The China business
Dan Nichol reviews the BBC’s China Week This was perhaps the BBC’s way of recompensing for not adequately covering what was one of 2004’s biggest stories — China’s explosive economic growth. The country will soon outstrip Britain and become the world’s fourth biggest economic power. Most of BBC’s China week focused on the exclusively “business” side of the story but a report on BBC2’s Newsnight showed the human side of what is happening to the country. The report showed Tianjin, China’s third largest city, undergoing massive redevelopment to ensure the city keeps pace with growth in the rest...