marketing coursework div style=”width: 600px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto”> May 3, 2012 ZGBriefs is a condensation of news items gathered from published sources. ZGBriefs is not responsible for the content of these items nor does it necessarily endorse the perspectives presented. Get daily updates from ZGBriefs on Twitter @ZG_Briefs. To make a contribution to ZGBriefs, please click here and then select Donate Through Paypal. FEATURED ARTICLE China’s Left Behind Children (May 1, 2012, Foreign Policy, by Deborah Jian Lee and Sushma Sabramanian) In recent years, researchers have estimated that 58 million children like Yi and Juanzi have been left to stumble through their most formative years of life without parental guidancea difficult choice on the part of their parents, but one born out of necessity: Rural children lose their rights to subsidized education, health care, and other basic services the moment they step into the city. GOVERNMENT / POLITICS / FOREIGN AFFAIRS Unease Mounting, China and U.S. to Open Military Talks (May 1, 2012, The New York Times) Limited military talks between China and the United States an arena in which the two sides view each other with mounting unease open here on Wednesday as a prelude to a wider-ranging economic and strategic dialogue between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and their Chinese counterparts. The meetings, known as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, will be limited to a one-day session on Wednesday that will cover two subjects, cyberwarfare and maritime issues, Obama administration officials said. China demands US apology on Chen’s case (May 2, 2012, Xinhua) China demands the US to apologize for a Chinese citizen’s entering the US Embassy in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry said here Wednesday. It is informed that Chen Guangcheng, a native from Yinan county of eastern China’s Shandong province, entered the US Embassy in Beijing in late April and left of his own volition after a six-day stay in the embassy, said Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin. China’s Chen ‘not pressured to leave US embassy’ (May 3, 2012, BBC News) Dissident Chen Guangcheng was not put under pressure to leave the US embassy, its ambassador says, as the activist said he wanted to leave China because he feared for his life. Mr. Chen said he left his refuge in the US embassy after Chinese officials made threats to his family members. But US envoy Gary Locke said Mr Chen had appeared “eager” to leave. The issue continues to overshadow two-day US-China talks attended by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In an interview with CNN, Mr Chen appealed to US President Barack Obama to help him. “I would like to say to President Obama – please do everything you can to get our family out,” he said. The activist said he was disappointed with the US government. Chen Guangcheng wants to leave China on Hillary Clinton’s plane (May 3, 2012, The Guardian) Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist at the centre of a growing international storm, has said he wants to leave the country on Hillary Clinton’s plane when she flies out of Beijing at the end of this week. There has been mounting concern over his future amid confusing accounts, including from Chen himself, on his decision to leave US diplomatic protection and remain in China, and his subsequent change of heart. But his friend Teng Biao, a well known rights lawyer, said via Twitter that Chen’s communications with the US embassy were going smoothly and that his family had explained why they had changed their minds and wanted to leave for the US. An unnamed US official said it was seeking to learn Chen’s needs and that “his view of what the best thing for him and his family may be changing”. He added that diplomats were continuing to speak to Chinese authorities Chinese President Hu attends opening ceremony of China-US high-level dialogue (May 3, 2012, Xinhua) Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday attended the opening ceremony of the fourth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED). Hu is scheduled to address the opening ceremony of the annual gathering of high-ranking officials from the two countries. HEALTH Hospital staff kowtow to deceased patient (May 2, 2012, Shanghai Daily) Medical staff of a private hospital in northwestern Shaanxi Province was seen in an online video, kneeling on the floor and bowing to the portrait of a patient who died due to inappropriate treatment. The patient, surnamed Yan in his 70s, and four family members suffered food poisoning in March and went to the Baixin Hospital in Hengshan County for treatment. But Yan didn’t get any better and died in another hospital.However, Yan’s family, which is rich and influential in the county, forced the hospital director, An Yahong, to lead 40 or so medical workers to attend Yan’s funeral and ordered the hospital to suspend operation for three months for staff training, China Business News reported today. Police beefing up hospital security vigilance (May 2, 2012, China Daily) Police are stepping up their vigilance for people who disrupt the daily operation of hospitals because such acts violate the Security Management and Punishment Law, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Public Security said in a joint announcement on Tuesday. The statement is part of an effort to better maintain order in hospitals and other medical institutions following a series of violent attacks on medical workers in recent months. On March 23, an 18-year-old man stabbed a doctor to death and wounded three others in a hospital in Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang province. Anyone who carries illegal flammable materials, explosives or other items controlled by the government into hospitals, or who insults or threatens medical workers will be held legally accountable, according to the announcement. People who burn offerings like incense, set up funeral tables and wreaths for patients who died in the hospital and place their bodies outside the morgue for mourning will also be punished, the announcement said. “Such behaviors, if constituting crimes, will be called to account by the Criminal Law,” it said. Foreign medical workers to receive TCM training (May 3, 2012, China Daily) Thirty-two medical workers from 18 developing countries will start a three-month training program focusing on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in north China’s Shanxi province this month, according to local authorities. Their courses will focus on acupuncture treatment and Chinese-style massage, said Yan Ping, director of an acupuncture and massage school under the Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. EDUCATION / CULTURE Tourist train goes into service between Chinese city and DPRK (April 29, 2012, Xinhua) A tourist train in northeast China’s Jilin province went into service on Saturday, offering trips between the city of Tumen and Chilbo Mountain in the neighboring Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). A total of 65 Chinese tourists took the train into the DPRK for its first trip and will spend three days and four nights in the country, said Zhao Renjie, deputy director of the Tumen Municipal Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Tourism. The tourists walked for about 20 minutes to the city of Namyang in the DPRK, which is separated from Tumen by a river, before boarding the train, Zhao said. New York City welcomes the Terracotta Warriors (April 30, 2012, China Daily) Terracotta Warriors: Defenders of China’s First Emperor opened this past weekend and runs through Aug 26. Along with the nine clay soldiers, the exhibit dating to the third century BC includes 20 accompanying artifacts and, for the first time outside China, a set of gates from an ancient burial chamber of the Han dynasty (206 BC-220), which succeeded the Qin. The exhibit represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many, said Chen Shen, vice-president and senior curator at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. He curated The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army, which drew large audiences in Canada in late 2010 and throughout 2011. “The exhibition includes three sections featuring the life and the afterlife of the first emperor, to present the development of terracotta figurines as part of funeral traditions in ancient China,” Shen explained. “Later, other emperors also continued his legacies and built similar tomb complexes but they never managed to exceed his scale, which makes the first emperor’s terracotta warriors so unique.” SOCIETY / LIFE Car show models denounced for revealing attire (April 28, 2012, Xinhua) Beijing authorities have issued a “serious reprimand” for an ongoing car exhibition that has stirred controversy for its scantily-clad models. The Beijing’s Capital Ethics Development Office said on its website that the revealing clothing of some models at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition has had a “negative social impact.” The statement is believed to be referring to several widely forwarded photos of Gan Lulu, a controversial Internet celebrity, and Li Yingzhi, a BMW model, wearing a deep v-cut top and a skimpy diamond-studded dress, respectively. China’s online community has showered the models with both praise and mockery, with some netizens saying the models have turned the event into “a breast exhibition with many famous cars.” No cap on UK visas for Chinese during Olympics (April 28, 2012, China Daily) The British government will not set a cap on the number of visitor visas issued to Chinese tourists during the London Olympics period, China Youth Daily reported Saturday quoting Damian Green, visiting British immigration minister in Beijing. All Chinese tourists who plan to visit the UK this summer are welcome, no matter if they are coming for the Olympics, on a business trip or for recreational shopping, said Green, dismissing rumors that only a limited number of Chinese tourists will be allowed to visit during the Olympics. Visitors will not be required to hold an Olympic ticket to get a visa, added He Simin, an official with UK Border Agency. China’s young migrant workers losing farming skills (April 28, 2012, China Daily) China’s migrant workers increased to 250 million in 2011, with a growing average monthly income of 2,049 yuan ($304), but most have abandoned the farming skills treasured by their ancestors, Beijing News reported Saturday.Only 10.5 percent of migrant workers have received training in farming knowledge, 26.2 percent have no farming skills, while an overwhelming 68.8 percent have never been trained at all, according to a report released by China’s State Statistics Bureau. The younger the migrant worker, the less farming knowledge they have. This shift is of critical importance because the very infrastructure of farming is being destroyed. The inherited link between mankind and the land is being broken, the report said. More farmers abandoned rural life to take their chances in the cities in 2011, with 10.5 million new migrant workers last year, up 4.4 percent from the previous year, according to the report. Teen commits suicide over dress code (April 29, 2012, China Daily) The suicide of a 14-year-old girl who jumped to her death in mid-April to protest her school’s dress code has triggered online discussion about a deficiency of “life education” for Chinese teenagers. “Ying Ying,” a student at the Shengli No. 1 Middle School in the city of Dongying in east China’s Shandong province, died in a hospital on the morning of April 14 after jumping off a building. Her school contacted the students’ parents the night before to ask them for help in persuading the schools’ female students to cut their hair in compliance with the school’s dress code. “I tried to persuade her to have a haircut but she refused. Suddenly, she jumped out of the window,” her mother recalled sadly, alleging that the school’s policy was to blame for her daughter’s death. Zhen Xi, vice principal of the school, said the dress code is not aimed at any particular individual, adding that most of the students in the school have complied with the dress code. China’s railways see record traffic in Labor Day holiday (May 1, 2012, Xinhua) China’s Ministry of Railways said Tuesday the country’s railways carried a record high of nearly 30 million passengers during the International Labor Day holiday. The ministry said a total of 29.99 million people traveled by train during the four days from Saturday to Tuesday, up 1.32 million, or 4.6 percent from the same period last year. On Tuesday alone, train passengers rose 6.2 percent from a year earlier to 8.05 million. Over 500 microblog accounts closed in anti-porn campaign (May 2, 2012, Xinhua) Chinese authorities shut down 535 microblog accounts over the past week due to the alleged dissemination of pornographic and lewd content, the State Internet Information Office (SIIO) said Wednesday. Some individuals were found to have used their microblog accounts to distribute video clips, pictures, text and links related to topics such as “one-night stands,” “flirtatious self-shots and candid images” and “teen prostitution,” according to a statement from the office. China approves 5-year plan for social security development (April 2, 2012, Xinhua) China approved a five-year plan to speed up the establishment of a social security network that covers both urban and rural citizens by 2015, the State Council, China’s Cabinet, said Wednesday. The government will strive to build a basically complete social security system and a relatively sound management service system by the end of its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), according to a statement released after a State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao. The statement said the country’s social security development is unbalanced, as its state in rural areas obviously lags behind, and the coverage rate of some basic social security systems is still low. SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENT China launches two navigation satellites (April 30, 2012, Xinhua) China successfully launched two satellites into space at 4:50am Beijing Time today, the 12th and 13th satellites for its Beidou global navigation and positioning network, the launch center said. The Beidou-2 satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, was boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and has entered the scheduled orbit. It is the first time China has launched two navigation satellites with one rocket, and the two satellites will help to improve the accuracy of the Beidou, or Compass system, the center said in a statement. BUSINESS / ECONOMICS / FOREIGN TRADE China Eastern Airlines says to buy 20 Boeing aircraft (April 29, 2012, Reuters) China Eastern Airlines Corp Ltd said on Monday it has agreed to buy 20 new Boeing B777-300ER aircraft from Boeing Co , valued at $5.94 billion based on the 2011 price catalog. In a filing to the Hong Kong bourse, China Eastern said the aircraft were expected to be delivered in stages from 2014 to 2018. Boeing said on Friday that China Eastern Airlines had agreed to buy the 20 aircraft, pending Chinese government approval. The Chinese carrier also said it would sell five Airbus A340-600 aircraft, with an unaudited book value of about 4.47 billion yuan ($708 million), to Boeing. China manufacturing activity expands for fifth month (April 30, 2012, BBC News) China’s manufacturing activity has expanded for the fifth month in a row, easing concerns about a sharp slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. The official Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to 53.3 in April from 53.1 in March, the statistics bureau said. China relies heavily on its manufacturing and export sector for growth. There have been fears that a slowdown in key markets such as the US and Europe might hurt China’s economy. The PMI is a key indicator of manufacturing activity and a reading above 50 shows expansion. LINKS TO DETAILED ARTICLES AND ANALYSIS What caused Bo Xilai’s downfall? (April 27, 2012, BBC News, by Mukul Devichand) The BBC’s Mukul Devichand has just returned from Chongqing where he found a city under the iron-grip of Bo Xilai, a grip that has threatened Beijing’s rule in a way not seen since Tiananmen Square. Made in China: The Millennials Look East for Jobs (April 30, 2012, Time, by Courtney Sabramiam) McPhate is one of many young foreigners forging a career in East Asia. Raised in the relative affluence of the 1990s, the so-called millennial generation graduated in one of the worst recessions since World War II. As these young people from some of the worlds richest countries struggle to find jobs, Asian nations are filling some of the gap. Two Crises Highlight China’s Social Media Struggles (April 30, 2012, NPR, by Louisa Lim) China is clamping down on social media as it grapples with a crisis over the escape of a high-profile dissident, apparently to U.S. protection. The case presents new difficulties for a Chinese leadership already struggling to deal with the scandalous downfall of a powerful politician, and it complicates U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Beijing this week. Yet China’s use of social media in dealing with these two recent crises has been a study in contrasts. The Great China Crackup? (April 30, 2012, The Weekly Standard, by Dan Blumenthal) What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: how do the Chinese view their own system? Clearly reformers see the system fracturing. Questioning Workings of a Rumor Mill (May 2, 2012, The New York Times, by Kirstin Did Tatlow) Is the spectacular rumor mill surrounding the Bo affair actually aimed at obscuring the truth of Mr. Bos fall which is that it is a palace coup within a party keen to stifle debate about its top-down, neoliberal model of economic growth? Cracks in the wall: Will China’s Great Firewall backfire? (May 2, 2012, BBC News, by Katia Moskvitch) And to exercise this control, the state closely monitors internet traffic within the country and all web content that crosses its borders. This Great Chinese Firewall uses several tools. The Great Fall of China (May 2, 2012, Business Week, by Peter Coy, Dexter Roberts, Bruce Einhorn) The Communist Party faces the most serious threat to its authority since the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989. The case of Bo Xilai alarms Chinas leadership precisely because it weakens the impression of strength and competence they have labored so hard to maintain. LINKS TO BLOGS The Bo Xilai Rumor Mill: Is There a Method Behind the Wild Speculation? (April 26, 2012, Global Spin) Yet in some cases its clear that the dissemination of information regarding the Bo scandal, as well as some so-called independent analysis from Chinese experts, has been orchestrated. Video High Stakes Mating: Men v. Women (April 29, 2012, Tea Leaf Nation) Are men without money no better than garbage? Many Chinese women seem to think so, at least in this video. Internationalising the Chinese currency (April 30, 2012, East Asia Forum) Yet many conditions will need to be met to achieve Chinas transition to global economic superpower status without major disruptions to the established economic order. An important one has to do with how China is integrated into the international capital market. Chinas Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water (April 30, 2012, Environment360) In its quest to find new sources of energy, China is increasingly looking to its western provinces. But the nations push to develop fossil fuel and alternative sources has so far ignored a basic fact western China simply lacks the water resources needed to support major new energy development. High Noon in Beijing (April 30, 2012, American Interest) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be arriving in Beijing at perhaps the diciest moment in US-China relations since Richard Nixon reached out to shake Chou Enlais hand on his historic visit to what American conservatives then still called Red China. Microblogs Survive Real-Name RulesSo Far (April 30, 2012, China Real Time Report) We are required to, but have not, verified the identities of all our users who post on Weibo, it said. Our noncompliance exposes us to potentially severe punishment by the Chinese government. Peking Opera Masks and the London Book Fair (April 30, 2012, Rectified.Name) There is no way to have a fair or reasonable conversation about the literary merits of dissident or exile authors some of whom, like Yang Lian and Liao Yiwu, are very good indeed compared to authors who are read in China. Want to Succeed In China? Do The Right Thing. (May 1, 2012, China Law Blog) In other words, the way you manage your business in China will determine whether you succeed there or not. Infographic: Chinese internet users different online behaviors and values by city tiers (May 1, 2012, Offbeat China) Chinas online population is almost as big as the entire US population. Yet oftentimes, just like what happened to the term Chinese consumers, people tend to talk about Chinas online population as a unified whole whereas there are just as many internet users as there are Chinese consumers. How Chongqing People View Bo Xilai (May 1, 2012, The China Beat) Chongqing peoples attitudes toward Bo Xilai range from supportive to condemnatory to who cares and everything in between, a broad spectrum with two heavy ends. 190 pieces of advice from the Family Planning Commission (May 1, 2012, Sinostand) If you want to get an idea of how well a citys economy is doing in China, one quick way is to look for how much one-child policy propaganda there is. Chinas public welfare system is lacking and, for the poor, children are usually the most reliable social security insurance (and male children are investments with greater potential returns). Arms sales to Taiwan:Fighter-fleet response (May 2, 2012, Banyan) JUST as everything was becoming as clear as mud, America has unexpectedly raised the possibility that it might sell Taiwan the F-16 C/D fighter jets that it has been requesting since 2006. The move would infuriate China. Unraveling the Closure of a Great Wall Site (May 3, 2012, China Real Time Report) The Simatai portion of the Great Wall has been a favorite of backpackers and off-the-beaten-track tourists for years, particularly the hike from the Jinshanling section of the wall to Simatai, which traverses steep terrain. Then, in June 2010, the access road to Simatai about 70 miles northeast of Beijing was closed and gated. SPECIAL SECTION: CHEN GUANG CHENG Chinese censors block news on blind activist’s escape (April 30, 2012, CNN) Who Is Chen Guangcheng? (April 30, 2012, NPR) Chen Guangchen to Ai Weiwei: 6 famous dissidents in China (April 30, 2012, Christian Science Monitor) The Baffling Case of Chen Guangcheng (April 30, 2012, The Wall Street Journal) Chen Guangcheng: Free Citizen, Uncertain Future (May 1, 2012, China Digital Times) Chen Guangcheng was free to leave, Chinese police tell activist (May 1, 2012, The Guardian) Blind Chinese activist: The path from acupunture to legal eagle (May 1, 2012, Christian Science Monitor) Chinese crackdown on dissident’s family and friends (May 1, 2012, Behind the Wall) Full transcript: Phone calls between Teng Biao and Chen Guangcheng (May 2, 2012, The Shanghaiist) Sensitive Words: Chen Guangcheng (3) (May 2, 2012, China Digital Times) Chen Guangcheng photos released by U.S. Embassy in Beijing (May 2, 2012, Passport) A Chinese Dissidents Smuggled Video Messages (May 2, 2012, The Lede) Chen Guangcheng’s US-brokered deal unravels after leaving embassy (May 2, 2012, The Guardian) Chen Guangcheng: The great escape (May 2, 2012, The Analects) Chen Guangcheng: commentary and analysis from around the web (May 2, 2012, The Guardian) Leaving of My Own Volition Meme Explodes Courtesy of Chen Guangcheng (May 2, 2012, Tea Leaf Nation) Blind dissident wants to leave China, fears for family (May 2, 2012, The Globe and Mail) Chinese Activist ‘Very Disappointed’ in the U.S., Says Officials Lied To Him (May 2, 2012, The Atlantic) A Car Chase, Secret Talks and Second Thoughts (May 2, 2012, The New York Times) Minxin Pei: Communist China’s Perilous Phase (May 2, 2012, The Wall Street Journal) Chen Guangcheng breaks silence with phone call to The Washington Post (May 3, 2012, The Washington Post) ARTICLES IN CHINESE (May 2, 2012, Gospel Times) VS (Pushi Institute for Social Science) (Pushi Institute for Social Science) LINKS FOR RESEARCHERS Wang Liming (Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity) American Chamber of Commerce 2012 Business Climate Survey RESOURCES Pleco Chinese Dictionary ZGBriefs is a weekly compilation of the news in China, condensed from published sources and emailed free-of-charge to more than 6,000 readers in China and abroad. 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