From Beijing, an unfiltered view on business and economy.
CCTV tower is now becoming more visible in the CBD (Central Business District) skyline. Now the hard part is coming – joining both ends of the horizontal top structure.
See here some recent pics. If you don’t understand them, you are excused. The building is kinda “special”. You have to admit, Chinese construction companies can build anything.
Manufacturing parking meters and selling them in large quantities to the Beijing Government must be a golden business. Better than doing Olympic projects.
Simple. They don’t have to work. Some day they are installed (again some people have a job). Then they are never used. After some time most are vandalized and become modern expressions of art. Some, like ones pictured here, seem to be more sturdy and survive longer – and look better than those other ugly plastic ones.
Those meters are bad for employment. Putting poor parking attendants out of a job? Worse, do you expect the police to monitor if people paid?
Michael Wester, general manager of True Run Media, read “That’s Beijing” kindly invited me for the launch of their new Insider’s Guide to Beijing. Walked away with the Guide, a latest fashion Mao-era bag and a detailed map about the location of the Olympic venues.
The party was in the Bookworm, all the That’s Beijing staff used traditional Chinese outfits and the crowd was diversified (and fun).
As I regularly tell my colleagues in the Beijing Government, you can’t beat those guys to know what is cooking in Beijing. Day and night. China Daily still has Bus Bar in a construction pit.
Sorry Vlad, your cute pandas have fled. They escaped in my versatile bag and are finally able to express themselves freely, see Mr. Panda When accompanied by Mr. Panda Happy and Mr. Panda Sad.
They complained they could show no emotion in your conference rooms.
I feed them daily CRI Easy FM. No bamboo here, sorry.
Durex might be really overly optimistic or there is this guanxi with being an Internet addict (does not bode well for me?!). See here how difficult it can be for women to find a well performing partner. Well, all thanks to China Daily, reporting about the south where I feel Chinese eat the whole day but eat rather poorly. Sorry for being a bit simplistic here, otherwise why are people in the south shorter, have “other” shortcomings (no word play intended) compared to their brothers in the north?
China Daily reports: China Scene: South – 7 November 2007
Tell lonely heart money can’t buy love
A 22-year-old woman has spent more than 300,000 yuan (US$ 40,000) on a lonely hearts advertisement in a local newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The woman’s father is thought to be a real-estate tycoon, whose estimated worth is 1 billion yuan (US$ 134 million).
(Information Times)
Men bouncing check of love in Dongguan
A quarter of the male population in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, is suffering from erectile dysfunction, a polite way of saying they are impotent, coming up short, or disappointing Miss Daisy. According to a recent survey, more than 25% of male residents in the prosperous Pearl River Delta city are not rising to the occasion.
Many of the men are so ashamed of their ejectile dysfunction they only seek medical advice after being forced to do so by their sex-deprived wives, who complain of zero copulation growth.
(Southern Metropolitan News)
Must be bad business for Durex down there.
