Category: Economics & Trade

Having opened its logistics industry to wholly foreign-owned enterprises such as UPS and DHL in December last year, China has indicated that its aviation market will follow suit.

Notable quotables on China

Google revealed its new Chinese name, Gu Ge, and defended its controversial decision to censor its new China-based search service. The company described the new name, which means "harvest song", as conveying "the sense of a fruitful and productive search experience, in a poetic Chinese way". It replaces unofficial but popular alternatives like "Gougou" and "Gugou", which mean "doggy" and "old hound". In defense of Google’s decision to bow to Chinese censors and restrict certain search results, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Google should abide by the law and policies of countries in which it operates.

I was traveling hard sleeper on a night train heading west from Shanghai, and as usual many of the passengers were talking to each other, trying to shut out the sound of Kenny G on the PA system. Or at least I was.

Graham Earnshaw is walking from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, starting always from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near the village of Shuangfeng (double peaks) in the southwest of Anhui Province