From BBC NEWS: A Chinese firm has unveiled plans for a luxury rail service between China’s main cities and Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. Backed by private Western investment, the service aims to launch in 2007, attracting both newly wealthy Chinese and overseas tourists. It has been made possible by the completion in October of the first […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China has revised upwards its official annual estimates for economic growth for every year but one in the decade to 2004, in line with the results of a nationwide economic census announced last December. The National Bureau of Statistics lifted the growth of GDP by an average of 0.5 per cent […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNet: A Chinese court sentenced three villagers for up to five years in prison on Monday for their roles in a violent protest over factory pollution, defence lawyers said. China has seen a surge of bitter, sometimes violent, protests over rampant official corruption, a widening wealth gap, pollution and land grabs. Official record […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: In the face of rising discontent over corruption, China’s senior Communist Party leaders called on members Saturday to work harder to stop bribery among businessmen and local officials in the country’s thousands of cities, counties and villages. The appeal, in a communique issued after a two-day meeting of the party’s Central […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail (registration required): China’s statistics used to be state secrets. That has been changing — but even now there are doubts about how reliable official numbers are. While some experts fear that data collection is simply not scientific enough, others argue that figures on China’s true population, economic growth rate and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s military has cut back its troops by 200,000, the official mouthpiece of the People’s Liberation Army said on Monday, reinforcing its high-tech military ambitions to overtake rival Taiwan.The Liberation Army Daily said the two-year programme to slim China’s military was finished on schedule at the end of 2005, and troop numbers were […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: Dongtan will be a relatively quiet place, where most of the noise will come from birdsong, laughter and music rather than the petrol or diesel engine,’ says Peter Head, the driving force behind the project. The Arup sustainable development expert was speaking in Shanghai last month at a meeting with Shanghai Industrial […]
Read MoreFrom The Star: A third consumption boom is in full swing in China, as consumers there loosened their purse strings, spurred by Government measures to boost their disposable incomes. Shanghai folks went on a shopping spree during the three-day New Year break. In those three days, residents and visitors to Shanghai spent 1.6 billion yuan […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Taiwan’s opposition leader has pledged to force the government to work towards direct transport links with China, in an attempt to grab the initiative on a policy the island’s president is also counting on to regain support. Ma Ying-jeou, chairman and presidential hopeful of the Kuomintang (KMT), the island’s largest opposition […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Daily Star: Two major new toxic spills in China have threatened water supplies for millions of residents, officials and state media said yesterday, as local governments took emergency measures. In the eastern province of Shandong a 60 kilometer-long (37 mile) diesel oil slick flowing down the Yellow River, China’s second longest […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: In the space of about a decade, China’s tech development has raced ahead to catch up with some of the most advanced countries in the West. But there are still stark differences, finds Richard Taylor. With a rapidly expanding online population, it is tempting to see China as hurtling full speed towards […]
Read MoreFrom The Harpers, via A Glimpse of the World: On the flight from Newark to Beijing, I read the following small item in the China Daily: According to media reports, several air conditioner installers have fallen to their deaths in the last couple of days in Beijing alone. As the sweltering summer heat sweeps the […]
Read MoreFrom The Chinese News Monthly, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: There was a huge mining disaster on August 7 this year in Xingning (Guangdong), with 123 mine workers losing their lives in this tragedy. As time moves on, the mining disaster is fading in people’s minds, but the aftershocks have not ended. In order to keep the […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: A man named Jiang Qing recently made himself a target of criticism by advocating reviving Confucianism as a religion. Known as a conservative Confucian, Jiang retired from his teaching post in Shenzhen four years ago, and now focuses on Confucianism in mountainous Guizhou Province. Jiang has astonished many of his opponents, […]
Read MoreFrom Chron.com: China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic spill that flowed into Russia, reports said Sunday. The pollution control effort will cover the […]
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