”Chinese Academy Social Sciences” News

Chinese laborers seek fortune in overseas jobs, but find risks

JINTANG, China — Cheap labor has helped China become the world's top producer of a variety of consumer goods, including televisions and DVD players and apple juice and clothing. So it seemed only a matter of time before China would
01 29 2009 2:28PM (...more)

China Premier's gifts to Europe come with price-tags

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Premier flies to Europe on Tuesday bearing vows of support for its crisis-rattled economies, in a bridge-mending visit that shows Beijing 's potential
01 27 2009 1:57AM (...more)

China issues nervous welcome to Obama

BEIJING (AFP) – China offered a nervous welcome on Wednesday to US President Barack Obama , expressing concern over the direction he may take bilateral ties while paying tribute
01 22 2009 1:37AM (...more)

Financial woes hit China's top universities, too

BEIJING (Reuters) – The global financial crisis , which has dented endowments at the top universities in the West, has also reduced funding to China's universities, said the president of one of the country's most
12 31 2008 7:46AM (...more)

Protest by suitcase workers sent packing in China

DONGGUAN, China – Laid-off migrant worker Chen Li had red scrape marks on his right cheek from a scuffle with riot police outside his factory that went bust this week in southern China. Now the angry young man is going
12 22 2008 6:07PM (...more)

Horde of unemployed worries stability-obsessed China

BEIJING (Reuters) – More than a million jobless Chinese graduates could make coping with unemployment harder than it was during the Asian financial crisis , the head of a training group said as 12 22 2008 12:58PM (...more)

Unemployed masses worry stability-obsessed China

BEIJING (Reuters) – A surge in jobless Chinese graduates could make coping with unemployment harder than it was during the Asian financial crisis , the
12 22 2008 11:03AM (...more)

Fruits of reform can be bitter in Chinese countryside

XIBAIJIAN, China (Reuters) – China 's vast brown plains gave birth to the reforms that transformed the nation three decades ago, and yet now Xibaijian village is one of many battlegrounds here where peasant unrest shadows that success.
12 13 2008 10:07AM (...more)

Migrants, unsung heroes of China's reform, demand their share

BEIJING (AFP) – Cheng Yuan gets up at 6:00 am and goes to sleep 12 hours later in his crammed dormitory, too exhausted to watch any TV after a day on his Beijing building site -- and he considers himself lucky. In a good month, the 35-year-old can make 3,000 yuan (440 dollars),
12 12 2008 11:33AM (...more)

China economic growth to slow to 10.8 percent: report

SHANGHAI (AFP) - China 's economic expansion is expected to slow to 10.8 percent this year from 11.4 percent in 2007 partially due to weaker export growth, state media reported Friday, citing a state think tank.
01 25 2008 9:51PM (...more)