Qi Xu is a journalist for China Environmental Times. The following article is translated by ChinaDialogue: Soil contamination has grown unnoticed across China’s landscape. Now, reports Qi Xu, a major geochemical survey is under way, designed to diagnose the extent and severity of the problem. Food safety is a basic need for any population, yet […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Land expropriation is the most frequent subject of petitions made by Chinese farmers, with complaints about village finances and environmental pollution coming second and third, a senior agriculture official said in Beijing on Tuesday. Chen Xiwen, director of the office of the central leading group on rural work, said that government officials […]
Read MoreFrom the Star: Something bothered me about the People’s Congress sessions in Beijing and Shanghai. In both cities, skyrocketing housing prices are, as reflected in the Chinese language press, one of the biggest issues that local legislators complain about. But frankly, in neither city can the municipal administration come up with a clear statement about […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: If statistics released by the China Home Electronics Association are to be believed, around 150 million home appliances, including TV sets, washing machines, refrigerators, air-conditioners and computers, are discarded every year in the country, besides an unknown amount of other electronic items. Besides, according to a report by the Beijing-based Science and Technology […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: The Supreme People’s Court of China issued a wide-ranging circular stressing the need to protect the rights of individuals including peasants, laborers, employees and creditors in order to build a more harmonious society. All courts in the country need to actively work toward a harmonious society by protecting people’s interests and reducing instability […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: In a move aimed at regaining the trust of China’s restless 800 million farmers, the Government is to extend nationwide a pilot scheme in wealthy Guangdong province whereby farmers receive a share of the profits from rural land given to developers for factories or housing. Chen Xiwen, director of the State Council’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Opposite End of China Blog: With little hope of generating enough profits to match a price tag of $3.7 billion, the rail line to Tibet that opened this past summer has generated a lot of scepticism about the motives of the Chinese government. Many have worried about the influx of tourist hordes into […]
Read MoreFrom Zee News: Global tourism hit a record high last year and China could soon surpass Spain as the world’s second most popular destination, after France, the UN world tourism organization said today. A 4.5 percent global rise in tourist numbers pushed the 2006 figure to a record 842 million, the Madrid-based United Nations agency […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Chinese President Hu Jintao will bring billions of dollars in investments and loans to eight African countries this week — his second trip to Africa in a year — in a bid to secure resources from oil to gold. He may also try to persuade Sudan’s Umar Hassan al-Bashir to accept UN peacekeepers […]
Read MoreBlooming internet cafe in China, via flickr shizukabazooka
Read MoreGaoming Jiang is a chief researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany and a doctoral candidate tutor, vice secretary-general of UNESCO’s China-MAB Committee and director of the China Environmental Culture Promotion Association. He is recognized for his introduction of the concepts of “urban vegetation” and “using natural forces to restore China’s ecosystems.” […]
Read MoreYu Chen is a reporter for the Guangdong-based daily newspaper, Southern Metropolitan News. The following article is translated by ChinaDialogue: An environmental crisis is unfolding in the cradle of Chinese civilisation, the Yellow River. Yu Chen travelled to the river’s upper reaches and found industrial pollution destroying the health of many locals. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom China Rights Forum, via Song & Silence: In 1997 I arrived on China’s southwest borders planning to spend a year researching ethnic minority folklore. The only problem, as I discovered when I arrived, was that there wasn’t any. Instead, government culture bureaus and Chinese entrepreneurs had turned the region into an adults-only playground for […]
Read MoreJianqiang Liu, born in 1969, is a senior reporter with Guangzhou-based weekly, Southern Weekend. He has a long-standing interest in environmental issues. The following article is translated by ChinaDialogue: The political will exists to combat China’s pollution, but collusion between business and local governments remains a major obstacle. In a new column for chinadialogue, Jianqiang […]
Read MoreFrom China National News: Taiwan has revised its high-school history textbooks to show that Taiwan is an independent country and not part of China, media reports said Monday. The China Times said that on the education ministry’s order, the title of the national history textbook for high-school – to be used after the winter vacation […]
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