On his Beijing Newspeak blog, Chris O’Brien explains how Xinhua crafted a story about the demolition of Beijing University’s Sanjiaodi (Triangle Area), which had been a rallying point for protesters in 1989, without mentioning 1989: The boards served as the hub of student discontent during the Tiananmen democracy protests, displaying poetry and slogans denouncing the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has promised that its basic medical and health care system will cover all rural residents by 2010. The Ministry of Health, on behalf of the Chinese government, made the promise on Friday at a two-day forum on China’s rural health care services, organized jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune Poisonous toy beads from China were not under suspicion when an Australian biochemist began trying last month to figure out why a 2-year-old boy had fallen into a shallow coma with seizure-like movements and been rushed to hospital. Clinicians treating the boy suspected an inherited metabolic disorder. So Dr. Kevin Carpenter, […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: For China’s ruling Communist Party, the private sector has emerged as an important partner as the authorities attempt to avert a mounting health care crisis. And so, in an intriguing experiment, the German technology giant Siemens and the hospital operator Asklepios Kliniken are leading the way for private investors with a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via, Chinaview.com.cn: China’s pharmaceutical watchdog has warned 16 companies that they risk losing their advertising licenses after they published “illegal” ads that exaggerated the benefits of their products. The 16 ads for drugs and medical equipment were identified by the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) on its website Wednesday.
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: In 1963, thousands in northern Italy lost their lives as villages were washed away by huge flooding caused by the Vajont dam. Risk expert David N Petley has studied the disaster, and considers what it means for China’s Three Gorges project. It is in this context that the recent announcements about the […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: Adopting sustainable architecture will bring China great environmental gains with little effort, writes Pan Jiahua. If the country really wants to build a “frugal society”, this is how. Sustainable architecture also provides potential savings in energy consumed by heating and air conditioning. Only 10% to 15% of buildings constructed in China in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is planning to launch its own space station in 2020, according to reports, in the latest sign of the country’s ambitions in space. Scientists are on track to send “a small-scale 20-ton space workshop” into the Earth’s orbit, rocket designer Long Lehao told state media. If successful, it would be the […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Fan Zhongcheng last year joined 1.4 million people forced to flee rising Yangtze River waters caused by the government’s massive new Three Gorges Dam. His elderly parents’ mud-brick house collapsed as the family tried to dismantle it to comply with official orders. Mr. Fan and his wife were buried alive for […]
Read MorePetroChina, worth more than $1 trillion, surged past Exxon Mobil as its shares nearly tripled in their first day of trading in Shanghai. Alibaba.com went public in Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Nov. 6th, with a market cap of $8.8 billion. The Chinese stock market, IPOs and stock prices are once again the focus of […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The view across the river at the skyscrapers of Pudong, where only muddy fields had existed 20 years ago, or the sight of jolly crowds of Chinese tourists carousing in the impossibly quaint streets of Lijiang in the hills of Yunnan, called to mind the once-startlingly revolutionary slogan that changed […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Previously regarded as outdated entertainment, a TV singing contest featuring songs of the revolution has proved a massive hit. East China’s Jiangxi Province is a place deeply connected to the country’s revolution. The Nanchang Uprising in 1927, which is regarded as the founding day for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), began […]
Read MoreFrom Brookings Institution website: … The Congress itself was a meticulously scripted event, with all decisions taken in secret behind closed doors. The public sessions were carefully stage-managed political theater (including the “press conferences”). The much-anticipated changes in the leadership hierarchy were held until the final day, when the new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee was […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: The United States has more billionaires than any other country: 415 by Forbes’s last count. No. 2, and closing fast? China. A year ago, there were 15 billionaires in China. Now, there are more than 100, according to the widely watched Hurun survey, and 66, according to Forbes. Unlike America’s rich, […]
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