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 | China's top political advisory body will hold an international conference from Sept. 6-8 to enhance cooperation and understanding between China and the world, said a source from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Friday.
Distinguished persons and experts from home and abroad will attend the conference of the 21st Century Forum to discuss cooperation under new challenges, said Zhao Qizheng, head of the CPPCC's Committee of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference.
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&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) meets with his Ecuadoreancounterpart Ricardo Patino in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 13, 2010. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)&$&$
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&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd L) meets with his Ecuadorean counterpart Ricardo Patino (1st R) in Beijing, ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 14:08:26) |
| As the dolphins swam by and frolicked among the waves, cheers erupted from three nearby motorboats.
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&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. (Photo by Huo Yan / China Daily)&$&$
The cameras flashed and clicked as the majestic creatures dived deeper in the shallows of Qinzhou's Sanniang Bay in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, before darting, almo ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 14:01:17) |
 | Government's chief environmental scientist says emissions have actually risen, rather than fallen, because of carbon in imported goods • West blamed for rapid increase in China's CO2 The UK's greenhouse gas emissions have risen in the past two decades rather than declined, because of the carbon "embedded" in imported goods, the government's chief environment scientist has said. Speaking in a documentary to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next week, Professor Bob Watson said there was a need to... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-09-03 13:53:10) |
 | This month's Adoptable Pet from Jaiya's Animal Rescue Name: The 11 cats of Lane 26 Age: From 3 to 6 Health: Vaccinated, dewormed and de-flead. All spayed and neutered. Ideal Home: People that have experience with adult cats. Story: CF (rescuer), an animal lover and keen supporter of animal rescue groups in Shanghai contacted JAR in hopes that we can provide a permanent roof and love for the cats that... (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-03 13:30:00) |
 | More than 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a 120km (75-mile) traffic jam on China's Beijing to Tibet motorway. (BBC NEWS, 2010-09-03 13:22:28) |
 | It is a fairy tale romance of Olympic-sized proportions: China's 2010 gold medal pair skaters Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue are getting married Saturday in front of thousands of fans — on ice. (CNN NEWS, 2010-09-03 13:12:52) |
 | A group of some 160 Japanese business leaders, including Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura, will visit Beijing from Sunday for talks with Chinese leaders to reinforce economic relations between Japan and China, mission organizers said Friday. The 36th annual mission to be sent by the Japan-China Economic Association, the largest ever organized by the association, will meet with Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and other government leaders to exchange views on such issues as... (Kyodo News, 2010-09-03 13:10:11) |
| In cities across China on Friday, top government leaders, war veterans and schoolchildren marked the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, which China observes on Sept. 3, state media reported. In Beijing, the country's top leaders including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao presented wreaths at a service remembering war dead held near the Marco Polo Bridge where a skirmish on July 7, 1937, marked the start of the second Sino-Japanese War, the China News Service reported. (Kyodo News, 2010-09-03 13:10:11) |
 | KUNG FU film star Jackie Chan is facing public scrutiny after the headmaster of a school rebuilt after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake said his school did not receive a penny of promised donation from Chan.
Liu Yachun,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-03 12:39:01) |
| The number of people aged 60 or above amounted to 167 million in 2009, accounting for 12.5 percent of the total population, according to statistics released by China National Commission on Aging on Tuesday.
Compared with 2008, the number of elderly people saw a net growth of 7.25 million, an increase of 0.5 percentage points.
The statistics also show that the average life expectancy in 2009 was more than 73 years old, and over 18.99 million elderly are 80 years old or above.
It is... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:36:45) |
| Rescuers said Tuesday the drilling of a passage through the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to rescue 10 trapped workers is progressing slowly.
By 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, rescuers had dug six meters into the 40- to 50-meter-long collapsed section of the railway tunnel in Binyang County, Nanning City, capital of the autonomous region.
The debris is mainly rocks, which is difficult to drill through, and so it might take four days to... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:33:54) |
| Rising water levels in the Yangzi River have caused about 18.3 million people to suffer flooding in China's Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Chongqing regions since July 8, according to a CRI broadcast.
State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters informed Monday that the water level of the main stream of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake has continued to rise. Some of them are around or above the warning line.
The statistics from State Flood Control and Drought... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:33:47) |
| A recent poll shows 69 percent of Taiwan residents believe the Taiwanese government's policies on cross-Strait relationships help improve ties between the island and mainland China, according to Xinhua.net on July 12.
About 55 percent of those surveyed show their support for Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou and around 47 percent of respondents are satisfied with Ma's performance since he took office.
In addition, about 50 percent of them are satisfied with Wu Den-yih's performance since he... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:29:26) |
| An exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Western Development Strategy opened at the National Agriculture Exhibition Center in Beijing yesterday.
The vice premier of the State Council Hui Liangyu announced the opening of the exhibition, which is themed on the ecological and living environment in western regions.
Hui Liangyu gave full affirmation to the 10 years of tremendous achievements in the improvement of the social and economic environment in western regions since the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:26:07) |
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&$On July 11, the world’s first specialized robot system capable of being used in minimally invasive spine surgery was put into clinical trials in Xinqiao hospital in Chongqing. The robot system with complete independent intellectual property rights was jointly researched and developed by the Third Military Medical University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which indicated a new era of domestically produced robots ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:25:20) |
| From a technical level, it is entirely possible for China to launch a manned lunar landing around 2025, said Long Lehao from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Long is an expert on strategic missile and rocket technology, the chief designer of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology carrier rocket series, and vice chief designer of the national lunar probe project. His remarks came during his lecture for Chengdu residents titled "Achievements and Prospects of China's Space... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:20:47) |
| The Economist has posted an interview with "Mao's translator," Sidney Rittenberg (李敦白). Arriving in China in 1944, Rittenberg befriended Mao, Zhou Enlai and other top Communists. During his long involvement with the Chinese Communist Party, Rittenberg was imprisoned twice. The first time in 1949, after being falsely fingered as a "spy" by Joseph Stalin, he spent six years in solitary confinement and the second time in 1968, for ten years when labelled a 516 element" (五一六分子). ... (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-03 12:20:35) |
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&$Visitors on a boat roamed the artificial wetlands covered with flower beds in the Baihe River.&$&$
The Shuangliu county government recently conducted a comprehensive sewage treatment to improve the water quality of the Baihe River, the only main drainage channel in Shuangliu county of Chengdu, Sichuan province.
It was a sewage ditch because of severe pollution and blocked drains.
The Shuangliu govern ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:18:00) |
| Around 39 percent of China's mobile population above the working age in 2009 was born after the 1980s, said Zhang Chunsheng, an official from the National Population and Family Planning Commission Sunday in Shanghai.
At the Forum "Everyone Counts" held in the Shanghai World Expo U.N. pavilion, Zhang said that members of the mobile population born after the 1980s were all better educated than the previous generation, which has led to a higher class of floating workers. They are moving away... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:14:33) |
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&$On July 9, children learn ballet in the National Center for the Performing Arts, in which refined arts can be experienced and learned during the summer vacation from July 7 to August 31.
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&$On July 11, children donate their saved pocket-money to th ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:07:15) |
| China will further intensify efforts to cultivate rural utility personnel, including rural brokers, and to select 100,000 rural-based talents to give priority support in the second half year.
According to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), there will be 13 million rural utility personnel by 2015 and 18 million by 2020 when each rural village will have at least one or two utility personnel.
Liu Fan, deputy director of the SAIC, said related business sectors attach... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 12:05:39) |
 | China's statistics bureau next year will increase the weight of housing-related items and reduce the weighting of food in its official consumer price index. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-03 11:54:23) |
| COLLEGE students in Shanghai can get free condoms on campus and condom vending machines have been installed in some dormitory buildings, the local birth control office said.
Free condoms are available in dormitories,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-03 11:50:23) |
| Some world-class cruise giants are showing more and more their interests in China's markets. Recently, Carnival Cruises, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Mediterranean Cruise have set up branches in Shanghai and opened or plan to open regional cruise routes with Shanghai as the home port.
China has huge tourism resources. The President of Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau Dao Shuming said that the number of outbound trips by Chinese tourists via cruises stood at 200,000 last year. It is... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 11:29:06) |
 | Stepping up its military activities in Tibet, the Chinese PLA has carried out a major exercise there with its Air Force that for the first time saw Sukhoi-30s being pressed into action (Phayul, 2010-09-03 11:10:00) |
| OUTBOUND tours during upcoming National Day holidays have almost sold out although the week-long break does not begin until October 1, Shanghai travel agencies said.
Outbound travelers have increased by about 20... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-03 11:01:33) |
| TROPICAL storm Lion Rock continued to bring widespread rain today to southeast China, as its was downgraded to a tropical low pressure front in Guangdong Province after a fierce landing in Fujian Province yesterday.
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| THE death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 15, and 33 are still missing, the rescue headquarters said today.
Eight people were injured and are... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-03 10:42:08) |
 | Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars that is wreaking a trial of devastation across the crop fields of the countryside. (telegraph.co.uk, 2010-09-03 10:13:45) |
Think Again: Asia\'s Rise (FOREIGN POLICY) Don\'t believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the rest of the region take over the world, if they ever do.
Is China Really an \'East Asian success story\'? (Policy ) State-controlled investment in China provides poor financial returns, explains John Lee
Chinese chukkas (BBC NEWS) How polo enthrals Shanghai's moneyed class
Business › Many Chinese seek Japanese celebrity names as trademarks for business (Japan Today) The names of Japanese celebrities, such as pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, have been registered as trademarks in China by businesspeople trying to take advantage of…
China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story (The New York Review of Books) “If the Mafia boss thinks you might betray him, he will just kill you or throw you into prison.” That is not how the government of China should behave...
We're Not Selfish, They Are (Daai Tou Laam Diary) We're willing to pour billions and billions of our and their dollars in overruns to build transit links to ensure our commutes from pricey south island is fast and efficient. We've even cut the taxi fares for our weekend trips out to Sai Kung to eat seafood or travel home to Sai Kung/Clearwater Bay after those late nights in Lan Kwai Fong/Wan Chai. We've raised their transit fees twice in the last three years and dragged our feet since the last Central reclamation on spending...
Desertification worsening in Tibet: Report (Phayul) Desertification is worsening in Tibet, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. According to the report, authorities in Tibet aim to halt the spread of the desert in Tibet by next year, hoping to stem the effects of years of mining, tree-felling and
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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