China Press

96% of Roads in China Will Be Toll-free

2011-03-25T08:58:00.000+08:00

He Jianzhong, spokeman for China's Ministry of Transport, said that non-toll roads would account for more than 96% of country's road mileage in the feature.

He also said that the government would be responsible for financing the non-toll road network, while the funds for expressway-building projects would mainly come from bank loans and social funding.

China is considering building two road networks, one that will mainly consist of low-charge but highly efficient expressway and other come up of non-toll common roads.

Shaolin Soccer

2011-03-24T09:30:00.001+08:00

In 2001, A film titled Shaolin Soccer, which was directed by Stephen Chow, was very popular in China mainland and Hongkong. In the film, soccer players mixed Shaolin Kong Fu into soccer, and successed in the end.

Recently, the Shaolin Monks Traning Base established a youth football school, they combined Shaolin Kung Fu into soccer, it is a reality vesion of Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer.

Chinese soccer is in the doldrums, the base leader said he hoping it will be helpful to raise the soccer trainning level.
Here is a list of photos of Shaolin monks when they are playing Shaolin Soccer, click for larger one(photo credit: xinhuanet.com).

Playing shaolin soccer

Showing Shaolin Soccer

Like a screenshot from the movie Shaolin Soccer

Having fun

I am sorry, I am playing too hard.

Showing Shaolin Soccer

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

2011-03-23T19:32:00.003+08:00

Hangzhou bay bridge, which is 35.673km in length, is the longgest transoceanic bridge in the world. It connects the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province which is in the east of China.

The construction of Hangzhou bay bridge started on June 8,2003 and ended on June 14, 2007. The bridge was not opened to public until May 1, 2008, because it needs a considerable period of testing and evaluation.

Hangzhou bay bridge is a part of Shenhai expressway, or #G15 expressway in China, the current toll rate is 80RMB for a one-way crossing, this applies to all automobiles, both cars and trunks. Hangzhou bay bridge shortened the distance between Ningbo and Shanghai from 400km to 280km, and reduced 1.5 hours of travel time.

Here is a list of pictures of Hangzhou bay bridge (click the pictures for larger ones):

Overview of Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Tour Service Center of Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Seen from a distance of Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a part of six-lane expressway

The Tour Service Center of Hangzhou Bay Bridge is under construction

Hangzhou Bay Bridge is under construction

Retirement Age Will Be Pushed Back in China

2011-03-22T18:35:00.002+08:00

China's top labor official said the country is planning to push back the retirement age, but there is no timetable.

YinWeimin, minister of human resources and social security, said delaying the retirement age is a very complicated issue and they will study it according to the situations of population and employment.

Current Situations in China

The life expectancy of Chinese people is now 73 years old and is expected to rise to 74 during the next 5 years.

By the year of 2040, nearly three of ten Chinese people will be older than 60.

The retirement age is 60 for men and 55 for female civil servants and 50 for femal workers.

Different Chinese people have different opinions of rasing retirement age, it is a complicated issue.

Salt Supply Confirmed to Be Enough in China

2011-03-17T16:45:00.001+08:00

China's major salt supplier, the China National Salt Industry Corp. (CNSIC), affirmed on Thursday that there are rich salt reserves to meet people's demand and there is no need to hoard salt.

There is a rumor claimed that Japan's nuclear crisis would lead to sea water pollution and the salt produced with such water will be harmful.

P.S. According to the monitoring data, the air in China remained normal. There is nothing to panic.

China Suspends Approval for New Nuclear Plants

2011-03-16T20:28:00.002+08:00

Accorging to Wednesday's executive meeting of the State Council, China has suspended the approval process for nuclear power stations so that safety standards can be revised after the explosion at a Japanese plant.

Besides, the State Council has required relevant departments to do safety checkes at the existing nuclear plants.

Japanese nuclear crisis caused a lot attentions of nuclear safety in the world, some european countries are considering of decline the number of nuclear plants. The European Union (EU) would conduct "stress tests" on its member states' nuclear power plants.

Beautiful Yangshuo

2010-12-09T08:47:00.006+08:00

Yangshuo is located in Guilin, Guangxi provice. It is famous for it's beautiful natural view. Click the picture to view the original picture.

Isn't it amazing? Welcome to Yangshuo to have a see of the great natural view.

China's GDP grows 8.7% in 2009

2010-01-21T20:12:00.002+08:00

According to the official data today,China's economy expended 8.7% in 2009.

Gerneral Information about GDP in 2009

The total amount of GDP reached 33.54 trillion yuan (4.91 trillion U.S.dollars) in 2009. The last quarter of 2009, the GDP gorws 10.7%, and the GDP grows of the first three quarters are 6.2%, 7.9%, 9.1% respectively.
2008 and 2009 are two difficult year for the government, the global financial crisis has not over, many economist attributed the economy recover to the implementation of the proactive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy. Since November 2008, the government has adopted a series of stimulus measures, including a 4-trillion yuan stimulus package, tax cuts, and consumer subsidies to shore up growth and employment.

More Information

1. China's fixed-asset investment up 30.1% in 2009
2. China's retail sales up 16.9% in 2009
3. China's industrial output increases 11% in 2009
4. Other indexes information and charts of 2009

SMS is Getting Normal in Xinjiang

2010-01-18T10:53:00.000+08:00

I saw a pop-up windows from QQ and shows that short messages service is getting normal in Xinjiang province gradually, in other word, SMS is still not working in part of Xinjiang province. Here is the screenshot of the news.

This message also shows that at the end of last year (2009), part of websites is available in Xinjiang, but I still can't access to some webistes located in Xinjiang.
Although SMS is getting normal gradually, but I think keywords filtering is still on.

Google is Planning to Quit Chinese Market

2010-01-14T11:02:00.000+08:00

Here is a list of blog posts of Google's new approach to Chinese Market. Google's official blog posted a post about their new approach to China, they are planning to quit Chinese market.
1. A New Approach to China from Offical Google Blog
2. Google to Shut Down in China? from ReadWriteWeb
3. More Sources Claim Chinese Government Involvement in Cyber Attacks on Google, Others from ReadWriteWeb
4. Google 'may pull out of China after Gmail cyber attack' from BBC News
5. Google Just Says No To China: Ending Censorship, Due To Gmail Attack from SearchEngineLand
6. Google May Quit China from WebProNews
7. Google's Tortured History With China from john battelle's search blog
8. Your request is being processed...Google Threatening To Leave China Over Hacking, Email Leak from the HuffingtonPost

Google is really angry, what will happen? Just wait for the result.

Pingtan Island and Special Economic Zone

2009-09-28T20:25:00.001+08:00

Crosspost from Pingtan Island and Special Economic Zone
According to the latest news from Fujian provincial authorities, Pingtan Island will be transformed into a special economic zone in order to promote industrial cooperation with Taiwan.
Pingtan Island is the fifth largest island in China, it's 28 km from Fuzhou, the capitcal of Fujian province, and 120 km from Taiwan.
Because of its unique and strategic location, the government is going to build a special economic zone to enhance cross-straits industrial cooperation.

Fujian has strong culture and business ties with Taiwan, more than 80 percent of Taiwanese can trace their ancestral roots to Fujian. Now, there are more than 100,000 Taiwan businessmen and women live permanently in Fujian.

No Abnormal Reactions Reported after A/H1N1 Vaccinations

2009-09-22T22:30:00.000+08:00

In previous post, we talk about people in Beijing took the lead in China to get A/H1N1 vaccinations. Now, the local health official said that there is no abnormal reactions found. About 10,000 students and the celebrations participants received the vaccinations, none of them had abnormal reactions.

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Beijing Starts A/H1N1 Vaccinations

2009-09-21T22:49:00.002+08:00

The municipal health authorities announced today that Beijing took the lead in China to start A/H1N1 vaccination program.
The students who take part in the National Day celebrations are the first to be vaccinated, and then the other college, middle school and primary school students.
The vaccination is free of charge, the citizens made their decisons by themselves if they want the vaccination.
All of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on China have reported A/H1N1 cases, but there have been no death reported yet.
Updated:
No abnormal reactions reported after vaccinations.
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Photos of Tian'anmen Square Before National Day Celebration

2009-09-19T17:55:00.001+08:00

The 60th National Day Celebration is approaching, and the preparing is almost done. Let me show you some photos of recent Tian'anmen square. It's beautiful.
It's glorious.

Soilder is protecting the scene.

Red carpet.

Looking forward to have a nice celebration performance.

A/H1N1 is Getting Serious in China

2009-09-17T20:54:00.000+08:00

All 31 provinces in China have reportd H1N1 cases, data from the Ministry of Health, the total confirmed cases of the H1N1 reached 10,000 in China, and 1,118 new cases confirmed in the last 48 hours. Most of the newly confirmed cases were domestic-spreading cases, not imported cases.
Of all the cases, 6,098 victims have recovered, and there have been no death yet. The A/H1N1 trend is spreading form city to rural and east to west.
Beijing started inoculating last Wednesday, the first people to get vaccinated are residents over 60 years old and primary and middle school students.

New Space Center Construction Begins in Hainan, China

2009-09-14T21:47:00.003+08:00

China hold a cornerstone laying ceremony for the construction of the new space center in Hainan today. The new space center is located in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of Hainan Province, about 60 kilometers form Haikou, which is the capital city of Hainan Province. According to the schedular, the space center will be completed by 2013.
The director of the space center said this space center is the fourth and the lowest latitude one in China, only 19 degrees north of the equator. This space center will be mainly used for launching synchronous satellites, heavy satellites, large space stations, and deep space probe satellites. Vice president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology Liang Xiaohong said this center is likely to be the launch base for China's new-generation Long March 5 rocket, which is under development and will be put into service in 2014.
The center is designed to launch up to 10-12 rockets every year, and it consists of a space launch port, a space theme park, a rocket assembling plant, a rocket launch base and the command center.
Because of it's low latitude, it will use less fuel to put the rocket into orbit.

China's Imports, Exports Drop 20.6% in August

2009-09-13T22:33:00.000+08:00

China's foreign trade figures continued to fall in August, but compared with July, the downward rate slowed.
The total value of imports and exports for August was 191.7 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of 20.6 percent compard with the same month last year.
Imports dropped 17 percent compared with the same month last year, the value is 88 billions, but an increase of 3.4 percent from July.
Exports dropped 23.4 percent compard with the sanme month last year, the value is 103.7 billions, but an increase of 1 percent form July.

During the first 8 month, the European Union remained the leading trade partner of China, and followed was United States.

Drunken Drivers May Get Death Penalty in Shanghai

2009-09-12T22:45:00.002+08:00

According to the notice published by Shanghai police on their website, Drunken drivers convicted of jeopardize public safety may be sentenced to death in Shanghai. Besides, the notice also said drunken driving will have their licenses revoked for at least 3 months and be fined 500 RMB.
We have to know that not all drunken drivers may be sentenced to death, only the drunken drivers who don't care people's life and property when violating traffic regulations.
China is ongoing a two-month national campaign caughting drink driving, so there is no possible of lenient punishments.

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China's August CPI and PPI Both Dipped

2009-09-11T12:53:00.002+08:00

According to the National Bureau of Statistics' conference today, China's consumer price index (CPI) dipped 1.2 percent in August, and China's producer price index (PPI) dipped 7.9 percent in August.
China's CPI dipped 1.8 percent and PPI dipped 8.2 percent in July, 2009.
This is official data and it shows that the trend of inflation is not true.

German Drunk Driver Got 15 Days of Detention in Xi'an, China

2009-09-10T20:50:00.003+08:00

The man was the first foreigner caught drink driving in China. He got 15 days detention in Xi'an and fined 1,500 yuan (about 219 U.S. dollars).
The German Embassy has requestd the police not to release the man's name and identity to the public, so the police said the man was 38 and have an EU driving license, but no Chinese driving license. It is illegal, because if you want to drive a car in China, you should have chinese driving license first.
The accident was serious, the German KIA sedan hit the rear of a Jetta sedan, both vehicles were seriously damaged, fortunately, no one was injured in the accident.
Hello friends, if you want to drive a car in China, you should have Chinese driving license first, secondly, you should not drink and obey Chinese driving rules.
We are having two-month national compaign to caught drink drivers now, no drink before drive.

High-Speed Railway Network Started in China

2009-09-10T14:07:00.001+08:00

China is very vast, it will cost you a long time if you travel form one place to another by ordinary trains, but now, a high-speed railway network covers 13,000 kilometers is scheduled to be completed in three years.
There are eight tunnels, four tunnels running from north to south and other four running form east to west. It will serve most major cities in China.
Here is a list of north-south trunks
1, from Harbin in Heilongjiang Province to Beijing.
2, from Beijing to Shanghai.
3, from Xiamen to Shenzhen.
4, from Beijing to Guangdong.
The following is a list of east-west trunks
1, from Taiyuan to Jiaodong Peninsula.
2, from Xi'an to Zhengzhou.
3, from Chongqing to Shanghai.
4, from Hangzhou to Kunming.
The above eight tunnels cover most major cities in China, it is said the speed will reach more than 250kms per hour, it amazing, it will shorten a lot of boring time on train when you are travelling around China.
There is no news about the ticket price now, I think it will more expensive than ordinary ticket price, may be double.

A/H1N1 Flu Vaccination Begins in China

2009-09-10T09:43:00.000+08:00

In order to fight against A/H1N1 which is expected to surge in future, the Chinese government start vaccination in the coming week. Several days ago, the first domestic A/H1N1 Flu Vaccine got its production license.
Cluster outbreaks of A/H1N1 have increased sharply, it is reported that there are 128 cases of cluster outbreaks report since the end of June, especially when schools reopened. Many cluster outbreaks happened in schools.
The 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China is getting closer, the people who attend the 60th anniversary will be the very first people to get vaccinations. Then, the vaccination will start in areas where flu situations are serious.
China's ability to produce A/H1N1 flu vaccine is limited while compared with it's 1.3 billion of population, so the priority vaccination is necessary.

Large Amphibious Aircraft is on Work

2009-09-07T20:52:00.002+08:00

Large Amphibious Aircraft, which is for fire-fighting and rescue missions, is on work. This news is from official Aviation Industry Corppration of China.
The aircraft would be able to touch down and glide to draw water for fire-fighting, it will have a capacity of 12 tonnes of water. Besides, this aircraft is alao able to provide a rescue service for 50 people at a time.
Market research shows the demand of this type of aircraft in the domestic market would be 50 in the near future, it is a small number, but the overseas market will be bigger.
The building schedule planed the maiden flight will be in 2013, and get a civil aviation certificate form the government the year after.

Kaifu Lee is Quitting Google China

2009-09-04T23:11:00.000+08:00

Kaifu Lee, the president of Google's operations in China, will leave his post in the middle of this month.
Four years ago, Lee left Microsoft and joined Google, Microsoft sued Google, Google countersued, the two big corporations reached a out-of-court settlement at last.
It is said Lee planed to leave Google during July, but CCTV broadcast that google's search result contains illegal contents, Lee have to stay and solve the tough problem.
During the last four years, Lee did a lot, and improved a lot.
After leave, Lee will work on an unkonwn venture. Liu Yun will take place of Lee.

A/H1N1 Flu Vaccine Got a Production License

2009-09-04T22:59:00.004+08:00

A/H1N1 flu vaccine produced by a domestic pharmaceutical company Sinovac got the first H1N1 Flu vaccine production license.
The State Food and Drug Administration said that the Sinovac's vaccine passed SFDA's experts evaluatin on Aug 31, and it's name is Panflu 1.
Panflu 1 could safely be given to people who aged from 3 to 60 years old. Every shot is 15 microgram dose.
The vaccine would be reserved by the governement instead of going on public market, and the government will make out an overall plan and decide certain high-risk groups who will get priority vaccination.
Another A/H1N1 flu vaccine produced by Hualan Biological Enginnering will be evaluated this week. Hualan's vaccine is suitable for people over 3 years old.
China would be able to produce enough vaccine for 65 million people by the end of this year.