The Chinese Dream,My Dream

China is a domicile for all dreams. Among those that can testify to this are Jie Hongyun, whose status as farmer changed to that of permanent resident of Zhongshan City through urbanization reform; Yin He, who voluntarily embarked on a career in Tibet; Wu Xiaolin, two-time earthquake survivor; and Li Shouwei who, with help from the government, rebuilt a local mosque.     

Micro-Charit On the Way

Social media helps Ya’an quake relief "We got the folded beds and put them all into tents. Thank you so much!" said a phone call to Vivian Li, 29, a housewife in Beijing, on April 28. The voice at the other end was Xue Chunzhi,ateacheratTianquanMiddleSchoolin quake-hit Ya’an City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, some 2,000 km away from Beijing. Later that day, Li also received the pictures that Xue took on the scene. Point to point Transparent charity Time Stills When Elegance Blooms Rice Dumplings at Westin Beijing Financial Street Herbal Remedies at Jewel Chinese Restaurant Fine Italian Food in the Air     

RITZ KIDS SAFARI NIGHT AND THE MOST MEMORABLE FESTIVAL FAMILY GATHERING At The Ritz-Carlton BEIJING,FINANCIAL STREET

<正>This vacation season,The Ritz-Carlton Beijing,Financial Street takes you on a perfect family vacation to warm up your winter.At The Ritz-Carlton Beijing,Financial Street,the little ones can experience individual check-in and check-out just like adults.Apart from that,this new program takes little ones from ages 4-8 on an adventure,from the moment they check-in.They are delighted to discover a tent pitched in their room,stored with all the amenities they need for a surprise in-room     

An Old Street

正Beijing's cultural heritage on Liulichang Street is ready to embrace a promising future Outside of the Forbidden City, Beijing's historical districts offer unique scenes of Chinese culture to tourists from around the world. Preserving this cultural heritage is an important task in the rapidly expanding metropolis. Liulichang (meaning Glass Street in English) stretches 800     

RITZ KIDS SAFARI NIGHT AND THE MOST MEMORABLE FESTIVAL FAMILY GATHERING At The Ritz-Carlton BEIJING,FINANCIAL STREET

<正>This vacation season,The Ritz-Carlton Beijing,Financial Street takes you on a perfect family vacation to warm up your winter.At The Ritz-Carlton Beijing,Financial Street,the little ones can experience individual check-in and check-out just like adults.Apart from that,this new program takes little ones from ages 4-8 on an adventure,from the moment they check-in.They are delighted to discover a tent pitched in their room,stored with all the amenities they     

A Significant Tradeoff

A peace accord on the Korean Peninsula should not be signed until North Korea abandons its nuclear weapons The Bush administration is exploring how to implement a peace accord to officially end the Korean War (1950-53),according to a recent report on The Wall Street Journal's website, which quoted unidentified senior U.S. officials.     

Beijing's Financial Dream

Amid suspicions,Beijing rolls up its sleeves to work toward the goal of establishing itself as a financial center Standing at the downtown corner of west Beijing's Financial Street,it might be easy to think you were standing on Wall Street in New York City. A mixture of glistening skyscrapers soars above Beijing's West Second Ring Road and     

No Subsidy,Now What?

Small appliance retailers fear the future as government subsidy programs come to an end Li Haiyan is a saleslady in the TV section of a Dazhong Electronics store in Beijing.At 3 p.m. on June 5, Li was napping on the shop’s sofa instead of servicing customers.     

Legacy of Shanxi Tycoons

Aline of visitors files through the small courtyard entrance to the Rishengchang (Rising Sun Prosperity) Draft Bank on bustling West Street at World Cultural Heritage site Pingyao, Shanxi Province. The accrued value of entrance tickets to the bank is a pittance compared to the wealth it earned from bills of exchange, butnevertheless indicates the bank's capacity to regenerateafter decades of dormancy. About a hundred years ago, this residence-like courtyard was financial hub of the Qing Dynasty. Looking at the modest courtyard offices, it is hard to     

Two Sisters Visit“Mother”

On the early morning of 2003 New Year's Day, Li Daolei and his wife got breakfast ready and then woke up their two daughters from a deep sleep. After the breakfast, the family of four went aboard a coach traveling from Jiaozuo in central China's Henan Province to the provincial capital Zhengzhou. Li and his wife would help their two daughters fulfill their wish—to visit their "mother" at the Zhengzhou Center for Street Urchin Protection. As the coach was speeding along the highway against the cold wind. thonghts and emotions surged through the couple's minds like the tides. Watching their simple and lovely daughters who appeared eager to see "mother", they recalled what happened six months ago. Years passed since Li's ex-wife died. She left him a daughter, Caixia, who is now 14 years old. On the evening of July 27, 2002, Caixia talked back to her stepmother because of a trifle. The father blamed the daughter: So, Caixia harbored a grudge against the couple and vowed to "teach them a lesson".     

Turning the Page

正Bookstores are reinventing themselves to cater to the wants of the market ‘Let’s meet at the Beijing Book Building on West Chang’an Street."Chen Sitong,a 27-year-old saleswoman working in Beijing,finds herself frequently repeating this line to friends when they want to set a venue to get together."The bookstore is near where I work.We al-     

DRUMMING UP A NEW BEAT

正A summer camp broadens the horizons of rural children It took Li Shang,a percussionist from Beijing,nearly15 hours to reach Weiziba,a village in Gansu Province,on July 21.Local transportation from the airport in the provincial capital to the village,at an altitude of 2,450 meters,remains inconvenient,but Li and his colleagues didn't seem to be bothered.     

Past and Present

正The renovation of Dongsi Street in Beijing is a blueprint for historical block upgrades No.108 Dongsi South Street in Beijing consists of three clothing stores. However,they were once connected and belonged to an old brand.When renovations on Dongsi Street,located in Dongcheng District started in July 2020,experts from the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design removed its marble facade and uncovered a traditional building,the eaves and oil decorations and paintings of which have remained intact.     

Beijing Ox Street in the Eyes of Muslims

Around a 1,000-year-old mosque in Niu Jie (Ox Street) in the Xuanwu District in southern Beijing, there live some 12,000 Muslims, generation after generation. They are the witnesses to the vicissitudes of life in this age-old street. At five o'clock in the morning, 77-year-old man, Wang Changhe, is already up and on his way to the Ox Street Mosque some hundred meters from his home. It was very quiet at this time of day at this gray-walled and green-tiled mosque, as few people showed up. Minutes later, people began to stream in for the six-o'clock service. It is said that more than 200 people show up at the daily service and more at al-Djuma on Friday.     

Nothing like a Sanlitun cafe

Beijing's answer to Moscow's Arbat, Sanlitun Bar Street is a narrow street with a cool cafe strip on one side. Conveniently located in the embassy district, it is over-run with foreigners and is the principal sunny afternoon and late night meeting place for the moneyed party set.Personally, I try to stay away, since too much exposure can severely dent     

SMARTER TREATMENT

Big data engineer Li Kun's routine work irv volves analyzing medical treatment data,once an area entirely unfamiliar to him.Majoring in computer science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Li has risen to his current position through his steady efforts."I used to work on the research and development of database and data storage systems.Then I shifted to big data analysis,a job that is more intensive,and have been focusing on the medical treatment field ever since,"Li told Beijing Review.The engineer,in his 30s,has worked on databases for four years and spent three years on data analysis.     

Wonder Awaits——Westin Family Day at The Westin Beijing Financial Street

<正>The Westin Beijing Financial Street launched the Westin Family Day event on July 18 by inviting families to join the single-day affair.With Westin Family,every exploration inspired moments of wonder,encouraging children to discover their environment,embark on adventures and try something new.The hotel prepared a specially designed T-shirt for every family.All of the children set out on the mission for the day,which was"to make DaddyMommy’s favorite pizza."From the moment they receive their travel journal at check-in,kids were encouraged to embark on new adventures with the     

It''''s a Matter of Trust

While the Chinese Internet industry is finding its own way of making profits, it still gets a standoff attitude from Wall Street stock analysts Since the mainland's first Internet company China.com was listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 1999, China's Internet companies have been on a roller coaster ride. Their fate on the market was largely in the hands of Wall Street, whose analysts couldn't agree on a profit-making model for these     

A Change in Value

A Wall Street Journal report on May 3, said the IMF is likely to declare, for the first time in more than a decade, that the yuan is fairly valued. “China’s contributions to the world economy in recent years are obvious to all. It’s natural for the IMF, a multilateral international organization,to change its attitude toward the Chinese currency,” Tan Yaling, President of China Forex Investment Research Institute, said during an interview with China Radio International.     

Exchanges

Chinese Bridge Crosses the Danube Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vui attended the completion ceremony of a new bridge across the Danube River in Belgrade on December 18,2014.The 1.5 km-long bridge is the first to be constructed by a Chinese company in Europe,and also the first to cross the Danube in Serbia in nearly seven decades.Premier Li and Prime Minister Vui cut the ribbon together and unveiled a monument marking the bridge’s completion.Li Keqiang expressed gratitude to all Chinese and Serbian participants in the project.He said that the bridge’s completion will promote the local economy.It is not only a bridge of