Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
By ORVILLE SCHELL NYT SPEAKING this week at the United Nations, President Hu Jintao of China declared that his country “fully appreciates the importance and urgency of addressing climate change." As well it should. China is beginning to realize that it has a lot to lose from the carbon dioxide that the world so blithely emits into the earth’s atmosphere. Mr. Hu’s words made me...
China travel industry news (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
UNESCO WH can sometimes be a mixed blessing, as the article notes with regards to Lijiang. Yunnan province, in southwest China, has three sites on the tentative list, including the Hani Rice Terraces. Yunnan is a spectacular land of mountains, rivers and forests, with 25 tribal ethnic minorities making up more than a third of the [...]
Danwei (Free subscription) | 04/19/2009
Chubb at Cold China, has been posting fascinating entries about a March trip to various parts of China, writes about travelling from Lijiang to Panzhihua and on to Chengdu: The next day the brushes with Chinese mass philosophy continued. When i arrived at Emei town it was raining any foggy and i very decisively abandoned the hiking idea in favour of a day on the internet. My next train, this time...
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