“Better City, Better Life” is the theme for Shanghai Expo 2010. But like almost every other Chinese city, Shanghai suffers from serious air pollution. From Shanghaiist blog: People, we live in the world’s second least green and livable city. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom The Danwei blog: A large Buddhist temple has been built in the village of Dazhai, Shanxi Province. The village, a renowned patriotic tourist destination, at first glance does not look like the most likely place for a temple. But this is just the latest incarnation of the famous “Dazhai Spirit.” Dazhai first came to […]
Read MoreFrom Power and Interest News Report: Yet another “useful and positive” round of Sino-Indian boundary negotiations was held on September 24-26 against the backdrop of a general consensus in both capitals that no breakthrough to the territorial dispute could be achieved for a long period of time. Talks for a settlement have now gone on […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: China has promoted senior military officers with experience in planning for war over Taiwan ahead of a key political meeting next week at which the Communist Party has said it will adopt a new strategy to stop the self-governing island moving toward independence. In a move that was quietly handled even […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, in its latest tirade against Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday accused the exiled Nobel peace prize laureate of supporting “evil cults” like Falun Gong and Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo. China has ruled the mountainous Himalayan region of Tibet with an iron fist since Chinese troops marched in there in 1950. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Seventh Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Beijing on Tuesday morning. The session will discuss a draft report to be submitted to the upcoming 17th Party congress by the 16th CPC Central Committee, a draft amendment to the CPC Constitution, and a […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: European finance ministers said China should allow the yuan to appreciate against the euro after failing to find a common position on their currency’s rally to a record against the dollar. “It is desirable that effective exchange rates move so that necessary adjustments will occur,” the ministers said in a statement released late […]
Read MoreTwo women avoid the sun on the Beijing streets, by zdzarski.junior
Read MoreFrom The World Changing blog: Western China is turning into a massive dust bowl. Desertification now affects fully one-third of the world’s population — and what’s happening in Western China represents the largest conversion of productive land to desert anywhere in the world, consuming over one million acres of land each year. The dust isn’t […]
Read MoreShenzhen’s challenge to redefine itself may not be only its own problem, but one for all of China. Translated from Xiaokang magazine (Â∞èÂ∫∑ÊùÇÂøó) by CDT: Numbers speak to Shenzhen’s dazzling speed of economic development over the past 30 years: – The Population grew from 30,000 to 8.46 million; – Urban area: from 3 square kilometers […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China on Monday spearheaded a move in the UN Security Council to soften a Western-sponsored statement on the military crackdown in Myanmar amid broad agreement on the need for ending the violence and freeing political prisoners… The Chinese also objected to a detailed formulation in the draft of the steps the Myanmar regime […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese land rights activist imprisoned after circulating a petition opposing the Beijing Olympics has been chained for days in the same position and forced to clean up the waste of other inmates, his sister and a rights group said Monday. Yang Chunlin was detained in July in his native province of Heilongjiang […]
Read MoreLiang Jing, a long time observer and commentator of Chinese politics has written an analysis on the power game of 17th Party Congress. Thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the full translation: Answers to the riddle of the CPC’s...
Read MoreA Survivor-type take on British businessmen looking to make a fortune in China called Brits Get Rich in China, is now playing on YouTube (via All Roads Lead to China). It’s a seven-part series, each of which is 10 minutes long (and can be viewed here). From Part 1:
Read MoreJacky on Global Voices translated some more bloggers’ posts about the Burma crisis, with allusions to the 1989 protests in China: It is not easy to find similar posts on the Chinese internet now. As the 17th Party Congress is approaching, most of the Chinese web sites have tightened up their filters. However, Chinese are […]
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