Beijing needs cleaner air, more water, but more urgently perhaps, it needs to find where to dump its trash. Translated from Southern Weekend, (photo: the landfill site) via sina.com: Liu Ying (ÂàòËã±), a 30-year resident of Beijing’s northwestern Liulitun (ÂÖ≠Èáå±Ø), is often awakened by the smell of trash in the latter half of the night. […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: Not a hollow slogan, President Hu Jintao’s recent call for “liberation of thought” was clearly aimed at breaking limits of the political “left,” insisting on reform, opening China, and building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The late Deng Xiaoping would be proud. The June 25 speech delivered by President Hu Jintao has been a […]
Read MoreFrom SSRN: Abstract: Literature suggests two distinct paths to stock market development: an approach based on legal protections for investors, and an approach based on self-regulation of listed companies by stock exchanges. This paper traces China’s attempts to pursue both approaches, while focusing on the role of the stock exchanges as regulators. Specifically, the paper […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo.com: Eighty percent of illegal land use in China is due to corrupt local officials flouting regulations, state media said on Friday. China’s land ministry offered that figure in a plea to local governments to rein in rampant illegal development, saying it was contributing to a dwindling of the nation’s arable land, the China […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Economic Times: A Chinese company is suing Google Inc’s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the US search engine’s registered Chinese name is too similar to its own and has harmed its operations. A spokesman for Beijing Guge Science and Technology said Google’s commercial name had led to the company being […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s proliferation of unregulated investment advice companies and private “hedge funds” could be under threat after the arrest of a blogger whose online stock tips made his site one of the country’s most popular. Wang Xiujie, 35, was arrested in the north-eastern city of Changchun after an investigation into his unauthorised investment […]
Read MoreWei Jingsheng (È≠è‰∫¨Áîü) is one of China’s best-known democracy and human rights activists, now living in the U.S.. This article is based on his presentation at Living Without Freedom, May 5-6, 2007. From Foreign Policy Research Institute website: … During my 18 years in prison, I was kept in strictly solitary confinement for three years. […]
Read MoreFrom China Policy Institute website: … China has been reforming its SOE sector since 1984, as a key element in its urban economic reform. It has made tremendous achievements, but has also met crucial difficulties. The...
Read MoreTao Dongfeng (Èô∂‰∏úÈ£é) is a professor in the Chinese Department of Capital Normal University in Beijing. This article is translated and edited from the Chinese by UPI Asia Online: There have been a number of moves in China to force Internet users to reveal their real names online, rather than using a pseudonym. The latest […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In a further sign of the growing influence of the Internet in China, and growing fears about the technology among local party officials, authorities in the southern city of Xinyi apprehended three men accused of circulating “rumors” on the Internet about a serial rapist. Columnist and CMP fellow Yan Lieshan criticized […]
Read MoreJoseph Cirincione is Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at Center for American Progress. The following is his written testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at a hearing titled “China’s Proliferation and Impact of Trade Policy on Defense Industries in the United States and China.” From Center for American Progress website: […]
Read MoreThe Guardian follows up on the closure of China Development Brief: The publication’s role as a bridge between NGOs in China and the outside world may have raised the suspicions of the Communist government, which clamps down hard on any group that is in a position to link independent voices. China’s leadership is known to […]
Read MoreOn the Washington Post’s PostGlobal site, Chinese journalist Wang Feng writes in support of international pressure as a means to help China clean up its act in food production: The toothpaste saga is a textbook case of a public health and food safety crisis that wouldn’t have even raised eyebrows inside China, much less been […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Sociologist James Farrer recently attended a conference in Beijing on sexuality and its implications for human rights and civil society in China. Farrer, author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai, is associate professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, specializing in Chinese society. He speaks to Devin […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: The Chinese army is to take steps to ensure the safety of its food supply, due to fears unsafe products could harm combat capacity, state media reports. According to a circular, food suppliers will have to pass hygiene and safety checks, and units will be ordered to monitor the supply chain. [Full text]
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