New Life for Time-Honored National Brands？

WHEN 45-year-old Yu Li was in her youthful prime in the 1980s, so was the Shanghai skincare brand Maxam. Nowadays Maxam resides at the lower end of a Chinese beauty market flooded with myriad brand names from around the world. For Yu Li though, the local brand is still her favorite. ＂The best is what fits you personally. I prefer to stick with a product I know and trust rather than venturing into a new product and risk impairing my skin.＂     

Outside Help Floods In

ON May 14 Premier Wen Jiabao was surprised to come across a group of foreigners in hard-hit Bei-chuan County of Mianyang City. ＂Are you tourists？＂ asked the premier. ＂No. We＇re rescuers,＂ answered a tall man in Chinese. ＂Where are you from？＂ ＂The United States, Heart to Heart International.＂ Their brief dialogue was shown on CCTV that night.     

Traditional Beijing Snack and Seafood Buffet Dinner

<正>Traditional Beijing Snack,which derives from the hutong,is not only a representative of delicious food,but also a symbol of the capital’s splendid culture.Beijing Marriott Hotel City Wall will launch Traditional Beijing-Style Seafood Buffet Dinner around the Chinese Lunar New year,to offer you a taste of the old Beijing.Guanchang(pan-fried starch sausage with garlic)is a Beijing-style snack usually seen in streets.It has a color of pink and golden mixed     

A Taste of the Southwest

Li Sulan gets up early in the morning to begin her daily routine.She prepares a breakfast of traditional rice noodles for her customers at a rural home inn where she is the owner.Li is of the Miao ethnic group from the Xijiang Miao Village of Leishan County in southwest China's Guizhou Province.Xijiang Village is home to wellpreserved aspects of aboriginal Miao culture,and is now a widely known cultural tour destination. "As many tourists from China and abroad learn about the Miao ethnic culture,we've seen a sudden boom in tourism in the past few years in our village," said Li with a smile.The flourishing tourist industry boosted the local service sector and revived the traditional Miao culture,bringing a host of benefits to local villagers like Li.     

Safe water,Safe Life

＂Until very recently, 12-year-old Li Xioling drank the spring water that originated from the Longmen Shan, orthe Dragon＇s Gate Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau. Sitting in a makeshift house set up on the bank of the Yanhe River outside her home town Bailu Township of Pengzhou city, Sichuan Province, Li says, ＂It tastes a little sweet. We used itto cook and to bathe.＂     

CV–the Vital First Step

正When enjoying the excitement of coming to China to ind a job,does it ever occur to you that 100of the CVs you’ve sent out don’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese HR?! To keen overseas job seekers who want to work in China:While anticipating the excitement of coming to China to find a job,does it ever occur to you that maybe100 of the CVs you’ve sent out won’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese company HR?Does that shock you?If you expect to get a good job because of your years of work experience and career     

DRUMMING UP A NEW BEAT

正A summer camp broadens the horizons of rural children It took Li Shang,a percussionist from Beijing,nearly15 hours to reach Weiziba,a village in Gansu Province,on July 21.Local transportation from the airport in the provincial capital to the village,at an altitude of 2,450 meters,remains inconvenient,but Li and his colleagues didn't seem to be bothered.     

Just Call Me ＂Three F Li＂

THEY used to call me Private Enterprise Li （Li Minying）, but I would rather be known as ＂Three F Li＂ （Li Sannong）. It was by accident that I became an economist. At the very beginning of China＇s economic reform, I presented the concept of transforming China＇s economy through shareholding, and suggested that the private sector and the state-owned sector enjoy equal status in the economy. As a participant in economic policymaking in China I have witnessed a lot of changes to the People＇s Republic.     

LANGUAGE DILEMMA

Linguists and the government hope to preserve the diversity of China's languages When Xu Shixuan, a linguist from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returned to a southwestern county bordering Myanmar in 2002 to study the local language after a nine-year interval, she was struck by the change to Li Xuewen, a master storyteller in the village. Xu could not relate the silent and listless old man with watery, turbid eyes to her vivid memory of Li reciting tales of his ancestors.     

Eighteen ways to better sleep

Sometimes I sleep like a baby and sometimes I sleep like a log. For me, the baby aspect is defined by a series of interruptions with a quick fix in the bathroom or a snack from the fridge. The log is more like a stiffness accompanied by a metaphoric chain saw buzz from my apparently loud snoring. Insomnia, habitual sleeplessness, fortunately is not a friend of mine, but that's because I have experimented with different ways to make my forty winks longer, waken with an attitude to seize the day and not feel tired an hour after breakfast. Are you one of the estimated one half of the population who suffers from not enough shut-eye? Allow me to let you in     

Tide of Change

Li Zhengde regards the Yangtze River as the highway of his youth.Born in a small town in south China's Hunan Province,Li grew up near the Zijiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze,and in 1976, boats were the major mode of transport there.In the 1990s,he had to take a year off from school due to illness and sailed to nearby Wuhan Province on his cousin's wooden junk,It was his first trip outside Hunan and the one-month sailing experience is etched indelibly in his mind.     

etworking or otworking vents？

FROM the very day you land in Beijing, either to become a fixed-term＂Jinger＂ or to make Beijing or some other city your medium- to long-term home （as with many of us）, all you need to become involved in the non- stop networking events put on for us in China is an email ad- dress. You will soon find that with a modicum of effort you are subscribed to tens if not hundreds of networking event mailing lists. In this article I＇d like to offer a perspective on these gatherings, accord- ing to my time in China （nine years and counting）, and some suggestions on how to get the most out of them.     

The Ladder To Paradise

If you had the chance, would you take therisk to reach the top of the world? Whilemost people only dream of such a challenge, some adventurers make it a reality. The documentary movie Ladder to Paradise, which opens at Chinese movie the-aters in September, records the life of mountain guides in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, from rookies to seasoned climbers, culminating with an ascent of the 8,844-meter Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West.     

Friendship Activities in Brief

United Nations PublicService DayThe CPAFFC sent a representative to par-ticipate in the celebration of the UN PublicService Day held at the UN Headquarters in NewYork on June 23.Ma Hairong accepted,on behalfof the CPAFFC,the certificate of honour of Excel-lence Service in Public bestowed upon the CPAFFCby the Friends of the United Nations and on behalfof CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin,a certificateconferred upon the vice president jointly by theWorld Harmony Foundation,F…     

Xinjiang’s Border Trade Weathering Economic Crisis

YANG Ruiqing, head of the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau of Altay, Xinjiang, got a call from Kazakhstan on the first of June this year. ＂Our vegetable supplies are low, pushing the prices sky high. Would you mind giving a produce fair by the end of the month to cool down the market a bit？＂ At the other end of the line was Chief of the Foreign Trade Administration for East Kazakhstan State. Before the local harvest season, vegetables there are always several times more expensive than those in neighboring Xinjiang. Yang routinely receives calls for help from his Kazakhstani counterpart at this time of the year.     

Preview Screening of Documentary Touching the Tigers

While CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin visited the U.S.from April 11 to 16,a preview of the documentary film Touching the Tigers,a memorial to the great contribution American pilots made to China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in WWII,was screened at the Chinese Embassy in Washington,D.C.     

Beijing＇s Winter Wonderland

Honestly, aren‘t you sometimes getting just a little fed up with the noise and the grime of the city? So why not do something about your frustrations and head out to the Fragrant Hills? The place is well-known for its breath-taking views in autumn, when the leaves of the sumac trees change from a dusty green to brilliant gold and red, and the capital‘s citizens arrive in their thousands. In summer, walking in the shade of those trees is a welcome respite from the heat of the city, a popular place to cool down and chill out.     

Adding Representatives of Your Representative Office

QUESTION:I'm the director of the board of a big French company. Our services are all-round and perfect and we have achievements to our credit. Attracted by China's fast development, we set up a representative office in Beijing last year. Because of a certain reason, only a representative is in this representative office. This autumn, we want to extend our business and have two more representatives of this representative office. But we don't know how to handle this concerning procedures according to China's laws and regulations. Please tell us in details. We'll be extremely grateful to your help.     

CPAFFC Delegation Attends Annual Conference of People-to-People International

At the invitation of the People-to-People In-ternational(PPI),a CPAFFC delegation headedby its Vice President Li Xiaolin attended the 14thannual conference of the PPI from November 8 to12, 2000 in Hong Kong. At the conference Li was     

Two Reporters,One Destination

<正>This March 28 marked the 63rd anniversary of the emancipation of serfs in Tibet.Chen Zonglie,born in 1932,was a photojournalist who worked for Tibet Daily from 1956 to 1980,then Beijing Review from 1981 to 1996.He witnessed and recorded the changes in local people’s lives before and after the 1959 democratic reform in the region.Li Nan,born in 1982,is a reporter with Beijing Review.She visited Tibet Autonomous Region every year from 2017 to 2020.