“China expects to have 140 million automobiles plying its roads by 2020, seven times more than now, fuelling huge demand for transportation infrastructure and services, state media reported. China’s auto population would eventually reach around 250 million, or about 150 cars per 1,000 people, deputy director of the communication ministry’s comprehensive planning department, Li Xinghua […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese major telecommunication operators got together with an academic network to unveil their version of the development strategy of China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) during a seminar on Friday” The full article is here.
Read MoreChina Daily reports today on the formulation of a new national health strategy to tacke chronic diseases: “While SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and avian influenza and other more “high-profile” diseases have captured the headlines, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often referred to as “silent epidemics” that do more harm to the nation’s health. Indeed, NCDs, […]
Read MoreToday the OpenNet Initiative released a new report about Internet censorship in China. While a number of studies have established that China blocks search results about certain political, cultural, and religious subjects (see this report, for example), the new study takes the investigation a step further by looking at China’s filtering of the Google cache. […]
Read MoreAP reports: “China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants in coming years to help relieve severe electricity shortages. The government hopes to rely on nuclear energy to meet four percent of its electricity demand by 2020. ” (via: Kron4.com)
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