From AFP: China’s ruling Communist Party will release an anti-graft comic book during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday to help officials avoid corruption, state press said Tuesday. The pocket-size comic book, which includes caricatures depicting common forms of graft and bribery, will be distributed as a gift to 100,000 party members in the central […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese scientists have warned that climate change is hurting the most famous draw in the northern city of Harbin — its annual ice sculpture contest. Average annual temperatures in the city perched on the edge of Siberia hit 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 Fahrenheit) last year, the highest average since records began, and the […]
Read MoreIt only took a week for the Chinese Internet to give birth to its first major controversy of 2008: CCTV’s broadcasting of an interview with 13-year-old girl who described accidentally coming across a web page that was “very yellow (vulgar) and very violent” (很黄，很暴力). Global Voices has an excellent summary: ‘Websites pop themselves up?’ wondered […]
Read MoreCaijing Magazine carries a detailed report on one of the biggest scandals to emerge from the Chinese government’s year-long investigation into land distribution abuses–and it’s a whopper: A report released by the National Audit Office (NAO) and submitted in December to the State Council, China’s cabinet, cited [Harbin land resource] officials for illegally issuing fake […]
Read MoreA top official with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Steven Sawyer, predicts in a recent interview with Reuters that China will soon to start to dominate global production of wind power turbines: “We’d expect that the domestic Chinese manufacturers will have an annual production capacity of about 10 gigawatts per year…by the end of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A US recession will dampen China’s surging exports but the impact on the world’s most populous nation, which is taking steps to cool down a red-hot economy, may be limited, experts say. But they also cautioned that Beijing must be prepared to face protectionist trade policies from Washington as a result of a […]
Read MoreIn a shocker of a policy announcement, Chinese leaders have proclaimed free provision of plastic shopping bags will be banned in throughout the country by June 1 of this year. Via the Toronto Star: China uses too many of the bags and fails to dispose of them properly, wasting valuable oil and littering the country, […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China’s tree-planting movement continues down a worrying path. The planting of artificial, single-species forests has not abated in China; in fact, it has worsened. The country’s original distribution of trees: fir trees in the south, poplars in the north, has made way for poplars everywhere – north, south, east and west. There […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: The World Bank says global economic growth will slow in 2008 as the credit crunch hits the richest nations. But it says that the “resilience” of developing countries will cushion the slowdown, with China still booming. Overall, the Bank projects annual world economic growth to slow to 3.3% in 2008, compared with 3.6% […]
Read MoreTwo reports of violent crimes allegedly perpetrated by students in China have hit the news in recent days: First, a Chinese teenager kidnapped and murdered by classmates: David Stanway reported in Beijing that four teenagers were arrested for the murder of their classmate Zhao Shaoxu, the son of a local entrepreneur, whom they kidnapped in […]
Read MoreUnlike in Xiamen, people power did not prevail in Dongzhou following over a year of protests against the construction of a power plant. From RFA, which includes interviews with local residents: The villagers of Dongzhou appear to have been defeated. The Honghaiwan Power Station was inaugurated today with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Some of the […]
Read MoreAP reports that the growing number of Chinese-born residents in Taiwan, who are mostly the wives of Taiwanese businessmen, are not granted several basic rights, including the right to vote in upcoming elections: So tens of thousands of long-term residents who look like other Chinese in Taiwan, speak the same language and share a cultural […]
Read MoreA story about a hidden rules of the game in China. Translated by CDT from Legal Daily: A 5,000-word article, “serving the people, Anxi (安溪)’s tax bureau breaks down Singaporean firm,” popped up on Internet forums after the October week-long holiday last year. Wang Quancheng (王泉成), the Singaporean Chinese and leading character in the article, […]
Read MoreJournalist Ian Buruma and German philosopher Slavoj Zizek separately take a look at the future of capitalism and democracy in China. Buruma writes (via Project Syndicate): To come back from near destitution and bloody tyranny in one generation is a great feat, and China should be saluted for it. But China’s success story is also […]
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