Author Archives: Eric Mu

The leading headlines of today’s newspapers in Beijing concern two different things. For the Party’s People’s Daily and Beijing Communist Youth League’s Beijing Youth Daily, the big long headline is: Central Committee of the CCP publishes guidelines for education activities … Continue reading →

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attended the special ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Leaders’ Meeting Tsunami Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 6. Heads of state, ministers and senior officials from 26 nations and groups attended the meeting. Wen … Continue reading →

Xiushui Market aka Silk Alley has been open for 20 years and is famous for selling fake brand name clothes. The market officially closed yesterday. Most newspapers in Beijing used this news for their lead headlines. Construction on the Xiushui … Continue reading →

The title of this post was the most popular leading headline for Beijing newspapers today. What Xinhua calls the “Food Safety Credit Index” is system to monitor the food brands sold in supermarkets and wholesale to assess their safety standards.  … Continue reading →

The same image of Premier Wen Jiabao comforting a crying boy was used on most Beijing newspaper front pages today. The accompanying articles claimed that Wen cried together with the boy. Wen was on a New Year visit to northwest … Continue reading →

Besides news about Chinese aid to tsunami-hit countries, the other big story is about how Chinese people celebrated the Gregorian New Year holiday. Today’s Beijing Times fronted with a picture of a “lucky chicken” (jixiang ji). These chickens are made … Continue reading →

According to The Beijing News via Chongqing Times, a building resembling Tiananmen gate looking has been constructed in a town near Chongqing. This building consists of seven separate towers. It cost more than RMB 5 million and is the office … Continue reading →

The title covers the key words of today’s newspapers in Beijing. The People’s Daily: China published on Monday a white paper on national defence, reaffirming its determination to crush any “Taiwan independence” attempt at all costs and reassure the world … Continue reading →

Today’s front pages are predictable; the pictured page fromBeijing Youth Daily is typical with the headline “Asia tsunami kills 15,500” The photo on the front page of Beijing Youth Daily shows a crying woman showing what is left of her … Continue reading →