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8th September 2007

China Learning English 175 million and growing….

original article here.

In China alone, some 175 million people are now studying English in the formal education system. And an estimated 2 billion people will be studying it by 2010, according to a British Council report last year.

“The dominance of English as an international language is growing.”

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13th June 2006

US accuses China of helping Iran

Washington (AFP) Jun 14, 2006
The United States Tuesday cited four Chinese companies and one US firm as “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction,” for allegedly helping Iran’s missile program. “The companies targeted today have supplied Iran’s military and Iranian proliferators with missile-related and dual-use components,” said Stuart Levey, US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

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6th May 2006

World’s Oldest stone drill bits found at archeological site in China

From: http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-1/39954.html

Superb drilling technology and the world’s earliest stone drill bits were found at site Epoch

Times Staff

In Lingjiatan, Hanshan County of Anhui Province in China, archaeologists have discovered a primitive tribal site that was inhabited 5,000 years ago. Superb drilling technology and the world’s earliest stone drill bits were found at the site. Archaeology professor Zhang Jingguo said there are still many mysteries in the Lingjiatan ruins waiting to be solved.

The Lingjiatan ruins are located in Lingjiatan Village, Tongzha Township of Hanshan County in Chaohu City, Anhui Province, covering about 1.5 million square meters. Archaeologists say the 5,000 year old city was probably a prosperous city with developed construction, animal husbandry and handicrafts. Prior to the discovery of the Lingjiatan ruins, the oldest city in China acknowledged by archaeologists was in Dantu Village in Wulian County at Rizhao City, Shandong Province, which was built more than 4,000 years ago.

In the fall of 1985, a Lingjiatan villager by the name of Wan Chuancang found jade rings, stone axes and stone chisels when digging a grave for his mother. That was the beginning of the discovery of these most important ruins of the late Neolithic Age.

From 1987 to 2000, archaeologists performed four archaeological excavations at the site. They discovered more than 1,200 pieces of precious artifacts including: an altar, 66 graves, refined jade, stoneware and pottery dating back to the late Neolithic Age. Among these are the earliest Jade Dragon and the largest stone shovel discovered in China to date.

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1st May 2006

Pollution choking North China’s largest lake - still think

Pollution slowly choking North China’s largest lake to
death
ANXIN, China, April 28 (AFP) Apr 28, 2006
When a slick of pollution in north China’s biggest
freshwater lake left fish farms decimated in early March,
locals and environmentalists were little surprised.
Large-scale fish deaths have occurred regularly since the
1980s as excessive amounts of untreated industrial waste
water and raw sewage, coupled with drought and constantly
falling water levels, have left Baiyangdian Lake in
northern China’s Hebei province choking for its life.

“When we were kids we used to drink the water straight
from the lake,” Liu Zhanbing, 41, a fish farmer who has
lived his entire life on the banks of the lake in
Dazhangzhuang village, told AFP.

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This year’s fish kill came after upstream reservoirs of
waste water in the Baoding city region, home to about 10
million people, emptied their putrid sludge into streams
and rivers that run into the lake, state media said.

The pollutants, full of phosphorous and nitrogen, sapped
the oxygen out of the blackish green water and when the
frozen lake thawed, farmers found their suffocated fish
floating to the top.

“Farmers who didn’t harvest their fish in October, lost
their entire crop,” Liu said. “They were hoping that the
fish would grow bigger over the winter and then they would
be able to get better prices this spring.”

Liu, like many other farmers on the marshy lake, turned to
fish farming after wild fish began dying out years ago. He
said he barely makes ends meet farming fish, mostly carp,
but there is no other work for him to do.

With environmental disasters on the rise and especially
following a huge toxic benzene spill on the Songhua river
in northeast China in November, the government has
repeatedly vowed to put an end to the environmental
degradation that has come with 25 years of unbridled
economic growth.

For Chinese environmentalists and academics who have long
called for more environmental protection, cleaning up
Baiyangdian Lake has now become a test of China’s
determination to avoid an environmental crisis and clean
up its act.

So far, the government response has been strong with 218
polluting tannery, paper making and other factories above
the lake shut down, while at least seven environmental
protection officials in towns and cities up stream have
been fired for allowing the waste water to be released
into the lake.

Upstream reservoirs which have hoarded natural run-off
water for irrigation and industrial purposes have been
ordered to share their water and open flood gates to help
dilute the pollution in the lake.

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27th April 2006

China to purge ‘unhealthy’ sites on internet

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) — China’s top Web portals, including Sina Corp. and Tom Online, have agreed to rid their sites of “unhealthy” content, amid a broader Beijing campaign to clean up the Internet.

Other major players in the self-policing drive include Sohu.com Inc., NetEase.com Inc., Baidu.com Inc. and Yahoo Inc.’s China Web portal, according to the text of a pledge by 14 companies posted on Sina’s Web site.

U.S. search giant Google Inc., which has come under fire for agreeing to self-censor its China Web site to filter out politically sensitive issues, was not on the list, and nor was Microsoft’s MSN Network, which also operates in China.

The firms’ pledge states that the Internet has become an important source of information and entertainment in China, now the world’s second-biggest market with over 100 million surfers.

“At the same time as the Web develops quickly, certain sites are transmitting unhealthy news … and uncivilized voice services, including pornographic content that can be harmful to society,” said the pledge, which was dated earlier this month in a posting on Sina’s Web site.
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