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Posted on 2012-03-26 Some suggest the Wang Lijun incident and Bo Xilai’s removal are a victory for pro-reformers in China. But Chang Ping cautions that quiet within the Party could cool the engines of reform, and proponents of political reform must continue to push. Posted on 2012-03-15 As a press conference yesterday, Premier Wen Jiabao made two mentions of the Party’s 1981 “Resolution” on the Cultural Revolution.
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The location of legal activist Chen Guangcheng remains uncertain following his escape from house arrest in the Shandong village of Dongshigu, with widespread speculation pointing to the US embassy in Beijing. He is reported to be somewhere “100% safe”, but the same cannot be said of friends, family and supporters, against whom reprisals are either feared or already apparently underway. Chen is said to have prepared for months for his escape, spending more and more time in bed so that
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China set up a 155-member rare-earth industry association in a move to speed consolidation of the sprawling sector, Reuters quoted state media as saying. Su Bo, an industry vice-minister, said the government wants to phase out small smelters, giving large players a greater stake in the supply of rare-earth metals and boosting environmental protection. Jiangxi province earned 32.9 billion yuan (US$4.89 billion) from the rare-earths industry last year, but has to spend 38 billion yuan to address the environmental pollution in the city of Ganzhou alone, China Daily quoted an Economic Information report as saying. Extraction of rare-earth minerals is environmentally devastating.
Kate Springer of TIME's Ecocentric blog, has some eye-popping numbers in her latest post on land subsidence , which she says is affecting more than 50 cities in China. Across the country, 49,000 sq. mi. of land have dropped at least 8 in, and Shanghai is, unsurprisingly, leading China's rapid descent into the ground, and has sunk more than 6 ft. since 1921.
