New South China Mall: Too big to fail
Six years after the world’s largest shopping mall opened, over 99% of its shops remain empty. And yet the mall continues to expand. (Domus)
4 months ago
China's urban population outnumbers rural for first time
(Photo by franklam2010)
The number of people living in China’s cities for the first time exceeded those in the country’s rural areas at the end of 2011, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday.
The number of urban dwellers increased by 21 million to hit 690.79 million at the end of 2011, accounting for 51.27 percent of the country’s total. Meanwhile, the rural population fell by 14.56 million to 656.56 million. (via Shanghai Daily)
4 months ago
“Streets of China” by Ricardo Mendialdua
4 months ago
China tests 500 km/h super high-speed train
China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling 500 kilometers per hour, state media said on Monday, as the country moves ahead with its railway ambitions despite serious problems on its high-speed network. (Reuters)
5 months ago
China wants housing curbs extended
(High rise apartment blocks under Construction in Shanghai via Overseas Property Mall. Photo credits to DCF_pics)
China’s central government has ordered local governments to extend restrictions on the property market, some of which are set to expire within coming months.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has emphasized the need for policy continuity in the property market, and has forbidden local governments from making “directional change,” the Legal Evening News reported yesterday, citing unidentified officials with the ministry.
Last year, 48 cities issued restrictions on the number of homes a person is allowed to purchase to curb speculation and control rising prices. Thirty-six of the cities do not have expiry dates for the policies while 12, including Fuzhou, Xiamen and Haikou, set restrictions to end either by year end or in February. (Shanghai Daily)
6 months ago
A complete guide to China's high-speed rail
Four expert tips and 5 top lines travelers shouldn’t miss. (CNNGo)
6 months ago
Portraits of government buildings in China
Shen Xiaoming is a photographer from Zhejiang who has made a name for himself in the last year for his portraits of government buildings around China. From 2005 to 2006, China witnessed the biggest surge in the construction of government building, many of which are located in the new development zones. Such buildings have become the key strategy for the new zones to draw economy and draw investments, he says. The political symbolism comes of these buildings come in the second place. (Shanghaiist)
Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
Erdos, Inner Mongolia
Pudong District, Shanghai
6 months ago
China 'Cancels' an Entire City
It’s usually extremists and dictator-like leaders who use the phrase “wiped off the map,” and they usually mean it as a threat to some other nation they’d like to see destroyed. Not often is that phrase put into action, and especially not domestically. But officials in China have done just that: they’ve wiped one of their own cities off the map. The map, yes, but not the earth. Physically it’s still there; officially it no longer exists. (The Atlantic)
8 months ago
jin mao tower and shanghai tv tower by Gaellery on Flickr.
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9 months ago
The Economist take on the Chinese one-child policy and its effect on population size if it were theoretically 100% enforced across the board. They couple that with the predictions from the UN a few weeks ago, which estimate the population as it actually will be with the current one-child policy, a policy that has been unevenly implemented with various exemptions and rigidity across China. (Shanghaiist)
10 months ago
