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Dalian continues to attract high tech industries with a new announcement that Intel will be further investing 2.5 billion USD into facilities in the Liaoning port city.

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.

The Chinese moon mission Chang'e was sent to make a map of the Earths moon. The Chinese government has this map right now, but will it release it to the public or will it rot in some closed archive? Xinhua has already released a scaled down version, see a bigger version here. But don't expect the full sized thing.

China's weapons laws are among the world's toughest. Its blanket ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy. Still, a gun culture is taking hold.

Strongly optimistic view of China's economy (including vis-a-vis the US economy).

Many good points, but largely glosses over significant weaknesses hiding within China... but one of its core points - that the Chinese economy is in stronger shape to go through a US led [world] downturn than the US, is spot on.

So, before we all start worshiping the iPhone from afar, Rick points to a Chinese version that looks curiously similar, with comparable specs and a lower price. Check out the picture to go with it.

American businessman describes his experience working for a hard-core Communist boss in mainland China.

Raymond Zhou takes the 'foreign element' out of a story about a crazy French manager who fired a gun during a meeting.

The Russian mistake was that they put so much into military expenditure and so little into civilian technology. So their economy collapsed. I believe the Chinese leadership have learnt: If you compete with America in armaments, you will lose. You will bankrupt yourself. So, avoid it, keep your head down, and smile, for 40 or 50 years.