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CNNIC: Online Sales Strong – maoxianjia

From China Tech Stories (link): China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) published reprot “2006 China C2C Online Sales Survey” published on May 10, 2006. According to the report, by the end of March, C2C(personal to personal) online customers in the largest three cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou has reached 2 million. The penetration rate in net […]

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China to set up special fund for poverty reduction – Xinhua

From Xinhua (link): China is expected to set up a special industrial fund to boost its poverty reduction efforts, according to sources attending a symposium on the sustained development in the country’s poverty-stricken areas. The poverty reduction fund was proposed by the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, but there’s no timetable yet as […]

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Beijing Takes Action To Further Cleanse Internet Cafes – China CSR

From China CSR (link): A government sanctioned work team consisted of members from the anti-pornography department and netcafe management department in Beijing has initiated a 90-day special action in an effort to straighten out the netcafe market and improve their long-term management mechanism in the city. The group plans to carry out the action in […]

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Down On the Farm – Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield

From Newsweek International (link): The minutes of the March 4 meeting“ostensibly convened by Communist Party policy advisers to discuss economic reforms and rural poverty”were supposed to be secret. But last month they leaked out on the Web, and ideological sparks have been flying ever since. What started out as a discussion by officials, economists and […]

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Young people ‘no longer honored to be poor’ – Harry Shattuck

From Houston Chronicle (link): Like most young Chinese people of her generation, He Wei grew up in a hutong, a maze of narrow streets and alleys lined by tiny residences and leading to a central courtyard. “You felt really close to your neighbors,” she says. “We looked out for each other, helped each other. But […]

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