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Farm issues threatening China: Wen Jiabao

From AP, via Taipei Times: Land conflicts, unstable prices and backward conditions in China’s farm sector are threatening the country’s stability and its food supply, Premier Wen Jiabao (Ê∫´ÂÆ∂ÂØ∂) said in unusually blunt remarks published yesterday. Sustainable development and national stability depend on resolving such problems, Wen said in the text of a speech carried […]

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The soft power of ‘Happy Chinese’ – Michael Vatikiotis

From the International Herald Tribune: …The Thai Education Ministry aims to promote the Chinese language alongside compulsory English and hopes that one third of high school students will be proficient in Chinese within five years. Lending impetus to this move are China’s other efforts to promote Chinese language education overseas. Beijing recently established the Confucius […]

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School to make all pupils learn Mandarin – Press Association

From the Press Association, via the Guardian: An independent college today claimed to have become the first school in England to make Mandarin Chinese a compulsory subject for its pupils. Richard Cairns, the headmaster of Brighton College, said the move aims to recognise the importance of China as the world’s fastest growing economy. Mandarin will […]

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In 2006, We Hope – China News Weekly

From China News Weekly (zhongguoxinwenzhoukan), via sina.com: (translated by CDT, links are added by CDT) Facing 2006, we hope that China’s reform will make critical progress in challenging areas, the country will be...

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Xinhua picks top 10 news stories in China in 2005 – Xinhua

From Xinhua – English: China’s Xinhua News Agency has selected the top 10 news stories in China in 2005. In order of occurrence, the list goes as follows: — The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee initiated a 1.5-year-long campaign in January to carry out in three batches a massive political and ideological education […]

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“Telling the Truth Directly” – Sabrina

At the end of the year, Netease, one of the top three portals in China, has posted a special feature “Telling the Truth Directly” (“ÂÆûËØùÂÆûËØ¥”) which quotes the official line on various issues and events from 2005, followed by a sarcastic interpretation of the comments. Commercial portals like Netease are not permitted to do their […]

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In Search of Equality – Chen Wen

From The Beijing Review: China’s household registration system needs even-handed reforms to give rural migrants the same benefits as urban dwellers. China first implemented the system of residence permits in the 1950s, also known as hukou, to specifically avoid extensive rural-to-urban migration, considered at the time a move that would hamper the nation’s development. The […]

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