photo: Two old women heading to The Potala Palace in Tibet, via www.fengniao.com.
Two old women heading to The Potala Palace in Tibet, via www.fengniao.com
Read Morephoto: A girl selling beans on a street in Anshun, Guizhou province, via www.fengniao.com.
A girl selling beans on a street in Anshun, Guizhou province, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreNew Oriental School Listed Stock at NYSE
From Sina Sci-Tech, translated by CDT: New Oriental School/Êñ∞‰∏úÊñπÂ≠¶Ê†°((NOS) listed its stock to New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) on Sep. 7th, raising fund of USD112.5 million dollars. It was the first private Chinese educational organization offshore appeared on NYSE market. NOS is the most influencial and largest oversea English test training center in China, like an […]
Read MorePhoto series: Li Zijian’s oil painting “Nanjing Massacre” – Sina.com
From Sina.com: This oil painting, named “Nanjing massacre“, consists of three parts–“slaughter”, “rebirth” and “Buddha”. The main part of the painting is the mountain of bodies. The left part, “slaughter,” shows two Japanese military officers standing with a smile and one of them rubbing blood off the sword. The middle part, “rebirth,” shows a child […]
Read MoreChina loses 600 billion yuan every year to illegal betting
From AsiaNews.it: In recent years, illegal gambling fever has gripped the Chinese people, who are drawn by the hope of easy and quick gains, but also enmeshed in a morbid passion. During the World Cup of football in Germany, the value of bets placed was estimated to be between 50 and 100 billion yuan, a […]
Read MorePhoto series: old China covers of Time (2/2) – CRI online
From CRI online: This is Sept. 23, 1985 cover of Time magazine, headlined “China Moving Away From Marx.” It compares the different life styles in Mao‘s and Deng‘s times. The left shows demonstrators upholding portrait of Marx and peasants planting rice seedlings. The right illustrates busy office workers, high-rise buildings, hamburgers, cameras, etc. [Click to […]
Read More“Still Life” premiered at Venice – CRI English
From CRI English via Xinhua News Agency: Chinese director Jia Zhangke‘sÔºàË¥æÊ®üÊüØԺ⠓Sanxia HaorenÔºà‰∏âÂ≥°Â•Ω‰∫∫Ժ┠(Still Life) was screened at Venice Film Festival Wednesday. Besides, Jia’s another film “DongÔºà‰∏úԺ┠has also been included in Horizons session at the festival. “Still Life” was shot in the old village of Fengjie, which has been destroyed by the building of […]
Read MoreContainment with Chinese Characteristics – Christopher Griffin
From Asian Outlook: Although China and India have announced that their relationship is important enough to “reshape the world,” Beijing views its increasingly important ties with Delhi as a means to manage India’s growing strength. China has combined traditional strategic balancing and diplomatic engagement in an effort to set its own terms for India’s emergence […]
Read MoreVenture Capital Flowing to China Doubled in Three-Month Period – Sai Man
From The Wall Street Journal: Venture-capital investment in China doubled to US$480 million in the three months ended June from US$239 million in the year-earlier period, a new report said Thursday. The dollar value of total deals for the quarter was the highest in 2¬Ω years, and the number of transactions, 54, was the highest […]
Read MoreZhang Yimou’s New Film Reveals Softer Side Of China – New America Media
From New America Media: As China continues its economic transformation and materialism runs rampant, acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou offers an antidote to big city distractions. In his new film “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (ÂçÉÈáå˵∞ÂçïÈ™ë),” Zhang returns to his spare, emotional palette with a focus on human relationships. He offers a glimpse into […]
Read MoreAnniversaries and reflections in China
September 9 will be the 30th anniversary of Mao Zedong‘s death, and this year also marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Cultural Revolution. Both anniversaries have been written about prolifically in the western press. John Pomfret comments on the Cultural Revolution in today’s Washington Post, while Lindsay Beck of Reuters writes about […]
Read MoreChina 2004 pollution clean-up cost put at $136bln – Ben Blanchard
Revived talk of Green GDP with a Reuters story on a new report from the State Environmental Protection Agency: It would cost China about $136 billion, close to 7 percent of GDP, to clean up all the pollution pumped out in the country just in 2004, the national environmental protection watchdog said on Thursday. A […]
Read MoreGap between eastern and western China still increasing, says official – China Dialogue
From China Dialogue: China’s national strategy to develop the country’s western region has led to great progress, but the gap between eastern and western China is still increasing, said Wang Jinxiang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Statistics show that the GDP generated by the country’s western region in 2005 doubled since […]
Read MoreNo room for Shangri-la in China – Willam M. Reilly
From UPI: What one generally regards as modern China and its pollution-belching factories dotting the landscape hardly seems to have room for the nostalgic notion of a Shangri-la. Do not forget the ancient and the future reside side-by-side in China. In Beijing and eastern China in general it is not uncommon to go for days […]
Read MoreScientist: biotechnology to account for 5 pct of China’s GDP in 2020
From People’s Daily: A leading Chinese life scientist estimated that the output of China’s biotechnology industry will hit two trillion yuan (250 billion U.S. dollars), or 5 percent of GDP, in 2020. China would enter the top five countries in the world in terms of biotechnology industry scale, Zhang Yaping/º†‰∫öÂπ≥Ôºå a member of the Chinese […]
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