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Living in China: Air Quality in Beijing is… well… depends on whom do you ask
Associated Press has got the news on a recent report which claims that Beijing's air worse than at past Olympics, while Just ten days later, Xinhua News just boasted about how Beijing records best air quality in nine years [...]
Posted in China Also tagged Air Quality, Associated Press, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Government, Du Shaozhong, environment, environmental protection, Olympics, pollution, World Health Organization, Xinhua 1 Comment
Advertising in China: launches amount to 36 billion U.S. dollars in first half/2008
In the first half of 2008, China's total advertising launch reached 244.9 billion yuan (over 36 billion U.S. dollars) , an increase of 17% compared with the same period last year, according to well-known global media and information group Nielsen latest report of ad information services, Xinhua News reported. Among the three types of major media Nielsen monitored, television continued to lead with 83% of the advertising market share, a total of 204 billion yuan; and print media advertising made progress with an increase of 14 percent. Among them, newspapers and magazine ads amounted to 36 billion and 5 billion yuan [...]
Posted in China, trends Also tagged advertising, launch, advertising, advertising market, Asia, Asia Pacific, Game, location, Newspapers, Nielsen, Olympic, Report, Sichuan, Xinhua, Yuan 1 Comment
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Coca-Cola most recognized Olympic Games sponsor
How time changes: the latest survey from Nielsen during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games shows that among all the sponsors, the Coca-Cola Company had the highest consumer awareness, but only ranked third in advertising costs. According to statistics, the Coca-Cola supplied 25 million bottles of Coca-Cola daily to Beijing's Olympic venues, exceeding the 20 million bottles in the Athens Games...
Posted in China, consumer behavior Also tagged 2008 , Olympic Games, advertising, behavior, Beijing, Coca Cola, consumer behavior, Game, Nielsen, Olympic, Olympics, Statistics, Xinhua 1 Comment
Bibles to be available free during Beijing Games
Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible or just the New Testament for free during the Olympic Games. Tens of thousands of copies of the Bible, the New Testament and booklets with just the four Gospels (according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) have been printed for the purpose, say officials of China's Christian society. Rev Xu Xiaohong, an official of the Shanghai-based China Christian Council in charge of publishing, says 50,000 bilingual (Chinese and English) editions of the Gospel booklets had already been printed by June. They are on way to six cities hosting the Olympic events in the mainland...
Posted in China Also tagged Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Chief Executive, Chinese Authorities, Game, General manager, Nanjing, Olympic, Olympics, printing, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin, Yuan Leave a comment
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: auto sales up 17% in first half of 2008
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on recently that between January and June 2008, the country sold 3.61 million passenger motor vehicles, a growth of 17.07 percent over the same period a year previous. The growth rate, however, was 5.19 percentage points lower than the 22.26 percent level recorded in the same period last year [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends Also tagged Automobile, Automobile Industry, Automobile market, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Car manufacturers, car sales, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, disaster, Ford, passenger car market, passenger car sales, Volkswagen 4 Comments
Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: 6 Telecoms to Merge Their Assets
China has told its six telecommunications companies to merge their assets, allowing fixed-line carriers to expand into wireless services and creating three operators that will offer phone and Internet connections to 1.3 billion people. Under the plan, the parent of China Telecom will buy a mobile phone network from the parent of China Unicom, which in turn will merge with the company that controls the China Netcom Group, the Ministry of Industry and Information said in a statement on Saturday. China will issue three third-generation wireless licenses after the overhaul is completed, it said...
Posted in China, economics, information technology Also tagged 3G, Bloomberg, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chinese People, Code Division Multiple Access, Game, Hong Kong, internet, internet market, japan, korea, mobile communications technology, Mobile Phones, mobile services, National Development and Reform Commission, phone services, Report, revenue, Shanghai, South Korea, telecommunications, United States, wireless network, wireless networks, Xinhua, Xinhua News Agency, Yuan 2 Comments
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