Tag Archives: China

Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution

China’s government unveiled its most detailed survey ever of the pollution plaguing the country, revealing that water pollution in 2007 was more than twice as severe as official figures that had long omitted agricultural waste [...]
Posted in China, trends | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Living in China: 85% of Chinese families can’t afford houses

According to Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 85 percent of Chinese families can not afford housing expenditure, and house prices are much higher than their incomes [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Watch Xiao Qiang’s “China’s Digital Revolution” Interview for BBC

Xiao Qiang is adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website. Here he discusses the Chinese Government's approaches to the internet and the phenomenon of the "50 cent blogger".
Posted in China, information technology | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

China’s Cyberposse: Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath. http://tinyurl.com/y8sxldm # China’s Cyberposse: Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath. http://tinyurl.com/ye6szpy # Another session of my alergy treatment shots: Ouch! How many are there left? # China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese [...]
Posted in twitter | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists

Hawaii, California and Las Vegas are among American tourist destinations vying fiercely for a vast and largely untapped new market segment: the Chinese tourist [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: energy security pushes China into Wind Power

The Chinese government recently upgraded its wind installation capacity target for 2020 to 150 gigawatts from 100 gigawatts, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20% for accumulated wind-generation capacity, according to analysts Min Li and Wendy Wang at Yuanta Research {...]
Posted in China, innovation, trends | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009

The annual selection of China's top 10 fast-developing cities was held by the China International Urbanization Development Strategy Research Committee to illustrate the rate of China's urbanization [...]
Posted in China, trends | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Playing at Hengshan: It’s amazing what a simple feedback buster cover can do to the sound of an acoustic bass! # How design influences subconscious decisions | Dot Kite: Is design everything? Everything is designed! Or is… http://tinyurl.com/yahaem3 # Sync/Lost: an Immersive, Multi-User Visualization of Music History: Sync/Lost [3bits.net] is a multi-user data.. http://tinyurl.com/yd7ndaa # Blaise Aguera y [...]
Posted in twitter | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

The Myth of DPI: The size of an image in a website layout is important. From proper alignment to getting j… http://tinyurl.com/ybt88yb # The Myth of DPI: The size of an image in a website layout is important. From proper alignment to getting just t.. http://tinyurl.com/ybt88yb # Chinese Holidays are over: what's the point of [...]
Posted in twitter | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

China, Technology and the Environment: power consumption up nearly 6% in 2009

China's power consumption in 2009 rose 5.96 percent to 3,643 billion kilowatt hours, the National Energy Administration (NEA) announced recently [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment