Translated by CDT from Global Character (ÁéØÁêɉ∫∫Áâ©) magazine: While many countries are either working on or planning a moon landing, China’s first moon explorer, code-named Chang’e I, is about to launch, expected at year’s end. With the launch spectator tickets running as high as 1,000 yuan, there seems to be a shortage of supply. More […]
Read MoreChina’s radio/TV/film watchdog cracks down on smoking scenes in programing. From China Daily: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), in a statement, criticized film and television producers for their indifference to non-smokers. “Inspection organs at all levels should pay more attention to the excessive use of smoking scenes in movies and teleplays,” […]
Read MoreFrom PINR: China’s stock market has risen at a delirious rate during the past two years, forming a substantial bubble in the country’s equity markets. Since PINR first noted this trend in February, the bubble has only grown — although there have been some short-lived downturns — and with it so have the risks inherent […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Maintaining China’s rapid economic growth remains the ruling Communist party’s “top priority”, President Hu Jintao said on Monday, even as he acknowledged the need to pay greater attention to the environment and social welfare. Mr Hu, who heads the party, opened its five-yearly congress by declaring that economic development had been of […]
Read MoreFrom The Opposite End of China blog: A collage made from a series of images found on the People’s Daily website. The images show people around the country watching and listening to Hu Jintao’s opening speech to the Communist Party of China’s 17th National Congress. Who says the fine art of propaganda is dead? These […]
Read MoreFrom The China History Group Blog – Frog in a Well: Historians have been very interested in World’s Fairs, international exhibitions and such for a while now. This is in part because of Gellner and Anderson’s ideas about nationalism, and above all the idea of a nation as an imagined community. Looking at a country’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: As China’s ruling Communist Party holds its most important conclave in five years, the government has launched an unusually harsh crackdown on potential troublemakers, say Chinese and international human rights groups. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of petitioners, democracy activists, religious figures, and human rights workers have been abducted, imprisoned, or confined […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: For China’s communist leadership, which gathers today for a major party congress, the gigantic Three Gorges Dam holds out the promise of abundant hydroelectric power and an end to devastating periodic floods along the Yangtze River. Yet from the moment they hatched a plan to build the colossal project, China’s leaders have […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The next Communist leadership of China, the land of Mao Zedong, is likely to include a man who as a student mixed with democracy advocates and learned the ideas of wigged English judges at a university that fostered dissent. Li Keqiang, 52-year-old Party secretary of the northeastern province of Liaoning, is widely tipped […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China’s sprawling military will speed up its modernization during the next five years, increasingly adopting high-tech battle systems and upgrading training, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday. In his keynote speech at the opening of the Communist Party Congress, held every five years, Hu said he was committed to making China’s military more […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Chinese characters for democracy (Minzhu) turned up to be one of the most extensively used political concept in Hu’s keynote speech on Monday to the landmark national congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), showing up at least 60 times. China will “expand people’s democracy and ensure that they are masters […]
Read MoreTrade surplus making others mad? Environmental meltdown lurking on the not-too-distant horizon? Beijing announces a stone for both birds. From Bloomberg (via the International Herald Tribune): Companies found ignoring waste-discharge limits face a ban from international trade for as long as three years to discourage exporters from cutting costs at the expense of the environment, […]
Read MoreHu Jintao’s opening address to the 17th CPC National Congress is delivered at long last. The take-away so far: Vague pledges to pursue political reform and clarification of the Party’s previous promise to quadruple GDP. From Reuters: Hu reserved his most dramatic language for the need to protect the environment and conserve resources, which he […]
Read MoreXinjiang, after becoming the biggest base for China’s oil and gas supply, is ready for the development of the world’s largest National Park, from China Daily: Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has planned to build the world’s largest national park by integrating the scattered neighboring tourist resorts into a whole… Kanas geological park, almost […]
Read MoreFoshan city and Guangzhou city in Guangdong province started to move their cement factories out of the urban area this year for pollution reasons. The following photos by Southern Daily show the process of relocating the four major cement factories, Tian Li/Ê∑ªÂäõ, Jian Guo/ª∫ÂõΩ, Bei Jiang/Âåóʱü, and Tian Qing/Ê∑ªÂ∫Ü in Foshan. Yangcheng Evening News also […]
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