From the Guardian: Elsewhere in the country, the annual average disposable income of urban dwellers only recently passed $1,000 (about ¬£530). In the countryside, the figure is two thirds lower. But Huaxi’s residents get a yearly salary of $1,500, a bonus of $10,000 and dividends of $25,000. Twenty years ago, most were farmers living in […]
Read MoreIn a special report “on how China is transforming the world’s economy,” Time Asia has published several stories on the rising consumer class in China, the impact of China’s admission to the WTO, the potential of China to become a laboratory of the world, and more. Links to all stories are here: China’s not a […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: Only 10 per cent of the waste water in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is being treated because of a lack of processing plants. More than 40 species of fish are said to have disappeared from local rivers in recent years because of the pollution.
Read MoreOn History News Network, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom writes: Western reports on the recent anti-Japanese protests by Chinese students have often stressed the need to pay attention to one sort of historical issue: ongoing controversies related to Japan’s treatment of its World War II atrocities. But to make sense fully of what has been going on […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Formerly called Qingdao Refrigerator Co., the firm was more than $10 million in debt in the early 1980s. Today Haier is one of the world’s top five producers of household appliances, with 30,000 employees and more than $12 billion in revenue. CEO Zhang joined the company in 1984, when he was 35. An […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The US-based Clinton Foundation will help Yunnan Province in its battle against HIV/AIDS during the next three years. The foundation will focus its resources on anti-retroviral drug treatment and upgrading an AIDS laboratory. Representatives of the Clinton Foundation and Yunnan health department officials discussed details of cooperation in AIDS prevention and treatment […]
Read MoreFrom Quill Magazine, blogger Joseph Bosco writes: When a free press becomes a reality in China ” and it surely will ” it will come after countless small victories and even more tragic sacrifices by brave, persistent souls. This is a story about one of the small victories. Just as I was wrapping up the […]
Read MoreFrom english.eastday.com: China’s central bank is unwilling to pay off large debts owned by bankrupt financial companies and is working on related financial provisions, its Vice Governor Xiang Junbo was quoted by the Economic Reference as saying. China’s stock markets, which have been bearish since 2001, have triggered the closing of some securities firms, including […]
Read MoreFrom United Press International: Senior officials from China’s water resources ministry warned Friday that mounting water shortages are impacting the country’s economic and social development. At present, more than 400 out of 660 Chinese cities suffer water shortages, with the situation described by the China Daily as “very bad” in more than 100 places, including […]
Read MoreFrom The LA Times: When Li Xuanyao, a student at Beijing’s No. 55 Middle School, wants to learn about the Great Leap Forward, she has her work cut out for her. Mao Tse-tung’s disastrous 1950s policy, which saw 30 million Chinese die of starvation, is relegated to a few paragraphs in her 163-page history textbook. […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China’s reform and opening up has not only brought about great changes to the economy and society, but also transformed Chinese marriages and family structure in an unprecedented way. Population expert Tang Can believes that in the last thirty years Chinese families have shown diversified patterns. The scale of family is […]
Read MoreFrom The Business – Europe’s Global Business News: China’s explosive growth is testing the managerial competence of the relatively new leadership in Beijing. Some of the problems are the result of poor planning; others stem from the mainland’s expansion rate, which, despite attempts to cool it, still tops 9%. The population is ageing, the number […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: President Chen Shui-bian‘s new willingness to reconsider his long-standing drive for Taiwanese independence has provoked charges of betrayal and risked alienation of his core supporters. Following his election five years ago, Chen consistently encouraged loyalists’ hopes that he would one day turn Taiwan, which China still claims, into a fully independent […]
Read MoreFuzi (Confucius) Temple was originally built in 1034 during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Now the temple and the nearby streets are a hot tourist spot in Nanjing.
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Few Westerners have heard of the Uygurs, a proud, Turkic-speaking people descended from nomads, who today scratch out a living in the rugged mountains and deserts of landlocked Xinjiang province. But supporters see them as a prime example of a beleaguered population caught in the crunch between the vaunted worldwide drive for […]
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