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With growing worries about China's industrial safety standards and lack of oversight, Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation within hours of the mudslide. As authorities conduct rescue operations and investigate the disaster, work has sharply slowed in factories around the site.
Wang Yiwen, 49, who runs a factory near the dump, said he was losing 10,000 yuan ($1,545) a day.
"We cannot go out now. We cannot transfer the goods in and out (of this area)," said Wang. "There is no guarantee for our lives. So many workers have to eat. There is no power supply now."
On Tuesday, police raided offices of the company that was managing the dump site, Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development.
Chinese news portals said police had taken away a deputy general manager named Yu Shengli. Calls to the company seeking comment went unanswered. Shenzhen police did not immediately respond to requests for comment. [Source]
The man-made landslide in Shenzhen is exposing flaws in China's rapid growth model, which led to the city's runaway building boom and gave rise to a volatile housing market that has continued to soar despite contractions elsewhere in the country. Neil Gough at The New York Times reports:
The landslide in Shenzhen casts a dark shadow over what had come to epitomize the China story, a gleaming metropolis of 11 million people, where only 3.3 million are registered as locals. The migrant city, which did not exist a few decades ago, even seemed to defy the country's current economic problems.
In November, prices of new homes contracted in 49 of the 70 cities included in the main official survey of the market, data released on Friday showed. Prices in metropolises like Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai fared better than in most places, rising 8 percent to 13 percent from a year earlier.
But Shenzhen is in a category of its own. Home prices soared 44 percent last month, the fastest rise in any Chinese city since the official survey began in its current form, in 2011.
[…] The runaway expansion in real estate and construction in recent years — and their slowdown more recently — has led to serious problems with industrial overcapacity and rising debt. In the Shenzhen disaster, the deadly mound of debris was created to fix another problem, the haphazard and sometimes dangerous dumping of dirt and construction waste. [Source]
Waste management continues to pose a big challenge to local authorities in Shenzhen as rapid economic growth has outpaced the city's ability to absorb the associated waste products. Voice of America's Joyce Huang reports:
For some, the disaster is an outcome of the challenges faced by the city's construction waste management, following three decades of rapid economic growth.
The Shenzhen Evening News, published by the city government, had warned in October last year that the city might be soon face a shortage of dump sites for construction waste because of the boom in construction projects.
The report cited an anonymous government official as saying that his "only" worry was it has become "extremely difficult" to find locations for the disposal of waste.
According to the official Xinhua news service, Xing Feng, a civil engineering professor from Shenzhen University, had previously cautioned that China's quantity of construction debris has grown rapidly in the past two decades, averaging at one ton per person, with the country's disposal management mechanism lagging far behind. [Source]
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Hundreds of emergency workers used bulldozers and earth movers to search a 94-acre area where some residents had for years worried that the dumping of debris so close to their homes was a crisis waiting to happen. The massive wave of earth buried or toppled 33 buildings, including apartments, worker dormitories and factories. As of late Monday, 81 people were still missing.
[…] Chinese news media have suggested that officials have allowed risks to fester, through corruption or laxity. The official response to such accidents, while often impressive in scale and speed, has done little to mute that criticism — in this case, by ignoring the danger from a growing pile of construction tailings and debris near factories and homes.
"What is troubling about this accident is that it occurred in a first-tier city, Shenzhen," said a commentary in The Beijing News, a widely read tabloid newspaper. "It is at the forefront of Chinese citizens in its level of modernization."
[…] China's rapid construction growth has long created problems with the dumping of building waste and displaced dirt, often resulting in illegal, multistory piles of debris on the outskirts of cities that block waterways and bring dust and flooding. [Source]
At Quartz, Zheping Huang has more details on the company responsible for the debris build-up, noting that staff had been aware of the risks involved:
A local company called Lvwei Property Management built the dump area at the site of a stone quarry, and has managed it since 2013, according the national State Administration of Industry and Commerce, Caixin reported.
It seems the company knew that landslides were a risk, judging by its January 2015 environmental assessment report. The report, cited by Beijing News (link in Chinese), shows the site suffered from soil erosion, and that it was meant to be temporary, with a service term of 11 years. Both the entrance and exit of the dump area face the stricken industrial district, which includes housing for workers. [Source]
Shenzhen's rapid building boom has led to a shortage of dumping sites for construction waste, Paul Carsten at Reuters reports:
More than a year ago, a government-run newspaper warned that Shenzhen would run out of space to dump waste from a building frenzy.
Besides new buildings, a network of subway lines is being built, and large volumes of earth are being excavated and dumped at waste sites.
"Shenzhen has 12 waste sites and they can only hold out until next year," the official Shenzhen Evening Post, published by the city government, said in October last year. [Source]
In August, warehouses storing toxic chemicals exploded in the northern port city of Tianjin, killing over 150 people.
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About 900 people were evacuated, and four were pulled from rubble with minor or no injuries, the local government said. No fatalities have been reported.
Shenzhen's fire brigade said it was working to free other trapped people – state media say 59 remain missing.
Two workers' dormitories are among the affected buildings.
State media quoted officials as saying 36 men and 23 women were missing and that "signs of life" had been detected at three separate locations.
An area of 20,000 sq m (24,000 square yards) was covered with soil, the Public Security Bureau's firefighting bureau said.
[…] Local media reported that the soil that came loose had been dug up in the past two years in construction work and was piled up nearby. [Source]
The BBC report includes footage of the buildings collapsing.
At The Wall Street Journal, Chun Han Wong situates the slide in Shenzhen into the context of other recent accidents that have occurred due to poor zoning regulation and rapid expansion in urban areas:
Residents told Xinhua that the landslide stemmed from an artificial hill created over the past two years by the dumping of soil excavated from nearby construction sites. Shenzhen, an industrial hub in Guangdong province, didn't experience major rainfall in recent days, though there was light rain on Sunday morning, Xinhua said.
Rapid urban expansion coupled with lax enforcement of zoning regulations have contributed to other accidents in major cities. In the northeastern city of Tianjin an explosion at a warehouse killed 173 people in August; the government said the hazardous materials warehouse was located too close to nearby apartments in violation of regulations.
Shenzhen, which abuts Hong Kong, is one of China's most prosperous cities, having been built largely over the past 35 years. The accident occurred in the city's Guangming New District, a new industrial and residential zone that was set up in 2007 and is home to roughly one million people, according to the district government's website. [Source]
Read more about the August warehouse blast that killed more than 160 in Tianjin, a blast at a chemical industry zone in Shandong that same month, a chemical plant explosion in Zhejiang in September, and another chemical warehouse explosion that hit Tianjin in October, via CDT.
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The U.S. Geological Survey notes that in Yunnan, landslides caused by a combination of the quake and heavy rain also contributed to the damage.
The magnitudes of the two quakes were less similar than they may appear because they are measured on a logarithmic scale: a 6.1 earthquake is 40% more energetic than one of 6.0. Moreover, magnitude is not the only factor in a quake's intensity—the violence of shaking on the surface—which can vary from place to place depending on local geology. Nevertheless, the basic point of the comparison stands: the average death toll of American earthquakes since 1980 has been vastly lower than China's, at 3 to 609.
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They worked under cover of night in early June, dumping truckloads of dirt on the new highway and planting fast-growing soybean seeds in the thin soil. Then they erected a sign alerting passersby to the freshly sown crop. This wasn't some ecological initiative like urban roof gardens or solar street lamps; it was an attempt literally to cover up a sprawling highway construction project. Officials in Sihong, a county of about one million people in China's wealthy, coastal Jiangsu province, had built the network of blacktop without a needed green light from provincial land management authorities. (China has strict quotas on how much arable land can be converted for construction projects due to concerns about food security and grain self-sufficiency.) Over the last week, their bumbling efforts to cover their tracks, with a field of beans, have made them the laughing-stock of Chinese state media and the country's Internet.
[…] But as the story percolated, many realized that Sihong was not only the birthplace of the amusing bean fiasco, but also the hometown of a group of seven petitioners who on the morning of July 16 had gathered outside the offices of the China Youth Daily, a state-run paper, in Beijing and swallowed pesticide. The mass suicide attempt was intended as a protest against land seizures by officials back home. The group had tried bringing their grievances to government officers earlier, but to no avail. Here was a story smack at the intersection of awful and the absurd. [Source]
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[… O]ne of the most copied buildings in China is the very seat of western power itself: the White House. Serving as hotels, restaurants, courthouses and homes, White Houses are all over China, morphed and varied in different permutations. Still, they all have those signature columns and square portico.
Though some might argue that the Chinese have taken duplitecture to a whole new level, architects have been copying each other forever, and the U.S. is no exception. The architect who built the White House based his design on The Leinster House in Dublin, which is now the seat of the Irish parliament. […] [Source]
Hear more from 99% Invisible on Taiwanese spy broadcasts over China and Hong Kong's legendary Kowloon Walled City, and read more on copycat architecture, via CDT.
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Africa, I believe, is embarking upon an era of sharp divergences in which China will play a huge role in specific national outcomes—for better and for worse, perhaps even dramatically, depending on the country. Places endowed with stable governments, with elites that are accountable and responsive to the needs of their fellow citizens, and with relatively healthy institutions, will put themselves in a position to thrive on the strength of robust Chinese demand for their exports and fast-growing investment from China and from a range of other emerging economic powers, including Brazil, Turkey, India, and Vietnam. Inevitably, most of these African countries will be democracies. Other nations, whether venal dictatorships, states rendered dysfunctional by war, and even some fragile democracies—places where institutions remain too weak or corrupted—will sell off their mineral resources to China and other bidders, and squander what is in effect a one-time chance to convert underground riches into aboveground wealth by investing in their own citizens and creating new kinds of economic activity beyond today's simple extraction.
The book fizzes with relevance beyond its direct subject matter, offering insight into China's other foreign ventures and unfamiliar perspectives on its domestic politics and society.
Now an associate professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, French covered both China and Africa as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. His previous books are A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa and Disappearing Shanghai, a collection of his documentary photography, presented alongside poetry by Qiu Xiaolong. He kindly agreed to discuss China's Second Continent with CDT by email.
China Digital Times: What are the most common or serious pitfalls in thinking about Africa and China's presence there, for those of us without a strong focus on or familiarity with the former?
Howard French: I would emphasize two things. The first [misconception] is that everything, or even most of what is happening in Africa with regard to China is directly driven in some centrally planned way by the Chinese state. Beijing has clearly made a priority of extending its influence on the continent, but a major theme of my book is that the large-scale migration of private Chinese citizens has become an important wild card in relations between China and Africa, one that defies real control or planning. For that reason, the tentative working title of the book was originally "Haphazard Empire."
The other thing I would say is that the common notions of Chinese competition with the United States or with the West "for Africa" involve gross oversimplification. It is widely thought that China's big successes in commerce and construction have come at the expense of Western interests, but because of the way the global economy is segmented and increasingly specialized, that is largely untrue. The goods that China is selling are generally not mainstays of Western commerce anymore. I would also say that China has large, inherent competitive advantages in infrastructure and public works, because of the scale of infrastructure building in China, and because of the low cost of capital there, and that much of the business it is winning in Africa in this sector isn't so much being taken away from anyone as it is being allocated rationally.
CDT: This business may not be taken away from the West, but Samuel Inokye of the Association of Ghana Industries complained in the book that "our indigenous road builders, just like our textile manufacturers, cannot win contracts against the Chinese, who win everything, but who give us quality that is very low." Similar complaints arise elsewhere. How serious is this erosion of opportunity for African businesses?
HF: The erosion of opportunity for African entrepreneurs is a very big issue across Africa. There is little good technical reason that African countries should be relying on international contractors to build road systems. In fact, road building should ordinarily serve as a rung on the ladder toward higher industrialization, an activity whose entry costs and technical barriers should be relatively manageable for developing countries. I said that China had big competitive advantages over Western companies in infrastructure development, including road building, and that is true, but according to what several Chinese contractors themselves told me in my book, China also engages in anti-competitive practices in this sector, including below cost bidding to build market share and sustain high employment rates, and this makes it nearly impossible for indigenous public works companies to establish themselves in the market.
CDT: You note a number of signs of American "soft power" and cultural influence across the continent, from Snoop Dogg to beauty pageants, but there are few, among Africans, of China's. Is China making a cultural impression? Are Chinese New Year celebrations widespread, for example? Is its presence being reflected in African literature or cinema?
HF: Soft power remains a huge weak spot for China in Africa. It is something that the country has simply not figured out, and it is an area where I believe it will suffer a long-term disadvantage. There are a few clear reasons for this. China is perceived (wrongly) as a homogenous society, rather than a multicultural one, and this deprives it of many of the natural hooks that connect American culture, and even Western European culture to Africa. Secondly, pluralism has fairly deep roots in many African societies, and the Chinese state's desire to tightly control information, to tailor and dominate the narrative in terms of politics and history, and to hew to stodgy propaganda hinders Chinese influence.
China has invested hugely in propagating its state media in Africa, most notably this means CCTV and an African edition of China Daily. Neither of these strikes me as remotely sophisticated enough to achieve much of a purchase on African audiences, who are used to intense, contradictory news coverage, both national and international. The Chinese products come across as baldly propagandistic, full of euphemism and China boosting.
One hears the odd African leader speaking about emulating the Chinese model in one way or another, but I have seen very few signs of any resonance of such notions at the popular level. For all of the West's inconsistency and even hypocrisy, it must be said that the notions of universal values that it promotes have a strong and broad appeal. To answer your question more specifically, my sense is that China is not making a big impression culturally, either – certainly not anywhere near in proportion to the economic inroads it has made in Africa.
CDT: One striking culture clash in the book is Chinese bewilderment at African religiosity: "How is it that in a country full of poor people, everything is closed on Sundays? In China people are trying to make money on Sunday, too. Here, everyone goes to church!" "Malians are always making excuses, and the biggest trump card of all is God. Invoke God, and you are without blame." (The latter seems to echo the frustration of Teju Cole's American narrator in Every Day Is For The Thief at the Nigerian slogan, "Relax! God is in control.")
HF: This relates back to your soft power question. The Chinese come across very often, and yes to their disadvantage quite often here, as having reduced life to one dimension, the economic dimension: getting rich and if possible getting rich quickly.
CDT: On Twitter, [former Mexican ambassador to China] Jorge Guajardo suggested 'A Cautionary Tale for Latin America' as an alternative subtitle for the book. There might equally be lessons in it for central Asian partners along China's "New Silk Road," and for countries anywhere, like the U.S. or particularly Canada and Australia, with growing Chinese investment and resource deals. How broadly do you feel the experiences in the book apply beyond Africa? Are there parallels elsewhere that you find particularly compelling?
HF: I am a great admirer of the writing of a China scholar of a very different generation, Owen Lattimore. One of his big ideas concerned how China has controlled its destiny and its place in the world by creating "near abroads," meaning buffer zones, essentially in Central Asia, where Chinese settlers played an important role in establishing Chinese influence and neutralizing enemies and rivals. I feel that in some ways Chinese "near abroad" has simply moved further afield, to Africa and to Latin America, at least embryonically. The presence of large migrant communities helps develop strong trade networks, which have the potential of transmitting other kinds of influence over time, but they also play a geopolitical role that perhaps harkens back to Lattimore. By building a position in Latin America, China, in theory anyway, may eventually be able to distract and preoccupy the Americans in their own back yard, the better to prevent the Americans from thoroughly distracting and preoccupying Beijing in China's back yard, as is the case at present.
CDT: On the other hand, there are similarities, such as imported labor and general monopolization of the fruits of development, between some Chinese ventures in Africa and development projects in Tibet and Xinjiang. Is this a useful parallel? If African countries' experiences can serve as cautionary tales elsewhere, can Africa take lessons from China's west?
HF: Yes, and the large-scale importation of labor, whether in Muslim or Tibetan areas of western China or in Africa, predictably raises hackles, and undermines the much ballyhooed notion of win-win.
CDT: It's common today to be pessimistic about democracy's global prospects. Francis Fukuyama's recent look back at 25 years since "The End of History" in The Wall Street Journal was distinctly defensive in tone. But the importance of democracy, especially when it extends beyond the mechanics of elections into deep civil society, is a central theme of the book. Moreover, you suggest that reactions to China have actually strengthened democracy and civil society in some cases.
HF: I'm not at all pessimistic about democracy's prospects in Africa. Trouble dominates the news in most places, and coverage of Africa, historically, has been notoriously nearly one-dimensional in this regard. The effect is that people continue to think of the continent as a basket case, even as its prospects, overall, have steadily improved. Africa is more democratic than it has ever been, and this trend continues to develop. Africa is growing faster than any other continent, and although inequality is becoming a big problem, as elsewhere, this growth and the accompanying emergence of big middle classes, would seem to strongly favor the deepening of democracy. China has inadvertently played a role in stimulating democracy in that civil societies and opposition parties have responded to a decade of robber-barron deals between Chinese parties and African leaders – uncompetitive and deeply un-transparent deals – and insisted on more openness and accountability.
CDT: On the other hand, you talk about projects stalling as governments change, and infrastructure decaying due to lack of consistent attention. Many African countries would also have good reason to share China's fear of social chaos. Has China's development and stability over the past thirty years increased the appeal to Africans of one-party rule along Chinese lines?
HF: No.
CDT: Are there plans for a mainland Chinese edition?
HF: I would be delighted to see a Chinese edition, but I haven't had any attention from publishers there so far. A Taiwan edition is in the works and I was in Taiwan in May to promote it.
CDT: Could the core of your story survive the inevitable pruning (to borrow terms from Evan Osnos' reflection on his own decision not to publish in China)?
HF: I reserve judgment on this. I recently shared my book with a friend from Beijing who began reading it, saying that it seemed too critical of China to pass muster with the censors. A few more chapters into the book, though, she told me that it seemed like I had interviewed all kinds of characters, "good" and "bad," and had let them tell their stories. From this point on, she said she could find no fault with my fairness, and she went on to note her surprise at an abundance of criticism of American and other Western policies toward Africa.
I didn't just aim to be objective, but to achieve a reasonable degree of representativity in the choice of characters I included in the manuscript. I would hope that if Chinese publishers took interest in my book, that they could themselves recognize this, and eventually China's censors, as well. What I could not consent to is the publication of a Chinese edition of my book that skewed my story to fit a political purpose, or to ostensibly shield Chinese sensibilities from unaccustomed thoughts or observations.
CDT: You've talked elsewhere [12:20] about how your work on Disappearing Shanghai fed into China's Second Continent. Did you contemplate a photographic component to the book? Will we see a photographic side to the project in future?
HF: Not really. I believe in total commitment to reporting and to photography, which pretty much means I can only feel like I am doing the work justice when I limit myself to one of these forms at a time. I took photos during my year on the road for this book, but with nothing like the application that would have been required for something I'd like to publish.
CDT: Besides your own, what books and other sources would you recommend for building a clearer understanding of Africa in general, and China's relations with it in particular?
HF: Over the last couple of years I've done a lot of reading in political theory, and this has helped me understand Africa and the problems of the nation state, including China, much better. A few items I'd highlight taken from a class I taught last fall:
A good general introduction to Africa is Biography of a Continent, by John Reader.
In fiction, I have been a huge admirer since my youth of Chinua Achebe. This means Things Fall Apart, of course, but also of his less well known books: No Longer at Ease and The Arrow of God. It is impossible to do justice to the topic in a short list like this, but I would also highlight Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Petals of Blood; The Wizard of the Crow; Dreams in a Time of War.
CDT: Musical selections are a frequent highlight of your Twitter feed. Can we have one now?
HF: I was in a supermarket-department store in Kampala, Uganda a few weeks ago, and they were playing non-stop Franco, a deceased giant of Congolese Rhumba. I was so bowled over by its beauty that I nearly started dancing in the aisles; actually I began to sway a little bit. Anyone who doesn't know Franco's music owes themselves the favor.
Let me say another, final word about African music. It is of course extremely diverse and hard to usefully characterize in any general way. At its best, though, it reflects the extraordinary vitality and vibrancy of African civil society. This was the case with Franco, whose song about SIDA (AIDS) is one of the most potent public health messages I've ever heard. It is the case with Fela, the Nigerian musical giant who I often tweet about and whose large catalog nearly all consists of protest of one kind or another. The Chinese, and indeed anyone, would do well to study African civil society, which has developed and persevered under some of the most difficult conditions anywhere, producing works of high genius and renewing societies and changing them for the better.
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Authorities say the new yellow barriers were installed to enhance car safety as well as aesthetics, but many bloggers and critics think it is more likely a reaction to an apparent protest attack last year in which three people crashed a jeep into Tiananmen Square, killing themselves and two pedestrians and injuring at least 38.
Authorities said the crash was the work of Muslim separatists from the restive province of Xinjiang.
The gold barriers are replacing older white ones that run along Chang'an Avenue, the major thoroughfare in Beijing along which the square is located. They are just one of many signs in recent weeks of how much preparation is underway — and how seriously the government is taking it — ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, which occurred June 4, 1989.
[…] Many Web users on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter referred to the color of the railing as "tuhao jin," or "new rich gold." The word tuhao, or new rich, refers to someone who is rich but lacking in taste. ("New rich gold" is also how Chinese describe the champagne-gold-colored version of the new iPhone 5s.)
Some bloggers criticized the government for wasting money on such security projects instead of trying to combat air pollution. Other imaginative users mocked the supposed spring action of the new barriers, asking: If errant cars really do bounce off it so hard, won't they hit others cars around it? [Source]
For 25th anniv of June 4, a new gold barrier from Fuxingmen to Jianguomen capable of repelling burning jeep attacks pic.twitter.com/8QoFxoHjRz
— malcolmmoore (@MalcolmMoore) May 9, 2014
And there was me thinking 25 years was a silver anniversary. You can never outbling the Communist Party.
— malcolmmoore (@MalcolmMoore) May 9, 2014
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Mentougou, a largely rural district in western Beijing, has an area of 1,321 square kilometres and some 270,000 inhabitants. Now, it is also home to a group of new government buildings with onion-shaped golden domes, arch windows and white walls, reminding visitors of the magnificent architecture of the Cathedral of Annunciation, a five-century-old Russian Orthodox church located inside the compound of the Moscow Kremlim.
"We had four new buildings in our community; they look just like the Kremlin." a Mentougou resident, whom the newspaper identified only by his last name, Du, told the Beijing Youth Daily. "It wasn't until we saw that one of the buildings said 'Meteorological Bureau' that we realised it's a government building!" [Source]
"I hear the splash of sharks jumping," former Tsinghua economist Patrick Chovanec commented on Twitter. The central government issued a five-year ban on new government buildings this summer.
Updated at 22:10 PST: China Real Time's Richard Silk and Olivia Geng linked to clearer photos of the complex, and contacted the local government:
When contacted by China Real Time, a spokesman for the Mentougou government said he hadn't seen the buildings himself. But the spokesman, who gave only his surname, Gao, suggested that the pictures circulating online may have been photoshopped to heighten their impact.
"In the images, you can see clear traces of editing," Mr. Gao said. "For example, it looks very high-end and classy, but in reality it might not be." [Source]
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The two censuses show that a great deal of housing was built between 2005 and 2010. But a lot of housing was also unbuilt. Over five years, 1.85 billion square metres of 20th-century housing disappeared, more than 16% of the total.
Most of this demolished housing was built in the 1980s, when China's housing was mostly constructed by state-owned enterprises and allocated to employees by their work unit. These properties, which were often cramped and dingy, will not be missed. And yet even these demolitions illustrate an important truth about China's economy. Insofar as its restless activity is dedicated to destroying old things rather than building new ones, it is not adding to the country's wealth, properly defined. Traditional measurements of economic growth, which make no deductions for assets lost, fail to capture this nuance: wrecking crews are always good for GDP, though their impact is destructive.
[GK Dragonomics researcher] Ms Yao thinks the frantic rate of demolition may slow in the years ahead. With so much 20th-century architecture destroyed, the country's remaining houses are relatively young, she points out. (Over 40% of them were built since 2000.) These buildings should, therefore, last many years before they need to be pulled down. [Source]
The cycle of demolition and construction that comes with continued urbanization efforts produced an estimated two billion tons of waste nationwide in 2011. For more on construction and demolition in China, see prior CDT coverage.
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"Preliminary investigation shows New Express under the Yangcheng Evening News Group published numerous incorrect reports about Zoomlion from September 2012 to August 2013. The editorial management of New Express was chaotic," it said.
It ordered Yangcheng Evening News to revoke Chen's journalist accreditation and overhaul New Express. The reshuffle of the management should start immediately, the statement said.
[…] A reporter with New Express said "provincial propaganda department officials had already paid a visit to the newspaper and spoke with editors who have handled the problematic articles" prior to the announcement by the Guangdong press regulator.
Another reporter with the tabloid felt sorry to see their chief editor leave because "he is a professionally capable editor". [Source]
Lau later added that the editor, Li Yihang, has been replaced by a member of Yangcheng Evening News' Party committee.
The Express had previously made a front-page U-turn on Chen's case, but with nothing like the zeal of its original pleas: as conservative professor and blogger Wu Fatian complained, "they issued a paltry apology right behind the backside of a soccer player. No wonder one netizen commented that the apology was more like a fart." The announcement of the reshuffle was broadcast on national news, part of an apparently choreographed sequence of reports and statements over the course of the last week. None, though, has attracted more attention than Chen's own unexpected confession. From China Media Project's David Bandurski on Wednesday:
There are so many lingering problems and questions in this case. But one of the biggest ones, obviously, is whether Chen's confession was coerced. It's a fact that he was marched in for his televised confession between two police officers. He was in handcuffs and wearing a prison jumpsuit. Web users in China also noted what appeared to be (but no one can possibly confirm) an abrasion on his neck just inside his collar. Can anyone with half a brain for law and reason take this confession to mean anything at all?
Here is what Wei Yongzheng, China's most prominent media law expert, said in an article today:
This program of China Central Television's, allowing a detained suspect to face the television camera and confess before the whole country . . . directly violates Criminal Procedure Law, which states that "no person may be forced to confess their own crimes." When someone has been deprived of their personal freedom, and when they are escorted out in prison garb and in handcuffs by a pair of brawny police officers — to say that they are consciously and willingly confessing their wrongs in their own words wouldn't fool even a three year-old child.
[…] The upshot here is that the broadcast "confession" by CCTV's Morning News program should be understood not as evidence of Chen Yongzhou's guilt, but as a bleak illustration of how his rights have been violated by both police and the media. [Source]
Chen's is the latest in a series of televised confessions that have caused growing alarm. At Christian Science Monitor, Peter Ford listed five other cases including those of Charles Xue and Peter Humphrey, and noted that another New Express journalist detained in August was allegedly offered his freedom if he would admit on camera to defamation. The reporter, Liu Hu, reportedly refused, and was subsequently arrested.
At The New York Times' Sinosphere blog, Austin Ramzy wrote that the confessions have become a favored means of trying to cut short argument over controversial cases:
The confessions have short-circuited public debates that have at times been highly critical of the role of government officials and powerful commercial interests. At the same time, the confessions have undermined China's efforts to cast its legal system as making steady progress in the direction of greater rights for suspects and court rulings less subject to the dictates of party officials.
"This is a pattern. When there is difficulty convincing people, the best way to kill a conversation is to have a CCTV announce that he's guilty," said Fu Hualing, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. "Society is just so divided. They monitor the Internet so closely that sometimes they feel they have to end the debate." [Source]
At Tea Leaf Nation, Yiqin Fu noted online ridicule aimed at the confessions, including mocked-up images of the great writer Lu Xun owning up to having falsely claimed authorship of his essays.
Lu Xun's "confession" serves to poke fun at the Communist Party's attempt to sway public opinion against the suspects before the law has had its say. Chinese netizens often resort to satire to express political opinions, particularly when direct criticism of central authorities is likely to lead to censorship, detention, or even physical harm. A popular cartoonist who calls himself Rebel Pepper captured this fear when he took to Weibo to post a cartoon of a man hanging from CCTV's iconic Beijing headquarters as if in the gallows [here]. The accompanying text reads, "Finally I'm on CCTV." For many Chinese entangled with the judicial system, the less famous they are, the better. [Source]
However dubious his confession, the charges against Chen are not inherently far-fetched. From Kathleen McLaughlin at The Economist's Analects blog:
It is standard procedure to lay out red envelopes filled with cash for reporters who do nothing more than turn up to corporate press conferences; this climate threatens to make it impossible to determine who is a real journalist and who is a rogue. The problem is hardly new.
[…] The fundamental problem goes beyond the state's disregard for the constitutional right to a free press. Corruption is so ingrained in the world of Chinese journalism that reporters, who are typically low-paid, often accept gifts or cash, and think nothing of it. Pay-for-play reporting is common in the newspapers, where companies can buy their coverage by the column-inch, and pay to block it at another rate. Not all Chinese journalists accept compensation from their subjects, far from it. But the dirty work of a few does enough to stain the whole system. [Source]
See more on the problem from Deutsche Welle.
Even Chen's guilt, however, would not rule out foul play on the part of Zoomlion and the authorities. At ChinaFile, South China Morning Post online editor Wang Feng proposed a scenario in which Chen became first an instrument and then a victim of a long-running feud between Zoomlion and its rival Sany:
I am convinced of the authenticity of the investigative work done by microbloggers, that the car Chen was taken away in belonged to Zoomlion, the company he was accused of publishing more than a dozen hit pieces against.
[…] Some Chinese financial media have reported that the chairman of Zoomlion, Zhan Chunxin, is the son of Hunan's former top judge. There also were unverified rumors that Zhan's wife is the daughter of a former deputy Party secretary of Hunan, and that a vice president of Zoomlion is the son-in-law of another former Party leader in the Central Chinese province. Given these backgrounds, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Zoomlion had put pressure on the Changsha government to launch another major assault on Sany by arresting and investigating Chen for the articles he had published. Although no one has pointed a finger at Sany, the obvious suspicion is that Sany orchestrated and funded Chen's alleged attack stories against Zoomlion. China Central Television—where Chen's confession aired on Saturday morning—most probably had the whole story handed to them by Zoomlion and its allies in the Hunan government, maybe even higher up. [Source]
Wang's scenario highlights the fact that, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out, the handling of Chen's case is an issue not only of politics, but also of business:
Improved transparency is the best way for both companies and investors to sort through all this. If, as Zoomlion says and analysts believe, the company's accounting is above board, it would have an interest in suing Mr. Chen and allowing the truth to out in an open courtroom.
[…] Even if Mr. Chen was wrong about Zoomlion, persecution of the press is bad for the Chinese economy. A healthy capital market can function only if investors can obtain accurate information about companies. Cases like Mr. Chen's that show the authorities might be willing to suppress bad news about a company harm China's ambitions for a healthy domestic financial market. [Source]
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At the request of others, Chen fabricated facts and wrote more than 10 reports based on supplied materials from Sept. 29, 2012 to Aug. 8, 2013 about Zoomlion's "financial problems" without verification, bringing huge losses to the company and its share prices, police said late Friday.
[…] The middleman, believing negative impact had been made and expectations met, gave hundreds of thousands of yuan and thousands of Hong Kong dollars as "reward" to Chen several times, said the police.
Chen confessed that only "one and a half" of his more than 10 reports about Zoomlion were done after gathering information himself, while the rest were made based on provided articles. He even published some of the supplied articles on the New Express without reading them first. [Source]
Chen's confession was also aired on state broadcaster CCTV, as the BBC's Damian Grammaticas described:
In the footage, detained journalist Chen Yongzhou is paraded for the camera. Handcuffed and flanked by police officers he is marched along a corridor. Then he sits, a lone figure in a green police-issued top, in an interrogation room, making his purported confession. He's clearly susceptible to pressure.
In many countries Chen Yongzhou's detention, and the broadcast of the footage of it, would provoke a legal outcry. Corruption is known in Chinese journalism, stories planted to blacken rival firms. But the facts of this case are murky and this "confession" does little to clear them up.
All China's major construction equipment firms have been under severe financial pressure recently as the economy, so reliant on construction, has slowed. And after Mr Chen's newspaper printed a brave and highly-unusual front-page call for his release, the police have been under pressure too. [Source]
New Express claimed in its original editorial that it had "diligently studied all 15 of the reports Chen Yongzhou wrote about Zoomlion," and found only a single error. An anonymous senior executive told Xinhua that "we did not discover Chen did anything that was against professional ethics and laws." Following the broadcast of Chen's confession, however, the newspaper also changed course. From South China Morning Post:
"This newspaper was not strict enough about thoroughly fact-checking the draft of the report," it said in a small announcement on a bottom corner of its front page.
"After the incident occurred the newspaper took inappropriate measures, seriously harming the public trust of the media."
[…] A journalist with New Express said on condition of anonymity that the paper was forced to print the apology. "It was an order from above. It's a day of disgrace for New Express." Last week the paper ran two front-page appeals calling for Chen's release.
Another reporter said: "The paper had good and pure intentions to start with, which was to project its own reporters and their journalistic rights. But regrettably, we can't possibly beat more potent government power. Chen was just cannon fodder." [Source]
Chen's confession has failed to lay criticism of his detention to rest, however. From William Bi and Wenxin Fan at Bloomberg News:
CCTV's broadcast of Chen's alleged confession and the newspaper's apology "makes a complete mockery of this 'China is a country under rule of law' nonsense that we get fed," said Jeremy Goldkorn, 42, founding director of Danwei.com, a Beijing-based firm that researches China's media and Internet. "I don't know the specifics of this case, but you don't get a confession on CCTV unless there is some political element to it."
[…] "No matter he's guilty or not, there are serious issues with the procedures here," Abe Yang, a lawyer with Dacheng Law Offices in Shenzhen, said in a telephone interview, referring to the airing of the program and Chen's statement. "Even if the police believe they have enough evidence, it's up to the court to decide whether he's truly guilty."
[…] "Journalists are concerned that this will set a bad precedent for local governments to suppress the media to protect their businesses," said Zhang Zhi'an, deputy dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. "Because only the primary state media are reporting the case, it's very difficult to get closer to the truth about what exactly is not correct in those reports and whether and how the journalist took money." [Source]
The televised confession followed others by venture capitalist Charles Xue and British consultant Peter Humphrey. This trend has caused some concern, expressed in a cartoon by Wang 'Rebel Pepper' Liming depicting CCTV's Beijing headquarters:
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On Friday, before Chen's confession emerged, Caixin's Ren Zhongyuan examined the history of China's laws against "fabricating stories and spreading them to damage another person's business reputation":
Xu Xun, director of the Communication Law Research Center at China University of Political Science and Law and an expert on libel, said that in recent years there have only been a few cases of journalists being held responsible on the charge of damaging a business's reputation.
Of these, one person was sentenced to a year in prison and the rest were fined. The jailed journalist worked at Beijing TV and had made up a story that stuffing in steamed dumplings in restaurants in the capital were made of wastepaper.
[…] Xu said if there were problems with a news story, the victim should first report the problem to the media outlet that published the report or the journalists' association. They could also file a libel case in court.
"Using the police to pursue a criminal case and arresting the journalist should be the last step," Xu said. [Source]
Also on Friday, South China Morning Post's Patrick Boehler noted that Zoomlion stock appeared to have suffered more in the aftermath of Chen's detention than it did from his reports:
In Hong Kong, the company's share price tumbled more than 9 per cent in two days, losing about HK$930 million in market capitalisation. In Shenzhen, the loss amounted to around HK$2.5 billion. The company lost HK$3.46 billion [US$446 million], including unlisted shares, in market capitalisation over the two days, until the campaign was halted by order of the Propaganda Department.
Chen has written a series of articles on Zoomlion over the last 18 months. One, which he wrote in May, suggested the company falsified sales figures. It led to a drop of 5.4 per cent in the share price – pulling it to its lowest level in two years.
Yet, on average, his reports failed to harm the company's reputation among investors. Zoomlion's share price actually rose nine times out of twelve on the Hong Kong exchange on days he published an article about the company. [Source]
Reuters reports, though, that the shares rebounded on Monday following the New Express apology.
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While the problem is often concealed, with hundreds of millions of tons of waste quietly dumped on the outskirts of China's major cities each year, the rate of growth has made it increasingly inescapable. Now, hardly a week goes by without residents of some suburban enclave or village near a major metropolis waking to discover an illegal waste dump rising near their homes.
In January, construction waste was dumped on imperial tombs from the Ming Dynasty in the city of Xi'an. The debris caused a wall around the tomb site to collapse and half-buried a 600-year old statue of an official. In the Chaoyang district of Beijing, residents complained after a construction waste heap grew to a height of more than eight stories, raining dust on the neighborhood on windy days. A few miles away, debris from the construction of a new subway line was piled along a riverbank. The waste material climbed to more than five stories, raising fears that in case of heavy rains it would block the drainage of flood waters. [Source]
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Ruth Morris of the BBC travelled to Thames Town, near Shanghai, where she tried to find out why they are so popular among Chinese people, and what is behind the phenomenon:
Zhang says she has come here on her day off because Chinese towns are so crowded and commercial, but here it's green and pleasant. And as an office administrator, she can't afford to travel to England.
"Usually if you want to see foreign buildings, you have to go abroad," says Zhang. "But if we import them to China, people can save money while experiencing foreign-style architecture." […] While many Westerners think of knock-off architecture as kitsch and bizarre, many in China find it truly lovely.
[…] The Chinese government often bankrolls major copycat projects. It's a way of flexing its muscles, says Bosker [author of Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China]. "China is, in a very symbolic way, showing off its ability to rearrange the cosmos, to sort of own the greatest hits of the West."
It's no accident, says Bosker, that the White House – the ultimate symbol of US power – is one of the most copied buildings in China. [Source]
Jack Carlson at Foreign Policy has also written on the subject, considering other explanations of the copycat phenomenon, including a Chinese obsession with the West, or as a simple extension of the widespread disrespect for intellectual property, but he ultimately agrees with Bosker's view, that it is something more sinister:
Within the context of China's economic rise, the present-day importation of styles and architecture feels more like muscle-flexing than a symptom of sickness.
There are apt parallels in Chinese history for this recent round of replication. Then, as now, the projects were intended to showcase China's own worldliness, wealth, and global supremacy.
[…] Like their quarter-millennium-old counterparts, these imitations are beacons — directed at both Chinese nationals and outsiders — of China's worldly scientific and cultural knowledge. By appropriating the monumental trappings of power from distant places and times, the Chinese do not merely place their own country on a symbolic par with historical Western superpowers, but suggest that China has mastered and transcended their levels of achievement. [Source]
Carlson describes striking precedents from the past dating as far back as 221 BC, asserting that throughout history to the present day China, these copycats are "symbolic language to convey its burgeoning global primacy".
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews Bianca Bosker's book, and discusses the economic reasons behind the phenomenon:
Indeed, Bosker's most convincing explanation for the developments is economics: Chinese tend to identify their culture with decline—old buildings call to mind China's poverty and backwardness, not its glory; whereas achieving Western standards of living has been held up as a primary goal of modernization. So for developers, copying foreign towns became one way to gain cachet and jack up the price, especially as the new rich in China were beginning to travel abroad more widely and gain familiarity with these styles.
One wonders if this is different from what has happened with the newly affluent in other parts of the world. Qatar boasts an artificial island with a series of housing developments meant to evoke European architecture. And one only has to think of the tacky architecture that abounds in the United States: J. Paul Getty's replica of a Vesuvian Roman Villa, the Hearst Castle, or even Abbot Kinney's "Venice of America" in Los Angeles.
A larger difficulty with trying to identify some essential Chinese attitudes at play in this kind of mimicry is that the people who live in such developments are hardly ordinary Chinese. (Bosker introduces us to one resident, a former ping pong star who has flashcards of famous automobiles that he's training his son to recognize. She explains this by quoting from Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality: "Baroque rhetoric, eclectic frenzy, and compulsive imitation prevail where wealth has no history.") As a result, these developments offer little insight into the overall situation of urban planning in even the wealthiest cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, let alone in the scores of second- and third-tier cities, such as Shijiazhuang, Jinan, Xuzhou, Wuxi, Hefei, and Bengbu. Most of the developments in these places are architectural nightmares, built by technocrats who want to warehouse tens of millions of peasants who have been kicked off their land. [Source]
Oliver Wainwright at the Guardian's Architecture and Design blog focused on the issue of intellectual property, claiming some recent clones have reignited heated debate on the issue, such as a Zaha Hadid project for Soho in Beijing:
Hadid intends to take legal action, while a furious Pan Shiyi, the billionaire chairman of the Soho empire, has vowed to "bring the infringers to court". But Chongqing Meiquan, the developer behind the building, claims innocence. [Source]
But there's not much hope for these attempts to bring the copycats to justice, "In many copycat cases, though, the architects are either long gone or impossible to name", writes Wainwright.
Bianca Bosker is credited with writing the first in depth book on the issue. She has also been interviewed in The Atlantic and by CBC News.
Read about Hallstatt, the Austrian village in Guangdong via CDT.
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"County government offices are built like the American White House, city squares are larger than Tiananmen Square, the interiors of government guesthouses are sumptuously decorated," an article said in People's Daily.
"Luxury buildings are built to satisfy the pompous selfish desires of certain people, but they have hurt the feelings of the common people," it said.
The People's Daily article failed to mention that the newspaper is also building ostentatious new headquarters in Beijing, which – having already attracted widespread ridicule – will feature a helipad.
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I hope you all enjoyed the Valentines event and the extras that the event gave. Looking over the stats, a lot of roses were used! So glad you enjoyed it.
Love also got spammed a hell of a lot, I don't envy those who had to clean up their news feed because of it. Here are the top players who got the most love:
PDP`s Isi (350376) - 6000 times
Queen Persephone Aestus (213921) - 5091 times
Snow White (376116) - 3826 times
Callista K. Gealtach (149026) - 3129 times
Middy Stephan(331928) - 2603 times
Sharyn Pascal Phuri Dae™(351990) -2205 times
Adrienne Whispers Danno™ (540914) - 1715 times
Dimitril Aerinil (203351) - 1600 times
Marcie Blackthorn Stark (513412) - 1456 times
Asmodai Sainte Malos (532071) - 1331 times
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Some of us didn't have too much cleaning to do on our news feeds... :p Congrats to the top, er, lovers and lovees. An enjoyable event.
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Not too good, either Ashy. While the number does seem quite large stated as a digit, when it is stated as a percentage to offer a better relative understanding, it's only half of a percent of the total currency in game.
So if I told you that your bottom line was going to go down this year by one half of a percent this year, you probably wouldn't sweat it. Or if someone earning $40,000/yr was going to suffer a similar penalty, it would really only be a loss of $200.
So! Hurray for a marginal, certainly short-term, almost non-existant, and certainly borderline-negligible attempt at improving the in-game economy by eliminating excess currency.
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