Gov’t announces plan to close liaison offices
The government on Friday officially announced its plan to close down thousands of local government liaison offices in Beijing and strengthen supervision to cut costs and uproot corruption.
Hainan property prices skyrocket
The plan to turn China’s tropical southern island of Hainan into an international tourist resort by 2020 has already started nudging property prices skywards, according to media reports.
Course Correction
Newsweek reports on Beijing’s new approach toward Tibet, almost two years after deadly riots engulfed Lhasa:
“…Though local riots looked bad in the press, they never really threatened control of Tibet. And the Dalai Lama has consiste…
Nanning has no plan to ban unfinished housing sales
Nanning’s mayor said Thursday that there is no detailed plan to ban the sales of uncompleted housings in the whole city.
Beijing seen to be tempted to board the Athens express
A Greek railways plan would represent a golden opportunity for the Chinese and it appears a perfectly sensible strategy for Greece to fund its soaring public debt
Guangxi achieves fastest export growth due to FTA plan
Despite the impact of the global economic crisis, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region achieved rapid economic development in 2009 thanks to the region’s enormous efforts to develop the free trade area (FTA) with its Southeast Asian neighbors…
Aussie solution to pesky toads: Export to China?
Professor Ross Alford of James Cook University on Wednesday supported Australia’s plan to export cane toads to China, but said it would do little to cut the destructive pest’s population.
Dalai Lama envoys hope to revisit autonomy plan
Representatives of the Dalai Lama in their first talks with Chinese officials in 15 months are hoping Beijing will reconsider a proposal for greater autonomy for Tibet, the Himalayan region’s self-proclaimed government-in-exile said Wednesday.
Geely plans major Volvo plant in China
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China’s Zhejiang Geely Holdings will produce up to 300,000 Volvo cars a year at a new factory in Beijing as part of its plan to pull the Swedish brand out of the red by 2011, a source said yesterday.
HK lawmakers trigger ‘referendum’
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Five pro-democracy lawmakers quit Hong Kong’s legislature on Tuesday to trigger by-elections they say will serve as a referendum on universal suffrage, despite a warning from Beijing that the plan was unlawful.