Sophia Cao

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.

China Aims to Grow Its Middle Class – Henry Sanderson

From AP: China hopes its middle class will expand to more than half of its total population by 2020, a Communist Party planner said Wednesday. …Middle class is classified by the government as a family with a household income of between $8,000 and $27,000 a year, Zheng said. Taking into account price changes, authorities project […]

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China Won’t Privatize Rural Farmland – Xinhua

Following a series of actions by farmers around the country to reclaim farmland that had been taken over by local officials, the government has begun to crack down. Zheng Xinli, deputy director of the Research Institute of the Communist Party, stated that private ownership of land means that landlords own the land “while peasants were […]

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Video: Shanghai World Financial Center

The documentary is about Shanghai World Financial Center(上海环球金融中心), a supertall skyscraper under construction in Shanghai. The video introduction says that “Ironically, the tallest skyscraper in the world is named...

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