China Issues: HU XINGDOU
Hu Xingdou is professor of economics and China issues in the College of Humanities at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He is a researcher and writer on social issues, and an expert on social inequality. He is an advocate of the theories of a new socialist countryside, humanist economy and neosocialism.
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May 06, 2008Beijing, China — As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, people have increasingly twisted concepts and mixed feelings about them since the Western world has linked the Games with the Tibet issue. At the same time, this has aroused high emotions and extreme nationalism in China. How can this be corrected?
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January 07, 2008Beijing, China — China has set up a national oil reserve center, the government announced last month. It will control the country's strategic and domestic oil reserves, and is expected to have a major impact on the allocation of oil for economic development.
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October 08, 2007Beijing, China — The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis has affected not only the United States, but also Europe and Japan.
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October 05, 2007Beijing, China — China has set up a State Bureau for the Prevention of Corruption, which went into operation on Sept. 13.
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September 27, 2007Beijing, China — The city government of Shouguang in China's Shandong province recently banned an organization of volunteers. Members of this group visited lonely and widowed elderly people and helped children who could not continue their education.
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July 31, 2007Beijing, China — China has experienced high-speed economic growth for nearly thirty years, for which it has garnered a great deal of world attention. In 2007, China's economy may surpass Germany's and rank third in the world.It took Japan and Germany only twenty years t
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July 23, 2007Beijing, China — Confusion over property rights is causing considerable commotion in China. The latest dispute concerns the ownership of villas built on rural land classified as "collectively owned" and sold to individuals.
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June 13, 2007Beijing, China — The former chief of China's State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, was sentenced to death two weeks ago for corruption after a number of scandals involving tainted food and medicines. This case seems extreme, but within the vast Chinese bureauc
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May 14, 2007Beijing, China — Is China's economy overheated? Should the government take stricter measures to regulate and control it?
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May 07, 2007Beijing, China — China's household registration system, which divides people into urban and rural dwellers, is a huge barrier to building a harmonious society. It protects privilege, rank and status and safeguards the benefits of some people, while blocking opportunities
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April 27, 2007Beijing, China — China needs urgently to implement -- and is capable of implementing -- a system of free basic healthcare that would apply to all citizens. This is one of three basic systems that the government needs to provide for its citizens, the others being free basi
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April 20, 2007Beijing, China — China's National Development and Reform Commission recently reduced the retail prices of 188 patented Chinese traditional medicines, as part of an effort to make healthcare more affordable for citizens. It was the 23rd time prices have been cut; the avera
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April 20, 2007Beijing, China — China's National Development and Reform Commission recently reduced the retail prices of 188 patented Chinese traditional medicines, as part of an effort to make healthcare more affordable for citizens. It was the 23rd time prices have been cut; the avera
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April 14, 2007Beijing, China — On April 9th, two Beijing legal newspapers published the story of three local Communist Party officials who were arrested after writing an anonymous letter accusing the Party secretary of Jishan County in Shanxi province, Li Runshan, of abuse of power. Th
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March 14, 2007Beijing, China — China has been described as the largest poor country in the world, and at the same time, the most wasteful. This is true.
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February 14, 2007Beijing, China — China is facing a serious situation where both the environment and the nation's resources are threatened by the behavior of the privileged classes. The first thing that needs to change is the 'yardstick' system by which one's value, status, authority and
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February 14, 2007Beijing, China — China's state monopolies in many sectors are throttling the development of independent businesses and causing tremendous waste of the nation's resources. For example, the aircraft-to-staff ratio of state-owned airlines in China is 1:300-400.
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February 14, 2007Beijing, China — The vested interests of China's privileged class and its state-owned monopolies have become the country's greatest curse and obstacle to modernization. Doing away with such privileges and monopolies should be the prime task of the Chinese government.