Headlines from the Chinese press
DECEMBER 3: NEWSPAPERS
Migrant workers must be paid in full before Spring Festival
春节前全额兑现民工欠薪
What it means: The Beijing government is forcing real estate developers who owe money to migrant workers to pay up.
Improve laws to protect private property
完善法律 保护私有财产
What it means: A forum held in Zhengzhou by the ‘China Private Sector Economy Development Trend Analysis Group’ debates property rights. The article obeys the Beijing Morning Post style-guide: it avoids divulging any actual facts associated with the Group, or any information about what effects the Group’s pronouncements may have.
Salary in arrears must be paid with interest
拖欠工资将要算利息
People’s Representative candidates give speech
候选代表上台演讲
What it means: District elections for People’s Representatives coming, candidates must make speeching.
Strengthen and develop the common thought foundation of the Party and people from the whole country unite and strive
巩固发展全党全国人民团结奋斗的共同思想基础
What it means: Whatever.
11:05am: INTERNET
Mainland official clerks salaries up from December
内地公务员12月起加薪
What it means: The bureaucrats are going to have a nice Spring Festival
Hong Kong press: Mainland official clerks salary increase begins in December
港报：内地公务员加薪计划12月起实施
DECEMBER 2
Total price no change [despite] new way real estate sales regulations
总价不变应对售房新法
Prices don’t change despite new regulations forbidding developers to sell houses based on ‘structural area’ rather than ‘usable area’
Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
Water, clean or dirty, good or bad, there’a way to know
用水，清浊好坏我有数
What it means: The Xinmin Evening News will start publishing daily water quality reports