The documentary film "Living with Van Gogh", from Xiaoxing Cheng, is in the International Festival of TV programs (Fipa), in Biarritz /Rue 89 (FRANCE).
Beijing on 15th of January on the Euronews TV channel
Happy Chinese New Year. Best wishes for everyone. Today is the first day of the Ox Year...
More information: The Year 2009 is the 4706th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4706th year on February 4th, 2009. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Ox is the 26th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4705 = (60 *78) + 26, therefore this Ox Year is the 4706th Chinese Year.
After 5 years of an economic growth with 2 digits, till 13 % in 2007, the economic growth of China in 2008 is (only) 9.0 %, announced the official bureau in China, on 22nd of January. For the four quarter, the economic growth decreased dramatically to 6.8 %. But we can easily guess that actually the growth was between 5 to 6% only. The inflation, slowed down to 1.2 % during December 2008, whereas it was around 9 % at the beginning of the same year.
So it will be very interesting to check the figures during the first quarter of 2009. It will show the next social problem in China for the year 2009 especially during Spring. The cow year maybe very very hard.
More than half million Chinese lost their job, in China, during the last quarter 2008. End of December, 8.8 millions Chinese were officially without work. In 2008, the official figures of unemployment has increased for the first time since 2003, to 4.2 % for the end of this year, and 4.0 % for 2007, according to official figures, more than the forecast.
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is every year in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province in North of China). A city is created only made of glass and brings every year several thousands of tourists.
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It is the occasion to admire wonderful work of ice sculptures from the ice sculptors who build ephemeral world.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. It had been interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution until it was resumed in 1985.
Festival on the CCTV4 News (in Chinese)
PEPSI made an unusual advertisement for its brand in Qingdao (Shandong) by realizing a cow with around 2000 pepsi cans. Why a cow? Because according to Chinese calendar, the next year is the year of the cow! A good advertisement for Pepsi... They made also mummy cow in ... Sprite cans!
Hu Ming was 15, when she joined the Chineses Army Hospital. Twenty years later she left China and migrated to Australia where she could continue freely her paintings.
.Her paintings express dearly her worship of the female form depicting both physical strength and feminine beauty. Her works are not of a planned process born of her dreams and represents an accumulation of her diverse experiences. She has held exhibitions in Japan and Singapore with her paintings being sold to buyers in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe.
You will find Hu Ming website here.
Here is in video what the show is:
China is the one of the most dangerous country regarding the work conditions. Around 300,000 Chinese workers die every year during their work. We already talked about the miners here last time and the sad world record for dead miners. This germano-french documentary film shows few examples of the work conditions in China.
Video part 1
Video part 2
There have been more and more cars in China for the last years, but also too many road accidents. Most of us have alreary taken taxi, bus or motocycles in China as transport. The most curious thing is wherever you may go, you shall see a car accident or accident involving motocycles. Most of them do not respect any codes on the road beause they do not have any driving license or think they are not concerned by any safety or codes. Sometimes the accident is not serious but sometimes it drives to death.
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The video shows you common road accidents in China that with a little sense of civility, people could avoid it.
Road Accidents video
Almost 73,500 people died in road accidents in China last year in 2008, according to official figures.
In 2008, 265,204 road accidents killed 73,484 people and injured 304,919 others nationwide, down 19 percent, 10 percent and 20 percent respectively from 2007, the traffic administration bureau under the Ministry of Public Security said here.
Losses from these accidents were estimated at 1.01 billion yuan (148 million U.S. dollars), dropping 15.8 percent from 2007.
Discover ths documentary film by the French Media about the people life in Shanghai. It shows the social problem of Shanghai people and the difference between ultra rich and average Chinese in Shanghai. You will see the difference between the social classes and that more and more people protest against the local government and their politics.
Life in Shanghai - French documentary film
Someone told me about this short movie. So I found that it was necessary to share it. This one was realized by Ruby Yang. Just watch!
Part I: The blood of YingZhou District
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Part II: The blood of YingZhou District
Just on time, don't want to pay, or too full at the wagon door?
Few times in this blog, we described the situation in China for fresh graduates and also unemployment in general. .
The last few weeks, the global crisis has affected terribly the creation of jobs in China, scaring students, employees, employers, fresh graduates...
According to Zhang Chewei, Doctor in the Beijing University in Science and Social School, the unemployment is over the first estimation: the unemployment in China would be around 9.4 %, twice more than the official number.
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According to Zhang Chewei, Doctor in the Beijing University in Science and Social School, the unemployment is over the first estimation: the unemployment in China would be around 9.4 %, twice more than the official number.
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Fresh graduates will be pushed to work in the Western and poorer Province in China, where Engineers are missing, and also to join some Research project in University. The number of Fresh graduates increase more than the number of new emploment. The GuangZhou daily has reported that an Agent which searches for cleaners and babysitters has received thousands of students' CV.
.In GuangDong, 600,000 workers may have been back in 2008 according to Huang Yunlong, Vice Governor of the Province. In China, 10 millions of migrants over 130 millions estimated, may have been back to their hometown in 2008, due to unemployment issues in Eastern and South of China.
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Authorities are now afraid of a wave of unrest in 2009 as we talked previously in this article. It will be a priority for the Chinese government to find a job quickly for these millions of Chinese People if they want to avoid thousands of social manifestations in the coming months. Many examples are given everyday about people loosing their jobs, losing their houses, or going back in their hometown...
Authorities are now afraid of a wave of unrest in 2009 as we talked previously in this article. It will be a priority for the Chinese government to find a job quickly for these millions of Chinese People if they want to avoid thousands of social manifestations in the coming months. Many examples are given everyday about people loosing their jobs, losing their houses, or going back in their hometown...
Several Chinese Media have reported these last days that maybe 0.1 billion Yuan counterfeit money of Y100 bill would be in circulation in China especially in the Province of Guangdong.
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For any identification, the number of the bills start by HD90... and shows that it is a counterfeit bill.
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For any identification, the number of the bills start by HD90... and shows that it is a counterfeit bill.
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Y100-Chinese-fake Bill.
In Singapore, they have already reported the fake money via people who wanted to exchange their RMB by Sing $. This fake money is from the Banks. So we could wonder how the Banks in China could have this money and make it available in most of the ATM machines!
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In Singapore, they have already reported the fake money via people who wanted to exchange their RMB by Sing $. This fake money is from the Banks. So we could wonder how the Banks in China could have this money and make it available in most of the ATM machines!
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In the past, several companies in Guangdong have paid their employees with fake money. This fake money was also from the Banks. It is not the first time China faces this problem.
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So pay attention when you withdraw some money if you are in China.
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China's trade surplus is about to hit a record to reach $290 billion in 2008 ($262.2 billion in 2007), although there is the global crisis, according to the Chinese Customs. That means, it has been multiplied by 11 since 2003, showing how China is the strongest regarding exportation.
Discover a web documentary where you are the protagonist of the reportage in order to achieve your investigation..
You are in Shanxi, a province in North of China, ready to investigate about the miners. This region is well known for its coal mines and black records on miners death and pollution.
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They are half million Chinese who dig every day between 10 to 16 hours. They are from all over China trying to get a job. But they do not know neither when nor how one day they would come back in their hometown.
Most of them will find death in the mines.
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Click here to watch the documentary. It was realized by Samuel Bollendorff and Abel Segretin.
The last two months, we talked about the unemployment and job lost in China in this article or this one..
Now, China risks a wave of protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent among migrant workers and university graduates. The warning was published in this week's Outlook (Liaowang) Magazine, issued by the official Xinhua news agency, which laid out the hazards facing China and its ruling Communist Party as growth slows amid global financial turmoil.
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"Without doubt, now we're entering a peak period for mass incidents," a Xinhua reporter, Huang Huo, told the magazine, using the official euphemism for riots, protests and demonstrations. "In 2009, Chinese society may face even more conflicts and clashes that will test even more the governing abilities of all levels of the Party and government," he continued.
"Without doubt, now we're entering a peak period for mass incidents," a Xinhua reporter, Huang Huo, told the magazine, using the official euphemism for riots, protests and demonstrations. "In 2009, Chinese society may face even more conflicts and clashes that will test even more the governing abilities of all levels of the Party and government," he continued.
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Rising tension over jobs and income comes as China enters a year of politically sensitive anniversaries, especially the 20th anniversary of the 1989 armed crackdown on pro-democracy protests. That anniversary has galvanized a campaign by dissidents and rights advocates demanding democratic reforms.
Rising tension over jobs and income comes as China enters a year of politically sensitive anniversaries, especially the 20th anniversary of the 1989 armed crackdown on pro-democracy protests. That anniversary has galvanized a campaign by dissidents and rights advocates demanding democratic reforms.
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The biggest risks to China's stability will come from a surge of graduating university students, facing a shrinking job market and diminished incomes, and from a tide of migrant laborers who have lost their jobs as export-driven factories have closed.
The biggest risks to China's stability will come from a surge of graduating university students, facing a shrinking job market and diminished incomes, and from a tide of migrant laborers who have lost their jobs as export-driven factories have closed.
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Including students who graduated in 2008 and had not found work, there would be more than 7 million university and college graduates hunting for jobs this year. But the government's goal of annual GDP growth for 2009 of 8 percent would generate only 8 million new jobs for the whole country.
"If in 2009 there is a large number of unemployed rural migrant laborers who cannot find work for half a year or longer, milling around in cities with no income, the problem will be even more serious," said the reporter, Huang.
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Chinese protests were becoming increasingly politicized and this would make it even more difficult for officials to defuse unrest, the report said.
"If they are forcefully crushed as anti-government actions, this will only further complicate the problem and the direct outcome will be a dramatic increase in antagonism between officials and the public," Huang said.
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Including students who graduated in 2008 and had not found work, there would be more than 7 million university and college graduates hunting for jobs this year. But the government's goal of annual GDP growth for 2009 of 8 percent would generate only 8 million new jobs for the whole country.
"If in 2009 there is a large number of unemployed rural migrant laborers who cannot find work for half a year or longer, milling around in cities with no income, the problem will be even more serious," said the reporter, Huang.
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Chinese protests were becoming increasingly politicized and this would make it even more difficult for officials to defuse unrest, the report said.
"If they are forcefully crushed as anti-government actions, this will only further complicate the problem and the direct outcome will be a dramatic increase in antagonism between officials and the public," Huang said.
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You can read the magazine which arrived with subscribers on Tuesday and the article also appeared on Xinhua's website.
Firstly, happy new year 2009 for all of you.
Well for Chinese people, they still need to wait for few more days to pass according to the moon calendar. Everything is taking place now, migration of Chinese people from cities to iner part of China, Chinese food product, Chinese decoration in the streets...
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2009 is going to be difficult. Here we say that after Chinese New Year the situation (economy) will be clearer. So we shall see if it would still be bad or even worse ! Some others people have predicted a second economical tsunami in Sept. 2009, worse than the one in 2008!
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Anyway, in China, everything seems now calm, less crazy and slower than before. Many people went back to their home town, quite before the Chinese New Year Period. Many Yound Chinese people have lost their job, and it becomes more and more difficult to find a new one except to be a farmer in their hometown or have a small business (anything!). Well, I guess the different local government in China will have to deal in order to split into several yards the lands for more farmers. It was not easy before, so it may be worse in the coming future to get a land in China for our young people...
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So it will be definitely a year with a lot of change.
Any small good news will be welcome in this 2009 year.
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Best wishes for everyone.
Best wishes for everyone.
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