As many as 10,000 college students fought with Chinese police in four days of protests over their academic status, damaging cars and buildings and leaving at least 20 people injured, a foreign monitoring group said Thursday. Quelle: The Guardian

Realitätsschock Unter den mehr als 20 Millionen chinesischen Studenten verbreitet sich Zukunftsangst. Nur eine Minderheit der Absolventen findet angemessene Arbeit. Von Georg Blume und Babak Tavassolie (Die Zeit). Vgl. Xinhua-Meldung vom Mai 2006.

Am 25.10.2006 beim Jietaisi (Peking) Foto: Shen Yun

A court in eastern China’s Zibo city sentenced veteran dissident Li Jianping to three years in prison on Wednesday, after convicting him of subversion for an online essay encouraging pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, a rights’ group said. Quelle: Bangkok Post – dpa

“… Entitled ‘EU-China: Closer partners, growing responsibilities,’ the 10-page document focuses on …” Quelle: Xinhua.

“China is campaigning to eliminate errors in the country’s identity number system. At least 1 million people in China have the same identity number as someone else but, according to the law, each number should be unique … The 18-digit number includes 6 numerals representing the holder’s birth place, 8 for date of birth, and another 4 for sex and differentiation. Most ‘identity duplication’ cases occur with people who live in the same city and share the same birth place. But there are also cases that involve people from different provinces …” Quelle: Xinhua.

Archbishop Rowan Williams, speaking at the end of the first trip to China in 12 years by the spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans, said Chinese officials discussed the role of religion in ”building a harmonious society,” referring to the Communist Party phrase for efforts to spread prosperity and ease tensions over the gap between China’s rich and poor. Quelle: NYT

Amerikanische und europäische Politiker beschweren sich immer lauter, die ausländischen Handelskammern in China schreiben immer längere Eingaben. Quelle: Der Spiegel

Die Europäische Union wirft China schwere Verstöße gegen die Spielregeln des internationalen Handels vor und droht der Regierung in Peking mit weiteren Klagen vor der Welthandelsorganisation WTO. Das geht aus der neuen China-Strategie der EU-Kommission hervor, die heute in Straßburg vorgelegt werden soll. Quelle: Handelsblatt

Mr Hu [Jintao] may take comfort from the recent findings of government statisticians in Beijing. Nearly 47% of residents surveyed said the capital was harmonious already, and nearly 43% said it was “generally” so. The city’s “harmony index”, a separate effort to measure feelings in Beijing, has been rising 3.1% a year on average since 2001. Quelle: Economist

Entmietung und Immobilienspekulation in Shanghai. Quelle: Le Monde

“The head of a commission supervising state-owned companies in Shanghai [Lin Baoheng] has joined more than 50 people detained in the city’s snowballing corruption scandal … The Shanghai probe has also ensnared China’s top state statistician, Qiu Xiaohua. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said Qiu had been accused of securing 50 million yuan ($6.3 million) for his long-time lover …” Quelle: NYT/ Reuters.

Von Peking nach Nordkorea. Quelle: Die Welt.

Gesundheitsreform auch in China – Regierung und Markt. Ergebnisse des 6. Plenums des 16.ZK. Quelle: Xinhua

“Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), met here Monday with Akong Rinpoche and other Tibetans in Britain to explain Beijing’s policy for Tibet, a western autonomous region of China … ‘We will continue to make contributions to the development of Tibet,’ said Akong Rinpoche, who currently lives in a Tibetan cultural center in Scotland …” Quelle: Xinhua.

Standing in the Dark, Catching the Light Jori Finkel (NYT) über den Pekinger Fotografen Shi Guorui.

Diplomatische Wortgymnastik Bei einem Symposium der Sporthochschule Köln zum Thema “Sport in China” werden heikle Themen ausgeklammert. Von Erik Eggers (Frankfurter Rundschau).

Die Zeit über Hotels in Shanghai.

“… With a population that is living longer and a workforce that is getting smaller, the pressure is on China to get rich before it gets old.” Von Quentin Sommerville. Quelle: BBC. 

Will Himalayas continue to grow? Scientists say no. Quelle: Xinhua

Mit dem chinesischen Knigge nach Übersee Nicht spucken, nicht drängeln, Frauen den Vortritt lassen: Chinesische Touristen sollen im Ausland “zivilisierter” auftreten. So will es die Regierung. Von Harald Maass (Frankfurter Rundschau).

“With widespread online rumor saying China will implement a blog real name system, the Internet Society of China (ISC) has clarified that so far the Ministry of Information Industry has not officially made any related policies …” Quelle: Xinhua. Vgl. Artikel in AsiaMedia/ Straits Times.

Das Ministerium für Informationsindustrie hat nach Auskunft eine Funktionärs der Selbstkontrollkommission des Chinesischen Internet-Verbandes bei dem Verband eine entsprechende Studie in Auftrag gegeben. “… 中国互联网协会行业自律工作委员会秘书长杨君佐表示，信息产业部已委托中国互联网协会政策与资源工作委员会“博客研究组”研究博客实名制，有关成果将提交信产部供决策参考。” Quelle: Xinhua.

Shijiazhuang                                  Foto: abdulanan

Von Jim Yardley. Quelle: NYT