Investment Injection

<正>Money from diversified sources perks up medical servicesJeffrey Williams had not considered private treatment before he came to Beijing in the summer of 2014 and developed a respiratory tract infection.When the 39-year-old senior executive at a foreign bank went to a large public hospital,he had to wait nearly an hour as patients bustled in and out. When he finally met the doctor, the     

Coming Home

Xie Zhonggao,head of the Beijing office for AsiaVest Partners,had lived in the United States for 16 years before settling down in Beijing in 2004. Xie had felt like"going home."In the U.S.he was"amazed by the wide open market for Chinese consumer concepts,"and sensing an opportunity, he returned to China to invest in manufacturing and consumer product enterprises.Here he talks with Chinese Venture:about AsiaVest's business focus and vision as well as about the venture capital market in China as a whole.     

Dreamer Liang Bing

BROUGHT up by bee-keeper grandparents in Zhenjiang, JiangsuProvince, Liang Bing believes he has something in common withbees: he is always busy in some pursuit or other. Liang has animpressive resume. He moved to Beijing wishing to make true hischildhood dream to see the Tian'anmen Rostrum, and joined the army outof a long-standing reverence for the PLA. He later enrolled in the EnglishDepartment of the Beijing Foreign Languages University, to satisfy hisyearning to try the college li…     

Olympic Maps Available

Beijing is publishing a set of Olympic maps covering everything from the location of sporting venues to the city's history As soon as Zhou Liyi hopped off the train from Shanghai to Beijing, he hurried to Wangfujing Xinhua Book Store,one of the largest of its kind in Beijing,to buy an Olympic map. Zhou is a Shanghai resident who came to Beijing on business and plans to return as a     

The Story of a College Graduate Village Official

IN July 2007, Hu Jiandang packed a small suitcase and headed for the town of Panggezhuang in Daxing District on the southern outskirts of Beijing - a decision that, as it turned out, may affect his prosperity for the rest of his life. Shortly after graduating from Beijing Sport University he was hired as as-sistant to the Party secretary of Wangchang Village. Expecting to serve as a college graduate village official, he has in fact given shape to an entire career.     

MAKING THE CONNECTION

China's investment in Nigeria is booming, but it is more important to regulate business practices Jacob Wood, a Chinese entrepreneur in Nigeria, will be a member of the Nigerian delegation to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit and the Third Ministerial Conference to be held in early November in Beijing, where he looks forward to a chance to bring Chinese and African businesses together.     

American Pizzas Nest in Beijing

KRO came to study in China as a senior high school exchange student when he was 17. He lived in a Beijing hutong, learnt to drink Chinese .spirits and became fluent in the city＇s distinctive dialect. This handsome half American, half Norwegian guy also gained a Chinese name： Zhuang Xiaolong. After finishing college, Kro returned to Beijing in February 2006 and opened Kro＇s Nest pizza restaurant near the west gate of Peking University.     

Right to Resignation——Thoughts of a lawyer

One day in March 2000, a young man came to the Qiankun Lawyer's Office, asking for help in a labor dispute. He is Tong Li, 25. He signed a "life-long" labor contract with the Beijing Fenghua Engineering Co. Ltd. in June 1999. On January 5 of the following year, however, he demanded termination of the contract on account that he was far from home and he had to take care of his ailing mother. But he was refused. Later on, the workers' congress of the company issued the rules on the management of labor contract and its detailed implementation rules.     

Art Gallery

XIAO Peng wasborn in 1964 inXi'an, theprovincial capital of Shaanxi.After graduatingfrom the fine arts department ofthe Capital Normal University in1986, he concentrated his effortson oil painting. He is now a professional artist and a member ofthe Beijing Artists' Association.At the age of 6, Xiao Pengcame to Beijing with his parents.Having grown up in a compoundwith residences arranged around asquare courtyard, in a typicalhutong of Beijing, Xiao Peng cherishes a deep and all-embraci…     

A Magnificent Man and His Flying Machines

ZHANG Dousan was a Guangdong farmer who had little or no know ledge about aviation when he began his mission to build a light air-craft. However, he immersed himself in books on the subject, and slowly began to figure out how an aircraft functions. He combed the markets of Guangdong look- ing for necessary materials, but failedto procure them. Undaunted, he set out for Beijing, where a factory owner was so moved by the farmer's sincerity and devotion to his self appointed task that he agree…     

Artistic Impressions of Hutong Charm

KUANG Han came to Beijing in 1989, and immediately fell in love with its hutong. He spent his spare time wandering about and sketching Beijing's boulevards and alley- ways until he had amassed a 3,000-pic- ture portfolio. It helped him to draw accurately the gates and houses of old Beijing, as well as the street life that was and still is the cultural heart of this 3,000-year-old city. Kuang's works portray ordinary life and its everyday kindnesses and are imbued with a strong sense of his-…     

Unions Extend Help to Migrants

Head waiter Liu Hui used to think he would never become a labourer like his neighbour, until recently when the medium-sizedrestaurant in Beijing where Liu works established a union branch and began signing labour contracts with its employees.When he was a school boy in the early 1980s, Liu dreamed of becoming a labourer once he'd grown up.     

New Start,New Opportunity

Daniel Arbenz was bom and educated in Switzerland. In 1978, he entered the hotel indastry as a chef and worked his way up through all segments of the business. After graduating from the famous Swiss Hotel Management School in Luceme and obtaining management exposure in the finest hotels in Switzerland, he moved to Hong Kong in 1989, starting his career in Asia. Arbenz moved to Singapore, then to Bali, for Resort Hotels and has been with the Intercontinental Hotels Group for almost 10 years in general manager assignments in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. In 2001, he arrived in Beijing to work at the Holiday Inn Lido. He was appointed General Manager of Crowne Plaza Beijing in 2002 and handled the two significant renovation projects for the hotel in 2003 and 2005. Expressing his enthusiasm about his career, Arbenz said, "I believe that the hotel industry is the most beautiful job and career opportunity that can keep people young and active. I treasure the experiences of different cultures, different countries and people from all over the world."     

Two Kingdoms,One Mission

While the terracotta warriors from ancient China are still on display in London,receiving the admiration of millions of British visitors, the prime minister of the UK touched down in Beijing and then Shanghai to be greeted by leaders,entrepreneurs and citizens in the Middle Kingdom. Gordon Brown's trip to China in mid-January was the first to the country since he took office and the first for a European state leader     

Den of Dins

HE doesn't do it to make money. Lu Ying has to sell a lot of beer to make the RMB 15.000 monthly rent on What?, a bar and rock club he opened last year in Beijing. But the painter-rocker ought to know what he's doing. Lu, a 30-year- old artist from Hebei, the province that encircles Beijing, opened one of the Chinese capital's first rock bars in the mid-1990s. His new bar in the north- ern tip of Beijing's Chaoyang District breaks tradition with his earlier estab- lishments - whereas bef…     

Pei Yuanshun:Age,Caution

PEI Yuanshun,now 70,taught in a vocational secondary school in Kaifeng,Henan Province before she retired in 1996. Two years later her husband Wu Yingfan retired too.As their grandson was enrolled in an elite high school in Beijing's suburb and far from his downtown home,the couple bought a home close to his campus and moved to Beijing in 2001 to house him while he studied.Two years ago,the boy continued his education abroad and the old couple became empty-nesters.     

No Child’s Play

All-out efforts needed to shield minors from gaming disorder As a doctor in a psychiatric hospital in north Beijing,Liu Huaqing has witnessed how Internet addiction shatters the life of children and their families.One of his patients at the Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital was a 12-year-old boy who had not been to school since November 2020.Instead,he stayed at home,glued to his smartphone for more than15 hours a day,playing games and watching short videos.He often went to bed at 3 or 4 a.m.and stopped following the most basic daily hygiene routine such as brushing his teeth or taking a shower.     

Beijing Bike

The pioneering Great Wall Bicycle Festival could be a turningpoint for competitive cycling in China, writes Mosse HelmsT he last days of September make the best time to go cycling in Beijing. It's warm, not too warm,and the leaves are beginning to changecolour. James Stewart, bike leader withthe Mobsters, Beijing's multinationalteam of mountain bikers, waves a handtowards the mountains early on a Septem-ber morning, in a hamlet about 100kilometres north of Beijing. Tw…     

The Mysterious Forest in Xishuangbanna

Shen Xueren was born in Weifang City,Shandong Province in June 1941.He graduated from the Central Academy of Arts in 1966,and re- ceived a doctor's degree at the United Nations International University. Now,he is a member of the China Artists Association and the Chinese Calligrapher Association,a consultant for the China International Association of Celebrity,the arts and cultural exchange ambassador of the World Peace Foundation,an honorable member of the British Royal Joint Academy of Sciences,a researcher at the Research Center of the World Cultural Arts and an honored painter of the Cultural Market Development Center of the Ministry of Culture. In 1978,Shen created the Flower Painting Association.In the same year,he participated in the setting up of Beijing Painting Shop.In 1980,he created the Research Association of Flower and Bird Paintings together with his friends.In 1999,he set up Shen Xueren Art Gallery and Shen Xueren Art Museum.From 1982 to 2000,he had many art exhibitions in many countries including the U.S.A.,Japan,France,Canada and Singapore.Wu Zuoren,Chairman of China Artists Association,attended the opening ceremony of his exhibition in Beijing.The chairman of the Artists Association hosted his exhibition in France.The Chinese Ambassador in Canada,Yu Chen,hosted his exhibi- tion in Canada. The local TV and newspapers report on his exhibitions,and his artwork is collected by embassies and museums.He was invited to draw pictures for the National Museum of China,the Great Hall of the People, Xinhua News Agency,the People's Daily and CCTV,and was also invited to the University of Toronto to give lectures on Chinese painting. Shen has won many awards in many countries.These include an award of excellence for international ink paintings held in Japan in 1986, an award of excellence for new in- ternational art exhibitions in 1988 in Japan,the gold medal of the second Chinese Art Competition in 1999,a sil- ver medal in the 2000 World Chinese Art Exhibition,and a special award from the 2001 Beijing International Art Exhibition.In 2007 his artwork was collected by the UN World Peace Foundation and was awarded the World Peace Art Achievement Award. He was given the title World Art Master.     

All Set

Chinese President Xi Jinping,also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission,talks with athletes and coaches at a winter sports training base in Beijing,on January 4.On that day,he conducted a tour of inspection regarding preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.In addition to the winter sports training base,he also visited the National Speed Skating Oval,Main Media Center.Athletes'Village,and the Games-time Operations Command Center.