2010 will soon be over and it’s time for me to make a summary.

Firstly, I have a daughter, born March 8th of this year. She is a gift from the God for me and my wife. Day after day, as she grow up, we learn and understand more and more about responsibility of the parents.

Secondly, I have passed all examinations, including ugly programming test, for Master of Software Engineering in Tsinghua University, and submitted successfully opening report for graduation.

Lastly, I opened my personal blog for my English writing, and tech blog for driving me learn new technology and share my experience. Open is very important, I think.

Certainly, awful things still exist.

My own business is stagnant. It requires me to get more and more ability to control everything you may face.

My work is dull, no raise and no promotion, and most important, I be still at a loss for the future.

Finally, I’m becoming older everyday.

Oh, my God, that’s how sentimental I am. Anyway, I’d better make planning for next year right now, because You’ll fail at a 100 percent of the goals you don’t set, Mark Victor Hansen said.

You can find out two business issues existing in the countryside.

Firstly, most farmers want to know their corps can make a good price in nationwide markets， but their information is not symmetry, and secondly, many smaller and medium sized enterprises have the demand to promote their products and services, but they do not have a lot of money for advertising.

Unlike first-tier cities, most rural family can’t afford a computer with internet access, but nearly every individual in China has a cell phone.

Because small cities and rural areas still hold the majority of China’s population, business opportunities are here, maybe.

From Shanghaiist.Com

If you want to start own business in mobile internet fields, the demands and requests from rural areas are the key drivers in the future, I think. Especially, it can help you to avoid direct competition with giant internet companies in first-tier cities.

You still can get benefits from Chairman Mao’s theory that focusing on the countryside rather than large cities(Chinese:农村包围城市).

Xu Jingming（Chinese:徐景明）, finally, moved from his house in Lincui Road(Chinese:林翠路) soon after the construction company informed him that the compensation money had been remitted into his bank account on Dec 17, and his house was tore down in that night.

That means the “Nail Household” that has blocked the construction of a important arterial road in Beijing over four years is gone.

Five years ago, Beijing’s authorities decided to build a road that can link the Fifth-Ring Road(Chinese:五环路) and Huilongguan communities in order to alleviate traffic congestion in Badaling Expressway(Chinese:八达岭高速), the only arterial road in the northern part of the city.

But when the road was almost completed, one house continued to stand in the way as its owner refused to move. The result was the way has to narrow into one lane to round the house causing clogged traffic daily during rush hours.

The local government can offer 1.8 million RMB, but Xu asked for 5.8 million RMB in compensation in 2009. Now the deadlock has been broken. Neither Xu nor the government would mention exact amount.

“How much did the government pay?”, the question naturally floated around in everyone’s mind.

Wang Xiao Feng(Chinese: 王小峰), is not only a senior editor for China’s San-Lian Lifestyle Weekly(Chinese: 三联生活周刊), but also one of most famous Chinese blogger widely known for his blog called Do Not Guess(Chinese: 不许联想), which pokes fun at art, culture and social issues and receives 12,000 visitors a day.

Actually, his early blog, Massage Cream(Chinese: 按摩乳) won the 2005 BOBs‘ Award for Best Chinese Weblog. But Wang stopped updating in August 2006.

In 2006, Wang became Time’s People of the Year as his contribution to China’s weblog.

Wang is also hipped on moviemaking. A Hard Day’s Nights(Chinese: 小强历险记), in 2006, Shi Mian Mai Fu(Chinese: 十面埋妇), in 2007, and Ni Ya Zhen Hen(Chinese: 你丫真恨), in 2008. In his works, all the roles were played by blogger.

Beijing Government announced that the city planning body will be cautiously studying efficient measures to control the boom in vehicle ownership and to ease continuing traffic pressures, including license plate control, in October.

But an unexpected result happened after news release. More than 1,289,000 cars, multi-purpose vehicles, sport-utility vehicles and minivans were sold in November, up 27 percent from a year earlier and 10.5 percent from October, reported by China Daily.

Surprisingly, as of late November, automobile ownership in Beijing stood at 4.67 million, and there are 6.19 million registered drivers in the city, according to the Beijing Municipal Traffic Management Bureau.

The sidewalk is full of parked vehicles in Huilongguan

I think, in fact, the key is to not only develop public transport, but also control the booming population.

CBN (Chinese:第一财经), aka Chinese Business Network, is the unique all-media business news provider which be under the management of SMG, a short for Shanghai Media Group, the China’s No.2 multimedia television and radio broadcaster.

CBN covers the major fields of China’s business information through 7 ways that are CBN TV(China’s most professional business TV channel), CBN Daily(China’s most trusted financial daily), CBN Radio(China’s most professional business radio), CBN Weekly(China’s largest-circulation business magazine), CBN Website, CBN Research Institute and CBN Forum.

Previously, CBN long focused on reaching wealthy viewers in Shanghai and its surrounding areas. In order to become the largest all-media financial and business information service group in China, CBN’s television programs succeeded in covering more than 400 million mostly-urban audiences across China in cooperation with Ningxia Satellite TV Channel.

Actually, the cooperation partnership between CBN and Ningxia Satellite TV Station will not only help to further promote the strategic development of CBN, but also contribute to better service for the development of Ningxia and western area.

Personally, I consider that CBN is better than CCTV Economic Channel(Chinese:中央电视台经济频道) because of its viewpoints and professional. Boss Town (Chinese:波士堂), Brain Storm (Chinese:头脑风暴) and Managing China (Chinese:中国经营者) are my favourite programs.

If you’re living in China, you know, you will not be able to buy foreign newspapers from kiosk unless you subscribe to them through local foreign languages bookstore(Chinese:外文书店) or China International Book Trading Corporation(Chinese:中国国际图书贸易总公司).

But you still have a choice, with China’s internationalization, the number of domestic English-language newspapers are constantly emerging. Unlike imports, you can buy them in most of cities in China, it’s the most important, I think.

Now, reading English-language newspapers in China is no longer just for foreigners who resides in China and high-end nationals, for example, diplomats and governmental policy makers, but also ordinary Chinese people.

Here is my collection, maybe they can help you understand more about China.

1. China Daily(Chinese: 中国日报)
The only national English-language newspaper in China.
Website: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn
2. Beijing Today(Chinese: 今日北京)
The capital’s only English weekly newspaper.
Website: http://www.beijingtoday.com.cn
3. Shanghai Daily(Chinese: 上海日报)
The premier English-language newspaper in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region.
Website: http://www.shanghaidaily.com
4. Shenzhen Daily(Chinese: 深圳日报)
The only English-language newspaper in South China region.
Website: http://www.szdaily.com
5. Guangzhou Morning Post(Chinese: 广州英文早报)
A daily newspaper in GuangZhou, China covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events.
Website: http://gzmp.dayoo.com
6. People’s Daily(Chinese: 人民日报)
The official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
Website: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn
7. PLA Daily(Chinese: 解放军日报)
A China-based media outlet for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China.
Website: http://english.pladaily.com.cn
8. Global Times(Chinese: 环球时报)
The English edition of Global Times which focuses on expressing Chinese people’s real feelings, sharing their opinions and standpoints on significant international issues.
Website: http://www.globaltimes.cn
9. Economic Observer(Chinese: 经济观察报)
China business, economics, finance, law, politics, and social issues.
Website: http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens

Joichi Ito（Japanese: 伊藤穰一）, one of strong leaders and advocates of the Web2.0 Technologies in Japan. Here is his weblog: joi.ito.com, where he regularly shares his thoughts and intellectual to bring many fresh opinions from a number of angles in internet field. It’s really pretty good, I promise.