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With the launch of its newest, fastest, and most expensive rail projects, you too can now pass through 20 cities, go over 600 bridges, and pass through 200 tunnels to on your way from Wuhan to Guangzhou to help to create better cooperation between Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong. … and in about 1/3 of the [...]

When asking for a white Christmas in China, I guess you gotta be careful.. cause you might just get what you ask for.  It’s like a blizzard outside .. hard to see.. don’t advise anyone to go outside.. yet, as it is smog and not snow, it just isn’t the same.

In what might be the regulation that slipped through the traditional media wires, Jay Boyle of EXPAT CFO just forwarded me a potential bombshell of a regulation where China will look to tax all those offshore transactions that investors have come to rely upon when setting up their China vehicles. … and it went into [...]

1. Chengdu’s Metro Line 1 laid completely, to start trial operation next October On November 30th, the municipal government of Chengdu held a press conference, announcing that the track-laying of the Metro Line 1 of Chengdu has been completely finished, and the trial operation is predicted to begin next October. 2. Chengdu expected to become [...]

Just a quick celebratory note to announce that after a nearly 18 months of planning, designing, funding, and pushing.. the first Hands On Chengdu Community Flower project has been delivered to site and installed. A lot of people to thank – Joyce, Vivian, John, Fang Hui, Conyee, Conlyn, Milan, Holger and many others whom not [...]

One of the things that fascinated me most about this city was its express delivery network, a service that I had used quite often to send letters/ packages across town, but paid little attention to as the people behind it seem quite decentralized and rarely cared to say anymore more than “sign here”. Then, a [...]

One of the most interesting things about living in China is the phenomenon where something in the expat community happens that lights off a series of emails and text messages meant to unite everyone to either do something … or to not do something. In the case of the email below, it is the later, [...]

When Walmart called 1000 CEOs to Beijing for a meeting last year, it was an event that many covered as being a turning point in sustainability. With China still working through the “Made in China” label, and the world entered the recession, Wal-Mart’s announcement that it was going to use its size to become a [...]