From ChinaView.cn: Farmers should expect their income gap with urbanites to narrow in the years ahead, a senior agricultural policy-maker said yesterday in Beijing. Chen Xiwen, deputy director of the Office of Central Financial Work Leading Group, also said new trade barriers imposed by importing nations contributed to China’s staggering agricultural trade deficit last year. […]
Read MoreAlso from China Elections & Governance, article by Feng Danya; translation by Manfred Elfstrom: Editor’s note: Corruption is rampant in China’s healthcare system. Wu Guanzheng, a leading Party official, recently ranked the problem alongside illegal rural taxation, unpaid migrants’ wages and inflated school fees as an important focus for future anti-corruption efforts. Stories of SARS […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections & Governance, prepared by Manfred Elfstrom: A writer who dubs himself Xiang Tianxiao (“Laughing at Heaven”) has written a very personal account of grassroots democracy entitled A Township Cadre’s Journal of Appealing to the Government. The account, written, as the title suggests, in the form of a diary, revolves around elections held […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts reported on Zhao’s funeral, noting at the end that: “Earlier this month British Foreign Office officials refused to allow this reporter to ask a question at a Beijing press conference for Jack Straw because the topic – Zhao Ziyang – would offend the hosts. ” Earlier, he wrote an overview of Chinese media […]
Read MoreOn AsiaMedia, Patsy Rahn writes about efforts by Falun Gong to use the media to gain support for their cause: Given their goals, what kind of coverage might we expect to see in FLG media? Most importantly, FLG wants to be in the news — whatever keeps the group highly visible is successful. Reports on […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via Howard French’s A Glimpse of the World: Having become workshop to the world, is China poised to storm the bastions of its high-technology industries? Thanks partly to foreign expansion by Huawei, telecommunications equipment maker, and a few other Chinese companies, the idea is starting to be taken seriously abroad – […]
Read MoreFrom the Business Week Online: Rampant counterfeiting discourages both foreign and domestic outfits from investing in its economy — and that hurts growth Counterfeiting is big business, but China needs to protect an even bigger one: Future investment in its economy, both foreign and domestic. Always thinking ahead, Beijing’s leaders want state-of-the-art investments from foreign […]
Read MoreFrom the Christan Science Monitor: Wang Bei tried to attend former Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang’s funeral on Saturday. He even got an invitation from the Zhao family. But professor Wang, not a dissident and not even very well known, was stopped at his door by Chinese security, taken to a distant suburb – and only […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily Online: Chinese central authorities publicize on Monday a set of ideas set forth by the Communist Party of China (CPC) central Committee and the State Council, or the central government, on further strengthening the work in rural areas and raise overall agricultural production capacity. The ideas adopted by the CPC Central […]
Read MoreBlogger EWSN published an interesting post about publishing system in China: The following item appeared in Xinhua: Beijing citizens are reading more books than they have for years. The Beijing Publishing Authority says book sales in 2004 brought in over 13 billion Yuan. That means that each of the capital’s 13.5 million permanent residents spends […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: For farming families in the lush mountains of Fujian Province, the famous crop is oolong tea and the favorite source of labor is sons. The leafy bushes of tea fill the hillsides the same way young boys fill the village streets. There is such a glut of boys here: roughly […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview.cn: Agilent Technologies Inc, a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, vows to tap the lucrative local market by investing more than US$100 million in China over the next few years. “China represents significant growth opportunities for Agilent as it has become the second largest market for us,” said […]
Read MoreCDN received a submission of the following UPI article, written by Frank Braun: Sergio Gaudenzi, president of AEB, Brazil’s space agency, said his nation hopes to launch a Chinese-Brazilian satellite aboard a Ukrainian rocket from Brazil’s Alcantara launch center sometime after 2007. Brazil’s National Congress has recently approved a commercial treaty signed by Luiz In√ɬ°cio […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: China’s Communist Party has finally cremated its purged leader, Zhao Ziyang, with a condemnation of his “serious mistakes” over the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. But Mr Zhao has left an explosive political testament that may haunt his hardline successors. In a record of an interview in the middle of […]
Read MoreFrom Europaworld: Chinese and Indian farmers who have switched from synthetic fertilizers to traditional forms of organic farming have earned more and achieved a higher standard of living, even though small farmers are often excluded from supportive government reform programmes, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said this week.
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