From Foreign Policy Research Institute website: Since its market reforms began in 1978, China’s economy has grown at close to 10 percent a year, according to official data, and has even accelerated since the year 2000. Internationally accepted measures of China’s growth show it to be even faster than officially reported. This growth success is […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: The group of pro-Tibet activists in China that caught the world’s attention this week by chronicling a series of stunts over the Web used an “age-old tactic” with a savvy, modern twist, says an expert in the field. By using the Internet to circumvent Chinese censors, the Students for a […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via Rand Corporation website: US-China relations, and the respective national interests which underlie them, are generally harmonious. However, this is occasionally jarred by sharp discord. At present, the discord arises from legislation pending in the US Congress to put pressure on China to substantially raise the value of its “misaligned” […]
Read MoreDanwei carried the video clip of a trip to Xinjiang by Adam Schokora via Youtube. Danwei says that the video shows off “the magnificent scenery around Turpan and Urumqi, with a soundtrack of Uighur music.” [Click to see] (Part 2 is coming soon)
Read MoreChinese dolphin or Baiji, one of the world’s most rare and threatened mammal species, “has been declared officially extinct following an intensive survey of its natural habitat.” From The Guardian: The freshwater marine mammal, which could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a tonne, is the first large vertebrate […]
Read MoreQin Shihuang’s Terracotta Army will move to a museum in London for an exhibition and give a suprise to the British visitors there. From BBC News: The museum has refitted its famous reading room for the exhibition and has already sold 30,000 tickets. Museum staff hope it may even rival the success of the Tutankhamen […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: A Proud China last night invited the world to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a dazzling song-and-dance and fireworks display. Sprawling Tian’anmen Square was the center of celebrations as countdown clocks across Beijing and other host cities reached the one-year mark at 8:00pm (1200 GMT), 12 months before the Games’ opening ceremony….[Full […]
Read MoreSexy Beijing uploaded the new episode on Youtube showing Beijing’s hottest Hip Hop Party:
Read MoreChina’s Green GDP accounting team faces the risk of being disbanded in coming weeks unless seniors leaders step in to save their stalled experiment, a high-level source close to the State Environmental Protection Administration tells CDT. Team auditors hope to get word soon from heads of the State Council about their future. “But our only […]
Read MoreChina banned two toy companies “after a high-profile recall of Mattel products including Big Bird and Elmo because of fears about lead in paint,” and five drug companies whose medicine killed thirteen people in Guangzhou. From Reuters: China has been struggling to convince the world its products are safe after a series of scandals over […]
Read MoreYoutube carried the promotional commercial of Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch and gave the detailed information: “The Beijing Olympic Torch boasts strong Chinese characteristics, and showcases Chinese design and technical capabilities….” [Full Text and the Original Video]
Read MoreSuch a vast sum has had some effect, but the air in Beijing is still quite a bit less than lung-friendly. Translated from the Beijing News: Amidst much criticism of Beijing’s air quality, the city’s government has spent 120 billion yuan trying to solve the problem–20 billion for last year alone. These numbers are unprecedented […]
Read MoreChina cracked down six protesters who were showing a banner reading “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008.” on the Great Wall. From AP via IHT: China has deported a group of activists who hung a banner on the Great...
Read MoreMa Jun reports for Chinadialogue that “in today’s China, introducing green GDP calculations may be the cheapest of the practical options to achieve that end. ” With China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicating there is no way green GDP data can be made public, and the report from the main green GDP study group […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts writes a report for Guardian Unlimited that Ai Weiwei, the well-known architectural designer of China, and the artist “who behind Beijing’s spectacular new Olympic stadium,” refuses to “do with the propaganda for which it will be used during next year’s games.” In an attack on the “disgusting” political conditions in the one-party state, […]
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