Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Aaron Newman, Founder and Managing Partner of Urban Core International talks to us about the company's experience in sustainable development projects worldwide and its expansion into China's green sector in 2008.

ResponsibleChina contributing blogger Mark Hiew talks to Meg Young of the Vermont-based NGO Ecologia about a social entrepreneurship program that combines microfinance and rabbit farming to help Sichuan locals achieve a sustainable income.

A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.

ESWN has an interesting read about some of the most valued photographs from China going up for auction. In the article their auction is pitted against the recent Warhol 'Mao' piece ($17.4m), and the artistic merits of the photos themselves.

Thirty years ago, on December 18-22, the landmark third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, setting a new direction for the country – reform and opening up. Great changes have taken place since then, from household life to the national strength, from the political field to the economic, sports, cultural, and social fields.

This year alone, 37 enterprises have been closed due to heavy damage to the Xiangjiang River, 18 have been eliminated altogether and 976 pollution control projects have been implemented, according to the province's development and reform commission. Companies and factories are to be assessed by the end of each year.

China’s development took approaches from a realistic standpoint void of an all-encompassing ideological approach in order to deal with a new world order (World Trade Organization) with rules that even the Asian Tigers did not have to deal with.

Jay Abraham, Founder and CEO of Abraham Group, Inc. talks to Christine about the motivations behind his first ever conference in China called The Billion Dollar Marketing Weekend.

What does the "nail house" in Chongqing say about China's evolving relationship with the rule of law?