From Asia Times: “Chinese president and party chief Hu Jintao has long called for greater discipline within the Communist Party; more accountability, transparency, democracy – and an all-out war on corruption. It won’t happen overnight, and there’s a lot of resistance from vested interests. An amendment to the party constitution would be required in order […]
Read MoreVia China Study Group, Beijing Review had an interesting article by Tang Yuankai. The article talked about “many enterprises in China face the hurdle of how to break out of the ‘family system’ and establish a modern corporate system.”
Read MoreFrom SCMP (via:China Study Group): “Almost 800,000 Shanghai residents will have to move from downtown to the suburbs to make way for new development. It is expected that by 2010—when Shanghai is scheduled to host the World Expo—some 760,000 residents will have moved from the city’s outer ring-road. ”
Read MoreThis article from China Daily gave more information about the new rules regarding foreign investment in Chinese media: “Warner (China) also revealed that the joint venture will make two to three movies and one TV series every year for the next five years. The production company will mainly produce Chinese language movies and TV series. […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “China has sacked at least one Communist Party official and suspended work on a controversial dam after one of the largest rural protests in recent years. Tens of thousands of farmers staged violent protests over the Pubugou dam project, in Sichuan province. ”
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: “A recent newsletter from the management consultancy firm McKinsey presents three points of view on one of the hottest topics of debate: “China and India: The Race to Growth.” . The contributors – a Harvard University professor and two McKinsey consultants – appear to agree on very little except that the […]
Read MoreFollowing the incident involving a Chinese submarine’s intrusion into Japanese waters, the Asahi Shimbun has written an editorial calling on Prime Minister Koizumi to meet with President Hu during the APEC meetings in Santiago, Chile: “If Japan is to expand its economic relationship with China in a stable manner, exchanges of views at summit talks […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: “China will let foreign investors take stakes in television production companies for the first time, widening access for Viacom Inc., Walt Disney Co. and other media companies in the world’s biggest TV market by viewers. The new policy, to take effect Nov. 28, will allow foreigners to own as much as 49 percent […]
Read MoreAs the Chinese government plans to reform the shangfang, or petition, system, some experts believe that, despite the system’s failings, it is still necessary as the legal system cannot withstand the high levels of discontent among the population. The South China Morning Post (via China Study Group) quotes a Qinghua scholar: “”Let’s look at the […]
Read MoreChina is now preparing two major technological projects that will provide detailed surveillance information of the land and people. “Digital China,” which is written into China’s 10th five year plan, will create an electronic map of the entire country. “Electronic maps of the country are only the basic framework of Digital China,’” [Wu Wenzhong] said. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinahua today: “Nearly 10 percent of Chinese Internet users switched e-mail accounts from June to August this year because the service providers offered bigger storage, according to a survey made by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). About 33.8 percent of Chinese Internet users got new e-mail accounts in the three months before […]
Read MoreFrom AP (via USA Today): “Despite a thriving economic partnership, political ties between Japan and China are at their lowest ebb in years. The two countries are locked in disputes over World War II history, natural gas exploration and now a bold incursion by a Chinese nuclear submarine. The troubles have blocked a meeting between […]
Read MoreVia China Study Group, the South China Morning Post reported that “China has only 1 per cent of the world’s reserves of natural gas, usually found in tandem with crude oil. But trapped amid the mainland’s massive coal reserves, the third-largest in the world, are pockets of methane that can be consumed just like natural […]
Read More(AFP Photo) Vai Yahoo News, from AFP: “Global environmental group Greenpeace accused a Singapore-based multinational pulp and paper company of illegal logging and rampant forest destruction in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. Asia Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd (APP) was flouting China’s forestry law and was preparing to sow destruction to Yunnan forests by replacing natural […]
Read MoreFrom Kaumudi online: “India and China will hold the fourth round of talks to resolve the vexed boundary issue this week, official sources said on Tuesday.”
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