Word: xiao
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...Long and other planners report to Mayor Xiao Yang, 55, a wiry engineer and former vice mayor of Peking who has gained a national reputation as a "city doctor." Says Xiao: "I hope to play that role here. Our population may be large, but unfortunately our economy is not. To make our economy compatible with size is the most serious problem we face." Hopes for improvement focus on developing what Xiao describes as "a comparatively high level of management." Chongqing plants, he believes, should be able to increase exports and thereby provide hard currency to finance such projects as improved...
...Xiao has plenty of problems to tend to in Chongqing . For one thing, the city is woefully short of transportation. Says Chen Zhihui, the municipal planning commission's vice president: "There are not enough trucks, cars, trains or taxis. We have to plan to import more." Hotel space is insufficient, and air service is inadequate. Chongqing's airport lies in a valley that is fogbound so frequently in winter that one of every three flights must be canceled...
...Chinese artists on the Australian art scene is already being felt from within. Sydney gallery director Gene Sherman describes this world as "a very delicate ecosystem, both in terms of the practitioners, and also in terms of people like us." While artists like Guan Wei, Ah Xian, and Liu Xiao Xian, all of whom moved to Australia following the Tiananmen Square killings 16 years ago, are hardly household names, they are for the dealers, curators and gallery directors who make the art world go round. Their works are being quietly amassed by the collections that count, and they're starting...
...kitchen table in Sydney's south, Liu Xiao Xian is "playing" chess on his laptop computer screen. Actually, he's clicking on images from his 2001 wooden sculpture, Game, in which meticulously carved Chinese and European pieces face off across a chess board. It's a typically disarming work from Liu, 41, whose photos and installations speak eloquently of his shift to Australia in 1990. "There are no rules how to move," he says. "That's been my experience - how to make the negotiation? How to make it workable?" With recent work taking center stage at the Art Gallery...
...Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Chair of Department of Statistics...