This article is from Wired magazine. “China is staring at the dark side of double-digit growth. Blackouts roll and factory lights flicker, the grid sucked dry by a decade of breakneck industrialization. Oil and natural gas are running low, and belching power plants are burning through coal faster than creaky old railroads can deliver it. […]
Read More“Six Chinese provinces and municipalities will adopt an experimental framework for calculating ‘green GDP’ by the end of the year.” “The introduction of the ‘green GDP’ concept – loosely taken to mean official gross domestic product figures minus the cost of pollution and resource depletion – is a major initiative in the central government’s push […]
Read More“China expects to have 140 million automobiles plying its roads by 2020, seven times more than now, fuelling huge demand for transportation infrastructure and services, state media reported. China’s auto population would eventually reach around 250 million, or about 150 cars per 1,000 people, deputy director of the communication ministry’s comprehensive planning department, Li Xinghua […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese major telecommunication operators got together with an academic network to unveil their version of the development strategy of China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) during a seminar on Friday” The full article is here.
Read MoreChina Daily reports today on the formulation of a new national health strategy to tacke chronic diseases: “While SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and avian influenza and other more “high-profile” diseases have captured the headlines, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often referred to as “silent epidemics” that do more harm to the nation’s health. Indeed, NCDs, […]
Read MoreAP reported that the US government is continuing to discourage China from establishing government telecommunications standards: “Now, with China testing competing systems and moving toward its own standard known as TD-SCDMA U.S. policy is to urge governments in China and elsewhere to let companies choose freely. ‘I never met a carrier that didn’t express a […]
Read MoreToday the OpenNet Initiative released a new report about Internet censorship in China. While a number of studies have established that China blocks search results about certain political, cultural, and religious subjects (see this report, for example), the new study takes the investigation a step further by looking at China’s filtering of the Google cache. […]
Read MoreThe power struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin is becoming increasingly heated and open, according to a report in today’s IHT: “Tension between Jiang, the country’s semi-retired senior leader who still heads the military, and Hu, who replaced Jiang as Communist Party chief and president nearly two years ago, has begun influencing debates on […]
Read MoreAP reports: “China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants in coming years to help relieve severe electricity shortages. The government hopes to rely on nuclear energy to meet four percent of its electricity demand by 2020. ” (via: Kron4.com)
Read MoreLinguist Eswn has compiled the list of filtered Internet keywords into quick groupings and provided partial translation to help non-Chinese speakers understand the pattern of banned topics (introduced with a quote from Foucault). The full post is here.
Read MoreA South China Morning Post article (via Asia Media) argues that public pressure and online activism, especially from prominent lawyers and intellectuals, led to the release of Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong. The story quotes a Sun Yat-sen University professor: “Professor Yuan said intellectuals had taught mainland leaders a lesson about contemporary society, which […]
Read MoreFrom Primezone.com: “The National Research Council of Canada – Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), with the support of the National Research Council of Canada – Canadian Police Research Centre (NRC-CPRC), the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and the Beijing Municipal Government, are jointly organizing a security technology mission to China […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreAccording to a report in the Straits Times, a defense lawyer for Southern Metropolis News journalists, is now hopeful that the paper’s two journalists who remain in prison will soon be released following the weekend’s release of editor Cheng Yizhong: “‘We’ve seen a change of attitude by the local prosecutor. Local law executors can still […]
Read MoreThe Asia Times (Chinese) have found out that a photo published by Xinhua two weeks ago showing a one-on-one handshake between a frail Deng Xiaoping (with daughter Deng Rong’s help) and Hu Jintao has been doctored. The original photo was published days later by Liaowangdongfang (also a Xinhua subsidiary) showing the same Hu-Deng handshake but […]
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