Thursday, February 03, 2005

the full list is: here

rank by total GDP    city name     GDP (100million yuan)    population    rank by per capital GDP

4         shenzhen         2860.25         502         1
34       xiamen            760.30           143         2
2         guangzhou       3609.63         742         3
1         shanghai          6250.84         1342       4
5         suzhou            2802.00          601         5
26       daqing            1128.32          244         6
9         wuxi               1902.20          509         7
18       foshan            1381.00          345         7
12       ningbo            1779.90          550         9
8         hangzhou        2100.35          658         10

as i remember, suzhou ranked No 4 for a few times, i heard that suzhou attracted more foreign investment than shanghai. daqing is located in northeastern province and is an oil production base. there are several smaller cities in the top 10 list, they could become the destinations for chinese who are tired of big cities and consider moving out of them to smaller ones, suzhou and ningbo are good candidates for shanghainese.

posted @ 8:53 PM

Lava from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park enters the Pacific Ocean at dawn on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, in Volcano, Hawaii. (AP Photo/David Jordan)

Lava from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park enters the Pacific Ocean at dawn on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, in Volcano, Hawaii. (AP Photo/David Jordan)

posted @ 8:30 PM

link: US women's volleyball offers former China star Lan Ping a coaching job

Lang Ping, a name that was related with so much excitements back in 1980s in china. if she accepts the offer, she will bring the US team to 2008 beijing olympics, could be interesting to see how the local audience welcome their former hero.

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posted @ 8:17 PM