According to the preliminary estimation, the gross domestic product (GDP) of China in the first quarter of this year was 8,057.7 billion Yuan with an annual growth of 11.9 percent. The value added of the primary industry was 513.9 billion Yuan, up by 3.8 percent; that of the secondary industry was 3,907.2 billion Yuan, up by 14.5 percent; and that of the tertiary industry was 3,636.6 billion Yuan, up by 10.2 percent. The value of exports was US$ 316.17 billion, up by 28.7 percent, and the value of imports was US$ 301.68 billion, up by 64.6 percent. The trade surplus was US$ 14.49 billion, a drop of US$ 47.9 billion over the same quarter last year.

 

For detailed report, please visit http://chinadataonline.org/

 

 

 

Co-Sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute for China and Global Environmental Sustainability, the University of Michigan China Data Center, and some other institutions, "The Atlas of Changes in Population and Environment in China" has now been published in Chinese by the Science Press in China. The atlas is available in hard copy (4K size). It provides comprehensive information of the spatial distribution of and changes in population and environment in China within last 60 years. The atlas consists of 196 maps in fourteen groups: including changes in regional population scale, structure, and quality; land resource and land use changes; solid wastes and industrial discharges; fresh waters, ocean and water pollution; forests, grasslands, wetland, and bio-diversity; carbon sequestration and carbon sinks of ecosystem; climate changes and disasters; atmosphere and air pollution.

 

 

The China Data Center is pleased to release "The Atlas of Religions in China".  This GIS based data product (in Shape file format) has integrated those official religious data from the 2004 China Economic Census and the ZIP maps of Mainland China. The atlas provides a total of about 70,000 religious sites (Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Muslim, and others) on Mainland China. Each site includes site name, address, contact information, County GB Code, postcode, starting year, primary activities, and employee scale.

 

 

 

We have had a very successful session on spatial studies of religions in China at AAS 2010 annual meeting. Those presentations demonstrated a good potential of spatial data and applications in religious studies and other areas. For those who are interested in the topic, you can find the online presentations at:

 

Spatial Data and Intelligence for China Studies
Shuming Bao, China Data Center, The University of Michigan

Spatial Studies of Religion and Chinese Society
Fenggang Yang, China Center for Religion and Society Study, Purdue University

The Initial Readings of the Data about Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Monasteries
Jiang Wu, Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona

The Political Economy of Religion and Development: Findings of the Initial Data Analysis
Juan Wang, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Please visit our booth and meet the center staffs at the following events:

 

May 27-31, 2010, The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Conference, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada

 

June 13-15, 2010, Special Library Association (SLA) Annual Conference, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

 

August 10-15, 2010, The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Annual Conference, Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

 

 

June 22-23, 2010, The International Workshop on "Advances in Spatial Statistics and Intelligence", Wuhan University, Hubei, China

 

July 2-3, The International Forum of "The Future of Sustainable Urbanization in U.S & China", Shanghai, China

 

July 5-6, 2010, The International Conference of "China Regional Development Model: Ten Years of Western China Development", Chengdu, Sichuan, China

 

 

1.  GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University

 

The China Data Center and the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University agree to establish a partnership on "Spatial Intelligence and Global Learning."  The collaboration will include: (1) The development and execution of joint research proposals and projects dealing with geospatial analysis and computation; (2) The sharing of data; (3) Co-organization of related training programs, workshops and conferences; and (4) The exchange of research scholars and students (including visiting scholars and students).

 

Directed by Professor Luc Anselin, a leading scholar in spatial statistics and econometric models, the GeoDa Center is devoted to the development, implementation and application of state-of-the-art methods of geospatial analysis. GeoDa, a free software for spatial analysis developed by the Center, has more than 50,000 users across the world. The center deals with research questions at different spatial scales, from the local to the global. Application areas include a range of substantive fields, such as regional science, economic geography, environmental economics, criminology, public health, and other social and natural sciences.

 

2. The Business School at East China University of Science and Technology

 

The University of Michigan China Data Center and the Business School at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) agree to collaborate on the establishment of "The Lab for Urban and Regional Analysis".  It is expected that the lab will develop the information infrastructure for urban and regional analysis, the methodology of spatial intelligence and data analysis, and the research agenda for urban and regional studies in China.

 

Located in Shanghai, East China University of Science and Technology is one of those key universities under the State Education Ministry of China. The School of Business consists of five departments, six research institutes, two research centers and a MBA center. Currently, it has over 5,000 undergraduates and graduate students. The School has established cooperation with more than 20 well-known universities in the United States, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.