The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Notice: From June 28 onward, all...
In March 2011, China began work on what will soon become the world’s largest radio...
Originally thought up by Mao Zedong in the 50s and given Beijing’s go-ahead in 2001, the...
Agence France-Presse in Anshun (via The South China Morning Post) reports that, in the process of...
At The Financial Times, Leslie Hook writes that Chinese authorities have misdiagnosed the causes...
After three successive days of demonstrations (see pictures at Tea Leaf Nation and Global Voices), protesters in Jiangmen, Guangdong won a written guarantee on Monday that a planned uranium processing plant nearby would not go...
Tantalizing signs have recently emerged of possible change in China’s Tibet policy: arguments by a Central Party School scholar, a visit to Tibet this week by U.S. ambassador Gary Locke, and reports that strictly religious...
Twenty years have passed since the Chinese government authorized the massive Three Gorges Dam project. Since then, there has been ongoing concern about the social and environmental ramifications of the damming. The Financial...
Nine officials sent to assess a Three Gorges relocation project in one of China’s poorest counties ran through over 800,000 yuan (about $125,000) during their month-long inspection — four times the original budget....
Thirteen years ago, villagers were relocated from their hometown in Heilongjiang to make way for a reservoir needed to supply drinking water for Harbin. Dissatisfied with the compensation offered them, they moved back in and...
The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore reports from Shanxi on the voracious coal mining which, according to local government, has left more than 8,000 square miles of the surface dangerously vulnerable to subsidence and sinkholes....
At GlobalPost, Kathleen McLaughlin describes the impact of forced relocation on the 1.5 million pushed aside by the Three Gorges Dam, and the 3 million now facing a similar fate in Shaanxi. In the best-case situations, those who...
China Daily covers recent research by the Research Center for Social Contradiction, attached to the Office of Letters and Calls which handles petitions in Beijing. Their poll results illustrate problems faced by those relocated...
AP reports on the massive relocation of residents for the south-to-north water diversion project: The first group of 499 villagers was moved Wednesday in central China’s Hubei province and a total of 60,000 people were to...
Nearly 2,000 households will be relocated for the $3.5 billion Disneyland development project in Shanghai, which is set to open in 2014. The Washington Post spotlights one of these relocated households, the family of Wang...
The Times of India reports that 300,000 more people will be moved from the area surrounding the Three Gorges Dam: The English-language China Daily said the relocations were aimed at preventing pollution from adjacent communities...
For the Telegraph, Peter Foster writes about being wined and dined by local propaganda officials who interceded as he was interviewing farmers in Henan who were preparing to be relocated off their land to make way for the...
From Reuters: Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of...
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