Faint Signs of Uptick in China Trade
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- Faint Signs of Uptick in China Trade
- Equestrian Quarantine Announced for 16th Asian Games
- Metro Atlanta Chamber’s China Blog: Day 7
- China calls up its first black athlete
- China newspaper urges government name quake dead
Faint Signs of Uptick in China Trade
New York Times
That anecdotal evidence of some uptick in trade came as a senior Chinese government economic forecaster Fan Jianping said the economy had grown at an annual pace of “around 6 percent” in the first quarter. That would be the slowest pace since quarterly records began in 1992 indicating that strong consumer spending and heavy government investments had failed to offset a nose dive in exports. The figure given by Mr. Fan — the official statistic is to be released Thursday — was roughly in line with economists’ expectations.
Equestrian Quarantine Announced for 16th Asian Games
World News
No equestrian events during the Games of the XXIX lympiad in Beijing were held in mainland China – rather they were hosted in Hong Kong. Equine stars from across the world traveled to Hong Kong to contest for lympic medals. All horses taking part in the Beijing 2008 Summer lympic Games were quarantined for 17 days as well as undergoing blood tests and vaccinations.
Related from Horsepowergraphics: 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games Are Awarded to Normandie France
Metro Atlanta Chamber’s China Blog: Day 7
Bizjournals.com
Companies in tech-centric Shenzhen for example hold more patents than those in all other Chinese cities combined. Hangzhou is especially strong in digital media entertainment for which Georgia has progressive incentives. The central government in Beijing is directing economic activity to designated regions such as Shenzhen-Guangzhou Shanghai-Pudong and Tianjin. We divided our mission delegation into smaller groups to tap into these opportunities. While our counterparts were up north my group started on the southern route. We first hit the Shenzhen-Guangzhou corridor then proceeded north to the Zhejiang economic hubs of Ningbo and Hangzhou and continued north to Tianjin. We finally joined the rest of our delegation in Beijing today.
China calls up its first black athlete
Telegraph.co.uk
n Chinese internet forums he has been lauded for the “whiteness” of his teeth and the “athleticism of his genes”. China’s black population is tiny and attitudes remain relatively unsophisticated. ne predominately African suburb in the southern city of Guangzhou is cheerfully referred to as “Chocolate City”. In the run-up to last year’s lympic Games in Beijing large numbers of blacks were rounded up by police on suspicion of being drug dealers. However the black population is growing rapidly. Since 2003 when China started pouring investments into Africa there has been a significant movement of Africans in the opposite direction. Guangzhou authorities believe there are now 100000 Africans from Nigeria Guinea Cameroon Liberia and Mali in the city and the flow is growing by 30 to 40 per cent annually.
China newspaper urges government name quake dead
Reuters
The call was made on Wednesday by the Southern Metropolitan Daily a popular and outspoken tabloid published in the southern city of Guangzhou. "If we let the names of the dead lie buried human rights can have no place of trust" the paper said in an editorial. The call comes at a sensitive time a month before the first anniversary of the May 12 quake across southwest China that killed 80000 or more people mostly in Sichuan province. Volunteers led by Beijing artist Ai Weiwei have sought to compile a list of thousands of children killed in schools that parents said were shoddily built and Ai has spoken of official harassment. Police in Sichuan province recently detained writer Tan Zuoren who was trying to make a list of children killed.
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