Archive for the ‘chinese’ Category

Beijing Hutong Tourist Agency is One of 22

Beijing is home to nearly 2000 hutongs (alleyway) which in turn are home to about 64,8000 Bejingites.
Since the last time it was the year of the DOG 1994 tricyclists have been hauling Westerners and C…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 11th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

The Richest Man in China to be Replaced

Last year Forbes ranked the 400 richest Chinese. For the second year in a row, Larry Rong Zhijian, head of CITIC Pacific Group was the leader. At the time he was worth an estimated $1.6 billion.
This …

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 11th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s Acrobats are Second to None

Acrobats in China have to take a back seat to no one. The acrobats can do amazing thing, one finger handstands – probably a hoax – but a very good one.
I stumbled across this picture of a …

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 11th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China Ranks 110th in the World

China Ranks 110th in the World

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 10th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s “Golden Week” By the Numbers

1. The average tourist spent the equivalent of $54 during the weeklong National Day holiday.
2. There was an increase of 19.% over last year to 133 million travelers in China during Golden Week.
3. Th…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 10th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

Shanghai Downtown Housing Prices Skyrocket

Housing prices continue to skyrocket. Ho hum. What’s new? Aren’t housing prices out of reach everywhere in the world?
But..but..Shanghai is seeing prices rise even more quickly.
According …

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 10th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China Begins Filling Strategic Oil Reserves

Beijing has taken another page from the US. China now has 16 massive oil tanks in Zhenhai on the coast in the province of Zhejiang, south of Shanghai.
The tanks are being filled with domestically prod…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 9th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, China Business, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s 10-step Program For Internet Addicted Teen-agers

China’s 10-step Program For Internet Addicted Teen-agers

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 9th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

4 Reasons Why China Does NOT Threaten the Global Energy Supply

In 2002, for the first time, China’s oil consumption accounted for 6% of the world total. Alarms sounded and many – mostly Westerners – began to sound the alarm that China was threat…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 9th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s Moon Tunes

The Commissioner of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense revealed a list of 30 tunes that China will broadcast to the Earth from the Moon next year when its Satellite "Chang̵…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 8th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments