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The Tianjin municipal government has signed and agreement with the Ministry of Information Industry to construct a wireless broadband network in the Binhai New District of Tianjin. The Binhai district will be a trial location for China’s comprehensive reform of its computer networks according to ChinaTechNews.com. Tianjin’s push to create a wireless city zone has made it one of the most[…..]
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China and India, the two economic powerhouses of a fast developing Asia, are lagging in terms of economic well-being and living standards of their population, a new study undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) shows. According to the International Comparison Program (ICP) in Asia and the Pacific: Purchasing Power Parity Preliminary Report, released yesterday, China[…..]
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GUANGZHOU, July 31 – Guangzhou Baiyun International, China’s third busiest airport after Beijing and Shanghai, is expanding its efforts to become an international air cargo and logistics hub in prosperous South China. China Daily reported that international logistics companies will play a larger part in reaching the goal, according to Liu Zijing, president of the[…..]
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At the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, China will seek to cement strategic partnerships with the former Soviet states of Central Asia. While China and Russia insist that the SCO was created as a counter-terrorism group, the two are in competition for influence and oil and gas rights in the four former Soviet republics of[…..]
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In a recent video shot by freelance journalist David Axe for C-SPAN, Afghani merchants of various stripes talk at length about the growth of their businesses under a microfinance system that has been put in place since the fall of the Taliban and introduction of numerous western aid agencies. Like counterpart programs in India, Bangladesh and now[…..]
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While doing some research recently on advice for foreign investors looking to enter the Chinese market, we came upon this letter to an American considering seeking opportunities in Shanghai. [There is] nothing whatever for you to do in the office in Shanghai, and, as you do not speak Chinese, I cannot put you in charge[…..]
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The Tianjin Bonded Zone is seeing a lot of construction these days as the port is dredged and streets leading to the zone are dug up to lay cables and pipelines for telephone, electric and gas facilities to feed the new logistic parks under construction. By the end of 2007, according to an article in[…..]
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The Grand Canal, a 1,800 kilometer-long waterway stretching from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in the south linking six of China’s river systems – the Yellow, the Huai, the Qiantang, the Wei, the Hai and the Yangtze – is seeing a revival of conservation efforts following the establishment of a national organization to protect the world’s oldest canal[…..]
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