Thursday in Kanmen town in coastal Zhejiang province, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

  The deputy director of the public security bureau in Yuhuan county, which oversees Kanmen, played down the incident. Wen Zhengui also denied that anyone had been killed in the violence, responding to a question from a reporter about rumors that two people had died.

  “It’s definitely a rumor, it’s fake,” Wen Zhengui said in a news release posted on the county’s website. It said 23 people were detained.

  Read also Migrant workers protest, riot for 3 days in E. China by Chris Buckley.

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  • July 14, 2008 4:31 AM

• Cargo Ship Collapses Bridge

  

  The Shanghai Daily reports:

  China’s maritime search and rescue authority said yesterday a cargo vessel hit a bridge under construction near the eastern seaport of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, leaving four crew members missing.

  Sixteen of the 20 crew on board had been rescued by 7am. But rescuers were still searching for the four missing. Officials speculated that the missing crew members might have been trapped in the cabin by the 3,000-ton collapsed section. 

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  • March 27, 2008 3:54 PM

• Slideshow: Those Who Remain in Rural Zhejiang

  

  A photographer from Haining City in Zhejiang presents his works of the countryside areas in Zhejiang on fengniao.com. Most of the photos were taken during Labor Day, National Day and Spring Festival in 2006 and 2007. Through these photos, we see that most of the younger generation in the rural areas have flocked to the cities. What’s left are old people, women and children. In some of the photos, we can see old people still work very hard to make a living, instead of being taken care of by their children like those in the cities. However, even though the younger generation who become migrant workers also work hard in the cities, many of them still don’t get paid or get paid late from the employers.

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  • February 18, 2008 1:48 PM

• Most Oppose Zhejiang’s Plan to Build New Yuanmingyuan Palace - China Youth Daily

  

  Zhejiang has a town that is famous as a movie-making location. Now some want to build something much grander than just films - a replica of the destroyed Yuanmingyuan Palace. Translated by CDT from China Youth Daily:

  Hengdian (横店) is Asia’s largest filming location. There is Guangzhou Street, Hong Kong Street, Qin Palace, and other historical or scenic replications, all for filming purposes. “Why not build a Yuanmingyuan?” some local Hengdianese asked.

  And that’s the plan underway, to reproduce the grandeur and royal elegance of the old Summer Palace that has been sleeping in ruins since its destruction when the eight allied powers descended upon Beijing a century ago.

  That would cost 20 billion yuan, on a plot of land totaling 6,165 mu. The project is projected to be completed by 2013, if it gets going next year as planned. And soon, it attracted plenty of naysayers, more than 60% on a portal survey.

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  • December 26, 2007 10:13 AM

• Slideshow: Migrants’ Children

  

  A Fengniao photographer recently posted this striking series of photos depicting the lives of migrant workers’ children. The following is his account of what he saw, translated by CDT:
  
  

  It took me almost two years to take these pictures of the migrants’ children (from August 2005 till now; in Haining city of Zhejiang Province). I just happened to run into these workers with their kids. That first day, I saw a group of migrant workers digging and loading earth while their children played around under the hot sun. I was shocked that their lives were so different from those who live in the cities: pregnant women working with dirt; infants laid in the shade on the bare ground; two- and three-year-olds playing without pants on, all of them were dirty-faced.

  
  

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  • November 18, 2007 9:35 PM

• China Reels After Typhoon Krosa - BBC News

  

  From BBC News:

  Some five million people have been affected by a powerful storm that hit China’s south-east coast, destroying houses and causing widespread flooding.

  More than 1.4 million people were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Krosa , which struck Zhejiang and Fujian provinces on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. No deaths were reported and it was later downgraded to a tropical storm. [Full Text]
  
  

  [Image: Zhejiang province was among the areas worst hit in China, from AP.]

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  • October 9, 2007 11:18 AM

• China Braces For Typhoon Krosa - AFP

  

  From AFP:

  Chinese authorities on Saturday issued a flood alert, relocated 138,000 east coastal residents and recalled 27,000 fishing boats as the country braced for Typhoon Krosa , state media reported. Authorities ordered the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian to closely monitor the typhoon, which was pounding northern Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains, said Xinhua news agency.

  Local meteorological offices said the typhoon, expected to land in China between Sunday midnight and Monday noon, was 560 kilometers (347 miles) off Zhejiang as of early Saturday and was heading northwest at 15 kilometers an hour. [Full Text]

  See also: Chinese officials clear tourist sites as typhoon nears from AP via USAtoday.

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  • October 6, 2007 12:43 PM

• Food Safety in Rural Areas to Be Scrutinized - Xinhua

  

  If you google the Chinese key words ” food safety”, 12,200,000 web links appear. There are also lots of food safety sites, such as National Food Safety, Beijing Food Safety, Guangzhou Safety, Zhejiang Food Safety and so on. However, there’s no rural food safety net. More work needs to be done about the rural food safety, from Xinhua.
  
  

  China will launch a nationwide inspection on food safety in its rural areas and urban-rural conjunctive regions, according to a notice released by China’s food and drug watchdog on Friday.

  As a part of a four-month nationwide campaign to improve the quality of goods and food safety in China, the special inspection will target “small-sized food companies, workshops and restaurants in rural areas,” in an effort to eradicate hidden dangers of food accidents, the notice said. [Full Text]

  Also read White paper: China builds law regime for food safety
  

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  • September 1, 2007 9:23 PM

• Sexual Harassment Law Include Dirty Jokes, Messages - Keralanext.com

  

  From Keralanext.com:

  A risque joke, a suggestive text message, a naughty email. Any one of these could end up landing an amorous male in east China’s Zhejiang Province in court if the object of his affections takes offence.

  The Zhejiang provincial legislative body on Thursday passed an amendment to its implementation of the country’s law to protect women’s rights, stipulating that, from September 1, a woman can file a sexual harassment lawsuit against a man if he oversteps the line in conversation or during online chat or via text message. Those who are found guilty of sexual harassment of women will be punished by public security departments or even held criminally responsible, according to the new regulation. [Full Text]

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  • July 27, 2007 10:58 AM

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