During the interview with Alex Hu, Alex expressed his hopes and dreams in modern day China. Alex is a college student and looking toward the graduation. He indicated that it was most youth's goal to help their family, the society and the country. He stated that his parents were concerned about basic needs, whereas he is concerned about getting a meaning job that will ensure a good future for himself and make him financially comfortable. He believes that the future of China looks good. The article I located talked about 2 - 20 year olds who were caught racing. The article went on to discuss the rapid decline in the price of cars. This opened a market for youngsters who want to buy cars and "change their sluggish lives". The article also puts Chinese youth in the same boat as youth all over the world; they are racing and their parents are praying for their safety.
My conclusion about Alex and this article reveal that Chinese youth are no longer the secluded youths behind the "Great Wall". They are behaving just like the youth in Raleigh, NC, New York City, NY and London, England. They have wants and desires to be financially secure and live a good life. China and the West have almost completed the merger of western culture and Chinese culture within the ranks of its youths.
Tom
Drag racing in China; Sanlian and FHM
Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 4, 2006 3:08 PM
Boy racers of Beijing
San Lian Life Week's April 3 issue features the cover line Drag racing youths. With the steadily-decreasing price of cars, speed-loving Chinese youngsters are taking to illegal drag racing with the same enthusiasm as their counterparts in other countries.
The 'boy racer' phenomenon has been a source of worry to parents and society all over the world since James Dean made drag racing famous in Rebel Without a Cause, and it's no different in Beijing.
The trend has become a subject of public discussion in Beijing since February 10 this year, when the police arrested two 20-year-old men for racing around the city's Second Ring Road at death-defying speeds - nearing 150kph, or fast enough to complete the circuit in under 13 minutes and place them in the Beijing racing pantheon with the legendary "Sir 13 of the Second Ring" (a title the Sanlian article conspicuously avoids). The article profiles one of the youths, and looks at the influence on China's high octane youth culture of Formula 1, which entered the country in 2004 when Shanghai opened an F1 racing track.
The April issue of FHM's Chinese edition gets in on the drag racing vocab trend, using the Chinese word for drag racing (飙 - biao1) in a coverline: You can drag race whatever you ride: Donkey, horse, camel: completely change your sluggish life.
Inside the magazine are adverts for automobile brands KIA and Buick, and a special section sponsored by Cadillac. The San Lian Life Week issue contains ads for Ford and Buick, as well as a co-branded ad for Nokia and BMW.
For more on drag racing in greater China, have a look at blogger Glutter's Hong Kong street racing section.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
China, Look Who's Talking
I came across this article in the post today. The peasants are talking to someone. They were the largest group of subscribers for mobile phones recently. Is something bigger happening here - people who communicate with each other can plan.
Tom
China Mobile posts strong 2007 growth, gains music, users
The world's largest mobile phone service grew in subscribers, revenue, profit, music service members and IM.
Dan Nystedt
PC World Sunday, March 23, 2008; 10:19 AM
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone service provider, posted strong growth across the board in subscribers, revenue, net profit, new music service members and instant messaging users, the company reported Wednesday.
The company added 68.1 million new subscribers last year, nearly half from rural areas of China, executives said in a presentation. Subscriber growth rose 22.6 percent year-over-year, compared to growth of 22.1 percent a year earlier. The figures show China Mobile continues to grow at a heady pace, due in part to its focus on attracting more subscribers from rural areas more inland.
Subscriberstotaled 369.34 million at the end of last year, and rose another 7.04 million in January to 376.38 million.
China Mobile's operating revenue rose 20.9 percent year-over-year to 356.96 billion Chinese renminbi (US$50.48 billion). Net profit increased 31.9 percent to 87.06 billion renminbi.
The company's mobile phone subscribers sent 502.7 billion SMSs (short message service) last year, up 42.3 percent compared to a year earlier.
The number of people subscribing to China Mobile's wireless music clubrose to 66.88 million, an addition of approximately 50.75 million people last year. China Mobile says it has 250,000 songs available for users.
The number of people paying for subscriptions to mobile news rose to 23.55 million at the end of last year, up by 18.05 million.
The company's Fetionmobile instant message software also fared well, ending 2007 with 73.26 million users, up by more than 67 million compared to a year earlier. Fetion can be used on PCs as well as certain mobile phones, free of charge.
China Mobile plans to invest even more money this year to expand its network capacity and start 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) services in the run-up to the Olympic Games this August in Beijing. China Mobile plans to spend 127.2 billion renminbi this year, up from 105.1 billion last year, the company reported.
Tom
China Mobile posts strong 2007 growth, gains music, users
The world's largest mobile phone service grew in subscribers, revenue, profit, music service members and IM.
Dan Nystedt
PC World Sunday, March 23, 2008; 10:19 AM
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone service provider, posted strong growth across the board in subscribers, revenue, net profit, new music service members and instant messaging users, the company reported Wednesday.
The company added 68.1 million new subscribers last year, nearly half from rural areas of China, executives said in a presentation. Subscriber growth rose 22.6 percent year-over-year, compared to growth of 22.1 percent a year earlier. The figures show China Mobile continues to grow at a heady pace, due in part to its focus on attracting more subscribers from rural areas more inland.
Subscriberstotaled 369.34 million at the end of last year, and rose another 7.04 million in January to 376.38 million.
China Mobile's operating revenue rose 20.9 percent year-over-year to 356.96 billion Chinese renminbi (US$50.48 billion). Net profit increased 31.9 percent to 87.06 billion renminbi.
The company's mobile phone subscribers sent 502.7 billion SMSs (short message service) last year, up 42.3 percent compared to a year earlier.
The number of people subscribing to China Mobile's wireless music clubrose to 66.88 million, an addition of approximately 50.75 million people last year. China Mobile says it has 250,000 songs available for users.
The number of people paying for subscriptions to mobile news rose to 23.55 million at the end of last year, up by 18.05 million.
The company's Fetionmobile instant message software also fared well, ending 2007 with 73.26 million users, up by more than 67 million compared to a year earlier. Fetion can be used on PCs as well as certain mobile phones, free of charge.
China Mobile plans to invest even more money this year to expand its network capacity and start 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) services in the run-up to the Olympic Games this August in Beijing. China Mobile plans to spend 127.2 billion renminbi this year, up from 105.1 billion last year, the company reported.
China - "We Shall Overcome" Maybe!!!
I think that that based on what I have learned about China and its current internal problems we have long since past China’s reconsideration as a world power. China is a world power. While China has GDP is steadily growing, supporting its 1.3 billion people is a challenge. China does have one plus that will have it stay a world power, “the 1.3 billion people” are a market for the world. While the internal problems may exist on a large scale, the world wants to move it products and create economic stability for itself, I believe even at the cost of the Chinese people. In order for China to solve its internal problems they will have to reform its government.. China is currently playing a game with itself. It called itself a communist state but is playing the game of capitalism. Democracy is inevitable. When and how, I do not know but solutions to internal problems will be a factor in the change.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
China-Terror Plot
I read this article this morning online (MSN) about a foiled terror plot in China. I believe that more incidences like this will occur as we near the Olympics. My question is will the terror plots be based on disrupting the Olympics or bringing world attention to human rights activities in China or a slap at the political structure (CCP). This terror attempt was in the air, it will be interesting how China handles an on-ground terror attempt. Hopefully they can contain any terror attempts. Thought you might enjoy this article.
Tom
China: Terror plots targeted Olympics, plane
Officials say they foiled bid to ‘sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics’
updated 4:31 a.m. PT, Sun., March. 9, 2008
BEIJING - Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.
Wang Lequan, the top Communist Party official in the western region of Xinjiang, said materials seized in a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, had described a plot with a purpose “specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics.”
“Their goal was very clear,” Wang told reporters in Beijing. Earlier reports on the raid had made no mention of Olympic targets.
China has ramped up anti-terror preparations before the August Games. The nation’s top police official last year labeled terrorism the biggest threat facing the event.
The raid and the plane crash attempt were mentioned during a meeting of Xinjiang delegates to parliament’s annual session that focused in part on terrorism.
Emergency landingThe plane incident occurred Friday morning shortly after the China Southern Airlines flight left the far western city of Urumuqi at 10:35 a.m., said Nur Bekri, the governor of the Xinjiang region.
“From what we presently know, this was an attempt to crash the plane,” Bekri said.
Bekri said the crew responded and brought the plane to an emergency landing in the western city of Lanzhou at 12:40 p.m. with no damage or injuries. He gave few details.
Chinese forces have for years been battling a low-intensity separatist movement among Xinjiang’s Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim people culturally and ethnically distinct from China’s Han majority.
China says its main terror threat comes from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM. The group has been labeled a terrorist organization by both the United Nations and the United States. East Turkestan is another name for Xinjiang.
The group is not believed to have more than a few dozen members.
Tom
China: Terror plots targeted Olympics, plane
Officials say they foiled bid to ‘sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics’
updated 4:31 a.m. PT, Sun., March. 9, 2008
BEIJING - Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.
Wang Lequan, the top Communist Party official in the western region of Xinjiang, said materials seized in a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, had described a plot with a purpose “specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics.”
“Their goal was very clear,” Wang told reporters in Beijing. Earlier reports on the raid had made no mention of Olympic targets.
China has ramped up anti-terror preparations before the August Games. The nation’s top police official last year labeled terrorism the biggest threat facing the event.
The raid and the plane crash attempt were mentioned during a meeting of Xinjiang delegates to parliament’s annual session that focused in part on terrorism.
Emergency landingThe plane incident occurred Friday morning shortly after the China Southern Airlines flight left the far western city of Urumuqi at 10:35 a.m., said Nur Bekri, the governor of the Xinjiang region.
“From what we presently know, this was an attempt to crash the plane,” Bekri said.
Bekri said the crew responded and brought the plane to an emergency landing in the western city of Lanzhou at 12:40 p.m. with no damage or injuries. He gave few details.
Chinese forces have for years been battling a low-intensity separatist movement among Xinjiang’s Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim people culturally and ethnically distinct from China’s Han majority.
China says its main terror threat comes from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM. The group has been labeled a terrorist organization by both the United Nations and the United States. East Turkestan is another name for Xinjiang.
The group is not believed to have more than a few dozen members.
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