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...rises, 226,000 people were forced to relocate to suburbia in 2003. But a property bubble has prevented many citizens from finding affordable housing near Shanghai. "Of course, the developers of these satellite towns want to build luxury homes that they can make a lot of money on," says Mao Qizhi, deputy director of the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "So you need decision makers in the Shanghai government to say, 'No, we have to take care of the interests of the majority of the people, who aren't rich.' So far, that hasn...
...make an entire community come together." What's more, because Shanghai is a trendsetter for China, other mainland cities might blindly follow, littering the Chinese interior with gargantuan Paris Towns. "If other cities copy Shanghai on this, we could have a disaster on our hands," says Tsinghua University's Mao. "This is not the path that China's urbanization should be taking...
...Judging from the achievements of your work, I should say that 70% of what you have done has been pretty good." BO XILAI, China's Commerce Minister, on his counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans. The Communist Party gave the same approval rating to Mao Zedong...
When the pressure of running the world's biggest television maker weighs heavily on Li Dongsheng's shoulders, he reflects on his years in the muck. During China's Cultural Revolution, when Chairman Mao Zedong ordered high school graduates to learn from the peasantry, Li spent three years raising fish and rice. Today his company, TCL, based not far from the old commune in Guangdong province, is looking far beyond the paddies. The goal: to transform TCL into a worldwide household name. "When I hit problems along the way," says Li, 47, "I think, This is nothing like what...
...around China with hotdog American pilots, using their supply runs and rescue missions to get close to the action. Rowan's descriptions of the difficulty of the reporting itself?with a Nationalist news service chronically dishonest about its side's frequent defeats, and communications infrastructure under constant siege by Mao's rebel armies?underscore how tattered the country was on the eve of the Communist takeover...