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• US-born panda freed from quarantine in China
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AP - After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country.
• China rejects reform calls but rhetoric softens
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AP - China's top lawmaker rejected calls to open up the communist political system to reform Tuesday, but his milder rhetoric indicated confidence among Chinese authorities that a crackdown on dissent has been effective.
• China warns US against selling F-16s to Taiwan
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AP - China on Tuesday warned the United States against any future arms sales to Taiwan, including F-16 fighter jets the island has been pushing for in hopes of upgrading its air defense capabilities.
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• China denies Sweden Uighur spying
China denies it is spying on Uighur refugees in Sweden, after a Stockholm court jailed a Uigur for passing information to an agent.
• China herdsmen kill snow leopard
Two herdsmen are jailed for up to 10 years for killing a rare snow leopard in Xinjiang, China's state news agency reports.
• Joint bid for Australian gas firm
Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina launch a joint takeover bid for Australian liquefied natural gas group Arrow Energy.
• China resumes iron ore talks
Tense times as China resumes iron ore price talks
• Xinjiang's 'internet prison'
Blogger in China's Xinjiang describes restrictions
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• Meeting China's non-communist politicians
Meeting China's non-communist politicians
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• In Market We Trust
The main take away from my Silicon Valley trip is the understanding of "market". I know, the recent financial crisis can be used as a way to argue the other way, I am still talking about the relative older style of market (like the flea market, and fish market), not the financial innovation stuff.
Hotwire and Priceline
Websites like Hotwire.com and Priceline.com (how I found it) let me think more about how to use the market to allocate resource more efficiently. Without services like Hotwire, hotel suffers from empty rooms, and visitors suffers from high price. They are the bridge to allow those unsold rooms to be evaluated and priced - the price is lower than retail price, which is very likely to be the fair market value of the "unsolde" rooms.
"Market allow any tradable item to be evaluated and priced."
Rental Contract
Another interesting thing is the rental contract I saw in my friend's house. When their last lease period is going to expire, the landlord gives them a list of renew price. It is something like this (I mocked up the numbers)
1 month - $1710
2 months - $1700
3 months - $1670
4 months - $1640
5 months - $1610
6 months - $1690 <-- Attention! Price raises!
7 months - $1710
8 months - $1720
9 months - $1840
10 months - $1700
11 months - $1640
12 months - $1600
...
The idea is, it is not the longer you lease, the cheaper it is. It is obvious that the 9 months lease is the most expensive lease. My guess is, it is the time most of the tenant in this area planned to move out (based on the existing contract and prediction), or the season where many graduate are moving in. The price of the house is decided preciously in a bid-offer fashion, not by some ideology (the longer you rent, the cheaper it is)
That is a vivid lesson for me to understand the market.
Market
A market is the PLACE for buyers and sellers to trade.
Its function include pricing - market finds out the fair market value of any tradable item every minute.
The liquidity of the market is important. Liquidity means a seller can always sell something if they are willing to decrease the price a little bit above the fair market value, or the buyer can always buy something if they are willing to offer a little bit higher price than the fair market value.
"The essential characteristic of a liquid market is that there are ready and willing buyers and sellers at all times" - Wikipedia on Market Liquidity.
The market rule is only the price and item - for the same item, it is just the price.
The only way to decrease the price of an item is to increase supply.
The God of Market
It seems I need to spend more time to understand how the God of Market works, and its role in price discovery, and resource allocation.
China is a market economy, but in daily life, it is still not very market driven.
• Lining up for Metro - Part II
This is the second post about lining up in Shanghai metro after I posted the first entry about it (Lining up for Metro?) three and half years ago.
These days, when I started to take metro again, I found out in more and more stations, people started to line up.
The Change Over Time
8 years ago when I started my blog, people never line up.
3.5 years ago, people started to line up in busy stations like People's Square, and that was the only case I saw it.
Now, in many small stations, people started to line up - 5 persons a line. Look at the photos I took randomly at Jinxiu Road station of Metro Line #7.
The lines are not exactly that type of lines in armies, but people do start to honor orders. People will automatically make up two lines along the door, leaving the space for people to get out first. For efficiency, people won't wait for everyone to get out to get in, but the door is wide enough for three lines of people, the order were kept and it is much more efficient.
Reasons?
I guess there are two reasons for it. First is the abundance of resources. When more and more metro is built, there are enough room in most metro lines for everybody, and people don't worry about missing the metro in most of the cases. Please note: it is not ALWAYS, but in most cases. Even if there are times there are more people that you need to way for two or three turns, as long as it is occasional, people still respect orders that they formed in normal days.
A half empty train cart in none-peak hours
The second is the ramp up of the city life style. Metro and the city life style itself are new things to the Chinese people. It takes some time for people to get used to it, to start to understand it, and form a set of rules. The interesting thing is, time will just help people to shape their behavior without too much external forces.
For the elevators, the same thing happens. People started to naturally stand on the right, and leaving the left side for people to pass. This is more and more trendy in Shanghai. When the trend is formed, it is hard to change, since everyone will be happy to do it to demonstrate their "fit" with this city.
P.S. I chatted about it with my friend RC who introduced the phrase "T.I.C moment" to me. He joked: "No! There will be one TIC moment missing in Shanghai!" I am happy that the TIC moments fade out while this city advances in civilization.
• Metro Line 7 and 9 Became Full Time
After I am back to Shanghai, the Metro Line #7 became operating in full time - from 5:30 to 22:31. Before, it only operate between 9:00 - 16:00. That means, Metro Line #7 started to operate in real sense. At the same time, Metro Line #9 started similar full time operation. Both intervals are 6 minutes.
Look at this map I shot in a metro station - that is the current metro map.
Photograph by Jian Shuo Wang
On this map, there are many small modifications - the staff used sticker to mark out some stations that are not open yet. Since the stations and even metro lines are going to open in the next few weeks, they didn't bother to create a new chart. Those segments include the east extension of Metro Line #2 to Pudong Airport, and west extension to the new Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2.
When the metro system started to form a network, the feeling of a metro ride is very different from the time when there are just one line or two. You will encounter an interchange station for every two or three stations. People get off the train and get on the train much more frequently than before - you are not sure whether they get off the train because it is their destination or just transit to another metro line. The capacity of the metro system is also expanded - the bottlenecks are no longer bottlenecks, because of so many "load balance lines" there.
I am very excited to see the change, and enjoy navigating the city by going under it.
• Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 to Open
Before we are aware of, the city of Shanghai expanded beyond the speed of thinking.
2 years ago, Pudong Airport Terminal 2 just opened. In just 2 years, another giant terminal - Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 will open on March 16, 2010.
Look at this satellite image. The T1 is small on the right, and T2 is much bigger on the left:
Map credit: Google Maps
According to news report, this terminal will be 4 times bigger than the current T1. I always complained about taxi, especially on Fridays, and they didn't do too much about it. I guess this time, the taxi won't be the bottle neck for the new terminal.
After the launch of the new terminal in one week, most of the domestic airlines in the current Hongqiao Airport will shift there, leaving the current T1 just serving Spring Airlines, and other few flights.
I remember there were discussion of abandon Hongqiao airport and shift all air traffic to Pudong airport long time ago, but the needs for flights are always higher than the capacity of Hongqiao and Pudong added up together. Then Hongqiao Airport was kept (some residents near the airport were too early to be happy about the news that the noisy airport will be closed). Now, when the Hongqiao Railway Station (the station connected to Beijing by high speed train) is located there, and Metro Line #2 and Line #10 extending there, the Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 is the new center of transportation stage.
On Sunday, I tried to drive to that area from Beidi Road 北翟路. The huge viaduct has already been built for the Beidi Road, and S20 (formally A20). That will be the main road reaching to the terminal 2. It turned out the adventure is completely a failure, since the Beidi road was completely destroyed for the construction of the elevated highway. I chose to make U turn after get into it for 500 meters.
I will try to visit that area again in one week, and report what the new terminal looks like. In fact, it is not just a terminal - it is the framework of a super transportation hub that has never existed in China.
P.S. Chris of Shanghaieye.com posted photo of the terminal on his blog.
• Yifan's Stories
I don't know why, when I am back, Yifan put all his toys into two big boxes, and asked his mom: "Would you please hide them so dad cannot find it?" What is in his mind to hide his toys from dad?
In the morning, Yifan kept asking me where I want to take his train to go. His stops are his familiar places like Shanghai, Luoyang, Beijing.... I told him, I am going to Rio de Janeiro. Yifan just smiled and cannot follow the difficult city name. Disappointed, he went to mom and ask where mom wanted to go, and mom said: "Amsterdam" - another way too difficult name for him to pronounce. He just know some simple names. Then he asked grandpa, and the answer he got was Buenos Aires.... Yifan was completely confused. Everyone burst into laughter.
• Breakfast Meeting in Shanghai
Are you serious to have breakfast meeting in Shanghai? Think twice before you make the appointment.
I never really understand why people would think of the crazy idea of having breakfast meeting in Shanghai. I received the invitation for some times, but always rejected it.
Why Breakfast Meeting is Good in the Valley
When I am in the valley, I found it so nice to have breakfast meetings. There are some benefits:
1. Breakfast in many places are nice - especially the brunch along the University Ave in Palo Alto and a nice restaurant famous for its brunch in Berkeley. People enjoy the scrambled eggs and coffee in fresh morning.
2. Commute. The early breakfast is very likely to be at some convenient place along the way to work for both parties. They may drive and stop by a cafe, to have breakfast together - they will have it at home anyway, and then drive on to their own work place. If you raise early, the traffic are generally better.
3. Dinner, and Lunch are too time consuming. Compared to breakfast, which is like the time for a cup of coffee, it is perfect for catchup, instead of serious discussion.
Why Breakfast Meeting is Bad in Shanghai
1. Most of places does not serve breakfast in the decent way. In Shanghai, the popular place serving breakfast is soup, dumplings. The street eateries often does not offer seats, or the seats is very crowded, not a decent place to meet. Hotels offering continental breakfast are very likely to be full service and expensive. There are not many nice and lite places for people to gather. (Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf started to offer scrambled eggs, which is good)
2. Transpiration is so bad. No matter how early it is, it is still in terrible traffic, that people want to avoid. Since in Shanghai, people basically don't drive in downtown, and even people drive, the parking can be much more troublesome than park at free public 2 hour parking space in downtown Palo Alto, or Mountain View...
3. People prefer dinner over breakfast. The night life is actually the starting point for many people in Shanghai. The best meal in Shanghai is obviously in the dinner time.
Environment Matters
It is not the culture that makes the difference - it is mainly the history and the environment that shape people's behavior.
• Jet Lag Builds Early Raiser
Jet lag is good thing for me. Whenever in US, or back to Shanghai, jet lag drives me wake up earlier and then I became an early raiser for some days. Thus I have enough time to write more blogs (helping me to get clearer idea about my world, and comprehend the message I got). It is just like an effective "Raise Early" medicine. But the problem is, the effect gets less significant along the day, and I will fade into normal life.
Is there any way to simulate jet lag?
• My Passion to Second Tier Cities
In a private dinner at Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference, I was asked to share a great idea with the accomplished investors, CEOs, and journalists. This is my idea:
Put all your money in the second tier cities in China! 10 cities in China is building their first metro system today, and they are connected by high-speed train system already. The Chinese version of Eisenhower national road system is also completed even before the economy stimulate plan, connecting these cities together. With the jump-start transportation system, talents, and capital will flow from first tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing to the second tier cities in the next 10 years. Think about what you can do in these booming cities: real estate, business, manufacture, outsourcing...
My passion and optimist for the second tier cities is real. The recent Hainan trip, and Wendy's recent trip back to Henan all sent a clear message to me: the second tier cities are where the opportunity lies. Shanghai has became less and less competitive because of the expensive living cost, making it less attractive to talents.
When I met Yang Meng who just got back from his home town in Changsha in Palo Alto, he shared exactly the same thing with me. His high-school friends all went back to Changsha from big cities, to start their business there. He wrote a great blog about it: Golden Decade for Second Tier Cities (In Chinese).
Wendy and I went back to Nanyang years ago, and found out the highway with road plate G40 and G45 - one connect the city to Shanghai and Xi'an, and another connecting it to Guangzhou, and north China. All these roads were newly built. Wendy drove along the highway in the more recent trip, and reported back - there are no cars on it yet. When third cities like Nanyang gets connected to second tier cities, it makes the second tier cities more competitive with the vast supply of labor, resources, and market.
What do you think?
• Wind Blows West to East
This trip helped me to understand some basic weather phenomenon - the wind at the surface of the earth.
West to East along 31-37 degree in Latitude
In this article, I asked meteorology question: how come bay area is so warm when its latitude is as high as 37 °, it is warmer in the winter than Shanghai, which is just a little bit north of 31°? As my readers pointed it out, it is because the wind.
At that latitude, wind mainly blows from the west to east. Shanghai is cold in winters because the wind from the west is from the mainland, and is cold in nature. The wind for the bay area is from above the pacific ocean. The huge water body makes the air stable in temperature - cool in summer, and warm in winter, and makes that area much warmer and comfortable than Shanghai.
Cross Pacific Flight
The wind also solved another puzzle I had: why it takes longer to fly from SFO back to PVG (12 hours), than from PVG to SFO (10 hours)?
This time, with this knowledge, I paid attention to the real time broadcast of speed on board. From west to east, there are always 150 km/h tailing wind, making the airplane ground speed about 1,000 km/h (10,000 km distance divided by 1,000 is about 10 hours). On the return flight, the head wind is 150 km/h, making the ground speed 750 km/hour, thus cost about 12 hours.
This is the Simplified Answer
This is just the simplified answer of complicated meteorology. I researched on Wikipedia on this, and found many articles on this. The actual wind flows are very complicated, and vary greatly by latitude, and time. I just don't care about other wind, like those in the south sphere. The simplified answer, wind blows from west to east, works at least for this time, and at this latitude.
• The Scare of Shanghai Heals
One part of travel is to see the other side of the world (like my recent two travels), and the other interesting part is to leave Shanghai for 10 days and get back to see how things change quickly. It is always good to get a reasonable distance from daily life, and when back, you discover more changes than you are always there.
This time, the change is the roads.
In preparation of Shanghai Expo 2010, which is just 2 months away, huge constructions spread out through out the city. That includes new elevated highways, improvement of current roads, and new metro stations. In early or March, many of the constructions are completed, and the scare of the city heals quickly, and perfectly.
Zhaojiabang Road
Zhaojiabang Road 肇嘉浜路 is one of the road that is impacted most. The 7 something new metro stations make it almost impossible to navigate, and delays directly caused our decision to move from Pudong to Puxi.
I took a taxi yesterday. The same road is back to its original status, and even better. The road is newly paved, and the lanes were marked with freshly painted white lines. That kind of "brand new" feeling is so strong, that I just would love to drive my cars there. The metro station is finished leaving many exits with Metro signs.
Other Roads
The other roads I paid particular attending includes the South Yanggao Road 杨高南路, and Longyang Road 龙阳路. The elevated highway and viaducts were completed, and the crowded roads suddenly become pretty empty with the new addition of the same size of capacity (but without red lights).
Good. Good. Shanghai started to become charming again.
• Travelogue of Tahoe
On Sunday, we were back from Tahoe with just 3 hours and a half on the road - comparing to the 9 hours on snowy Friday night, it is much better. When I finally find time to sit down, I can start to write a travelogue about my trip to Tahoe.
Where is Tahoe
Although most people in the States should know where it is, it worth some time to tell other readers where the beautiful lake is.
It is 200 miles east of San Francisco, at the border of California and Nevada.
The transpiration is pretty straight forward - take the I-80 from San Francisco, passing the Bay Bridge, and drive all the way to the east for 180 miles, and take CA-237. Then you are there.
You cannot Ski without Snow
On the way to Tahoe, it snowed heavily, and it was the most heavy snow I experienced in recent years. Look at the photos below and imagine the snow!
Photograph by Jian Shuo Wang
Photograph by Jian Shuo Wang
Photograph by Peng Linlin
Photograph by Peng Linlin
It took us 9 hours to get there.
The Shining Sky with Snow
The Ski Field
Look at the nice ski field. It is obviously bigger than the indoor ski in Shanghai.
We took the lift up to the top of the mountain.
My First Fall
I started with a mild slope, and the speed went up so quick, that I had no choice but to run into the side snow to stop. Look at the first fall: The both ski completely get into the snow, and it took me quiet some time to get out.
My Legs!
For entry-level skier like me, I used all the effort to ski as slow as possible, thus using the ski as brake from the top of the mountain to the bottom. My legs just got so tired that it started to hurt, and I have to stop from time to time in the middle of the slope. When other more skillful guys camp and eat energy stick on the top of the mountain, I had a nice pizza near the Ritz-Carlton.
Mid-Mountain
When we skied in the afternoon, it snowed heavily. I took the time to take a picture of the snow covered mountain and the snow before I rush down the slope.
Taken from the middle of the mountain
Finishing the Great Ski Journey
At the time when Village Express stops operation, we have been on the slop for 5 hours.
Photo taken by a nice girl near us
• Wrapping up 2010 Winter Trip
I am back to the comfortable bed in my home in Shanghai. The 10 days trip, as every previous trips, is wonderful for me - just like Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland.
I did a quick summary in my Moleskine notebook, and found the following data:
People I meet in depth during this trip: 50 (criteria: spent at least one hour together and had in-depth discussion, and I know their background well, and they know mine well)
Total meetings: 26
Meeting locations: San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Mountain View, Menlo Park
I am happy to meet the greatest minds of the silicon valley - they are founders of best Internet companies, investors of great track record, and outstanding people from fields like lawyer, finance, and journalism.
Besides that, I attended three relatively larger conference: GSR Ventures New Year Party, Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference, Tsinghua University Alumni Tech Talk, and Stanford Chinese Entrepreneur Organization Dinner. I fit well into the Chinese community and global community, and got great inspiration.
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Over the weekend, The New York Times website held an online forum over the topic of employment in China. Participants included: * C. Cindy Fan, associate dean of social sciences, U.C.L.A.; Yasheng Huang, professor of political economy, M.I.T.; Daniel A. Bell, professor of political philosophy, Tsinghua University; Albert Park, economist, University [...]
• A Sorry Spectacle
In Foreign Policy, Adam Minter delves deep into the process by which the U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai Expo was chosen and built:On May 1, Expo 2010, the largest and most expensive world’s fair in history, will open on 2.5 square miles of prime Shanghai riverbank for a six-month run that its hosts hope will [...]
• US Ponders China?s Southeast Asian Rise
Last month, the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission held a hearing on “China’s Activities in Southeast Asia and the Implications for U.S. Interests.” Asia Times summarizes the testimonies from various members of Congress, government officials, and experts:USCC commissioner Larry Wortzel emphasized China’s rising economic influence in the region, noting that numerous China-funded resource [...]
• Zhang Hong: I Am a Moderate Adviser
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• China?s Next Leaders Jockey for Position
Several contenders for leadership positions when the 5th generation of party leaders take power in 2012 are campaigning during this year’s NPC meetings. From the Wall Street Journal:They include Bo Xilai, Communist Party secretary of the big city of Chongqing, and rival Wang Yang, his predecessor in the job and now governor of southern Guangdong [...]
• China to Loosen Control over Book Publishing
The Financial Times takes a look an expected changes in the Chinese publishing industry which will allow more room for private publishers to operate within the state-controlled system:China Publishing Group, which had Rmb3.9bn in revenues last year, is a cornerstone of Beijing’s policy to keep publishing under state control while allowing private investors a limited, [...]
• China Calls U.S. Treasuries Important, Wary on Gold
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• Pensioner Jailed for Spying on Uighurs
From The Local:
A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden as a political refugee since 1997 has been found guilty of spying for China on Uighur expatriates and sentenced to a year and four months in jail.
The man, identified in court documents as Swedish citizen Babur Maihesuti, was found guilty of “aggravated illegal espionage activity”, the Stockholm district court said [...]
• Chinese Factory Workers Cash in Sweat for Prosperity (with Video)
A report in the Oregonian says that, despite activists’ concerns over labor abuses, migrant workers are funding an economic boom in rural China:Improved living standards don’t negate criticism by activists who castigated the outsourcing industry, especially Nike, a 1990s lightning rod for allegations of low pay and onerous working conditions. Abuses continue in some plants, [...]
• NGOs with Chinese Characteristics
Asia Times reports on the recent decision by China’s Ministry of Education to brand the Hong Kong branch of OxFam a “subversive” organization:The Oxfam controversy started with a notice posted last month on the student recruitment webpage for Minzu University in Beijing calling the NGO an “ill-intentioned” organization with “ulterior motives”.
The notice, attributed to the [...]
• International Women’s Day: Readings Around the Web
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• Yu Jianrong (于建嵘): Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability (Part 3 )
Dr. Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), chairman of the Social Issues Research Center of the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability” before the Beijing Lawyers Association on December 26, 2009. This is the 3rd part of the CDT translation, Part 1 is here. [...]
• China Picks Mothers for Astronaut Training
China’s first female astronauts are now undergoing training, the Guardian reports:Two women and five men have been selected as the next generation to go into space, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today, citing an unnamed military source.
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