Why Am I Drawn to a City of Smog?

正STARING out the window on a rainy Sunday,I have to say that life is a bit boring here.By"here"I am referring not to Beijing,but my quiet hometown in the U.K.This is no longer surprising to me.Recently several journalists interviewed me,asking if the thick smog would cause a massive outf low of expats from China.After reading the     

Kurbanjan Samat: The Photographer

正KURBANJAN Samat couldn’t sleep on the night of March 1,2014,after hearing news that 29 people had been killed by eight Uygur assailants at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan Province.Authorities identified the assailants as part of separatist forces from Xinjiang     

SPENDING APPROPRIATELY

正Efforts are being made at both the central and locallevel to prevent the misuse of taxpayer money For years,government expenditure on vehicles,receptions and overseas trips for officials—also known as the"three public-funded consumption categories"—has been a topic of contention among the Chinese public due to the large sums of money coupled     

Learning from Others and Starting Built-to-last Companies

正Ruicheng Group was founded in Qiqihar,a city located in one of the three major ‘Chernozem belts’ in the world,the fertile Songnen Plain,and one known as the ‘home of red-crowned cranes’ Over the years,our business developed from being only one supermarket in the beginning to a corporate group operating in multiple sectors,from supermarket chain and real estate to property management and preschool education.     

National Fervor for Writing Chinese Characters

THE second season of the Chinese Character Dictation Contest （also known as Character Hero） inspired great enthusiasm for Chinese characters last summer.The competition, in which middle school students write Chinese characters from dictation, became an instant hit after its debut on China Central Television （CCTV） in August 2013, and soon became one of the most watched TV shows in China.     

Internationalization of the Geely Brand Green Growth简

正Atest car drives through a rolling Middle Eastern desert.Negotiating a sharp turn at170 km/h,the car,due to a lapse by the driver,lurches and twists,and comes to a stop badly wrecked.Spectators rush to the rescue,expecting the worst for the four people inside.Amazingly,apart from the front-seat passenger who suffers a dislocated shoulder,all three others are pulled out unscathed.     

The Untold History Of Movies

正A well-known American film director working today,Oliver Stone,was invited to attend the Fourth Beijing International Film Festival(BJIFF)between April 16 and 23.During his stay in Beijing,he talked to Beijing Review on film,culture and Sino-American co-production.The following are excerpts from the interview.     

Sci-Tech

正China’s Supercomputer Helps Construct"Smart Cities"Developers of China’s Tianhe-1A,one of the world’s fastest supercomputers,are tapping into the digital brain’s higher functions,moving it beyond animation and Internet financing to help in the construction of new"smart cities."The Tianhe-1A can digitize the planning,design,construction,     

China's Development:Implications for Asian Economy

正In 2013,under the circumstance of meager recovery and continued sluggish economic growth of the whole world,China’s economy still maintained a growth rate of 7.7 per cent and the economic aggregate jumped onto a new stage-it was predicted that the share of China’s economy in the global aggregate could exceed 12 per cent compared with only 2% in 1980.The status of China as an important global economic power has been entrenched and the rise of the manufacturing     

My Journey to Artistic Peak

正I was born in a doctor’s family in a village in Heze,Shandong Province.Since the ancient times,Heze has been home to many painters and literature masters due to the influence of Confucianism.My grandfather and greatgrandfather were both good at calligraphy,not least to mention their medical skills.Even by now,senior people in our village still praise them for it.Both of them had deceased before I was born.