Spring,River, Flower,Moon, Night

<正>The world premiere of Pearl electrifies Lincoln Center with its heartfelt tribute to one of America’s greatest novelists By Corrie Dosh Asmall girl named Pearl runs and skips along the banks of the Yangtze River, playing with peasant fishermen, mimicking the graceful movements of village girls,     

Ready,Aim, Fire

<正>Local conferences set their sights on new targets for development Since January 7,provincial regions and cities in China have started holding annual conferences of law makers and political advisers.By February 5,28 out of the 31 provincial regions had concluded two sessions of local people’s congresses and committees     

Yoga,Pray, Love

<正>Former ELLE editor forgoes the high life in quest of enlightenment following a journey to India If you have seen the movie Eat,Pray,Love,you must remember Liz Gilbert,a writer and the movie’s main character who gives up almost everything and starts a totally new life in her 30s.In today’s material world,how many people would possess the courage to do this for real?Well,51-year-old Yin Yan for one.In 2003,Yin was editor in chief of ELLE     

Muse,Music,Musings

EMBER Swift seems to be a walking collection of improbabilities and contradictions, which probably means she blends seamlessly into modern China. She is a white, foreign female singing original lyrics in both Chinese and English     

Yard,Net,Table

<正>E-commerce is the key to boosting slow produce sales Apples,pears and peaches color the landscape of Qianxian County in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.However,since last winter,pear sales have fallen.In the county’s Yanghong Town alone,millions of kilograms of pears await buyers.     

Optimize,Balance,Boost

<正>First policy document of the year continues pursuit of agricultural structural reform Liandaowan,shaped like the curved blade of a sickle,is China’s corn belt.It stretches from the northeast to northwest, then extends to the southwest with most of the area lying in semi-arid and semi-     

Ready,Set, Go

正The Chinese people’s passion to run for fun and better health was taken to a new height by the Beijing Olympics. Situated among fascinating architectural structures,Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park is a special place.The 2008 Beijing Olympics organizers was made a wise decision to turn a huge nature reserve in a northern section of the city into a beautiful park open to all. Even on a very hot and humid day in late June, with temperatures     

Go,Go,Guizhou

<正>Guizhou Province seeks to narrow the gap with the prosperous east Guizhou Province, a mountainous and multi-ethnic province in southwest China, is gaining popularity with domestic and overseas investors as it accelerates     

Game, Set, Match

Top tournaments bring tennis fever to China The last Tennis Masters Cup came to an end on November 16, 2008.In the season-ending tournament,world No. 3 player Novak Djokovic from Serbia managed a 6:1 and 7:5 win over Russian Nikolay Davydenko at the     

荒，荒，荒

寻思之，凡此种种。怎样才能不荒呢？继续积极稳妥地推进全方位的渐进式改革，自然不失为根本的社会进步法门。     

Fly,Fly, Birdie

The Shahe Reservoir in north Beijing is heaven for bird lovers.Each year, bird watching enthusiasts flock to the area to observe and record the lives of its avian inhabitants using binoculars and cameras equipped with telephoto lenses.     

文化、文明、民族

文明是文化的实体,文化是文明中最根本的东西。文化水平的高低上可以看出一个国家、一个民族或者一个社会的文明程度。文化是文明的沃土,文明是文化的结晶。文化中产生文明,而在文明中产生新的文化。没有文化环境就不可能有文明的成果。文化多样性是一种客观存在,它标志着各个不同民族的并存。因为,文化的最大的、最直接的载体就是民族。对中国而言,中华文化不是某一单一民族的文化,它是中国各民族共同创造的文化。因此,它不需要分层次,更不允许划等级。必须承认,文化既是民族的生存方式,也是不同民族的精神家园。     

Growing, Growing, Gone

Guangzhou is the capital city of Guangdong Province in China's developed southeast coastal area. Zhang Guangning, deputy to the 11th National People's Congress and Mayor of Guangzhou, told Beijing Review that the goal for Guangzhou's GDP growth in 2009 is 10 percent.     

Location,Location, Location

<正>Homegrown navigation system is improving and going global For smartphone users,finding a nearby restaurant,grabbing a taxi blocks away,and getting directions to a destination are all habitual processes,yet it is a satellite navigation system,by providing location positioning services,that makes all this happen.Until now,the technology has been dominated by the U.S     

Location,Location, Location

Kashgar is China’s portal to Eurasian trade The oasis where the northern and southern routes of the Silk Road converged thousands of years ago remains an important commercial hub owing to one vitally important factor: location.O     

Candid,Confident, Cooperative

<正>President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States in September represented a forthright and forward-looking exchange of views aimed at expanding bilateral cooperation,evident in the issues that were addressed and the results reached.Hotbutton issues such as cybersecurity,investment and the South China Sea were all subjected to discussion during the visit,which will no doubt exert a positive influence     

READY,WILLING,ABLE

<正>The Chinese delegation to the 2015 Special Olympics World Games arrives in Los Angeles on July 21.The group,made up of 126 members,includes 93 athletes at an average age of 21.They compete in sporting events such as track and field,swimming and football.The Special Olympics movement was founded in 1968 to foster the acceptance and inclusion     

Wet, Wet, Wet

Local residents struggle to cross a street in rain-lashed Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on May 25. Downpours swept most parts of the southern province from May 22 to 28. Province-wide precipitation averaged 106.8 mm, reaching 226.9 mm in the Pearl River Delta area. Local authorities raised the rain alert to phase three after two people were killed by a landslide in Xingning City on May 22. The heavy rains affected more than 500,000 people in nine cities and counties and incurred direct losses exceeding 115...     

Dance,Dance,Dance

<正>China’s dance industry booms while being troubled by market disorder and product piracy Aflock of children led by their teachers swarmed into the Beijing Exhibition Center,the capital’s first large comprehensive exhibition venue built in 1954. They went there to visit the 2011 China Dance Expo.     

Environment,Ecology,Economy

Not far from the administrative cen-ter of Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, sits a vast complex, the Guiyang International Eco-Conference Center. Forty percent of its main building is covered by greenery, while the roof supports more than 100 solar panels, which not only power the building but also provide all of its hot wa-ter.