The Hong Kong-based China Institute of City Competitiveness (CICC) published its annual rankings of Chinese city competitiveness on January 3, with Shanghai staying on top, followed by Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the capital Beijing.
According to incomplete statistics, a total of 245 senior Chinese officials committed suicide or disappeared between 2009 and early December 2016. Mounting pressure from the cruelly competitive officialdom and the sweeping anti-corruption campaign is believed to be partly to blame
NewsChina has interviewed several well-known scholars from both academia and official thinktanks and found that many of them claimed that Xi’s thoughts are based on analyzing and devising a solution to a problem before establishing a goal.
Statistics from the China Association of Metros showed that in 2015, China put in place 44 urban rail transit projects nationwide and 26 cities had rail transit systems in place with an operational length of 3,618 kilometers. Metros accounted for over 73 percent of the overall length.
Since its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) 15 years ago, China has seen steady economic growth.
Nowadays in China it is common for ratings companies to conspire with TV stations, content producers and media agencies to rig the ratings of TV programs, helping them rake in over 4 billion yuan (US$600m) a year from the TV drama industry alone.