Cao Xianqiang： Inheritor of Ethnic Fusion

The Achang
The Achang are a trans-border ethnic minority with a population of more than 33,000, living mainly in Yunnan＇s Longchuan and Lianghe counties in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefectures while some live in Luxi and Yingjiang counties. There are also a few concentrations in Tengchong and Longling counties of Baoshan City as well as in Yunlong County of Dali Bai Autonomous Prelecture. In Myanmar, there are more than 40,000 Achangs, locally called Malntha.     

Who Is Singing in Spring？

The concert's promotional material, which reads "Who is singing in Spring?" is partly designed by friends. JIANG Shilong's friends call him Lao Yao or "old demon." He has a band called Xishan Laoyao, "West Mountain Old Demon," which he started with a few friends in Beijing after graduating from college, When the other members left, Lao Yao continued     

Visiting the Birthplace of the Hulusi—Lianghe

<正>Hegel once said: Music is an art of mood that focuses directly on the emotions.To become acquainted with a place or a people,we may begin by getting to know its musical instruments. Lianghe County,located in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province,is the birthplace of the hulusi -the calabash flute.The sound of the hulusi is soft,fine,mellow and pastoral,evocatively leading you to the county of its birth-Lianghe.     

Xinjiang Achieves the ＂Two Basic Universals＂

The Xishuangbanna Dai-Language News Website, the first ever website in the Dai language has gone online in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Communities of Dai, one of the 15 ethnic groups unique to Yunnan are concentrated mainly in places such as Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, and Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. They are also distributed around most of Yunnan.     

TALENT GALORE

Tan Jianming graduated with a master's degree in refrigeration technology when he was 25 years old in 1989, a time when postgraduate students were a rare thing thing in china. He gave up many job opportunities in big cities and went in stead to work in a small factory in Zhuhai, a city in south Chna's Guangdong Province. Developing from a little fishing and salt-producing town, Zhuhai was officially established as a city in 1979.     

Yin He：Dream of a Wilderness Comes True in Tibet

Ilanded a job in a Beijing bank in ：2OLO after graduating with a master＇s degree. I was lucky. A job in a bank in the metropolis is well paid with bright career prospects,and consequently much sought after. But it didn＇t appeal to me. I found that sitting in a cubicle clad in a sharp suit from nine to five, five days a week was slowly eroding my ambition and spirit. I soon felt isolated in this cell of cement, steel and glass. I itched for the freedom of a great wilderness - a world of clear blue skies and lush meadows strewn with wild flowers extending to an open horizon. Although devoid of modern amenities, to me the wild blue yonder teemed with promise and opportunities that would renew my youth and vigor.     

Darwaz Art：Airing the Daring

IN Darwaz a misstep means certain death. The word is straightforward, meaning ＂walking on a rope in the air＂ in the Uygur language. Tightrope walking is a traditional sport of this ethnic group in China.     

A Home for the Aged in a Rural Community

Both in their mid-70s, Shan Baorui and his wife are now living at a model home for the aged in north China.The couple lives in a single room with heating in winter and an indoor toilet. Outside is a garden-like compound with flowers colorfully bright in the refresh- ing breeze.     

Beautiful Life

WAWA is a makeup artist working in the wonderful world of fashion. She can repaint a model's face faster than a Formula 1 team can change four wheels in a pit stop. Originally from Harbin, Wawa has been living in Beijing for five years. She showed a talent for fashion from an early age and delighted in daubing her face with makeup and parading around in her mother's dresses and high heels     

AN INTERNET‘MADE FOR CHINA''''

"Localization" is a big word in business. It means the tailoring of a product to a particular culture, to tap into a local market, and it's mentioned in a few of the articles in Beijing Review's special package on Internet use in China.     

Open Advertising Companies in China by Overseas Chinese

I am a Chinese having done business in America for many years. I am very proud of being a Chinese especially when China has such a rapid development in recent years. I see from various mediathat person like me who wants togo back to China to start business is in urgent need in China especially in Beijing. I have a tentative idea of opening a company in Beijing engaging in the design and delivery of advertisements, but I do not know what formalities we shall go through. I sincerely hope you can give me a detailed reply.     

Sun Village,Home for Children of Imprisoned Parents

In the Banqiao Village of the Town of Zhaoquanying in the Shunyi District of Beijing, there is a special village formed by a few tin-plate cabins. It's special because it takes in only neglected children whose parents are locked behind bars. Living in the village now are more than 120 children aged 1 to 18. Break the Cycle It is one of six such villages in China all launched by Zhang Shuqin. The others are in Shaanxi and Henan. Zhang, 57, became a policewoman in 1985. In 1995, she served as a deputy chief editor of a prison newspaper Xin An News     

A Tale of Three Cities

<正>An integrated transportation grid will connect Beijing,Tianjin and HebeiProvinceRen Aifan,a 28-year-old who works in downtown Beijing and dwells in Yanjiao,a town in neighboring Hebei Province,has to spend four hours in commuting every day."I get on a bus at 6:50 a.m.and take Beijing’s Subway Line 1 around 8:00a.m.When I get off at Chongwenmen Station and arrive in my office,it’s usually almost 9:00a.m.,"Ren told Beijing Review,complaining about the crowd in the bus enveloped in     

Movers and Shapers

In an exhibition area of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Annual Meeti ng of the New Cham pions in China's northeastern coastal city of Dalian, a robot was performing a surgical operation on a rose. The volunteers in the booth invited visitors to have a go at running the machine, which was developed by U.S. company Intuitive Surgical and has been used in 6 million successful surgeries worldwide. Over 110,000 of these were done in China, which has around 80 such robots in use in hospitals.     

APPING THE GAME

In 1999,volunteers in Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou in south China were told to walk into a bare room each to test if they could survive 72 hours inside without venturing out.The rooms contained just a bed,a roll of toilet paper,a sum of money in cash,an equal amount in digital currency and a dial-up Internetnet.     

Grow With the Snow

Chen Chen used to be a veterinarian in Yanqing,a suburban district in northwest Beijing,the city that is going to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 together with Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province.When China won the bid for the Winter Games in 2015,Chen's enthusiasm for winter sports was ignited.He developed an interest in skiing and bought the entire paraphernalia,including a helmet and a ski suit.     

Updating an Outdated Mindset

Young people can take on a significant role in shapingChina-U.S.tiesThe last several years have marked difficult times in Sino-American relations;it's been a period of disappointment.For people of Chinese descent residing in the U.S.,it's also been a time of withdrawal.     

Zunyi:Back to the Land,Technology in Hand

LOCATED in northern Guizhou Province,southwest China,Zunyi is famous for its liquor and a crucial meeting in the history of the Communist Party of China.During a crisis in the Chinese revolution,CPC leaders held a politburo meeting in Zunyi from January 15 to 17,1935,which has gone down in history as the Zunyi Meeting.     

Mother or Lover, That＇s the Questio

WHEN word spread about a Leonids shower in mid November 2009, there was a flurry of excitement among young Chinese, astronomy fans or not. The event appears once every 33.5 years, meaning a mortal can watch three of them in a lifetime at best. But a rarer occurrence is now on the way - the Chinese New Year and Valentine＇s Day fall on the same day in 2010, a happenstance of once in 38 years.     

The Strength Of Solidarity

For almost a month,China has been engaged in a heroic fight against the novel coronavirus.While the problem is principally in Hubei Province in central China with most cases,other provinces such as Guangdong in the south,Zhejiang in the east,and Henan in central China,have also been affected,though to a much smaller extent.