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30 mars 2008

Go Gansu!

新京报/The Beijing News carries a Xinhua report on a new development in Gansu's wind power industry: 甘肃有望成为最大风能产业带 Gansu hopes to become because wind power production belt 酒泉1000万千瓦级风电项目获批，“风电走廊”设想渐成现实 Jiuquan's 10 million kilowatt wind power project approved,...

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27 mars 2008

returning home, remembering

Xiao Han has returned home, and one of the resulting essays, on meeting old friends and classmates from times long past, is worth a read. This is his introduction: 雲邊居士按： The scholar residing by the clouds says: 回家已快十天了，短短的这些天里，我见到无数的美景，见到一些事，一些人，尤其是二十多位二十年未见的高中同学，还有小时候的邻家发小，所以忍不住要下笔记几个人，一点事。...

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27 mars 2008

qingming parking

So Qingming (清明节/Tomb Sweeping Day) is coming up next Friday, and this year, for the first time in the history of the PRC, it will be a public holiday. This means that people will have time to visit their ancestors' tombs and pay their respects, and it...

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24 février 2008

smashed up

So the Guozijian archway collided with a truck last night. As one would expect, the archway, being mere wood, came off second best. Click the link to see photos of workmen taking down the broken pieces. The Beijing News/新京报's Yang Siqi reports: 国子监牌楼被撞折...

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22 février 2008

not unexpected

This article in The Beijing News/新京报 should not come as a surprise: 北京开查暂住证护奥运安全 Beijing to begin investigations into temporary residence permit holders for Olympic security www.thebeijingnews.com · 2008-2-22 8:09:26 · 来源：新京报 22-2-2008 8:09:26. Source:...

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20 février 2008

à la recherche des livres perdus

[with apologies to Proust for the awful rip-off of his title] Not sure I'm going to make it all the way through this, but I like the way Xiao Han starts this off. He's looking back at the books he read 30 years ago, inspired, in a somewhat oblique way,...

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20 février 2008

salaries can't match GDP

It would seem that, in Guangdong at least, salary growth won't match GDP growth. Not good news considering all the talk of inflation, and I don't see why this phenomenon would be limited to Guangdong. This is from Nanfang Daily: 居民收入为何涨不过GDP？市发改委主任潘建国：这是体制问题...

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19 février 2008

legal aid?

So I opened up The Beijing News/新京报 as part of my continued efforts to get more real-world exposure to written Chinese (beyond menus and road signs, of course), and the first headline that grabs my attention is this: 北京将建司法救助基金 Beijing will establish...

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17 février 2008

ah, just because...

Just because I'm using Chinesepera-kun for the first time and enjoying the added ease of access to written Chinese its giving me (it's soooo much quicker than a dictionary), here's another story, also from The Beijing News/新京报: 女子坠楼亡居民绕路走 Woman falls...

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17 février 2008

bad press for Yanqing?

Uh oh. Seems like some people are bringing shame on my beloved Yanqing. [Note: This time using Chinesepera-kun, my dictionary, and nciku all together] 本报讯（记者张汉宇）近日，很多前往延庆龙庆峡景区观看冰灯的读者致电本报热线称，龙庆峡景区周边管理十分混乱，交通指示牌不明确、私设路障、问路收费等问题显著，给前去游玩的市民增添了很多的不愉快。对此，延庆县相关部门表示，他们将对交通指示牌予以更改，但私设路障及问路收费的状况很难管理。...

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