LIFELONG LEARNING

Agefriendly schools offer diverse courses,ranging from dancing to smart technology,to help the nation’s silver generation live their lives to the fullest.1.Students of a seniors’college in Shanghai take a virtual tour of the world using VR technology on November 26,20212.A traditional opera class at a seniors’college in Jingning She Autonomous County,Zhejiang Province,on November 1,20213.     

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.     

Reform Achievements Shared

THE small village of Yonglian has transformed over the past40 years from a barren mud flat too insignificant to appear on the Jiangsu Province map to a national culturally-developed village.In2013,the total village revenue stood at RMB 110 million,and local residents’per capita net income at RMB 32,937.Yonglian villagers enjoy a life of peace and prosperity.Yangtze River Shoal Dwellings Senior citizen Zhang Yuqin came to live in Yonglian Village in the 1970s.At that time it was known as Brigade 23 of Nanfeng Commune in Shazhou County.     

Meeting Marking 104th Birthday of New Zealand Doctor He Ming Qing Held in Beijing

A meeting marking the 104th birthday of Dr.He Ming Qing was held in Beijing.He Ming Qing was the Chinese name ofKathleen Hall,a New Zealander.She hadpracticed medicine in the rural areas whereconditions were very hard and doctors rarefor nearly 20 years in China before Libera-tion.She set up the He Ming Qing Clinic inSongjiazhuang village of Quyang County,     

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.     

Sacred Lake Baiku Co

正ANYONE traveling between Xigaze City and Gyirong County,or between Xigaze City and Saga County via the corridor in front of Mt.Xixabangma,would en route be unable to miss Baiku Co,a large undisturbed crystal blue body of water that stands out in the drab flat terrain of a great wilderness.Sprawling over 300 square kilometers and standing at     

PEOPLE & POINTS

<正>FATHER OF RURAL REFORM DIESDu Runsheng,a well-known economist and one of China’s most influential experts on rural issues,passed away in Beijing on October 9 at the age of 102.Du was born in 1913 in a village in Taigu County,north China’s Shanxi Province.He worked as a military officer and revolutionary leader in the 1930s and 1940s.After theü     

A JOINT RESPONSE TO CHALLENGE

A continued guarantee of employees’ jobs,rights and interests Growing up in a small village in Yongjia County,Zhejiang Province,Li Feng has worked his way up from truck driver to purchasing manager at a large hi-tech enterprise in Shanghai.He has now been living and working in the metropolis near his hometown for two and a half decades.     

Buried Treasures

ON January 19,2003,at around 4:00 pm,afew rural laborers were digging at the edge of their village in western China's Shaanxi Province. Minnies later they inadvertentlyunearthed a cellar containing 27 priceless bron/e vessels dating back 3,000 years.Shaanxi Province is home to numerous historical relics, most famously the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) Emperor Qinshihuang's terracotta warriors. A discovery of this kind is a familiar phenomenon to these villagers, as three cellars containing bronze vessels and a set of bron/e chimes had previously been unearthed in their village. The men, therefore, stopped digging immediately and informed the appropriate archeological experts. Yangjiacun Village in Meixian County, Baoji City, Shaanxi     

LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE

<正>Citizens get more involved in the decision-making process at the community level Zhang Si,a 24-year-old village assistant in Zhouliang village,Baodi District in the northern port city of Tianjin,gathers opinions from villagers every day.She began her current job in September last year.     

Quake Evacuation

More than 60,000 affected by earthquake and aftershocks in China's far west An earthquake on March 21 mea- suring 7.3 on the Richter scale forced the relocation of 144 families in a village in Yutian County,Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,to safe places,according to Xinhua News Agency. The first and strongest jolt occurred at 6:33 a.m.that morning.Then four after- shocks,measuring between 5.2 and 5 on the Richter scale,followed between 7 a.m.and 8     

Xiaogng Village：The Starting Point of Rural Reform

ON the night of Novenber 24, 1978, farmers of 18 households from Xiaogang, a village in Fengyang County, Anhui Province, signed a Secret agreenent using their thumb prints. They agreed to divide the land of the local commune into household plots in return for delverinq f xed output quotas to the government with the condition of never asking for money or groin from the state. It was also written into the contract that if the cadres went to jail for this proposition, the Other Villagers would take care of therk ds until they were 1 8. The household contract responsibility systen was str cty forbidden at that time.     

Rebuilding Families Newborn babies provide a brighter outlook on life for couples who lost their only child in the earthquake

Deng Li smiles when she talks about her daughter,Xu Mengyi,a lively and considerate girl who loved school and tackling household chores without parental nagging.The two attended the same primary school-the elder a Chinese language teacher and the younger a student-in Hongbai Town,nestled at the foot of a mountain in Shifang City,Sichuan Province.“She is the pride of my life,” said Deng,an elusive smile barely spreading across her face.“She would be a big girl today,maybe taller than me.”     

Change China With Rural Women

Nobody would expect a rural woman with limited schooling to become a Hillary Clinton in a matter of a week. But after attending a 7-day training program, the 40 women from villages of Mancheng, a rural county in Hebei Province 150 kilometers southwest of Beijing, found themselves ready to make an impact in their respective communities' politics. "I'm running against my own father for the position of village head," said the 19-year-old Li Yinghui, at a mock campaign at the end of the training in early April. "I have more education than he does, and I understand the difficulties confronting us rural women better."     

Mount Daliangshan

A young college graduate born in the 1990s spent a short internship in Yizi village, Zhaojue County of Yi Autonomous Region in Sichuan Province. During this time, he developed a close bond with local villagers and children, and thereby a strong link with the ancient and mysterious Yi people.     

The Dragon Bone Collectors

Finding of a dinosaur fossil skeleton sparks excitement among paleontologists and locals in a poor Henan village Avillager's accidental discovery four years ago has made known to the world a rich mine of dinosaur fossils in Ruyang County,central China's Henan Province.At the same time,the fate of the small village has been changed. Li Chui,a farmer in Shaping Village, thought he had found bones of a"dragon"when he dug up stones for his new house on an April morning in 2005.     

Life in the Taihang Mountains

THE Taihang Mountain Range meanders for 500 kilometers across the territories of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces. It is an important ecological screen for the North China Plain and source of water. In Hebei's Shexian County sits Wangjinzhuang, a 300-year-old stone village nestled in the mountains.The village is a stone world-lanes, houses, court-yard walls, towers, pavilions, tables, benches and mills are all hewn fom ancient rock. Streets and lanes are paved in stones of various shapes and sizes whose sur-     

MEDICINE FROM THE PLATEAU

<正>The market for traditional Tibetan medicine is flourishing Born into a family of traditional Tibetan doctors in 1966,Puqung first began to serve as a doctor in his village in Baxoi County,southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,at the tender age of 15.Two years earlier,Puqung had commenced his study by memorizing the Four Volumes of Medicine(FVM),regarded as the most systematic and complete book on Tibetan medicine.By 24,he had become a chief doctor at Qamdo Tibetan Medicine Hospital in east Tibet,a position he holds to this day.     

Exercising Government Power in the Interest of the People——In celebration of the 55th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China

The story goes back to October 24, 2003 when Xiong Dem-ing, a woman living in a poverty-stricken village in southwest China, was on herway back home with a sack of pig feed on her shoulder. She happened to meet Premier Wen Jiabao, who was visiting her village in Yunyang County, Chongqing     

Food Security Seeks Salvation in Eco-Farming

The following is an interview on food security with Jiang Gaoming, a research fellow with the Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Jiang specializes in grain production and food safety, and has established an experimental eco-farm in his home village, Jiangjiazhuang in Shandong＇s Pingyi County.