Huaxi

15 Apr 2013

Residents of China's so-called richest village, Huaxi, where everyone is a shareholder, have been asked to stay at its luxury five-star hotel to "drive consumption" after the town-corporation in...

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China news round-up: Chongqing labour camp inmate denied compensation, Sichuan graft crackdown continues

15 Apr 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to China
Global Times
Editorial: The visit is a test to Kerry’s ‘gentle’ side.
Foreign Policy

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Beijing restaurants adapt to ban on lavish banquets and Party scholar calls for transparency

27 Mar 2013

China's new First Lady

China Digital Times

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Funeral fit for a king: China’s ‘richest village’ mourns leader

22 Mar 2013

Residents of China’s “richest village”, Huaxi, on Friday bid farewell to the man who made them wealthy by transforming a rural settlement into a socialist paradise.

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Fights erupt after political beating

6 Jan 2007

Two men badly beat the wife of a popular challenger for a seat in a local people's congress in a Zhejiang village as the couple strolled in Huaxi at 7pm on Monday, according to locals.

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Post takes honours in 9 categories

26 May 2006

The South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning Post were winners in nine categories at the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

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Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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Farmers pay a heavy price in victory over factories

Nearly a year after the village of Huaxi in Zhejiang province was rocked by a massive riot against the government, the target of villagers' anger - chemical factories built on illegally taken...

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We've nothing left to trade, say residents of one test-case village

One of the villages selected to test the land reform policy, Huaxi in Shunde , has 2,700 residents, but no one seems to know much about the new measures or understand how they work, because they...

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Pollution protests a powder keg, say activists

Meishan township, Xincheng county and Huaxi village lie within a 200km radius, stretching in a north-south band across Zhejiang, one of the mainland's richest provinces.

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Five elderly villagers held as police break up protest

Tensions in Huaxi, Zhejiang province , are rising again after the arrest of five elderly villagers by police who tore down roadblocks around 13 chemical plants accused of poisoning the environment...

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Poisoned village up in arms again

Local officials in Zhejiang pledged to move factories after a bloody protest, but four months later the pollution continues

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