New Year,New Wish

正Chinese people embrace the Year of the horse As Spring Festival nears,all kinds of horsethemed products are filling the shelves of stores across the country.The reason is simple:the Year of the Horse is coming!The first day of the Year of the Horse falls on January31 this year,and ends on February 18,2015,according to the Chinese lunar calendar.     

New Year,Same Problems

<正>While the new year offers the opportunity to start anew, the economic outlook for 2011 and years to come may not take on a fundamentally different appearance from the past     

Beijing Hyundai:New Year,New Ambitions

WHILE the 2011 New Yearbells still reverberate,theeighth generation Sonatais being released by BeijingHyundai.The model,spectacularly successful worldwide,is expected to playa key role for the company’s development in 2011.The birth of the new sedancrowns nine years of backstage effortsthat began with the company’s establishment in 2002.     

New Year Resolutions

正President Xi’s address sets the bar for 2018 On December 31,President Xi Jinping extended New Year greetings to the nation in his annual New Year address.Xi pointed to China’s achievements in 2017 as well as the challenges the country will tackle in the new year and those to follow.     

片言只语寄新年

历史的巨轮载着欢乐忧愁、希望失望、胜利失败、荣誉耻辱以及人世间一切的一切，按照其固有的航速，驶进了公元２００３年。于是，你、我、他——我们都迎来了新一年的曙光。记录历史，是为了把它交付给未来，开创新的辉煌。回首过去的２００２年，我们在上级组织的正确领导下，在社会各界特别是各理论研究基地公安局的大力支持下，在广大受众特别是学界朋友的厚爱下，虽没有做到最好，离领导、受众的要求和兄弟期刊的发展还有不小差距，但我们的确做得很认真很投入，也很紧张很辛苦。可以这么说，我们付出了所有，我们因此也取得了一些收获…     

New Year Celebrations at The Ritz-Carlton,Beijing

<正>During this magnificent time of the year,there is nothing better than celebrating and cherishing your wonderful moments with loved ones.Let our cream-of-the-crop staff at The Ritz-Carlton,Beijing craft exquisite culinary experiences just for you to remember forever.Aroma New Year’s Eve Dinner Buffet Let us serve you even on the last day of the year to celebrate and welcome 2016 with our wonderfully prepared spread at Aroma.     

Fried New Year Cake

China’s Spring Festival comes after the la month(the twelfth month)of the lunar calendar,when families join their relatives for a reunion dinner.In China,rich gourmet food is considered an indispensable part of the festive celebration.Niangao,New Year cake,is a homophone for"better year"and represents wishes for a happy life and prosperity in the coming year.This makes it a popular gift for friends and relatives during the New Year period.Niangao are often shaped like gold or silver bars,representing good fortune,or a pair of carps and ingots,a symbol of surplus and a welcome to the God of Wealth.     

Chinese New Year Wish

<正>The Chinese zodiac consists of 12 different animals that rotate around a 12-year cycle.Starting with rat and ending with pig,they take turns to accompany the lunar calendar.For centuries,it has been held that there exists a special relationship between human beings and their zodiac animals,similar     

Miao New Year Celebration

Miao New Year, as opposed to Spring Festival （Chinese New year）, is generally celebrated by the Miao people of western Hunan after the winter solstice, in the l Oth month of the lunar calendar, which they have always regarded as the beginning of the new year. In advance of its coming, every household will prepare copious amounts of food, rice wine, corn wine and rice cakes made from the best glutinous rice to entertain visitors or to give as gifts. Major activities include butchering pigs, salting meat, making rice cakes, worshipping ancestors, reunion dinners, drinking from village to village, song competition, drum contests and duck-catching, and so on. The celebration usually lasts for three to five days but sometimes for as long as two weeks.     

A New Year Gift

State guideline brings more perks to the private sector The Second China International Import Expo held in Shanghai in November 2019offered diabetes patients a wide array of treatment products.They ranged from tiny insulin injection needles from Japan to blood glucose monitors using biosensors,an innovation by health and wellness company Sinocare.     

Reflections on the New Administration,One Year on

正The new Chinese leadership completes a full year in off ice in March.No two words sum up its signature policies better than"deepening reforms"–as reiterated by top leaders in multiple circumstances over the past year.Last November,the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee decided to comprehensively deepen reforms.The objective is to achieve decisive results by 2020 through reforms     

Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures

At the beginning of 2003.the State Postal Bureau issued a set offour stamps celebrating Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures. Yangliuqing in west Tianjin is famous for its traditional NewYear pictures.Having a history of more than 300 years,YangliuqingNew Year pictures are admired for their distinctive style,and cheer—ful colors.Their motifs are usually taken from operas and fairy tales,     

Diplomacy in The New Year

senior Chinese leaders embarked on foreign trips soon after China's Spring Festival.Premier Wen Jiabao visited Switzerland,Germany,Spain,Britain,and the EU head-quarters in Brussels from January 27 to February 2,after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos,Switzerland.From February 10 to 17,President Hu Jintao toured     

Uncertainties In the New Year

The global economy is expected to grow by 2-3 percent in 2010,according to the Yellow Book of International Economy for 2010 released on December 24 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS).Zhang Yuyan,Editor in Chief of the yellow book and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at CASS,offered his insights into uncertainties in the world economy in 2010 at the launching ceremony for the yellow book.Edited excerpts follow:     

A New Year Shopping Guide

Stay-put new year celebration influences consumption in novel ways If people’s memory of how they celebrated the Chinese New Year could be compiled into a book, the chapters for 2020 and 2021 would present a striking contrast.     

Discovering New Year Picture Woodblocks

IT was October 11, 2003 that the search for antique New Year picture woodblocks in the former Jia family residence brought to light 159 woodblocks concealed in the ceilingof the old house.DiscoveryOne day in 2000, Jia Zhenbang was looking for something in his family's former residence, then used as a storeroom. Glancing up,     

New Year Fun in Miyun

AT the end of 2010, Miyun County, on the northeastern skirts of Beijing, launched a holiday promotion Happy Warm Journey to Minyun, beckoning merrymakers to join the locals for the Chinese New Year.     

Goodwill Currency,Changing Faces

Capturing many styles of oxen in gold, bronze,or dressed in colorful lights, is a delight to my camera eyes. In this, the Year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar, I am excited about prospects of a more adven-