From Bloomberg: China’s economic growth will fall to about 8 percent in 2006 from 9 percent this year as domestic demand declines, the World Bank predicted today. The quarterly report from the Washington-based lender attributed the slower expansion rate partly to factors affecting China’s exports, including lower projected world trade growth, to 6.4 percent this […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: The grisly turn of events has become all too predictable: A disclosure that dozens, scores, sometimes hundreds of Chinese coal miners are trapped in a shaft deep underground. A grueling wait by family members. Allegations of safety violations and corruption amid calls for reform. Then a few weeks’ break until […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: When Deng Xiaoping opened up China’s economy more than 25 years ago, the prevailing view in much of the West was that his reforms signaled the beginning of the end for the country’s authoritarian regime. This prediction was not specific to China. Conventional wisdom at the time held – and […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post (via Asia Media) has reported on an open letter by China Youth Daily editor Li Datong to the paper’s staff: A veteran editor of the outspoken China Youth Daily has taken the newspaper’s...
Read MoreFor China Digital Times’ new feature, CDT Bookshelf, we will invite China experts to recommend their favorite China-related books to our readers. To read the current recommendations, click on the CDT Bookshelf section of the site. We will periodically post new recommendations, which will appear in the left-hand column of the front page. We hope […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse, via Asia Times: China is gearing up to develop clean energy by using nuclear, wind and solar sources to generate power in order to cut reliance on coal and oil, said a senior official from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). “The government is vigorously making efforts to tap clean energies […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: Toiling in the tropical summer heat, Chen Yan-hai has made a living for the past 40 years by plucking red and yellow mangoes from the orchard-dotted foothills of Taiwan’s central mountain range. But he and other farmers in the mango capital of Yuching in Tainan County have seen their […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: According Xinhua news, formal charges of corruption have been filed against Huang Jin’gao, the former Party Secretary of Lianjiang County in Fujian Province who publicized corruption in his region last year. The charges were filed in the Nanping Middle People’s Court on August 3rd, 2005, accusing him, among other things, of illegally accepting […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, via ABCNews.com: Women like Hung make up almost 20 percent of the country’s entrepreneurs, according to the China Association of Women Entrepreneurs. They’re attracted, experts say, by an atmosphere that measures them largely by results rather than gender, by the allure of calling the shots, and by the chance to […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The world’s attention has been focused on China in the past month because of the aborted bid by China National Offshore Oil Corp. to take over the American company Unocal, and the July 21 “repeg” of China’s currency, the yuan. But three other recent developments are much more important, because […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China is one of the most savings-oriented nations in the world: total personal savings deposits amount to over 12 trillion yuan (US$1.48 trillion), or around 50% of income. For thousands of years people have been accustomed to putting money under the mattress, and the intermediating role of a banking system has […]
Read MoreA construction worker working on The Drum Tower, Beijing, by Zhang Chuandong, via Chinesenewsnet.com.
Read MorePlaying games in a Beijing alleyway, thanks to 21mm for the photo.
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Washington Post correspondent John Pomfret recommends Prisoner of Mao, by Bao Ruo-wang (Jean Pasqualini), 326 pages, Penguin (out of print but easily available on any old books site on the Internet). Pomfret writes: “It is […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, recommends “The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future,” by Elizabeth C. Economy, Council on Foreign Relations […]
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