Global Voices translates a bbs post about the struggles of residents of drought-plagued Gansu Province: On 15th December, a post named “the investigation of drought in Northwestern, Lanzhou region” appeared in Skyline (Tianya.cn, 天涯). The writer Manbaqi(满八旗) recorded his five-day research in Lanzhou district, Gansu province, part of the Yellow River drainage area. Over 40 […]
Read MoreThe Guardian looks at how China’s new labor law will affect foreign corporations working in the country: A new labour contract law will push up business costs in China next year and could force firms that are already struggling with rising expenses to shift production inland or out of China altogether. The law will increase […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via ABCNews: A Chinese Government website encouraging citizens to report corruption has crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits. China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention was formed in September after a string of high-profile scandals involving Government officials. By the afternoon, the website could not be opened, the […]
Read MoreThe year of 2007 is regarded as a year of overheating for the Chinese economy, especially in the financial market. This year, IPOs and domestic merger and acquisition activities in China increased continually. Overseas investors are envious of the booming capital market in China; however, they are also cautious about the future success of capital […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: The World Bank has come up with a new way to look at the relative clout of economies, and it turns out most previous estimates have exaggerated the size of China’s and India’s economies by roughly 40 per cent. The new, and smaller, China still ranks behind the United States […]
Read MorePeter Winter is a junior majoring in International Relations and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He published this article in last month’s US_China Today website: Text messages pass along more than just knock-knock jokes in China; to the displeasure of some leaders, they are also a popular way to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a 100 million U.S. dollars loan to help develop an efficient and effective emergency management system for China’s railway system. The Railway Safety Enhancement Project will also receive 40 million dollars from the Ministry of Railways to complete the funding requirement, ADB said in a statement […]
Read MoreA man gives a wheelbarrow ride in Qinghai, by The Gonger
Read MoreAs part of a BBC series on sustainable food, reporters “take a peek in the fridges of people in cities around the world and ask what motivates their food choices.” In today’s edition, we look at what Beijing heart surgeon Xie Jinsheng is eating. He explains: We generally try to buy vegetables from local farmers […]
Read MoreFrom ESWN: “If there is something that you don’t understand, just remember that this is China and you will understand!” The following list of ‘jokes’ was compiled by a Tianya netizen named Laome2018 (via Sohoxiaobao). These ‘jokes’ are not funny at all; in fact, they are solemn and dismal. But these are extraordinary times in […]
Read MoreFrom Under the Jacaranda Tree blog: Wang Dan, a Chinese dissident and student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, has published an article at the Independent Chinese Pen Centre in which he discusses the political implications of the Tigergate Incident, the Yilishen Scandal and the Chang’e Moon Photograph Saga. … The following is my […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Although there are almost half a year before graduation, the seniors in the universities of China have already thrown themselves into the cutthroat job-hunting war. With the meticulously-made resumes, those ready-to-be graduates are busy running about the various job fairs, which can often attract tens of thousands of senior students flocking […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China’s central government recently promoted “ecological civilisation” as an important aspect of a developed society in the report from the Communist Party’s seventeenth congress. This is encouraging news for China’s troubled environmental movement, but questions remain. Why, for instance, were trials of “green GDP ” abandoned in 10 provinces? Economic development still […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s parliament will decide next week whether to allow greater democracy in Hong Kong, but no one in the liberal camp is expecting a surprise Christmas present from the Communist rulers in Beijing. Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang urged China this month to allow greater democracy in the former British colony in […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The country faces unprecedented challenges in economic and social spheres as a result of a fast expanding aging population, top officials warned Monday. With two working people for every retiree between 2030 and 2050, the country is expected to see the end of a decades-long advantage it enjoyed with a low-cost labor […]
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