Mr. Feng Jian’guo was born in Hainan, 1962. From 1988, he studied photography in Japan, and got his MFA in 1998. Now he is professor of photography in Beijing Film Academy.
Professor Feng Jian’guo, 3rd from left
As a professional large format photographer, his works are in black and white, 8″ by 10″ sized, he is follower of Ansel Adams. He has visited many times into the west of China, including Ningxia, Xinjiang, Tibet and Sichuan Provinces.
Software giant Microsoft yesterday (Dec. 8th, 2008), announced plans to reduce the retail price of its Windows and Office products by as much as nearly 60 percent in China, hoping to win customers from pirate software dealers.
Microsoft said it would cut the price of its Windows XP Home Edition from 960 yuan to 399 yuan in the next 12 months. The retail price of Microsoft Office 2007 software will also be cut from 699 yuan to 398 yuan.
“Many Chinese consumers still have the conception that genuine software is expensive,” said Wei Qing, consumer and online marketing officer of Microsoft Greater China. “We want to tell Chinese consumers that it is not.”
Having entered the Chinese market in 1992, Microsoft’s sales revenue in the country has long been sluggish due to pirated software.
Although the company has successfully convinced government agencies and computer venders in China to adopt genuine software in recent years, pirated software still prevails among individual consumers.
Critics said it is Microsoft’s high pricing that forced many Chinese users to turn to pirated software. Windows XP home edition was sold at 1,498 yuan in China last year, loosely equivalent to the average monthly income of city dwellers in Beijing.
As a test, Microsoft launched a promotional campaign in October in which the company reduced the price of its Office 2007 software (which could only be installed on a single computer) from 699 to 199 yuan during the weeklong National Day holiday.
The campaign turned out to be a great success as actual sales were 10 times better than earlier estimates, according to Wang Jianhua, president of Beijing Federal Software, one of China’s largest genuine software retail chains.
Wei said Microsoft would extend the October promotion campaign to the upcoming Spring Festival.
Buy office 2007 Chinese Version at 199 Yuan from Dangdang.com
Buy Windows Xp Chinese Version at 399 Yuan from amazon.cn
Source: China Daily
Three traffic police officers rode brand new Harley Davidson motorcycles when on potrol missions along the Chang’an Avenue on Monday morning.
REUTERS/Paul Zhang (CHINA)
The motorcycles, each worth a total of US$58,000, have been provided by Harley Davidson, an American motorcycle manufacturer, as a gift to Beijing’s city Traffic Police Bureau.
Source:CRI
The FDA field office is the first of three to be opened in the nation and is meant to boost consumer confidence in products coming from China.
Amid recurring Chinese product-safety scares, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today opened an inspection office in Beijing that officials said would help China to export safer products to America and the world.
The new FDA field office, one of three to be launched nationwide here, is the first outside the U.S. and comes during a nadir in U.S. consumer confidence in Chinese-made products following reports of counterfeit drugs, melamine-laced milk and toys covered in potentially lethal lead paint.
U.S.Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt told a gathering of Chinese product manufacturers here that the U.S. hopes to work with China as part of a global product-safety strategy that would eventually involve opening similar inspection offices in India, South America, Europe and the Middle East.
“This is not about China and the U.S.,” Leavitt said. “This is about a response to a large shift in global trading patterns. We have to invent solutions to problems that didn’t exist 15 years ago.”
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According to a report, authority from Huangping County, Guizhou province keeps their school kids to stop at the road and salute to cars in the traffic, as the local education authority says, this is good: first as a respect to the drivers, and second as a way to prevente traffic accidents.
Yang De (杨德), the deputy general director of Education Bureau from Huangping County said, they made this as a special etiquette for the local kids since 2004, aiming to put kids education on decorum and manners into daily practice.
“and now, fewer and fewer kids play on the road, and less and less traffic accidents happened since then…
For more in Chinese look here
Considerable attention makes the local police to make a re-approach to the case on Mr. Ren, that must be tough for them, but they made it. The following is a copy of their new decision:
The local police has cancelled Ren’s fine, not because the law was wrongly applied in this case, but after a careful go-through in this case, there appears that the facts in the case are clear, and the law was applied correctly, and they make this collective decision on Ren: due to facts that this is the first time for Ren to violate the “Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations”, and fining him 1,900 Yuan is relatively harsh while his infraction is just minor, they decide to withdraw the penalty of 1,900 Yuan fine, and replace it with a talk-on-education.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxQEHfU6hM
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7M643YCJhk
美国：公司首先被查封；受害家庭每家提出1000万美金的赔偿，公司彻底破产。同时，公司高层被控一级谋杀。一系列政 府相关人员被牵连进去，司法部门开始长达几年的世纪大调查；原三鹿员工不得不隐名埋姓，隐瞒受雇三鹿的履历去找活路。“三鹿丑闻”成为一个名字。好莱坞以 此为题材拍出几部大片，美国奶粉被迫停止出口，逼得美国总统每次出访都得为这事和别国磋商。
欧洲：大批奶农开着拖拉机，牵着奶牛，阻塞高速公路，要求政府迅速查清真相，还自己清白；欧盟举行特别会议，要求停止各成员国之间的奶粉贸易；肇事公司总裁逃往南非，被引渡回国。
日本：事件发生后没几天，公司总裁切腹自杀身亡。留下遗书：给大家添麻烦了，实在对不起大家！
韩国：受害者家庭聚集青瓦台，举行大规模示威游行。总理率全体内阁成员引咎辞职。公司高层全部逮捕下监。对面的北韩不失时机大肆宣传：反动的南朝鲜当局用奶粉毒杀人民，连婴儿都不放过。
泰国：奶农冲击公司，要求公司为将罪责推给奶农进行道歉；示威者示威，认为总理有牵连，要求总理下台。总理坚称自己无辜，结果被发现，几年前，该总理曾视察过该公司，最高法院判定总理违宪，要求总理立马下课。
伊拉克：三鹿公司总部门口发生自杀式袭击；原教旨主义者声称，在公众食物里加毒药违反教义，将对有关责任人全球追杀。
印尼：头扎白布，手提砍刀的抗议者，冲击三鹿公司，以及贩卖奶粉的超市，将其抢掠一空，并伤及无辜，首都街头发生大规模打砸抢烧事件。
中国：目前奶农、奶牛、小草、小草的妈妈以及家长、家长的孩子情绪稳定。
伊利：你他妈加就加了，不能少加点？
蒙牛：我从来都是奶粉里加三聚氰胺，你他妈三聚氰胺里加奶粉？
三鹿：那天漏斗坏了，没控制住……
日本：一天一杯牛奶，振兴一个民族。
中国：一天一杯牛奶，震惊一个民族。
以上来自：有意思吧
I just wonder why Lenovo is much cheaper in the US than in China.
I like the design of the Thinkpad X61 series, looks pretty tiny and solid, and someone told me that their battery goes for quite a long time.
After looking after it in Beijing Computer market, like in Zhongguancun, I found many good looking X61 on sale, and their types and models differ a lot, for exemple, Model 7675L12 or 7673LA2, I don’t think these models will match those in the US market, and don’t ask me why they make it such a confusing way…
The price was okay at a first glance, starting from 7000 (about 1000 USD) yuan at the bottem, to a very hight range, for example this one:
ThinkPad X61:
Vista Home Basic, 1G Memo, 120G HD,12.1″ XGA…, right now its price is 7300 yuan.
But the one I especially interest in was X61 Tablet, yes, you can use it as a directly writing notbook, just like a regular book note.
The price for X61T in Beijing is about 15,000 Yuan (2200 USD), okay, as we all know tablet is a kind of luxury, so let’s take a look at its configuration:
Type: 7762J3C/7762J6C Beijing
And then here is their website in Chinese, after checking it a little bit from their overseas website, here I go into the Lenovo US website, and wow, I think the price different such a lot, and see the configuration here…
Type: 7764CTO U.S.
