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According to the meeting, China has poured about 1.5 billion yuan (about $197 million) into the research and development of nanoscience and nanotechnology over the past 15 years, achieving encouraging advances in this regard. For instance, the number of research papers published by Chinese scientists at the international journals in 2006 were on a par with those contributed by their US or Japanese colleagues. The number of patents they have filed for has increased from less than 1,000 in 2001 to more than 4,600 in March 2005.
Under the guidance of the national framework for nanoscience and technology development during the 10th five-year planning period (2001-2005), China made an overall deployment in the fields concerning nanoscience and nanotechnology, such as materials, information, energy sources, medicine and manufacturing. A flagship nanoscience research program has also been launched.
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The Bank for International Settlements has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fuelled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy vulnerable to another 1930s-style slump.
"Virtually nobody foresaw the Great Depression of the 1930s, or the crises which affected Japan and southeast Asia in the early and late 1990s. In fact, each downturn was preceded by a period of non-inflationary growth exuberant enough to lead many commentators to suggest that a 'new era' had arrived", said the bank.
The BIS pointed to a confluence a worrying signs, citing mass issuance of new-fangled credit instruments, soaring levels of household debt, extreme appetite for risk shown by investors, and entrenched imbalances in the world currency system.
It said China's growth was "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable", borrowing a line from Chinese premier Wen Jiabao
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Youths addicted to online games have found ways to earn their living, by slaving away - often literally - quarrying, scalping and even stealing the virtual equipment of the games. These are precious and costly - in real or virtual terms - weapons, rank, robes and accessories.
This virtual thievery is very real and does not bode well for the future of the young robbers who are plunged into online larceny. They themselves are often the victims of bosses who virtually enslave them for 12 hours a day.
It's time for the government to ban and for gamers to boycott unidentified transactions for virtual weapons and accessories - because an underground network of theft may well lie at its heart.
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"Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our customers who received the toys," Thomas A. Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice president for worldwide operations, told China's product safety chief, Li Changjang.
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by Zhu Jing - East African Standard (Nairobi). China practises a unique democratic experience, which
is beneficial, reasonable and fruitful because it
suits the country and has stood the test of time.
The political party system that China adopts is
consultative under the leadership of the Communist
Party of China (CPC), which is different from the
Western two-party or multi-party and the one-party
system practised in some countries.
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Intel Corporation today announced plans to build a 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility (fab) in the coastal Northeast China city of Dalian in Liaoning Province. The $2.5 billion investment for the factory designated Fab 68 will become Intel's first wafer fab in Asia and adds significant investment to Intel's existing operations in China.
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China is to begin constructing on Saturday its first-ever nuclear power plant in its northeastern Liaoning province, a key heavy industrial base of the country.
Located in city Wafangdian on the Liaodong Pininsula, the planned nuclear power project, named Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant, will involve a total investment of 50 billion yuan, or some 6.5 billiion dollars. Its first phase project is expected to be completed in 2014, with four-set milllion-kilowatt turbine generators put into operation, producing each year at least 29 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.
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A CAS project on natural drugs against some murderous diseases, which was completed seven years ago, has made major new progress, according to an ex-post evaluation panel.
With four million yuan from the CAS headquarters, the project started in 1997 by setting up 24 components to address such issues as tumors, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's and viral diseases. Some of the new drugs from natural products have received the official approval for clinical studies or commercial production.
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China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale - including to foreign recipients- according to a study.
The report's authors - Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas - implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.
Chinese officials denied those allegations.
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I was recently embroiled in controversy after writing a technical report about a new Chinese-designed microprocessor. The controversy was inflamed by dodgy Internet news sites, and it obscured the most important conclusion of my article: that China is capable of designing microprocessors as sophisticated as any in the world.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has indicated that he will try to talk with China about their decision to block his user-updated online encyclopedia. Although Wikipedia’s content is currently blocked in China, Chinese search engine Baidu has been offering some of the website’s content…claiming it as its own copyrighted material.
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In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.
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China's firewall that tries to sanitise web browsing is much more porous than previously thought, says a study.
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Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), spotted the images, photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006.
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China is likely to unveil the first ultra mobile PC using domestic microprocessor technology with chip design technologies transferred from the US firm AMD, posing challenges to companies like Intel.
PKUnity Microsystems, backed by Peking University, yesterday demonstrated the prototype computer developed with X86 technologies from AMD, running on Microsoft Windows XP system, which means the company has full capability to make commercial PCs with locally developed processors.
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A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province.
Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun".
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China has developed very sophisticated technology for intercepting and censoring Internet content. The government blocks many topics it considers sensitive or controversial and often punishes those who try to get around those bans. Reporters Without Borders refers to China as the "world's biggest prison for cyber-dissidents."
Click through this interactive to learn more about who is involved in Internet censorship, how it works and what people do to get around it.
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Cellphones, microchips, cars, even iPhones—there's virtually no high-tech Western product that China's cloners can't copy. Pretty soon, you might even prefer their work.
The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers. The miniOne's first news teases—a forum posting, a few spy shots, a product announcement that vanished after a day—generated a frenzy of interest online. Was it real? When would it go on sale? And most intriguing, could it really be even better than the iPhone?
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Canada's foreign affairs minister says he wants to crack down on Chinese spies who are stealing industrial and high-technology secrets at a tremendous cost to the economy.
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Intel Corp signed a memorandum yesterday with China's YouTube-like site Tudou.com to explore video sharing technologies on wireless network and develop video applications for mobile devices.
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The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.
Described as China's "nuclear option" in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.
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 "In 2000 as a result of the collapse of communism, India’s turn from autarky, China's shift to market capitalism, the global economy encompassed six billion people. Had China, India and the former Soviet empire stayed outside, the global economy would have had 3.3 billion people." As Smith adds: "The 'before' and 'after' picture was of a worldwide workforce of 1.46 billion in 2000, swollen to 2.93 billion as a result of China (760 million), India (440 million) and the ex-Soviet states (260 million)."
China’s growth was proclaimed as 'unique'. Moreover, they projected an ascending line – a linear growth – of Chinese economic expansion into the future. Within an expansion averaging between 8% and 9%, stretching over 23 years, China has undoubtedly had a major effect in prolonging the present upward cycle of world capitalism.
But this growth is not at all 'unique'. In fundamentals it is little different to the experience of the Asian 'Tigers' more than 20 years ago. Stimulated by land reform – removing the residual elements of feudalism – under US occupation and with favourable treatment, Japan averaged a growth rate of 8% between 1950 and 1980, sometimes reaching an annual rate of 13%. The economy doubled in size every six years and something similar occurred in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
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Look at the photo above, and you'll see just a few of China's 11.5 million private cars. (That 2006 number represents a one-third jump from 2005 levels.) Take a closer look, and you should be able to discern cars parked on sidewalks. And if you look really closely, you might be able to pick out cars double-parked on sidewalks, and even the guy whose job it is to direct cars into sidewalk parking "spots."
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In the near future (till 2020), according to the planning, China should give priority to technologies to save energy, raise its efficiency and cut down its pollution. In the mid-term (around 2030), importance should be attached to the development of nuclear and renewable energy sources. And in the long-term future (about 2050), the country is expected to set up a sustainable energy system to basically meet its overall needs of energy sources across the country.
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Citic Securities and other brokerages benefited from a stock boom last year, when more than 60.4 million investment accounts were opened, up more than 11-fold. The securities company may face challenges maintaining growth as China's benchmark CSI 300 Index has slid 22 percent this year, damping trading.
"The crazy growth phase for China's brokers has gone."
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China's Semiconductor contract manufacturer.
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According to a report by the People's Daily Overseas Edition, unemployment might remain a headache in China in the next 15 years, as the demand for jobs has been greatly underestimated.
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China’s rapid rise as a regional political and economic power with global aspirations is an important element of today’s strategic environment – one that has significant implications for the region and the world. The United States welcomes the rise of a peaceful and prosperous China. U.S. policy encourages China to participate as a responsible international stakeholder by taking on a greater share of responsibility for the health and success of the global system from which China has derived great benefit.
China’s leaders face some important choices as its power and influence grow.
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Collection of photos of China
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A western intelligence official said the Chinese security services saw the Olympics as "a goldmine for intelligence gathering, blackmail and commercial secrets". A main fear now is that business visitors to China will be permanently subject to "a cold war level" of industrial espionage from systems put in place for the games.
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In this PBS documentary, 4 students at one of China's most prestigious universities fail to identify the famous Tianamen Square photo of the "tank man". After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime amazed the world. What became of him? And 17 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history?
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Wuhan, Hebei province: A man collects dead fish in Donghu lake, where officials say an estimated 30,000kg of fish have been killed by a combination of pollution and hot weather
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China's controversial Three Gorges Dam project hits a significant milestone on Saturday, when it is expected to reach its final height of 185m (607 feet). But it will not be fully operational until 2009.
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The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
The episode illustrated the profound impact of the Internet on political discourse in China, and the challenge that the Web poses to the Communist Party's ability to control news and shape public opinion, key elements to its hold on power.
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You would think that The Cardboard Buns Story is decisive and conclusive that the original news story was faked by an overly ambitious and over-reaching reporter. Unfortunately, some people in China continue to believe that the story was true.
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ZDNet Asia Special Report
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If you think Malaysia’s state of piracy is bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. China is where Uncle Ho got his MBA in Piracy. They can pirate anything and nothing’s stopped them for doing it. Proton ripping off Alfa’s grill for the Perdana V6 and Alfa’s sport rims design for the Proton Gen2 is nothing compared to what Chinese car manufacturers are capable of.
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A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on. In response, the Chinese government actually executed its regulatory head of food and product safety, Zheng Xiaoyu.
How very strange this last point is! In the West, we long ago gave up the idea that these people are actually supposed to carry out their jobs and should be personally responsible for their failure to do so.
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