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BEIJING (AFP) - China's Communist Party on Sunday endorsed Hu Jintao's new economic model for the country, while opening the way for a top leadership reshuffle that will likely see the president consolidate his power.

Following the end of its five-yearly Congress, Hu, 64, is almost certain to be given a second term as party chief on Monday alongside a revamped line-up of leaders in the nation's most powerful political organ.

Another great article from the bilingual ChinaDialogue website.

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China’s past 15 years of reform have brought many successes, but the market cannot resolve the country’s ecological crisis – or the social inequalities it exposes. Ma Jun sets out the solution.

One should be careful to equate fast growth, large numbers, and impressive actions with that of how China will overtake other first world nations in the near future. Strong growth now, does not mean it will continue to do so in the future.

Family and friends gather in British Columbia to honor young Canadian model murdered in Shanghai earlier this month.

"China’s soft power offensive and the lure of the China Model remain, however, entirely official government programs. Where soft power has worked durably and has permeated connections among nations and nationalities, it has also involved civil society and the media, the arts, cultural attraction—the broad range of informal human contacts."

According to Douglas Brinkley, who wrote Wheels for the World on the occasion of the 100th year anniversary of the Ford Motor Company, “Ford’s reasonably priced and well made assembly-line Model T mobilized America’s middle class.”

While companies from all over the world have benefited from off-shore development and a global workforce, the off-shore model can often create a lot of pain for the employees, especially those in the off-shore centers.

As the U.S. holiday shopping season kicked off last week, I hopped a plane for Zhejiang province to visit “Yiwu Little Commodities City,” a sprawling wholesale complex that has been dubbed The Great Mall of China.

In recent years, China has been facing a health care crisis in its rural regions.