Facebook inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met some Chinese top technology executives on his visit to Beijing this week where he said that he was purely for a vacation.

 

Mark Zuckerberg has visited headquarter of Sina Corp and met its CEO Charles Chao, before which he had a meeting with Wang Jianzhou, the chairman of China Mobile Ltd and He also had a visit with Robin Li, CEO of Baidu Inc.

 

However, question has been raised why the CEO of a website that has been blocked in China visited the market. According to a Facebook’s spokesman, the trip is purely for the CEO to take a vacation rather than discuss any specific proposal.

 

 

 

 

China will increase its coal imports from Russia to 15 million tons a year in the next five years.

 

The volume may rise up to at least 20 million tons a year, while China currently imports only 12 million tons a year of the fuel from Russia. Meanwhile, the two big countries will start building the third and fourth reactors at the Taiwan nuclear plant in Jiangsu province in the first half of next five year.

 

 

 

 

The representatives of the mainland and Taiwan signed a deal on medical cooperation and discussed investment protection during talks on Tuesday in Taipei.

 

The agreement is the 15th commercial agreement the two sides have struck since Ma Ying-jeou took over as Taiwan’s leader in 2008, promising to improve relations with the mainland. The new medical agreement will soothe cross-straits exchanges of information on epidemics and cooperation in the development of vaccines to counter any outbreak. The deal will allow the two sides to work together on clinical trials of new drugs by adopting the same trial standards.

 

The signing of the medical cooperation pact came after the two sides linked the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement which took effect in September, aimed at deepening cooperation and slashing duties.

 

The three-day talk marked the sixth round of talks between Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation and the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in the two years after they resumed talks in June 2008.

 

 

 

 

With the severe weather sweeping most parts of China over the past few weeks, intense demand for heat has caused coal shortages and power cuts in lots of country’s provinces. Hubei and Henan provinces with Shaanxi province have seen the consumption of coal rise sharply for the heavy rain and snow.

 

Many factories and residential buildings in those provinces have been informed of immediate power cuts and the need for energy rationing. Power shortages have been a recurring problem in recent years, the situation in winter is more severe.

 

The shortage is expected to facilitate after the National Meteorological Centre on Sunday forecast a rise in temperatures across China over the next few years, though some experts warned that there could be a severe power shortage problem this winter.