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Monday Feb 08, 2010

Snow, rain play havoc with spring festival travel

Bad weather forecast to hit during peak festival season

The weather refused to cooperate yesterday as the country entered its peak traffic season with millions on the move home.

Over the weekend, snow and heavy fog hit northern China, closing expressways and delaying flights. And meteorologists are forecasting bad weather to sweep across the country in the week ahead.

About 2.5 billion trips are expected to be made over the 40 days from Jan 30, as people rush home for family reunions and celebrations during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, which starts Saturday, the eve of the lunar New Year.

The transport authority reported that traffic began to surge yesterday, burdening the country's railways, roads and airports.

The Ministry of Railways said some 5 million passengers took trains on Saturday and yesterday. Railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou handled more than 200,000 passengers each day.

Some 63 million people took long-distance buses and ships home each day over the weekend, the Ministry of Transport estimated.

The number of passengers taking flights also grew so fast yesterday that belts transporting luggage from a check-in counter in Terminal 3 at the Beijing Capital International Airport broke down.

"The straps became overheated and produced smoke around 1 pm. But the trouble was soon solved and we opened new check-in counters to handle passengers. Order has resumed at the terminal," an airport spokesman said.

Ten freeways were closed yesterday because of snow and fog in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan and Liaoning provinces, causing delays at some long-distance bus stations, state broadcaster CCTV reported yesterday.

Due to the shut-down, Beijing's Liuliqiao bus hub said some buses from Hebei and Shanxi provinces to Beijing would be delayed for three to four hours.

Snow and ice caused at least 21 flights to be canceled and 64 flights delayed at the Beijing Capital International Airport by noon yesterday.

Meteorologists warned that such delays at bus stations and airports could only get worse because of a strong cold snap that will hit most parts of the country this week.

Qiao Lin, chief forecaster with the National Meteorological Center, said from today to Friday, rain and fog will hit central and east China, while lingering snowstorms will sweep northeast and north China.

On Thursday and Friday, freezing rain, which caused chaos during the Spring Festival traffic peak in 2008, is likely to hit Guizhou and the northwestern part of the area to the south of the Yangtze River. Most parts of the country will experience a temperature drop of 6 to 8 C, he said.

As the period coincides with the busiest time for the country's transport system, he warned travelers and transport departments to be prepared for bad weather.

"Nothing can be done about this weather. All I can do now is pray," said Li Zhenzhen, who works in Beijing and plans to leave for home in Henan province on Friday.

Wang Yongping, spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, said that the ministry has urged local bureaus to strengthen check-ups on locomotives, trains, tracks and the electricity network in a bid to ensure no breakdowns in the abnormal weather. Emergency plans will also be implemented during the bad weather.

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Wednesday Feb 03, 2010

The First Chinese product in a World Expo

The hero of the story is Xu Rongcun and his silk named “Yung Kee Huzhou Silk”.

Xu Ruiyan, also known as Deqiong, or Rongcun, was born in Xiangshan in Guangdong province. He was one of the first merchants who came to Shanghai to do business after Shanghai opened its ports. There he acted as a comprador in the Dent Company established by businessmen from England. He carried on silk and tea trade in light of the business motto of “best goods, highest price”, and built his own reputation in the commercial world.

In 1851, Britain announced the holding of the World Expo. This message crossed the broad ocean and reached China on the other side of the world.

Due to his acute commercial awareness, Xu Rongcun immediately realized the great potential opportunity arising from the event. So he loaded 12 bundles of what he called the “Yung Kee Huzhou Silk” and consigned them to Britain by express.

At the beginning, the silk didn’t caused many attention because of it’s shabby package, but it survived the test of time and in the end won the golden and silver prizes because of its high quality.

So, the Xu family created their legend in the business world by the excellent performance the World Expo.



Related links:
Expo Shanghai 2010 Tickets News: 3-day, 7-day ticket sales start in January

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Tuesday Jan 26, 2010

China pulse News Headline 01/26

Rental Tiger Program Started


When ministers from 13 nations sit down this week to talk about ways to save dwindling tiger populations, one proposal is sure to get lots of attention: Renting out tigers in order to raise money for conservation.

That's what Indonesia is planning to do with some its few remaining Sumatran tigers, but the idea has drawn scorn from environmental activists, who say it's the wrong approach to conservation.

Tiger "adoption" — where a pair can be rented out as pets in exchange for a 1 billion rupiah ($107,100) deposit — could help curb illegal hunting and trade, a forestry ministry official said.

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China Has Open Mind on Climate

China's lead climate change negotiator has said he was keeping an "open attitude" as to whether global warming was man-made or due to natural cycles.

Xie Zhenhua said climate warming was a "solid fact" and that mainstream scientific opinion held it was due to emissions of gases such as CO2.

He was speaking in Delhi at a meeting of envoys from Brazil, China, India and South Africa.

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Friday Jan 22, 2010

China Pulse News Headline 01/22/10

Air America Ceases Operations

Air America Media is ending its live programming operations as of today. The company, which blamed a bad economic environment, intends to file a Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out a closing of the business.

In a memo from from Charlie Kireker, chair, Air America Media, he said the past year has seen a "perfect storm" in the media industry.

Air America Radio, which ultimately ran on 100 radio outlets, launched in April 2004 with both known personalities, such as comic turned Sen. Al Franken, and then-unknown future stars, like Rachel Maddow.


Hope for a smoke-free Expo

More than 90 percent of residents interviewed for a poll are hoping for the first- ever smoke-free World Expo in the history of the 159-year-old mega event, which kicks off in Shanghai on May 1.

The Fudan Media and Public Opinion Research Center interviewed 509 people, of which 93.5 percent said they hoped smoking, tobacco commercials and promotions would be strictly prohibited at all Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilions.

They also felt smoking should not be allowed in restaurants or shopping centers near the Expo area.

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Thursday Jan 21, 2010

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"Journey to the West" Musical
For French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, there are certain Asian cultural artifacts that he gravitates to. That’s because they are unfamiliar to him. An epic Chinese novel called "Journey to the West" is one of them.

Nguyen Le took artistic license and turned the epic adventure from the 16th century into a 21st century pan-Asian musical adventure. The result is his recording “Saiyuki.”

He’s joined by like-minded Asians, Mieko Miyazaki on vocals and the koto, and Prabhu Edouard on tablas and percussion.

Hope for HK Disney
Hong Kong Disneyland has come out with its results for the year ending September 2009, and the ailing theme park has some good news to report. The joint venture between Disney and the Hong Kong government suffered a net loss of $169 million, a 16% improvement over 2008. The park had a 2% increase in visitors. Not bad, considering the economic crisis.

That’s still 1 million visitors shy of the park’s initial target of 5.6 million, though, and Hong Kong Disneyland isn’t likely to reach that number for many years.

There’s still hope for Hong Kong Disneyland. A big expansion is in the works, with three new “lands” scheduled to open in 2014.

Ebay's 4Q Earnings Triple
EBay earnings soared in the critical fourth quarter as it succeeded in luring more people to its shopping Web sites during the holiday season. EBay, which is based in San Jose, Calif., reported net income in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, was $1.4 billion, or $1.02 a share, up from $367 million in the year-ago quarter. The quarter’s results includes proceeds from the sale of its Skype Internet telephony business resulting in a net gain of $1.4 billion. The company said revenue climbed 16 percent to $2.4 billion. Skype contributed $112.0 million in revenue.


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Wednesday Jan 20, 2010

Venture Veteran Doll Says Companies Will Turn to China for IPOs

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Veteran venture capitalist Dixon Doll predicts that more U.S. technology companies will start holding initial public offerings in other countries as economic growth in Asia outpaces domestic expansion.

“In the next 10 years, I expect more portfolio companies to list on foreign exchanges,” said Doll, founder of Menlo Park, California-based firm DCM, in an interview last week. China “will become a big deal.”

The U.S. venture-capital industry is coming off its slowest two-year stretch for IPOs since the mid-1970s, with only 19 in 2008 and 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association. Doll said that while U.S. companies may not flock to China in the next year or two, the world’s third-largest economy will be increasingly attractive for technology startups as its capital markets mature.

China’s gross domestic product will expand 8.5 percent this year and 9.3 percent next year, according to Bloomberg surveys of economists. That compares with average predictions for U.S. growth of 2.7 percent in 2010 and 3 percent in 2011, according to Bloomberg.

Doll, 67, said he expects 40 to 50 venture-backed companies in the U.S. to go public this year, because the “system is so constipated” from two years of inactivity. The financial crisis wiped out investment banks such as Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos., and forced more than 850 hedge funds to shutter in the first nine months of 2009. That left fewer banks to lead IPOs and fewer investors to buy shares in them.

DCM, which also has offices in Beijing and Tokyo, was an investor in About.com, acquired by New York Times Co., and Clearwire Corp., the mobile-Web network company that went public in 2007. Current investments include BitTorrent, whose software allows users to download and share files over the Internet, and RockYou, which helps advertisers promote their brands on social networks.

Of his firm’s IPOs, Doll said one or two will happen in China in the next two years.


Source: Chinadaily

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Friday Jan 15, 2010

Chinese travel abroad increases

China's statistics from 2009 are expected to show its first deficit in tourism, due to a weak global economy and a strong travel incentive at home, a senior researcher said.

China Tourism Academy, the think tank for the country's tourism authority, said that mainland tourists spent some $42 billion in overseas destinations including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan last year.

At the same time, overseas tourists spent only $38 billion on the mainland, down by 7 percent year-on-year.

Though official statistics for 2009 are yet to be released, the academy estimated that the tourism deficit will stand at $4 billion in 2009 - the first ever tourism deficit in China.

"The deficit in tourism service trade is a new sign saying that China is turning into a notable tourist source market, in addition to being an important destination," Dai Bin, deputy head of China Tourism Academy, told China Daily.

The deficit will enable China to have more say in the global travel market, and also help lift the pressure on China for renminbi appreciation, he said.

The booming outbound travel also will encourage domestic enterprises to "go out" and purchase more shares in foreign travel businesses, he said.

Some 47 million trips were made by mainland tourists to overseas destinations in 2009, up 3 percent year-on-year, the academy estimated.

In contrast, 126 million overseas tourists visited the mainland last year, down by 3 percent year-on-year, it estimated.

Though the inbound tourists far outnumbered the outbound, apparently mainland tourists, with swelling wallets and eagerness for shopping, have spent much more overseas.

"Chinese tourists have a different spending concept from others. They could endure staying at a three-star hotel and eating at a not-so-good restaurant, but would never go back home empty-handed," said Zhang Wei, general manager of the outbound department with the China International Travel Service head office.

Also, since many imported goods are sold on the Chinese mainland at much higher prices, many tourists shop for expensive watches, clothes and cosmetics overseas, she said.

Beijinger Gao Xuenan, on her trip to Europe last month, spent some 13,000 yuan ($1,900) on a Louis Vuitton bag and a purse, and spent another 2,000 yuan on a Burberry scarf.

"The prices of these goods are much higher in Beijing. The scarf, sold at more than 4,000 yuan, is even out of stock in Beijing. I kind of feel I would suffer a loss if I don't buy them in Europe," she said.

A survey by AC Nielson in 2008 said each Chinese tourist spent an average $987 per trip. Those travelling to Europe spent an average $1,781.

But foreign tourists usually do not shop for such expensive items in China, she said.

Besides, the global economic downturn has made many foreign tourists slash their China shopping budgets, said Dun Jidong, spokesman for the China Travel Service.

"But (the economic meltdown) had less impact on mainland tourists, who traveled with confidence in China's economy," he said.

The number of Beijing tourists joining outbound tour groups through China Travel Service still grew at a double-digit pace last year as usual, he said.

From another view, after years of promoting China as a tourist destination, the wealthy foreigners who used to be the primary group visiting the Chinese mainland have been replaced by ordinary tour groups and backpackers, who spent less in China, Dai Bin with the academy said.

But the average GDP per capita has hit $3,000 in China, "a level that industry experts agree sends a signal that the country is entering a stage of explosive growth in travel consumption", he said.

The academy forecast that 54 million trips will be made by mainland tourists to overseas destinations in 2010, an increase of 15 percent year-on-year.

"Compared to the average western tourist traveling at least seven times a year, Chinese tourists travel only once a year. We have a market with huge potential," he said.

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Thursday Jan 14, 2010

China Building World's Tallest Airport In Tibet

Tibet already has the world's highest airport, the Bamda Airport in Qamdo. Now China is planning to build an even higher structure, the 14,553-foot Nagqu Dagring Airport. The record-setting airport will be built in Nagqu Prefecture and is set to go live some time around 2014. Construction won't even begin until 2011, and the project is just one of 97 airports that the Chinese hope to build by 2020.

Of course since it's China there's no news that doesn't have some political upshot (just ask Google). The catch here is that Nagqu Dagring is part and parcel of a broader Chinese project to integrate Tibet into the rest of the country. They want to bring Chinese Han into Tibet and wouldn't mind seeing more Tibetans moving into the rest of China, and so they're developing the region's travel infrastructure accordingly. That's happening whether native Tibetans want it or not.

Having finally linked the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to Beijing via rail in 2006, the Chinese now have another six regional railways in the pipeline. The new transportation routes were explicitly designed to create a smoother back-and-forth flow of people, raising concerns about de facto colonization.

As for the question "who wouldn't want a shiny new airport," the answer might well be "ethnic Tibetans who are more interested in preserving their environment than in building new airports and railways." Again they might not have a choice, but the response from the other side is that it's paternalistic to insist that locales wouldn't want to improve their regional economies.

As always with these kinds of questions there are no easy answers. We'll just have to wait and see how the development proceeds, and what toll it takes on the local people and environment.

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Wednesday Jan 06, 2010

Yoyoor World Express: Somali pirates invest in real estate

The terrors of the East African seas have moved onto dry land with a variety of investments meant to move their ill-gotten gains into more legitimate areas. The Somali pirates' most popular pursuit? Kenyan real estate.

War-torn Somalia, which has essentially been without a cohesive government for over fifteen years, offers the pirates few opportunities to invest their profits. But neighboring Kenya is a different story. Relatively stable, Kenya is also East Africa's largest economy, allowing ample opportunity to launder the over $100 million in ransom money Somali pirates have been paid in the last two years.

This laundering has most recently taken the form of large real estate purchases. Even in the midst of a global real estate crunch, in which American housing prices have dropped precipitously, prices in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have doubled or even tripled in the last five years. Although Kenyan officials cannot prove this is entirely the work of pirates, there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence to support this conclusion. The area of Nairobi most affected by the housing explosion is Little Mogadishu, named for Somalia's capital city, which is home to most of the city's Somali expatriates. The now-thriving community has seen huge expansion in large businesses and apartment buildings in the last few years.

According to a recent report by the AP's Tom Odula, pirates see such investment strategies as a way to ultimately leave their criminal life behind them:

As reported last year, Somali pirates have set up their own stock market as well.

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China is 2009’s top exporter

BRUSSELS -- China took over the mantle of the world's top merchandise exporter from Germany in 2009, according to the latest figures, aided by a global economic crisis that has taken a greater toll on other trading powers.

China exported $957 billion of goods in the first 10 months of 2009, compared with $917 billion for Germany, according to customs data compiled by Global Trade Information Services, a Geneva-based firm.

No changes in November or December are expected to overturn the Chinese lead, trade experts say. China is likely to publish trade figures for the full year next week.

China's claiming of the title of world's largest exporter was widely expected, with annual growth in its exports regularly exceeding 20% during the past decade.

China in 2007 overtook Germany as the world's third-largest national economy, and is on track to soon surpass Japan to become the second-largest economy after the U.S.

"China has been growing much more rapidly than Germany on all sorts of dimensions and has a population of 1.3 billion, while Germany has 83 million," said Douglas Irwin, a professor at Dartmouth College.


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Tuesday Jan 05, 2010

Yoyoor China Tips: Best Rare Vegetable

Yoyoor China Tips: Shopping & Food

Best Rare Vegetable

 

FOR weeks, Bill Maxwell of Maxwell Farms in Changewater, N.J., put the rutabaga bug in my ear every Saturday morning at the farmers’ market.

At the beginning, his urgings were gentle.

“The rutabaga is looking particularly fine this week,” he said as the vegetable came into season in October.

Throughout the fall, he persisted: “Rutabaga is the most underrated vegetable. You should try it for Thanksgiving.”

But I kept demurring despite his coaxing.

Finally, he insisted, pressing a fat, taut root vegetable into my hands. “Just take it and try it,” he said. “I’ll bet you anything you’ll be back for more.”

Thus began my new obsession with rutabaga.

Though I’d had it before, it wasn’t often. Puréed rutabaga is hardly a restaurant staple. And the one time I made it myself (over a decade ago), the root I got was so tough and dry I could barely slice through it with an ordinary knife, resorting to the meat cleaver. The flavor was wan, not worth the effort.

But this rutabaga was moist and fresh and easy to cube. Mr. Maxwell advised boiling, then mashing it with caramelized onions. But because the oven was on anyway for chicken, I decided to try roasting.

I tossed the rutabaga cubes with oil, salt and a little maple syrup, cooking them until the flesh was tender and translucent, the edges golden. It was as sweet and rich as butternut squash with a slightly peppery turnip note.

It was so good, in fact, that I couldn’t stop eating the cubes straight from the pan before the chicken was done.

Since then, I’ve bought rutabaga (also known as Swedes or yellow turnips) every week and prepared them as boiled, sautéed or braised.

Roasting, which caramelizes the sugars of the vegetable and brings out its sweetness, remains my favorite.

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Yoyoor Travel Express: Harbin Ice Festival 2010

Activities for the Chinese Harbin Ice and Snow Festival typically start from the Sun Island Scenic Area (Tel: +86 451 8819 0230). Among the many interactive features of the surprisingly extensive world of snow and ice, is a luge-like ice slide integrated into the attractions’ larger works (a few years ago the slide doubled as the Great Wall of China.)

The festival offers an ice wall on which daring visitors can test their climbing skills. Aided by ropes and propelled by insanity, the climbers do battle with an almost vertical ice wall with minimal, if any, traction.

For those who need a break from the frost and frigidity, small, cozy restaurants are scattered throughout the festival in the form of yurts. While it may not feel like walking into a sauna, the brief respite from the cold makes them worth a regular visit. No northeast China cuisine tasting experience is complete without using a straw to suck the juice from inside a pork bone.

H
ead towards Zheng Yang Lou (No. 252 Zhong Shan Rd. Tel: +86 451 8260 5558) for just such an experience. Need some takeaway? Harbin sausage is tops. Don't be frightened by the long queue at Shangwei Sausage shop (No. 999 Hong Qi Rd. Tel: +86 451  5 76  8 3 59 5), for some truly outstanding sausages (40RMB per kilogram.)


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Monday Jan 04, 2010

Get ready for tiger year

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, which begins on February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011.   The Tiger is the third sign in the cycle of  Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 animal signs.  It is a sign of courage. This fearless and fiery fighter is revered by the ancient Chinese as the sign that wards off the three main disasters of a household: fire, thieves and ghosts.



Workers carry tiger-shaped lanterns as they prepare for a lantern show at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province January 3, 2010. 
 

Related links:
Chinese New Year: The Best Way to Get Through the Winter (i)
China Challenge: Proper Planning Pre-Holidays I

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Tuesday Dec 29, 2009

Travel to China, take your number along with you

Bring your number to China while travel to China. No need to tell your friends, business partners you are going to China, with Yoyoor EZconnect international call forwarding service, you will never miss a call to your US number.

According to Yoyoor CEO Joss Shen, “We actually thought of EZconnect awhile ago. For people like me who frequently travel between the West and China, if someone calls me on my mobile phone, it costs me three dollars just to answer the call. But with EZconnect’s call forwarding, I answer every call right away and talk for as long as I like.”

Yoyoor’s marketing has found that a majority of expats in China desire this type of call divert service. Most say that because of complex dialing procedures and high fees, they eventually stopped using their home phone number altogether, but this has resulted in losing contact with many close friends.

Moreover, those surveyed by Yoyoor said that they often have inconvenience trying to accomplish simple things in China, like finding restaurants, booking accommodation and stores, because of the language barrier. Yoyoor’s EZconnect has been developed especially for expats to resolve these two major issues.

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Friday Dec 25, 2009

Christmas sparks online sales rush



THE moment she unwrapped the parcel, Yang Ting who works for a foreign company in Beijing marveled at the set of delicate Christmas pompons, the third gift she had bought online within a month to decorate her house.

"With these pompons, a 1-meter-plus Christmas tree and some colored lights I bought online the other day, I can feel the excitement of Christmas," Yang said.

Like Yang, more Chinese consumers have turned to the Internet for Christmas gifts and decorations this year.

Statistics from e-commerce companies show that online sales growth for the holiday season is stronger than the year before, even though prices of Christmas gifts are generally higher.

Lu Weixing, PR manager of Taobao, Asia's biggest e-commerce Website, said: "Transaction value amounted to 4.8 billion yuan (US$705.88 million) between December 8 and 14, far exceeding the daily turnover of 500 million yuan during the same period last year."

His words echoed those of another two managers of e-commerce Websites.

"From December, the transaction volume on Paipai.com grew fivefold from last year," said Yang Sha, its PR manager.

Qiao Yajuan, manager of liyi99.com, said she expected Christmas sales this year would double from a year ago. "Though gift prices rose 20 percent year on year on average, consumers' passion for shopping isn't flagging," she said.

Orders dropped last year amid the financial crisis when most people just browsed but rarely placed orders.

"Shoppers looked for practical gifts instead of luxury ones last year. But it seems luxury gifts are back as jewels and bullion sales have grown sharply this year," Qiao said, "We have had to hire more delivery people to meet the demand."

Zhang Yanping, an analyst with iResearch Consulting Group, attributed online sales growth to the country's economic recovery which lifted people's consumption confidence, especially those in second and third-tier cities.

Hu Guanzhong, an analyst with Taobao, said the fast development of the cybereconomy played a crucial role in boosting Christmas sales this year.


Resource: Shanghai Daily
Related links:
Cash-strapped expats bring Xmas to Beijing
Chinese Santa Claus

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