Beijing Shichahai Sport School is a special school to train future Olympic champions for China. Below is a short introduction video of the school, from Reuters via Shanghaiist: Children as young as six-years-old are sent to special sports schools in China to be trained as future champions. The school currently coaches more than 600 students […]
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Read MoreFrom Realclearpolitics: The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the great dramas of the twenty-first century. China’s extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already transforming East Asia, and future decades will see even greater increases in Chinese power and influence. But exactly how this drama will play out is an open question. […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: I stood in Zhang Meidi’s cabbage patch, kicking the dirt with my boots. The first frosts would arrive soon but for now the soil was dark, crumbly and rich. Not like the hard mud around Shanghai or the dry, sandy soil of Beijing. This is China’s bread basket. Wheat has been grown […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China was home to 162 million netizens as of June last year, just behind the United States. And there were some 130 bulletin boards, giving China the most Internet forums of any country, according to the yearly bluebook on social development, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Thursday. Meanwhile, blogging […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Nearly a decade after some of the most powerful companies in the world — often under considerable criticism and consumer pressure — began an effort to eliminate sweatshop labor conditions in Asia, worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor […]
Read MoreChina is showing progress in its efforts to protect public safety, as plans to draft regulations on products and food are underway. From China Daily: The government will continue its battle against shoddy products this year by speeding up legislation and framing 10,000 national quality standards. Four quality control regulations will be drafted, including one […]
Read MoreA Chinese watercolor of the Madonna and Child has recently been restored, and is thought to be one of the earliest pieces of evidence for Christianity’s spread in China. From the Chicago Tribune: As a pair of conservators at the Field Museum slowly unrolled an ancient Chinese scroll, it dramatically revealed how far the Christian […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Nearly every Beijinger is going international with the forthcoming Olympics – even former stone-faced police officers are learning to greet foreigners with a friendly “hello” and a big smile. Amid the citywide pre-Olympic English-language-learning craze, nearly every police officer, from new graduates to those close to retirement, is studying foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has for the first time outstripped Heilongjiang Province, in the northeast, as China’s top natural gas and oil producer. Latest data from four major northwestern oil and gas bases revealed that Xinjiang produced 26.4 million tons of crude oil and21.2 billion cubic meters of gas last […]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: China’s rapid growth should boost annual output per person to US$3,000 by 2010, nearly 3 1/2 times its level of a decade earlier, according to a government report cited Friday by an official news agency. The estimate by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, or CASS, shows the country quadrupling year […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: While some analysts of China’s technology sector have suggested new regulations for the online audio and video industry slated to take effect on January 31 do not “actually represent a change in policy,” they have more edgy Chinese media up in arms, and CMP sources indicate authorities are already moving to […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief: On December 31, the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Pao cited a report that no one in the western media has detected concerning a Jane’s Defence Weekly article which reported that China has plans to develop three-carrier battle groups (CBVG) over the next decade. News about this development has been widely discussed […]
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