From the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune (link): Faced with rising inequality and unrest in the countryside, the Chinese government has formally announced major initiatives to expand health, education and welfare benefits for farmers but left unresolved the fundamental issue of whether farmers should be allowed to buy or sell their land. […]
Read MoreThis article is part of a series called The Great Firewall of China by the Washington Post’s Philip Pan. Pan will discuss this series on the Washington Post website on Tuesday at 11 am ET: Officials tolerated Wikipedia at first, perhaps because it seemed to be exactly what the party had in mind when it […]
Read MoreBelow is China analyst David Cowhig’s translation of a chapter from Zhou Tianyong’s Breaking Through the Obstacles to Development (Á™ÅÁ†¥Âèë±ïÁöщΩìÂà∂ÊÄßÈöúÁ¢ç). This book was mentioned in Beijing takes on local-government mafias from Asia Times: Over the past several years, peasant incomes have slowly increased but consumption in rural China has been weak. While on the macroeconomic […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Having already impressed the world with the creation of its glittering, international-quality infrastructure, the erstwhile Middle Kingdom has now turned its attention to transforming its universities into world-class institutions. “Our government realizes the connection between a nation’s overall power and the quality of its higher education,” said Dr Weiying Zhang, assistant president […]
Read MoreThe following was posted by Tingyue Laoban 1 (Âê¨ÊúàËÄÅÁè≠1) on a BBS hosted by Sina.com (translated by CDT). The original, including a scan of the school receipt, is here. High school tuition in a poverty village Qianshan village in Anhui province is one of the 2006 national poverty villages. But the tuition is astonishingly high […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree: We all know China is an incredibly competitive society, with millions of people struggling for a good job, a good education, a good life. Young people are under incredible pressure to get into college and, once in college, to find career opportunities afterward. This story, from China Daily, shows how wrongly […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Beijing has underlined its continuing anger at Tokyo by authorising the publication of an article in an official newspaper likening the actions of Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, to someone who purposely eats “rat excrement”. The article in the People’s Daily, the Communist party’s mouthpiece, used the analogy to attack Mr […]
Read MoreFrom The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Chinese energy company PetroChina has reached an understanding to buy almost a tenth of Burma’s huge gas reserves. Those gas dollars will most likely be squandered on guns rather than education and healthcare. Many more dollars will probably flow as a pipeline plan, road, and railway projects suggest Beijing is […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a list of Top Ten Sayings in China, from 6Park.com: At the end of 2005, there are many collections of top ten famous this or famous that of the year. Below is a list of ten famous sayings, which are all-time...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Faced with steadily increasing peasant unrest, the Communist Party has decreed extensive changes to improve the lot of farmers and stop rapid economic development from encroaching on their land. The party declared rural reform a major goal of its new five-year economic program, which began this month. The government has also […]
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