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The Tianjin Steel Plant in Hebei province. Indescribably beautiful (if that’s the right word) photos by Lu Guang of the underbelly of China’s economic miracle, the part we all want to forget. Simply breathtaking in their eerie, terrible... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Thu, Oct 22 2009

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25 Jun 07 visit China: Pollution in Shanxi  »  Global Voices Among the 10 most polluted cities within China, the top three were at Shanxi province. As Zuo Ai Chong pointed out, pollution in China is always related with politics, Shanxi’s pollution is somehow related to its illegal mining of coal and recent...
26 Jun 08 visit The Olympic Effect on China’s Steel Industry: Rising Prices  »  All Roads “The Chinese government, in ensuring clean air and blue skies for Olympic athletes and visitors, are requiring 43 steel mills in3 Tianjin City and Hebei to halt or slash production during the session of the Games,” Malaysia Steel Works (KL) Bhd (Masteel) managing director Tai Hean Leng said in the article China’s Environ Policy May Fuel [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Olympic Effect on China’s Steel Industry: Rising Prices", url: "http://www.allroadsleadtochina.com/index.php/2008/06/26 /the-olympic-effect-on-chinas -steel-industry-rising-prices /" });
28 May 09 visit China’s growth: An economic miracle built on sand? (Not necessarily)  »  Peking Duck Dror has written another provocative post about China’s economy that is well worth a read, even if I don’t completely agree with him. It’s about an issue many of us reflexively shy away from, i.e., the true sustainability of...
05 Sep 07 visit Pouring scorn on Olympic medical advice  »  Beijing Newspeak We are all aware that the air pollution in Beijing often makes a dirty weekend away in a Shanxi coke plant seem like a tempter but I’m struggling to take the World Health Organization’s recent warnings to Olympic spectators seriously. I s...
05 Feb 09 visit Worth Reading: Can China forget it’s own history?  »  Granite Studio If it feels like I link to China Media Project a lot, it’s simply because David Bandurski runs a damn good blog.  Allow me to do so again and recommend his excellent post “Can China forget it’s own history,”  a must-read for anyo...

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