The top news story today is about the government taking steps to improve incomes for the rural population, to reduce the income gap with the cities, and integrate remote areas more closely into the economic miracle that is 21st-century China. The characterization of this process as the “New Socialist Countryside” raises a smile. There is […]
Category: This Week in China
About six months ago, the China Economic Review started the Red Dragon Fund, an A-share only fund with a 10,000 rmb investment. The fund value, details to be published the next issue of the Review available on March 1, is back in the black – over 10,000 rmb – after spending some time in the […]
While all the major Internet companies have taken flak for caving in to Beijing’s censorship demands in one way or another, Google has been unfairly pilloried over its new Chinese search portal, Google.cn, which it admits will filter results to toe the Party line. Lest our readers be confused about the whole matter, there are […]
Phil Pan writing in the Washington Post has the full story of the successive rises and falls of Wikipedia, currently blocked on the mainland. Click here to read. It doesn’t speculate about the ways in which the story could play out. But I would say it is all a matter of China getting used to […]
Howard W French has written an interesting piece in the NY Times about the plight of the powerless crossing guards in Shanghai. These poor souls have one of the most thankless jobs I can think of – trying to control the city’s notoriously lawbreaking pedestrians, cyclists and motorbikers – and all for a mere thousand […]