Reuters reported today that “China’s economy expanded by 9.1 percent in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, marking the third consecutive quarter of slower growth as Beijing reins in breakneck investment and lending. Economists said a slew of data on Friday mostly showed evidence of a measured slowdown in growth in the world’s […]
Read MoreTim Luard wrote on BBC today: “As China gets richer and stronger, the world is coming to share its belief that it merits recognition and respect as a great power. Through a combination of economic dynamism, skilful diplomacy and understated threat, it is already regaining much of its old imperial supremacy across Asia. ” The […]
Read MoreFrom India’s The Statesman website: “It might well be true that the relationship with China has never been better. This is progress. The first choice must indeed be a peaceful, economically productive, relationship. Only if that is pursued will the atmosphere within China become conducive to improvements in justice, human rights and democratic participation. But […]
Read More“Some multinational corporations’ enterprises in China openly resist establishing trade unions, reports Legal Daily. With deepening of reform, the non-public economy in China has undergone rapid development, which gives rise to number of employees in foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises. By 2003, there are 734, 000 non-public enterprises in China with member of labor union […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing English Newsletter: “China passed its compulsory education law in 1986, but the simple 18-article, 1,800-word law has not done enough for the country’s compulsory education system, which covers students from grade one to nine. A 1992 reform of the law also did not improve the situation. The chief fault of the law is […]
Read MoreChina is taking steps to preserve Portuguese culture and language on Macao in an effort to bolster trade relations with Brazil and other countries in the Latin world, according to the IHT: “Five years ago, Portugal surrendered back to China this enclave of 26 square kilometers, or 10 square miles. Although Macao was the first […]
Read MoreAccording to China Daily: “The capital city’s family planning policy will not be readjusted, at least in the short term, officials from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Population and Family Planning confirmed yesterday. This is in response to circulated requests over whether Beijing will ease rules for couples who wish to have a second child.”
Read More“China’s mines are among the most deadly workplaces in the world with fatal accidents reported on an almost daily basis. Many deaths go unrecorded because mine owners fear being punished and local officials in poorer regions are keen to keep open what is often one of the few sources of employment. On top of that, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “China has formally arrested a New York Times researcher detained last month for passing state secrets to foreigners, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of death, his lawyer said on Thursday. ‘He was arrested yesterday, completely and formally arrested,’ lawyer Mo Shaoping said. ” The full article is here.
Read MoreZhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë) suffers from a glut of “high-end” office buildings, according to a Sohu.com article. Starting in 2001, a period of rapid construction in this high-tech zone resulted in glass and steel edifices “popping up like mushrooms.” These buildings have been marketed to large, multi-national corporations. Yet the Zhongguancun business community is still comprised primarily […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “Thirty-five years ago the population proportion of children and the aged was six to one. However, 35 years later the elderly population is two times greater than the number of children, according to an analysis of China’s population and economy by the China Business Times. Meanwhile, the aging problem has already become […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters today: “A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine in central China has killed at least 56 people and left scores missing, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. And in the southwest, six miners died from a gas leak in a grim reminder that the world’s biggest mining industry is also the […]
Read MoreJim Yardley reported on The New York Times: “Environmentalists in China who helped persuade Prime Minister Wen Jiabao earlier this year to suspend a dam project in southwest China are now fighting plans for another hydropower project they say would endanger one of the world’s deepest gorges and force the relocation of 100,000 people.” The […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters today: “Rioters in the western Chinese region of Chongqing burned police cars and looted government buildings after a quarrel between residents escalated into a riot involving thousands, residents and officials said. The angry crowds gathered on Monday night during a quarrel between fruit market workers and a delivery boy, after one worker passed […]
Read MoreFrom Detroit Free Press: “For well-to-do urban Chinese, the luxury car most desirable for their wedding day is a vintage Cadillac. On weekends, flower-festooned black Cadillacs squire brides and grooms about town, turning heads along the way. But the Cadillac sedan doesn’t yet belong in the pantheon of luxury cars — such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz […]
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