Minitrue: Shoddy High-Speed Rail Construction
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LatestNetizen Voices: Official Tries to Manage Bird Evolution
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
9 Detained After Jiangxi Construction Collapse
Following the collapse of a scaffolding platform that took the lives of 74 construction workers at...
Landslide Casts Shadow Over China’s Success Story
An official investigation has been launched after Sunday’s massive landslide in Shenzhen buried...
Landslide Renews Questions on Risks of Rapid Growth
On Monday, rescue work continued at an industrial park in Shenzhen a day after a massive landslide...
Dozens Missing After Landslide in Shenzhen
Citing Chinese state media, the BBC reports that at least 59 are missing after a landslide buried...
What a Strong Earthquake Does in China vs. the U.S.
A video from Vox’s Joss Fong explains why the 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan this month...
What’s Wrong With this Chinese Town?
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen reports on a fresh scandal in the Jiangsu town from which seven...
Duplitecture: China’s White Houses
At 99% Invisible, Roman Mars, Avery Trufelman and Bianca Bosker look at the phenomenon of...
CDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
New Barriers Go Up Along Tiananmen Square
William Wan at The Washington Post reports that as the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on...
Beijing Officials Build Mini-Kremlin (Updated)
As officials are repeatedly exhorted to remember the lessons of the Soviet Union’s collapse,...
The Economics of Demolition: Creative Destruction
While China publishes up-to-date statistics on the new construction persistently adding to its...
New Express Faces Overhaul After Defending Reporter
Guangdong’s media regulator has ordered editorial changes at the New Express following its...
Confession & Apology Over “Untrue” News Reports
A pair of front-page appeals from Guangdong’s New Express newspaper sparked a campaign for...
China’s Mountains of Construction Rubble
Frenzied demolition and construction produced an estimated two billion tons of waste across China...
The Rise of Copycat Architecture in China
Many have mused on the phenomenon of China’s copycat buildings, as well as entire facsimile towns. There are numerous news reports and accounts from bemused tourists who have stumbled upon a slice of Austria in Guangdong,...
People’s Daily Slams Local Government Spending
The People’s Daily, which building its own new headquarters in Beijing, published an editorial on Monday which criticized local governments for spending public funds on luxurious offices. From Patrick Boehler of the South...
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