Editor’s note for Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.

My thoughts today:
Thank you, dear reader, for your support during this extraordinary year, from all of us at The China Project. All the best for the holiday season, and for a prosperous and healthy 2021!
Because of you, in 2020, we were able to:
- Publish 2,098 articles written by 127 people and read by 1.8 million people
- Host 39 events with 208 speakers that were attended by 5,038 people
- Release 252 podcast episodes that were downloaded more than 2.1 million times
- Send 3.5 million email newsletters
- Employ 12 full-time individuals and dozens of freelancers
Why are we doing it?ย Please click through to The China Project for a message from our COO, Bob Guterma.
Weโll be on a light publishing scheduleย for the holiday period โ there will be no newsletter on December 24, 25, 31, and January 1. I myself will be away from the computer until January 4, leaving you in the capable hands of my colleague Lucas.
Our word of the dayย is community group buyingย (็คพๅบๅข่ดญ shรจqลซ tuรกngรฒu). Our Yiddish word of the day is chutzpah, sometimes rendered in Chinese as ๆฅๅ นๅธ chว zฤซ pร โ see our top story today.
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief