From Financial Times: China’s economy is estimated to have expanded 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2006, with nominal growth at 12.6 per cent, the country’s tax chief said on Wednesday. The figures, announced a day before the scheduled official release of 2006 GDP data, showed the economy slowed slightly from the blistering growth […]
Read MoreFrom the Star Online: The Chinese government will allow only shows it deems “inspiring” to be aired domestically, beginning in February. “The country’s TV stations should only screen ethically inspiring TV series during primetime,” an executive from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television said. “This year will be a special year for all […]
Read MoreFrom Al Jazeera: The European Union has become the latest voice to express concern over China’s test of an anti-satellite weapon and the risks of an arms race in space. A statement from the Germany, which holds the rotating EU presidency, warned the test could be seen as a provocative step leading to the militarisation […]
Read MoreRecent Beijing Review magazine’s top story on China’s journey to solve energy shortage but face another challenge – food security: Yushu City (ʶÜʆë) in northeast Jilin Province has been the country’s top grain producer for the last three years, yielding a total of around 2.4 million tons of grain every year, of which 1.8 million […]
Read MoreAn old lady cooking dumplings for her son, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreNo time for celebration yet. More tough road ahead. From Xinhua via Beijing Review (chart: China’s energy efficiency investment declined as a proportion of total energy investment, via Lawrence Berkeley National Lab): China saw its energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) value drop from the third quarter of 2006, the first fall […]
Read MoreA fun life-journal piece from the Christian Science Monitor about getting a driver’s license for a foreigner: The Chinese authorities make it both easy and hard to get a license. Easy, because if you already have a foreign license, you don’t have to take the practical test and also (and this is a BIG easy) […]
Read MoreFrom China Law Blog: Great article in today’s Wall Street Journal, entitled, “Why China Grows So Fast“. It is written by Michael Spence, a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor emeritus of management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and chairman of the independent […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China could soon overtake the US to have the world’s largest number of internet users, according to a state-controlled think-tank. “We believe it will take two years at most for China to overtake the US,” an official at the China Internet Network Information Center told state media. China had 137m internet users […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Economists struggling for a fix on the trajectory of China’s economy this year have focused on traditional drivers of growth, such as exports, investment and even consumer spending. But most have ignored what may be the key propellant pushing output higher – top-level politics, in the form of the impending Communist party […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Fines imposed on Chinese who violate the country’s one-child-only policy may be reduced for the poor, a top family planning official said Tuesday, as authorities stressed a broader approach to population management. The announcement came a day after state media reported that many Chinese believe it is unfair that the wealthy […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth blog: I found some funny pictures on the blog. Now I know why more and more foreigners are desperate to learn Chinese…English in China seems as hardly understandable as Chinese… In the bad knock-off department Try it! We guarantee you won’t feel depressed anymore
Read MoreSouthern Weekend published an interview with SEPA vice-minister Pan Yue about the newly launched “environmental storm,” most of which has been translated by Three Gorges Probe. In the interview, Pan says: I have repeatedly stressed that the environment deteriorates because of officials’ skewed concept of political accomplishment. But now, powerful interest groups and officials’ distorted […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Wang Shuo (王朔) is a popular Chinese novelist. He is known as something of a rebel, perhaps the closest thing China has to a counter-cultural icon. His works include novels, TV shows and movies. Most of them were...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: China said on Tuesday it had shot down one of its own satellites, confirming U.S. reports, but denied it was threatening an arms race in space. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said he knew of no plans for a second test, adding his government had briefed the United States, Japan […]
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