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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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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 [...]
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Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009
China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of 2009, an official report showed recently, just a few days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market [...]
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Gaming in China: Sales of online gaming industry hit 4 billion US dollars in 2009
The pace of growth of China's online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 percent to 27.1 billion yuan ($3.97 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch [...]
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Watch Rachel Armstrong’s “Architecture that repairs itself?” talk at TED
Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too [...]
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Living in China: Shanghai encourages couples to have second child
Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission is launching a campaign to encourage eligible couples to give birth to a second child as concerns mount over a rapidly aging population [...]
Living in China: urban population exceeds 600 milion with rural income’s yawning gap
China's urban population surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent at the end of 2008, a social researcher revealed recently [...]
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China, Technology & the Environment: City in Henan Province to resettle 27,000 for south-north water diversion
Resettlement of about 27,000 downtown residents of Jiaozuo City in the central Henan Province started this week to make way for China's massive south-to-north water diversion program, the provincial water diversion office said Friday. Resettlement is scheduled to finish at the end of September, when work on the trunk channel of the central route will start [...]
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Living in China: GDP could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030
China's economy could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030, based on Japan's experience and the yuan's appreciation against the greenback, a senior Chinese economist says in Harvard Business Review's Chinese edition. The forecast by Justin Lin Yifu, head of Peking University's China Center for Economic Research and recently appointed chief economist of the World Bank, in the May issue of the magazine published on Thursday is one of the most ambitious for China's economic growth...
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists