Word: jing
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...last year, down from 28,429 in 2000. But the local media play up stories of wealthy Chinese getting kidnapped or killed. Last month, the Shanghai-based Xinmin Weekly ran a lengthy report on crimes against "moneybags" in the booming city of Wenzhou. It detailed the death of Lin Jing, a chemicals trader murdered by an employee who taped his eyes shut before garroting him with a rope. Other prominent abductees have included Chinese movie star Wu Ruofu and Jiang Yingwu, a regional manager of a popular chain of hot pot restaurants, who was killed by his kidnappers...
...even the Forbidden City is renovating for the 2008 Olympics. China is rallying to present its best face to the world, determined to flesh out its economic power in terms that even Westerners can understand. And this new China is exactly what the typical visitor ambling into Wang Fu Jing shops or sloshing through neon-bright night bars will...
...Jing Cheng, 42, is at the cusp of that effort. Like an increasing number of other Chinese scientists and engineers, the CEO of CapitalBio Corp. has returned from the U.S., where he ran a small biotech company in San Diego, to pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's Tsinghua University (often called the M.I.T. of China), CapitalBio is among an élite group of Chinese life-sciences companies and research institutes. At the Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays...
Perhaps so, says Jing Cheng, but not in his industry. Eating lunch by a man-made lake in the shape of a human liver, Cheng says the potential in his business is boundless: "It's very possible that in our lifetimes we'll find a cure for cancer." He pauses and then smiles. "And maybe we'll do it right here in China." --By Bill Powell/Beijing and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...Jing Huang, politics wasn't just dinner-table-discussion fodder. It was a family tradition. As the grandson of one of the founders of China's communist movement and the son of a leading leftist writer, Huang imbibed the virtues of Marxist thought early. But because of his family's privileged status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers?and from hours spent listening...