Japan's PM Fukuda is visiting China.
He says that Japan and China will have an arrangement where the Japanese will train 10,000 people in China on:
1. energy-saving technologies
2. environmental protection technologies
"Fortunately, Japan has started to tackle environmental problems seriously from an early date … and is now one of the most efficient users of […]
Capitalism is not always pretty. Okay, it is sometimes ugly.
In fact, there's an ugly contest going on in Shenzhen, China's first free economic zone experiment,.
Shenzhen sits across the river from Hong Kong.
Capitalism means marketing, right?
Marketing means doing something, anything to drum up interest, no?
Enter the ugly contest.
Just for registering, a person can get […]
China's top legistlature the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) is expected to vote and pass the raising of the monthly income tax threshold.
Currently the most that can be paid is Y1,600 ($217). The new threshold will be Y2,000.
If/when it passes the effective date will be March 1st of next year.
The group thinks […]
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Beijing Games (BOCOG) understands what it means to be stolen from.
Ticket scams are on the rise. A lot of people will be showing up to watch venues and NOT be allowed in.
During the second phase of ticket sales, BOCOG was uable to keep up technologically and were unable to […]
With the Beijing Olympic Games under 8 months away China is likely to extend current regulations on foreign reporters, meaning the government will grant easier access and promise greater transparency even beyond the Beijing Olympics.
"The Minister of the State Council Information Office, told a press conference there is no document stating that when this new […]
Japan's PM Fukuda has decided that China is a better friend or maybe just business partner than Taiwan is.
The PM said 'No' to Taiwan.
1. No to support Taiwan authorities' attempts to seek UN membership by "referendum."
2. No support to the claims of "one China, one Taiwan",
3. No to "Taiwan independence"
Tags: 3997, 4044, relations, taiwan
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China's president Hu and Japan's Prime Minister Fukuda are meeting together here at year's end.
While the rest of us are winding down, or maybe it's just me, these two are setting targets for next year.
Hu wants:
1. long-term, stable and good neighborly relations between China and Japan.
Tags: fukuda, hu, summit
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By the next time the year of the Rat comes around, 2020, China expects that half of the country will be middle class.
Of city dwellers, 78%.
Country folk - 30%.
Middle class in China is defined as having between Y60,000 and Y200,000 annual salary. $8,200 - $25,000ish.
China wants to quadruple the per capita income of $1,500 recorded […]
Toyota Motor Co. will double its efforts by building a 2nd assembly plant in Russia's St. Petersburg. (Been there, when it was still Leningrad.)
After completion of this second plant, built adjacent to an existing plant, Toyota will become the largest automaker in Russia, surpassing General Motors in terms of local production.
Toyota will also use the […]
There is a huge energy demand in China.
2008 presents more of the same.
Besides fossil fuels, China relies on:
1. nuclear power,
2. wind power,
3. solar power
These three alternative sources are making inroads into China.
Tags: 3997, 4168, energy
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