Shanghai to witness third baby boom
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China&#39;s largest city and the Communist nation&#39;s commercial hub, Shanghai will witness the third baby boom in the next 10 years with the population increasing by over 1,00,000 every year.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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BEIJING -- A baby boy delivered in a Beijing maternity ward early yesterday became China's 1.3 billionth citizen, the government said, using the occasion to tout its contentious one-child policy.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Three Gorges Project Official Says Relocated Residents To Reach 1.35 Million" - Xinhua headline]  Yichang, Feb.
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Vogue magazine, the venerable  112-year-old fashion bible, will launch a Chinese edition by  next September, keeping pace with an expanding base of wealthy  Chinese with an insatiable demand for Armani, Prada and  Bulgari.
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Real Madrid soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria are expecting their third child in March, the couple announced Sunday.
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China&#39;s economic growth has slowed for a third straight quarter as efforts by the government to rein in booming expansion continue to take hold.
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Acer, the world&#39;s third largest PC vendor, said Friday that it is keeping an eye on a labor shortage in China that could affect PC production.&quot;There is a labor shortage in China, which is new to me,&quot; said J.T. Wang, chairman of Acer, during the company&#39;s third quarter investors&#39; conference in Taipei. &quot;China has 1.4 billion people, how can they have a labor shortage?&quot; he asked rhetorically.Acer&#39;s China-based component suppliers and PC assemblers have said that in some cases they have lost 1,000 workers overnight, and have had to seek new employees. The Taiwanese company will work with suppliers on new strategies to make sure the issue does not affect production, Wang said.He characterized the concern as small, and unlikely to become a major issue in the near term.There has been a growing shortage of skilled labor in the East coast cities of China, in part due to government efforts to develop the nation&#39;s inland areas, said one analyst. Many factory jobs used to be filled by migrant workers, but now that many companies are building factories in China&#39;s interior, people feel they can stay at home and work instead of traveling to the coast.Acer president Gianfranco Lanci said factories tend to move to new places when production in a certain region becomes difficult, and he expects that will happen if companies continue to see labor shortages in China.A number of electronics firms have started investing in Vietnam. Taiwan&#39;s Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world&#39;s largest contract electronics manufacturer and maker of gadgets including iPods, PlayStation 3 consoles, and Nokia mobile phones, in August announced a&#160;plan to spend $5 billion&#160;over the next five years to build a base of electronic components factories near Vietnam&#39;s capital, Hanoi. Until now, the company&#39;s major investments have all been in China.Taiwan&#39;s Compal Electronics, the world&#39;s second-largest laptop PC maker and another major investor in China, has also announced plans to build a notebook computer factory in Vietnam.Companies have started to look outside of China for new factory investments, the analyst said, and while Vietnam, India, and other countries boast low-cost labor, they will only win investments if their workers are educated and investment incentives and regulations attractive.&#160;
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BEIJING - For pandas, it's practically a baby boom. Two giant pandas were born this week, and mothers and cubs were doing fine, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday...
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A forecast by the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission shows that a third baby boom is expected in the next 10 years, and the annual number of newborns is expected to reach a peak of 160,000 in 2014 and 2015.
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SHANGHAI - In 1990, Shanghai was a poor, decaying post- colonial metropolis shaking off decades of economic stagnation. Its streets were congested, too - with bicycles.
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Within three years more Chinese people will be using the net than Americans, reveals a report.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's grand tour of Europe this week is underscoring how the opportunities presented by the "super-market" that is China's billion people may be trumping the continent's long-standing ...
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Harry Shum&#39;s office may be one of the best places to witness the next stage of China&#39;s rise as an economic powerhouse. Set in the heart of the Haidian District in Beijing, with its
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WUHAN, China  - In this inland port city of over 8   million, sprawled out on the banks of the Yangtze river,   China's grand hopes of a consumer boom are palpable.
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By next year, 3.3 billion people will live in towns and cities, according to a U.N. report released today.
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FRANKFURT (Der Spiegel) - China's economy is continuing to expand at a blistering rate - with 11.5 percent growth in the third quarter of 2007. It is now poised to overtake Germany as the world's third largest economy within weeks and will soon also take Germany's crown as the world's biggest exporter. China's economy is continuing to surge ahead in double-digit growth figures and is due to overtake Germany as the third largest in the world within the next few weeks.  The country announced 11.5 percent growth for the third quarter of 2007, down on the 11.9 percent of the second quarter thanks to government efforts to cool the boom.