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Saturday 28th January, 2012

    • China spends $79 mn from lottery on poor

    Beijing News.Net

    A total of 500 million yuan (around $79 million) from China's lottery earnings has been used to financially support underprivileged school students and teachers, the education ministry has said. At ...

    • Apple launches probe into unsafe factory conditions in China

    Beijing News.Net

    Technology giant Apple has launched a probe into a report that said factories in China that manufactured its products employed child labour and had 24-hour working days and unsafe conditions, a ...

    • Companies have no choice but to be in India: Ashwani Kumar

    Beijing News.Net

    India and China will emerge as the only destinations for companies seeking business as Asia will lead the world economic growth in the coming decade, India's Minister of State for Planning Ashwani ...

  • Waiting Out China's Next Growth Spurt

    U.S. News & World Report

    The compromised buying power of Europe and the United States will have a lot of pull on China's 2012 economic and stock-market fate. There's little Chinese officials can do about that. ...

  • China’s Demographic Inflection Point Approaches, Says Scholar

    The Epoch Times

    China’s working age population of 15 to 64-year-olds is declining for the first time since 2002, and the trend may signal a danger to China's continued economic growth, according to a ...

  • China: At Davos, China lowers growth forecast to 8.5 percent

    Spero News

    Last year growth was at 9.2. The Chinese statistics unreliable because of state intervention in credit policies and false growth data of the provinces and of actual inflation (16%). China will not ...

  • Trade Winds Change in China

    Journal of Commerce

    China's role in international trade is changing rapidly, but export prospects in major markets are 'bleak' China, the world’s second-largest economy after the U.S., saw foreign ...

  • Apple investigating practices at its factories in China including child labour

    Independent.ie

    China that include child labour, 24 hour working days and unsafe conditions at the plants which manufacture its iPhones, iPads and computers. In an email allegedly sent ...

  • Obama officials back bill to hit China subsidies

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is pressing Congress to restore an important weapon in the U.S. arsenal against subsidized imports from China by quickly passing ...

  • Two words for delusional China bulls: 'PER CAPITA'

    FXstreet

    When I hear someone mention China in the midst of a political discussion aimed at understanding our future economic path, I shake my head. There are very real reasons to give China's economy ...

  • Sanction: Oil industry sees China winning, West losing

    Times of India

    Iran will continue to sell much the same volume of oil - 2.6 million barrels per day or around 3 per cent of world supply - but almost all of it will flow to China, they reason. And being pretty ...

  • China stocks waver modestly Wednesday

    China Daily

    BEIJING--The weakness of banking shares weighed on Chinese stock markets, pulling the benchmark indices in Shanghai and Shenzhen modestly lower to close on Wednesday. The benchmark Shanghai ...

  • China stocks close mixed - July 5

    China Daily

    /enpproperty--> BEIJING -- Chinese shares closed mixed Tuesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.13 percent, or 3.54 points, to close at 2,816.36. The Shenzhen Component Index ...

  • Forest fire continues to burn in China

    WHP CBS 21

    BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of fire fighters are battling a blaze in the forest near the famed southwestern Chinese tourist town of Lijiang.State media say investigators were looking into the ...

  • Maybe we need to be more like China

    Las Vegas Sun

    Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 | 2:01 a.m. For months, even years, Republicans have talked as if solving our economic problems simply means reducing taxes, regulations and the debt, thus developing an ...

  • Another Tibetan shot dead by China police: rights groups

    Turkish Daily News

    Armed Chinese police (L) patrol on a street as Ethnic Tibetans walk past in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on January 27, 2012. AFP photo Chinese security forces shot dead ...

  • Wishful Thinking About China At Davos: CEIBS Dean John Quelch

    Forbes

    (Bill Gates, Eric Schmidtand Vikram Pandit have been among the attendees at this week's World Economic Forum in Davos grabbing international headlines. What are delegates saying about China? To ...

  • Two Uighurs deported from Cambodia to China get life

    The Star

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China has jailed two Muslim Uighurs deported from Cambodia for life, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday, showing no sign of loosening its grip on far-western Xinjiang Uighur ...

  • China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions

    C News

    Some 3.7 million people were left looking for alternatives after being told to avoid drinking water from the two rivers in southern China, state media reported on Friday. (Shutterstock) BEIJING -- A ...

  • China: Iran sanctions not constructive

    UPI

    The Chinese government, reacting to the European Union's embargo on Iranian oil, said such sanctions are not constructive. "To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran are not ...

  • / CORRECTION - Rotoblock Corp.

    Yahoo

    Andrew P. Schneider Named CEO of Rotoblock Corp. (RTBC.OB) CEO Appointment Follows 2011 Acquisition of China's daifuWaste BEIJING -- January 24, 2012 -- Rotoblock Corp. (OTC.BB: ...

  • Geithner: China should move on yuan, subsidies

    Market Watch

    DAVOS, Switzerland (MarketWatch) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday that China presents a "formidable challenge" to the global trading system since it subsidizes ...

  • Africa: China and Japan Currency Swap - A Nail in the Coffin of the U.S. Dollar

    All Africa

    China and Japan have taken a decisive step to diversify their reserve holdings away from the dollar. African peoples have a lot of lessons to learn from both the capitalist crisis in Europe and this ...

  • Cadmium pollution flows downstream in tainted China river

    SINA

    Firefighters work to put in chemicals made from dissolved aluminum chloride to neutralize the polluted Longjiang River in Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 26, ...

  • China eyes more gov't-funded overseas training for key sectors

    SINA

    BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- To upgrade human resources in key sectors, China has pledged to send a considerable number of professionals to receive overseas training at the government's expense ...

  • Jailed just in time for the holidays, and the PM's trip to China

    Globe and Mail

    It has become a judicial tradition in China. A holiday rolls around and – just as Western journalists and diplomats are heading for the airports – China’s court system rapidly ...

  • Iron ore swaps extend gains ahead of China's return

    Mine Web

    Iron ore forward swaps extended gains early Friday, reflecting hopes that spot prices will bounce back when China returns next week from its Lunar New Year ...

  • Commentary: A top-level visit to enhance China-Africa friendship amid growing interdependence

    Global Times

    As another manifestation of the growing importance of the time-honored ties between China and Africa, Beijing on Friday set in motion another top-level visit to the rising continent. During his ...

  • Foreigners living in China celebrate fifth day of first lunar month

    Global Times

    Greeks make Jiaozi, or Chinese dumplings, during a celebration held for foreigners living in China to mark the fifth day of first lunar month in the Chinese New Year , in Beijing, China, Jan. 27, ...

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Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans


Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans

The Beijing Subway is one of the biggest, most efficient and most used subways in the world. It is constantly undergoing expansion and upgrades, and yet is unable to keep up with the growth of the capital city. With the recently announced plans for the expansion of the subway by over 60%, the city will certainly be hard-pushed to meet the massive task.

The Beijing Subway is one of the largest in the world. It carries over 5 million people every day, and hundreds of trains run on 228kms of track and service 147 stations. It is a feat of engineering, planning and coordination every single day. It is a network that Beijing commuters should be proud of, it represent ... more


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