What’s Making China Angry ?
Poll the People Do you think China needs its own Clean Air Law? Respondents: 56,866
Netizens launched a Chinese New Year campaign to post pictures of luxury cars bearing military license plates. Hundreds of pictures were uploaded, demonstrating a taste in China’s military for Audi SUVs, Porsches, Land Rovers, Bentleys and Maseratis, drawing fire from netizens despite some of the plates turning out to be fake.
Yes.
56,271 (99%)
Don’t think so. Not sure.
391 (0.7%)
211 (0.3%)
Source: www.weibo.com
What’s Amusing China ? Footage from CCTV news featuring a half-naked little boy who appeared to “moon” China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang went viral. The child was seen sneaking out of a wardrobe and under a quilt in the background of Li’s interview with his grandfather during a photo-op at their home in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, early February.
What’s Shocking China ? A 72-year-old painter surnamed Peng from Shantou, Guangdong Province, handmade an offset plate before using it to print 210 million yuan (US$33.6m) in fake 100 yuan banknotes. Peng was detained late January after a manhunt that lasted several years.
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A man from Chengdu, Sichuan Province offered a one million yuan reward to find his missing pet dog: The chow-chow we have kept for seven years, named Xiaoxiao, was lost at 2 o’clock, February 8. Whoever finds it and brings it back will be rewarded with an apartment in downtown Chengdu worth more than one million yuan (US$160,200). A family member is worth more than one million yuan. CHINA WEEKLY I March 2013