Sophia Cao is an undergraduate business student at Baruch College in New York. She is interested in Chinese culture and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on multimedia.
From USAToday: When he’s not tending cherry orchards outside Beijing, Yu Yonggang can be found behind the twin barrels of a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, blasting shells at passing clouds. Yu is one of 37,000 peasants enlisted by the Chinese government to help produce rain in parched areas. The 45-year-old farmer works with China’s other trigger-happy […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Tibet will be soldered to the rest of China tomorrow with the launch of a railway service across the Himalayan roof of the world.But the controversy surrounding this engineering marvel was highlighted at...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Wang Shouye, 62, was sacked as deputy commander of the navy and expelled from the national legislature. According to official documents, an unmarried young woman reported Wang’s activities and admitted an “improper relationship” with him. Wang is one of the most senior victims of an ongoing anti-corruption drive. China’s ruling Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes: Beijing is also trying to pull off a delicate balancing act: imposing the disciplines of the market on management while keeping policy control of its national and local champions firmly in trusted hands. This has led to the creation of a hybrid group structure, not dissimilar to the industrial groupings that underpinned Japan […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Bejing residents will be provided with 1 billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze River every year starting in 2010 to ease the city’s shortage in drinking water, accounting for 25 percent of its total water supply, China Business News reported today. The city will carry out several measures to ensure […]
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