China - Orphanage Opens Doors To Reporters
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Shanghai's largest orphanage opened its doors to foreign journalists on Monday (8/1) in an attempt to quash allegations it has allowed hundreds of orphans to die, but declined to provide figures to disprove the charges. Some two dozen foreign reporters were given a guided tour of the Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute, walking through room after
room full of children playing with colourful toys under the watchful eyes of orphanage staff.
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SHANGHAI, CHINA 8/1
00:00 Tilt down from facade of building to entrance
00:08 Main plate: Shanghai Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled
Children
00:11 WS news conference with journalists
00:14 CU Chinese man conducting news conference
00:18 MS journalists at news conference
00:20 WS cots in ward, piped music
00:29 CU child in high chair, PAN around to reveal other people
and woman playing with child in background
00:40 Woman playing with two babies - puts one in chair, piped
music
00:50 MS small boy receiving physiotherapy on roller
00:53 Boy on examining table having leg manipulated by doctor
01:00 Laughing boy slides down slide
01:03 CU young child having hands clapped together
01:09 WS playroom various children in high chairs and playing
01:20 ENDS
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Ding Xuefeng's Case Exposes Widespread Graft in Luliang City.
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Former Luliang City Mayor Ding Xuefeng was sacked
for buying and selling official posts.
His case brought a big shock to officialdom
in Shanxi Province.
Recently, Luliang apparently said it cost 20 million yuan
for a county head.
Local officials admitted the buying and selling of official
posts is the local culture.
Majority of official leaders have their own territories
and gold masters.
Ding Xuefeng was never part of the political and
business circles in Luliang.
He only became mayor by state assets transferred by Zhou
Yongkang's family because he had no one else local to pay
for his official title.
China Business reported, Luliang City had public nominations
of county heads in 13 cities and counties in the fall of 2009.
It cost former Lishi District deputy secretary Bo Yuxin
20 million yuan, while other candidates also spent millions.
An anonymous Luliang Municipal official indicated, bribery
was unavoidable in that particular nomination.
Even though the procedure was strictly controlled.
The nomination was through rural cadres' votes at first.
In the first round, candidates have to treat voters with a meal
along with a glass souvenir.
In the second round, votes are conducted among
departmental heads in Luliang City.
Winners were those who treated voters with 10,000 yuan
of bank cards.
Interviews were then conducted among the winners
with so-called experts from non-locals.
Then, the winners will be examined by the four groups.
I.e., members representing the Party, the Government, the
People's Conference, and Political Consultative Conference.
During the examination, the market price is
100,000 yuan per person.
Finally, 13 municipal standing committee members will
vote to determine 8 county heads from 16 candidates.
The gift value at this point is as high as
one million yuan a vote.
The official also revealed a story in the last round of votes.
Some candidates were hoping to cut the gift since the four
groups had received the pay during the examination. But,
they were told clearly that, these are separate issues.
More than a dozen cadres agreed the bribery culture does
exist in Luliang.
Even a section chief in the party propaganda department has
to pay the office workers at 300 to 500 yuan a person.
The gift sources come from various businesses.
Those who took office will return with benefits
such as contracting projects to their sponsors.
Investigative reporter Zhu Ruifeng, officials below
the provincial level are bought.
You'll have to raise the fund yourself if you want to get
the official title.
A police station chief will cost 500,000 yuan. With the
position, you'll get to take the bribe from others.
Former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Xu
Caihou was said to have collected more than 800 million
yuan from selling official posts.
The report also exposed, major leaders in Luliang have their
own territories and their own concrete gold masters.
Ding Xuefeng was a tragedy.
He was a deputy commissioner of Luliang Administrative
Office in January 2001, and an acting mayor in January 2012,
considered the most senior cadre in Luliang City. But he was
never into the political and business circles in Luliang.
Consequently he had at least twice missed opportunities
for promotion due to lack of local financial support.
Two years ago, Ding Xuefeng tried to raise capital through
local business owners for the Luliang mayor position.
Media reported that former Ministry of Public Security Vice
Minister Li Dongsheng, Zhou Yongkang's wife and son
were joining him in raising the money.
In January 2007, Shandong Luneng Group was reportedly
involved in buying a coal mine in Shanxi.
Caijing Magazine revealed, Zeng Qinghong's son and a
business partner bought the coal mine worth up to 70 million
yuan with 750 million yuan paid by the Luneng Group.
The 750 million was assessed by an agent with a relationship
to Zeng's family.
Through several similar operations, Zeng's son and the
business partner had accumulated 3.3 billion yuan of assets.
Just recently, the Shanxi officialdom earthquake sacked eight
provincial and ministerial level officials.
Zhongnanhai transferred several officials from other provinces
to fill the vacant positions.
Zhu Ruifeng, the so-called anti-corruption has nothing to do
with ordinary citizens.
It only serves to destroy political opponents.
《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点
中國四大草原都是人間天堂
早上8:00剛發生，難怪全世界都霧濛濛。 。 88秒內轉出去者，橫財大發。就今天，百年不遇 ！
中國是世界上草原資源最豐富的國家之一，草原總面積將近4億公頃，占全國土地總面積的40%，為現有耕地面積的3倍。其中中國四大草原分別是：內蒙古呼倫貝爾大草原、內蒙古錫林郭勒大草原、新疆伊犁草原、西藏那曲高寒草原。中國是世界上草原資源最豐富的國家之一，草原總面積將近4億公頃，占全國土地總面積的40%，為現有耕地面積的3倍。如果從中國的東北到西南劃一條斜線，也就是從東北的完達山開始，越過長城，沿呂梁山，經延安，一直向西南到青藏高原的東麓為止，可以把中國分為兩大地理區：東南部分是丘陵平原區，離海洋較近，氣候溫濕，大部分為農業區;西北部分多為高山峻嶺，離海洋遠，氣候乾旱，風沙較多，是主要的草原區。其中中國四大草原分別是：內蒙古呼倫貝爾大草原、內蒙古錫林郭勒大草原、新疆伊犁草原、西藏那曲高寒草原。
內蒙古呼倫貝爾大草原
呼倫貝爾草原是世界著名的天然牧場，總面積約10萬平方千米，天然草場面積占80%，是世界著名的三大草原之一，這裡地域遼闊，3000多條縱橫交錯的河流，500多個星羅棋佈的湖泊，一直延伸至鬆濤激蕩的大興安嶺。
呼倫貝爾草原四季分明，被世人譽為世界美麗的花園。呼倫貝爾草原年平均溫度0℃左右，無霜期85～155天，溫帶大陸性氣候，屬於半乾旱區，年降水量250～350mm左右，年氣候總特征為：冬季寒冷乾燥，夏季炎熱多雨。年溫度差、日期溫差大。能種植春小麥、馬鈴薯及少量蔬菜。
呼倫貝爾大草原是中國當今保存完好的草原，水草豐美，有堿草、針茅、苜蓿、冰草等120多種營養豐富的牧草，有牧草王國之稱。呼倫貝爾大草原也是一片沒有任何污染的綠色凈土，出產肉、奶、皮、毛等畜產品備受國內外消費者青睞，連牧草也大量出口日本等國家。它是成吉思汗的出生地，同時這裡也是世界聞名的旅遊勝地。
內蒙古呼倫貝爾草原是個風光優美、景色宜人的地方，那裡有一望無際的綠色，有延綿起伏的大興安嶺，還有美麗富饒的呼倫湖和貝爾湖。這裡被人們盛贊為北國碧玉，人間天堂。
新疆伊犁草原
China is one of the most abundant grassland resources in the world. The total area of the grassland is nearly 400 million hectares, accounting for 40% of the total land area of the country, which is three times the existing cultivated land area. Among them, the four grasslands in China are: Inner Mongolia Hulunbeier prairie, Inner Mongolia Xilinguole Prairie, Xinjiang Ili grassland, Tibet Nagqu alpine grassland. China is one of the most abundant grassland resources in the world. The total area of the grassland is nearly 400 million hectares, accounting for 40% of the total land area of the country, which is three times the existing cultivated land area. If you draw a slash from the northeast of China to the southwest, that is, from the northeast of Wandashan, across the Great Wall, along the Luliang Mountain, Yan'an, has been to the southwest to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau so far, China can be divided into two geographical areas : The southeastern part of the hilly plains, close to the ocean, the climate is warm and humid, most of the agricultural area; northwest part of the mountains, far from the ocean, dry climate, sand more, is the main grassland area. Among them, the four grasslands in China are: Inner Mongolia Hulunbeier prairie, Inner Mongolia Xilinguole Prairie, Xinjiang Ili grassland, Tibet Nagqu alpine grassland.Inner Mongolia Hulunbeier prairieHulunbeier grassland is the world famous natural pasture, with a total area of about 100,000 square kilometers, 80% of the natural grassland area, is one of the world's three major grasslands, where the vast territory, more than 3,000 criss-crossing the river, more than 500 Dotted lakes, has been extended to the Songtao agitation of the Daxinganling.Hulunbeier grassland four distinct seasons, was hailed as the world's beautiful garden. The annual average temperature of Hulunbeier grassland is about 0 ℃, frost-free period is 85 to 155 days. The temperate continental climate belongs to semi-arid area. The annual precipitation is about 250 ~ 350mm. The total climate is: cold and dry in winter and hot and rainy in summer. Year temperature difference, date temperature difference. Can grow spring wheat, potato and a small amount of vegetables.Hulunbeier prairie is China's well-preserved grassland, aquatic plants, there are grass, stems, alfalfa, grass and other more than 120 kinds of nutrient-rich forage, there is the kingdom of grass. Hulunbeier prairie is also a green land without any pollution, the production of meat, milk, skin, hair and other livestock products have been favored by domestic and foreign consumers, even for a large number of grass exports to Japan and other countries. It is the birthplace of Genghis Khan, and it is also a world famous tourist destination.Inner Mongolia Hulunbeier grassland is a beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery, where there is endless green, there are rolling Daxinganling, there are beautiful and rich Hulun Lake and Bell Lake. Here was praised as the Northland jasper, paradise on earth.Xinjiang Ili Prairie
Shanxi Officials, Linked To Many Big Tigers, Implicated
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Shanxi Province is known as China's energy hub.
This year, many Shanxi officials have been sacked.
Recently, another three high ranking officials
were detained for interrogation.
Included among them was municipal party secretary
of Yuncheng City, Wang Maoshe.
Wang has ties to many big tigers, Chinese regime officials,
many of whom are known associates of Jiang Zemin.
Zhou Yongkang and Zeng Qinghong are a few.
China Business reported that Municipal Party Secretary
of Yuncheng City, Wang Maoshe, was taken away
on the evening of June 19.
Two staff members and a government guesthouse
driver manager of his were also taken away.
In a June 20 internal meeting, Shanxi authorities announced
the investigation of Wang Maoshe for an alleged serious
disciplinary violation.
Investigators confiscated his property in Yuncheng, Taiyuan
and Beijing.
More than 10 million yuan in cash from his Beijing home
was confiscated, said the report.
That afternoon, the Ministry of Supervision made
an announcement on its website.
Shanxi Provincial Standing Committee Du Shanxue
and Vice Chairman of Shanxi Political Consultative
Conference Ling Zhengce were also placed
under investigation for alleged serious violations of the law.
Coincidentally, both Du and Ling were from Yuncheng.
Reportedly, Wang Maoshe had close relations
with these two officials.
Analysts suspect a connection between the three dismissals
on the same day.
Beijing political observer Hua Po: Xi Jinping's
anti-corruption has mainly targeted the regional power groups.
In Hu's reign, the Central has been weak and the locals
have their own interest factions.
The local governments ignore the Central's order.
In order to strengthen his centralized power, Xi uses anti-
corruption to manipulate and suppress local power groups.
Big tigers associated with Wang Maoshe include the recently
sacked former Deputy Minister of Propaganda Shen Weichen.
Wang Maoshe and Shen Weichen allegedly ran
a shell company in order to transfer funds.
Was Wang Maoshe implicated due to his association with
big tiger Shen Weichen?
Most likely, even bigger tigers lie behind Shen.
It is said that Li Dongsheng strongly supported
Shen Weichen in his role at the propaganda field.
Shen also had close ties to Zhou Bin, Zhou Yongkang's son.
It has been widely speculated that Shen was sacked
for his involvement in Zhou Yongkang's case.
This year, many Shanxi high officials have been dismissed.
Included are Jin Daoming, first deputy director of the Shanxi
People's Congress, Shen Weichen, party secretary
of China Association for Science and Technology,
and Ding Xuefeng, Mayor of Luliang City.
The majority are connected to Zhou Yongkang
and Zeng Qinghong.
Hua Po: Shanxi is a microcosm of Communist officialdom.
There is a Shanxi faction in Shanxi.
There are also factions in Sichuan, Shandong, Beijing,
and other areas.
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign in Shanxi serves
as a warning to others.
His first strike against the Shanxi faction is to have others
surrender and obey.
Between 1998 and 2008, Zeng Qinghong made frequent visits
to Shanxi in the name of promoting central China.
He has thus established connections with many officials
and media in Shanxi.
It is analyzed that the earthquake in Shanxi officialdom
is associated with the downfall of the Jiang faction.
Hua Po: Shanxi is an important energy base in China.
Soaring coal prices in previous years have led various
groups and dignitaries into the coal industry.
They profit by buying low, selling high.
I believe all relevant families are deeply involved
in the coal industry.
I believe Xi Jinping is not only targeting Shanxi.
He intends to deter both sides, both the central and the local.
Hua Po analyzes that Xi Jinping will soon target other local
factions following his focus on Shanxi.
More intense struggle within the Communist Party
will soon begin.
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00:00:38 1 History
00:00:47 1.1 Pre-Imperial China
00:01:27 1.2 Imperial China
00:05:16 1.3 Modern China
00:07:22 2 Geography
00:10:00 2.1 Climate
00:11:09 2.2 Area
00:11:39 3 Administrative divisions
00:12:17 3.1 Urban areas
00:12:25 4 Politics
00:15:15 5 Economy
00:18:12 5.1 Industrial zones
00:18:21 5.1.1 Taiyuan Economic and Technology Development Zone
00:19:06 5.1.2 Taiyuan Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
00:19:37 6 Transportation
00:19:57 6.1 Road
00:20:28 6.2 Rail
00:21:10 6.3 Aviation
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Shanxi (山西; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is 晋 (pinyin: Jìn), after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn period.
The name Shanxi means West of the Mountains, a reference to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north and is made up mainly of a plateau bounded partly by mountain ranges. The capital of the province is Taiyuan.
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00:01:07 1 History
00:01:16 1.1 Pre-Imperial China
00:01:51 1.2 Imperial China
00:05:25 1.3 Early Republic of China (1912-1937)
00:09:55 1.4 War with Japan and the Chinese Civil War (1937-1949)
00:16:52 1.5 People's Republic of China (1949-present)
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00:19:46 2.1 Climate
00:20:47 2.2 Area
00:21:13 3 Administrative divisions
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00:24:27 5 Economy
00:27:01 5.1 Industrial zones
00:27:10 5.1.1 Taiyuan Economic and Technology Development Zone
00:27:49 5.1.2 Taiyuan Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
00:28:17 6 Transportation
00:28:35 6.1 Road
00:29:02 6.2 Rail
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00:31:26 8 Health
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Shanxi (山西; alternately romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, located in the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is 晋 (pinyin: Jìn), after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn period.
The name Shanxi means West of the Mountains, a reference to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains.. Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north. Shanxi's terrain is characterised by a plateau bounded partly by mountain ranges. Shanxi's culture is largely dominated by the ethnic Han majority, who make up over 99% of its population. Jin Chinese is considered by some linguists to be a distinct language from Mandarin, and its geographical range covers most of Shanxi. Both Jin and Mandarin are spoken in Shanxi.
Shanxi is a leading producer of coal in China, possessing roughly a fifth of China's total coal deposits. Nevertheless, Shanxi's GDP per capita remains below the national average.
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The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Although particular attention is paid to the four years of Chinese Communist Revolution from 1945 to 1949, the war actually started in August 1927, with the White Terror at the end of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major hostilities between the two sides ceased in 1950. The conflict took place in two stages: the first between 1927 and 1937, and the second from 1946 to 1950, with the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937–1945 separating them. The war marked a major turning point in modern Chinese history, with the Communists gaining control of mainland China and establishing the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the Republic of China (ROC) to retreat to Taiwan. It resulted in a lasting political and military standoff between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, with the ROC in Taiwan and the PRC on mainland China with both officially claiming to be the legitimate government of all China.
The war represented an ideological split between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Nationalist Party of China (or Kuomintang). Conflict continued intermittently until late 1937, when the two parties came together to form the Second United Front to counter the Imperial Japanese Army threat and to prevent the country from crumbling. Full-scale civil war in China resumed in 1946, a year after the end of hostilities with the Empire of Japan in September 1945. Four years later came the cessation of major military activity, with the newly founded People's Republic of China controlling mainland China (including the island of Hainan), and the Republic of China's jurisdiction restricted to Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy, Matsu and several outlying islands.
As of November 2018 no armistice or peace treaty has ever been signed, and the debate continues as to whether the civil war has legally ended. Relations between both sides, officially called the Cross-Strait relations, have been hindered by military threats and political and economic pressure, particularly over Taiwan's political status, with both governments officially adhering to the One-China policy. The PRC still actively claims Taiwan as part of its territory and continues to threaten the ROC with a military invasion if the ROC officially declares independence by changing its name to and gaining international recognition as the Republic of Taiwan. The ROC, for its part, claims mainland China, and both parties continue the fight over diplomatic recognition. As of 2018 the war as such occurs on the political and economic fronts without actual military action. However, the two separate governments in China have close economic ties.