Headlines from the Chinese media
NOVEMBER 26 NEWSPAPERS
Ba Jin turns 100: Li Changchun sends congratulations
李长春贺巴金百岁华诞
What it means: Ba Jin is a novelist, Li Changchun is a Party big cheese. A potted biography of Bai Jin is here, more about Li Changchun can be found here and here.
East Beijing completed central heating pipe repair in 14 hours
东区14小时修复热力管线
What it means: Ah! That’s why my apartment nearly froze over last night.
First world class tennis competition [in Beijing] announced yesterday
首个世界级网球大塞昨正式推出
What it means: Tennis balls all over Beijing’s billboards in September next year, second rate international players endorsing products like Gweat brand sneakers.
Newly built residential communities must install public toilets
新建小区必须配公厕
Deeply learn and grasp the law of social history development, promote the consciousness and initiative of boosting reform development
进一步认识把握社会历史发展规律
增强推进改革发展的自觉性和主动性
What it means: The Party could use some lessons in using plain language to express ideas clearly.
Sino-Indian border issue meeting to be held in Beijing next month
中印边界问题会谈下月在北京举行
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate announces 8 measures to prevent [prisoners] being held for longer than their sentence terms
高检八大措施预防超期羁押反弹
What it means: Let’s wait and see.
NOVEMBER 25
Private investment to fund 4, 5, 9, 10 and suburban subway lines
4, 5, 9, 10 和郊线地铁社会融资
What it means: It’s not very clear from this appallingly written article, but investors will get a certain type of ‘special operation permit’ which sounds like it will be a license to open stores or operate businesses in the subway stations.
Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
Research next year’s economic work and using human talent to strengthen the country’s strategy
研究明年经济工作
讨论人才强国战略
What it means: Nothing at all, but it was reproduced exactly from The People’s Daily.