VOL.49 NO.47 NOV. 23, 2006 BEIJING REVIEW JULYJUNE 3,26, 2003 2003BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKS WAY OUT OF IRAQ1 VOL. 49 NO. 47 CONTENTS NOV. 23, 2006 2 EDITOR’S DESK 2 Making China Charitable 3 PEOPLE & POINTS 4 WEEKLY WATCH 10 WORLD 10 Exit Strategy Many Americans want out of Iraq, but now? 12 Coping With Climate Change A new study predicts world-war like disaster 14 Toward an Influential Partnership The Year of Russia in China marks a turning point 16VIEWPOINT 16 Managing a One Trillion Dollar 20 Nest Egg COVER STORY Many appreciate cultural differences NATION between China and the United States, but no one should 18 when it comes to charity. U.S. individual contributions make 18 Underpinning Charity Work China needs better laws to promote altruism up 85 percent of charitable donations there. But in China, 75 percent of donations come from overseas. We need 20 One Man’s Odyssey Young philanthropist sends kilos of care to the change. We—backpackers, middle-income makers and countryside China’s wealthy included—need to care more. And, in fact, we are trying. Backpackers are taking extra kilos to the 22 For Junior’s Achievement A charitable figure promotes financial countryside. Local entrepreneurs are thinking up new ways education to help those in need. And intellectuals are calling for a better regulatory environment to engender more of this. 24 No Quickstep for Hip Hop in China China has plenty of shaking booties, From children used as peddlers in Beijing to poor but not often to this beat countryside farmers, China’s people are still indeed in need. As for those of us who can help—and we are many—we 28 Warm and Fuzzy Efforts to reform how we get warm are should. underway 40 Content Is Key for Digital TV Digital TV is pretty, but it’s more of a program 32 BUSINESS revolution 32 Aluminum Blues Is Good News? 41 Do What Others Can’t For other industries...yes Media big whig shares secrets to success 34 Boob Tube Boobs? 42 Legal-Ease: Doing Business in China Old-style TV manufacturers don’t get the flat 44 State of the Market screen craze 36 The Selling of Cell TV 46 FORUM Industry is ready to profit now that mobile 46 Is the Government Entitled to Sell phone TV standards are set the Rights to Place Names? 38 The Annals of Annuity Annuity may begin to benefit China’s 48 EXPAT’S EYE retirees more 48 Keeping a Lid on Crime Beijing Review (ISSN 1000-9140) is published weekly for US$64.00 per year by Cypress Book (U.S.) Co., Inc., 360 Swift Avenue, Suite 48, South San Francisco, CA 94080. Periodical Postage Paid at South San Francisco, CA 94080. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Beijing Review, Cypress Book (U.S.) Co., Inc., 360 Swift Avenue, Suite 48, South San Francisco, CA 94080. EDITOR’S DESK Making China Charitable A News Wee k l y Published Since 1958 ht t p : // ww w .b j r evi e w.c o m . c n By ZHANG ZHIPING E-mail: [email protected] ec e n t l y, some vol u n t e e r s in China have begun to carry books and President & Editor in Chief: Wang Gangyi Vice President: Qi Wengong st at i o n e r y with them when traveling in the country’ s remote area s . Associate Editors in Chief: Li Jianguo By adding an ext r a kilogram of these items to their backp a ck s , Huang Wei R their trip is no longer a journe y in the conventional sense, but one of Executive Editor: Zhou Jianxiong co n t ri b ution. Although they do not mean to act as cha r ity activists, they Assistant Executive Editors: Yao Bin, Ding Zhitao, ar e offer ing aid and spreading love while enjoying their holidays. Zhang Zhiping, Francisco Little Although the mate r ial donations are just books and stati o n e r y, Editorial Administrators: Li Ning, Shi Bosen Senior Consultant: Shao Haiming these backp a c ker s are giving chi l d r en in far flung areas wha t they so Opinion Editor: Yao Bin de s p e r ate l y need. And that is to learn more about the grea t wide World Editor: Ding Zhitao wor ld they live in, whi c h may inspire the chi l d re n ’ s passion for life Nation Editor: Tang Qinghua Business Editors: Yu Shujun, Lan Xinzhen and even cha n g e their attitude towar d livi n g . Editorial Consultants: Linda Mattson, To do a kind deed is not a difficult job. As long as they have the Matt Young will to do so, ever yone can do something to help others. It makes more Staff Reporters: Tang Yuankai, Feng Jianhua, sense to make a contrib ution within one’s own abi l i t y , than to complain Zan Jifang, Ding Ying, Ni Yanshuo, Ding Wenlei, Wang Jun, Yan Wei, about people’s indiffer ence and the fic kleness of human rel a tionships. Tan Wei, Li Li, Liu Yu, Liu Yunyun, Ac c o r ding to official statistics, China has 10 million regis t e re d Yin Pumin, Jing Xiaolei, Pan Xiaoqiao en t e rp r ises, but those that have a rec o r d of cha r ity donation amount Photo Editor: Wang Xiang Photographers: Jiang Xiaoying, Wei Yao to no more than 100,000. Tha t means 99 percent of the enterpri s e s Art: Li Shigong fail to lend a helping hand to the needy. In addition, no entrepre n e u r s Design & Layout: Xu Husheng, Hou Lina, topping the 2006 list of China’s ric hest released by British journa l i s t Wang Yajuan Ru p e r t Hoogewerf are found on the top of China’s cha r ity rol l . Proof Reading: Qin Wenli Online Editor: Li Zhenzhou St a tistics issued by the China Charity Fed e r ation show that China’s wea l t h y people, who possess 80 percent of the country’ s fort u n e , Advertising Director: Cheng Guangyan Distribution Directors: Wang Weiwei, Pan Changqing co n t ri b ute less than 20 percent of the total cha ri t a ble donations. Human Resources: Zhang Xiaoli We have reasons to accuse enterpr ises of their indiffer ence to International Cooperation: Pan Shuangqin social res p o n s i b i l i t y , but while doing so, we may have neglected a Legal Counsel: Yue Cheng st r iking cha ra c t e r istic of the cha r ity cause: Charity is not the privi l e ge North America Bureau of millionaires, but society as a whole should get invol ve d . Chief: Wang Yanjuan Ac c o r ding to the China Charity Fed e r ation, ever y year 75 per- Reporter: Chen Wen Tel/Fax: 001-201-792-0334 cent of the donations come from over seas, while 15 percent come E-mail: [email protected] fr om China’s wea l t h y and 10 percent from ordi n a r y people. General Editorial Office Ho wever , in countries with wel l - d e veloped cha r ity systems, like the Tel: 86-10-68996252 United States, big companies only contrib ute 10 percent, big funds 5 Fax: 86-10-68326628 English Edition pe r cent, while individual contrib utions make up 85 percent. Tel: 86-10-68996259 This fact shows that the gap in the cha r ity cause between China Advertising Department and the United States does not result from the limited company Tel: 86-10-68995813, 68326072 do n a tions alone. In order to improve the cause in China, cha ri t y Fax: 86-10-68329398 E-mail: [email protected] or gan i z a tions need to speed up and win more trust from the publi c . 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