Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources.
Hollywood ending for Foxconn – China Business News saga
Foxconn, the iPod manufacturer that sued two China Business News journalists and was attacked by bloggers, newspapers and even Xinhua New Agency for trying to intimidate the media, has released a letter together with China Business News stating that both companies apologize for the whole mess and that they are seeking harmonious ways to develop without harming each other. San Lian Life Week editor and blogger Wang Xiaofeng called it a Hollywood ending. Xinhua has a copy of the letter in Chinese here; funnily enough, there seems to be nothing on Xinhua’s English website about the affair.
Indian book publishers in China
The Hindu newspaper has a report titled ‘Indian book publishers make initial dent in China market’. Excerpt:
“Major Indian book publishing companies have succeeded in gaining a foothold in the huge Chinese market,” Director of the National Book Trust (NBT) Nuzhat Hassan said.
Hassan, who led a delegation of Indian book publishers to the just-concluded Beijing International Book Fair for the second time in two years, said they received good response from Chinese book publishers as well as the public. (Link)
The article does not actually report on any successfully concluded deals, so the Indian book invasion is not likely to start just yet.
China’s man at the U.N.
The New York Times yesterday published a lengthy profile of China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Wang Guangya, whom it calls “one of the U.N.’s most adroit diplomats”. The article examines how China’s rise will affect its role at the U.N. Excerpt:
China now aspires to play an active role on the global stage, which is why it sends skilled diplomats like Wang Guangya to the U.N. That’s the good news. The bad news is that China’s view of “the international order” is very different from that of the United States, or of the West, and has led it to frustrate much of the agenda that makes the U.N. worth caring about…
…It’s a truism that the Security Council can function only insofar as the United States lets it. The adage may soon be applied to China as well… (link)
Beijing luxury hotels eat up half of residential use electricity?
The People’s Daily:
Almost half of the electricity used in Beijing’s residential buildings is consumed by 311 hotels rated three stars or more, accounting for just 5.4 percent of residential floor area.
The statistic was released by Chen Huaiwei, director of the energy conservation center of the municipal commission of development and reform…
Interesting, but can we trust those figures? They were released at…
…at the launch of the joint venture of China’s Tell-how Sci-tech Co. Ltd., Panasonic and Mitsui.
The new company, Beijing Tsinghua Tell-how Intellectual Sci-tech Co. Ltd., will offer advanced technologies for energy conservation in office buildings and hotels. (link)
Yu Hua’s Brothers reviewed in New York Times
David Barboza has written a review of Yu Hua’s novel Brothers for the New York Times, asking if the novel is “tremendous or trash”? The review is here; you can see more about Brothers on Danwei: Author of To Live has a new book out and Hymens and the Olympics.