Are We Getting Any Closer？.

The collective title of the four articles comprising this issue's Special Report is "Safeguarding 'Half of the Sky'." The women reporters that wrote these articles are all from Beijing - one of China's foremost metropolises. The education they received, which stressed that they were born equal to men, was of a standard that affords them the economic independence to decide whether to stay single or play the role of responsible householder.     

Dingzhou Develops Green Industry

THE summer of 2000 cameearlier than usual. In earlyJune. amidst a heatwave,and under the scorchingsun, an expert delegation cameto Dengzhou. We they arrivedat the municipal high-techdemonstration vegetable park,however they were happy to seethat it was green throughout,andthat the air was fresh and perme-ated with the aroma of plants.This climate contrast gave theman extremely favorable impres-sion of the green industry inDengzhou.The green industry is a 21stcentury sun-rise industry,brought…     

Beijing Tour Helps Veterans Realize Their Dreams

It was November 10, 2010. The MU (Harmony) train rolled off the railway station from Changchun of Jilin Province in Northeast China and was fast moving down southward. In the train, 11 veterans were so excited that they were singing     

A High-End Dream for the Low-Income

Xiamen builds affordable housing to improve well-being Chen Liying remembers the slummy conditions of her previous home."The roof of the dormitory was so thin that I could hear mice crawling on top every night.It was like they were dancing over my head while     

Successors to Cause of Sino-US Friendship

The 92-year-old Dr. Charles M. Grossman, president of Evans F. Carlson's Friends of the People's Republic of China, arrived at the Beijing International Airport with his son-in-law Mark Johnson on August 31, 2005. The 85-year-old Jeanne, daughter-in-law of Evans F. Carlson, and Karen Loving, granddaughter of Carlson arrived in Beijing 15 minutes later on the same day. It was quite meaningful that they met in Beijing as they had never met in the United States. They had come to China on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of     

RAINING CASH ON HOLLYWOOD

正Private Chinese investors regard Hollywood as a new opportunity for growth Chinese companies have once again stepped into the limelight as they entered the stage of the U.S.entertainment industry colossus,Hollywood.The latest deal between Chinese and Hol ywood companies was made by the Dalian     

Cliff Paintings and Sculptures

Mogao Grottoes This was an old road scattered withhistorical sites. What we saw were the end-less Gobi Desert and layer upon layer ofhazy mountain peaks in the distance. The earliest settlers of this area camefrom the east, filled with a western dream.What they found was an area of vast desertswith high and barren mountains. Ancient beacon towers, broken anddilapidated through years of storms and     

How It All Started

The first public celebration of the Chinese New Year in Denmark took place in 2002.It was to mark that it was 100years since the first Chinese immigrated.Before 1902 a few offi cial Chinese delegations and some sailors visited Copenhagen,but they all left.It had been noticed that the Chinese aroused great interest,though.At that time in Europe it was popular to watch"exotic"people.So accordingly the Danish entertainment park Tivoli     

The Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River-The ancient Disneyland in China

The annual chrysanthemum festival was held as scheduled in Kaifeng on October 28th, 1998. There was all in bloom and was full of tourists in this city that day.It was also the time to open the Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River. Huge crowd of tourists seemed to be driven by a sort of great charm and moved into this fascinating place. All of them wanted to get the wonderful feeling that once they enter into this garden place, the place will take them back thousands of years in time.     

All-Seeing AI

正Artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionizehealthcare in China There was a long queue at the diagnostic laboratory in Shanghai's famed art and tourist destination West Bund Art Center.But strangely,the people in the line did not look tense and anxious as they are wont to when awaiting a diagnostic test.The reason for this became clear when one looked harder.The Future Diagnostic Lab     

Classical Connections

Beijing Music Festival helps remove the elitist stigma from classical music The audience at the Forbidden City Concert Hall was held spellbound on October 2, as they sat back and were     

Sino-American Seminar on the Shareholding System

The Sino-American Seminar on theShareholding System cosponsored by theCPAFFC and the US Future Trend International(Group) Corporation was held in Beijing on De-cember 8,1998. Chinese and American experts andscholars attended and spoke at the seminar. In theirspeeches they compared and discussed about thehistory and present situation of the shareholding     

Cultural Consumption Boom

正Chinese people’s demand for cultural products is increasing A love story was sparked when Chen Linxiao and Ning Chengfang first met 36 years ago in the dusty corridors of a Beijing bookstore.The couple,born in the 1960s,had been searching for the same book throughout the city one day,but found more than what they had bargained for by the end of the day.Chen had just claimed the only copy of the book he was looking for at a store and was about to exit     

WORLD

正THE UNITED STATES U.S.scientists announce on February 11 that they have detected the existence of gravitational waves through the Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory in Livingston,Louisiana(pictured above).The phenomenon was predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity 100 years ago     

LETTERS

Irecently read your article .entitled ＂Coupling and Unoupling Chinese Style＂ with great interest. Though the events mentioned in the article weren＇t part of my life, I know them to be true. My parents told me that they had bowed to a portrait of Chairman Mao at their wedding, a must for any wedding process of the time. The gifts they received were mostly wash basins and thermal flasks, several of which remained unused till I was a teenager.     

ACFA Delegation Visits China

In August, the sun blazed in Beijing like a ballof fire sending out waves of hot air.The delegation of the Algeria-China Friend-ship Association (AGFA) headed by its presidentIsmail Debeche was invited to pay a goodwill visitto China. This was the first batch of Algerianfriends the CPAFFC received in 13 years and alsothe first delegation sent by the ACFA since itsfounding in November 1993.On August 3, Wang Guangying, vice chair-man of the Standing Committee of the NationalPeople's Congress, met with the delegation. Assoon as he saw the delegation members, he toldthem that they had come in the hottest season inBeijing and that their journey could be very tir-ing. Debeche said humorously that they had beenlooking forward to visiting the great China, thatthey wanted to see with their own eyes the tre-     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Making Educated Decisions According to a recent survey by Horizon Research Consultancy Group,40 percent of the surveyed people believe the returns of ed- ucation are unsatisfactory,given high tuition fees,while only 16 percent of the respondents think education is worth the tuition fees. In 2006,a report issued by the Horizon Group indicated that education spending was the primary reason for household deficit spending.Today,the situation seems worse: The higher education background people have,the less they believe they have spent valuable money on their education.What nurtures this pessimism?     

How High Will They Go?

Experts predict that world oil prices may continue to climb Oil prices on the world market continued to skyrocket through- out 2007.Experts now forecast that they could keep increasing because the factors that have pushed them up have not disappeared or changed. The surge in prices was extreme espe-     

What Usury Did to Serfs In Old Tibet

In old Tibet, the local government (including individual officials), monasteries and feudal lords all engaged in trade. Without exception, they also lent money at usurious rates. Interest-based profits were a major source of their incomes. To exploit serfs, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan local government established special agencies to handle money-lending matters. The agency established by the Dalai Lama for the purpose was called     

Our Friendship with Africa

AS opposed to Mr. Stephen Bourne,who was born in Uganda and must hold special feelings towards the continent,my impressions of Africa come mainly from movies and TV programs. The stunning natural scenery,long history of civilization as well as the good,honest people they featured portray the beauty and wealth of the continent. However,mention of Africa brings tomind images