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Hello my good friend Torsten. I've been listening to the information and it's pretty so I think it will take me some time to absorb it all my time like that of all people is not much but I want to let you know I'm doing my best thanks for your concern for our learning again.

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Hi. I have a question. How big do "keywords" have to be?

[Torsten]

Hi SliGo,

A keyword should consist of 3 to 5 words.

Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Torsten

TOEFL listening lectures: Why are red crosses erected on Tanna Island?

[Jose]

Hi, Torsten

Although it is too late I like to post this message about the summary of the audio book. It might be useful because in doing that I exercise and I practice also. I hope that you agree with me. My summary is the following:

MORE JUISH PLACE ALONG THE COAST
China is a big user of solar energy. For example Chinese use solar heater.
Solar energy replaces electricity. The use of solar energy has increased. Chinese electricity shortage is a national debacle. Pollution is a threat. Chinese contribution to the darkening of the plate is inseparable from the ambition of the cities where its worst pollution originates. Chinese cities have the world largest appetite for steel. Chinese story rest on its big population and the velocity of its economic growth China’s need of cement is endless. World Health Organization reports the rise of pollution. Rise of china’s energy demand. The level of suspended particular matter has risen also. China’s economic growth leads to the pollution of the air environment. International Red Cross issued a caution to China regarding the pollution parallel to its urbanization. According to Editorial and people daily, manufacturing of cement is one factor that contributes to the growth of C02 into the atmosphere. It contributes to the green house effect also.
Red Cross
Hundred of farmers moved to the urban cities. According to the china’s government, two hundred cities met the standard for dangerously high pollution. The level of the suspended particular matters, the result of smoke, shoots dust and droplets in the air from the burning of fuel. China’s three largest cities have three times of the level of the suspended particulate in the level dimed safe by the W.H.O. Seven of the most polluted cities in the world are in China. China’s development causes pollution in the world. China’s growth is too fast for the national clean up . China’s demand electricity has grown by 15% in 2003.
I HAD TO BRING MY WIFE TO CHINA
China is one of the biggest power plant buildings and shock up enormous capital Example, in 2004, $24 Billions was invested in new generators. China has the equivalent of Britain entire electricity output every two years. China will need the energy making capacity of the US. Foreign companies are prospering from the growth of the power sector. Example: American Giant AES, GENERAL ELECTRIC, JAPAN MITSUBISH, GERMANIES CIEMENS. The price tags are enormous and present the sort of big ticket high tee trade that America, Europe and Japan most hope the Chinese will engage in. Nothing moves trade officials in world capital faster than a chance to place their biggest companies into the development of chine’s cities. Urbanizing China is the dreams of G.E. share holder and Chinese migrant workers meet. A legion of smaller international companies, firm without huge” budget and government behind them are also migrating in the Chinese market. China offers a chance to sell into a market that is actually growing. At home their government is restricting of new power plants.
Environmental regulations make finding a site for a new plant nearly impossible and communities once chosen usually turn against the power company that proposes one. Companies that make part to go into power plants are often older enterprises that grew up on their local economies had their own power plant construction booms and now exist to make replacement parts or to create innovative technology that can fit into an old system.
Clyde B.M. is a company comprising a network of small factories and offices in Europe, the United States and now China. Its manufactures and services some of the seemingly mundane a power plant; the boiling clean system. Without the cleaner, power plants could not run and with inferior cleaner they would run far dirtier. China offices is run by one local engineer but on a given day, it might be the rendez-vous point for sales men and engineer collecting from the factories companies in Estonia, the U.S. and the U.K. AND Germany; Steven Winkle, an executive visiting from the companies Atlanta facility is smitten with China so he said:” I had to bring my wife to China just to show her”. He can not contain his enthusiasm for the coming giant market opportunity. “I love it here so much» he says. It is really an exciting place. Winkle and Clyde group can make work for them if they keep their expenses down. They avoid the possessed western style hotels and and use folding table as furniture. A year ago, the companies’ china office was on heated building. Our venture company has a problem with growth but China is building the half of the power plants in the world. Winkle studies the chine’s economy land escape. Winkle is interested in chine’s market. He moved some of its manufacturing into china to find young, skilled workers, schooled in old industrial ethnics, easier to find than in companies European. The chine’s power market is not all an opportunity however. China’s power sector has been labeled one of China’s biggest foreign investment graveyards. Large deal between foreign power plant operator and local power has gone spectacularly bad.
The cost of China’s ambition may weigh heavily on our people and the world’s. China will not create or build cleaner for itself so foreigners should take care of the cleaning of its environment. The cost of the pollution is that Chinese die younger. 400 000 people die every year because of disease related to air pollution. Acid rain affects the countryside also. China imports its pollution to Japan and South Korea. Japan has spent to clean up chine environmental projects. Chinese pollution travels another shape too and arrives at the west coast of the United States; then affect it in reducing rain.
Nan Tong still uses bicycle. But it has begun constructing high way for many cars. Nan Tong is china’s top ocean port. It is a complement of a bigger city. Nan Tong can absorb the smoking. Bicycle and motorbike suffer in Non Tong. Non Tong will be banned from two wheel transportation and people are encouraged to own cars. China’s development outpasses its ability to establish an effective environmental regime. China can not control its own polluters. The world best hope is to reach an environmental agreement to contain pollution everywhere.
THE DRAGON HOURSE POWER
Cars have proven a mixed blessing for china’s cities and for the world. The car business has emerged among the world. It merits a closer look later in this audio book. Yet any discussion of china’s cities, must mention the role of cars. The advent of china’s urban car culture has had consequences for everywhere else car has. The world petroleum seller does not need massive disruption in their costumer’s bases or their supplies to ring up huge swing in prices. Small changes in supply and demand made the price shoring. China’s urbanization and its car boom go hand in hand. As the city creates the middle class, they can afford automobiles. That boom makes China a major costumer in the world petroleum markets. Its buying increased the petroleum prices in 2004. In the first nine months of the year, china’s +09% rate of growth was joined by a need for additional one million barrels oil every day. During that time, more than 14 000 new cars are also added to china’s roads daily. Cars and chine’s electricity hungry manufactures live on the same soared when a big call plants can not fuel industries needs, smaller petroleum burning plants filled the gap. Factories have found their best hedge again enforced down time is to build their own gas and diesel power generator on their own sites. China’s auto mobilization may determine and increase the oil price in the world. Cars in China have become source of pollution. Cars in china pollute worst than those elsewhere because Chinese law sets far weaker pollution standard than do laws in Europe and United States. Chinese government promises to enforce stricter air pollution in the future but that promise will rely on the willingness of the government to play policeman. Even though China will pollute as the U.S. does because of its surge in cars.
ROAD WIRRIERS
The sudden appearance of Chinese car culture takes outsiders and even the Chinese themselves by surprise. I. That competition is a rush to the countries to build infrastructure not a least of which is the network of roads and which china’s growing population of automobiles travelers.
China has replicated in greater number the infrastructure of modern American metropolis with Chinese characteristic. Chinese Highway look better than Germans’ auto bands, especially at night. For example, the brightly little road leading out of Chinghai towards “Chuzo”, because the details can not be seen at night. The highway offers littlt relief during the long rush hours. Trophy building s give way to high-rises, constructed with concerts. In Changhai highway constructions move fast. The highways in an out of Chinghai build by the latest German construction equipment and with high-tech concert formulated to withstand china’s growing traffic are now sooner finished then began again. Cars have multiplied quickly and some roads even though they are built in midair. Their lines will be doubled to eight. The roads dimension has been stretched to the maximum. The natural response to overcrowded road would be to build alternative routes. China has no trouble in visioning and in building an new express ways. China’s express road has the equivalent of the US inter- state highway system. The mind can only bugle. Taking into account the size of china’s population, the expectation that its industry and the hope of its government and all the worlds’ top automobile companies that the Chinese will buy hundreds of millions of cars, a road system that is nearly the size of the United States will not big enough. Overcrowded roads will steer government to think about new roads could be build to relieve traffic. In China it is not so simple. Every inch of new express highways in eastern China is a business owned by the government. Express ways is not a public utility. Chinese express way is monopolized. Its oil is monopolized also in order to make sure that the roads have no real competition. But competition comes nonetheless in form of the roads built by other regions that want their own modern and competitive transportation infrastructure under their own profits; for example Jei Jong province. Jei Jong has enough money to finance its social programs because of its road company. In China the use of highways and water supply generate money for the government or for the State. That policy is contrary to the United States. Chinese pay for what they use. The China’s approach feeds the rapid expansion of infrastructure. Americans tend to overuse both highway and water. The model used for the highway is now used for all sources of public services. Chinese have been turning the train system to be lucrative like private sector. The privatization of the highways, water systems contribute to the growth of China.
CHAPTER 5: CHAIRMAN MAOU SELLS SOUP
There are many pet markets in Changhai: birds, tortoise, crickets and fish…The pet markets is also an urban hollow where the countryside lives inside the city. Pet markets is a place where can work people from the ground up. Changhai is full of rural poor. The presence of the poor women selling warm in Changhai reminds that the new economy is big bang. Communist refashioned china’s earth. Wipe out the four past. China’s people were set against the natural world. Government campaigns to wine out rats, mosquitoes, sparrows and flies. Bird had been chased. There was no place for them to land. China’s population of sparrow is nearly disappeared. Bogs were poisoned. Violence against pets was justified. Official anti sentimental pets is strong but not strong enough to close the market. Although, pet trade provides money to some Chinese family. Provide living to families.
best regards!
Jose

[Jose]

Hi, Torsten
This is the end of my summary so thanks for the audio book because it helps me improving my English.
Jose
Pet markets are one place where the country com into the city. Farmers were forced to produce steel. That contributed to the great famine. “During the great leap forward”, the little wealth people have went up in smoke. People moved backward. They became poorer; adapted to Mao’s goal. Ingredients were miger and monotonous. Food sere strictly rationed. Eaten out is a rare event in China. The country renewed interest in food. Food vender became the first to venture into business. Chinese didn’t dare to go to business.. They were afraid to be against revolutionary.
NOODLES IN THE AIR
Ru Dong is one of the small big cities. The city has a new port. Ru Dong is getting a surge migration as people move off to farms. Migrants sell food. Noodle making is a performance of art. Noodle makers from the farms didn’t leer how to make it. They imitate or learn from the others. In Ru Dong, food markets are very dynamic; especially noodle. People from the farms are the master of that.
FEAST THAT MOVE
Chinese culinary life reappears. Food is a robust expression of Chinese culture. Chinese food thrives. Food is Chinese least initiative and most flamboyantly inventive pursuit. Now people move so do Chine feasts. Regional restaurateurs taught their food from one region to another to feed the country’s desire for new tastes. Food recruits chefs from all over the country. Competition has made China’s cities among the best place on earth to eat. Chinese food is developing.
COLONEL MAO
The restaurants undergo a transformation. Mao is still present in Chinese food. Chinese are proud of him. Mao is eminent and dominant in Tian an men Square. Mao remains an inescapable presence. But Chinese younger generation complains that the older generation is still feed by year under Mao’s rule. The older generation is paranoid. The old culture, old ideas, old costumes and old habits are criticized as four old. Four olds propelled the Cultural Revolution. Mao is the most prevalent country’s icon. Mao’s name and pictures are used to advertize.
COMMUSNIST KITSCH
Capitalism rebranding Mao begs a question. Some books relate the memoire of China. Violent had been told; for example, a rich drunk gambler who loses everything before the revolution. Older people in China told their struggle through the century. People were brutalized, university students have the outline of the history of their family but Chinese stay focused on the future. Even though the past was bad, Chinese move on. Hope lives.
The communist may wish to relegate its failure to the dustbin of the history. Government spread books that hide the bad side of the communist. Propaganda posters are other hot items in the markets. There is growing international appetite for Chinese political posters. Local Chinese do not buy them yet. Factories are busy to copy the original posters of Mao. Mao appears in behalf of many items in the market. For example, Mao bags are loved by Chinese.

[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Torsten,

Of course I join the group with pleasure. There used to be among my plans to finish the ChinaInc.

My question: At which part do you want to begin? Can I continue where I stopped doing? Or do you indicate the chapter ? It's all the same to me.

Regards:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Minud9]

Respected ,
oak i will be join the same projace.
Thanks Torsten. keep me in touch with cell no.99091 55675.
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Torsten how i help you in your china project?
i am very happy to work with you.
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mminudd///.

[Kati Svaby]

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After the 48. minutes.
Shanghai/repetition

018 part

In 1949, the Communists seized the country, and for the
next forty years the creative power of Shanghai turned away
from enterprise. Commercial life stopped dead.
Shanghai’s grand European architecture and the pre-
1940s brick blocks that reflected the city’s worldly blend
withered.
Today Shanghai is again China’s most proudly modern
and global city. Yet the city’s history of foreign domination is
one of China’s enduring national wounds. That collective
hurt helps to fuel the insistent drive of the Chinese today, as
well as China’s ambivalence about what it is willing to give
and take from outsiders. Historical Shanghai was corrupt
but glamorous, barbaric but sophisticated, repugnant but
remunerative. The Chinese government routinely trots out
this darker side of Shanghai’s past. The government uses
the colonial history of Shanghai, once painted “The Whore
of Asia,” to remind its public that there’s an enemy world
ever ready and willing to humiliate their proud civilization.
Thus, if ever a people had chips on their shoulders, it
would be the Shanghainese, chips they are urgently
stacking into skyscrapers. Despite, or because of, their
historical feeling of humiliation, the Shanghainese are
perhaps the most assured—other Chinese would call them
arrogant—among their countrymen. The Shanghainese
consider themselves China’s best businessmen and -
women, most capable public administrators, most global in outlook
and in most daring risk takers.

Regards.
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

The Cream of China is Taiwan, I presume.

All True Chinese are there.

kind regards.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

Madame Chiang Kai Shek is one of my hero, I admire her a lot.

Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang (traditional Chinese: 宋美齡; simplified Chinese: 宋美龄; pinyin: Sòng Měilíng; March 5, 1898[1] – October 23, 2003) was a First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician, painter and the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. The youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Republic of China preceding her husband. ( wiki )

kind regards.

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Mr. Kyaw,

Did not think of him?



Did you think of his wife ? Madame Chiang Kai-shek was “probably the most powerful woman in the world.”'-claimed that in 1937 Life magazine.



I am sorry, but Torsten asked me to continue my work with this eBook. To learn English it is very good and interesting also.

This isn't an disinterested photo!! After the attack on Pearl Harbor.



Regards:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

My dear lady,

She's a very rare species to me. For I simply admire heroes.

And it would be conducive to always think about Taiwan when you are to write about China.

*Did not think of him?

To me he's not very strong.

*Did you think of his wife ? Madame Chiang Kai-shek was “probably the most powerful woman in the world.

Yes, she truly was.

Similarly, without Winnie Mandela (born Nomzamo Winfreda Madikizela; 26 September 1936), there wouldn't be Nelson Mandela of today.

And my father wouldn't be a head of hospital without my mother's strong and smart human relations, diplomacy and domesticity.

kind regards.

True power lies behind the throne.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

Sorry, I can't paste this photo NO thanks to the poor signal at my end.

**Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang at the Cairo Conference, 25 November 1943**

Who or What kind of woman CAN sit together with Churchill and Roosevelt in a Conference?

kind regards.

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Mr. Kyaw,

I learned the history in other way. But I believe you and I try to look for the justice.

What is your opinion about the Gang of the Four?


The young Jiang Qing



I know that Mao Ce-tung /Mao Zedong is an eternal hero in China.

Regards:
Kati Svaby
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