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Tuesday January 16, 08:10 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - A retired Chinese couple have advertised for a "daughter" to look after them in place of their son who has emigrated to Canada -- and more than 100 candidates signed up to try their luck, a newspaper said on Tuesday. more
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Beijing was first settled around 1000BC by the Mongolians as a make-shift trading town. It was during the Warring States period that the Yan kingdom made it a capital city for the first time.
In 1215 Genghis Khan set fire to the city and killed mostly everyone. Having satisfied himself he promptly renamed the town Khanbaliq (the Khans town). Later from the Jin Dynasty onward, Beijing was to become the ultimate symbol of authority over the region and would almost continuously remain the capital up until today.
Beijing today, is the must see city of China. Beijing combines modernity with the ancient so as to facilitate your comfortable lodgings at say the Holiday Inn along with the desire to see the Great Wall, Summer Palace, Forbidden City, etc… Beijing is chalk full of ancient wonders and one could easily spend their entire trip in this city and come back for more.
In 2001, Beijing was awarded the Olympic Games to be held in 2008. Ever since Beijing has pushed hard to clean up its act. Most of the factories (if not all) have already been pushed out of the city limits and local officials are keeping a keen eye on air quality. In the end this should make for a much more enjoyable trip for visitors. So pack your bags and GoBeijing!
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Jing Ulrich: Debunking the Myth of a China Collapse- Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:55 +0000Jing Ulrich is managing director and chairman of China equities & commodities at JPMorgan. He wrote this piece on the Financial Times: Global sentiment towards China?s economy and asset markets has turned from exuberance just a few months ago to overriding concern about the side-effects of last year?s remarkable credit growth. A number of commentators [...] |
Photo: Men play Chinese chess in a park in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:29:33 +0000Men play Chinese chess in a park in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
Mismanaging China?s Rural Exodus- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:26:55 +0000A column in the Financial Times looks at the future of China’s internal migration and household registration reform, quoting a rural expert who predicts that China’s urban population will grow from 45% of the total to 70%: The startling numbers conjure up images of mass migrations and the trebling or quadrupling in size of big cities [...] |
Yu Jianrong (???): Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability (Part 5)- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:24:17 +0000Dr. Yu Jianrong (???), chairman of the Social Issues Research Center of the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability” before the Beijing Lawyers Association on December 26, 2009. This is part 5 of the CDT translation, here are part 1, part [...] |
Photo: Men play Chinese chess in a park in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:03:05 +0000Men play Chinese chess in a park in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
The Ant Tribe- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:50:24 +0000On her blog, the Hindustan Times correspondent in China writes about a recent visit to Tangjialing, a crowded residential area outside Beijing that has become home to legions of young, educated migrants: We reached Tangjialing after leaving behind Beijing?s smooth six and eight-lane highways and gleaming skyscrapers, the cheap KFCs and luxury malls. We drove past [...] |
China Developer?s Lament- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:38:05 +0000As part of a Forbes special on the billionaires of the world, Gady Epstein profiles real estate developer Zhang Xin, chief executive of Soho China: This is the Chinese economy in a nutshell–sellers selling a product for which there’s no natural demand, buyers buying whether they need it or not. In a market boosted by government-directed [...] |
Holding Up Half the Sky?- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:38 +0000The …In Shanghai blog looks at a recent UNDP report titled, “Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific,” which reports that 96 million women and girls are “missing” from the Asian continent: In terms of China, research published last year in the BMJ also showed that this imbalance [...] |
Google Chief Sees Outcome ?Soon? in China Row- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:26:53 +0000Google CEO Eric Schmidt has given a vague assurance that the stand-off between his company and the Chinese government would be resolved soon, without giving specifics. From Reuters: Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese Google.cn portal and to pull back from China, citing problems of censorship and a hacking attack from within the [...] |
China?s Troublemakers Bond Over ?Drinking Tea?- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:39:47 +0000AP’s Cara Anna reports from Beijing: Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda. Police have long tried to shush and isolate potential activists, usually starting with a low-key warning, perhaps over a meal or a cup of tea. Now, the country’s troublemakers are openly [...] |
Yu Jianrong (???): Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability (Part 4 )- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:13:25 +0000Dr. Yu Jianrong (???), chairman of the Social Issues Research Center of the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability” before the Beijing Lawyers Association on December 26, 2009. This is part 4 of the CDT translation, here are part 1. part [...] |
Activists, Journalists Ask NPC for Transparency in Sichuan Earthquake Investigation- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:32:40 +0000For China Media Project, Qian Gang writes about Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments to the NPC meetings advocating public and media supervision of authorities, in which Wen stated, “We must let the people criticize the government and monitor the government, giving full play to the supervisory role of news and public opinion, so that power is [...] |
Response From Beijing Needed- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:14:27 +0000This opinion piece is published on the Bangkok Post: China is fast failing the good-neighbour test in the current Mekong River crisis. With the vital waterway at its lowest point in a generation, officials in both Beijing and the provinces are not participating in the search for solutions to this problem. It is not a new [...] |
Peter Hessler: Behind the Wheel, About to Snap- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:35:20 +0000On China Beat, Peter Hessler writes about the role that photography played in his trip across China that spawned his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory: From my perspective, the digital camera is most significant in how it?s changed the way I organize and use my notes. Digital voice recorders [...] |
Warcraft Row: An Industry Game Changer- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:04:21 +0000Caixin looks at Netease’s struggle to get the game World of Warcraft back online in China and the bureaucratic turf wars that the gaming industry must navigate: NetEase is a veteran of Chinese online gaming, with seven years of industry experience. So it was stunned when a seemingly straight development path suddenly descended into a dark [...] |
China and India Join Climate Accord- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:44:52 +0000Three months after the conference, both India and China have agreed to formally sign onto the climate change agreement reached at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. From the New York Times: The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be [...] |
Is Internet Access a Human Right? Top 10 Nations That Say Yes.- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:34:25 +0000Stephen Kurczy reports in the Christian Science Monitor: Perhaps because Americans can surf a number of websites cordoned off by the great Chinese Fire Wall ? from the Dalai Lama?s personal web page to the Internet Movie Database ? more Chinese (87 percent) see the Internet as a fundamental human right than do Americans (76 percent). © [...] |
Educated and Fearing the Future in China- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:33:22 +0000Over the weekend, The New York Times website held an online forum over the topic of employment in China. Participants included: * C. Cindy Fan, associate dean of social sciences, U.C.L.A.; Yasheng Huang, professor of political economy, M.I.T.; Daniel A. Bell, professor of political philosophy, Tsinghua University; Albert Park, economist, University [...] |
A Sorry Spectacle- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:05:36 +0000In Foreign Policy, Adam Minter delves deep into the process by which the U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai Expo was chosen and built: On May 1, Expo 2010, the largest and most expensive world’s fair in history, will open on 2.5 square miles of prime Shanghai riverbank for a six-month run that its hosts hope will [...] |
US Ponders China?s Southeast Asian Rise- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:59:32 +0000Last month, the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission held a hearing on ?China?s Activities in Southeast Asia and the Implications for U.S. Interests.? Asia Times summarizes the testimonies from various members of Congress, government officials, and experts: USCC commissioner Larry Wortzel emphasized China’s rising economic influence in the region, noting that numerous China-funded resource [...] |