Reclaiming Land For Nature

<正>Honghu Lake’s 10-year emergent protectioncampaign is bringing back biodiversityLocated in central China’s Hubei Province,Honghu Lake is the country’s seventh largest freshwater lake,serving as an important ecological protective screen for the Jianghan Plain.Covering an area of 41,412hectares,the reserve has abundant natural resources.As a vital wetland in the middle     

Taming the Desert

<正>Efforts to reverse desertification and land degradation in Inner Mongolia offer a template for further exploration In 2000,throughout March and April,Beijing was engulfed in one of the worst spell of sandstorms in history.It was at that time that many Chinese people became acutely aware of the threat of     

沙漠：一个独特的生态系统

地球表面约四分之一的地区，约3370万平方公里，在一定意义上被定义为“沙漠”。从全球来看，很多地区的沙漠，核心地带仍保持着一种原始的最本质的自然状态，体现着这个星球仅剩的最荒芜的景色。     

屈建军:情系大漠

<正>30年前初见沙漠时的倾心倾情,至今没有改变。越接近沙漠,越了解沙漠,他越觉得沙漠可爱。如果让他重新选择一次,他依然无悔。夕阳西下,毛乌素沙漠在落日的余晖下闪着金边儿。30年前,他第一眼看到沙漠,便觉得遇上了此生的"情人"。当了6年中专老师的他重新当起了学生,求学考研,把研究沙漠、治理沙漠变成自己一生的课题。他就是中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所敦煌戈壁荒漠研究站站长屈建军。     

Making the Desert Bloom

One of the world＇s most magnificent deserts lies in Ningxia, a small autonomous region in northwestern China. Occupying up to 60 percent of the region＇s territory, its breathtaking vistas, rolling sand dunes, ancient petroglyphs and mysterious Western Xia royal mausoleums constitute an ecological and cultural treasurehouse.     

Green Gift From the Desert

正Northwestern province becomes Hong Kong’s source of treasured veggies The life of Zeng Xiangji, a farmer in Minqin County, Gansu Province in northwest China, is closely linked to Hong Kong although he has never been to the special administrative region (SAR)in the south. In 2017, the 46-year-old started to sell vegetables to Hong Kong, including the     

Holding the Desert at Bay

<正>Chinese people win some battles in taming the deserts Like a long and narrow belt,Hobq Desert stretches hundreds of kilometers in north China.It is one of the largest deserts in China and also the closest to     

Green Desert

Inner Mongolia’s Hobq Desert creates an oasis of wealth Located southwest of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the Hobq Desert has become in two decades a symbol of the fight against desertification in China and a meeting place for people interested in the subject.The Hobq International Conference Center is the traditional venue of the biennial Hobq     

Desert Groove

<正>From the far southern reaches of the Sahara,a musical trio brings Tuareg culture to China Born to a family of blacksmiths in the city of Agadez,on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger,nothing predestined Goumour Omar Adam to become a musician.In fact,his journey into music was     

Wang Jinfeng:Helping Others to Work

AT 9 am as usual,the 42-year-old Wang Jinfeng starts her work day at the Pingguoyuan Neighborhood Offices in Shijinshan District in Beijing.She is a labor security assistant of the neighborhood committee.Her husband Wang Chengguang is a fitter at Shougang Group,a steelmaker recently relocated from the capital to Caofeidian,Hebei Province.Their 12-year-old son will enter junior middle school this summer.     

王朔与流氓文化--诘难王彬彬、葛红兵对王朔的评价

近年来，王朔一系列独特的“高论”掀起了轩然大波，不仅引得学者、作家们议论纷纷、褒贬不一，而且引起诸多“网虫”在网络上的讽刺挖苦“大战”。在当代社会，能在文化领域掀起些波澜是相当不容易的事，这能让专家学者们有话可说、有题可作，能让大众消闲消食、解闷解气，仅凭这一点，王朔就是一个值得观察和解读的人物和文化现象。一当前对王朔的一种解读是将他和流氓文化联系起来，认为他和中国源远流长的流氓文化有着血缘关系。这便是王彬彬先生在《中国流氓文化之王朔正传》（《粤海风》２０００年９—１０期，以下简称王文）一文中提…     

When the Desert Sands Run Out

正A desert in northwest China is poised to disappearthanks to greening Those who haven't been to the Mu Us Desert in northwest China may not have an opportunity to do so as the desert is disappearing from the map.According to recent statistics from the Shaanxi provincial forestry bureau,93.24 percent of the desert land     

Four-wheeling Through the Onqin Daga Desert

Burgeoning private car ownership has broadened China's scope of holiday travel. Tours in cross-country vehicles are increasingly popular, and make exploring remoter regions an exciting and viable vacationing proposition.     

Wang Xiaoling and the Winglaiyuen Brand

正SINCE its establishment in 1947, the Winglaiyuen restaurant has become a well-known Hong Kong brand with an international reputation. Its development and expansion is largely due to one woman’s single-minded devotion.She is Wang Xiaoling."Running a successful restaurant is lucrative, but also hard work, because it demands whole-hearted devotion. Many brands build     

Wang Yi: Spearhead of China's Marine Agriculture

正FOR ordinary Chinese,the twin concepts of marine farming and marine agriculture are still novel,possessing a touch of mystery.Wang Yi,president of Wanning Haifeng Biotechnology DevelopmentCo.,Ltd.,is a pioneer in this fi eld.He is now planning a marine ranch.China has vowed to build a strong marine economy,and marine agriculture is deemed the most lucrative feature of it.The country has over 1.3 billion people to     

Desert Rail Loop

<正>New railway line is expected to bring prosperity to XinjiangFor Hou Chaoru,a teacher in Qiemo County in Ho tan,Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,the 3,000-km journey back to her home province of Hebei has never been more convenient.The completion of a new cross-desert railway line with a station in Qiemo has significantly shortened what used to be a five-day busand-train pilgrimage back east.     

Desert in Bloom

<正>Surrounded by boundless desert and buffeted by sandstorms,unfrozen at minus20 degrees Celsius,a massive project quietly came into production in the Qaidam Basin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on November 30.Designed to effectively utilize the lithium,boron and potassium resources of the Yiliping Salt Lake,the project is now running with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of potassium chloride,a chemical with multiple uses     

Wang Xiaohui-Comtemporary Sculptor

THEmomentIsawtheworksofsculptorWangatourismweekly,Iwasinstantlyhooked.Wang'sworkscallbackatimeofancientsimplicity,evokingfromviewersasenseoftranquillityandpeace.Wangcreatesbeautifulstylizedfiguresthatsymbolizethespiritofmodernwomen.Thefemalefiguresareslimyetcurvaceousand arerenderedinavarietyofevocativepostures.Usually,thehead,shoulders,waist,bottomandkneesarecreatedinahorizontalposition.Withoutdetails,thefiguresdemonstratethebeautyoflinethroughthetorsoandarms.Wang'sfiguresembodytenderne…     

王雅鹏教授

~~王雅鹏教授     

Indefinable Wang Jianwei

正"People are aware that artistically between the 1950s and the early 1980s China was closed to the outside world,but realistically,we were also closed internally."STANDING in the middle of Wang Jianwei’s main studio,an expansive 6,000-square-foot room with an arched ceiling that brings the structure to well over two stories in height,I feel as if I’m on the set of a science fiction movie.I’m surrounded by several molded white plastic