China supplies military trucks to Burma

China supplies military trucks to Burma: "December 6, 2007 - Several military trucks are believed to have been supplied to the Burmese junta by China. They were seen arriving on the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili this morning, a local eyewitness said. The light weight medium FAW trucks, manufactured by Chinese owned Tongfeng Company, were seen lining up at Ruili town, a Burmese who works at the car servicing centre told Mizzima. ...A source close to the Chinese authorities told Mizzima that about 400 military trucks will be sent to Burma as the first batch and more are expected to be sent later. He also added that the Chinese authorities in early November sent six rocket carriers trucks through the Kyegaung-Muse Road."

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide: "Lenders must put aside 14.5 percent of deposits as reserves, starting Dec. 25, up from the previous 13.5 percent, the People's Bank of China said today on its Web site. The ratio is the highest since at least 1987 when the data began and the increase is twice as much as the nine others this year."

Google Opens 'Mac Developer Playground' -- Google -- InformationWeek

Google Opens 'Mac Developer Playground' -- Google -- InformationWeek

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China 'forced Miss Tibet to quit'

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China 'forced Miss Tibet to quit': "Tsering Chungtak said that China pressured the competition organisers to replace her 'Miss Tibet' sash with one reading 'Miss Tibet-China'."

People's Daily Online -- Tianjin Binhai New District: new engine of Bohai Bay-rim

People's Daily Online -- Tianjin Binhai New District: new engine of Bohai Bay-rim: "The Bohai Bay-rim economic region is made up of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong and Liaoning, the so-called 3+2 area. Covering 518,000 square kilometers, the area, with a population of 230 million, or 17.5 percent of the national total, generates gross product of 3.8 trillion yuan, 28.2 percent of the country's total. There is another view that Shanxi and Inner Mogolia are also part of the Bohai Bay-rim area. However, it is generally agreed that, unlike the Pearl River Delta or the Yangtze River Delta, the Bohai Bay-rim is a complex economic region, integrating three economic sub-regions, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shandong peninsula, and Liaoning peninsula."

Binhai area promises big growth

Binhai area promises big growth: "Infrastructure facilities will be strengthened to meet their growing needs. Tianjin is upgrading Binhai International Airport to a North China air hub: passenger volume is expected to surge from 2.15 million in 2005 to 6.5 million in 2010; and cargo shipments will jump from 96,000 tons to 500,000 tons during the same period, he said. The completion of an express train line by June 2008, just before the Beijing Olympic Games, will link the city to the capital with a half-hour ride. 'In the short run, the integration of air traffic service in Tianjin and Beijing will contribute to the Olympic Games; in the long run, it will make BNA into a transport centre in North China,' he said. At the ongoing National People's Congress annual session, Pi said he proposed building an oil reserve base in the area. For one thing, proven oil reserves in the Bohai Sea area are 3.2 billion tons, and Tianjin Port is being revamped for use of 300,000-ton oil tankers. In addition, oil pipelines have been laid from the port to many regions, he said. (China Daily 03/10/2006"

UT Library China Maps

(1971)


(1983)

The University of Texas has an interesting collection of China maps/infographics, like these two from 1971 (top) and 1983 (bottom), depicting various centers of industrial production. Interesting to see the concentration of activity in the East indicated by both maps. Urumqi's got 'cement' by 1983, but that's about it.


China Maps - Perry-Castaneda Map Collection - UT Library Online