From Chronicle.com: Thousands of students at a Chinese military academy rioted this week after learning that the government would not recognize their diplomas, Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday. The students were all enrolled at the Hefei People’s Liberation Army Artillery Academy, in China’s Anhui province, but as self-financing “contract students” with no military status. […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times reviews the Chinese-made Jialing JH600 motorcycle by driving it along the Silk Road: Riding 1,700 miles in eight days isn’t anything I’d normally brag about. But I was riding a Chinese motorcycle. In China. Over pavement and gravel. Across the Tianshan mountains and the Taklamakan desert. From elevations of 13,400 feet […]
Read MoreA couple living a peaceful life in a small town, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreAndy Xie, Morgan Stanley’s former star economist, recently said that China would become a very hot spot for investors. Meanwhile in China, both governmental and nongovernmental cash flow, derived from huge foreign exchange reserves, is heading for overseas investment. From The Financial Times: The slowing pace of China’s accumulation of foreign exchange reserves has underlined […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Msnbc.msn.com: China has begun storing water pumped from the Yellow River in Olympic co-host city Qingdao to guarantee supplies in the parched northern port during next year’s Games, local media reported. Qingdao , which will host Olympic sailing events, by the end of November will pump water from the Yellow River equal […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Last October, as Ma Shaofang prepared to travel from the Chinese city of Shenzhen to Beijing to attend a writers’ conference, he received a menacing call from the police. Why trouble a businessman who wants to attend a conference? The problem was that as a student hunger strike organizer during the […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The diplomatic friction over China’s refusal to allow U.S. Navy warships to enter Hong Kong harbor is the kind of incident that a crisis hot line ordered three months ago by President Bush and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao might have averted. The trouble is, the hot line is not installed yet. “There […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s Communist Party has picked a new mayor for Beijing just nine months ahead of the Olympic Games, state media reported on Friday. Guo Jinlong, 60, the party secretary of eastern Anhui province, has been named to take over from current mayor Wang Qishan, said the Beijing Daily. During a speech to the […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: A research study done by the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention has concluded that the AIDS virus in China originated in 1989 with 146 drug addicts found in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Wu Zunyou, director of the center, disclosed this information during an AIDS-related meeting held at Tsinghua University. According to […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily has officially weighed in on the South China Tiger brouhaha. From a commentary on November 22, excerpts translated by CDT: …Until now,¬† the last card of [the South China Tiger controversy] has still...
Read MoreFrom AFP: China said Thursday it was making progress in its efforts to improve the nation’s energy efficiency and cut pollution emissions, but acknowledged that not enough was being done. “The results of our energy consumption and emission reduction (efforts) are starting to show,” Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the National Development Reform Commission, told […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has agreed to eliminate a dozen tax breaks and other subsidies the United States challenged this year at the World Trade Organization, resolving one of the series of trade spats between the countries. “This outcome represents a victory for U.S. manufacturers and their workers,” U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said on Thursday. […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Zhou Zhengyi, the Shanghai property tycoon once ranked China’s 11th-richest man, was jailed for 16 years after being convicted of bribery and forging tax receipts. The Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Zhou today, his lawyer Xu Lanting said, declining further comment. He was also fined 3.35 million yuan ($454,000), Caijing magazine […]
Read MoreFrom Commentary, via A Glimpse of the World blog: Of the ways one might choose to visit China for the first time, traveling with a delegation of American journalists, as I did in September, is not ideal. In addition to the usual frustrations of group touring, there is the burden of being “media friends,” as […]
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