From the Financial Times (link) Two leading Chinese economists have called on the government to interfere less in economic life and for greater opening to foreign and private investment. Wu Jinglian, an adviser to China’s parliament and former head of the cabinet’s economic think-tank, said reform was being resisted by opponents wedded to the disastrous […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link) China should deregulate its telecoms market and ease entry for foreign competition and investment, Forrest Miller, group president of AT&T, the US’s biggest telecoms group, has urged. In an unusual expression of public discontent from a pioneer in China’s telecoms market, Mr Miller also said China should re-examine and update […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News (link) A bomb explosion at a courthouse in south-west China has killed one man and injured a judge. Officials in the city of Guangyuan in Sichuan province said they suspected it was a suicide attack and said the dead man appeared to be the bomber. There are few initial details but one […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the International Herald Tribune (link) The State Environmental Protection Administration has ordered cleanups at 20 chemical and petrochemical sites, including some owned by China National Petroleum and China Petroleum & Chemical, after they were found to pose serious safety threats, domestic media reported Thursday. The agency also decided to stop or postpone […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link): China’s unmanned spaceship is to near the moon for exploration in 2007, said Luo Ge, deputy administrator of China National Space Administration, who is paying a visit to Washington. According to Luo, China is planning a few unmanned moon-landing space flights. An unmanned flight near the moon will take place […]
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