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How China Cooks Its Books | Foreign Policy
Last October, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in a speech after inspecting China's Statistics Bureau, "China's foundation for statistics is still very weak, and the quality of statistics is to be further improved"
Pro Libertate: Building a Better Beast : "Homeland Security" in the US and the PRC
U.S. version of [Golden Shield] is the proposed Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) or E-Verify
…My heart’s in Accra » More map lust: global populations in 1890
tiny European states to manage huge swaths of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, thousands of miles away, tenuously connected by telegraph lines and steamships.
China Prepares for Urban Revolution - BusinessWeek
Over the next 17 years, 350 million rural residents will move to China's cities... bring the Chinese urban population from just under 600 million today to close to 1 billion, changing China into a country where more than two-thirds of its people are city dwellers
Personal Technology: The lucrative loneliness of the Chinese | The Jakarta Post
A generation that is comfortable with the cell phone but lacking the physical social networks that their parents had. In this case, maybe social networking is fulfilling a slightly different need: Online friendships aren't just a continuation of real-world ties, but relationships that are created and defined online. That's the relationship.
Loneliness is big business in China
There are now four generations, broadly speaking – six percent, the founding generation; 21% the Cultural Revolution generation – “in their 50s and 60s, low on academic qualifications and have worked their way up through the system”; 33% the open door generation – “they own western suits, they were the first to travel abroad and they signed the first joint ventures”; and 40% the strivers generation.
云南省明年起取消农业户口 - 新闻频道 - 彩龙中国
more on Yunnan hukou reform. Got stable income? U can change residency.
Along the Dystopia Line 1: I am your density « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
LeGuin’s is a world in which the human response to hyperdensity is to get by and make do, rather than rely on heroic technological/infrastructural interventions to carry the load.
Counting people | Census sensitivity | Economist.com
asked some rather personal questions, such as “How much did you pay for your home?” and “How often do you wash?” But it was the standard ones about the number of residents in each household and their sex and age that provoked the most anxiety.
In China, having too many kids will show up on your credit report - International Herald Tribune
It didn't give additional details about the scheme and it was not immediately clear whether the action might affect a person's ability to conduct financial transactions.
中组部 人口计生委等11部委关于加强人口和计划生育工作若干政策措施的通知
National Population and Family Planning Commission article stating illegal births will appear on credit reports.
China birth defects soar due to pollution: report | Environment | Reuters
Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001 - Ed. Why haven't they been aborted?
Most people free to have more child - China Daily
While popularly referred to as the "one child policy", the rule actually restricts just 35.9 percent of the population to having one child
Wired Magazine: China Plans the City of the Future: It's Big, Green and Quick to Build
"It's all very nice to have little houses in a green field," Gutierrez says. But that would be an environmental disaster. If neighborhoods are spread out, then people need cars to get around. If population is low, then public transportation is a money los
China Country Profile - Facts, Figures and Analyses
Handy maps generated from statistical yearbooks
国家人口发展战略研究报告（全文）
The full text of the Chinese National Population Development Strategy Research Report
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