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xmas eve in Wuhan
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China releases first emigration report
12-24-2012 10:51 BJT
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China has released its first report on emigration, which warns that a growing number of wealthy Chinese are going abroad. The report says this could lead to a brain drain and damage the country’s economy.
More than 45 million Chinese people were living abroad in 2010, bigger than any other emigre population in the world. More than 150,000 changed their nationalities last year, and some 87,000 permanent residence permits were granted in the US. Of these, 3,340 were approved because of investment.
The report says nearly 60% of people with over 10-million yuan worth of private assets have finished the investment immigration or are considering doing so in the future.
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These facts have to make the Americans happy that all that money is coming to be spent there. You also have to think the government here has to be planning a counter-move of some sort.
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Any update on this thread from the original poster? There is a lot of sour info in this thread and maybe I can help.
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great news!A quick update to our situation - today we (wife and I) both received emails (one each to our separate email addresses provided on the forms) indicating our interview appointment will be on the 17th of January. If all goes well that day then it will have been almost 4 months to the day since we DCF'd in Beijing. That's a surprisingly fast turn around. -
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Confucius or Santa Claus in Chinese Cultural War
12/28/2006-- The popularity of Christmas in China has provoked a boisterous discussion over 'an invasion' of foreign culture and the loss of China's own cultural identity.
'Confucius or Santa Claus?' is the question posed by Internet forums and state media commentaries.
As interest in Western holidays rises, indifference is developing toward traditional festivals, such as the Chinese Lunar New Year and the Dragon Boat Festival, warned the People's Daily, the communist party's newspaper.
The precipitator of the debate was an online petition by 10 doctoral students from China's best universities that called for China to show Santa Claus the door and better cultivate Chinese traditions.
The petition seeks to 'wake up the Chinese people to resist Western cultural invasion' which, it said, 'has been more like storms sweeping through the country rather than mild showers'.
The petition said that most Chinese do not know the reason behind celebrating Christmas.
The uncritical enthusiasm is no isolated phenomenon as Western culture with its technological and economic dominance expands throughout China and the country shifts toward a more Western oriented society, the petition said.
The student's petition blamed the government for promoting the economy at the expense of Chinese traditions and businessmen seeking to improve their sales.
The petition has been unusually resonant in China.
On the Internet portal sina.com, 43,000 people participated in an online poll in which 53 percent called for a boycott of Christmas while 30 percent said it should be up to individuals to decide whether they would participate in the holiday, which is being increasingly celebrated in China along with Valentine's Day.
Commentators have swung back and forth between tolerance and nationalism.
The People's Daily said the attractiveness of Christmas is easy to understand because it is 'new and fresh ... and fascinating'.
Every person is free to celebrate Christmas, it said while adding, however, that it is 'urgent' that China revives its own festivals and holidays and adapts them from their agricultural roots to mirror China's changing, modern society.
'It has to be recognised that the craving of kids and young people for Christmas indeed has an effect on them from an 'alien, imported' culture,' the People's Daily said.
Christmas is observed in China as a religious holiday by its tiny Christian minority, but for the rest of the population, it pops up as Christmas trees and decorations festooning shopping centres, hotels and restaurants.
Children receive presents, friends send Christmas text messages by cell phones and young people enjoy a night out on the town on Christmas eve.
'The petition has poured cold water on the warm atmosphere of celebrating Christmas in China,' the official Xinhua news agency said.
'It does not matter whether non-Western nations are willing or not, they are all included in a global value system,' it said. '... The culture of the developed always prevails'.
However, it also warned, 'If we lose the dominance in culture in our own country, we will get lost totally'.
The Jiangnan Times said the campaign against Christmas flew in the face of cultural development and showed a lack of confidence in China's traditional culture.
'Tolerance is needed towards the celebration of Christmas,' the Changjiang Times said, arguing that it was 'natural' that China is seeing 'earth-shaking changes' to its lifestyles and ideas as its connections with the outside world grows.
It said the national culture was not at risk from foreign holidays but the students' petition was a reminder of the days when China isolated itself from the rest of the world.
'A narrow, biased and conservative mind goes against the values of the time and may bring up autocracy, coercion and harm to freedom and rights,' it warned
(Contributed by Asia Pacific News.net)
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Santa is not Chairman Mao either.
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pinup pics are funny!
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The Foreign Affairs Office of Hubei Provence has given us a couple of tickets to their holiday show. "You and your spouse are kindly invited."
The concert involves music, dance, peking opera and acrobatics, performed by Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Hubei Peking Opera Theater and Hubei Circus, and lasts for about 2 hours.
Time: 19:30---21:30, Dec 18th (Tuesday),2012.
Location: Chime Hall, Wuhan Conservatory of Music
(No.255, Jiefang Road Wuchang District, Wuhan).
Sounds interesting and we're going. Orchestral music, some screeching Peking Opera, formal dance and circus acrobats! Woohoo!!
Has anyone else been to these type of shows?
I'll take some pics and maybe some audio to share.
Baked xmas cookies with the wife all day.
I have a bunch of pics and I am waiting to upload them. Here's a starter... a student female drum group:
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That one is on tap as well as the simple "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You a Merry Xmas".FuLai
One fun thing I used to do with my students was teach them to sing "The 12 Days of Christmas." They always got a big kick out of it, especially singing it fast.
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Family? Friends? What about the xmas stuff? Tree, carols, gifts, decorations?A small get-together in Nanning
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This year is special for me, getting married and all. So far this xmas I have spread the cheer teaching the basic Santa Claus thing to my students and my new family.
At home the firsts have been plenty with my girl. Getting xmas gifts for family, an xmas tree, decorations, making xmas cookies etc.
Same for my students. Showing them the RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER tv show, the history of the event, the immense celebration around the world, xmas carols, and the xmas party.
It has been fun so far.
How are other ex-pats celebrating?
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The Foreign Affairs Office of Hubei Provence has given us a couple of tickets to their holiday show. "You and your spouse are kindly invited."
The concert involves music, dance, peking opera and acrobatics, performed by Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Hubei Peking Opera Theater and Hubei Circus, and lasts for about 2 hours.
Time: 19:30---21:30, Dec 18th (Tuesday),2012.
Location: Chime Hall, Wuhan Conservatory of Music
(No.255, Jiefang Road Wuchang District, Wuhan).
Sounds interesting and we're going. Orchestral music, some screeching Peking Opera, formal dance and circus acrobats! Woohoo!!
Has anyone else been to these type of shows?
I'll take some pics and maybe some audio to share.
Baked xmas cookies with the wife all day.
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all I wanted was a cold beer
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Soon I will hire a VPN service, thanks for the help. The main reason is so all the websites that have Twitter, Youtube, Facebook etc. hooks will load faster.
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So like when are people going to take govt back??? I'm about ready, but can't do it alone.
Someone objected to this statement.
Already this topic is tuning in the opposite direction.Dan, Carl, a little help?
Exactly
BTW, I don't think the people here pay any attention to the traffic cams...
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My girl asked if they had a machine like the consulate has, to keep guns from schools. We have a guy who slashed a bunch of students in a school this week that also made news. No one died but there was no machine there either. It is so hard to protect our rights when there are so many that have no respect.
They had the machine in place that your talking about, It did not work!
Only for the fact that they (the school) knew him on a regular basis.
ARGH!!! I will tell her. Thanks.
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I insisted on getting an Xmas tree, a very first for my girl. I asked her to decorate it and this is how it looks:
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My girl asked if they had a machine like the consulate has, to keep guns from schools. We have a guy who slashed a bunch of students in a school this week that also made news. No one died but there was no machine there either. It is so hard to protect our rights when there are so many that have no respect.
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plas·ti·ciz·er
noun \ˈplas-tə-ˌs¨©-zər\
Definition of PLASTICIZER
: one that plasticizes; specifically : a chemical added especially to rubbers and resins to impart flexibility, workability, or stretchability
First Known Use of PLASTICIZER
1925
plas·ti·ciz·er
noun (Medical Dictionary)
Medical Definition of PLASTICIZER
: a chemical added especially to rubbers and resins to impart flexibility, workability, or stretchability
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Liquor industry hit by plasticizer scare
12-16-2012 08:51 BJT
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Another series of food safety scandals, and this time, it’s China’s high-end liquor industry that’s feeling the heat. It started last month when plasticizer was found in Bai Jiu - that’s rice wine - produced by Jiuguijiu.
Plasticizers can harm the liver, kidneys and reproductive system. Now, another famous drink - Moutai Jiu - made by Kweichow Moutai - has been accused by an anonymous report of also containing the chemical.
Kweichow Moutai suspended stock market trading for one day, after the report from Hong Kong was posted online.
The following day, the company quoted findings by the national food supervision body and other organizations, which say its liquor meets national standards.
But the damage has already been done and the company says the report had ulterior motives.
Yuan Renguo, Board Chairman of Kweichow Moutai, said, "Someone wanted to take advantage of public food safety awareness. They’ve made up this food safety issue. They wanted to create panic, do harm to China’s liquor industry and the interests of investors, in order to make quick money for themselves. "
The Hong Kong report was posted by a person with the nickname "Shui Jinghuang". He said he sent the sample to Hong Kong because he didn’t get a reply from Moutai in time.
The report shows 3.3 milligrams of plasticizer -- that’s nearly 50 percent above Hong Kong health limits.
Kweichow Moutai responded, saying it doubts the credibility of the test. The company pointed out that there’s no batch identification of the sample and that the layout appears to be faked.
Moutai’s chief engineer, Wang Li, says she’s confident about Moutai’s quality.
Wang Li, Chief Engineer of Kweichow Moutai, said, "We’ve built a complete safety control and monitoring system. All the raw materials and equipment that come into contact with the liquor meet with national standards."
But there are other reports that back the Hong Kong findings.
On Thursday, an investment company cited another anonymous report that studied liquor from 4 leading brands in China. It shows almost all the samples contain plasticizers, including those of Moutai.
Ma Yong is the vice chairman of the liquor committee at China’s National Food Industry Association.
Ma said, "While there are risks from plasticizers to the human body, it doesn’t mean there’s a definite danger. There is a small amount of carbon monoxide in the air -- these kinds of risks are everywhere in our lives."
But risks are risks. Right now in China, there’s no national standard for the amount of plasticizer allowed in beverages.
Sources say the General Administration of Quality Supervision has recently banned all its branches from examining new liquor samples, in what appears to be an exercise in damage limitation, in the wake of the scandal.
Safe or not safe?
That remains the simple question puzzling people across the country.
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What are the XP (ex-pats) doing for xmas this year? I have been teaching my college students about it - they are truly clueless. "Is Santa Claus an animal?"
We are having an Xmas pizza party here if anyone wants to come.
Xmas in China
in Expats
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On Christmas Eve Chinese youngsters embrace the festival like Westerners but not for the religious reasons or for family reunion.