From People’s Daily Online: China will establish subsistence allowances for rural poor all around the country, according to the central agricultural meeting closed Saturday. This is the first time for the Chinese government to raise the goal of establishing a national subsistence allowances system for rural poor since the decision of the Communist Party of […]
Read MoreFrom telegraph.co.uk: Outside Beijing is a factory where hundreds of workers practise an old Chinese craft: painting on glass. The factory is owned and run by an American company and the pictures are not scenes of pagodas but mangers: the artisans are making exquisite Christmas decorations for boutiques in New York and London. Nowadays they […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph.co.uk: Their parents lived according to the rhythms of the Chinese countryside. They grew rice and vegetables in season, tended fish ponds, and their holiday was the two-week lunar new year festival. But life has changed for Hong Zhujin, Xu Zhijun, Mao Lanai, workers I met on my instant tour of China’s manufacturing zones, […]
Read MoreA woman and her painter in an underpass in Lanzhou, via www.fengniao.com ”
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Chinese lawmakers on Sunday took up a proposed law to equalize corporate taxes on foreign and domestic businesses, a government news agency reported. Chinese business leaders have pushed for the change, complaining that tax breaks granted to foreign companies in order to attract investment are hurting domestic entrepreneurs. The […]
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