Leveling the Playing Field Taxation on Domestic and Foreign-funded Enterprises Unified

No longer capital starved as it was in its emerging early years, China revokes tax privileges for foreign investors, confident that fair competition and a mature market is appealing enough.     

Club, Sweat and Gears

HAYDEN Opie, Sam Callaghan and Tom Lanhove are ama-teurs – amateur sportsmen that is, who are the kingpins in three clubs helping to make after-hours life in China fun and healthy. Dug in Beijing, they have re-created for them-selves, and everyone else who shares their interests, a little bit of "home," whether that’s Belgium, South Africa or New Zealand. Sport takes the edge off the     

the Future Direction ofChinese Policy

THE last several months have been a bonanza of information and analysis for China watchers worldwide. First,the country’s new politburo was elected last November at a once-in-five-year national congress of the Communist Party of China. The 2013 NPC and CPPCC sessions then saw the fresh-faced leadership in action in public for the first     

Online Gaming:Real Growth from the Virtual World

2011 marks the beginning of the second decade in the story of China’s online gaming culture. According to the 2010 China Online Games Market Report published by the Ministry of Culture, the Chinese market for online games reached RMB 32.3 billion in 2010, an increase of 25.2 percent over the previous year. This strong growth points to good times ahead for the domestic gaming industry.     

New Patterns of Social Administration Conducive to a More Harmonious Society——Interview with Chen Hongtao,Associate Professor at Beijing Social Administration Vocational College

CHINA sets great store by its social administration, and has made in-depth explorations in efforts to determine patterns and practices that fit Chinese conditions. Administrating a population of 1.4 billion amid rapid economic development, however, presents considerable challenges to China’s work in the social sphere.     

Inheritor of the Blue Calico Legacy

THE Chinese traditional handicraft of blue calico has a history of more than 1,000 years. Produced through the manual arts of spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, its simple yet elegant patterns reflect the aesthetic sensibilities of the people that produce, use and wear the fabric.     

Farewell and Welcome

THE construction of the Danjiangkou Reservoir in the 1960s involved six large-scale relocations. The impending project to heighten the dam needs to totally rehouse 345,000 people in two provinces, 164,000 in Henan and 181,000 in Hubei. In August 2009, they began streaming into new homes outside of the reservoir area, and the final group moved out two years later.     

Art with a Social Conscience

Artists are exploring new means and perspectives to expose the psyche and shake up the status quo.NEW creative trends in Chinese art pose questions about the age in which we live.     

Changes Afoot in the National College Entrance Examination

SINCE being reinstated in 1977, the Gaokao （National College Entrance Examination, China＇s SAT） has, amid heated discussions, undergone constant reforms in aspects that include content, form and achnission procedures. As the Gaokao has such huge influence on the futures of so many, its each and eve13, proposed change polarizes national attention.     

Police Jump on the Blogging Bandwagon

WHO says Internet blogging is the domain of independent free-wheelers? The police authority of Xiamen City in coastal Fujian Province put a wanted poster on its micro-blog asking for public assistance to locate a suspect in a case of child murder. That was November 23, 2010,