BEIJING -- For months, the Communist Party had been able to deflect anger about factory closings toward the companies themselves. The party managed to come off as the benevolent savior by handing out cash to make up for unpaid salaries. The strategy stopped working at the Jianrong Suitcase Factory in late December
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
Capital Cases In China BEIJING -- Compared with murder and other violent crimes, the charges against Wo Weihan seemed minor, if a little exotic: copying articles from missile technology magazines in a public library, buying four night-vision equipment scopes, gathering information about the health of senior government leaders and collecting documents from a local Communist Party conference.
Sharply lower consumer spending in the United States and other high-income countries is stalling global trade, causing a surprise downturn in exports from China that is dramatically slowing its economy and rippling through other countries that rely on international commerce.
URUMQI, China — An exhibit on the first floor of the museum here gives the government’s unambiguous take on the history of this border region: “Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,” says one prominent sign But walk upstairs to the second floor, and the ancient corpses on display seem to tell a different story.
Factories Shut, China Workers Are Suffering Many migrant workers in Chang’an are returning to their rural homes or scrambling for jobs because of factory closings.
SHANGHAI - China's scandal over melamine-contaminated food products is far from over.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 9 -- China on Sunday night announced an aggressive $586 billion economic stimulus package, the largest in the country's history, at a time when it is struggling with increasing social unrest due to factory closings and rising unemployment.
China Tells Businesses to Unionize nytimes.com — Some of the world's biggest corporations are facing intense pressure from China to allow the state-approved union to form in their Chinese plants and offices. But many companies fear admitting the unions will give their Chinese employees the power to slow or disrupt their operations and will significantly increase the cost of doing business here. The companies, many of which moved to China to lower manufacturing costs and some to avoid unions in their home countries as well, are now being asked to meet a Sept. 30 deadline to make their offices and factories union shops. Companies that do not comply risk being publicly vilified or blacklisted by the union, and perhaps penalized by the government, since businesses are required by law to allow unions to form.
China to Allow Land Leasing, Transfer
New Law Is Part of Project Aimed at Doubling Rural Incomes BEIJING, Oct. 19 -- China's Communist Party issued new rules on Sunday that would allow farmers to lease their contracted farmland or transfer their land-use rights, an important part of a land reform effort intended to double rural incomes by 2020, the official New China News Agency said.
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