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People’s Daily published some new statistics about China’s rapid urbanization: In recent years, Chinese cities have expanded rapidly with their urbanization rate rising steadily over the past half century from 29.04 percent in 1995 to 41.76 percent in 2004. The urban scale has enlarged quickly in the wake of growth in urban population. From 2000 […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China announced Monday that it had launched a Chinese-manufactured communications satellite into orbit on behalf of Nigeria, marking the first time China has built a commercial satellite and put it into orbit on contract for another country. The launch, in Monday’s pre-dawn hours from the Xichang space center in southwestern Sichuan […]
Read MoreNPR has a report on the phenomenom of “gold farming” in Chinese cyberspace: Playing online games for 12 hours is a fulltime job for thousands of Chinese workers. They’re accumulating virtual money ” or “gold” ” which they can sell for real cash. But it’s a dull and labor-intensive job with limited payoffs. [Listen here] […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times reports on the vandalism of Mao’s portrait in Tiananmen Square and subsequent arrest of an alleged perpetrator: The suspect was identified as Gu Haiou, 35, an unemployed man from the far western Chinese city of Urumqi, capital of the restive Xinjiang autonomous region, home to ethnic Uighurs… China, with its booming […]
Read MoreA young couple stroll through Beijing, by Shanghai Sky
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