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Rail revolution positions China for century [ 16:28 January 25 2010]

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Fast-growing economy should run on fast wheels. That the world has lapsed into a grave recession in more than 50 years provides a chance for China, which is flush with capital and manpower, to lay the ground work for the world's fastest-running trains. As the country weighs, consistently and irrevocably, on new energies and new technologies, an advancing zigzag and circle of a national bullet train network shall assist China to take off even higher.

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Confucius teaching to be humble! [ 13:10 January 13 2010]

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The Great Saint has ingrained in our blood to keep humble, maintain low-profile, and always do more while talk less. The good of following His teachings is relieving us of the contention, or, mostly, futile verbal tussle, over who will go up and who will go under. The philosophy is that one has no chance to "go up" by just drumbeating the air.

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Avoiding house debacle in China [ 13:08 January 06 2010]

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At the dawn of a new year when the world has just awakened from a grisly decline of economy and livelihood, all countries, big and small, are hoping for the best that they could leave the nightmarish 2008 and 2009 behind them at the earliest. Foreign economists are talking about green shorts of recovery taking hold on their lawns, while Chinese pundits also predict significant policy changes from Beijing to curb investment bubbles and keep inflation at bay.

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About this column

After 19 years working for China Daily and its website, Li Hong moved to english.people.com.cn in March 2009.

Li has been a reporter and column writer, mainly on China's economy and politics.

He was graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and once studied in University of Hawaii and the Poynter Institute in Florida.

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