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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Anti-Rightist Movement, RFA has interviewed a number of survivors about their experiences. Former editor on the Chengdu Daily Tie Liu says: At that time there were huge struggle meetings with more than 1,400 people attending. I was struggled for an entire day. I was 22 years old. The […]
Read MoreA digitally manipulated photo of a street in Chengdu, by earth2marsh
Read MoreDuring the Great Leap Forward, irrigation efforts attempted to make China’s dry western regions into arable land. But farmers are losing the battle against the deserts, which now cover one-third of the country. From AP: In a problem that is pervasive in much of China, over-farming has drawn down the water table so low that […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: CVRD, the Brazilian mining group, is having the world’s largest ore carriers built to export iron ore to China as the latter’s insatiable demand for the raw materials to produce steel has pushed freight rates through the roof. The company, which last summer won the battle for Canada’s Inco with a bid […]
Read MoreDanwei has translated a report from China Newsweek about the use of SMS in the Xiamen PX protests: The last issue of China Newsweek (11 June) featured in-depth reports on a number of major events related to government transparency and crisis management – the Xiamen PX demonstrations, the Taihu Lake pollution affair, and the cause […]
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