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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R front) meets with former U.S. President James Carter (L front) in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Monday voiced optimism over the China-U.S. relationship and the will to work for stronger ties despite ups and downs.
"Since the two countrie ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 21:17:16) |
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, on the sidelines of the celebration rally for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)
Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday encouraged Hong Kong's richest man t ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 21:04:53) |
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with former U.S. President James Carter in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
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A worker decorates a large sign board at the International Conference &Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, Sept. 6, 2010. The 14th China International Fair for Investment &Trade (CIFIT) will kick off at the center on Sept. 8. (Xinhua/Zhang Guojun)
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Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, meets with Former French Prime Minister Alan Juppe in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)
Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Monday met with former French prime minister Alain Juppe, pledging to further advance relations betwe ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 20:41:41) |
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Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2010 shows fossilized elephant teeth discovered in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province. Elephant fossils, dating back to 500,000 years, were discovered at Enshi on Sept. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Song Wen)
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Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2010 shows a huge moth caught at Wenfeng Town of Jishui County, east China's Jiangxi Province on Monday. The wing expanse of the moth reaches 23cm. (Xinhua/Xiao Chungen)
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| Qin Gang, former spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deputy director of the Information Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will assume the office of the minister of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, according to a release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sept. 5.
Qin has had previous experience working in the U.K. Embassy. From 1995 to 1999, Qin was the third secretary and the second... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 17:40:46) |
| Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu met in Beijing on Monday with New Zealand's Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples.
Hui said China and New Zealand have continuously pushed forward cooperation in all areas benefiting the peoples of the two countries, and have contributed to the harmony and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region.
"We are willing to work with New Zealand to promote substantial cooperation in the spirit of mutual respect and seek common ground while reserving difference so as... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 17:39:59) |
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A well-known Chinese philanthropist Chen Guangbiao, also the CEO of a resources recycling company in east Jiangsu Province, officially published a letter to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on his company's Web site declaring his intent to join with him and other ultra-rich individuals who plan to donate at least half their fortunes to cha ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 17:19:08) |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday encouraged Hong Kong's richest man to play a greater role in the country's reform and opening up as well as modernization.
Hu made the remarks in his meeting with Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, on the sidelines of a rally in Shenzhen Monday to mark the city's 30th anniversary as China's first economic reform zone.
"Mr. Li is a witness to the development of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as well as an important participant in... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 17:00:34) |
| A Chinese hospital is seeking international medical help to artificially grow skin for two seriously burned survivors of a plane crash in northeast China last month.
The Brazilian-made Henan Airlines jet carrying 96 people crashed in Yichun, a remote, mountainous city in Heilongjiang Province on Aug. 24. Forty-two of the people aboard the flight died.
It was the deadliest aviation accident in China since 2004.
"Many of the injured survivors suffered serious burns, and the traditional... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 16:55:04) |
| About one-fifth of cities in China have serious air pollution, air quality of one-third of 113 key cities does not reach the national secondary standard and vehicle emissions have become the main source of air pollution, said Liu Zhiquan, Deputy Director General of Department of Science, Technology and Standards, Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China.
Liu made a speech titled "Strengthening Environmental Laws and Regulations on Vehicles, Promoting the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 16:52:32) |
| Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific made its maiden flight to Beijing Sunday, making it the second Philippine airline to serve the route.
The maiden flight took off Sunday night from Manila at 7:35 p.m. , and arrived in the Chinese capital Monday morning at 12:05 a.m.
The inaugural flight's load factor, or the number of passengers on a flight relative to the number of seats available, was at 70 percent.
"Cebu Pacific offers the lowest fare alternative from the Philippines to... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 16:47:57) |
| The new location of the political and economic center of Altay Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will be moved from the city of Altay to Fuhai County, according to the prefecture's government.
Three years later, a new city will appear on the banks of Ulungur Lake and become the new political and economic center of Altay Prefecture.
Yao Zhenchong, deputy commander of the construction headquarters of the Fuhai New District, said that the construction plans were approved by... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 16:14:52) |
 | People don't have 'donor fatigue', but they are influenced by a media reliance on visually arresting images of disasters It has been a busy year for disasters: from the Haitian earthquake to Chinese landslides, food insecurity in Niger to the current floods in Pakistan, it has seemed like a constant barrage. As a disaster risk management specialist, I help communities to minimise the harm caused by disasters before, during, and after they happen. In my experience, when people understand the... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-09-06 16:00:42) |
 | MORE than 200 pilots around the country were found to have cheated on their flying history during a nationwide scrutiny by China's aviation authority after a plane crash in Yichun of Heilongjiang Province killed 42... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 15:54:53) |
| With the present growth rate, motor vehicles in Beijing will reach 7 million in 2015 and it is estimated that the average driving speed will slow to only 15 kilometers per hour, which is only equivalent to a person running at a middle speed, according to Beijing Transportation Research Center.
Although this is only an estimated result based on some figures, it will become a reality if no measures are carried out. As Beijing saw runaway growth in both population and autos, traffic in the city... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 15:51:55) |
| THE cooking oil manufacturer in central China's Hunan Province first attempting to cover up its recall of tainted products now has promised full compensation to customers.
Liu Xianghao, chairman of the Jinhao Camellia... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 15:50:42) |
| HAIRY crab breeders denied feeding birth-control pills to the famed crustacean to stimulate their growth so as to put this autumn delicacy earlier on the dining table.
A breeders' association based at Yangcheng... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 15:48:46) |
| CHINA'S well-known philanthropist who has built up a fortune exceeding 5 billion yuan (US$736.79 million) has pledged to give all his properties back to the public upon his death as he deemed it "a shame to die still... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 15:46:17) |
| Expo tickets for the month of October are in high demand, with two dates in particular - Oct 1 (China's National Day and China Pavilion Day) and Oct 31 (the date of the closing ceremony) - being the most popular.
"I've tried four of the appointed agencies - China Mobile, China Telecom, Bank of Communications and China Post - but failed to get a single ticket for the closing ceremony," said Yu Wei, of Jiaxing in Zhejing province.
His next attempt was to post a thread on an online forum,... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 15:16:06) |
| The Philippine police has neither a dedicated negotiating team nor a manual on hostage taking crisis, the chief negotiator in the Aug. 23 hostage crisis revealed in Monday's public hearing.
"Until this time, the Philippine National Police (PNP) does not have a negotiation unit," Superintendent Orlando Yebra told members of the Internal Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC).
"What we have is a manual in crisis management, hostage negotiation is only integrated there," he said.
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| Anqiu City of China's Shandong Province will select and openly announce the year's worst civil servants, which has given rise to a wide debate there and some citizens have questioned the selection criteria, according to the Central People's Broadcasting Station.
Anqiu City has launched a series of activities this year to encourage civil servants to be excellent and to improve their style of work.
One of the activities is to select the year's best civil servants as well as the worst... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 15:14:48) |
| A survey revealed that during the extreme high temperatures this summer, only 20 percent of workers received high-temperature allowances as mandated by law.
According to the three-week long survey of over 5,000 respondents, only 20 percent of workers received a high-temperature allowance, and nearly 7 percent of respondents were unsure if there is even a high-temperature allowance.
The survey shows that to help employees relieve the summer heat, the majority of companies provided them... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 15:05:44) |
 | The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has accused Chinese billionaires of refusing an invitation to a gala event because they are nervous about being buttonholed for donations to charity. (telegraph.co.uk, 2010-09-06 14:56:07) |
| An explosion killed seven people and injured 14 in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the morning of Aug. 19, according to Information Office of Xinjiang government.
The bomb blast rocked Aksu city, some 650 kilometers west of the region's capital Urumqi, and the local government is racing against time to save the lives of those injured.
A suspect was arrested on the spot and an investigation is ongoing. The local government has made it clear that this incident would... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 14:53:44) |
 | Despite some differences, Beijing says that relations with the Washington are on a 'sound track' (Voice of America, 2010-09-06 14:53:35) |
| Beijing experienced an oversupply of jobs and the labor shortage hit 277,000 in the second quarter of 2010, according to a report released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security on Aug. 18.
Statistics revealed that the impact of the global financial crisis on Beijing has been generally eliminated. Enterprises are recovering and expanding production, so the number of vacant posts has largely increased compared to the same period of last year.
About 39,000... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 14:52:40) |
| A "peculiar asteroid" discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences was recently acknowledged by the International Minor Planet Center, according to relevant departments on Aug. 18.
The asteroid has a very flat orbit and is the first "peculiar asteroid" China has ever found.
Currently, the public is familiar with the main-belt asteroids and the near-Earth asteroids with strange orbits, including the Earth-approaching asteroids and the centaurs.... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 14:51:44) |
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Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable to Intrusion (New York Times) The program would let outsiders monitor a computer’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses, according to those who have examined it.
The Day China's Heart Froze (newmatilda.com) Twenty years ago today, thousands were being killed in the streets around Tiananmen Square. Dan Edwards in Beijing speaks to survivors about a wound that hasn't healed
Founding fathers (BBC NEWS) The French town with an unlikely Chinese past
China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy? (Dissent Magazine) How can one know whether China will or will not democratize? In general, as Karl Popper showed in The Poverty of Historicism, political futures in even the middle distance are unknowable because of the inherently uncertain and contingent dynamics of politics. Therefore, an analyst should focus on the multiple factors that make different futures more or less likely.
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