Heritage Protection

正The 44 th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is currently underway in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this is the first time for UNESCO to review World Heritage applications online. A series of operational norms for online review were established and adopted at this session and will become an important reference for the combination of online and offline platforms in the World Heritage field.     

LETTERS

We are often told that online gaming causes people to spend valuable time in front of computers at the expense of work and school,and that it isolates them from human companionships. As a fan of online games,I think this is unwarranted prejudice. Playing online games is in fact a less solitary activity than most people think. Games nowadays differ from those of the past,when each player played one person at a time. Many are now multiplayer games where players are encouraged to interact. I often socialize with other video game fans through the Internet. In my opinion,multi-player type online games do     

SPOTLIGHTS

Blind advisor makes proposals online Fuzhou, Jan. 10-Xia Rongqiang, the first blind member of the advisory body to east China's Fujian Province, submitted a proposal via the Internet urging more budget for blind people's education. Xia is a member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. For the first time online submission of proposals to the committee's upcoming annual session was allowed, and Xia's bill marked the first of such submission. Xia said his election to the committee showed that disabled people in China enjoyed equal rights on discussing political affairs. Xia is principal of a blind school in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, which is affiliated to the Hadley School for the Blind, an institute aiming to help educate the blind internationally. The Hadley School has branches in more than 100 countries and regions all over the world, but Xia's school is the only one in China and Asia.     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Online Opinion or Public Opinion? China's cyberspace was stirred up recently by a statement made by Fan Gang, a famed Chinese economist. "The majority of farmers and migrant workers don't surf the Internet, so the opinion of netizens doesn't equal the opinion of the general public...online opinions shouldn't drive government decision-making," Fan said. China has more than 100 million netizens of its total population of 1.3 billion, and what can be closer to the public opinion in the country than the voices of 100 million people? Besides, many of these people have friends or relatives who are farmers and migrant workers. So far, many of the online opinions, such as those against corruption or seeking social justice, are expressed not only on behalf of netizens but also for the farmers and migrant workers who can't make their voices heard because they don't surf the net. The Internet is a new platform for people to express themselves. On this point, the Internet has much merit, and so do China's netizens. Online opinions may be references for government decision-making, but in fact, no government would design policy simply by following the public opinion. Decision-making is a scientific process and listening to online opinions is only one way to hear all parties. People's Daily Hua Dong News     

商务英语在EBAY中的应用(英文)

EBay, as one of the typical enterprise of e-commerce, is also becoming more and more popular with worldwide people. EBay is regarded as the number one in the field of online auction business. It is well-known that nowadays the college graduates have to face fierce employment pressure. Therefore, doing business on eBay may be a good choice for college graduates to start their colorful lives. This paper tries to study the business English applied in doing eBay business with the aim to help the new sellers and know about the procedures of starting business on eBay. The results presented in this paper are based on the experience of some long-term sellers of eBay and the Hands-on of the author. From this paper the readers can easily realize that the every steps of begin business on eBay depends on the help of business English.     

LETTERS

I came across an album of photos put online by a charity group last year and was appalled by the inhumane condition of some of the poorest in this country. It is hard to believe that in a time when I and people around me complain about bad traffic or plan summer vaca- tions in Europe for our kids, some people deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province are still struggling to fill their stomachs and their children     

Speech by Jose Luis Schafer,UNALE President of Brazil,at 2014 China International Friendship Cities Conference

I will start my speech greeting the event organizers for the opportunity to meet you in this so prosperous city and an example of development and industrialization to the world.I believe that everyone who is here for the first time is impressed with the development of the region and the selected audience that is present.I am a Brazilian parliamentarian from the State of Acre,in the region of the Brazilian Amazon,and I chair UNALE—National Union of Brazilian State Legislators and Legis-     

READY FOR BIGGER THINGS

Log in.Declare online.Wait for an hour.Approved!Liu Xinyuan,Manager of Hainan Rouming Red Heart Dragon Fruit Co.,heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the approval for his application to export dragon fruit flashing on the online government service platform of Hainan,the southernmost Chinese provinee where his company is based.Spring is the harvest season for tropical fruits and Liu planned to export dragon fruit to Europe in early February.But with the novel coronavirus epidemic forcing many offices to stay closed,Liu had worried that customs clearance would take a long time and the fruits might go bad.     

WAITING FOR WEB 2.0

What will the next generation of Internet services mean for China? The Web 2.0 buzzword, having gathered speed in the United States in recent years as a way to describe new, more collaborative Internet applications, is attracting the attention and money of a batch of Chinese start-up firms. But will it attract the people? Late last year, the China Internet Society released a report that tracked this second major round of Internet boom. The findings of the report, titled China Web 2.0     

Cleaning Up Cyberspace

On Actions taken to curb false rumors online On August 25,Beijing police released a statement saying that journalist Liu Hu had been detained on allegations of fabrication and dissemination of false rumors online.Liu works for New Express,a local newspaper published in Guangzhou in south China’s Guangdong Province.The police didn’t release any further details other than stating that the case was currently under investigation.On the same day,Zhou Lubao,a blogger,was arrested in east China’s Jiangsu Province for an alleged extortion linked to the spreading of misinformation online.Zhou is suspected of posting more than 15,000 items of misinformation online within the last year.The Ministry of Public Security said that Zhou had blackmailed more than 20 separate entities and individuals.     

An Incubator of Grassroots Media

Blogs empower ordinary people by letting them disseminate information via the Internet The Canadian science fiction writer William Gibson predicted in 1996 that everyone would one day express his or her ideas via the Internet. In reality the real vitality of Internet expression today exists at the grass- roots level, and professional Internet writers sprout from ordinary netizens. At the center of it all the blog serves a haven for this new and growing online culture.     

Learing the 3Cs

Chinese home appliance makers are trying to activate any link between computers, communication and consumer electronics It's a scene that has failed to materialize in the past, but companies in China are trying again: sitting in front of the television, the viewer surfs the Internet, buys things from online shops, plays online games and makes video phone calls. The TV will transform into a catch-all information appliance, to be used as computer and telephone. While the technology is already avail     

Heroes of Our Times

The course of China’s modern history,revolution and nation building has been indelibly impressed by the selfless contributions of Party members.The following "hall of fame" highlights a few names from that huge galaxy.From disparate backgrounds and in varied occupations,their common denominator is the desire to work for the greater good of the country and its people,and to do all in their capacity to achieve this goal.To reflect on their stories is also to remind us that what qualifies them for inclusion is intimately bound up with the values and conditions of the various periods in which they lived.     

Green Beijing

Beijingers are attaching more and more importance to the environment of their city. From assorted garbage to daily environment forecasts, and from restricting the emission of auto exhaust to the planting of trees and grass; all this has shown the longing Beijing residents have for a green environment. One of the major topics in the bid for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games is that of a "Green Olympics." The bid provides added incentive in the common aim to create a green city. This is our origi…     

Getting Tough on Terrtory

Chinese authorities are launching a campaign to crack down on illegal and incorrect online maps Areshuffle of China's online map market is imminent.The Chinese Government has launched an investigation into Internet companies providing relevant services in an effort to protect state secrets and territorial integrity. The government hopes to get rid of online maps that wrongly     

Can All Rural Residents Get Express Courier Services?

正With online shopping and live-streaming,the expansion of China’s Internet coverage is transforming the country’s vast rural heartlands into a promised land for ecommerce. Yet despite long shopping lists and an abundance of farm products to sell online,     

Construction of Environment for Sustainable Human Rights Development

Today,we are gathered to welcome the opening of the Sixth Beijing Forum on Human Rights,which is co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundation for Human Rights Development.Undoubtedly it is of positive significance that human rights experts and scholars in the international human rights ield from many countries in the world have assembled together in this golden season to plan human rights development.On behalf of the State Council     

Not Only for the Sake of Charity——A Chinese facility for protection of street urchins

In whatever country and for whatever period of human history, it is those lofty aspirations cherished by the human race that have motivated people to go in for charity. The Chinese culture that dates back to thousands of years ago has always called for charity. Numerous ancient maxims testify to this established fact—"extending the same care you give your own elders and children to others' elders and children," "helping a needy person on hand is worthier than worshipping a god in a faraway land,"     

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO?

Wang Lijun is coming for you. IN Western media, Chinese police officers generally get bad press. Tales of torture, intimidation and miscarriages of justice frequently appear in news bulletins and RSS feeds. But if the chief of police in Jinzhou, a city in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, has his way, all that is about to change. Wang Lijun is using his considerable experience and knowledge in the field to train his charges in a whole new way. He hopes the results can serve as a model for the entire country. The police have perhaps never before been under as intense scrutiny as they are in this age of information and camera-equipped mobile phones. These days the public pays much more attention to their actions. So eliminating corruption from the force - a difficult job in any country - seemed to Wang Lijun a good place to start, and he says he's personally overseeing that task. He's revamped the complaints department - notorious wastes of space in China - and personally interviews local citizens that have complaints against the cops. He says he has done this 700 times in the three and a half years since the new system was put in place, and 95 percent of the complaints were satisfactorily resolved.     

Property:The Original Sin

The Chinese property market is undergoing a correction after two years of investment mania. During this time,the consumer price index,a barometer of inflation,soared 7.9 percent in the first half of this year and now hovers at a high level of over 7 percent.Ren Yuling,a renowned economist and an adviser to the State Council,argues that property is the root cause of this round of inflation. In an interview with Dongfang Daily in early July,he called for commercial and residential developers to immediately reduce high property prices.