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China Adhere to Reduce Forests Logging
A government plan has been issued by the State Council of China’s cabinet say China will reduce logging on both natural and planted forests in the next 20 years. Depending on government’s guideline, China will reduce commercial harvesting by 20 percent and eliminate logging on state-owned natural forests by 2020.…
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Dongguan Strike Highlights China’s Welfare Worries
Millions of migrant workers provided the muscle behind China’s export-driven economic rise. However, China’s labor relations are becoming more and more nervous, reported by “info.texnet.com.cn” a Chinese online media. At least 5,000 went on strike according to labour rights groups on March 13 at the beginning, but the situation is…
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Politics
Remains of 68 Chinese People’s Volunteers Killed in Korean War Return
China held a ceremony to bury 68 soldiers killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War on March 21 in city of Shenyang, whose were returned by the Republic of Korea, said Xinhua. 68 soldiers were covered by the national flag, the caskets were carried into a martyrs’ park which located in…
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Politics
China Became the World’s 3rd-largest Arms Exporter
China become the world’s third-largest arms exporter, but the United States and Russia remain the dominant sellers of weapons worldwide, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden on Monday. China’s share was far below that of the United States, at 31 percent, or Russia, at 27 percent,…
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Politics
China’s 5 Dangerous Points Due to Dictatorship
Professor David Shambaugh, a famous Chinese scholar at George Washington University predicts that the Communist Party of China (CCP)’s endgame has begun in his paper of The Coming Chinese Crackup in the Wall Street Journal recently. Such predictions of the CCP’s collapse have been proven wrong in the past, and…
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Society
China Losing Her Charming?
American students are getting cold feet about studying Chinese in China, said Reuters (shanghai). Numerous study chinese abroad programs seeing substantial drop over the last few years. Student enrolment to China in Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) at the University of California is supposed to be less than half of four…
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Four Chinese Workers Killed Due to Myanmar Ethnic Conflict on the Border
Four Chinese people were killed in Yunnan province by a bomb dropped from a Myanmar warplane last Friday. Though Beijing had warned of escalating violence across China’s southwestern border before. “The bomb hit a sugarcane field and killing the four workers and injuring nine others.” Xinhua agency said. Beijing has…
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Local Chinese Campaigners Call for Protect Traditional Villages and Resist Urbanization
Over the past 10 years, there were about 900,000 natural villages have disappeared in china. A famed writer Feng Jicai predicts “The situation is becoming more serious than anticipated” on Wednesday. Nowadays, many campaigners for the protection of villages same as Feng are concerned by their rapid decline having…
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East Asia
Young women begin wearing spring clothing as it gets warm in Nanjing, China
Combo photo taken on March 5, 2013, shows young women wearing spring clothing as temperature rises in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Li Xiang>
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East Asia
China: University lets men in with lower test scores Major news in <People’s Daily>: University lets men in with lower test scores MEN are being admitted with lower test scores than women for the first time this year in a few non-English majors by Shanghai International Studies University, which is known for language studies. The college entrance exam test…
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