Modesty is for the weak. Anyone with an internet connection will probably have seen the rather awesome business card belonging to Chinese millionaire Chen Guangbiao doing the rounds yesterday.
Mr Chen, who reportedly wants to buy the New York Times, describes himself on his card as the most influential person in China, among other outbursts of modesty. Jan_cho. Desolation of smog: Tackling China's air quality crisis. 7 January 2014Last updated at 01:10 GMT All downhill from here?
China wants to arrest the decline in air quality in urban centres Officials in China say they are confident green technology will help overcome the country's notoriously polluted air. Apocalyptic scenes of dense smog have recently forced major cities including Shanghai and Harbin to virtually shut down. The capital Beijing is among urban areas where pollution routinely exceeds safety limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a rare interview, a senior environmental official told the BBC he was "optimistic" that the problems would be overcome. How China is trying to battle the smog The Chinese government has launched an effort worth 1.7 trillion yuan (£180bn) to clean up power stations and traffic fumes. The head of air quality at Beijing's Environmental Protection Bureau, Wang Bin, pointed to the success other major world cities have had in tackling smog. "We have already moved fast to cope with this issue.
Bribery in China is pervasive, under attack, and surprisingly cheap. Former China railway minister Liu Zhijun received a suspended death sentence on Monday for accepting $10.5 million in bribes over 25 years, making him the highest ranking official to fall prey to President Xi Jinping’s crackdown.
Fading Promises: young expats looking to earn big in China face a tricky time. Foreign resources have helped fuel China's perennial economic boom.
But it is not just petrol, coal and steel that have to be imported: human resources from abroad are also part of the mix. In January, Wen Jiabao, China's premier, announced that he wanted to invite more foreigners to work there, claiming that: "A nation can be prosperous only when it is open and inclusive. " Those arriving to take up his invitation risk bumping into disgruntled expats on their way out. More than 550,000 foreigners currently work in China, after a decade of 10 percent-a-year increases. Many of them are youngsters fleeing dire European or American job markets and drawn by the brightest beacon of the global economy. Michaelmcd : Seems that even Mao was affected...
Why China Will Soon Be No. 1: Brad Pitt, Pandas And No Elections. A report by the China Daily claimed that China will "surpass the United States in an all-around way by 2049," citing a report that the Chinese Academy of Sciences released.
A less-serious take by Comedy Central cited a study by the National Intelligence Council, which claimed that China's world dominance can be expected even sooner -- in 2030. But the 166-page study did not convince writer Mary Phillips-Sandy, who refuted the claims with a very persuasive 11-point list of reasons America will always be No. 1 (Beyoncé is among them). ConnectedPRC. The toilet paper theory of Chinese international development. In January 2012, Guo Shuqing, then head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, employed an unusual segue to discuss the internationalization of China's securities.
Guo's powerful organization, roughly similar to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, regulates China's stock and bond market. People’s Daily’s New Headquarters Is More Than A Little Phallic. There’s phallic — the Washington Monument, skyscrapers, ice cream drumsticks — and then there’s penis.
Behold the above, purportedly the new headquarters of People’s Daily. As Hug China explains: Pictures of the People’s Daily new headquarters that is under furnishing at the moment have gone viral on Chinese social media. Rage, Smelly Socks and Stolen Wine in China’s Skies. February 2013 might have been the worst month ever to be an employee of an airline flying in or out of China.
Blame, however, can’t be laid at the feet (or landing gears) of the airlines that seek to exploit one of the world’s fastest growing air-travel markets. This state of affairs must be pinned on an ornery cast of Chinese passengers. The lowlights are noteworthy: -- Feb. 6, Kunming Changshui International Airport: In a video that has gone viral internationally, Yan Linkun, a mining executive and county-level Communist Party official, smashes two boarding gate computers and attempts to send the frame of a sign through the glass door standing between him and the second flight that he and his family have missed. Photos: Naked woman chases naked man carrying a sex doll through Beijing. Not much is known about these photos, which are sweeping the Chinese internet, beyond the fact that they were taken in Beijing, and that they're awesome.
Is it an art project? A sex game gone wrong? A woman jilted by a silicone mistress? Run, naked sex doll couple, run for freedom. If you have further information, and want to be immortalised as the person who solved the mystery of Beijing's naked sex doll couple, please email james@shanghaiist.com. China’s First Publicly Glamorous First Lady. Peng Liyuan, celebrity folksinger and wife of President Xi Jinping has a chic, elegant and decidedly local look.
