Much praise has been showered on China’s passing of its first private property law. Is it time now for one on virtual properties? From Virtual China (photo: QQ dolls via chinanews.com.cn): CNNIC reports that 61% of gamers have had virtual assets stolen and 77% feel that the current online atmosphere is unsafe for virtual assets. […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: The buoyant China stock market has become the world’s sixth largest – displacing Hong Kong – after mainland shares extended their spectacular gains in the past month. The combined market capitalization of the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses, including A shares and B shares, reached 13.95 trillion yuan (HK$14.106 trillion) Tuesday after the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: In China, even when you’re an elf, the authorities want to know who you are. Under a “real name verification system” to crack down on internet usage – and prevent internet addiction among the young – Chinese police are to check the identity card numbers of all would-be players of internet games. […]
Read MoreThe Peering into the Interior blog has translated an article from Southern Metropolis Daily (original Chinese here) “which details how the government went about prosecuting with vigilance three mid-level party cadres who accused the local secretary of “losing the will of the people” after selling land for real estate development when it was was intended […]
Read MoreWang Lixiong is an author and independent thinker lives in Beijing. He published following essay on Boxun.com, translated by CDT: On the one hand the country must “stick to the Party’s leadership”, and on the...
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: Top Chinese universities did not make the first 100 on a list of research competitiveness of universities around the world. The highest ranked Chinese university on the list is Beijing University, at 192nd, followed by Tsinghua University, at 196th. Not surprisingly, Harvard University is the number one on the list, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The outdated hukou system has increasingly become one of the major obstacles to attaining social harmony in today’s China. China began to enforce the hukou system in 1953, shortly after the Communist Party came to power upon winning a civil war against the Kuomintang. A major purpose was to facilitate the implementation […]
Read MoreFrom FP Passport blog: The conventional wisdom about China’s government is that it is made up of pragmatists concerned mainly with encouraging economic growth and preserving their own power. The more ideological aspects tend to get ignored or discounted by outside observers as either cynical measures to maintain the fiction of communist beliefs or amusing […]
Read MoreU.S. News and World Report writes about a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations called “A New China Approach“: A Council on Foreign Relations task force report released Tuesday calls for a U.S. strategy founded on “further integrating China into the global community,” a goal it describes as offering “the best hope of […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Japan: Officials said Wen and his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will preside over the establishment of a high-level economic dialogue to better manage a fast-growing trade relationship that surpassed $200 billion in 2006 and is vital to the economies of both their nations. […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: The ding-dong from the neo-Gothic church next door signals to Wu Yuqing that it’s time to wake up. On her way to the grocery store each day, she walks past the Cob Gate Fish & Chip shop and bronze statues of Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale and William Shakespeare. Tall men decked out […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The naked Chinese migrant workers were dangling on hooks and ropes from a ceiling in north-east Beijing until a few months ago, when they were bundled up in bubble wrap, crammed into a container and shipped off to London. They are not desperate Chinese peasants seeking illegal entry into the UK. Far […]
Read MoreIn the March 25 issue of Phoenix Weekly, an “anonymous” ex-inmate recounts life in the Chinese prison system: Prisoners who’ve just gone in will get a hazing from long-time inmates. Normally, the block monitor himself – the group leader of the cell – will dress them down, and there are all sorts of ways of […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Reports that more than 10 percent of China’s farmland has been polluted has prompted the first soil survey in the country to ensure food safety. Sources with the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said the inspection, which started in July last year, focuses on soil quality in some main grain-producing and industrial […]
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