This is Qin Yu (秦裕), yet another domino tile among the many downed in the Shanghai pension fund scandal following the downfall of former Shanghai Party chief Chen Liangyu. Translated by CDT from Xinhua: Known as Shanghai’s “super secretary (上海第一秘)” and “one-month district governor (一个月区长),” Qin Yu served as secretary to Chen Liangyu when Chen […]
Read MoreFrom Oriental Morning Post (东方早报), translated by CDT: In the more than 130 years since Shanghai been taking annual temperature readings, according to municipal meteorological experts, the city’s five hottest years have all occurred in the last decade: 2002 (17.8 degrees Celsius), 1998 (18.0), 2004 (18.1), 2006 (18.3) and, now, 2007 (18.4), the hottest year […]
Read MoreA new commentary from Great Wall Online provides an update on CDT’s earlier post about a new ban on alcohol at lunch for officials in the Henan Province city of Xinyang. Translated by CDT: The benefits of the ban on...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: In preparation for the Beijing Olympics and a series of other international events, some American companies are helping the Chinese government design and install one of the most comprehensive high-tech public surveillance systems in the world. With athletes and spectators coming from around the world, every Olympic host nation works […]
Read MoreA group of young people playing in Yalong bay beach, from xitek.com.
Read MoreFrom AP via CNNMoney.com: China’s stock market wound up a stellar – and turbulent – year Friday, with its benchmark Shanghai Composite index having soared nearly 97 percent, making it the world’s best-performing major stock index in 2007. But worries that authorities will raise interest rates or take other steps to cool the country’s blazing […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential: As if to highlight China’s close ties to Pakistan, on the same day that Pakistan’s former Prime Ministter, Benazir Bhutto , was assassinated, Xinhua reported that the two countries deepened their business relationship. The Pak-China Investment Company, the first joint venture between Pakistan and China in financial sector, was launched Thursday in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At an underground church service in China, you pray as quickly as you can – and hope the police do not come running in. At the end of an alleyway in the north of Beijing, 40 Chinese Christians gather in a small classroom. At the beginning of the service, they bow their […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The shares of Chinese telecoms companies listed in Hong Kong surged yesterday on what the industry’s regulator and a government researcher called speculative reports about the long-awaited introduction of 3G mobile services . While Beijing blamed journalists for misreading its telecoms policy signals, the share moves were a sharp reminder of […]
Read MoreAn update on Shenzhen’s cooling real estate market. Translated by CDT from Guangzhou Daily: The housing sector in Shenzhen further dipped to new lows in December, according to statistics released by a research center with the Shenzhen Zhongyuan Properties (深圳中原地产深港研究中心). In the year-ending month, buyers only purchased 170,000 square meters of properties among the stock […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org: China opened its first air-sea interaction and climate change laboratory in Qingdao, Shandong Province, to closely observe climate change on the sea and to provide scientific solutions. The newly-built lab in the eastern coastal province, funded and run by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), would conduct […]
Read MoreFrom Biganzi’s Jonathan Ansfield: It appears all but official: Xiamen’s Taiwanese-invested paraxylene (PX) plant is likely to get the boot downshore to Zhangzhou. A precedent for public oversight of the planning process, or a mere perfect storm? Future events will determine the full significance of the punkish-sounding anti-PX campaign. But in the Chinese media, official […]
Read MoreXinyu Mei says that China should seriously consider moving its water-poor and overpopulated capital, from China Dialogue: …Retaining Beijing as the capital continues to present problems. A city of 20 million people located in such a water-poor area raises concerns. Should the authorities not consider the capacity of the environment? Can we really afford the […]
Read More“Internet love” becomes more and more popular among Chinese students, according to a survey, via Xinhua: …The survey by the Changchun-based institute in the northeast Jilin Province, polled 4,811 students at 10 universities across the country. It found that 18.4 percent of respondents admitted they had at least one Internet lover, the China Youth Daily […]
Read MoreChina’s the place where everyone wants to invest…right? Its tech sector, laden with both high expectations and unclear results, calls some things into doubt. For more information on the tech boom’s status and its possible future, read on. From The Washington Post: Over the past decade, start-ups have proliferated throughout China, thanks to an aggressive […]
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