December 2010
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Shanghai Schools Push Students to Top of Tests -... →
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Engine of Growth →
(Photo by Michael Christopher Brown for TIME)
In the past three decades, China has more than doubled the mileage of new track in its railroad system. In the coming year, it will spend $120 billion on the construction of new lines, many of which will handle high-speed rail. (TIME via @HSRail)
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Shanghai makes the cut →
“The Economist’ rounds up the world’s best-performing city, and Shanghai makes it into the top 10 (CNNGo)
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Lining up at busy port →
Vessels berth at the Waigaoqiao container terminal in Shanghai. The city’s foreign trade value in November increased 35.3 percent year on year to US$64.06 billion, according to Shanghai Customs. Exports climbed 36 percent on an annual basis to US$40.31 billion, and imports rose 34.1 percent from a year earlier to US$23.75 billion. In the first 11 months of this year, Shanghai’s...
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The dirty secret behind jeans and bras →
(Wastewater discharge from a jeans washing plant)
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Greenpeace has released a report examining two textile industry towns in Guangdong province. This behind-the-scenes look at how our clothing is produced may make you think twice before queueing up for Christmas sales.
From April to October, we visited Xintang, the “Jeans Capital of the...
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Shanghai Expo 2010: universal narratives vs.... →
(Photo by Dan Hill)
Dan Hill, from the great City of Sound blog, writes about two of the corporate pavilions at the Expo: Cisco and General Motors. As he points out the experience in those pavilions”may be as revealing of 2010 as any other part of the Expo”.
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Plans to improve riverside facilities →
PEOPLE will be able to tour along both banks of the Huangpu River on foot or by bicycle as urban planners aim to further develop sightseeing facilities and traffic routes along the Huangpu River. The urban planner and the Huangpu River bank development office announced that one of their targets over the next five years will be to further boost tourism on the river by constructing more public...
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Shanghai never stops...
…the city is transforming… always something to eat…
(This is a guest post by Alvaro Leonardo, senior designer architect at POLIFACTORY)