China's GDP grows 8.7% in 2009

According to the official data today,China's economy expended 8.7% in 2009.

Gerneral Information about GDP in 2009

The total amount of GDP reached 33.54 trillion yuan (4.91 trillion U.S.dollars) in 2009. The last quarter of 2009, the GDP gorws 10.7%, and the GDP grows of the first three quarters are 6.2%, 7.9%, 9.1% respectively.
2008 and 2009 are two difficult year for the government, the global financial crisis has not over, many economist attributed the economy recover to the implementation of the proactive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy. Since November 2008, the government has adopted a series of stimulus measures, including a 4-trillion yuan stimulus package, tax cuts, and consumer subsidies to shore up growth and employment.

More Information

1. China's fixed-asset investment up 30.1% in 2009
2. China's retail sales up 16.9% in 2009
3. China's industrial output increases 11% in 2009
4. Other indexes information and charts of 2009

SMS is Getting Normal in Xinjiang

I saw a pop-up windows from QQ and shows that short messages service is getting normal in Xinjiang province gradually, in other word, SMS is still not working in part of Xinjiang province. Here is the screenshot of the news.

This message also shows that at the end of last year (2009), part of websites is available in Xinjiang, but I still can't access to some webistes located in Xinjiang.
Although SMS is getting normal gradually, but I think keywords filtering is still on.

Google is Planning to Quit Chinese Market

Here is a list of blog posts of Google's new approach to Chinese Market. Google's official blog posted a post about their new approach to China, they are planning to quit Chinese market.
1. A New Approach to China  from Offical Google Blog
2. Google to Shut Down in China? from ReadWriteWeb
3. More Sources Claim Chinese Government Involvement in Cyber Attacks on Google, Others from ReadWriteWeb
4. Google 'may pull out of China after Gmail cyber attack' from BBC News
5. Google Just Says No To China: Ending Censorship, Due To Gmail Attack from SearchEngineLand
6. Google May Quit China from WebProNews
7. Google's Tortured History With China from john battelle's search blog
8. Your request is being processed...Google Threatening To Leave China Over Hacking, Email Leak from the HuffingtonPost

Google is really angry, what will happen? Just wait for the result.

Pingtan Island and Special Economic Zone

Crosspost from Pingtan Island and Special Economic Zone
According to the latest news from Fujian provincial authorities, Pingtan Island will be transformed into a special economic zone in order to promote industrial cooperation with Taiwan.
Pingtan Island is the fifth largest island in China, it's 28 km from Fuzhou, the capitcal of Fujian province, and 120 km from Taiwan.
Because of its unique and strategic location, the government is going to build a special economic zone to enhance cross-straits industrial cooperation.

No Abnormal Reactions Reported after A/H1N1 Vaccinations

In previous post, we talk about people in Beijing took the lead in China to get A/H1N1 vaccinations. Now, the local health official said that there is no abnormal reactions found.  About 10,000 students and the celebrations participants received the vaccinations, none of them had abnormal reactions.

Beijing Starts A/H1N1 Vaccinations

The municipal health authorities announced today that Beijing took the lead in China to start A/H1N1 vaccination program.
The students who take part in the National Day celebrations are the first to be vaccinated, and then the other college, middle school and primary school students.
The vaccination is free of charge, the citizens made their decisons by themselves if they want the vaccination.
All of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on China have reported A/H1N1 cases, but there have been no death reported yet.

Photos of Tian'anmen Square Before National Day Celebration

The 60th National Day Celebration is approaching, and the preparing is almost done. Let me show you some photos of recent Tian'anmen square. It's beautiful.
It's glorious.