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CASS:Labor Shortage within Two Years A recent report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says that there is less surplus labor in rural China than previously estimated. It presages a labor shortage in China by the year 2009. Entitled “Growth and Structural Change of Employment in China,” the report predicts that this shortfall will raise the wages of rural laborers. It was generally understood that China had 100 to 150 million surplus laborers in the countryside. The report, however, gives a gure of 52.12 million aged under 40     

Mount Wudang——Abode of Immortals and a Martial Monk

CHINESE mythology tells of the perilous sea voy- ages by Chinese ancestors in search of the penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou mountains whereT aoist immortals dwelt. Mount Wudang is one of China’s Taoist mountains that actually exists. It is the mainspring of a wealth of legends that have been told for 2,000 years. abode of immortals The Chinese character xian consists of the radical (element of a character that conveys its meaning) representing a person on the left and the character for …     

Seeking Truth from Facts

In 1956, The Third Eye by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, ostensibly a lama born of a wealthy Tibetan family, became a bestseller. It was the purported memoir of his life in Tibet. Prior to his death in 1981, Lobsang Rampa published 12 more books on Tibet, but none matched the success of The Third Eye. It later transpired that Lobsang Rampa was the pen     

Modern Art in an Ancient Setting——Beijing's Red Gate Gallery

A SCENDING the ancient stone steps to Red Gate Gallery reveals the quintessential Beijing pan orama. The gallery is housed in Dongbianmen Watchtower, a Ming Dynasty structure straddling the last crumbling vestiges of Beijing＇s city wall. Like a besieged bastion of the city＇s imperial past, the watchtower is hemmed in by railway lines and Beijing＇s Second Ring Road. The glass and steel edifices of the CBD loom in the distance. It＇s appropriate that this ancient fortress, surrounded by a cornucopia of modern development, houses a gallery that has long been a cultural bastion of a more contemoorary kind.     

The Key toSuccess

正At the end of 1976,China was,by and large,an agricultural country with a hefty 82.6 percent of its population living in the countryside,the majority in absolute poverty.After a decade of the"cultural revolution"(1966-76)that concluded in October that year,the Chinese economy had come to the verge of collapse,and its political system was in disarray.It was in these circumstances that the Chinese people took     

AIDS Prevention Deepened

Thirty-year-old Xiao Dong recently drew much public attention after the opening of a healthclinic for gays— the first of its kind in the country. It provides free AIDS checkups andtreatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) for one year. The clinic is funded by governmental health institutions but is run by a civil orga- nization headed by Xiao Dong, who is also a gay. A survey by the Ministry of Health showed that there is a gay population of around 5-10 million, most of whom rem…     

Sparing No Effort to Accelerate Private Investment Growth

正The Chinese economy has bottomed out and is stabilizing as economic growth remained within the reasonable range during the first four months of this year,judging by figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics.It is nonetheless alarming that private investment only increased by 5.2 percent during the same period,continuing a downward trend which had lasted for a long time.More worryingly,     

Manas： the Bible of the Kirghiz

Manas is the heroic epic of the Kirghiz, a minority ethnic group living mainly in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is said that Manas is not the achievement of poetic inspiration, but rather a gift from the gods, and that singers of the epic suddenly were able to recite millions of lines of it on awaking from a dream. Such claims are often questioned by outsiders, yet the Kirghiz, passionate fans of Manas. do not doubt their truth.     

LETTERS

正It was fascinating for me to read"China’s New Industrial Revolution"by John Ross and"China,Leader of the Third Industrial Revolution?"by Hu Jiangyun.With reference to the textbook Elementary Economic Theory by K.K.Dewett and J.D.Varma,economic development,as opposed to under-development,implies that a country has a highly economic system.It means highly efficient organization both of agriculture and of industry,a highly developed banking and credit system and adequate development of transport and communications.     

Driving the Future

正China’s Internet titan Baidu brings the artificial into reality By Bryan Michael GalvanWe are living on the edge of tomorrow—the dawn of a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).It is a change that is likely to be so thoroughly profound that it is hard to imagine how exactly our world might look like even a few decades from now.Imagine the astonishment of the Wright brothers if they     

把民族团结进步事业作为基础性事业抓紧抓好——国家民委监督检查司负责人答记者问（英文）

正CEG recently learned from a government spokesman more details about the regulations for ethnic unity and progress that were recently issued by the CPC Central Committee and National Ethnic Affairs Commission.The English title of it is "Ideas on Continually Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress in a Comprehensive and In-depth Manner and Strengthening the Ideology of a Shared Chinese Community." It will be implemented by the State     

An Unforgettable Trip to Nepal

When it was still cold winder in Beijing in February, spring was in the air in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal at the foot of the world's most imposing mountains-the Himalayas. It was in such a pleasant season that a CPAFFC delegation led by its vice president Wang Yunze paid a 4-day friendly visit to Nepal at the invitation of the Nepal Arniko Society.     

The Secret Behind China's Growth

正There is no rocket science,magic or dubiety involved in China’s development miracle which posted a GDP growth rate of 6.9 percent in 2017,higher than the set target.It is the outcome of an economic management system that was put in place by a visionary political leadership to let everyone enjoy the fruits of sustainable progress.This has set the stage for resilient growth.It has impressed the world at a time when speculation was doing     

A Win-Win for Britain and China

<正>President Xi Jinping has returned home after an impressively smooth state visit to the UK.The ceremonial part of the visit was flawlessly conducted—this is one thing that the British do really well—with a state banquet hosted by the queen,meetings with other members of the royal family,traditional gun salutes,and an address to parliament by the Chinese president.It is clear that the British Government has decided to put its weight behind building a solid relationship with     

How Will Soliciting Public Opinions Online Help With The Five-Year Plan Planning?

正The 14th Five-year Plan(2021-25) is the first five-year period after reaching China's first centenary goal, that is, to complete building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the time the Communist Party of China celebrates its centenary in 2021. It is a critical juncture for China to embark on the journey to build China into a great modern socialist country, that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the time the People's Republic of China celebrates its centenary in 2049.     

Broad Prospects for Cooperation Between Local Governments of China and Cameroon

China's contacts with Africa have become increasingly frequent since the Second Ministerial Meeting of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation convened last December. The relations between the continent that has the largest number of developing countries and the biggest developing country are getting closer. It was against this background that a 7-member Cameroonian delegation of governors and mayors headed by Mengue Meka Jean-Robert, secretary general of the Ministry of Territorial Decentralization Administration, paid a goodwill visit to China from April 19 to 29 at the invitation of the CPAFFC.     

A Probe into an Ancient Empire

THE Western Xia (1038-1227) witnessed a period of prosperous existence in the large expanse of western China 773 years ago. It created its own written language and arts and kept close relations with the imperial regime of Central China. In its 190th year in 1227 it was annihilated by the Mongols. The annihilation was so thorough that very little trace of it can be found today. The civilization created by the Western Xia people has remained a mysterious episode in the history of the Chines…     

About Chinese Characters

It is perhaps a facet of human nature that makes a person want to beking, and to control others. The character "王" was originally"王",symbolizing the emerald prayer beads worn exclusively by the king. Inthe course of this character's evolution, however, new connotations were     

Clean Heating

正China’s first commercial nuclear heating solution will help the country heat more and emit less It was not until the winter of 2017 that Dong Jianli felt the heat produced by a nuclear reactor up close,even though she had worked at the China Institute of Atomic Energy(CIAE)for more than a decade.From     

山西·平遥 欢迎八方客

Shanxi is a major birthplace of the Chinese nation and one of the earliest developed areas in China. The burned bones that were discovered at the Xihoudu Site in Ruicheng Country--signs of the most ancient human civilization China has ever known--were a testimony of the earliest use of fire by hominid. It manifests that our remote ancestors lived and procreated on this land as early as 1.8 million years ago. The Dingcun Site (about 100,000 years old up to date) in Xiangfen County contains …