Prosperity, Stability, Control: Beijing’s Clashing Priorities
Economic growth and poverty reduction are two of the Chinese Communist Party’s core goals...
Aug 29, 2016
Economic growth and poverty reduction are two of the Chinese Communist Party’s core goals...
Oct 31, 2014
Xinhua reports that a Chinese court has upheld the death sentences of three men implicated in the...
Oct 29, 2014
After a deadly clash that arose out of a months running land dispute in Jinning, Yunnan Province...
Apr 20, 2014
Julie Makinen reports for The Los Angeles Times on the Chinese government’s silence after...
Mar 12, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Mar 5, 2014
As of March 5, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the...
Mar 1, 2014
Xinhua reports that at least 28 people were killed and more than 100 injured in “an...
Aug 14, 2013
The week before last month’s explosion at a Zhangzhou PX plant, a Southern Weekly article...
Jul 19, 2013
Torrential rains on Thursday and Friday have flooded Kunming, in Yunnan province, as Xinhua News reports that 2 people are dead and 1 still missing in the city’s third major flood since a drought ended in May: The downpour...
Jul 7, 2013
Environmental groups have attacked the impact assessment report for a planned PX plant near Kunming, published late last month following major protests against the project. The report deemed risks from the plant...
Jun 5, 2013
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection a new report on Tuesday, revealing that almost 60% of the groundwater it tested last year rated as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’, and that nearly 60% of the...
May 16, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: Without exception, do not republish, report, or comment on the...
May 16, 2013
Thousands of protesters rallied in Kunming on Thursday to oppose the construction of an oil refinery operated by China National Petroleum Corp. (PetroChina). The protests, the second this month, were mostly peaceful but were met...
May 15, 2013
In the second related protest in two weeks, hundreds of people gathered on the streets in Kunming to protest the construction of an oil refinery and paraxylene (PX) plant near the city. The South China Morning Post is posting...
May 6, 2013
East by Southeast, a new group blog on “China’s footprint in Southeast Asia and […] the big questions surrounding China’s global rise”, has posted a detailed account of Saturday’s peaceful PX protests in...
Mar 24, 2013
As of March 24, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Kunming PX Plant: A p-Xylene (PX) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) processing plant is planned for the...
Feb 26, 2013
Yan Linkun, a vice chairman of Yunnan Mining Co. and local political advisor, smashed equipment at a boarding gate at Kunming Changshui Airport after missing two flights on February 19. From Josh Chin at the Wall Street Journal,...
Jan 18, 2013
At China Real Time Report, Tom Orlik discusses urbanization, hukou reform, land ownership, urban sustainability and the price of heroin in Chongqing with Tom Miller, author of China’s Urban Billion. We’re hearing a lot...