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View from Great Wall watchtower
View from a watchtower on the Great Wall between Jinshanling to Simatai

China, 2004

(Courtesy of lil)

News

Schwarzenegger seeks China trade: Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to focus on tackling music and film piracy on a six-day trip to China designed to boost trade between China and California.

Fans mob Schwarzenegger in China: Chinese fans have mobbed California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the first day of a visit to Beijing.

Migrant Workers Becoming Rural Middle Class: Compared with the farmers who stay at home and stick to their farmland, migrant workers who take jobs in urban areas are more wealthy and active. They have become the principal part of the middle class in China's rural areas, according to the Social Structure Research Center of Anhui Province of China.

Local Story

Roots in China: When China opened its doors to international adoptions in 1993, childless American couples flocked to its shores. Twelve years later, roughly 100 families in Palm Beach County belong to a local chapter of the national group Families With Children From China.

Two Pieces from NPR

Amid Rapid Growth, Challenges for China's Economy: The large-scale growth of China's economy has attracted notice from businesses and investors worldwide. But pressures -- from corruption to bureaucracy and the role of the state -- offer new complications.

Bush China Trip to Focus on Economic, Religious Reforms: President Bush will embark on a trip to Asia next week with a stop in China. The president plans to press Chinese President Hu Jintao to allow greater religious freedom and to link China's currency to market forces.

Local Story

Chinese adoptees link through play groups: The animated chatter of little girls, often punctuated by squeals of laughter, emanated from the kitchen of a Belmont home. Out on the deck, their mothers sat around a table, engaged in their own spirited banter.

China Related TV

China Sprout posts a much-appreciated weekly guide for China Related TV listings.

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Dust storm in the Gobi Desert
Great wall of China during a Gobi dust storm.

(Courtesy of zargag)

2008 Olympics

Beijing unveils Olympic mascots: Beijing has unveiled its five official mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games. The mascots are cartoon renditions of a panda, a carp, a Tibetan antelope, a swallow and the Olympic flame.

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News

Eighth bird flu outbreak in China: China has conducted mass culls of birds in a bid to stem the virus China has confirmed a fresh outbreak of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu—the country's eighth within a month.

China rethinks peasant 'apartheid': Plans to end a controversial residency permit system have been welcomed as a positive step towards bridging the social, political and economic gulf between China's countryside and its cities.

Desperate Search for Justice—One Man vs. China: At his most desperate, when he had no more borrowed money for his son's legal defense, Xie Yujun went to a hospital. He knew of China's black market in body parts. He wanted to sell his eyes. He was refused.

Bush seeks church service in China: US President George W. Bush would like to attend Christian religious services with Chinese worshipers during his upcoming trip to Beijing, a senior US administration official said.

Local Story

Roots in China: For some, the Boca Raton Chinese School has been integral in their effort to embrace two cultures, to endow adopted children with a cultural identity that is both American and Chinese.