With weibo (China twitter) roaring high in China, Chinese netizens are now more inclined to share their everyday incidents online with photos. Thus they are ready to take snapshots whenever they see something worth sharing or discussion. However, a law student from Beijing University almost got arrested when trying to take a photo of assumingly cadre’s privilege moment at the train station. The post was first saw on Beijing University BBS, and became topic of the day followed by massive reposting by many others.

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From LWGCW:

When (春运 Chunyun) the mass passenger transportation is occurring around the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), to many people this means after a whole year of busy work, it is time to take a break to relax for a while. Of course, some are happy and some are sad. Unlike other company’s year-end bonus being a round-trip ticket, or traveling abroad, the unlucky ones like the employees at Youngor Textile Printing and Dyeing Co. in Ningbo (宁波雅戈尔日中纺织印染有限公司) received the most ridiculous announcement: whoever takes days off around the Spring Festival will have three times salary deduction.

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December 5, 2010, 11:53 pm Sunday night, Leilei was looking for some clothes at home and suddenly stopped her search. Leilei was born in the summer of 1983. From a small town in southern China, 9 years ago she was admitted into a very famous engineering university in Beijing, 5 years ago she started her master’s program and 3 years ago she started working. Currently, according to statistics Leilei’s income is in the top 12 percent of Beijing.

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Apologies to all for the lack of updates in the past month. To clear all the speculations, ChinaHush is not under any pressure by anyone, and no government conspiracy. I have just been traveling in China for the past month with no free time to post new entries. And my plan of having volunteers to update the blog during my absence also did not work so well due to scheduling issues.

To be honest, it was also discouraging to find out ChinaHush being blocked in China the night before my travels. Some measures were taken and methods tried, but I was not able to “unblock” ChinaHush. We now just have to live outside of the Great Fire Wall.

Now I have just returned from my trip, writing the first post in year 2011 to ensure you that I am not abandoning ChinaHush. Quite the opposite, I have made many plans for CH, so stay tuned for these exciting changes coming soon…

Here are some photos I snapped on my trip this time. Enjoy!

Closest I have ever been next to a Panda

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Dancing teenagers

This videos has over 3 millions viewers now. These kids right now even have nick name on the Internet. They are called Bro. School Uniform. So here is Bro. School Uniform’s performance:

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(From cnwnews.com) Dec 28, a wheel chair crashed the window of Shenzhen Airline’s check-in counter in Capital Airport. It was during noon time when two people on wheel chairs, Zheng Wei Ning and Liu Hai Jun, and a volunteer came to check in only to be told to switch to another airline. Airline manager explained that disabled would be difficult to leave in the case of plane accident. Feeling discriminated, one told the volunteer to thrown their luggage and wheel chair over the counter, which accidentally smashed the window glass. They then made a stir in the airport, scolding airline staffs for discriminating physically-challenged people. It wasn’t until two hours later that they finally got on the plane after signing a disclaimer of liability.

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(IFENG)

The big bucks Chinese spend overseas every year reaches staggering numbers. Last year reportedly 56% of Chinese purchases of luxury goods occur abroad, totaling 13,000 million USD. British Media coined a new word—“Peking Pound” for Chinese huge purchasing power. The casinos overseas, also add Chinese in their VIP lists.

British “Peking Pound” splurged £1bn in sales of luxury goods

According to the British Daily Mail reported on 28^th December, 2010, wealthy Chinese tourists are expected to spend a billion pounds on luxury goods during sales.

Based on the word “pound”, British media coined a new noun—“Peking Pound” for the pounds Chinese have spent. The booming “Chinese Pound” is anticipated to account for a third of the entire sales of high end goods, such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci.

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