From People’s Daily: The State Council issued its Report on the Implementation of the Central and Local Budgets for 2006 and the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 2007, and submitted it to deputies for review at the 5th Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress on March 5. The report outlined the 2007 budget: […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News Only about half of China’s population can speak the national language, Mandarin, according to the state news agency Xinhua. More men speak Mandarin than women, and more urbanites speak the language than those in rural areas, Xinhua said. For many years now, the government has tried to increase the use of Mandarin, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system. “Most of the deaths happen in rural areas, as about 50 percent of them do not receive any medical treatment […]
Read MoreFrom AP via MSNBC: A group of U.S. venture capital firms, including Disney’s investment arm, was set to announce Wednesday that it had invested $23.5 million in UUSee, a major Chinese site for Web video. UUSee distributes live and on-demand TV from CCTV, China’s largest TV broadcaster; CSAT, China’s largest satellite TV company; and Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has issued restrictions on the use of “virtual money” from internet games, warning such currencies could threaten real-world financial stability. The ban on using virtual money to buy “material products” is part of a wider tightening of controls that includes a renewed crackdown on the cafes where many of China’s estimated […]
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