Photo: Smokestacks dirty the air in rural China
Smokestacks dirty the air in rural China, by Dan Eckstein
Read MoreChina’s Green Debt – Pan Yue
Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, writes for Project Syndicate (via A Glimpse of the World blog): For a decade, the world has wondered when China’s leaders will recognize the staggering environmental crisis confronting their country. This year, we got an answer: a new Five-Year Plan that makes environmental protection a […]
Read MoreBaidu vs. Google – David Greising
From The Chicago Tribune: Baidu has virtually copied Google’s clean-screen look, but the rest of the Baidu game plan is original. It plays to nationalist advantage by attacking Google as a foreign invader. It promotes itself in such splashy ways as a huge neon sign on the banks of the Pearl River in Shanghai. And […]
Read MoreChina’s overtakes Japan on R&D – Geoff Dyer
From Financial Times: China has overtaken Japan to become the second biggest spender on research and development behind the US, a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development revealed. The country is expected to invest $136bn in research and development this year after growing by more than 20 per cent in the past […]
Read MoreChina to Ease Restrictions on Foreign Journalists for ’08 Summer Olympics – Jehangir Pocha
From the Boston Globe: Press freedom got a new — but temporary — boost in China yesterday when the government announced that it would allow foreign journalists greater autonomy in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Foreign journalists usually need permission from Chinese authorities before conducting interviews and traveling anywhere outside the city where they […]
Read MorePaulson Reaches out to China – Eoin Callan
From Financial Times: Hank Paulson, US treasury secretary, will on Monday begin a series of discussions with industry leaders to hammer out the Bush administration’s policy towards China ahead of a high-level delegation to Beijing next week. The former head of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, will on Monday meet executives from manufacturing companies, including […]
Read MoreImports Spurring Push to Subsidize Produce – Alexei Barrionuevo
From The New York Times For decades, the fiercely independent fruit and vegetable growers of California, Florida and other states have been the only farmers in America who shunned federal subsidies, delivering produce to the tables of millions of Americans on their own. But now, in the face of tough new competition primarily from China, […]
Read MoreFormer Provincial Party Official Goes On Trial – China Economic Net
From Xinhua via the China Economic Net: Wang Zhaoyao (ÁéãÊò≠ËÄÄ), former deputy secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), went on trial on corruption charges on Wednesday. Wang also took advantage of his position to promote his wife and his wife’s brothers to senior positions in local government departments. […]
Read MoreTwo kids sitting on a tractor in an unknown village, via blog.sohu.com.
Two kids sitting on a tractor in an unknown village, via blog.sohu.com
Read MoreYunnan ties marriage to HIV tests – China Daily
From China Daily: A Chinese province which has been ravaged by AIDS plans to force all couples in the worst-hit areas to take compulsory HIV tests before being married, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The results of the free tests in Yunnan, obligatory from Jan. 1, will be given by health authorities […]
Read MorePoor Rural Elderly Deserve Attention – China Daily
From China Daily: A 71-year-old vagrant who sought to spend his remaining years in prison has aroused widespread concern over the well-being of China’s 120 million elderly people, particularly the 90 million in rural areas who often fall through the welfare safety net. With no home and no money, Li Zhaokun decided prison was the […]
Read MoreLiving Memories of Bound Feet, War and Chaos in China – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: AT ages 84 and 83, Wang Zaiban and Wu Xiuzhen are old women, and their feet are historical artifacts. They are among the dwindling number of women in China from the era when bound feet were considered a prerequisite for landing a husband. No available man, custom held, could resist […]
Read MoreA Blame Game China Needs to Stop – Elizabeth Economy
From The Washington Post: Last month the International Energy Agency announced that China would probably surpass the United States as the world’s largest contributor of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 2009, more than a full decade earlier than anticipated. This forecast could spur China to adopt tough new energy and environmental standards, but it […]
Read MoreExpert Warns China to Act or Suffer Consequences of Climate Change – Benjamin Robertson (Updated)
From VOA News: Rising emissions of so-called “greenhouse gases” like carbon dioxide threaten to warm the planet, changing weather patterns and melting polar ice caps. Author and economist Nicholas Stern says China needs to become a “key player” in averting this scenario, or it will suffer, too. “If global warming was left uncontrolled, there would […]
Read MoreAn old man is cutting firewood preparing for his lunch, via fengniao.com.
An old man is cutting firewood preparing for his lunch, via fengniao.com
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