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There is always concern that Shenzhen, the first city to implement China’s open door policy, is not a safe city - crimes are rampant, including those against Hong Kong people and foreigners. The following facts explain why.

BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Saturday called for good preparations for the Olympic Games to ensure safe and efficient city operation during the event.

Xi, also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Part

Chengdu, beautiful city in Sichuan province. There are many temples and parks to visit. Also with the recent increase in IT companies it might be easy to find a job there. Here are some pictures from this great town.

I can't explain this one. Just watch. It's not porn, I swear.

Apparently, according to this, communists do it better. Somehow I doubt it applies to China.

Only safe for work provided you don't have fast readers nearby.

via mf.rox.com, by way of mutantfrog.com

I love chomping down on yang rou chuan'r, but I'm never certain exactly where it comes from. For most other foods, I've just accepted that if they're sold in a clean(-ish)supermarket, they must be decently safe. Now, my "decently safe" scale has a number. Recent government findings showed that only 80% of the food and other products checked by regulators met national safety standards. This figure is actually a 2% improvement from last year. Wow, China's "FDA" is really swinging for the fences.

Jonathan Pomfret argues: "For better or worse, it's safe to say that we're at the doorstep of a new era of China bashing in the West. The post-Tiananmen Square crackdown honeymoon where the zeitgeist was 'we can all get rich together' is over. It's been replaced by China = bad guy."

Green Bamboo gives an eyewitness account of the Wenchuan earthquake, saying that Chengdu seems to be intact.

It is safe to assert the few Chinese have insomnia. On the contrary, the ability to sleep anywhere, at any time, is downright stunning.

[Zola] reports that he is home safe in Changsha after being detained in Shenyang, interrogated, made to write detailed reports on everybody he met and everything since arriving in Shenyang to blog about the Yilishen "ant-farmer" protests, had his ID confiscated, punched around the head and neck.