During the Great Leap Forward, irrigation efforts attempted to make China’s dry western regions into arable land. But farmers are losing the battle against the deserts, which now cover one-third of the country. From AP: In a problem that is pervasive in much of China, over-farming has drawn down the water table so low that […]
Read MoreAs housekeepers, migrant workers and even monks join investors flooding China’s markets, regulators and experts who fear a bubble burst are seeking cures for stock fever. From Caijing.com.cn: China’s finance ministry struck at midnight May 29, while most traders were fast asleep, with an announcement that sent share prices tumbling on the Shanghai and Shenzhen […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: CVRD, the Brazilian mining group, is having the world’s largest ore carriers built to export iron ore to China as the latter’s insatiable demand for the raw materials to produce steel has pushed freight rates through the roof. The company, which last summer won the battle for Canada’s Inco with a bid […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China will begin to feel the pain of labor shortages nationwide in the next couple of years – much earlier than previously forecast – as the country’s seemingly ample supply of rural migrant workers dries up, according to the latest studies by state think-tanks. This will make a significant impact, forcing China’s […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Wahaha , China’s largest drinks maker, is to go to arbitration in a trademark dispute with its French food partner, Danone , over who owns the Wahaha brand. Wahaha is one of China’s best-known brands of bottled water and drinks. Hangzhou Wahaha Group agreed in 1996 to transfer the Wahaha brand to […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s banking regulator has punished eight banks for illicity lending money to two state bodies that invested the cash in the stock and property markets. The China National Nuclear Corporation and China Shipping Group illegally used the billions of yuan loaned to them. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) has now punished […]
Read MoreFrom Engaging China: Kelly Services ,a leading US recruitment firm, has acquired P-Serv , a Chinese company specialising in temporary and permanent staffing and executive search. Established in 1990, P-Serv has offices in HK, Singapore and seven China cities — Chengdu, NanChang, Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. As part of Kelly’s deal, Paul Ng, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chinese housing prices rose in May by 6.4 per cent, the fastest year-on-year monthly increase in 18 months, in the latest sign that the economy is outpacing both the government’s and the market’s expectations. The World Bank and Morgan Stanley in recent days have revised upwards their growth forecasts for 2007 to […]
Read MoreDanwei has translated a report from China Newsweek about the use of SMS in the Xiamen PX protests: The last issue of China Newsweek (11 June) featured in-depth reports on a number of major events related to government transparency and crisis management – the Xiamen PX demonstrations, the Taihu Lake pollution affair, and the cause […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a lengthy investigation by CCTV into the Shanxi brick kiln case, in which the foreman of the kiln is interviewed and describes the beatings of workers “a fairly small thing.” ESWN has also included translations of articles on the case from Southern Metropolis Daily and Southern Weekend. From the CCTV transcript: Feng […]
Read MoreFollowing the arrests of several prominent political figures over the past year — including Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu, the head of the State Statistical Bureau, the vice mayor of Beijing, and Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the Food and Drug Administration, who was sentenced to death for corruption — Asia Sentinel asks if the crackdown […]
Read MoreFrom Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability’s website: On 11 January 2007, the PRC successfully tested a direct-ascent, kinetic-kill anti-satellite (ASAT) vehicle, destroying an inactive Chinese Feng Yun 1C (FY-1C) weather satellite (launched in 1999). The satellite was in a polar orbit, at an altitude of 865 km (537 miles), and was attacked when it […]
Read MoreFrom The Brookings Institution’s website: In March 2008 Taiwan will hold its fourth direct presidential election. Although the election is still nine months away the campaign for nomination is well over two years old. By late May 2007, the nomination process for the two main parties was completed. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will […]
Read MoreFrom Chinascope: The June 2007 issue of Qiushi magazine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China published an article by Ma Xiaotian, President of the PLA National Defense University. The article states that the People’s Liberation Army “is the military force that carries out the Party’s political tasks.” The article calls for […]
Read MoreProfessor Jiang Ping, of China University of Political Science and Law, is China’s leading legal scholar. This article is translated by Nicki Dabney and Guanhui Dai. The original was published in the magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu and can be found here. From China Elections and Governance: When researching legal systems, the question of socialism always arises. […]
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