Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
From Xinhua via China Radio International (CRI): China’s top legislature on Saturday began its first hearing of the draft law on emergency management, aiming to improve the country’s ability to handle frequent industrial accidents, natural disasters, health and public security hazards. The decision to introduce such a law was made in May 2003, during the […]
Read MoreFrom CRIENGLISH.com: Beijing, the nation’s capital, is still far from reaching the standards for China’s most suitable cities for living, with rising housing prices an important factor, according to a recent report. The findings were released in a blue book compiled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in Chinese) on Thursday after interviewing over 7,000 […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadaily.com.cn: China’s population will peak at 1.5 billion in about 20 years while the sex ratio will continue to be heavily skewed towards males, according to a new government-backed report According to a research report released Thursday, the population will begin to gradually drop after reaching the peak. Meanwhile, the number of new-born baby […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times via China Environmental News Digest: The village of Shangma Huangtou is just the latest victim of a coal mining boom that is devastating large swaths of north China, where some of the nation’s richest coal deposits lie. China is the world’s largest producer of coal, and much of it is […]
Read MoreFrom China Knowledge: Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., the largest Chinese manufacturer of wind-power generators, is seeking a listing on the U.S. stock market to fund an expansion plan of increasing its sales by eight times to RMB 4 billion by 2008. According to Hong Kong newspaper The Standard, the company hopes to raise […]
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