The Editors suggest checking out the following links:
REA: China Wind Power Hits 5.6 GW – “China’s wind power generating capacity surged to 5.6 gigawatts by the end of last year, but over a quarter of it is still not connected to the grid because of bad planning”
Cleantech.com: Solar PV still going through growing pains – A bit of consternation among Chinese solar firms about policy changes in Germany and the US
Planet Ark : 1st Japanese Rice Ethanol Plant to Start 2009 – “the project aims to use non-food rice planted in abandoned farmlands. A fall in domestic consumption of rice every year results in the Japanese government’s plan to reduce planting for food rice by some 100,000 ha in 2008 from 2007.”
China Daily: Why are our cities stumbling? – Columnist You Nuo on the chaos caused by heavy snowfall in cities across China this winter
China Daily: Outbound tourism sector to open wider – Foreign operators to be let into the outbound tourism sector; banking sector cited as a guide
AsianInvestor.net: Chinese policymakers to muddle through soft landing – “Wang believes that China is coming into a late cycle once again. It is now susceptible to overheating, as history has shown in 1992, 1998 and 2003”
Information Times: Three Telecom Operators Consider A-Share Listings – China Mobile could list in Shanghai as early as this quarter.
Marbridge Consulting: Operators Announce December 2007 Subscriber Totals – China Mobile now has 369 million subscribers, Unicom has 160 million; fixed line subs on the decline
The American: The China Model – Long piece by Rowan Callick looking at the rise of prosperity without liberty. Summarises a lot of the recent books on the topic
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