Ruhan Jia: China’s State-Sponsored Pop Star
After the Global Times released poll results late last year showing the international perception...
12th Five-Year Plan
Can Airport Investment Clear the Runway for Growth?
China’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) has identified infrastructure development as essential for maintaining economic growth, and under it local governments will be footing the bill for airport renovations, expansions...
One-Child Policy Safe in Guangdong
Officials in Guangdong have reversed plans to ease the province’s family planning policy and allow certain couples to have two children. From China Daily: A document on family planning in Guangdong’s 12th Five-Year...
chinadialogue: “China’s Green Revolution” Ebook, and Environmental Press Award Winners
chinadialogue has released an ebook, “China’s Green Revolution”, of articles and commentary on environmental aspects of the 12th Five Year Plan. From the introduction, by Isabel Hilton: The transition from one...
China’s 12th Five Year Plan Addresses Social Stability, Official Evaluation
An outline of the 12th Five Year Plan addresses mass incidents and social management, and indicates a harder conservative tone in years to come. See Asia Times’ coverage of the Five Year Plan, or ‘Blueprint’:...
Peter Bosshard: Dam Nation
For Foreign Policy, dam expert Peter Bosshard writes about China’s new five-year plan, which appears to be environmentally conscious but, in Bosshard’s view, “proposes to sacrifice the country’s arteries...
China Ready to Quell Disquiet over New Environmental Policies
In the Guardian, Jonathan Watts writes about the links between new policies on the environment and on domestic security announced at the NPC meetings, and the public reaction to both: The praise was for the new five-year...
Li Keqiang Sets Out Energy and Sustainability Priorities
Newly published comments made by Vice Premier Li Keqiang last December outline China’s energy policy priorities, and appear to confirm the introduction of new pollution taxes as part of the country’s 12th Five Year...
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