Vroom Vroom! Foton Revs Up Its World Strategy

STATISTICS from the China Association of Automobile In- dustry show that in 2009 China produced 13.791 million vehicles, an increase of 48.3 percent over the previous year; over 13.644 million vehicles were sold, representing 46.2 percent year-on-year growth.     

NUMBERS

<正>2.19 million Number of vehicles sold in China in August,up 5.3 percent year on year,maintaining momentum from July,when sales rose 6.2 percent 900 billion yuan Output value of China’s Internet of Things industry as of September,with a compound annual growth of over 25 percent     

Reading Market Challenges

Though a late starter, China’s electronic reader (e-reader) market is growing explosively. This year, e-reader sales in China are expected to reach 3 million units from 300,000 in 2009—20 percent of the     

Are Adult Children Living With Aging Parents Filial or Fleecing?

正Online survey platform Wenjuan.com and the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily recently conducted a joint survey of families where 77.3 percent of the respondents said they know of adults who live with their elderly parents and depend on the latter for daily expenses even though they have a decent income. Over 63 percent of those surveyed said adults who live off     

Zhuang Brocade： State of the Weaving Art

WITH a population of over 16 million, Zhuang is the largest ethnic minority group in China. Over 90 percent of Zhuang people live in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, and the rest reside in neighboring Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. Throughout the centuries, the Zhuang people have been admired for their outstanding brocade weaving skills.     

Strengthening Control of Antibiotics

IT is a well-known fact that buying guns is much easier than purchasing antibiotics in the United States. In China, however, the situation is different. According to a recent WHO survey, about 80 percent of Chinese inpatients take antibiotic medicines, and 58 percent of them are prescribed multifunctional antibiotics, which compares alarmingly with the international average of 30 percent. Every year, about 200,000 Chinese patients die from medicinal side effects, 80,000 of these deaths resulting from misuse of antibiotics. A staggering 20 million people in China suffer from hearing impairments, and between 60 and 80 percent of these cases are attributable to antibiotic overuse. Zhang Yongxin, president of the Antibiotics Research Institute affiliated with the Huashan Hospital in     

SOCIETY

正Cyber Attacks Cyber attacks on China launched from bases overseas surged in 2011,rising to 8.9 million computers affected from 5 million in the previous year,according to a network security report.Japan was the source of most attacks (22.8 percent),followed closely by the United States (20.4 percent) and the Republic of Korea (7.1 percent).The report,released on March 19 by China's     

Village Elementary School Affecting the United Nations

"Left-behind children" are children who have one parent or both parents working in another city while the children stay in the village. These children usually live with either one of their parents, relatives or family friends. Research shows that there are over 58 million left-behind children in China; 57.2 percent of them have one parent working in another city, 42.8 percent of the children have both parents working in another city, 79.7 percent are raised by their grandparents, 13 percent of the left-behind children are raised by relatives or friends, 7.3 percent of these children are raised without a guardian or information about them is uncertain. As the Chinese economy prospers, working-age adults from villages increasingly choose to work in cities with left-behind children a special population that requires special attention in Chinese village education. Social researchers warn that left-behind children are not only a problem for families but a social problem. The education program in Linzi Elementary School, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province has raised awareness of left-behind children’s education. The school’s "Left-behind Children ’33433’ Linzi Model" is now popular in the country and followed by many elementary schools. This school is now a major experimental elementary school under the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) caring for left-behind children.     

Returning Home：From Fences to the Wild

THE milu appeared in China about two to three million years ago, almost the same time as human beings. Previously extinct in the wild, the milu call be found in captivity, and some are now being released back into the wild. The milu deer, or Elaphurus davidianus, is one of a few large mammals undergoing such rehabilitation. To date, about 76 percent of milu in the world live in China.     

China＇s First Dragon Chip Supercomputer Is Cheap, Fast, and the Size of a Fridge

According to the China Internet Development Report, issued by the China International Network Information Center, China＇s broadband users account for 85.9 percent of the country＇s domestic network users, with ADSL responsible for 46.5 percent of that figure. In 2007, nearly 40 percent of newly registered users were rural dwellers, while the total number of China＇s Internet users reached 210 million people in the same year, setting China on a course to surpass the U.S. in early 2008. in addition, the number of Chinese domain names reached 11.93 million with an annual growth of 190.4 percent, and .CN domain names increased fourfold over 2006, to 9 million,     

The Pig Breeding Industry Benefits Anhui Farmers

DEVELOPING a modem stockbreeding industry is quickly becoming a sure path to prosperity for thousands of Chinese farmers in Anhui Province. Located in the hinterlands of east China, Anhui specializes in raising livestock, especially pigs. In 2007, Anhui had 13.34 million live pigs on hand and sold 23.6 million pigs on the market, r＇orK output was 2.025 million tons, accounting for 62.5 percent of the province＇s total meat production, making pig breeding the province＇s leading sector of its animal husbandry industry. As prices have risen and supplies contracted over the past two years,     

Positive Vibes

One in every three banana s grown by Filipino farmers was shipped to China in 2018,the year China surpassed Japan to become the biggest importer of bananas from the Philippines, with an amount totaling 1.2 million tons, accounting for 37 percent of the countrys overall export volume.     

Three-Phase Targets

By the end of 2013,there Will be 210million fixed broadband users,with 55percent in urban and 20 percent in rural households.There will be 330 million3G/LTE equivalents,accounting for 25percent of mobile subscribers.At least90 percent of administrative villages will have broadband access,80 percent of urban broadband users will have access to networks of 20 Mbps and 85 percent of rural broadband users will have access to networks of 4 Mbps.Wifi will cover all key public areas in cities.By 2015,the number of fixed broadband users will reach 270 million,with65 percent of urban and 30 percent of rural households being covered by fixed broadband service.The number of 3G/     

Numbers of the Week

<正>25.3 % China’s industrial enterprises with annual sales revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.2 million) saw their profits increase 25.3 percent year on year in the first 10 months of 2011, said the National Bureau of Statistics.     

Beijing Bumpkin By Nicole Sy

I live in Beijing,a city of 20 million people,the capital of the Earth's most populous country and a center of massive cultural,political and economic influence.I've also lived in Shanghai,the financial center of China.So why was I so shocked to discover a clean,sit-down toilet with toilet paper in a run-of-the-mill cinema just a hop,skip and a stone's throw away from Beijing?     

Better Economy Provides Bigger Space for Reform

<正>Figures from the National Bureau of Statistics reveal that the Chinese economy performed in a stable manner and had good momentum for growth in August.In the month,the output of industrial enterprises above the designated size——an annual revenue from their main business operations of 20 million yuan($3.04 million)——grew 6percent in real terms.Moreover,in the first     

NUMBERS

正2.3%Decrease in profits of industrial enterprises above a designated size—principal business revenue of more than 20million yuan a year-in2015620 mln Number of Chinese that had used mobile phones to access the Internet as oftheendof2015172 mln Car ownership in China by the end of 2015,with23.85 million new cars registered in 2015$4.5 bin Investment received by Chinese mobile Internet startups in 2015,up 69.4percent from a year earlier     

SlowerButHealthier

<正>In spite of the cooldown of China’s film industry in 2016,hope remains During the weeklong Spring Festival holiday from January 27 to February 2,China’s box-office revenue set a new record of 3.419 billion yuan($498 million),increasing 10.72 percent year on year.Journey to the West:The Demons Strike     

BOOMING TOURISM

正Young travelers pose for photos at the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which was held in late July 1921 in Shanghai, on May 4. The country witnessed a total of 230 million domestic tourist trips during the May Day holiday from May 1 to May 5, up 119.7 percent from last year. Tourism revenue reached 113.23 billion yuan(about $17.5 billion), up 138.1 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on May 5.     

Numbers

正90 mln kw Forecasted on-grid wind power generation capacity in China at the end of 2014,up from77.16 million kw in20132.9%Hong Kong’s economic growth rate in 201327 bln yuan China’s lottery sales in January,up 9.2 percent year on year