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Living in China: grab your “Oba-Mao” T-shirts

At the hype of US President Barack Obama’s first visit to China, the hottest sales item on Beijing’s streets is a t-shirt featuring Obama’s face replacing China’ former leader Mao Zedong’s face in an iconic image of the Communist Party and Red Army […]

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China Information Technology Software

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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China Economics Trend Watching

Living in China: Chinese households to get annual income over 60,000 yuan

Not a recent piece of news, but it would be interesting to see if the trend has been updated since then: a Chinese expert predicted 55 percent Chinese households will have a yearly income over 60,000 yuan (8,0407 U.S. dollars) by 2020, the Beijing Morning Post reported in Beijing […]

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Living in China: Essential differences between Chinese, Western political systems

Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo elaborated on the essential differences between the system of China’s people’s congresses and Western capitalist countries’ system of political power at the Second Session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) recently. The essential differences are listed as following […]

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China Economics Trend Watching

2007 Retrospective: Top 10 Economy Events in China

The following is the 2007 Top 10 Economic Stories Selection from Economic Information Daily and Perfect China Co Ltd. The chief editors of 16 Beijing-based news organizations, including Zhu Ling, editor-in-chief of China Daily, as well as renowned local economists, put together this selection of the year’s top stories. 1. Property The National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, passed the Property Law of the People’s Republic of China on March 16. The law granted equal protection to public and private properties for the first time…

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China Information Technology

2007 Retrospective: Top 10 News Events in China

The following are the top 10 domestic news events in the year 2007 selected by Xinhua News, China’s Official News Agency (in chronological order): 1. China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), adopted a landmark property law on March 16, granting equal protection to public and private properties. 2. Serious pollution caused a sudden stenchy algae outbreak in China’s third largest freshwater lake Taihu in late May, cutting tap water supply to more than one million residents in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province…