Ordinary Chinese citizens who have travelled to Beijing to protest about local injustices have been ordered to leave their homes. From BBC: The petitioners live in Beijing’s Fengtai District, and were given until noon today to move. Many say the demolition is part of a campaign to clean up Beijing before the Communist Party’s congress […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s family planning policy has prevented 400 million births, officials say. Since the regulations were introduced in 1979, China has kept its population in check using persuasion, coercion and encouragement. And it looks likely that, nearly 30 years after the policy was first introduced, it will not be relaxed to allow couples […]
Read MoreOlympic hype, tibetan protest, and a treasury of natural resources. From Global Pulse, via Youtube:
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: Chinese President and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has elevated a key aide to a sensitive position in a show of influence ahead of a major Communist Party congress next month. In a one sentence report on Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency said Ling Jihua had been named […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: A policy based on economic leverage such as prices, taxes, and insurance is called for in a bid to control the behavior of economic entities to ensure that there is harmony between economic growth and environmental protection. Compared with the traditional regulating mechanism based on government command, a new economics-environmental policy is […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has begun to enforce a freeze on all government-controlled prices in a sign of the central government’s alarm about rising popular anger over inflation, now at the highest rate in over a decade. The order freezes a vast array of prices still under the control of governments in China, ranging from […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The American economy may be teetering on the brink of a recession, but there’s an industry our hedge fund gurus believe has an almost limitless future: the Chinese police state. In a stunning report in the New York Times last week, correspondent Keith Bradsher documented the rise of China’s electronic surveillance […]
Read MoreBeijing’s promise to keep the highly pressurized Olympics ticket purchase process on the up-and-up seems to have gone aground on the shores of economic reality. From TIME’s China blog: In China having connections can make all the difference. But when the first-stage ticket sales plan for the 2008 Olympics was announced earlier this year, the […]
Read MoreHefei-based subsidiaries of Unilever and Hitachi“the only two foreign firms included in a spot environmental inspection earlier this summer”were both caught pumping out wastewater in violation of government limits. Now the State Environmental Protection Administration promises domestic-foreign parity in the handing out of punishment. From China Daily: A senior official at the environment watchdog yesterday […]
Read MoreA condom dispenser on the streets of Shanghai, by sinosplice
Read MoreMore accusations from the U.S. about spying by China. From The Guardian: Giving evidence to a Congressional committee, Vice Admiral McConnell said that US facilities, intelligence services and development projects were all being targeted. He was speaking weeks after the Pentagon had claimed it had come under attack from Chinese computer hackers. The Foreign Office […]
Read MoreOver 210,000 people were evacuated from Shanghai to avoid the landing of typhoon Wipha. From BBC, photos from Xinhua: Shanghai’s flood prevention bureau said Wipha would probably pass 100km (60 miles) to the south-west of the city on Wednesday evening local time. It has been downgraded to a tropical storm but could still cause major […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China scrambled to respond Tuesday to an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the southern city of Guangzhou. But as officials sought to reassure the public, there were signs that China was reluctant to release details about a possible health threat. The outbreak in Guangzhou’s Panyu district is the first […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at how provinces are failing to implement policies set by the central government to help AIDS patients and stem the spread of the disease: They say the gap between Beijing’s official position and the practices of local officials is the result of a political system that makes it difficult to impose […]
Read MoreQipan Jing town is well known for its proven trove of more than 40 mineral resources, including 960 million tons of coal, 3.3 million tons of quartz stone, 5.2 million tons of iron, etc. Such resources have brought wealth to...
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