Rural Issues - Rural Development
新农村建设耗资4万亿 (New Socialist Countryside Reforms Need 40 Trillion Yuan by 2020)
Ming Pao, March 07, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/
The so-called new socialist countryside, an ambitious plan launched by China to revive the economy in the rural areas will call for up to 40 trillion yuan by 2020, Justin Lin Yifu, a leading economist said.
News
Economic Development
五年后城镇居民收入超13000元 (Average Urban Income Expected to Grow over 13,000 Yuan in Five Years)
The Beijing News, March 07, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/0586/2006/03-07/
015@043748.htm
Environment
Legal Threat Opens New Debate over Spill in Jilin
SCMP, March 07, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZNBJUH8JE.html
Hukou - Reform
西安将逐步实行城乡统一“居民户口” ( Xi'an City to Widen Hukou Reform)
China Youth Daily, March 07, 2006
http://news.cyol.com/content/2006-03/07/content_
1329805.htm
Labor
Shanxi Puts Brakes on Expansion of Coal Mining
China Daily, March 07, 2006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/
07/content_527529.htm
Media
中国调整域名体系 增强自主性？(China Changes Internet Domain Name to Increase Autonomy)
BBC, March 07, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4770000/
newsid_4772600/4772610.stm
Politics - NPC
HK Deputy Blasts Wen's Work Report
SCMP, March 07, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZYFFVH8JE.html
2020年中国耕地缺口1亿亩以上 (China Will Have a Shortage of Farmland of Up to 100 Billion Mu by 2020)China Youth Daily, March 07, 2006
http://news.cyol.com/content/2006-03/07/content_1329801.htm
Economist Says Give Poor Rights, not Infrastructure
SCMP, March 07, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZD39UH8JE.html
Farmers Want a 'Land-Leasing Policy'
China Daily, March 07, 2006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/07/content_527428.htm
Leaders Tackle China's Great Divide
The Guardian, March 07, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1724215,00.html
Trade Barriers Hinder China's Rural Development
Xinhuanet, March 07, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/06/content_4266800.htm
Burgeoning Population of Landless Migrants Threatens Stability
Voice of America, March 06, 2006
http://www.voanews.com/english/China-Burgeoning-Population-of-
Landless-Migrants-Threatens-Stability.cfmThreatens-Stability.cfm
Population
Years Running out for China to Resolve Aging Problem
Xinhuanet, March 07, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/06/
content_4266244.htm
Poverty
北京城乡人均收入差距近万 (Income Gap Between Rural and Urban in Beijing Close to 10,000 Yuan)
The Beijing News, March 07, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/0586/2006/03-07/
015@043201.htm
Public Health - HIV-AIDS/STDs
Beijing Daily Sued for Identifying Aids Orphan
SCMP, March 07, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZX6JUH8JE.html
Public Health
Local Experiments on Euthanasia Proposed
Xinhuanet, March 07, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/06/
content_4265327.htm
Rural Issues - Taxation
财政部：取消农业税不等于农民不缴税 (Ministry of Finance: Farmers Still Have to Pay Tax after Abolition of Agricultural Tax)
China Youth Daily, March 07, 2006
http://news.cyol.com/content/2006-03/06/content_
1329232.htm
Tibet
'Channels of Contact' Open to Dalai Lama
SCMP, March 07, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZDCJUH8JE.html
Xinjiang
关塔那摩维吾尔囚犯不愿遣返中国 (Uyghurs Detained in Guantánamo Bay Don't Want to be Sent back to China)
BBC, March 07, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4780000/
newsid_4780900/4780984.stm