China Drive, Evening, Broadcast Time: 17:00-12:00, 2009-01-02

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• Are you a planner?
  Do you have a plan when implementing your goals? How much preparation is devoted to make sure things go right? Or maybe you never plan and just let things develop by their own. Tell us your way of doing things, to plan carefully or go with the flow?

 Life Style

• Beijing, Shanghai brace for Spring Festival rush earlier than usual
• Yunnan becomes China's vanguard to eliminate plastic bags
• Parents want children to visit often

 Sports

• The Beijing Olympic Games has been voted as having the Best Press Facility of 2008 in a poll by the International Sports Press Association, or ISPA.
• The caretaker coach of the Chinese national team Yin Tiesheng has been forced to modify his training plan amid fears that cold could cause more trouble after five players came down with the affliction.
• In squash, Egypt's Karim Darwish is the new men's world number one, ending the 33-month reign of compatriot Amr Shabana.
• To tennis, and Andy Murray began his final preparation for the 2009 ATP season with victory over American James Blake in Abu Dhabi, setting up a clash with Roger Federer.
• NFL news - And Yao Ming is doing well in the Western Conference All Star Balloting.
• In golf, John Daly has claimed he is serving a six-month ban from the PGA Tour for conduct detrimental to golf's image.

 Business

• Challenges and Opportunities Face China Banking Industry
• Shanghai sees growing foreign investment in office buildings
• VAT on 82 mineral products came into effect

 Media Spin

• Compensation Plan for Tainted Milk Victims
  A compensation plan for the 300 thousand victims of the melamine tainted milk scandal was announced before the coming of the New Year. Apart from a compensation lump sum of 900 million yuan, a foundation has been set up to for the long-term benefit of victims.

 Entertainment

• First Online Photos of Tao Hong and Xu Zheng's Baby Girl
• New year's day plunge in Italy, Netherlands and US
• Record-high number of people volunteer for Obama Inauguration
• [Special Report]: Music Memories 2