The sudden decision by China’s National Bureau of Statistics to delay indefinitely the release of G.D.P. and other economic statistics while the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China takes place in Beijing has created much consternation among financial analysts and economic observer...
Plotting the population data of Hubei Province as given on the website of China's National Bureau of Statistics 国家统计局 reveals a striking pattern: a sensational exodus out of the Province between the end of 2019 and 2020. With 3,07% less, or, in absolute terms, a drop from 59.27 to 57.45 million, th...
The application of various technologies for plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting were propagated as better tools than manual labor particularly in the early years of the PRC. In a very obvious way the superiority of tractors in agricultural production is acknowledged in the image here...
Dr. Liu Ziang has published a new Op-Ed in the South China Morning Post entitled China’s plan to unify its domestic market will create cohesion, but at the expense of local needs.
It is in reaction to the Chinese government’s “Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Unified Domestic Marke...
During the Republican era, personal hygiene and public sanitation became indicators for civilization and a healthy and strong population. Influenced by similar notions in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries that aspired to be modern, Chinese politicians, intellectuals, and educators...
Absolute poverty is a global problem and its alleviation is set on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by the UN. China is said to have reached this goal as early as the end of 2020. President Xi Jinping officially declared in February 2021 that China achieved the eradication of absolute pov...
Nearly twenty years ago, one vehicle license number fetched close to 25,000 Euros in the first public auction of license plates in Guangzhou. Auctions continue to be held bimonthly in Chinese cities, but chances to obtain a plate with the desired number combination have become close to zero. The gov...
On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics :
If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks i...
In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine,...
From a geometrical point of view, what was published in a collection of statistical data from Shanghai in the first year of the People's Republic, can not really be called a population "pyramid". The graph is rather akin to a cylindric accordion. Looking closely at the vertical scale, one will notic...
