Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
Caijing Magazine carries a detailed report on one of the biggest scandals to emerge from the Chinese government’s year-long investigation into land distribution abuses–and it’s a whopper: A report released by the National Audit Office (NAO) and submitted in December to the State Council, China’s cabinet, cited [Harbin land resource] officials for illegally issuing fake […]
Read MoreA top official with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Steven Sawyer, predicts in a recent interview with Reuters that China will soon to start to dominate global production of wind power turbines: “We’d expect that the domestic Chinese manufacturers will have an annual production capacity of about 10 gigawatts per year…by the end of […]
Read MoreIn a shocker of a policy announcement, Chinese leaders have proclaimed free provision of plastic shopping bags will be banned in throughout the country by June 1 of this year. Via the Toronto Star: China uses too many of the bags and fails to dispose of them properly, wasting valuable oil and littering the country, […]
Read MoreChina Media Project provides a fine dissection of the latest development in the battle between Chinese journalists and local officials: Cross-regional reporting, which involves media from one province or city carrying out investigative reporting in another region or area, has typically afforded media more opportunities to tackle tougher stories. As such stories — about corruption, […]
Read MoreChina’s latest “bogus reporting” scandal involving steamed bread comes to an end with reassurances from the government that new food quality regulations regarding mantou (馒头) will not, after all, require the ubiquitous and famously variable buns to adhere to a single shape. Reuters via Canada.com: State media hailed the clarification as timely and blamed the […]
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