From AP: Nineteen miners died in a coal mine blast in a northeast Chinese province — the latest casualties in another deadly year in the world’s most dangerous mines, state-run media said Monday. An explosion rocked...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Canadian government’s little-examined role in the building of China’s Three Gorges Dam sheds light on how foreign governments and companies helped China move forward with one of the most controversial engineering projects in history. Many Western governments, including the U.S., initially refused to support China’s plan to build the […]
Read MoreWorsening ecological degradation in China’s wild west, rom Lanzhou Morning Post (兰州晨报), translated by CDT: Xihu National Nature Preserve (西湖国家级自然保护区) sits in between Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu’s oasis town, and China’s sixth largest desert, the Kum-tagh (库姆塔格). The 660,000-hectare region is the only green belt that shields lands to the east from marching sands coming out […]
Read MoreCDT’s Year in Review 2007 (rollover for captions, click for stories)
Read MoreBelow is a collection of symbolic architecture of different cities in China, via dwnews.com:
Read MoreFrom Spero News: Despite breathless media reports about the World Bank revising downward its estimate for the size of China’s economy,[1] what the figures really show is that China has indeed overtaken the United States in manufacturing output. As an industrial giant, China needs to be taken seriously as an international economic force and a […]
Read MoreWarming continues. From Xin Kuai Bao (新快报), translated by CDT: “The two most prominent features of 2007’s weather in Guangzhou have been higher temperatures and less rainfall,” experts from the Guangdong provincial astronomical association concluded as the year drew to a close. One of China’s largest subtropical cities, Guangzhou set numerous meteorological records in 2007. […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Consider the tale of the jilted husband who exacted his revenge after his wife ran off: He charged into the shop that gave her a makeover and broke the beautician’s fingers. Or the diner who speared his tongue with a hook while eating a fish head. The mysterious woman who […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The following are the top 10 domestic news events in the year 2007 selected by Xinhua (in chronological order): 1. China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), adopted a landmark property law on March 16, granting equal protection to public and private properties. 2. Serious pollution caused a sudden stenchy algae outbreak […]
Read MoreFrom SudanTribune: Home to almost half of the world’s 45,000 biggest dams, China has embarked on a push to export its hydropower know-how to developing countries — even as it contends with environmental damage and social upheaval at home from the massive Three Gorges Dam. Many other countries and international organizations have begun to shy […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese President Hu Jintao called for would peace and development in his New Year address, which was broadcast on Monday to domestic and overseas audience via state TV and radio stations. “We sincerely hope people of all nations live under the same blue sky freely, equally, harmoniously and happily, and enjoy the achievements […]
Read MorePeople of the Year from Southern Weekend for 2007. Translated by CDT: Some of them are Xiamen natives, some “new” Xiameners who moved to the city within the past 20 years, some found their first jobs in the coastal city. They didn’t know each other, but, for their own and the city’s general interests, they […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Nineteen people have been implicated in a coal mine gas blast that killed 105 miners and injured 18 in north China’s Shanxi Province earlier this month. Among them were the mine owners and managers. Procuratorates of Linfen City accused the 19 of illegal mining, illegal trade of dynamite, dereliction of duty and covering […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: In addition to prices, earnings ratios and dividends, there is now another benchmark for stock market investors to watch – corporate environmental performance. The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is proposing to force publicly listed companies to regularly disclose environmental information through new rules that could be finalized in the next six […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China on Monday announced a $20 billion capital injection into China Development Bank, one of the country’s three policy lenders, as part of a long-planned transformation of the state-owned company into a commercial bank. The move is likely to result in a multi-billion dollar stock market listing of the bank, aimed at raising […]
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