A girl with Journalism Ideality

October 2009, a new term started as usual in the University of Westminster. However in this is a quiet and small come from China dream to start her journalist career in the university. Her name is Anli Wang.

Anli is come from Anhui province. It is not an economic centre as Shanghang or Hongkong, neither like the political capital Beijing. It is the place where is on the top 10 list of population, and also centre with mixed culture. The story around Anli is the real life story. She knows how hard a farmer family is to feed up a graduate. She knows how hard it is for the people from poor country site to find a job and a room to live in a middle size city.

Not a normal Girl

Dreamed to be a journalist, Anli do not want to report the topical news of domestic or international. Anli Wang is a very normal girl, if you don’t her deeply, you could not understand how could be a little person with such a strong spirit with her career.

She prefer to do deep report, to find the story behind, to investigate the secret which was not published to the mass. She said, “I like the feel that I could close to people, to know them, to see their real life, and then I could help them.”

The change of career

However, the final dream is really hard to achieve. The bachelor background of Anli is Chinese. It has nothing related to journalism. However, Anli started her dream of Journalist since her study in Chinese. When she was a high school student, she started reading Lu Xun, who is one of the greatest writers in China. She likes his critical essays because they are telling the true China. They were waking Chinese up during the World War II. Although it is a peaceful period, people are still feeling the painful of the social. Those kinds of news are the report that Anli want to do.

It is destiny

Hold the ‘same’ dream as Lu Xun, Anli gave up her writer dream and become to a freelance writer. The hardest time of her is the period her preparing the exam for a graduate study in the University. The lack of background knowledge, the language problem, pushes Anli to give up time to time. However, today Anli recruited in the University of Westminster. To reach the success, it is because the power of her dreams, and also the spirit of her insistence.

At last, she said “to start the class here, it is just a star, the road to her dream is still long. But I will never give up, it is because that is what I love and it is my destiny.”

China's new tackling climate change target

There are two weeks distances a global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. And today China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The target would aim to reduce its "carbon intensity" by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels.
Carbon intensity is china’s preferred measurement. It is to count the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of GDP. However, now it is hard to say the new target will reduce China's overall levels of carbon dioxide. It is because the economy in china is still growing and polluting coal remains to be the mostly fuel. The target also reveals China wants to play a leading role in tackling global climate change. In addition, China government said Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao would attend the talks in Copenhagen.

Cut down number of buses against Oxford St congestion

Christmas is in the offing. Shopping streets are bustling with people. However, retailers on Oxford Street have called for a reduction in the number of buses traveling through it everyday.

There are 24 bus routes sending more than 220 buses an hour along Oxford Street and Regent Street. Besides of the retailers, the Westminster Council has received complaints from customers too about excessive traffic congestion. The TFL is acting upon the Westminster council's suggestions, the shoppers on Oxford Street seem to be worried.

As the Westminster Council said, millions of pounds have already been spent on improving the area. And here is yet another step in the direction, aimed at further improving the shopping experience of the visitors.

In order to provide a better shopping experience, the transport for London has decided to reduce the number of buses by 10% by the end of the year, and another 10% by the end of next year, after recommendation of Westminster Council.

China product promotes via new ad

China, the country that introduced the world to formerly obscure chemicals like melamine and diethylene glycol via a series of product safety scandals, is now hoping to salvage its image through an advertising campaign.

The 30-second ads, played initially on CNN, show images of MP3 players printed with "Made in China with software from Silicon Valley," and clothes labeled "Made in China with French designers."
A jaunty soundtrack plays over happy Westerners jogging, eating, dancing, posing for a fashion shoot and looking out an aircraft window at a "Made in China, with engineers from all over the world" aircraft engine.

It ends with an American-accented voice saying: "When it says Made-in-China, it really means 'Made-in-China, Made with the world'."

The "charm offensive" is designed to promote Chinese-made goods "in a fair and objective way," to tell overseas consumers "that Chinese companies work with overseas firms to produce quality products," the official English-language China Daily said.

The campaign "reflects the Chinese companies' attitude and aspiration of strengthening cooperation with other countries to provide quality goods for foreign consumers," it added.

China, often called the world's factory, is struggling to convince a skeptical global audience that it has won a battle to improve safety standards after recent scandals involving everything from pet food and dumplings to children's toys.

The issue has proven a huge irritant in ties between China and the United States and European Union, the country's largest trade partners.But Beijing insists it is getting tough after endless promises to crack down.

What is Green Dam for?

Computer software companies and International Internet constrain “freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” A software, which is pushed to be installed on computer by China’s government, gives a good sample of blinding netizen’s eyes.

China demanded that until July 1, 2009, all personal computers sold in the country, must be shipped pre-installed software named Green Dam, in order to prevent access of pornographic websites. The government also urged the international PC makers, which sell computers in China, should also pre-install the software on computers. Green Dam is a new kind of anti- pornography software. It aims to make efforts to protect 'young people from harmful web contents.

However, cases had been shown that the software was not only block pornographic websites, but also sensitive political words. “In the 3.17 version, language processing turns on blocking for political and religious content by killing browser tabs and applications and even other user applications like notepad. The kill action is triggered by entering a particular URL into the location bar or window of the browser.” Following pornographic websites, some legal websites were blocked too. This ‘additional function’ is far away from the purpose of software be used. Meanwhile, consumers were not informed of that function and some information was filtered. Netizen is deprived of freedom of gaining information. That is against Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The second violation is that the software keeps monitoring personal communications and Internet browsing behaviour of users. The software “actively monitors individual computer behavior, such that a wide range of programs including word processing and email can be suddenly terminated if content algorithm detects inappropriate speech.” The fact of monitoring of users behaviour refers to violation human rights. Either article written by users or email are belongs personal privacy. They should be protected by national law. According Constitution of the People’s Republic of China Article 40, the freedom and privacy of correspondence of citizens of the People's Republic of China are protected by law government treated this new software in a special way. It probably duo to monitoring and filtering forbidden words and event are of benefits to the government.

As an enforcement act, all computer companies have to install Green Dam. However, the cost of the software will be shared by companies. It could be seem no companies would like to add this part of cost on themselves. They would probably shift the cost to consumers. The government has paid 41.7million RMB (approximately 3.79million GBP) for develop Green Dam. Although government announced that Green Dam is free for consumers, who will pick up the tab for government? It might be either computer producer or consumers. For the more, the consumers have no choice to buy a computer without Green Dam software.

The feedback of consumers leans to rescind the announcement. Local media and netizen published thousands of articles to accuse the government of violation of human rights. At the end of Green Dam controversy, the government have to abolish the announcement. Although it could be count to success of human rights, there is still no one to accuse the huge payment of software developing.