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Impartial, indepth, and insightful, the flagship China news and current affairs magazine provides unique reports and analysis on China, including Big Interviews, Scholars Commentary, China in the World, Press features about China, and Chinese on China. Primary Format : News Language : Chinese Also Listed as: Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of China Reel Podcasts Methings.com listings of China Reel Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

ChinaReel: Children trafficking? 25th June 2009 UK newspaper reports that organised criminal gangs have exploited a children's home beside Heathrow airport for the systematic trafficking of Chinese children to work in prostitution and the drugs trade across Britain. At least 77 Chinese children have gone missing since March 2006 from the home. But are they really all children? Our reporter Jacky Xing talks about her investigation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China-US Military Dialogue 24th June 2009 The 10th round of China-US defence consultations is held in Beijing. The two sides exchange views on relations between the Chinese and US militaries, the Taiwan issue as well as international and regional security issues of common concern. Pei Minxin, a Senior Associate from Carnegie Endowment For Interntional Peace USA gives his analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's local officials and their books 23td June 2009 Bad behavior of China's local officials often becomes the cause of mass protection. What's the roots of their bad behavior? Would that have something to do with the books they've been reading? comments by Professor of Sociology in HK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Deng Yujiao Walks Free 22nd June 2009 Deng Yujiao's case has gripped China and caused a public outcry over women's rights and official corruption.Zhan Jiang of China Youth University for Political Sciences comments on the outcome and the power of Chinese internet users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinareel: Ma Ying-jeou and his intention to become Chairman of Kuomintang, 19 june 2009 President of Taiwan , Ma Ying-jeou accounced his intention of competing to become Chairman of Kuomintang. Will that provide him with a chance to visit Beijing in future? Analysis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Rich or Poor 18th June 2009 Is China rich or poor? Our BBC Shanghai correspondent , Chris Hogg, investigates. This is followed by : Ma Ying-Jeou runs for the chairman of Guomindang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Green Dam Youth Escort Debate 17/06/09 The Chinese government has mandated that all computers in the country must have the screening software Green Dam Youth Escort installed. The Chinese government said the software is intended to filter out pornographic material from the net. But many people disagree. China Reel interviews Zhou Ze, a Beijing-based lawyer, who challenges the rationality and legitimacy of the software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Global Economic Downturn and China Unemployment 16th June 2009 BBC World Service is going to launch a series of reports in the coming months looking at the impact of global economic downturn on different countries. As part of the series, BBC Chinese Service first focus on the unemployment issue in China. In today's interviews 2 unemployed people tell China Reel of their stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's Higher Education, the Class factor 15th June 2009 In today's Chinese universities, students from rural area only accounts for a fraction of the total student population. The higher education seems to have lost the function as a vehicle for social mobility. Analysis and discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Reel 12/06/2009 Tiananmen 20 Years On series interview 15, 12 june 2009 Three Chinese students in their 20s give their views on June 4th as well as Chinese politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Is Chinese Money Invading Taiwan? 22 may 2009 Interview with Daung-Yen Lu, Chairman of GreTai Securities Market (GTSM) of Taiwan, on the new policy to allow companies from mainland China to invest in the island; Press Review: China's accidental empire; Chinese on China is an article by Liu Tie on government openness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Ma Ying-jeou: one year in power 21st May 2009 Interview with Zhou Zhihuai, a Chinese scholar in Beijing on Ma's mainland policy and cross-strait relationship, followed by report from our stringer in Taiwan and forum posts of web users around the world both on Ma's government of the past year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Resumed summit signal changes in China-EU relations? 20 may 2009 The 2009 China-EU summit was resumed on May 20, five months after China's boycot in protest of French president's meeting with Dalai Lama. Does the re-opening of the summit indicate any changes in sino-EU relations? BBC China affairs editor Shirong Chen gives his analysis. BBC correspondent Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo, Brazil reports on US reaction to the warm-up of sino-Brazilian relations, followed by an article from our audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: 2009 '64' Seminar held in Beijing, intellectuals calling for truth 19th May 2009 Interview with Zhang Boshu, one of the speakers at what believed to be the first ever seminar held in Beijing on Tiananmen massacre. Chinese on China, web posts on our forum about Deng Yujiao, who stabbed to death a local official who forced to pay her for sex. Press Review, Poorly made in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Global financial crisis and China Example 18th May 2009 A popular view among analysts is that China will be the first one coming out of the current worldwide economic crisis, when Europe finds itself deeper in recession and the US sees some progress. Yet as our reporter Victor Chan reports, China's examplary role comes with matching responsibilities. This is followed by a commentary by a Chinese scholar in Germany, Wang Weiluo: Truth lies between natural disaster and man-made tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinareel 15/05/2009 Oral History: Zhao Ziyang's secret memoirs revealed, 15 may 2009 Interview with Hong Kong publisher Bao Pu, who is the son of Zhao Ziyang's aid Bao Tong, on his new book based on Zhao's 30 hour recording during house arrest in Beijing. Zhao was sacked as the party leader after Tiananmen massacre for his refusal to take military actions against students. Press Review is the coverage of British press on Zhao's memoirs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: A Toufu not for grilling? 14th May 2009 The widely blamed quality of school buildings collapsed in Sichuan earth quake escaped the investigation promised by Chinese government, Professor Ding Xue-Liang of HKUST sheds lights on the issue. Taiwan Letter by Wu Yen-Ling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: podcast Chinareel 13/05/2009 How far can Sino-UK trade go? Analysis by BBC China Editor Shirong Chen on the 2nd round economic and financial dialogue between China and Britain. China in the World is a report from Sichuan earth quake zone by our Beijing correspondent James Reynolds. Chinese on China by Qu Jiachuan on earth quake anniversary as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Pain and anger: parents on the loss of their children in the 5.12 Earthquake 12th May 2009 One year on, parents of three school children who died last year in the 5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan talked to Chinareel about the pain and anger they still feel. Press Review looks at reports in major UK newspapers on the love and hopes in the rebuilding of homes and lives in the earthquake-struck areas in Sichuan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: 2009 China and India, two countries two systems 11th May 2009 Report by our producer Yulan, who is now travelling in India on her observations of the development in the country and comparing that to China. She will also look at the lives of Chinese living in India. Commentary by He Qinglian on human rights and Sichuan earth quake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Sixty years on: Chinese Communist Party's today and tomorrow, 08 may 2009 As the founder and ruler of the 60-year-old PRC, the Chinese Communist Party today is in many ways different than it was before the '89 Tiananmen student movement. Dr. Pei Minxin from the Carnegie International Peace Endowment explains the differences, and looks at its future. Press review on Taiwan-China relationship and the tougher media control in Sichuan as earthquake anniversary nearing. Chinese on China hears several online messages on the 5.12 earthquake, selected from a forum on www ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Religious freedom in China: how much or little? 7th May 2009 China rebuked criticism from a US official body on the lack of religious freedom in China as "groundless and heavily biased". Our reporter Le An takes a closer look at the report by the Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) and the status quo of China's religious freedom. In Letter from Taiwan, Taipei-based freelence writer Yenling Wu talks about ordinary Taiwanese helping out in the aftermath of last year's 5‧12 Sichuan earthquake, and Chinese on China hears a listerner's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: podcast Ai Weiwei on compiling list of students died in 2008 Sichuan quake 06 May 2009 In the weeks leading to the first anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which claimed nearly 90,000 lives, actions such as what's called 'civil investigation' - compiling a complete list of the pupils killed in the earthquake a year ago - organized by a well-known Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, attract more attentions. Such non-governmental activities are normally suspected of ulterior motives by officials and often interrupted. Ai talks to Chinareel about the project's progress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Sichuan quake sees 1st anniversary, victim list still unavailable, 05 may 2009 Interview with Ran Yunfei, a commentator in Sichuan, on the long delayed victim list of the '512' earth quake of last year. Press Review, Amnesty International accuses China of covering up Sichuan earth quake. Chinese on China is an article by Sun Ruizhuo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Barbei dreams come true in China? 4th May 2009 Barbie flagship store opened in Shanghai, our producer Wang Rong reports on what Barbie dreams are the youngsters having in China? Commentary by Li Datong on the 1st anniversary of Sichuan earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chinareel: Ma Jian and his book《Beijing Coma》 28 Apr 2009 Ma Jian's novel Beijing Coma won the Index for Censorship's Press Freedom Award. The novel is about Tian Anmen pro-democracy movement in 1989. Ma Jian talks to Chinareel about his novel and why it is important to remember what happened 20 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chinareel: Mainland Tourists in Taiwan 01 May 2009 Since March, there are thousands of tourists from mainland China entering Taiwan. Taiwan journalist on the benefit and problems of Chinese tourists in Taiwan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Power and limitation of Chengguan ( City Enforcement Officer) 27th April 2009 A handbook for the training of Chengguan personnel has been circulating on websites and caused big stir. In the booklet, it teaches practical way of beating street vendors without leaving any evidence. What should be the power and limit of these so called City Enforcement Officers? A lawyer in Beijing gives his view. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Ma Ying-Jeou and CSIS 24 april 2009 In a forum via video link with Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, President Ma Ying-jeou called on the US to sell more arms to Taiwan, saying that such a request is justified and the arms sales will help Taiwan to maintain a military balance with China. China Reel asks professor Wei-chin Lee from Wake Forest University to interpret it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Aging Problem 23th April 2009 China faces a threat to its social stability and economic growth from a population which is aging before the country becomes wealthy and must tackle the problem properly, according to a report released by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. China Reel interviews Peng Xizhe, a professor of population studies from Fudan University for comment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Taiwan WHO Bid 22 april 2009 The Taiwanese Community in the UK recently organised a campaign and appealed to the British public and the international communities to support the Taiwan bid for World Health Organization(WHO) membership . China Reel interviews the organizer, the Taiwan representative in London as well as an expert in mainland China to discuss the prospect of Taiwan's WHO bid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Democrats in Chinese Communist Party part 2 21st April 2009 China's Communist Party has changed greatly since Hu Yaobang's death 20 years ago. Different voices have emerged. Prof. Zhang Boshu of Chinese Acadamy of Social Sciences believes that it will have profound impact on China's future development. Interview part 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Democrats in Chinese Communist Party part I 20th April 2009 China's Communist Party has changed greatly since Hu Yaobang's death 20 years ago. Different voices have emerged. Prof. Zhang Boshu of Chinese Acadamy of Social Sciences believes that it will have profound impact on China's future development. Interview part 1 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China: Poverty Reduction 13th April 2009 World Bank published a new report on poverty and inequality in China, recommending that the government raise the official poverty line, which is one of the lowest of any developing country. For instance, it is less than half of the bank's international standard of $1.25 a day in purchasing-power parity terms. What are the implications of China's poverty line? Chinareel interviewed Shijie Yao, Head of School and Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development, The University of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Acquisitions Overseas 10th April 2009 More and more Chinese companies' overseas acquisitions in recent years have stirred up anti-Chinese feeling and led to a new wave of "China Threat" theory. How can Chinese company deal with such situations? China Reel interviews Mr Long Ke, Senior research fellow, Economic Research Center, Fujitsu Research Institute, Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: "China Threat" Theory 9th April 2009 More and more Chinese companies' overseas acquisitions in recent years have stirred up anti-Chinese feeling and led to a new wave of "China Threat" theory. China Reel interviews Sun Laixiang, a professor from SOAS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinareel: Healthcare Reform 08 april 2009 The Chinese Government has unveiled a 10-year plan aimed at bringing affordable medical services to even the poorest farmer and calming rising public anger about the state of the nation's healtcare. What are the implications of the new reform? Chinareel interviewed Ms Xuelan Rong, a China expert in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Rice Bowl or Democracy? 7th April 2009 China will be making a serious mistake if it concentrates only on economic problems, and sidelines the debate over greater democracy. This is the opinion of Yu Keping, the deputy director of the Central Compilation & Translation Bureau, an important CP think tank, published in the latest , a biweekly magazine. China Reel asks Cheng Li, a professor of Hamilton Colleage New York to interpret. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Tibetens in India 6th April 2009 Each year, about 3000 Tibetan refugees arrive at Dharamsala, India, from China. The Tibetan government in exile look after them and send some of them to local schools. Our correspondent Shum Ping interviews some of the refugees who study and work in the Tibetan community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinareel: RMB and US Dollars 30 mar 2009 Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor proposed to the IMF to create a reserve supercurrency through further issuance of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights(SDR) to end the dollar era. Chinareel interviews an economist from Durham Univeristy to comment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: "China Is Unhappy" and Nationalism 27/03/09 A best seller called "China Is Unhappy" becomes the focus of the media since it is published. It is viewed as another wave of Chinese nationalism since the 1996 book "China Can Say No". Chinareel interviews a US based political commentator Hu Ping to elaborate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Independence or Middle Way? 26th Mar 2006 In recent years, the idea of independence advocated by the Tibetan Youth Council has gained influence amonst tibetan exile communities in Dharamsala. Our reporter visited Dharanmsala, heard both argument for independence and middle way. This is his report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Macroeconomic Report 25th March 2009 The People's University of China publishes China Macroeconomic Report for the first quarter of 2009, in which it points out the downturn cycle of Chinese economy has just begun, contrary to the economic rebound theory held by some analysts previously. Chinareel asks a US based economic expert to comment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Media Control 24th March 2009 China tightens control on foreign media in the country by requiring their Chinese employees to help provide more positive news. Chinareel interviews Beijing-based journalists for their views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Can China cooperate with Taiwan against Japan on Diaoyu Island issue? 20 March 2009 Interview by our reporter Victor Chan with veteran campaigner Jin Jieshou on the perspective for the two sides across Taiwan Strait to work together on the disputed island Diaoyu, followed by Press Review; How China Sees the World? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Exclusive interview with Karmapa, part three of three 19th Mar 2009 Fleeing to India in Dec.1999, the 17th Karmapa, is the only major Tibetan spiritual leader recognized by both the Dalai Lama and Beijing. It's speculated he may become the Tibetan spiritual leader after the 14th Dalai Lama passes away. He gave an exclusive interview to BBC Chinese Service's reporter Shum Ping recently in Dharamshala. In Part Three of the interview he talks about homeland, his duties as a Tibetan and as a high-ranking Buddhist monk, his views on Dalai Lama's 'middle way' pol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Exclusive interview with Karmapa, part two of three 18 March 2009 Fleeing to India in Dec.1999, the 17th Karmapa, is the only major Tibetan spiritual leader recognized by both the Dalai Lama and Beijing. It's speculated he may become the Tibetan spiritual leader after the 14th Dalai Lama passes away. He gave an exlusive interview to BBC Chinese Service's reporter Shum Ping recently in Dharamshala. In Part Two of the interview he talks about the possible returning to Tibet, becoming the next Tibetan spiritual leader and relations with Beijing. Later in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Exclusive interview with Karmapa, part one of three 17th Mar 2009 The 17th Karmapa, the only major Tibetan spiritual leader recognized by both the Dalai Lama and Beijing, fled to India in Dec. 1999. It's speculated he may become the Tibetan spiritual leader after the 14th Dalai Lama passes away. Karmapa ranks the third in the hierarchy of Tibetan Bhudism, after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. He gave an exlusive interview to BBC Chinese Service's reporter Shum Ping recently in Dharamshala. In Part One of the interview, Karmapa talks about his decision to lea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Tibetans in Taiwan: a journey of 60 years long 16th Mar 2009 Report by our producer Vcitor Chan on the 60-years-long exile of Tibetans in Taiwan, followed by commentary by economist He Qinglian on land reform in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Tibet in the 1950s, 13 mar 2009 The 50th anniversary of a failed uprising in Lhasa put Tibet in the centre of attention, but our reporter Le An points out a common misconception, even in the West, regarding what happened in the '50s in Tibet. His analysis is followed by Press review and Chinese on China, where a Chinese listener lays out a wish - rural pension system in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: How to deal with corruptions in China.12th Mar 2009 Interview with political commentator Zhang Weiguo on corruption in China, followed by Letter from Taiwan and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Is it the right time, that's the question! 11 mar 2009 Moving up the value chain, evidently effective in all developed countries, has been hotly debated in China. Nobody questions its necessity, yet some argue it may be the wrong policy choice at present. Zhang Wei from Cambridge University explains why such policy choice is hard-afford luxury. This is followed by a report from our reporter in Hong Kong about local government's Drug related trouble. A selection of SMS from our audience concludes the programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: ibetans in exile: what's on their mind? 10th Mar 2009 Tibetans in exile 'enjoy freedom and life' outside Tibet but 'miss homeland', our producer Shen Ping reports from Dharmsala on the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing. Press review rounds up UK newspapers' coverage of this anniversary, followed by a letter from a Chinese listener offering 'advice' to the Dalai Lama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinese POWs in Papua New Guinea 'return' to Taiwan 9th Mar 2009 Report by our correspondent in Taiwan, James Lin on the memorial ceremony in Taipei for the Chinese POWs died in PNG during the second World War. Commentary by Li Datong questioning whom the 'people's representatives' represent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Professional representatives: desirability and feasibility, 06 mar 2009 China's supreme legislative body NPC and the consultative body NPPCC are having theri annual sessions in Beijing, can reforms as professionalize member seats shed their 'rubber stamp' stigma? Professor Ding Xueliang from HK University of Science and Techonology tells BBC producer Ji Wei his view on this highly controversial issue. This is followed by UK press review and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: What's special about this year's 228? 5th March 2009 The 62nd anniversary of Taiwan's 228 Incident, when the ruling KMT government quashed protests with armed forces and started what's dubbed as an era of White Terror, and which some see as the beginning of Taiwan independence, happens to be the first after KMT's Ma Ying-jeou became the first elected non-native president. Chen Chin-huang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Memorial Foundation of 228, tells BBC's producer Victor Chan what's so special about this year's 228, followed by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Leading Questions:Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming 4th March 2009 Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming spoke to the BBC's Robert Peston for the Leading Questions programme during a trade visit to London. Chinareel shares more of the interview with our audience, focusing on social and economic challenges facing China. We also have our correspondent's report on the aftermath of the YSL auction disputes centring on two copper heads 'looted' from China 150 years ago by force. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Leadering Questions: Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming 3 Mar 2009 Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming spoke to the BBC's Robert Peston for the Leading Questions programme during a trade visit to London. Chinareel shares part of the interview with our audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's NPC Annual Conference, What can be expected 2nd March 2009 China's NPC and CPPCC annual conference will be held from March 5th. China expert comment on the forcus and likely outcome of the meetings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: San Lu: The Unanswered Questions 16th Feb 2009 Report by our producer Yu Lan on the unsolved issues left by now bankrupted dairy group San Lu, follow by Lin Gongqin's commentary on CCTV fire in Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Chinareel, 12th Feb 2009 Interview with Li Hao, a financial analyst based in Hong Kong, on Chinalco Rio Tinto deal, followed by Press Review and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: WWII Chinese soldiers' graves found in PNG 12th Feb 2009 The discovery of hundreds of Chinese soldiers' graves in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, became a test of political wisdom to both Taipei and Beijing, as Wei Ke reports, followed by Letter from Taiwan and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Is Chinese economy's faulty structure worsening?11th Feb 2009 The current global crisis revived attention to a classic acdemic question: big state/small market or small state/big market. Professor Yasheng Huang from MIT, author of Capitalism with Chinese Characters (2008), explains why his main concern now is whether the chronical problem of structural imbalance of the Chinese economy will get worse. A letter from our audience closes the programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Has China improved its human rights? 10th Feb 2009 Interview with Wang Dan, students leader of 1989 democratic movement, on human rights in China,followed by Press Review and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Is China winning friends around the world 9th Feb 2009 Interview with Shirong Chen, China Editor of BBC World Service, on the intensified diplomatic visits of Chinese leaders, followed by Weiluo Wang's commentary on water pollution in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China: early recovery 'no surpirse', but at what cost? 6th Feb 2009 China's economy: where some see signs of early recovery, others see possible time-bombs. Liu Shaojia, an economist at Brunnel University, offers his assessment, followed by press summary and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Mao back to China? 5th Feb 2009 Interview with Yan Jiaqi on the self-claimed Maoism Communist Party in China, followed by Letter form Taiwan and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Is laid-off migrant works a threat to China's stability? 4th Feb 2009 Interview with labour researcher May Wong on the growing unemployment of migrant workers in China, followed by China in the World and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Why market economy failed to bring democracy to China? 3rd Feb 2009 iv with Chinese researcher Zhang Boshu on political reform and the new rich, followed by Press Review and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Global economic crisis: is it terminating China Miracle? 2nd Feb 2009 China vowed to maintain 8% GDP growth amid the gloomy world economic scence. But could the current world economic crisis possibly become the terminator to the Chinese economic miracle? Zhang Wei, an economist from Cambridge University explains his view to Chinareel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Repeat special programme on books, Part 7 30th Jan 2009 Repeat special programme on books, Part 7: The Rise of the Dragon - Inward and outward investment in China in the reform period 1978-2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Repeat special programme on books, Part 4: Out of Mao's Shadow - The Battle for China's Soul 29th Jan 2009 Repeat special programme on books, Part 4: Out of Mao's Shadow - The Battle for China's Soul Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Repeat special programme on books, Part 3: China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change 28th Jan 2009 Repeat special programme on books, Part 3: China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Repeat special programme on books, Part 2: What does China Think? 27th Jan 2009 Repeat special programme on books, Part 2: What does China Think? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Part 1: China's Changing Political Landscape - Prospects for Democracy 26th Jan 2009 Repeat our special programme on books, Part 1: China's Changing Political Landscape - Prospects for Democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China finds its elderly population lonelier 23rd Jan 2009 A new study argues that old age in China is more lonesome due to several China-specific reasons. One of the key authors of report, Dr. Yang Keming from Durham University in UK, explains the findings to Chinareel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Scholars against National Day parade in China 22nd Jan 2009 Interview with independent writer Yu Jie, who is one of the Chinese intellectuals who signed an open letter against the National Day parade of this year. Letter from Taiwan on Chen Shuibian's corruption case followed by Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Will Obama continue US arm sales to Taiwan? 21st Jan 2009 Interview with Timothy Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on military relationships among China, US and Taiwan in Obama's term as president. Followed by China in the world and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Sino-US relations: looking forward 20th Jan 2009 Three scholars from Washington, Beijing and Taipei discuss the 30-year-old sino-US relationship, which some say resembles a marriage of convenience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Beijing Lawyer on direct election of Lawyer's Association 19th Jan 2009 35 Beijing lawyers signed an open letter last Aug., calling for direct election of Beijing Lawyers Association. Since then the signatories of the open letter have been harassed by the authority. What happens now? Lawyer Cheng Hai talks about present situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's car and steel industry revival plan: will it work? 16st jan 2009 China published a new plan, aiming at stimulating its car and steel industry and hoping it will push China's economy through difficult time. Would the measures adopted work, in short term and long term? Analysis by senior lecturer Liu Shaojia of UK's Brunel University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's health system reform 15th Jan 2009 China's ministry of health calls for urgent reform on hospital medicine supply system so as to make medicine more affordble. Yet this reform is fiercely resisted by the medical establishment. Comment by Prof. Xiao of college of public health, Harvard University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China Water Crisis 14th Jan 2009 World Bank has just published a report , warning China's water crisis and making suggestions. How serious is China's water crisis and would the World Bank remedy work? Expert analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Citizen Radio vs Hong Kong authority 13th Jan 2009 A pro-democracy group in Hong Kong calls for re-write of the 'outdated' Telecommunications Ordinance, which makes Citizen Radio illegal. HK commentator Yui-siu Lau looks at the ramifications of the unfolding Citizen Radio vs authority case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Internet users---power for political and social change? 12th Jan 2009 Interview with Professor Li Jinquan of City University of HK on the role China's millions of internet users played. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: What are the risks facing China's big banks? 9th Jan.2009 Chinese major banks may find it inevitable to compromise on their market-oriented management practice and risk control mechanism when the pressure to make 'policy loan' increases. Chief Researcher Ka Ryu at Fujitsu Institute, Japan, talks about such risks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Charter 08 , enemy of the state? 8th Jan 2009 interview with Xu Youyu, Professor of philosophy and a signatory of Charter 08 on the legality of the Charter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: 2009 A Year of Trouble for China?07th jan 2009 Articles published by China 《outlook》magzine warns that 2009 would be a year China sees soaring incidents of protests and demonstrations, if not dealt properly, will cause social instability. Is the warning reflect the reality? Expert analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: US-SINO Relations 30 Years 6th Jan 2009 US-SINO Relations 30 Years Jan.1,2009 marked the 30 years anniverary of US China deplomatic relations. Is the relation 'stable' ? What direction will it go? Expert comment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Taiwan Reaction to Hu Jintao's Speech 05 Jan 2009 Chinese leader Hu Jintao delivered a speech at the 30th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan in Beijing last Wednesday. He called for a formal end of the hositility across the Straits and a peace agreement. China Reel interviews Xia Zhen of China Times in Taiwan on Taiwan's reaction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, part 8, 2nd jan. 2009 1434 - The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, part 7, 1st jan 2009 The Rise of the Dragon - Inward and outward investment in China in the reform period 1978-2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel:Special programme on books, part 6 31st dec 2008 Special programme on books, part 6: The Man on Mao's Right by Ji Chaozhu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, part 5 30th Dec 2008 Special programme on books, part 5: China Witness - Voices from a Silent Generation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, part 4 29th Dec 2008 Special programme on books, part 4: Out of Mao's Shadow - The Struggle for the Soul of a New China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, part 3 25 Dec. 2008 Special programme on books, part 3: China's Water Warriors - Citizen Action and Policy Change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books part 2 25th Dec 2008 Special programme on books, part 2: What does China think? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Special programme on books, Part 1 24th Dec 2008 Special programme on books, Part 1: China's Changing Political Landscape - Prospects for Democracy Chinese on China hears one reader's comment on China's real estate market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | chinareel: Social security legislation needs to address the right problems23th Dec 2008 Chinese says the current draft of the country's controversial Social Security Law, now under 2nd review by law makers, is still too vague. An economist, He Qinglian, says the law needs to address four problems to be effective. Following UK press review, a Chinese audience talks about zero tolerance towards corruption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel:Interview with Dr. Wang Weiluo on the water level that Three Groges Dam 22 Dec Interview with Dr. Wang Weiluo on the water level that Three Groges Dam can actually reach. Commentary by Li Datong, has China progressed at all? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Interview with Zhang Wei of Cambridge University 19th Dec 2008 Interview with Zhang Wei of Cambridge University on the new measures to rescue property market in China, follwed by Press Review and Chinese on China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: Overseas sites re-blocked 'not a surprise' 18th Dec 2008 Chinese authorities appear to have re-blocked some of the 'sensitive' overseas websites unblocked during the Beijing Olympics period, including BBC's and VOA's Chinese-language sites. The Chinese foreign ministry says some sites violated Chinese laws, such as those supporting or advocating Two Chinas. A Chinese dissident writer in Germany, Zhong Weiguang, explains to Chinareel's Meng Ke why he is not surprised. Letter from Taiwan hears freelance writer Wu Yanling's report on the precedences ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ChinaReel: China's law on State Owned Assets 29th Oct 2008 China's parliment passed a draft law on State Owned Assets. Will this law prevent the state assets being illigally seized� Scholar gives his opinion. Also in this programme, an article by a Taiwan journalist on his experience in mainland China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |