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China's EV Demo Program Falls Flat; 25 Pilot Cities only Meet 38% of Target

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According to a recently released report from China's First Institute of Electric Propulsion, the 25 cities participating in China's nationwide electric vehicle demonstration program had reached only about 38% of their deployment goals, as of October 2011.

The "Ten Cities Thousand Vehicles" program, launched in 13 cities in ...

China's New Energy Vehicle Industry Plan to be Revised, Again

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According to sources at the 2011 Global New Energy Vehicle Conference held in Beijing on January 5, China's long-awaited new energy vehicle industry development plan has gone back to the drawing board once more, but may be resubmitted to the State Council for another review in the near future ...

Chinese Official Explains New Rules for Internet Industry

from MIIT Updates 2

On December 29, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a new set of regulations to establish order in the country's internet service industry. Reporters met with Li Guobin of the MIIT's administrative law department, who explained the background and purpose of the new rules ...

Beijing Lists 17 Industries Most in Need of Talent

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Beijing issued its "12th Five Year Plan Human Resource Development Plan" on Wednesday, marking 17 industries most in need of qualified personnel over the next five years. The plan identified more than 280 specific categories of professionals needed across fields including new generation information technology, new energy vehicles, and aeronautics ...

2011 Year in Review: China's Electric Vehicles Disappoint

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"I still have to insist on this viewpoint, whether or not you're willing to listen: Anybody who tells you that electric vehicles are going to pull suddenly ahead in China is lying," said Yin Chengliang, deputy director of Shanghai Jiaotong University's Automotive Engineering Institute, speaking at the 2011 ...

Tang Jun: Chinese Enterprises Better Avoid Cloud Computing

from Sina Tech 0

Tang Jun, former president of Microsoft China, said at an annual CEO conference held by IT Time Weekly on December 6 that "cloud computing" is a form of commercial hype. Tang elaborated that as cloud computing is still in an early standards-setting stage, Chinese enterprises had best avoid the concept ...

Beijing to Open Party and Government Parking Lots to Public

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The standing committee of the Beijing municipal government convened recently over a draft of new parking regulations for the nation's capital. Beijing is home to nearly 5 million motor vehicles, but with less than 2.5 million proper parking spaces, the city's car-owners are forced to fight for ...

32 Candidates Compete to Head China Unicom Provincial Branches

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China Unicom has completed a round of qualification testing for potential managers to head its provincial subsidiaries nationwide, according to an industry insider. While final results of the tests have yet to come in, the telecom giant has reportedly narrowed down to a group of 32 nominees, although it is ...

Localizing for China, Apple's App Store Faces Challenges

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Starting last weekend, Apple fans in China who logged on to the App Store discovered that price markings had switched from $ to ¥.

Two years after the iPhone's official launch in China, Apple China's recent move to accept RMB payments for app purchases is finally bridging the gap to ...

From the China Decoder Blog

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Continuing technical improvements

By Joel Rosen on

Exciting changes are afoot here at chinadecoder. Juicy details are as follows:

  1. Translations for Weibo trends are now being automatically grabbed from Wikipedia. This is a fairly surefire way to accurately translate things like movie titles or names of pop stars, which appear frequently in China's tweets, and will ...
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A new blog, and Weibo

By Joel Rosen on

I just tacked a blog onto the site here, so I can write things aside from article translations.

You may have noticed a new Weibo feature on the front page. This is a sort of experiment to track trends on Weibo (China's equivalent of Twitter). This may turn out ...

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