Sage Calligrapher Festival: Linyi’s CulturaCalling Card

THE Sixth Sage Calligra-pher Cultural Festival will be held this September in Shandong’s Linyi. The festival is Linyi’s cultural calling card presented to the world, says Zhang Shaojun, mayor of Linyi City and dep-uty secretary of the CPC Linyi munici-pal committee.Linyi began holding the festival in 2003, and has since successfully staged the event fi ve times. As well as enhanc-ing the city’s fame, the festival has pro-moted economic and trade activity.     

Yibin： Home of Bamboo-The Third China Bamboo Cultural Festival

YIBIN is where the Jinsha and Minjiang Rivers meet and join the Yangtze River, at the southern edge of China's Sichuan Basin.The mention of Yibin brings to many people's minds its history of distilling, as its Wuliangye, a spirit distilled from five kinds…     

Confucius： A Calling Card for China＇s Peaceful Rise

<正>on January 11,2011,a bronze statue of Confucius,nearly eight meters high,was unveiled in the northern square of China’s National Museum,which stands on the e...     

China＇s Growing ROK Communities

WHEN the first ROK businesspeople settled in Qingdao back in 1989, they were asalien to the locals as any other profitsavvy foreigners. Two decades on, the Koreans have become an organic part of the beautiful seaside city looking across the Yellow Sea to the Korean Peninsula. According to the online ROK news site Chosunilbo, there are now over 1 million ROK nationals living in China, residing mainly in China＇s eastern metropolises such as Qingdao, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Shenyang.     

China＇s Modernists In Manhattan

Canvasses by China‘s young artists are becoming hot commodities worldwide.     

China＇s Year of Russia

THE year 2006 in China is dedicated to Russia, and 2007 will be Russia's Year of China. Both countries are to host a wide range of cultural activities aimed at promoting mutual understanding between the Chinese and Russian peoples. Gap in Cultural Communications Li Qiang, a 22-year-old English ma-     

The Hetzel Family＇s Friendship with China

AT the National ReAdvocacy Meeting to Eliminate IDD (Iodine Deficiency Disorders) held in October 2000 at Beijing‘s Great Hall of the People, Dr. Basil Hetzel, Chairman of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders,and a major contributor to IDD control in China, spoke of the strong bond between his family and the Chinese people, and how it started with his father, Dr. Kenneth Hetzel. The course of this longstanding relationship is related by Ma Tai, former Chairman of the IDD Advisory Group of the Chinese Ministry of Health.     

Exchange and Communication Creates Value ——Notes on China＇s nationalities hiaher-education and culture deleaation＇s trip to the USA

order to further strengthen international cultural exchanges and promote international cooperation in the field of higher education for China＇s ethnic groups, a delegation of six colleges and universities led by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission （SEAC） visited the United States at the end of April to hold a series of educational and cultural activities,     

ENDANGERED Language-China＇s Response to a Global Problem

The tides of history have washed away so many languages, such as the ancient Egyptian pictographs and the Mesopoiamian cuneiforms used thousands of years ago. Seeing them in museums, we can＇t help but be fascinated by the mystery of those “pictures” and geometric figures that experts worked hard to crack.     

Let Chinese Calligraphy Go Global -- An Interview with Zhao Changqing, Vice President of the Chinese Calligraphers＇ Association

One hot summer day not long ago, in the central courtyard of the Temple of Imperial Ancestors in Beijing, 30 Chinese and foreign calligraphers could be seen working on a 100-meter-long scroll they were preparing lor the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.     

Huolin Gol Grassland Wedding Festival ——Oue Hundred Couples Tie the Knot

The China-Japan Exhibition of Coins, Epigraphs, Calligraphy and Seal Engraving, jointly sponsored by the Chinese People＇s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Kitaeda Seal Cutting Association of Japan, was held in the Beijing Ancient Coins Museum on August 22, 2009, to promote cultural exchange between China and Japan. The exhibition mainly focused on coins and epigraphs, but also showed more than 200 works of calligraphy and seal engraving, rubbings from coins and coin moulds, and photographs, all of them by Chinese and Japanese numismatists, scholars and calligraphers.     

China＇s West： Generating Change

OVER a century after droves of Americans were heading to the western states to seek out new opportunities, the Chinese government launched its own campaign to put Western China onto a fast development track. By 2010, thanks to the Western Development Program, the pace of economic growth there overtook that of the eastern coastal region to become a new economic engine in China.     

China＇s Peripheral Environmenl Its Future Strategies

Acountry requires a peaceful external environment to develop and thrive. China is no exception. Cre. ating such an environment calls for commitment ,from not only China itself, but also countries in the region and in the wider international community.     

Harbin： China＇s Coldest Metropolis

Harbin is a veritable winter playground featuring a range of winter sports and recreational activities.     

China＇s first genetic code ID card. Chengdu to Produce Genetic Code ID Card

China will set up a new observatory in Antarctica on the region＇s highest peak. China has so far built two research bases in Antarctica, namely the Great Wall and Zhongshan stations.     

Paper-Cuts： Among China＇s Ethnic Groups

People believe that paper-cuts can bring good fortune and exorcise ghosts, can exhort for good and warn against punishment. The creative approaches include abstraction,exaggeration, repetition, symbolism, and decoration. As regards colors, they go in for red, yellow, orange, blue, and purple, red being a particular favorite. There is great stylistic variety in paper-cuts among China＇s ethnic groups.     

China＇s Fight Against AIDS Advances through International Cooperation

THE US-recommended HIV/AIDS monitoring systems that we apply are not, as far as I know, widely practiced," wasthe disturbing observation made by Ms Ma Xiaoyan, main executive within the Sino/US cooperation to fight AIDS, and also a researcher on the Beijing Cen- ter for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) AIDS prevention project. HIV/AIDS Prevention Strengthened US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are to deploy a program in China over the coming five years aimed a…     

The Iron Man Deng Zhiyuan redraws China’s calligraphy landscape

THE calligrapher is a humble man,yet as he elaborates on the intricacies of creating a perfectly proportioned Chinese character - if,as he says,there is such a thing - the pride he takes in work shines through.In