Images from an investment casting factory
Alex Hofford presents a gallery of photos concerning health and safety issues at a factory near Ningbo.
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Alex Hofford presents a gallery of photos concerning health and safety issues at a factory near Ningbo.
Veggie Discourse translates a Southern Weekly article on Vietnamese women who marry Chinese men in Guangdong, and the status of their unregistered children:
A few year ago, the Deqing police department had consulted with their superiors at the province level over this issue. At the time, they were told that hukou can be issued upon demonstration of birth certificate. However, the following three premises have to be met first: the father must express strong wishes for his children to remain in China, and the births cannot have violated any regulations; the father must establish parent-child relationship by providing DNA test results; lastly, Vietnamese brides must be deported.
"Impractical." Vice Minister of the Department of Propaganda in Qingde County claimed.
The China Daily has an interesting profile of Zhong Weiyun, a Jiangsu farmer who has devoted his life to punctuation.
From CNN:
The meeting did not take place in the formal, official setting of the Oval Office. It was instead held in the White House Map Room, which is considered part of the presidential residence. The choice of settings was considered by many observers to be a sign of Washington's acknowledgment of Beijing's political sensitivities.
Some analysts said the Chinese government could retaliate by cutting off political exchanges as they did after the Dalai Lama met with the heads of state of France and Germany. And Hu could turn down an invitation to visit Washington in April.
Neither China nor the United States can afford strained relations, said Douglas Paal, a diplomat and investment banker who has served as a presidential adviser on China.
The New York Times story is here, the Los Angeles Times here.
The New York Times reports that computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School have been linked to the attacks:
Tracing the attacks further back, to an elite Chinese university and a vocational school, is a breakthrough in a difficult task. Evidence acquired by a United States military contractor that faced the same attacks as Google has even led investigators to suspect a link to a specific computer science class, taught by a Ukrainian professor at the vocational school.
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But when asked about the possibility, a leading professor in Jiaotong’s School of Information Security Engineering said in a telephone interview: “I’m not surprised. Actually students hacking into foreign Web sites is quite normal.” The professor, who teaches Web security, asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.
Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Xbox hacker and Chumby designer, gets sold some dodgy Kensington-branded SD cards and tracks down some interesting goings-on in Shenzhen's grey-market for electronics.
The first thing I had to do was collect a lot of samples. The key is to attempt to collect both regular and irregular cards in the wild, so I went to the SEG / Hua Qian Bei district and wandered around the gray markets there. I bought about ten memory cards total from small vendors, at prices varying from 30-50 RMB ($4.40 – $7.30), most of them priced toward 30 RMB. The process of shopping for irregular cards itself was interesting. In talking to a couple dozen vendors, you learn a few things.
via Metafilter, which has some interesting comments on the piece.
The Xinjiang member wins third runner up. Edward Wong at the New York Times reports:
A 25-year-old Muslim man from China was the third runner-up in the Worldwide Mr. Gay pageant, which ended Sunday in Oslo. The man, who is known publicly by his nickname, Xiao Dai, entered the contest despite the fact that Chinese authorities last month canceled Mr. Gay China...
The lengthier, earlier report from the New York Times is here.
The "autonomous region" blog introduces the Turkic name "gül," transliterated into Chinese as "guli" ("ancient beauty") and used as a generic name for Uyghur women:
“She’s Guli,” a friend once introduced his wife to me. Slightly annoyed, I asked, “come on, what’s her name?” “Haha,” he replied, embarrassingly, “she’s Arzigül.”
In Xinjiang, it’s common for the Uyghur to introduce their wives, daughters, or female friends simply as “Guli” to the Chinese and non-Uyghur.
Part 2 is here.
John Kennedy at Global Voices Online looks at the possible consequences of a ban on Beijing-based rep offices for sub-provincial level governments.
ChinaGeeks translates the happy minority song from this year's Spring Festival gala: "The Party’s Policies are yakexi." Uyghurs sing about the good things the party has done for them.
Sinologistical Violincellist muses on the language used by the Global Times and its online forums to describe international affairs, including the DL, economic rankings, and North Korean relations.
John Garnaut in The Sydney Morning Herald:
So it turns out that Bo Xilai has just spectacularly arrested, convicted and rejected the appeal of a lawyer who works for Bo's equally powerful childhood playmate, Fu Yang [son of Peng Zhen, also one of the eight immortals and more powerful than [Bo Xiali's father] Bo Yibo].
Hu Shuli's new publication Caixin has a special feature on battery and electric car manufacturer BYD:
The modern electric car, an investment by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, and rapid expansions into several seemingly unrelated fields have helped make Shenzhen-based BYD a stock market darling.
But despite all that investor interest and heavy doses of international media coverage, privately owned BYD's success as a business still appears to be mythical. After separating facts from the fog surrounding this battery maker-turned-auto giant, it appears BYD's trump card is not high technology but simply cheap labor that the company uses to an extreme. What really has made BYD's success and what does the future hold for the fledgling carmaker?