On a Digital Track China's Internet sector is thriving with the support of national policies

正Zhang Danyang,a 28-year-old purchasing agent in Shenzhen,usually starts her day by checking the news and browsing her friends’social media posts on her smartphone in bed after she wakes up.She eats breakfast while streaming TV shows in the background,and goes to work by bus which she pays for via a QR code on a payment app.She rarely brings     

My Dream Goes On

Sara runs a CD store at a university. I met her three years ago when she first came to Beijing, was a lead vocalist in a band and a CD peddler. I met her again at the Midi Music Festival. Sara organized more than 50 college students to work at the festival. She was outgoing and warmhearted as always. Her name has been changed.     

On a Digital Track

Zhang Danyang, a 28-year-old purchasing agent in Shenzhen, usually starts her day by checking the news and browsing her friends' social media posts on her smartphone in bed after she wakes up. She eats breakfast while streaming TV shows in the background,and goes to work by bus which she pays for via a QR code on a payment app. She rarely brings cash with her anymore since she can pay for almost everything by using her phone.     

Workout Routine

正Keeping fit has been a fashion in ChinaAbout five years ago,Liu Chun’er,a Beijingbased office professional,hated her own image in the mirror."Fat-laden waist and stocky legs obscured my curve,"she said.She did not even have the courage to wear skirts.Now she loves to don skirts,snap pictures of herself and share them with her friends via social media platforms.Moreover,she has become a fitness role model for her husband and     

A Happy Return

AFTER spending half of her life in the U.S., Liu Weiyun has returned to China and made her home in Beijing. She has, as she puts it, completed a circle of happiness.     

Ten Chinese Who Have Deeply Moved the African People

Li Li Head of the Zhongken Farm in Zambia. Since she accompanied her husband to work in the Zhongken Farm in Zambia in 1992, she has always given her work the highest priority and never returned to China. She used to be a nurse and before coming to Zambia, she knew nothing about agriculture and livestock farming. After years of practice, now she is an expert in these fields. In 2005 her husband passed away in a traffic accident. Facing this sudden misfortune, she turned grief into strengt…     

THE LINGUISTIC LEAP

<正>Maori language and culture help to boost China-New Zealand tiesMatilda Gaby knows she was born near Nanchang,the capital of Jiangxi,a province in central China,but she has no other recollection of her life there or her Chinese biological family.She was adopted by a New Zealand couple when she was9 months old and spent her early years in     

尚昌平和她的南疆

<正>After more than 50 visits there since her fi rst one two decades ago,Shang Changping has an abiding love of southern Xinjiang.When she travels around the oasis of Taklimakan Desert,she feels every cottage could be her second home,she says.While 20 years passed,she matured from a girl to a woman,and her love and understanding of Xinjang became more profound.She even speaks with a Xinjiang accent!     

Traditional Crafts Highlighting Olympics The Beijing Olympics offers an unprecedented opportunity for China to save its disappearing folk arts

Tang Ying ying , a 19-year-old history major , bears clear hallmarks of the Chinese you n g er gen e r ation: she oo z es confidence and a sense of su p e r io r ity; and differ ent from oldergen e r ations, she often says “I” instead of “w e.” She wants to live her life according to her own ideas and she dares to pursue suc- cess, excellence and new things. But the un i ver sity junior admits that she has some un usual hobbies for her age. Influenced by her gran d f ath e r , Tang is a …     

Trafficking Victims Savour Fresh Start

She listens to the giggles of her13-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter watching a mar-tial arts programme on TV inthe lounge of her new two-sto-ry home.Xu Wanping cannot believe her weteyes: she has waited 17 years for thislaughter.In 1988, an 18-year-…     

Who Takes Care of Gandmas and Gandpas?

WEI Shouren, a 69-year-old widow liv-ing in Shanghai’s Jing’an District, has recently suffered a re-lapse into her old complaint of constant cramping of her leg muscles. The mas-sages her late husband used to give her considerably eased her pain; now that he’s gone, she must go alone to a mas-seur. Ms. Wei has a son who has been living in the US for five years. She has, upon his insistence, tried twice to live with him and his family there, but has never felt at home in the US.     

A New Road to Rural Prosperity

AT peak tourist season, 32-year-old Li Lianfen sees her husband and son just once a week. She has converted her home in Shicheng (Stone City) Village in Beijing's Miyun County into an inn. City people come here to stay and enjoy the beauty and tran-quility of the mountains around her village. As she has no time to look after her son, he attends a primary school in the county seat 20 kilometers away. His father is a teacher at the middle school nearby. They both stay there in the accommodation provided.     

Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award Bestowed on Quake Heroine

THE 14th Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award has bestowed a special prize to Jiang Min, a Sichuan policewoman who remained at her post after the May 12 earthquake killed 10 members of her family, including her parents and two-year-old daughter. Seeing the many mothers and children in need of urgent help, she gave up a chance to return home to have a last look at her family, and joined the rescue work without hesitation. The agony of losing those she loved most, coupled with overwork through five sleepless days and nights, caused Jiang Min to collapse several times at the rescue site, When her story came out in the media, people lauded her as ＂China＇s strongest policewoman.＂     

Local Legislation Giving Single Women Birth Right Caught in Debate

Chen Yifan, who is resolved to be single for life, has never expected that at 45, she can realize her dream of producing a baby for herself without having to get married—and legally. The woman is quite successful in her career as manager of a private company in Changchun City, Jilin Province, northeast China. Her personal life, however, is not. She fell in love with a classmate back in the early 1980s, and was heart-broken when the young man left her. Since then, the woman has found that no man in this world is good enough to be her husband. Though single, she wants to have a child of her own. "I'll be burning with envy whenever I see a     

Liu Yujing and Her Organic Store

LIU Yujing is a 35-year-old mother of a four-yearold child.She quit her job as a secretary at a foreign trade company years ago to become a fulltime mother,but during the past half year she launched her own business.Liu's return to the workforce has not taken her far from home however.     

Procurator:Laws Are the Ultimate Guardian for Delinquent Minors

"I ’ll never forget what happened that afternoon," Peng Yan said, with a grave look. "A woman came with her daughter and told me tha if the teenage girl didn’t want to live anymore, neither did she." Peng Yan is a procurator at the Changping District Procuratorate unde Beijing Municipality. The girl, then 14 years old, was the victim in a crimina case Peng Yan handled in 2005. "She was afraid of meeting people and going to school as she was pregnan     

Sexual Harassment-A Matter of Social Concern

WHILE working as consultant on a women's helpline I received many letters and calls about sexual harassment. One 26-year-old woman told me how she had been demoted from her position as accountant to that of cleaner because she rebuffed the sexual advances of her manager. On reporting him the manager concerned suffered no reprisals whatever. She, on the other hand, was ostracized by her colleagues and friends. Even her husband upbraided her for being oversensitive. She wrote to me asking for legal advice.     

Spare the Rod

Summer is a wonderful season for many school children.But for Sun Zhengwen,a 13-year-old girl in Qingdao,east China's Shandong Province,it was a very dark time.On July 8,just days into the holidays she jumped off a building and killed herself,leaving behind a threepage suicide note accusing her parents of violence and abuse. According to Sun's note,on the evening of July 6,her father found that she did not finish a question in her homework assignment.He slapped her on her left cheek,to which she screamed "I lost my hearing," prompting a harder slap to the right side of the face that sent her to the ground,reeling.She wrote that her parents continued to beat her until she lost consciousness,and she did not wake up until the next morning.     

Hill Dwellers Climb Cultural Mountain——Miao people record their identity and history in eco-museum

Instead of running away, she stood to attention with arms akimbo and gave a serious smile. The giant wooden basket on her back almost made her fall as she tried to straighten her body. When I raised the camera, Yang Jiaxiu was walking along a narrow, muddy mountain path in a virgin fir forest, carrying about 50 kilograms of water. She twisted her body to pour the water into a large tank when she finally arrived at her house. Then the Miao woman put down the     

A Modern Merger

Lai Xin a college student in Jiangxi Province,now rarely visits relatives and friends with her parents during the Spring Festival.Instead,having glamorous shots taken at a studio has become one of her new ways to spend the most important festival of the year.She starts losing weight a month prior to the holiday so she can look better in the photos.Most of them feature a red background,as the color symbolizes good luck for the Chinese.She puts the framed photos by her bed for the coming year.Lai also has other special rituals for the festival,such as creating emojis of herself wearing red scarves or carrying red lanterns.