Chinese Innovators An Asset To Foreign Companies
Gwynn Guilford reports in Quartz that while China plans to become “an...
Nov 16, 2013
Gwynn Guilford reports in Quartz that while China plans to become “an...
Nov 16, 2011
Amid a budget crisis and mounting student dissatisfaction at home, the University of California at Berkeley has just announced that it will open an engineering campus in Shanghai next summer. From the New York Times: The public...
Jun 7, 2011
The Washington Post has published a slideshow of images of the Three Gorges Dam, in the wake of the government’s acknowledgment that the engineering feat has also brought major negative environmental and social...
Jun 1, 2011
A lengthy article by Edward Wong in the New York Times looks at the various issues and complications surrounding the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, a massive and risky project to help resolve the severe scarcity of...
Jan 2, 2011
The Daily Mail reports on the new longest sea bridge in the world in Qingdao. The bridge straddles the Jiaozhou Bay and is 26.4 miles long: With an overall length of 42.58km, the route between Qingdao and Huangdao will be...
Oct 26, 2010
AP (via the Huffington Post) reports on the newest fastest train the world between Shanghai and Hangzhou, and other recent engineering feats by China: China rolled out its fastest train yet on Tuesday and announced that the...
May 1, 2009
Peter N. Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor reports on why some expatriate scientists and engineers are feeling drawn to return to China: China has hung a “Help Wanted” sign for scientists and engineers, dangling big-bucks...
Jan 7, 2006
From Business Week: When global audiences tune in to watch the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the world’s fastest and strongest athletes won’t be alone in striving for superlative achievements — a new generation of innovative architecture is rising in China. Fueled by a surging economy (the latest Chinese census, released on Dec. 20, says the […]