WIND POWER INDUSTRY  

China Economic Weekly

August 15, 2011

China's wind power sector gained momentum in recent years thanks to the government's supportive policies. In this issue, China Economic Weekly reviews the development of this sector and its current achievement. Since 2005, China's installed wind power capacity has doubled for five consecutive years, with a total installed capacity of 42 mw, ranking the first in the world.

However, problems exist in this booming sector. The transmission capacity of power grids hasn't kept up with the growth of wind farms, which undermines efficiency and effectiveness of the wind power.

Despite the obstacles, experts believe that the country's attitude to this promising sector will not change.

ONLINE EXPOSURE

Globe

August 16, 2011

Anonymity on the Internet once gave people a chance to freely express their ideas. However, this has changed with social networking websites requiring private information, such as name, address and pictures, which are shared with the public.

This exposure forces people to get involved in social intercourse and while some worry their privacy may be infringed on, experts believe passively getting involved in social intercourse has positive impacts. "The freedom of speech brought by the websites actually helps relieve social contradictions," says Ralph Gross, a professor from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. It also helps citizens better supervise public figures, like officials. But this supervisory function should not be abused. The law needs to clarify whether activities on these sites infringe on ordinary people's privacy, or whether supervising public figures infringes on their privacy.

YAO RETIRES 

China Newsweek

July 25, 2011

The news that Yao Ming announced his retirement after nine seasons playing in the NBA is not a surprise to Chinese basketball fans due to his injury-plagued sports career. China Newsweek in this issue looks back at Yao's persistence and diligence in basketball, as well as his many injuries. Yao is highly spoken of as a "name card" of China, or a bridge fostering Sino-U.S. relations in many aspects. Yao is seen as a winner, a gentle, humorous giant, a national hero and a philanthropist in the eyes of people from home and abroad and leaves a difficulty to replace hole in Chinese sports.  

WHY HUNT HERE?

The Beijing News

August 7, 2011

Recently, China's State Forestry Administration approved two foreigners' applications to hunt in China. Although the approval is not administratively effective and can't be used as a legal guarantee for hunting, it will be an important reference for State Forestry Administration to decide whether to issue administrative permission.

Why are there always people coveting China's wildlife? Now, foreigners are applying to hunt China's blue sheep and Tibetan gazelles, which are under national protection. Departments claim hunters cannot shoot female animals, but who will monitor this? And male animals are also important for the reproduction of these species.

INCOME GROWTH

Yangcheng Evening News

August 4, 2011

Semi-annual reports recently issued by local governments show incomes of urban and rural residents in China's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities grew faster than the consumer price index (CPI) in the first half of this year.

Generally speaking, residents' income growth should not only grow faster than CPI, but also overrun GDP. In reality, however, not only did it fail to overrun GDP, residents' income growth fell far behind fiscal revenue growth.

Income growth overrunning the CPI growth rate is nothing to brag about. The real hard test for local governments is how to make sure income growth rates overrun GDP growth and fiscal revenue growth rates. In this way the public will really benefit from achievements in social and economic development.