Archive for June, 2009
Beijing announces subsidies to attract multinationals
International companies that open regional headquarters in Beijing will receive a government subsidy of up to 10 million yuan (US$ 1.46 million) according to measures announced by the city government on June 29.
Companies with registered capital between 100 million yuan (US$ 14.6 million) and 500 million yuan (US$ 73 million) will receive 5 million [...]
Very hot Beijing weather
[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] It become very from this week in Beijing.
Beijing had the most “heated” senior middle school entrance exam Wednesday in the past six years as the temperature hit 37 degrees Celsius, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau said.
Swim like a champ at the Water Cube
Curious how swimming sensation Michael Phelps was able to grab eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games? The National Aquatic Center has opened one of its swimming pools to let the public swim like an Olympian.
Since Saturday, hundreds of water lovers from home and abroad have jumped into the warm-up pool at the center, [...]
Beijing subway Line Four beings test run
Beijing subway Line Four began a three-month test-run on Saturday. The tests will ensure the entire system is safe and ready for operation. The new line was built with help from Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation, the first in the country to be constructed with overseas investment.
The Line Four has 24 stations in total and links [...]
Google pledges to comb out porn results in China
Searching engine giant Google Inc. said Saturday that it would take all necessary steps to clean up pornographic searching results in its Chinese-language portal, Google.cn.
“We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problems with our results,” a statement from Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley in the [...]
Report: Beijing Olympics earnings hit $146M
Many people care about one question about the earnings of the Beijing Olympic.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games raked in a profit of more than 1 billion yuan ($146 million), the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Friday.
A report posted on the office’s website said the total operating cost of the Games was 19.343 billion yuan [...]
Beijing raises two alarms for thunderstorm
Beijing’s meteorological station released two alarms Tuesday on a heavy rain at noon.
The sky turned dark when a drizzle became downpours accompanied by thunder and lightning at about 11 a.m.
The Municipal Meteorological Station raised the thunder and lightning alarm to the level of rainstorm at noon, when average rainfall in the downtown area reached 11 [...]
China starts new excavation of terracotta warriors
XI’AN, June 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese archaeologists started a new excavation of the famous terracotta army site Saturday, hoping to find more clay figures and unravel some of the mysteries left behind by the “First Emperor.”
It was the third excavation in the pit — the first and largest of three pits at the site near [...]
Intercultural communication discussed in Beijing
A biennial conference on the intercultural communication between China and the world opened on Friday.
Titled “Intercultural Communication between China and the World: Interpersonal, Organizational and Mediated Perspectives,” the 8th China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC) Intercultural Conference aims to enhance the mutual understanding between China and the world as well as the teaching and studying [...]
