文章标题：年的颜色
記事タイトル：春節のカラー

There is no better reminder that Chinese New Year , aka Spring Festival will soon be upon us than a trip to the supermarket.

When you go into every nearby supermarket these days, you seem to fall in a sea of red. Red clothes, red underwear, red decorations with golden Chinese characters, red rabbit toys, red gift boxes… various red items are surround yourself.

Commonly, red is considered as a symbol of Socialism in Western countries, but for most ordinary people in China, red does not mean political conviction, according to Chinese traditional, it is considered a bright, happy color, sure to bring a sunny and bright future. Especially, It is believed that essential appearance and attitude during New Year’s sets the tone for the rest of the year.

Yes, red symbolizes fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck.

Good luck! I wish you a happy Chinese New year!

文章标题：为什么我不能访问Facebook
記事タイトル：僕はFacebookにアクセスできない、なぜ？

Miss Eimi ASANO(Japanese: 浅野 瑛美), one of my Japanese friends, who has been in China over one year for studying, asked me whether I can view her latest photos on Facebook via QQ last week. But I told her that I can’t access this site in China. At first, she seemed unbelieving, at last, she was so disappointed when I definitely told her that is true.

Actually, many foreigners have the same feeling when they first came to China, that is why I can’t access some popular websites, for example Facebook, Twitter and YouTube etc. It’s difficult and complex to explain the reasons, but you know, the main reason is still political sensitivity. That means those websites may include many harmful information for authorities.

So, the authorities set up the Great Firewall of China, called the GFW for short, to block the content by preventing IP Address from being routed through and consisted of standard firewall and proxy servers at the Internet gateways.

Although some people can fly over the GFW and access the blocked western sites via special methods including VPN, SSH or IPv6, most netizens still can not enjoy the services.

“How would they feel? So depressed?” you may ask. The results, however, beyond your exception. Many Chinese IT companies provided the same service, and people can also share the fun, excitement, and benefits from those local social network services.

Here is a short list of the Chinese equivalents some of the blocked social network services.

This is not a definitive list but it is representative of the market. It’s no doubt that many of the above companies grew at faster pace and have benefited from the removal of the competition from the overseas while their western counterparts were blocked.

文章标题：回龙观商住两用新楼盘
記事タイトル：激鬥！新築マンション、回竜観で

Since China is a socialist country, all land belongs of right to the state. But based on a special “land-use right” system, there are mainly four types of lease on land in China:
residential(Chinese:住宅用地), which is on a 70-year lease; industrial(Chinese:工业用地), which is on a 50-year lease; commercial(Chinese:商业用地), which is on a 40-year lease; and multiple purpose(Chinese:配套用地), which is on 40-year lease.

Due to rocketing real estate prices, many development companies have also shifted their strategies, and construct various complex buildings for commercial and residential purposes, which was originally targeted for office use.

Huilongguan West St and Huilongguan East St, the major artery in Huilongguan, including many infrastructural facilities and shops, will usher in two new members.

Top North Flats(Chinese:东亚上北鑫座), close to Line 13 of the Beijing Subway, offers 800 rooms and suits. Her slogan was “YOHO”, which means mini soho, mini office and mini studio. You, of course, can also intend to live in it as a residential space.

Hupotiandi(Chinese:琥珀天地), located in the core of Huilongguan business areas, with complete supporting facilities. It offers many types from 50 to 75 square meters. It also near by Line 13 of the Beijing Subway.

Although the disadvantage of the buildings for commercial and residential purposes obviously exists, people, especially the investors are interested in appreciation room and values in the future.

The new two construction will bring Huilongguan’s real estate into a new competition situation, maybe.

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.

The big city today is losing its attraction because of its high living costs, saturated competition, less competitive salaries than before, terrible traffic and pollution, reported by People’s Daily Online reported.

ZOU Bin, my friend from I was a child, however, is hesitating whether to go to Beijing after his graduation. He has been in Beijing last week for his interview, but I can see in his eyes that he so wants to be there during a meal.

We drift from our hometowns in small cities to major metropolises in search of bigger dreams, or a better life. In fact, the capital’s glamour still remains to many of us.

As I said before, it seems that the age of mass inflation is coming in China. I received an SMS message yesterday, and the main contents are as following.

尊敬的用户：
您在本公司注册的部分域名是通过新网通道注册的，根据新网最新价格政策，自2010年11月17日起，这些续费价格分别如下：
英文国际域名98元/年，英文国内域名108元/年，中文国际域名178元/年…谢谢您的支持！详情请登录…

Our honorable customer:
We are sorry to tell you that the price of your domain registered through our company will rise from 17 Nov 2010, according to new price policy. New price for International Domain Names is 98RMB per year, China Domain Names is 108RMB per year, and Chinese Domain Names is 178RMB per year.

However, I used to spend 68RMB per year to renew my each domain during the past few years. But now, as you can see, prices rose nearly 50%.

The ware of raising prices effects not only real economy, but also virtual fields.

Not only house, but also vegetable prices are rocketing up.

If China has a public poll for the Chinese character similar to Japanese Kanji character selection activities(Japanese:今年の漢字) hold every year in Japan, I will select “Price rises”(Chinese:涨) in this year.

The age of mass inflation is coming, I feel deeply.