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If you do research online you will find out the old profession is somehow a promising industry in China. It goes well since 1980, the reform year. But wait, let's check the history of the old profession in China:
Prostitution flourished in 14th-century China as wealthy Ming Dynasty officials visited mistresses, kept concubines, registered brothels and taxed courtesans. But by the late 1940s, Communists were campaigning against prostitutes -- along with other "socially unreliable" groups such as bandits, opium-smokers and adulterers -- by monitoring people's housing, hairstyles and makeup.
Now let's take a overview of this topic on wiki:
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China revised the volume of its gross domestic product (GDP) for 2008 to 31.4045 trillion yuan (US$4.45 trillion) from the previous 30.067 trillion yuan (US$4.26 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
The revision will have a small impact on China's 2009 economic growth, Peng Zhilong, director of the national economy accounting department under the bureau, told reporters at a news conference after China carried out its second economic census.
China's economic growth in 2008 is 9.6% changed from 9.0%, an official at the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
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Cheng Mingliang press his finger print on confession
Gangsters under custody
Former district legislator and business tycoon Chen Mingliang, accused of running a mafia-style gang, was brought for his trial under heavy security, as hundreds of residents crowded the gates of the court to witness the proceedings yesterday.
Chen, 52, with his 34-member gang, faces 16 charges of abetting prostitution, drug trafficking, murder and corruption.
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Akmal Shaikh will be executed in China 2009.12.29, it seems like the Chinese court want him to have a Christmas before his execution.
In Yahoo's report on 22 Dec. 2009, "China says trial for condemned Briton was fair", the report author "CARA ANNA" using a partial tone to cry for that Briton, Akmal Shaikh, who selling Heroin in China.
Here is that report:
China on Tuesday dismissed an appeal from Prime Minister Gordon Brown to spare a British man set to be executed next week for drug smuggling, saying he had a fair trial despite concerns he suffers mental health problems and was duped into the crime.
Akmal Shaikh, 53, was sentenced in a half-hour trial in October 2008 for taking a suitcase containing almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of heroin into the far western Chinese city of Urumqi. China's highest court has rejected his appeal and his execution is set for Dec. 29.
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Shanghai Subway collision on site.
Traffic on a pivotal subway line in Shanghai resumed at noon time Tuesday, five hours after its closure for system failure and a subsequent collision of two trains.
Stranded passengers were evacuated from the two collided trains at 11:00 a.m. and the traffic on the Shanghai Subway Line 1 was resumed one hour later. No injuries were reported.
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