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Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu
Blue Paper: 85% of families can’t afford to buy a house
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) released their “Economic Blue Paper,” the Blue Paper shows that this year the figure for income and all towns and cities across the nation is 8.76, which is 0.46 higher than last year. This is the equivalent of normal families saving for 8.76 years without eating or drinking, and buying a house. The Blue Paper also made predictions about the trend of real estate prices next year, if regulation relaxes, then prices will rebound, and prices might increase a further 20-25%, maybe even more.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged CASS, Modern Express, Nanxin Village, prices, real estate
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Two accidents that killed 29 people in two days
Two stories have shocked the Chinese press: 7 deaths in an internet cafe in Guizhou province caused by “chemicals illegally stored in an adjacent room,” and a fire at a Sichuan grassland where “the dead are comprised of 15 soldiers, five villagers and two forest workers.”
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged grassland, Guizhou, Internet cafe, New Express, Sichuan, Southern Metropolis Daily, Yunnan Information Times
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The global thinker state media isn’t eager to recognize
Xinhua News Agency is happy that Chinese thinkers have made the Foreign Policy magazine, especially People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川) and post-80s writer representative Han Han (韩寒). However, in a post deleted from Xinhua and People’s Net, the cover also showed another figure, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo. The post is now gone from websites.
Posted in Censorship
Tagged Foreign Policy, global thinkers, Han Han, Xinhua news agency, Zhou Xiaochuan
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Figures for World AIDs Day
Today is World AIDs Day, and two newspapers in Suzhou dedicate covers to the event: City Business News and Suzhou Daily.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged City Business News, Suzhou Daily, World AIDs Day
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Military excercises and another hit-and-run incident
On the evening of October 20, on the campus of Xi’an University, when the 26-year-old waitress Zhang Meng (张萌 pseudonym) was going home from work, she was hit by a Chevrolet Cruze. After the offender escaped the police found that apart from the victim’s car wounds, there were also eight wounds caused by a knife.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged City Evening News, Korea, military exercises, Southern Metropolis Daily, Xi'an, Yao Jiaxin
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At 13.09 seconds, Liu Xiang returns as the king
Today’s papers are splashed with Liu Xiang’s victory － and third gold medal － yesterday at the Asian Games. The athlete had limped out of the 2008 Olympics and was heralded a champion and a king after he successfully beat his opponents with the Asian Games record of 13.09 seconds.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Asian Games, gas price, Liu Xiang, Southern Metropolis Daily
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New Express readers to vote for “Eight Sights” of Guangzhou
The New Express, based in Guangzhou, announces that its competition for the new “Eight Sights” of Guangzhou, launched to coincide with the Asian Games, is near completion.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Asian Games, Eight Sights, Guangzhou, Lao Yi, Liu Xiang, New Express
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People’s Daily endorses a new meme
给力 has been used all over the Chinese internet, as a saying that could be literally translated as “giving power” but has more meaning along the lines of 带劲, which means “interesting” or “has force.”
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged culture, Intel, Jiangsu, meme, People's Daily
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Tencent threatens its users with an ultimatum
Last night, the war escalated as Tencent declared that its users － all 6 billion － cannot use 360 if they want to use the messaging service, QQ.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged 360, QQ, Tencent, users
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Please open your door to census takers
Today’s Yangtse Evening Post focuses on its own iPad version; in other news the census officially started yesterday, the first since 2000. The top of the Yangtse Evening Post urges citizens to Please open your door when the census taker comes.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged census, freebies, Yangtse Evening Post
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