interesting news in Shanghai and China
Chinese police to identify drug-using drivers through saliva test
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese drivers may be stopped by traffic police and asked to open their mouths to allow police to collect samples of their saliva for drug testing. Something new to be tested for. The China Narcotics Control Foundation received a batch of instant saliva test kits worth about 3 million yuan [...]
Pizza Hut China’s Shrimp and Hot Dog Pizza
As heard from a food critic in a foreign country, you might face the challenge of eating combinations you’re culturally not tuned to enjoy. At which point you’ll just have to take one for the readers expecting a review. A foreigner proved this to be the case when he tried Pizza Hut China’s latest pie. [...]
Money Worries as Red Packets Get Fatter
Red packets traditionally contained a small sum of money given to children during the Chinese New Year. They are getting bigger and bigger every year!! But unlike in southern China, such as Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, where people mostly give several tens of yuan for children during the New Year holiday, red packets in [...]
Are Chinese Wives Becoming Relationship Breadwinners? Chinese Women Continue To Defy Traditional Chinese Gender Roles
Chinese women’s’ duties have traditionally been limited to raising children, cooking and cleaning, while Chinese Man’s roles traditionally included working, earning money and controlling the family’s finances. While those traditional roles are still the norm for most of China, in Shanghai, for some time, many of the China’s traditional gender roles have been reversed. The [...]
Millions of Chinese trek home for festival
Considered the largest mass migration on earth, millions of Chinese are returning to their villages for the New Year. Shanghai, China – Despite a long, uncomfortable bus journey ahead Du Ling Ying is smiling. She is travelling to her home town in Anhui province and will see her family for the first time in a [...]
In Shanghai, A License Plate Can Cost as Much as a Car
A Shanghai license plate now costs as much as a new mid-range sedan. The average price for a Shanghai plate soared to 75,000 yuan ($12,000) at the city’s license plate auction over the weekend, roughly equal to the retail price of a brand new, fully loaded Geely MK-II sedan. Shanghai plates went for an average [...]
Bigger is better for China, Lufthansa wants to fly A380 to Shanghai
German airline Lufthansa AG is seeking approval from the Shanghai Airport Authority to begin Airbus A380 services to the city. “We are interested in operating the A380 to Shanghai, and we are doing all we can to cooperate with the airport authority here,” said Juerg Christen, Lufthansa’s managing director for China, said on Tuesday. Lufthansa [...]
More clean air and days to come. Baosteel Closes Shanghai Factory
China’s premier steel manufacturer, Baosteel, has slammed on the breaks at its rolled steel making plant in Shanghai to avoid making any more products that they simply cannot sell. On Friday, the Shanghai Daily reported that China’s biggest steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. (SHA: 600019) said it has closed a mill in Shanghai due [...]
Adidas denies closure of factory linked to pay rise
ADIDAS confirmed yesterday that it will close its only company-owned factory in China, signaling a strategic transition by the German sportswear giant to fully subcontracted production. The factory in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, will be shut in October to allow the company to “realign its global resources,” according to Chen Qi, a spokesman with [...]
China weather, Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 37 in Beijing
The Chinese capital’s heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday. Half of China is having a drought and the other half is flooding. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into [...]
