Just as China is being praised for moving from a recipient of World Bank aid to a donor, the World Bank president has expressed concern about China’s loan programs to Africa (while also acknowledging that the World Bank will cooperate with a Chinese bank on an Africa-based project next year). From Forbes: China is investing […]
Read MoreA positive story of foreign companies helping Chinese firms and localities achieve higher energy efficiency and greener development. China needs to see a lot of these take hold in the country. From China Daily: Due to its efforts in governmental programs and incentives for local partners, BASF was named one of the top global companies […]
Read MoreA scissors repairman passes by the China Center for Economic Research, by Luo Shaoyang
Read MoreA case to test China’s environmentally sound development experiment. Stay tuned. From China Daily: A cluster of three cities in Hunan Province has been marked as an experimental zone for energy saving and environmentally friendly programs. The three neighboring cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan will form the zone in the home province of Mao […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Factors ranging from local protectionism to lack of legal support are barriers to anti-smoking campaigns despite the government’s stepped-up efforts, a top legislator has acknowledged. Han Qide, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress – the country’s top legislature – said the country faces a dire situation with more […]
Read MoreGood news for iPhone fans in China, even though Apple hasn’t officially launched its sales here yet. From BusinessWeek magazine: Want to buy an iPhone in Beijing? Talk to Liu Yong. Apple’s (AAPL) wonder isn’t legally available in China, but Liu, who operates an electronics shop in the Zhongguancun neighborhood close to the capital’s premier […]
Read MoreOn Yale Global Online, Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger write about the recent rash of toy recalls. From the introduction to their article: A series of recalls of toys and other products suggest that some manufacturing plants in China have quality-control issues. Often, Western media and politicians blame Chinese manufacturers for design flaws or incentives […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: In a carefully choreographed pre-dawn operation last weekend, the huge sloping twin towers of Beijing’s new CCTV building were bolted together to create what will eventually be a 70-metre-long overhang at a height of 160m. It was, says the architect in charge Ole Scheeren of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s economy, the world’s second largest, is not as big as was thought, a report by the World Bank has claimed. According to the bank, previous calculations have overestimated the size of China’s economy by about 40%. The revelation came after the bank updated the way it calculated the country’s gross domestic […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Week in Review looks at the responsibilities of China and the U.S. in resolving the climate crisis: As always, the fingers of many experts on energy and the environment point both west and east — to the United States and China. The established superpower arose riding a wave of fossil-fueled prosperity. […]
Read MoreAfter weeks of sometimes fierce debate online, the Chinese government has finally decided to go ahead with reforms of the national holiday system. From the Associated Press: Under the changes, which start next year, the weeklong May Day vacation will be replaced by three traditional, one-day holidays: grave-sweeping day, the dragon boat festival and the […]
Read MoreChinese state media have announced a leap of Himalayan proportions in the number of tourists going to Tibet, thanks in large part to the contentious opening last year of the Qinghai-Tibet rail line. BBC has the summary: Just over four million tourists will have visited Tibet in 2007, an official said, an increase of 64% […]
Read MoreWith Chinese netizens and the media left to fester for more then two months as Shaanxi Forestry Bureau officials continued to insist on the authenticity of a series of apparently fake photos of the functionally extinct South China Tiger, the national State Forestry Administration (SFA) has now finally stopped deflecting questions from the public. On […]
Read MoreSee some amazing remarks from Chinese officials caught with hands in the till. Translated by CDT from dwnews.com: Chen Zhaofeng (陈兆丰) took bribes while he was the county party secretary of Dingyuan in Anhui Province. “You worked very hard in cracking down on corruption, but I also worked hard on corruption!” he told investigators on […]
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