From sparking red star to house of flying daggers——Chinese movies from 1949 to today

A number of different generations, with the possible exception of the younger one, can still remember their favourite actors, scenes, and songs from these revolutionary films produced from 1949 to the beginning of the Cultual Revolution, as if they had seen them yesterday.Passionately intense orchestral music building cease less crescendos of fervent love for one's country - and Party - was the order of the day when it came to film scores in post-1949 China. Chinese movie buffs were fed a sta…     

The Power of Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Fifty years ago,when the People's Republic of China(PRC)and the United States had not yet established diplomatic relations but were keen to do so,a tiny table tennis ball created the first friendly people-to-people link since the founding of the PRC in 1949.American players,along with officials and journalists,arrived in China in April 1971 to take part in exhibi?tion matches,opening the door to friendly exchanges between the two major powers in the eastern and western hemispheres.     

People's Complaints System in China——Chinese way of human rights relief

1. Evolution of the complaints system The people's complaints system is a mechanism of democracy and human rights relief under the traditional legal system of China. It has displayed positive roles during different historical periods after 1949 when the new China was founded.     

Rural Revolution

正China’s reform and opening up,which mark their40th anniversary this year,were fi rst carried out in the country’s rural areas.The People’s Republic of China adopted a planned economy system in the first three decades after its founding in 1949.Industrial and agricultural work was conducted in accordance with the government’s plans.Planning authorities decided on when to plant in the fi elds and what to plant,not the farmers     

The Economic Development of Xinjiang after the Founding of New China

Before the founding of the People＇s Republic of China, the economy of Xinjiang was a natural economy, with farming and livestock breeding as the mainstay. Industry was underdeveloped, and there were no railways or up-to-the- mark factories or mines. Famines were frequent in some areas, and the people were impoverished. Xinjiang was peacefully liberated on September 25, 1949.     

第一单元:新中国的十七年电影(1950-1966年)(英文)

Diverse and Colorful Nation-State Building of Multi-Ethnic China The year 1949 was a new beginning in China’s history.At the time,flames of war were smoldering and a united multi-ethnic nation was standing up.In 1954,the first Constitution of the People’s Republic of China asserted that the People’s Republic of China is a singular nation in which all ethnic groups are equal and reserve the right to exercise their own spoken and written languages,as well as the freedom to preserve their customs.In essence,’diversity in ethnic groups’was one element     

Champion of Chinese New Year Prints

IT was 7:00 o'clock in Beijing on a bitter cold January morning when an elderly man arrived at the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles office.It was the day that members of the China Society for Folk Literature and Art were to travel to Weifang City, Shandong Province for a meeting promoting     

Rural Governments Find a Voice

WITH a history of about a decade,the press spokesperson system is new in China.Especially when it comes to county and township governments,the system is still in its infancy.On a recent visit to Changfeng County in Hefei City,Anhui Province,China Today reporters were surprised to learn that there were 67 spokespersons for the local county and township governments.To learn more about how this quintessentially Western system of government-media contact has affected rural society,China Today interviewed several of the county’s press spokespersons.     

Salute, Helen Snow——A Worthy Friendship Bridge

Helen Foster Snow, an outstanding Americanwoman who was a long-time friend of theChinese people, left all of us forever on January11,1997. Heartfelt condolences were extended withprofound respects from both sides of the Pacific inher native country and here in China.Helen first came to China in 1931 when shewas 23 years old. She married Edgar Snow in thenext year and, the two of them working as journal-ists in China and across the Far East, both were     

Voices of China

2009 was a year when the fates were capricious with both China and the world. While wrestling with the global f inancial crisis, we had to juggle the concerns of     

Pooled Individual Strength

In the three decades between the founding of New China in 1949 and implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, China practiced a unitary economic system in which public interest took precedence over that of individuals and localities. This system proved effective in pooling and optimizing limited national resources, especially during the initial period of the People's Republic when the industrialization process started from scratch. Its drawbacks, however, manifest in the inhibition of human initiative and the country's modernization, gradually became apparent as the Chinese economy grew.     

Leveling the Playing Field

On December 25,2018,when many parts of the world were celebrating Christmas,foreign investors eyeing China and Chinese enterprises also received a long-term gift.     

Diplomacy Gets a Sporting Chance

The United States steps up to the plate and uses sport to improve its image in China Two teams of table tennis players from opposite sides of the world cracked the icy relations between China and the United States in 1971 when they played a series of exhibi- tion matches in Beijing.While the nine American players were in the capital city of China,they met with Chinese students and workers,attended social events and visited the Great Wall and Summer Palace.This ping-pong diplomacy helped to pave the way for the then President Richard Nixon's historic trip to China the following year—the first ever for a U.S.president—and the beginning of rapprochement between the two Cold War adversaries.     

Beijing Biking

<正>China is a land of bicycles.At least it was back in 1992 when I traveled the country.Back then everyone seemed to ride a bicycle.Up and down Chang’an Avenue that runs across the center of the city you would see people on bicycles.Millions of them.And all bicycles were black and would only go as fast as you could pedal.Cars were rare.They were a presence on the busy streets but most citizens did notown one.     

Defending Home

Television audiences around the country were shocked on November 21,2009, when national broadcaster China Central Television showed clips of two families violently fighting lawenforcement officials who were evicting them from their homes. The first incident being broadcast happened in June 2008, when Pan Rong and her husband stood on the roof of their four-story house to confront a demolition crew that consisted of police officers, firefighters and a bulldozer. Their family home stood in the way of a Shanghai Hongqiao Airport expansion project. Pan shouted into a loudspeaker,"If you don't have a court verdict, you are violating our property rights."     

Maturing Relations——China and South Korea push bilateral relations to new highs

For decades after the founding of the People ’s Republic of China in 1949,China and the Republic of Korea were sworn enemies.     

THE BIG BANG

<正>Chemical warehouse explosion leaves a trail of tragedy and devastation in China’s port city of Tianjin Many residents were asleep when a blast powerful enough to register as seismic activity ripped through the Binhai New Area in the metropolitan city of Tianjin in north China on August 12.     

A Way Out of the ＂Tibet Issue＂ and the Future of Tibet

HE ＂Tibet Issue＂ was conceived at a time when Western imperialists were determined to invade and carve up China. They wooed and promoted separatist forces in Tibet from among the serf-owning class, which likewise wished to split Tibet from China with the support of imperialists. Between them, the two sides colluded and fabricated the ＂Tibet Issue.＂     

Episode of Fifth Generation Movie Directors

On October 20th, 1979, a day in the following year after end of ten- year scourge of the Cultural Revolution, a day when thousands of in- tellectuals in rural areas and youths with increasing urge for knowledge in cities were elated, China resumed its National College Entrance Examination system of all universities and colleges. When the news was announced, all intellectual youths were excited, because they clearly know that that was an opportunity of a lifetime which was not only a chance f…     

China's 5G Solutions

Since commercial 5G services were launched in China in 2019,the technology has become extensively used,going far beyond mobile phones into sectors as diverse as e-commerce and healthcare.Its versatility was particularly apparent last year when it was deployed in a specialty hospital in Wuhan in central China for epidemic prevention and control,and also used to measure the height of Mt.Qomolangma,the highest peak in the world.Wang Zhiqin,Vice President of China Academy of Information and Communications Tech no logy,talked about its development to Guangming Daily.