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Family Planning
In the 1970’s, the policy implemented by Chinese officials reduced the legal number of children in an urban family to a single child. This new effort focuses on seeing the large population in urban centers as an abundance of human resources rather than as a burden. This new effort will attempt to stabilize an appropriately low birth rate while improving the quality of life for the individuals that already make up the large population and spurring racial diversity within the nation. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-09/22/c_13523921.htm

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Typhoon Fanapi made landfall in Southern China’s Fujian Province early Monday morning and currently the Guangdong Province has been most affected by the typhoon. The heavy down pours caused massive floods and landslides, and eighteen lives have already been claimed by the catastrophe. With forty-eight reported missing and extensive crop and structure damage, the total extent of the harm is still unknown. Fanapi is only the 11th strongest typhoon this year; stronger ones have already wrecked havoc over many nations in southern Asia.===== http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Typhoon-Fanapi-Hits-China-103271909.html

Helicopters to Pakistan
The long time allies and supporter of Pakistan, China sent aid to Pakistan to alleviate the pressure caused by the devastating floods. The most recent form of assistance has come in the form of four military helicopters that landed in the Pakistan capital Wednesday. http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/09/22/1461s595822.htm

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On of the measures taken to implement this new environmental policy is the enforcing of new rules that demand energy-saving assessments are to be carried out on new fixed-asset investment projects. These new regulations should curb the excessive consumption of energy and increase the efficiency of its use throughout China.===== http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7146595.html

Premier Wen pledged that China will become more involved in the UN and its many global projects. While the People’s Republic has traditionally been a member of the United Nations in name only, the current leaders have claimed that they want to be actively combating a series of global challenges such as climate change, as well as some international and regional hot spot issues, as a nation in upcoming years. http://sify.com/news/china-to-play-more-active-role-in-un-affairs-news-international-kjxtudfjahj.html

Sino-Japanese Rift
A Chinese fishing boat captain was arrested by Japanese forces near the islands known as Diaoyu, which is claimed by China, and Senkaku, which is claimed by both nations. This arrest was mostly a part of ongoing conflict over the two islands, which would allow each country to claim the rights to the nearby oil fields. On Tuesday, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao demanded that the captain be released “immediately and unconditionally”, and recent high-level discussions between the two nations over coal have been cut off by Chinese officials. Japan responded to these bold decisions by accusing China of exhibiting extreme nationalism concerning the issue. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0920/China-Japan-relations-sour-as-fishing-boat-dispute-escalates

Manufacturing eases
Both China's population and economic growth have raised hopes that there will be an increase in the consumption of U.S. exports. This in turn would help sustain America's economic recovery. Many factories in the United States have seen a rising demand for exports. However, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has fallen, indicating that this increase is not the sole solution to the economic hardship facing the U.S. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HUDE200.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ asiapcf/10/07/china.us. defense.talks/index.html **China and US**  will resume high level defense talks signaling a warming of relations since Beijing broke off military ties early this year. Beijing broke off military contacts early this year to protest the U.S. sale of arms to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province .
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 China advocates for the Iranian nuclear talks to resume in order to resolve the issues with discussion and negotiations and without violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ asiapcf/10/01/china.lunar. launch/index.html

C ** hina has launched a lunar probe ** to celebrate more than 60 years of communism.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ asiapcf/10/05/china.japan. relations/index.html

**China's and Japan's**  top leaders met in Belgium, indicating a thaw in relations since a diplomatic battle broke out last month over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing captain off the disputed Diaoyu Islands.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-10/20/content_11434093.htm Dalian imposes r ** estrictions in the property market ** that limits the number of houses families can buy in a city. This is an effort to cool down the overheated property market.



**<http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/66816/20100929/china-high-speed-train-new-record-in-train-speed-china-shanghai-hangzhou-high-speed-train.htm>** <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Research and development of a new high speed train is underway that would increase the speed to 500 kilometers per hour. This will help the transportation system in china.

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<span style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Now that demand for private aircraft is growing, the new sector should benefit many chinese citizens. ======

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The takeoff is an indicator of the Chinese government attempting to loosen control and modernize with the rest of the world.

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=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','Times New Roman'; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chinese satellite launcher to buy 20 rockets, 8 satellites =

<span style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes. CGWIC also signed a deal with China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) to purchase eight telecommunications satellites including Dongfanghong-4 satellites over the same period.

The two contracts, valued at 15 billion yuan ($2.26 billion), were signed at the eighth China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, which began Tuesday in Zhuhai in south China's Guangdong Province.



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=**China hopes for peaceful, transparent referendum in south Sudan**= China's UN Ambassador Li Baodong on Tuesday expressed hope for a "peaceful, free, transparent and fair" referendum to be held in south Sudan early next year. The ambassador urged the northern and southern Sudan to "try their utmost to expedite the preparations for the referendum," and called on the international community to create favorable conditions for the referendum, "but not to prejudge its outcome." The Chinese envoy also expressed concern about "the serious lacking behind of the political process" in Darfur, which poses the "most prominent challenge" for the settlement of the question of Darfur. This increased involvement in international organizations like the UN is just one of the ways China is attempting to become a world leader.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english2010/china/2010-11/17/ c_13609765.htm



<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">**China's acupuncture, Peking opera inscribed on Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity**

The arts acupuncture and moxibustion, major aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, along with Peking opera were both inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the ongoing 5th session of the Inter-governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in Nairobi. Acupuncture is a system of medicine that is used to relieve pain and sickness by pricking the skin in specific locations with needles. Moxibustion is another system of medicine that uses the burning of moxa, a downy substance obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian plant related to mugwort, as a counterirritant. Peking opera is a stylized Chinese form of opera dating from the late 18th century, in which speech, singing, mime, and acrobatics are performed to an instrumental accompaniment.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english2010/china/2010-11/16/ c_13609664.htm



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Eight suspects have been detained in a China high-rise fire that killed 53 people, state media said Tuesday. At least 70 other people were injured, 15 critically, in the Monday fire in Shanghai's Jing'an district, according to the Xinhua news agency. A preliminary investigation indicated that unqualified welders caused the fire, according to Xinhua. The welders violated safety rules, according to the report.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ asiapcf/10/29/china.japan. summit.dispute/index.html

A summit involving Japan and China was in jeopardy Friday after a Chinese foreign ministry official accused Japanese diplomats of making statements that violated China's sovereignty, according to the Chinese state-run news agency.China and Japan are participating in a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Hanoi, Vietnam, but Japanese representatives made "untrue statements about the content of a meeting between Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers held earlier in the day," the Xinhua news agency said.