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From the Economist: ITS economy shows few signs of needing one, but China is revving up what officials call a “new engine of growth” to supplement the dynamos of Shanghai and Shenzhen, the two port cities at the forefront of the country’s economic transformation. A strip of industrial sprawl and barren semi-wasteland that stretches for […]
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Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Mr Wen’s tour is a showcase of Chinese deal-making. Accords in Egypt on oil, natural gas and telecommunications were followed by a $66m loan to Ghana for a telecommunications project and hints of $600m for a hydroelectric dam. Congo was offered economic, commercial and technical cooperation. Tanzania and Uganda are expecting fresh […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao ordered the sacking of a vice mayor at a secret meeting to prevent political patrons from protecting him, a government source said on Thursday, in a sign Hu was determined to fight graft. But many analysts said the fall of Beijing Vice Mayor Liu Zhihua this month was as […]
Read MoreParents waiting for students taking the national college entrance exam in LongJiang county, Heilongjiang province, via www.fengniao.com.
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