Reality of Urbanization Catching up to the Dream
China’s ambitious urbanization plan is getting results: the country now has 102 cities...
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Drawing the News: Lanzhou Water, Maoming PX, More
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past two weeks. Click any image to launch the...
Badiucao (巴丢草): Toxic Water
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao illustrates the water crisis in Lanzhou, where authorities have...
Rush For Bottled Water After Benzene Scare
Reuters reports that people in Lanzhou have rushed to buy bottled water after authorities...
From Sand to Skyscrapers: Inside China’s Newest City
As Beijing plans to move hundreds of millions into China’s cities, Tom Phillips reports from Lanzhou New Area, a new city under construction in Gansu province for which 700 mountains were condemned to be flattened: Its...
China at the Crossroads of Renewal and Breakdown
In nearly 9,000 words at The Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon recounts his recent 22-day train journey around China, loosely following the course of Mao’s Long March. He met officials and protesters, nailhouse residents and...
Charges Dropped in Violinist’s Inciting Subversion Case
Prosecutors have dropped charges of inciting subversion against Chen Pingfu, a former teacher who became a street musician in order to pay medical bills. Chen subsequently wrote more than 300 online articles about abuses by...
700 Mountains Flattened for New Desert City
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
City Air Harmful for Another 20-30 Years
While China’s air pollution carries heavy costs for its economy and public health, a leading expert has warned that there will be no quick recovery. From Jonathan Watts at The Guardian: The cautionary note comes at the...
Independent Candidate Yu Nan: "China Is Most in Need of Transparency Now" (Updated)
In recent months, citizens have taken to social media to declare their independent candidacies for local election. As a result of the recent government clampdown on these candidates, none were elected as a district level...
Hui Minority Beats Lanzhou Chengguan Onto Knees Crying
ChinaSMACK has captured a netizen’s response to vigilante justice against the abuse of “urban management” officials (chengguan 城管) in Lanzhou, a Hui Muslim dominated area: This weekend, due to the recent need to repair our...
Protests and Crackdown Continue to Spread (Updated)
Update: In light of the treatment of foreign reporters trying to cover the Tibet protests (see below for details), the Foreign Correspondents Club of China has issued a statement demanding access to the area. The Age is...
Photos: Endless Queue for Water in Wuhan after the Snowstorm
When I was in elementary school, our geography teacher told us how Lanzhou city in the northwest desert area of China had suffered from a water shortage. He said the city relied on the water cart system which supplied water...
Lanzhou Party Leader on the Role of Public Servants – CCTV
“Parenting Official (Fumu Guan) (父母官)” is a term that was often used in Chinese dynasties to call officials whose role was “to parent” the people they ruled. This is the political heritage of the official Confucius education. However, this political heritage is slowly changing in today’s China. When interviewed on CCTV’s program “From Decision Makers […]
A woman and her painter in an underpass in Lanzhou, via www.fengniao.com.
A woman and her painter in an underpass in Lanzhou, via www.fengniao.com ”
Taoism in the News – Sam Crane
From The Useless Tree blog: Call me skeptical. But I get a bit nervous when I see stories like this (Xinhua version): LANZHOU, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — The first international forum on Lao Tzu, known as China’s “father of philosophy”, opened Tuesday in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China’s Gansu province.[Full Text]
Photo: The Yellow River flows through Lanzhou, one of China’s most polluted cities, via travelblog.org
The Yellow River flows through Lanzhou, one of China’s most polluted cities, via travelblog
Number One On Lanzhou Television – EastSouthWestNorth
From the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): In Lanzhou, the new city leader decided to clean up the city image by making the persons in charge of the various city departments appear on television to answer questions. “It is not acceptable to squat on the toilet space but refuse to defecate!” At the end of March, Lanzhou […]
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