The China Town Hall is a program designed to provide people across the US and beyond the opportunity to discuss issues on China-US relations with leading experts, China Daily reports.
While leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in a south China resort town to discuss global political and economic affairs Thursday, many Americans are thanking their lucky stars for these new economic powerhouses.
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In the southern China boom town of Shenzhen last month, four young women started up their own reporting team for a "shanzhai television station" that spoofs local news and uses a camera tripod fashioned from a fan stand and a toilet plunger.
Those users include one musician from a small town in China who makes a good living by writing her own music and singing it online to appreciative audiences.
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Mr Harris, virtually penniless and upset by the break-up of his marriage, decided to set out for China in search of the town mentioned by Dubs.
Compared to much of the rest of the world, China still looks like a boom town.
China mediated talks in the southern Chinese town of Ruili amid ongoing fighting between the army and rebels.
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"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
The birds in Xizhou, a charming town in Yunnan Province in extreme southwestern China, had no such restraints.
On Sunday the state-run China News Agency said a middle school in the nearby town of Baoxing had been heavily damaged.
And, Ben, do you know anything about how the audience in Shanghai, of youth will be chosen, or anything about how you expect that to be broadcast around China, whether other people will get to see that town hall?
In the southern Japanese town of Yatsushiro, not far from the East China Sea, Chikashi Matsunaga is helping lead a quiet revolution in Japan's agriculture.
And officials in the Himalayan town of Gilgit say the Karakoram Highway that links Pakistan with China has been blocked by landslides at several points.
Our calculations are based on the value-added in industry (which extends beyond manufacturing) and the wage bill of urban factories, which does not count the town and village enterprises that employ over two-thirds of China's metal-bashers.
Aged 73, Ms. Yu lives with her husband in a dilapidated house in Rensha, a town of 31, 000 on the edges of Chongqing in western China.
The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.
And the fact that they are used all over China, by people young and old, means that stories and scandals once kept hidden in some provincial town are now getting nationwide coverage.
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