Word: suzhou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rongji is a good man, honest, with good ideas," says a mid-level government official in Suzhou, a city 50 miles west of Shanghai. "But even he is too weak to take on all the problems in China." The official then details the extent of corruption, inefficient industry, nepotism and financial chaos that plague his city, a microcosm of the mess China is in. Top cadres routinely "steal" houses for their children, he says, while others divert business loans to their own accounts and then walk away from the repayments. "It goes right to the top. The local party secretary...
From Xi'an he will proceed to Shanghai, where he will meet the presidents of Fudan and Shanghai Universities. He will make another side trip to Suzhou, a nearby city famous for its Ming and Qing dynasty gardens, before returning to Shanghai for an alumni reception...
...location in a handsome old villa in Wujiang City, 10 miles from Suzhou in eastern China, Chen Kaige is shooting Temptress Moon. The film crew, a tight team of 20 or so artisans, is being entertained by the Chinese actress Gong Li and Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...
...conference's participants explored issues surrounding women's health, they also had the chance to explore one of the largest nations in the world, starting in Beijing and moving to cities of Xian, Shanghai, and Suzhou...