Zhou Shengxian, head of SEPA, has been popping up all over the media landscape after making a statement to the 10th session of the National People’s Congress about the need for more concentration on environmental issues. The latest from Reuters via Planet Ark (link): “Scientific approach to development” might seem like at empty slogan, but […]
Read MoreThe minority people on Daliang mountain Sichuan Province, exchanging goods on market day, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link) China plans to set up 100 state-level engineering laboratories in five years in an effort to push forward innovation of enterprises that used to import advanced technologies, a senior official announced Friday in Beijing. The labs will cover biology, metallurgy and many other sectors, said Zhang Xiaoqiang, deputy director with […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily (link): China’s political advisors have proposed to print the head portraits of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, forerunner of China’s democratic revolution, and Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of China’s reform and opening-up, on the bank notes of the Chinese currency, the Renminbi (RMB) or yuan. “Dr. Sun had led the democratic revolution which toppled […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian (link) The Chinese rice paddy embodies the country’s cultural heartland, much like the bush does in Australia. But unlike Australia’s population – one of the world’s most heavily urban – two of every three Chinese still live in rural areas. The opening week of China’s annual parliamentary session has demonstrated the “fourth […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link) Wu Renbao saw the future of his little village long ago, and it worked. It worked so well that Huaxi has become the richest village in China. As a result, Huaxi has been cited by Communist Party leaders as an example of what they mean when they vow to build […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Long Yongtu, the diplomat who negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation, has urged western governments to stop politicising trade and start telling their voters the truth about globalisation. He said that some politicians in Europe and North America had been blaming China for problems in their own economies […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): An underground video sweeping Chinese cyberspace has half the country cracking up. Titled “A Murder Caused by Mantou,” the video is a spoof of a new film, “The Promise,” by famed director Chen Kaige. Using satiric elements similar to Monty Python and the Simpsons, the spoof has flooded cyberspace […]
Read MoreMigrant construction workers waiting for their unpaid wages before Spring Festival, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily (link): The soft power mainly constitutes of culture, values and policy. With rich connotation, the Chinese culture is quite attractive to foreigners and the excellent tradition that treasures peace as the most precious is widely appreciated. China adapts to the world trend and has put up forward the ideas of taking the […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News (link): Investors in BHP Billiton Ltd. have a glitter in their eye when they look upon China, the superhot market that’s making the world’s largest diversified resources company ever richer. From iron ore to copper to oil, the global boom in commodities prices has thundered along at a historic pace in recent […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): In the fight against corruption and other job-related crimes, Chinese courts convicted six provincial and ministerial officials to prison in 2005, the same as in 2004, while much more lower level officials were given criminal penalty, chief justice Xiao Yang said Saturday. Courts across the country heard 24,277 cases of embezzlement, bribery […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent (link): China’s spectacular economic boom will mean the death of its major economic and maritime hub, the Bohai sea, unless action is taken to stop industrial pollution of its waters, environmental advisers said yesterday. The warnings, yet another example of the crisis gripping the world’s fastest-growing major economy, come as China tries […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post (link): Regional tensions. Diplomatic consequences. Security threats. Those were the fears when China’s parliament passed a law last year authorising the use of force against Taiwan should the self-governing island move toward formal independence. But a year later, as the rubber-stamp assembly meets once again for its annual 10-day […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link) To promote meticulosity in meting out capital punishment, top judge Xiao Yang said Saturday that Chinese courts will start from this year to open court sessions when hearing death sentence trials in second instance, after taking steps to retrieve the power of death penalty review from provincial courts. “As of […]
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