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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: extending old-for-new car, appliance selling spree
China is going to expand schemes that give domestic consumers a discount if they trade in old cars and household appliances for new ones, said Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics Also tagged behavior, Beijing, car sales, China, consumer behavior, Economic Development, energy efficiency, Financial Crisis, retail, retail sales, Rural Area, Xinhua News Agency Leave a comment
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: consumption stimulus to extend into 2010
Stimulus policies spurring Chinese domestic consumption will be maintained in 2010, while high sales growth of home appliances and automobiles due to the stimulus packages will not affect consumption, analysts predict [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends Also tagged analyst, Asia, Automobile, Automobile market, bank, car sales, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Chinese Economy, Construction, consumer behavior, Development, Economic indicators, economist, Economy, Financial Crisis, Global Economy, Gross Domestic Product, income, National Bureau of Statistics, Policy, researcher, retail, retail sales, Rural Area, Social security, Statistics, sustainable, work, worker Leave a comment
Living in China: Chinglish to get the axe in Shanghai for World Expo
Shanghai is looking to get rid of poorly translated English signs as it readies to welcome 4 million foreign visitors to next year’s World Expo.
Education in China: Autodesk to support China’s engineering education with software, training
Autodesk, a world leader in 2D and 3D design software, is to donate its latest software worth 50 million U.S. dollars to 50 Chinese universities and secondary vocational schools, said a memorandum signed here recently [...]
Posted in China, design, economics, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged 3D software, Autodesk, Carl Bass, Chinese Students, design, design tools, education, Education In China, Education Suites, educational tools, Engineering Design, Hao Ping, higher education systems, innovation, learning tools, Ministry of Education, software, software tools, teacher, United States, USD Leave a comment
China, Technology & the Environment: Emissions cut target “may hurt developing countries’ development”
The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is "unfair" to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]
Posted in China, economics, information technology, trends Also tagged Carbon finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Climate change, Developed Nations, environment, Environmental policy, Germany, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Industrialization, Infrastructure, Kyoto Protocol, Pan Jiahua, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, Urbanization 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Demography, Development, Economic Development, Guangdong, Infrastructure, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Living In China, media reports, New Year's Day, population, Rural Area, Shanghai, Shenyang, Sichuan, sustainable development, Unemployment, Urban area, Urban geography, Urban studies and planning, Urbanization, Xinhua News Agency Leave a comment
Internet in China: Timeline of the Pre-Installed Internet Filter required for All New Computers
China announced recently it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to "protect minors" from "unhealthy information" from the Internet. All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Check a round up of news about the Green Dam internet filter (and how conflicting the information is, depending if the source is Chinese or from abroad):
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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 [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: future cities to make small carbon footprint
Even as China undergoes one of the most rapid urban transformations in the world, the Chinese government is promoting sustainable development to curb the country's growing rate of carbon emissions, a World Bank urban specialist said in Beijing on recently [...]
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Living in China: 2.54 billion journeys will be made during Spring Festival