Tag Archives: Wen Jiabao

Internet chat: Premier Wen promises to raise income tax threshold

Posted on 2011-02-28 by Eric Mu

During his latest Internet chat with netizens, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the government would raise the tax-free threshold of individual income tax this year.

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Give a message to the Premier via our Sina microblog!

Posted on 2011-02-15 by Alice Xin Liu

In Xuancheng city, retired workers received cooking pots just before the Spring Festival break. However, it leaked after one use. This made the front page of the Xin An paper.

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Seized contraband means an early fireworks show

Posted on 2011-01-26 by Joel Martinsen

A cornucopia of interesting stories in the Peninsula Metropolis Daily.

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Wen Jiabao said his heart hurt by rising food prices

Posted on 2010-12-27 by Eric Mu

On Sunday, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao co-hosted a talk show on China National Radio, taking questions from audience through short messages, microblog messages and phone calls.

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10.10.10. － A lucky day to get married

Posted on 2010-10-11 by Alice Xin Liu

New Culture View (新文化报) reports today on the many marriage registrations that took place yesterday because of the lucky date － 10.10.10. In Changchun alone, 1917 couples were married, and traffic was congested due to at least 10,000 cars hired for the use of getting married.

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Wen Jiabao on CNN

Posted on 2010-10-06 by Joel Martinsen

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviews Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen, who rarely gives interviews, last spoke to Zakaria in late 2008.

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Wen Jiabao’s Shenzhen speech and political reform in China

Posted on 2010-09-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A podcast about the implications for political reform of Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech in Shenzhen.

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Premier Wen Jiabao dines with Peking University students

Posted on 2010-05-05 by Eric Mu

Yesterday was the 91st anniversary of the hallowed May 4th Movement, which according to the government-backed version of history, marks a significant transition from “old democratic revolution” to “new democratic revolution”.

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Pretty interpreter makes the news

Posted on 2010-03-16 by Eric Mu

When do interpreters become top headlines instead of the bigwigs they serve? One answer: when the interpreter is a pretty lady who can flawlessly translate a line of Chinese ancient poetry quoted by Primer Wen Jiabao.

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Cao Cao’s tomb excavated in Anyang, Henan Province

Posted on 2009-12-28 by Eric Mu

Zhengzhou Evening News: The tomb of Cao Cao, one of the three competing warlords for control of China after the downfall of the mighty Han empire, was excavated recently in Anyang, Henan Province.

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