More Modification For India

Indian Prime Min ister Narendra Modi's sweeping election victory on May 23, where his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 of the 543 seats in Lok Sabha, India's lower house of parliament, came as a surprise to many. However, it may not have been entirely unexpected, con sidering Modi's charisma, his electoral plank of nationalism and a weak opposition. In his new stint, Modi is set to continue his drastic reforms.     

For More Blue Skies

China’s subsidizing scheme aimed at increasing business use of renewable energy and reducing pollution has high hopesStarting from September 25,the energy surcharge will be raised from 0.008yuan per kilowatt-hour(kwh)to 0.015yuan per kwh for businesses,said the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC),the country’s top economic planner.The surcharge is to make up for a shortfall in China’s renewable energy development fund.To encourage power plants to install equipment to remove nitrogen oxide,a major air pollutant,the government also increased the subsidy for power plants with denitration facilities from 0.008 yuan per     

Hangzhou:A Beautiful Venue For the G20 Summit

正An exploration of this ancient yet modern city Summer in Hangzhou,the capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province,is exceptionally hot and humid,owing to its geographical location and many crisscrossing lakes and rivers.The city feels even hotter this year due to the comprehensive preparation for the upcoming     

Beautiful Life on a Wheelchair

正A physically challenged woman helps and inspires others with her strong-mindedness and self-esteem Dong Ming, a 26-year-old woman in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province, has been bound to a wheelchair for 17 years. But that has not prevented her from helping and inspiring others. She     

Lhasa Transformed

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ten- pai Nyima and his parents are relaxing on the doorstep of Jokhang Monastery, morethan 2,800 kilometers from their hometown in Sichuan Province.     

Lhasa Facelift

Project to conserve Tibetan capital’s ancient district improves infrastructure and protects cultural heritage In the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, there is a saying, "If you have not visited Barkhor, you have not really come to Lhasa." For centuries, pilgrims have walked along the circular path enveloping Jokhang Monastery, prostrating and spinning prayer wheels.     

Beautiful Country

An American author’s debut novel explores a cross-culturalexperienceinChina Two teenage boys,separated by culture and connected by the universal experience of growing up in a changing world,search for their identities and learn that what brings people together is more important than what keeps them apart.This is the story of     

Beautiful Life

WAWA is a makeup artist working in the wonderful world of fashion. She can repaint a model's face faster than a Formula 1 team can change four wheels in a pit stop. Originally from Harbin, Wawa has been living in Beijing for five years. She showed a talent for fashion from an early age and delighted in daubing her face with makeup and parading around in her mother's dresses and high heels     

Sanya Beautiful Sanya

Known as "Hawaii of the Orient," Sanya in Hainan Province is the only tropical coastal tourist city, with sunbathed silver-sanded beaches, blue sky, coconut trees, and top quality tourism facilities. Its scenic spots, beautiful landscape and pleasant climate attract tens of thousands of tourists each year. Sanya's best-known scenic spots are nanyahaijiao(The Ends of the Earth),Yalong bay,Luhuitou     

Lhasa on the Move

A historic moment occurred at 20:58 on July 3, 2006. Train T27 completed its 48-hour maiden journey from Beijing to Lhasa via the Beijing-Guangzhou, Lanzhou-Lianyungang, Lanzhou-Qinghai, and Qinghai-Tibet rail- ways. Chinese engineers had spent more than three decades planning, designing and constructing the 100-year-old brainchild of Dr. Sun Yat-sen – the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Since that momentous minute, the railway has increased the ? ow of people, materials and information into th…     

Beautiful and Smart

The Kushui rose has become a well-known brand that means more money for local farmers The rose is commonly called the flower of love, representing romance and passion.Today,farmers in Yongdeng County     

A Beautiful Dream

Like many migrant workers,Xu Xiaojun,a 25-year-old kitchen cabinet installer who came to Beijing in 2001 from a small village in central China's Henan Province,hopes to find his way in the city instead of going back to the countryside.     

Railway Runs to Lhasa

“It is a magical road, tak-ing us to paradise onearth; dragon afterdragon climb ridgesand mountains, bring-ing prosperity to the snowy plateau ..."This is part of a song titled HeavenlyRoad eulogizing the Qinghai-TibetRailway.The Qinghai-Tibet Railway ru…     

A Beautiful Vision

正With the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) having concluded on November 14, a new catchphrase of building a beautiful China has spread across the nation. First proclaimed in the political report by the then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu     

For a Practical Peace

<正>Pragmatism marks China’s proposal to bring Palestine and Israel together for talks When Chinese President Xi Jinping met his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on July 18,Xi proposed a new,trilateral dialogue mechanism for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli confl ict.The proposal came just days before weeks of violence and turmoil in the Middle East region,the worst so far this year.After an attack at the holy site of Haram     

Protecting Our Beautiful Wildlife

china is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet. the variety of fauna is particularly staggering; china is home to 6,500 vertebrat species,     

Building a More Prosperous Yamda

CLAD in a white fleece coat and pink woolen hat, Purbu sits on the thick carpet of her new two-storey house and sips from a bottle of juice. The small table beside her is piled up with candies and snacks, glossy Tibetan-style furniture fills the room and the windows, whose thick glass keeps out the harsh winter wind, offer a view of her spacious yard from which a yak peeps curiously into the room. Enjoying an hour of leisure, our hostess confesses that sometimes she is not sure if she is in a dream, and has to pinch her-     

More Than a Pretty Face

The various facial make up designs in the Sichuan Opera are Chinese art treasures With the flick of a wrist,the intricate patterns painted on the opera performer's face magically shift;the audience,awed     

For a World Without Leprosy

INthe21stcentury,leprosywillbeelindnated—sodeclaredthelatestgatheringoftheworld'stopexpertsonthisdevastatingdiseaseontheoccasionofthe15thInternationalLeprosyConferenceheldinBeijinginthesummerof1998.ThefirstsuchconferencewasheldinBerlinin1897andeversinceefforts"tocreateaworldwithoutleprosy"havecontinuedunabated.LeprosyisoneoftheoldestinfectiousdiseasesafflictingmankindandinChinarecordedcasesgoback3,000years.Thesufferingitcausedwasimmenseandforagesleprosybasicallywentuntreated,leadingtoperma…