From img.ly:

China’s booming economy in the recent years has dramatically changed its image and its people’s mind set. Chinese people have commercialized their way of life. All kinds of advertisements and commercials can be found in every street corner in China. From the flyers on the telephone poles to the giant LCD screen on the tallest building in the city, everyone seems to have something to sell to this potentially the largest consumer market.

And who says Chinese people are not creative? Have you ever seen an advertisement in a school exams?

The above picture is the header of a university exam, translation:

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From ifeng.com

At the night of lunar Jan. 2^nd (Feb. 15^th), some netizens reported that they could not login in cctv.com from time to time, and the homepage of CCTV was covered by a western woman’s picture. The page didn’t fully recover until 20:20. No official comment from the website by far.

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From Xinhua:

“Genius comes from hard work
Tobacco helps you to be successful”

After the Wenchuan earthquake last year, Sichuan disaster area has established a “Sichuan Tobacco Hope Elementary School”, not only the “China Tobacco” name and logo was clearly printed on the top of the school building, the stone monument in the center of the school writes “Determine to contribute to society, Tobacco helps you to be successful”. According to statistics, there are at least 17 Hope elementary schools that are named after Tobacco industry. (Wuhan evening news, 12/14/2009)

Chinese folklore says “Smoke makes writing and wine makes poetry”, but the tobacco company directly shuts out “Tobacco helps you to be successful” in a school. They want to tell the students, come, tobacco can help you to be successful and hope the students to remember, it is tobacco that helped you grow, so please repay us later. The tobacco company which is already the public enemy on TV and newspapers, all of sudden turns into Santa Claus giving presents away, opening a mouthful of yellow teeth, I am ugly, but I am your savior.

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“Made in China, it is everywhere”, recently the Commerce Department produced an advertisement of a international image promoting “Made in China” brand and started to air on CNN Asia. This ad is deliberately made to rebuild and strengthen the “Made in China” reputation in the global market.

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From Netease

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“Mom never needs to worry about my study anymore!” Bu Bu Gao (步步高) “reading machine” supposedly helps children to learn how to read. The main reason this commercial was so annoying was because it just simply aired too much on every Chinese TV stations. Other than the cheesy English “so easy” and high pitched voice of the little girl, netizens also pointed out the third little girl in the video looked like a grown woman’s face Photo Shopped onto a little girl’s body.

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This forum post on Tianya pointed out a Toshiba advertisement billboard was shown on the CCTV live broadcast of the National Day military parade, along with what a horrible broadcasting job CCTV has done. Netizens speculated if the Toshiba advertisement was done on purpose.

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[Guangzhou Daily] In ancient China, it is common for a girl to sell herself for the burial of her father, today this girl pledges to marry the one who saves her classmate. Her classmate was suffering from severe brain inflammation in urgent need of 150,000 yuan. If a good-hearted man is willing to donate, she would repay with her body by marrying him.

This post “Donate 150,000 to help 22-year-old girl suffering from severe brain inflammation, I would repay with my body, marry the person” was written by a girl named Dandan (丹丹) as the following:

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[NetEase] Taiwan famous actress, singer and TV Hostess Dee Hsu, more commonly known as Xiao S (小S) is shooting commercials for China’s well known lingerie brand Maoren. (猫人- Cat People) Is Dee Hsu’s pole dancing in the commercial too sexy, too breathtaking? Can the Chinese viewers see this sensational commercial on CCTV on time? Currently company is still intensely consulting with all (Chinese government) departments concerned. But insiders who are fortunate enough to preview it not only all praised the commercial to be beautifully made, but also pointed out that Maoren lingerie branded to be “Sexy” already fully completed the transition of internationalization.

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Recently, friends visited Hong Kong noticed on the cigarette box in Hong Kong, the government warning changed form “Smoking may cause lung cancer” to “Smoking may cause erectile dysfunction (impotence)”

QQ Blogger thinks the government’s warning is not without scientific basis. He listed out studies on correlations between smoking and impotence.

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One Chinese Blogger posted his view on “Transformers 2” on QQ:

Basically, “Transformers 2” is more “transformed” than “Transformers”, but writing a regular file critic is like “please write down the feeling of driving a Chevrolet” or “please analyze the characteristics of how KFC taste” dry and boring. Therefore, I will write it unconventionally.

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From MOP:

Selling time, selling youth… trying to be creative, Taobao (China’s ebay) store owner is selling young girls’ saliva shocks netizens. Today, netizen “ximacai” posted on Huasheng forum saying that although you can almost find anything on Taobao for sale, selling young girl’s saliva is a first.

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From MOP:

Recently, a notice of “mistress recruitment” posted in a bus station in front of Jiangsu Institute of Arts attracted the attention of many netizens. Reporter was able to contact the person of recruitment. He said that so far he has received more than 20 girls’ resumes, there are more than 60% are female students.

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Huanqiu Net reports, a German web site “Ads of the World” posted a condom ad for a company called “Doc Morris Pharmacies”. This commercial uses image of Chinese former chairman Mao Zedong‘s head as a sperm which the condom thwarts. Along with, in the ad series, Image of the Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden, were also used in same fashion. Chinese overseas were extremely angry about this. They think this commercial damaged Chinese people’s feelings. Whoever is responsible must apologize.

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