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The next time you complain about the high price of gas, think of Mr. Ma. The owner of small logistics firm in Beijing, Ma was forced to shut it down temporarily earlier this week after he simply couldn't find enough diesel to fuel his company's 20 trucks. "Gas...
The crisis is largely one of China's own making. To reduce inflationary pressures on its red-hot economy, Beijing has not raised prices at the pump, which are set by the government, since May 2006. In that same period of time, international oil prices have risen about 30%, sticking...
But given Beijing's preoccupation with maintaining social harmony, that isn't likely to happen soon. "Most of China's population simply can't afford international prices," Kwan says. Chinese drivers, of course, agree. "They could have at least been more patient," says Huang Youfeng, waiting in line to fuel...
...Some Beijingers have reluctantly resigned themselves to the inevitability of change. "When I was a boy," says novelist Wang Shuo, celebrated chronicler of the life of ordinary Beijingers, "a group of Muslims lived near us around the Chaowen Gate, who had yellow hair and yellow eyes. They had been brought in by the Mongols when they came to Beijing, and lived together ever since. A thousand years. And then the whole place was demolished and they were scattered all over." Sitting in his house in a manicured suburb 20 miles from the city center, Wang shakes his head with resignation...
Still, signs are emerging that the tide may be turning for those fighting the Quixotic fight for preservation of old Beijing. On October 15, Beijing Communist Party Secretary Liu Qi said the city plans to invest 2 billion renminbi ($268 million) over the next few years to renovate courtyard houses...