“Made in China” may be running a reputation deficit around the world, but not back home in Beijing, which needs tons of steel to build stadiums and other infrastructure projects. Translated by CDT from China Business News: A conservative estimate puts the total demand for steel in the pre-Olympics infrastructure build-up at 3 million tons. […]
Read MoreHere is a photo contrasting a blue-sky day and a smoggy day in Beijing. The two photos are not photoshopped except that they were stitched together after being cropped to present a contrast. For most days of the year, however, Beijing looks more like the right half than the left. But Beijing authorities have another […]
Read MoreChen Shui-bian is good at going tougher and tougher. From the New York Times: President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan on Thursday denounced a peace overture from President Hu Jintao of China that has received a cautious welcome here from both candidates for the presidential election next March. “It is very clear now that if we […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: The composition of the standing committee is one of the most tightly guarded secrets in China, but rumours about the list have been rife. Sources with close links to China’s internet service providers say that they have, in the last few days, been required to alter their servers to reject attempts […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Xinhua: The Jiangsu provincial environmental protection bureau recently issued a pollutant control quota regime for sewage treatment plants and major industrial factories around Lake Tai, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2008. This is the first major revamp of the pollutant control standards since the algae bloom in the […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Xinhua: It’s been learned that some local vocational academies or elementary to middle-high schools have been organizing their students for migrant jobs, in the name of work-study or academic internships. The Ministry of Education recently passed down directives through its system to crack down on the phenomenon in a joint effort […]
Read MoreTibet expert Robert Barnett writes about relations between Beijing and the Dalai Lama: After all, it’s the Dalai Lama who persuaded the vast majority of Tibetans to accept autonomy within China instead of independence. He...
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor gives an update on the 14 week long protest by villagers in Foshan who are fighting corrupt local officials: Xiantang’s angry villagers took control of the village council’s opulent five-story offices on July 1, after officials had refused to open their accounting books. They have been there ever since, mounting a […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: As many of you would know by now, Youtube has been blocked in China. Looks like we got happy too soon about the unblocking of Blogspot.Danwei asks if the block has come as a result of the ongoing 17th Party Congress. Well, Marc van der Chijs, founder of the Shanghai-based Tudou.com , doesn’t […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: China’s government reserves the right to intervene in the stock market if necessary, a senior securities regulator said, although its main role is building institutions to allow the market to function on its own. Tu Guangshao, a vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission who spoke with reporters here yesterday, didn’t […]
Read MoreAPP, a leading paper maker, has run into a lot of problems with its aggressive, environmentally controversial paper-pulp tree swaps in Yunnan and Hainan. Now it’s having a problem of another kind, fighting thugs that steal its trees. Translated by CDT from Green China magazine: One night in July this year, some forest patrol officers […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will first hold a primary election before a final ballot to choose members of a new CPC central committee and its discipline commission, the presidium of the congress decided here Wednesday. The 237-member presidium to oversee the congress held its second meeting at […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The stench filling the air outside the Good Breeding pig farm in an otherwise bucolic mid-autumn day on Beijing’s rural outskirts is the best news Li Yongqiang has had for nearly a year. After cutting production in 2006 because of rising feed costs and low pork prices, Mr Li late last year […]
Read MoreImages and story from Southern Metropolis Daily, via Sina, translated by CDT: Recently, a special “intelligent” virus has emerged from the Chinese Internet. This Win32/KillDPT virus can decide to suspend the operating system or create intrusive damage based on different languages used on the computer, to ensure the use of the simplified Chinese character system. […]
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