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1 CNY = 3,316
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1 EUR = 25,890
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1 USD = 21,837
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Source: CNB
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Last update: 2021-01-25
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| |  Politics - 2008-03-23 - ETHNIC-Chinese shopkeepers in Lhasa's old Tibetan quarter knew better than the security forces that the city had become a tinder-box. As word spread rapidly through the narrow alleyways on March 14th that a crowd was throwing stones at Chinese businesses, they shuttered up their shops and fled. The authorities, caught by surprise, held back as the city was engulfed by its biggest anti-Chinese protests in decades. More...
|  Politics - 2008-03-17 - The most serious unrest in years shakes the Tibetan capital. More...
|  Politics - 2007-10-04 - Nearly overnight, the focus of the 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress has shifted from the debate regarding Chinese political and economic reform to the promotion of internal party unity and the combating of Taiwan’s proposed referendum. This change has come about due to increasing concerns raised by the party rank-and-file, intellectuals and ordinary citizens over dislocations in the economy, particularly regarding the runaway prices of commodities and services ranging from foodstuffs to housing and health costs. More...
|  Politics - 2007-08-09 - While widely recognized as holding conservative ideological and political views, the Hu Jintao leadership has been given reasonably high marks for pushing forward economic reforms first initiated by the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping. According to World Trade Organization provisions, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has opened up an unprecedented number of sectors for foreign equity participation. Yet, the authorities have at the same time tightened control over other aspects of the economy. This has resulted in the truncation, if not atrophy, of thousands of private firms. The latter are in danger of being edged out by powerful monopolies and oligopolies that are controlled either by the party-and-state apparatus or by senior cadres and their offspring. More...
|  Politics - 2007-06-14 - Until recently, Chinese military training was widely dismissed as infrequent, unrealistic and overly scripted. In the 1980s and 1990s, outside observers and internal critics alike raised doubts about the utility of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) exercises, and it was clear that training deficiencies represented one of the most serious challenges. For example, Western analysts noted that PLA Air Force (PLAAF) pilots flew an insufficient number of hours on a yearly basis and that the limited training they received was unrealistic and heavily scripted. More...
|  Politics - 2007-05-10 - Chinese intellectual property officials rejected US criticism of Beijing's anti-piracy efforts, insisting Tuesday they are cracking down and saying countries such as Canada are worse offenders. More...
| | |  Politics - 2007-01-20 - One less brick in the wall - Beijing relaxes media controls for the Olympics. A rare piece of good news about news-gathering in China. More...
|  |  |  Politics - 2006-11-20 - China's policies on Tibet should be challenged, not connived at More...
|  Politics - 2006-09-30 - The harder they fall...Hu Jintao sticks out his elbows and fires Shanghai's party chief. What the firing of Shanghai's party boss says about China. More...
| Politics - 2006-09-30 - China's former leader is not forgotten, and not quite gone More...
|  Politics - 2006-09-30 - Chaos in the classrooms. An education policy torn between the market and the state. More...
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