Re: The China Challenge
- From: PaPaPeng <PaPaPeng@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:26:13 GMT
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:09:03 GMT, PaPaPeng <PaPaPeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. China special: The solar power king
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.500-china-special-the-solar-power-king.html
" 07 November 2007
" Richard Fisher Phil McKenna
" Magazine issue 2629
Watch an interview with the mayor of Rizhao and the director of
Mountain Yoga about how they are now using solar water heaters
SHI ZHENGRONG is an unlikely contender for the title of China's
richest man. He is a green entrepreneur in a nation that is home to 16
of the world's 20 most polluted cities. Last year, Forbes magazine
ranked him top of mainland China's rich list, with a net worth of $2.2
billion. Only electrical retailer Wong Kwong Yu kept him from
retaining the title in 2007.
Shi is head of Suntech Power, based in Wuxi, which is one of the
largest producers of solar-cell modules in the world. He represents
the kind of home-grown success story in both technology and business
that will be needed in spades to meet the crushing energy demands of
the emerging superpower.
China's demand for energy is expected to nearly ...
The complete article is 2060 words long.
2. China special: The backbone of spinal research
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.600-china-special-the-backbone-of-spinal-research.html
" 07 November 2007
" Jane Qiu
" Magazine issue 2629
WHEN Yang Gui-rong was taken to the Chengdu Army Kunming General
Hospital more than a year ago, after an accident diving into a pool,
he could move only his mouth and eyes and was struggling to breathe.
Surgeons transplanted fetal cells into the injured spinal cord in
Yang's broken neck. With intensive rehabilitation, he slowly regained
feeling and movement in his arms. Today, Yang is on the hospital's
wheelchair rugby team, which won a silver medal in the Chinese Games
for the Disabled in May. "We didn't expect he would survive the
surgery," says Shen Caihong, head nurse in the hospital's spinal
injuries centre. "Now his progress is visible almost on a daily
basis."
Yang is just one individual hit by an epidemic of spinal injuries in
China that is a direct consequence of the nation's economic
development. Over the past decade, the rate of spinal cord injuries
has increased ...
The complete article is 2076 words long.
3. China special: Small farmer/big pharma
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.700-china-special-small-farmerbig-pharma.html
07 November 2007
Phil McKenna Richard Fisher
Magazine issue 2629
Farmers in the far west of China might be living on a different planet
from workers in Beijing's booming biotech firms...
KASAM SAYIM doesn't have a cellphone and has never used a computer.
"I'm an old man. I have no use for them," he says.
Sayim is a 63-year-old grape farmer from Hando village in Xinjiang
province in north-west China. He is Uighur, a member of a Muslim
minority group that has its own language and uses a modified Arabic
script. Sayim doesn't speak Mandarin.
The Turpan basin, where he lives, is the second lowest place on Earth
apart from the Dead Sea. It gets so hot and dry that from May to
October the villagers drag their beds - and often their TV sets -
outside and sleep under the stars. Officially Xinjiang province, some
3000 kilometres west of Beijing, is in the same time zone as the
capital. ...
4. China special: One child, one big problem
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.800-china-special-one-child-one-big-problem.html
07 November 2007
Rachel Nowak
Magazine issue 2629
IT HAS been called the demographic sweet spot - a huge working-age
population supporting a relatively small number of old and young
people - and it has helped power China's economic explosion. China hit
that sweet spot because of decades of social engineering. In the late
1950s, Mao Zedong promoted large families to power his economic vision
of a Great Leap Forward, and by 1976 the population had almost
doubled. This prompted the introduction of national family planning
policies to restrict the number of children a couple could have. With
some modifications, these policies are still in place. They were
designed to put a brake on runaway population growth, end poverty and
encourage economic development. In part, the plan has worked: today
almost 72 per cent of Chinese people are of working age.
But the country's drive to reduce birth rates - known outside China as
the one-child policy - ...
The complete article is 1433 words long.
5. China special: Exposing the science charlatans
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.900-china-special-exposing-the-science-charlatans.html
07 November 2007
Richard Fisher
Magazine issue 2629
IT WAS supposed to be a national triumph, but instead it became a
serious embarrassment. Four years ago, Chen Jin's star rose fast after
he unveiled a new computer chip. It was billed as China's first
home-grown digital signal processor - the kind of chip that forms the
guts of devices from digital cameras to mobile phones. Buoyed by
millions of dollars from both the central and Shanghai governments,
Chen set up a company called HISYS Technology to mass-produce the
chips.
His fall was spectacular. In January 2006, an anonymous tipster
claimed Chen had bought chips made by electronics giant Motorola,
sanded off the logos and presented them as his own. Chen's employers
at Shanghai Jiao Tong University later concluded that he had falsified
results. He was fired, and "China's chip" was no more.
Chen's is not the only recent high-profile case of scientific fraud in
China. Last year, ...
The complete article is 1613 words long.
6. China special: Beyond the Great Firewall
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626292.000-china-special-beyond-the-great-firewall.html
" 07 November 2007
" Gregory T. Huang
" Magazine issue 2629
IT'S a familiar scene the world over. Rows of young men hunched over
glowing screens, looking like they've been there for days. They are
immersed in virtual worlds, surfing the web, or shopping for gadgets.
I'm in a wang ba, or net bar, on bustling Chengfu Street in Beijing.
The scene appears at odds with the popular perception of China as a
ruthless suppressor of internet freedom: in the run-up to the Chinese
Communist Party congress last month, western media reported the
censoring of blogs, suspension of websites and even whole internet
service providers being closed down. Yet when I ducked into one of the
dozens of net bars in the vicinity of Tsinghua University, I couldn't
find an empty seat. Welcome to the Chinese internet.
I peek at the screens and see no trace of Google, YouTube, eBay or
other western sites. Not because they are blocked - most ...
The complete article is 1378 words long.
7. China special: Quantum revolution
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19626292.100-china-special-quantum-revolution.html
" 07 November 2007
" Gregory T. Huang
" Magazine issue 2629
THIS is where the revolution might begin. One night five years ago,
Jian-Wei Pan had a vivid dream. Sitting in front of him was the
world's first quantum computer. It was a strange mix of translucent
solid and swirling fluid with a piercing beam of blue light emanating
from within. He approached it, trying to figure out how it worked, but
it was too fuzzy to examine. Nor could he imagine where it had come
from. Did it have a "Made in China" sticker on it? "I have no idea,"
Pan laughs.
In his lab at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
in Hefei, Pan is now striving to make his dream a reality. When I
visit, it is buzzing with activity. In an office thick with cigarette
smoke, young professors argue over their latest experiments, while in
the next room students scurry around a ...
The complete article is 1890 words long.
8. China special: Engineers rule, OK?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626292.200-china-special-engineers-rule-ok.html
" 07 November 2007
" Richard P. Suttmeier
" Magazine issue 2629
CONTEMPORARY China is a nation led by technocrats. The current
generation of leaders is made up mostly of graduates from some of
China's leading universities, typically trained in science and
engineering. Until this year's 17th National Congress of the Communist
Party of China, which closed on 22 October, every member of the
central bastion of power - the Standing Committee of the Politburo -
was an engineer by training. President Hu Jintao is a graduate of
Beijing's Tsinghua University, often referred to as China's MIT, while
the premier, Wen Jiabao, trained as a geologist.
For those in the west, where lawyers dominate the political
establishment, China provides an intriguing contrast. How did the
country come to be led by a cohort of technocrats? Does their
technical mindset define the way they rule? Do they govern as
engineers and scientists? And, most importantly, do they govern well?
The current leadership's rise ...
The complete article is 1324 words long.
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