Another Step Toward Space

<正>On December 14,China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3 successfully landed on the moon.Later,the lunar rover Yutu,meaning jade rabbit,separated from the lander and set out on its adventure across the moon’s surface.The monumental event makes China the third country to successfully soft land a probe on the moon after the United States and the former Soviet Union.     

The Dark Side of the Moon

A combo photo released by the China National Space Administration(CNSA)on December 11 shows a crater on the dark side of the moon.This image was reportedly taken by Chang'e-1, the country's first lunar probe,on December 4. On December 12,a grand ceremony was held in Beijing to celebrate the success of the first stage of China's lunar probe program.President Hu Jintao announced on the occasion that the     

Sci-Tech

正China Capable of Exploring Mars China has the capability to explore the planet Mars,said Ye Peijian,top scientist with China’s lunar probe mission.China currently has the technology to send a probe to circle and land on the planet,without major problems with tracking control and communications     

SOCIETY

<正>Antarctic Airplane Researchers pose for a group photo with China’s first polar airplane,the Snow Eagle 601,after a successful trial flight at the Zhongshan Station,a Chinese scientific research base in Antarctica,on December 7.It is the first time that China has deployed a fixed-wing aircraft in a scientific expedition to Antarctica.The aircraft will serve as a transport link between the Zhongshan and Kunlun stations of China and the nearby stations of other     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正NAVAL COMMANDER MAKES MEDIA DEBUT Rear Admiral Chen Yueqi,Commander of China’s first aircraft carrier formation,recently appeared in an interview with state broadcaster China Central Television and spoke on the flotilla’s latest cross-sea training and tests.From December 20,2016 to January 13,the formation—consisting of aircraft carrier Liaoning,a number of destroyers,J-15 carrier-based fighter jets and helicopters—sailed     

China Masters Technology for High-speed Rail

THE 2,298-kilometer Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway officially opened to passengers on December 26, 2012. The occasion marked China’s successively overcoming the technical difficulties associated with sustaining high-speed train journeys over very long distances. With the Qinghai-Tibet Railway which opened in 2006-the highest railroad in the world, that runs across 550 kilometers of permafrost-China could lay claim to the world’s most     

NEVER FORGET

正Students sing a song to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing,capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province,on December 13,the 79th anniversary of the atrocity and China’s third National Memorial Day.Japanese invaders captured Nanjing,China’s capital at the time,on December 13,1937 and began a rampage that lasted more than a month.Over 300,000 unarmed Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered.     

Chinese Scientists Develop Nanometer ＂Ordered Fiber＂

China＇s independently developed moon rover, which will be used during the second phase of the Chang＇e lunar probe program, is a genuine feat of engineering, capable of overcoming virtually any obstacle it is likely to encounter on its upcoming mission to explore the lunar surface. ＂The rover will unfold and stand on its wheels automatically before proceeding with its exploration tasks once it gets out of the spacecraft,＂ said Mao Ming, head of the China North Vehicle Research Institute, which is in char.cle of the rover＇s development.     

THE POWER OF ORIGINAL THINKING FOR CHANGE

Significant progress achieved in science and technology Soon,you will be able to check out lunar soil in Beijing.The National Museum of China announced that it would exhibit the lunar samples brought back in December 2020 by the Chang’e-5 lunar probe.Preserved in a delicate container made of artificial crystal,the samples have already arrived at the museum.These are not just China’s first samples from Moon but also the world’s freshest lunar samples in over four decades.     

A Comprehensive Monetary Policy Framework

Since the Four Comprehensives concept was unveiled in December 2014,President Xi Jinping has continued to reiterate the theory on a number of occasions.The Four Comprehensives have been a topicon everyone’s lips during the annual sessions of China’s National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in March. It shows a strong intention of Chinese leaders to design a new political framework that will shape the future of China not only in terms of political strategy, but with implications for monetary policy as well. This leads us to the relevance of the Four Comprehensives to G20 discussions-next year it will be China hosting the meetings,bringing global attention back to Beijing only shortly after last year’s APEC meetings.     

Unfair Trade

正December 11,2016 marks the 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization(WTO).In accordance with Article 15 of the Protocol on the Accession of the People’s Republic of China,WTO members should stop the practice of using surrogate countries in anti-dumping claims against China.This is an international obligation that all WTO members are obligated to honor,and they are supposed to do so in good faith and in a timely manner.     

SOWING THE SEEDS OF LAW

Staff members of the People’s Court of Yunyang County,southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality,distribute a printed version of the Constitution to students of a local primary school on December 2,two days ahead of China’s inaugural Constitution Day.     

Germany Readies For Chinese IPOs

Even the freezing cold of a Beijing winter could not stop Duke Alexander’s China visit last December. As the IPo divisional director of Deutsche Boerse AG, Alexander visited China five times in six months, with the aim of helping the first Chinese enter-prises in history to launch their IPOs on Deutsche Boerse AG. He revealed that “in the first quarter of 2007, the first Chinese enterprise will trade on the Deutsche Boerse AG.”Deutsche Boerse AG’s IPO seminar, held in Beijing, attracted many Chinese entrepreneurs looking into listing their companies in Germany. The vice president of a Beijing investment company said that his company was considering an IPO through either the London AIM or Deutsche Boerse AG. “Deutsche Boerse AG’ sfee for launching an IPO is 20 percent lower than that of AIM, but also involves addressing the requirement that the company must be estab-lished in Germany,” he said. The businessman said he was still undecided on the final destination of his company’s IPO launch. Why have there been no Chinese IPOs on the Deutsche Boerse AG in the past?Why would a Chinese enterprise want to list on the Deutsche Boerse AG? What strategies has Deutsche Boerse AG implemented to compete with other prestigious global stock exchanges? We explored these questions in an exclusive interview with Alexander.     

Moon Bound

China's first lunar probe,Chang'e-1, blasts off aboard a Long March 3A carrier rocket at 6:05 p.m.(10:05 GMT)from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. Chang'e-1,named after a legendary Chinese goddess of the moon,is expected to experience four accelerations and enter earth-moon transfer orbit on October 31,arriving in the moon's orbit on November 5 for a yearlong scientific exploration. The launch of the circumlunar satellite marked the start of China's ambitious three-phase moon mission.Scientists have planned a moon landing and release of a moon rover around 2012 in the second phase.In the third phase,another rover will land on the moon and return to earth with lunar soil and stone samples for scientific research around 2017. Inset:Staff at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center applaud the successful launch of Chang'e-1.     

Economy

First Moon Rover Unveiled
Chinese scientists unveiled the country＇s first moon rover on September 25 and invited the public to come up with a name for it. Zhao Xiaojin, director of the aerospace depart- ment of the China Aerospace Science and Tech- nology Corporation, described the lunar rover as carrying the dreams of Asia. It is an orbiter adapt- able to harsh environments, a highly efficient and integrated robot, and a high-altitude ＂patrolman.＂     

Sci-Tech

正Commercial 4G Starts on December 18 China launched commercial4G mobile communications services on December 18,bringing the most advanced telecommunications technology to the country’s more than one billion mobile users.China Mobile,the country’s biggest mobile operator with over 700 million users,started4G services on that date with a new brand He,meaning     

THE INNOVATION REVOLUTION

<正>New technologies are changing the old and the new alike Guangzhou,a millennia-old commercial city and once the first port in China to open to the outside world and the testing ground of China’s market economy in the 1970s,hosted hundreds of business elites from over30 countries and regions under one roof in early December.With the theme Openness and Innovation:Shaping the Global Economy,the Fortune Global Forum 2017 lasted from December 6 to 8,with inclusive cooperation,sustainable development and innovation     

Weibo, Changing Our Lives

A photograph, a video or up to 140 characters of text - these are the tools of communication available to users of Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging service that commands a large and growing following on the Chinese mainland. In August of 2009, the popular news and entertainment website Sina.com.cn launched a test version of "Sina Weibo," becoming one of the first mainland web companies to experiment with a microblogging service. According to statistics from the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), by the first half     

Stealing the Spotlight

<正>Film rules are expected to regulate and boost the development of the industry By Tang Yuankai Alaw promoting China’s film industry,first drafted 12 years ago,is now one step closer to being enacted,after the National People’s Congress(NPC),China’s top legislature,finished soliciting opinions from the public on its draft on December 5.     

MEDIA DIGEST

正Yangtze River Ecology Oriental Outlook December 19In today’s China,experts on water conservation seem to have become enemies with experts on ecological conservation.In 2013,discussion on the collapse of the ecological system in the Yangtze River once again triggered a conflict between the two groups.