Fujian：The Coastal Treasure

SOUTHEAST China's Fujian Province is situated in prime real estate for agriculture. It borders Zhejiang Province to the north, Guangdong to the southwest, Jiangxi to the northwest, and directly faces Taiwan across the Taiwan Straights. Extending across middle and south subtropics to the coast, the area has advantages in cultivation and convenient transportation to the     

Racing to Communicate

ZHEJIANG Province in southeast China borders the East China Sea to its east, Fujian Province to its south, Anhui and Jiangxi Province to its west, and Jiangsu Province and Shanghai to its north. Its 101,800-sq-km land area is home to 44.22 million people. Zhejiang has a coastline measuring 6,486 kilometers, the longest in China. Across its vast sea area are scattered over 3,000 islands of a total area of 1,670 square kilometers.     

Repackaging the Traditional to Compete with the Modern

LAST January a traditional Chinese theatrical costume show titled Dayu Huashang (Feathered Dress and Gorgeous Skirt) was staged in Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong. Now it's set to venture further a-field: the show's producers have signed up to bring their recently forged cultural brand to the US, Canada, Germany, France and Singapore. Cultural brands boost a locality's image, and they're profitable, too. Many of China's provinces and autonomous regions have therefore decided to develop their own unique cultural brands, and promote them abroad. For instance, Yunnan Province has staged Dynamic Yunnan (a local amateur performance), and Sounds of Nature in Yunling (an interpretation of a large-scale original folk performance); Henan Province has put on Shaolin in the Wind (a romantic tragedy performed by the well-known Shaolin monks); and Guizhou Province has presented Wind of Colorful Guizhou (a large-scale ethnic song-and-dance performance). Each introduces to international audiences the characteristics of local folk customs and cultures.     

Pearl on the Crown

In April 1988, a new province of China, Hainan Province,was born. Meanwhile, the State Council listed the province asa special economic zone—the youngest as well as the largest inChina. The past 20 years have witnessed the province achievingsignificant economic and social progress. Tourism has becomeone of its pillar industries. With its sky opened to the world anda free trade zone being planned, Hainan has become one of themost energetic areas of China.Luo Baoming, Governor of Hainan Province, spoke to BeijingReview and shared his views on the island's development in thepast 20 years and its future orientation and development programs.     

Is Hangzhou Reversing Its Smoking Ban?

正Hangzhou,the provincial capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province,has proposed deleting from a draft smoking ban references to a"full"smoking ban in"all indoor public places and offi ces"and instead has suggested the creation of indoor smoking areas.This has stirred debate and led to public outcry.Some lament that this amendment is     

Hefei：Rising Star of China＇s Tourism

China has a huge tourism market,and scenic areas throughout the country are vying for a piece of the action in hopes of boosting tourism revenue and developing service industry. Hefei,capital of central China's Anhui Province,is no exception.Picturesque Yellow Mountain has always been a main attraction for visitors to Anhui,but the province now has much more to offer.     

Wonders Out of Stone Cracks

正Guizhou Province has explored quite a few efficient ways to deal with stony desertification Located in the southwest of China, Guizhou Province is at the center of the country's karst regions. Jagged mountains of limestone and other     

Yiling District,Pearl of the Three Gorges Area

YLING District of Yichang City, Hubei Province, near the Yangtze liver Xiling Gorge, marks the midway spot between the river's upper and middle reaches. It is site of the Gezhouba Dam and the Three Gorges Project dam, and has consequently been dubbed gate to the Three Gorges. With a territory of 3,424 square kilometers, Yiling is the largest and most populous district of Yichang City.Urban construction-The district has invested one billion yuan in urban construction which has expanded the urban area to 8 square kilometers. The local infrastructure, transportation and environment have also been upgraded.     

Making a Difference

An all-out operation announced by the Pakistani army in mid-April against the Taliban and other extremist groups has putt he country in the spotlight of the global war on terrorism.Neighboring the battle-scarred Northwest Frontier Province( NWFP)to the west,Punjab Province,the country’s most populousp rovince,plays a vital role in both political and economic spheres.Salmaan Taseer,Governor of Punjab Province,sat down with visiting Beijing Review President and Editor in Chief Wang Gangyi and talked about ant...     

Free to Follow

正Tibetan Buddhism prospers in northwest China's Qinghai Province Since its introduction to the region in the seventh century,Buddhism has become deeply rooted in the culture of the local people of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,particularly among the Tibetan ethnic group.All practitioners and believers consider themselves followers of the teachings of the Buddha,Sakyamuni.Located mostly on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,Qinghai Province has an ethnic Tibetan population of more than 1.37 million.Religious activities in Qinghai are rich in their content and     

Shenzhen： Lodestar of China＇s Reform and Opening-up

THE Third Plenary Session of the 1 lth Central Committee of the CPC in 1978 has always been regarded as the starting point of China＇s reform and opening-up drive. Since there was no previous development model to follow and most Chinese people were fettered by old conventions, the Chinese government decided to set up four experimental Special Economic Zones （SEZs） in the coastal cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong Province, and Xiamen in Fujian Province, in an attempt to find a suitable way to build socialism with Chinese characteristics.     

Migration for Prosperity： Human Rights Theory and Practice Reflected in the Whole-village Relocation of Ethnic Minorities in Lincang,Yunnan Province

Since 2003, the Municipality of Lincang in China＇s Yunnan Province has launched a whole-village relocation project, which has un- precedentedly changed the living conditions of tens of thousands of ethnic minority people and greatly improved their cultural life. Lincang＇s practice is an effec- tive response to Article 13.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states： ＂Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.＂ It has thus enriched the theory of the right to free migration.     

Jixi:A Promising Eco-Tourism City

LOCATED in southeastern Heilongjiang Province and bordering Russia to the east, Jixi City administerssix districts and the three county-level cities of Jidong, Hulin and Mishan. Within its boundary is Xingkai Lake with all its natural wonders, and the city has worked hard to build on this elemental advantage, and become a unique eco-tourism destination.     

辽宁省最大的满族中学（英文）

正In reaching out to share Manchu cultural traditions,the biggest ethnic school in Liaoning Province has brought Manchu performances like the Shaman dance and Peace Drum(Taipinggu)presentations to the big industrial city of Anshan and to audiences in other places.With support from authorities,Xiuyan Manchu     

Guaranteed Seats for Women

Hainan Province has revised its villager committee election methods and procedures to ensure women’s participation in local government wang Saixiao was happy about being reelected as the village head. For six years, Wang, 34, has served as the head of Baotang Village, Lin’gao County of south China’s Hainan Province.     

PEOPLE/POINTS

Warm-hearted Philanthropist Guo Mingyi,a 52-year-old worker from the Anshan Iron and Steel Group in northeast China's Liaoning Province,has become a household name in China because of his altruism.President Hu Jintao has called on people around the country to follow Guo's example.Since 1990,Guo has donated 60,000 milliliters of blood during 54 sessions,in all the total volume contained in 10 adult bodies and enough to save 75     

SILK ROAD STAR

<正>Xiamen,the famous coastal city in southeast China’s Fujian Province,is committed to supporting the Belt and Road Initiative to the full.It seeks to turn itself into a hub that connects the Silk Road Economic Belt with the21st-Century Maritime Silk Road and has already achieved remarkable progress in increasing in-     

BETTER SERVICES

At 9 a.m. every morning, many foreigners swarm the Ruili Service and Administration Center for Foreigners in Ruili City in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Due to its unique geographical location on the border of China and Myanmar and the deepening of China’s reform and opening up, Ruili has attracted an increasing number of foreigners, especially from Myanmar, to work and live in the city.     

Hope for Central China

The cities surrounding Changsha and Wuhan in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River will ally to form a new pilot zone to boost regional economic development China's fourth pilot zone for compre- hensive and coordinated economic reform will soon debut in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River,open- ing a new area to attract foreign investment. The application has been submitted to the State Council for approval. The pilot zone will include two clusters of cities in central China:One consists of Wuhan,capital of Hubei Province,and eight surrounding cities in Hubei,and the other is composed of Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan,three major cities in Hunan Province.     

Art Gallery

THE watercolors published in this issue were done by Huang Youwei.born in 1965 in Yueyang , Hunan Province. Since graduating from the fine arts department of the Hunan Binzhou Normal School in 1989,Huang has devoted himself to water color paintings. Although he does not believe life is all roses and sunshine, he has the ability to find beauty in things and in people - to derive hope from the trivialities and vicissitudes of lives. He says, "Many aspects of our livescall touch and stir tho…