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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".
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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 {...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Consumer spending helps boost Shanghai’s growth

Shanghai's economy made further progress last month as a result of continued strong growth in local consumer spending and investment, while exports also improved to help strengthen a growing recovery [...]
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Education in China: 56% of student startups get low marks

More than half of government-subsidized student business companies were scored as "mediocre" or even "bad-performing" after years of operation, according to an report released recently at the Shanghai Entrepreneurship Week [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: The End of “Chimerica”

For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the basis of a financial marriage between the world's sole superpower and its most likely future rival. In this paper, economic historians Niall Ferguson of Havard Business School and Moritz Schularick of Freie Universität Berlin consider the problem of global imbalances and try to set events in a longer-term perspective [...]
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Gaming in China: Chinese government bans foreign investment in online games industry

The People's Republic of China is building a great economic wall around its domestic online gaming industry. Reuters reports the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) is prohibiting investment by foreigners in the industry, through either "joint ventures, wholly owned enterprises and cooperatives." [...]
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Internet in China: Obama says “Internet assists free flow of information”

During his visit to China, U.S. President Barrack Obama said in Shanghai that Internet has an enormous power in assisting information dissemination, and he personally has benefited from Internet [...]
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China Approves Disney Theme Park in Shanghai

After a courtship of about 20 years, the Walt Disney Company has won approval from the central government of China to build a Disneyland-style theme park in Shanghai, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said recently [...]
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Intellectual Property: IPR threatens China’s new energy sector

Stimulated by governments' supporting policies, a large number of Chinese firms have turned to new energy and related industries. Over 10 large scale new energy bases have been established. However, experts say that China's emerging new energy sector may face a lack of core technology crisis [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment

Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas -- the equivalent of the entire population of the United States -- will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently [...]
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