Elements of Success

After working and studying overseas, a businessman finds his niche at home After earning his MBA degree at the University of Cambridge in 2004,Hou Guoqiang chose to return to China from Britain.Hou said he never thought about staying abroad to work and knew China was right for him.     

One Man’s Charity Pursuit

When Lou Zongquan became a millionaire and thought his money was more than enough to sustain a kungfu school over 10 years ago, the engineer-turned-businessman decided it was time to feed his martial ambition. in less than a year, however, the kungfu fan found that his dream would lead him to running an orphanage. The coastal holiday villa Lou rented and then bought for the kungfu school in Gaizhou, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, now serves as the Orphanage of Benevolence, which has been home fo...     

A Tightening Net

At the age of 75 and having retired years ago, Wang Zhenlin, former head of the coalfield geology bureau of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, thought he had safely put his past behind him.     

Poetic Comnos er Chen Qigang

ON visiting Chen Qigang's web page(www.qigangchen.fr.st) and seeing his picture,the viewer knows immediately that this is noordinary person. Chen's essential boldness,sensitivity and warmth show clearly in his face. Onreading his resume about his studies in France, and hiscompositions that were a departure from traditionalChinese music, this impression is endorsed. His tutor,Olivier Messiaen, a master of 20th century modernmusic, once remarked, "His compositions reveal truecreativeness, great talent, and a perfect assimilation ofEuropean musical concepts into Chinese thought."On his emergence into contemporary classical music, few of Chen's peers acknowledged the originality of his work. Years later, his talent, unconventional-ity, and refusal to be constrained by contemporary Western musical mores have won him recognition. In January 2003, the UK record company EMI/Virgin is to release Chen Qigang's CD (The Five Elements, Reflections on Years Past, and Butterfly in Love with Flowers).     

Mozi: No Aggression,But Universal Love

MOZI (ca.475-395 BC) was one of many philosophers in the volatile Pre-Qin Period (before BC 221 when the State of Qin annexed other six kingdoms and unified China) who were committed to restoring and overhauling the social order.Mozi was a commoner born in the State of Lü (in today’s Shandong Province),but spent most of his life in the State of Song (in present day Henan Province).He studied Confucian theory in his early years,and later established his own school of thought Mohism,which challenges Confucianism on many fronts.Mozi traveled around the states to sell his political ideas to the rulers,who gave him the cold shoulder however.This great thinker never held any high official position in his lifetime.     

The Bengali Bridge

Dong Youchen was studying Russian at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1959 when he came across a novel by a foreign author that captivated him. Boat Capsize, the complex story of a man who survives a ferry disaster to discover the young woman he has rescued is not his new bride but rather someone else’s, moved Dong immeasurably. “I have to read the original,” the 22-year-old from northeast China’s Jilin Province thought to himself at the time.     

Xia Gong, He...

While I held his left arm,Memories of his eight-and-a- half-year imprisonment which damaged both of his legs came back to me,Overcome by a wave of grief,I respected him even more.     

＂Company Night Owls＂

W HEN Zhang Tian saw the term “com- pany night owl” on the Internet it struck him as a f itting epi- thet for him and his work colleagues. Zhang Tian works for a private adver- tising company in Guangzhou specializ- ing in computer graphic design. His boss angles for advertisement design orders and passes them on to his staff of six, of whom Zhang Tian is one. Zhang and his colleagues work all hours in order to keep ahead of a continuous stream of work.“I created a record by not leaving…     

A State Compensation Case & Its Lessons

It was 7 o'clock on November 17, 2001. Chen Qinglong, a hired driver in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, was driving his vehicle to the checkpoint at Changping town of the city. A security guard of the town's public security bureau blocked his way on the pretext that "his vehicle bumped into a security guard and injured him a few days ago." Then, a policeman from a sub-police station in Changping Town took Chen and his vehicle to the sub-police station.     

His bride died young

A couple of years ago, a beautiful bride died at an early age, but she kept visiting her husband every night. As the first rays of sunlight shone through the paper-screen windows, she would leave again. How he wished to be together with her all day long! The young man thought long and hard about what he could do to stop her from leaving every morning. At long last, the idea came to him of shutting out the sunlight from his room. He at once ordered a tailor to make a large, thick curtain     

BALLY

1. Men's Spring/Summer 2006 Collection "Holiday in Acapulco" The Bally Spring/Summer 2006 man escapes his Nordic home and finds refuge on the sandy beaches of Acapulco. There, he finds himself immersed in a wave of rich, bright colors surrounded by comfort and peace, mesmerized by an endless horizon where the ocean meets the sky and seduced by the clear blue waters. Nature is all around him. embracing him gently attesting to his unforgettable     

In the Shadow of Mental Illness A flawed education system and changes to families are pushing young people over the precipice of sanity

Jun Cai from a village in central China's Hunan Province was a model student.A talented writer,he had dreamed of pursuing a career in writing since childhood.But his father,a doctor,hoped he would study medicine.When Jun was in his second year of high-school,his grandmother suffered a fatal stroke and Jun's father made him swear to enter medical school in front of his dying grandmother.     

TV Dating Programs： Love and Marriage in a Consumer Society

EVERY Saanrday and Sunday evening on Jiangsu Satellite Television, a jury of 24 single young women fire questions at a bachelor and make comments on his answers before pressing a button to either vote him off the show, or keep him. The lucky survivors of the ordeal are rewarded with their choice of a girl from the panel for a date.     

Toys Turn Into Treasures

Thirty-nine-year-old Bao Yongliang is the head of the Department of Digital Animation at the Jilin University of Arts in northeast China.However,the birth of his daughter in 2013 not only fulfilled Bao's dream of becoming a father,but also inspired a creative passion that has seen him launch his own art toy company.     

Imperial Tea Connoisseurs

HAVING ruled for 60 years, in 1795 Qing emperor Qianlong decided it was time to abdicate in favor of his son. His ministers tried to dissuade him, saying: "A country cannot manage for a single day without its monarch." The emperor promptly retorted, raising his cup of tea, "A monarch cannot function for a single day without tea." Qianlong had several reasons for abdicating and mentioned tea only as a red her-     

Yao Dixiong‘s Equine Passion

YAO Dixiong, world famous Chinese Australian painter, went to live in Australia with his parents in 1979. Twenty years of hard work have won him a place in international art circles, and the epithet, "Prince of Steeds."     

Micro Credits: A New Turn for "Laid-Offs"

Jia Xiangde just didn't know what to do when, five years ago, he lost his job at a state-owned chemical factory. He was given mi "unemployment pay" of 200 yuan (US$24.1) per month for his family of seven. "My wile had no job and life was really hard for us," he recalls. "I had thought I would be done for until the government stepped in to help. I got a petty loan from the government, and that has helped me turn a new leaf in life."     

An Interview with Norio Shirato

At the invitation of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC),NorioShirato,executive council member of the Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association (JCCEA) paid a visit to Beijingfrom July 16 to July 20, 1995. He has served as director of the General Office and executive council member of theJCCBA for a long time,fully in charge of exchanges with China and has made unremitting efforts and importantcontributions to the development of relations between China and Japan. In recognition of his contributions, the CPAFFCconferred the title of "Friendship Ambassador" upon him on July 17. On July 18, the editor-in-chief of the "Voice ofFriendship" as a reporter had an interview with him. Following is the excerpts:     

Perception Gaps

<正>A Summer Davos event gives a flavor of what international experts have to say about interest rates and moreOn September 9 at the Summer Davos forum in Dalian, at the end of a wideranging discussion entitled"The Global Balancing Act," impressively coiffured host Stephen Engel,a Bloomberg journalist,asked his four panelists for a show of hands concerning whether or not they thought the Federal     

Caribbean Coast to Urban Jungle

<正>Architect, businessman and musician: the three faces of a Colombian Throughout two decades of living in China, Alvaro Royo has taken part in different endeavors, teaching him important lessons and earning him many successes. But above all, it has marked a 180 in life, alongside his family.