On Guard

Everywhere in Beijing there are uniformed men. Standing to attention on little boxes outside my office building,dozing in booths at the gates of apart-     

SENDING A NEW SIGNAL

When Su Yiming and her seven former classmates had a reunion party at the end of 2018,it was Su's phone that became the center of attraction.When she took a photograph,the young women were blown away by the stunning features of the phone camera.Su,an office worker, also told them how her new Huawei phone scores over the latest iPhone model.It allows her to have two accounts on popular social media platform WeChat simultaneously,one for her personal use and one for her office use,a feature unavailable on the iPhone.     

中共中央办公厅 国务院办公厅印发《关于全面深入持久开展民族团结进步创建工作铸牢中华民族共同体意识的意见》（英文）

正The general office of the Central Committee and general office of the State Council recently issued the statement, "Ideas on Continually Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress in a Comprehensive and In-depth Manner and Strengthening the Ideology of a Shared Chinese Community," which is to be implemented by all regions and departments.     

Two Kingdoms,One Mission

While the terracotta warriors from ancient China are still on display in London,receiving the admiration of millions of British visitors, the prime minister of the UK touched down in Beijing and then Shanghai to be greeted by leaders,entrepreneurs and citizens in the Middle Kingdom. Gordon Brown's trip to China in mid-January was the first to the country since he took office and the first for a European state leader     

Demands of a Two-Horse Company

YANG Jie, 23, starts work at his office on Youth Road in Wuhan, Hubei Province at 9 am each day and returns to his dorm to sleep at 10 pm. He eats a modest lunch in the small restaurant downstairs and has a takeaway for supper. It was in the summer of 2005 that Yang Jie and Li Chao opened their Qi Hang Advertising Company. Their small firm deals with large and small concerns alike, and in order to stay solvent, they spend their lives either at the office, where they deal with clients an…     

Random Notes on A Visit to Ningxia

Talking about Ningxia, one of the first things that come to mind is boxes of red dry Chinese wolfberries on the supermarkets shelves .Geography books tell us: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has its capital in Yinchuan. As one of the provinces,municipalities and autonomous regions in the Yellow River Basin, it has fertile plains, abundant water and developed animal husbandry. It was a major thoroughfare on the ancient Silk Road and is an     

THIS WEEK

IT'S OFFICIAL A couple shows their marriage certificates at a marriage registration office in Wuhan,Hubei Province in central China,on April 7.Wuhan has gradually resumed the marriage registration service for citizens since April 3.Couples,to prevent cross-infection,should make a prior appointment and show their health status to enter the office.     

“Venture” Doesn’t Mean Gut-Wrencher

Insiders weigh in on minimizing risk and maximizing return in the new venture capital marketIn an exquisitely renovated office in a luxury office building on Nanjing Xilu, in downtown Shanghai, Wu Meng was on the phone with his Hong Kong part- ner discussing an apple juice productionproject that they just visited. What impressed him the most was that even though their annual income reached200 million yuan, they still did their business in old quarters granted to the founder 10 years ago. Th…     

Farmers and Consumers United by Health Concerns

ONE Friday morning in late October, Shi Yan and her coworkers at the Dondon Farm were packing peanuts, freshin-season vegetables and sweet potatoes into boxes for delivery to 36 farm-member consumers scattered all over the city. Each box would leave this farm at the foot of Mount Phoenix in the western suburb of Beijing and appear on a member＇s doorway by Saturday morning.     

Prudence and Optimism Foster the Sino-U.S.Relationship

ENTERING 2016,President Obama embarked on his last year in office,and the presidential election campaign hit its home strait.According to media polls,the issues of greatest concern to Americans include the domestic economic     

Certified Organic

正New organic product certification rules in place to regulate the market Neatly-packaged vegetables and fruits greet customers at the entrance of the Ganbei Supermarket in Beijing's Xicheng District.The produce,usually sold in small plastic boxes,looks fresh and clean.Some boxes bear organic certification marks and some do not.Hanging from the top of a shelf are the organic certificates of a vegetable producer in     

Lad Mags Lure Chinese Males：Glossy magazines seek to score with Chinese men

IT is almost impossible to find a bottle of men's deodorant in most Chinese cities. Chinese men are not renowned as Metrosexuals.But several publishinghouses are banking on their ability to turn local men into shopping and sex sophisticates. Publishers of men's magazines have identified Asia as the biggest market of the future, banking on the change in lifestyle and habits of local men. Up to 1995, post office sub-     

Tears or a Chinese Premier

THE day Premier Wen took office he stated, "Leaders should be closer to the masses." His visit to comfort and talk with everyday workers in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province on January 1, 2005, where a few weeks previously a gas blast in the     

Virtual Love

正Video dating and online wedding guests gain acceptance amid novel coronavirus By Lu YanXiao Yun,a 32-year-old office clerk in Dalian,Liaoning Province in northeast China,stayed at home due to the novel coronavirus disease in the first half of the year.But to her surprise,she was still able to go on blind dates with men chosen by her family members and friends.     

Youth Literature

IT was nightfall in a Beijing office building, one autumn day in the early 1950s. A 19-year-old clerk locked himself into the small, windowless room that was both his office and dorm. He sat at the table, and in the dim light began scribbling on a sheet of white paper. This was the night that this young office worker covertly embarked on a pursuit that would take him to the apogee of the Chinese literary altar. He was Wang Meng. A year later, he finished his first novel Long Live Youth (Qingchun Wansui). It centers on a group of bright, exuberant senior high school students, all beautiful in their way, and the happiness, frustrations and woes that accompany their growth. The young Wang Meng, like them, was full of dreams. When later asked why had he started writing, he said, "Youth needs the glow, caress, encouragement, edification and nourishment of literature, while literature needs the energy, empressement, candor, honesty and courage of youth."     

Banking on the Big Apple

The country's largest lender receives permission to set up a branch in New York After nearly 10 years of waiting, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) received permission from the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) on August 5 to upgrade its office in New York to a branch.     

A World of Help

China deepens its commitment to the UN during a visit by Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon con- cluded on June 21 his sixth visit to China since taking office in 2007 and the first since China’s leadership transition this March. During the four-day visit, the UN’s top official commended both China’s commitment to mul- tilateralism and its contributions to the largest     

SPOTLIGHTS

<正>China Outlines Measures to Ensure Food Safety Chinese authorities on Dec.192013 unveiled a package of measureto ensure food safety in 2014,as themore affluent public shows greatecare in what they eat.The measures drawn up by theexecutive office of the food safetycommission under the State CouncilChina’s Cabinet,range from legislation amendments to measures againsviolations of food safety.The office called for more rigorous checks,in particular duringholidays like new Year and SpringFestival,to prevent major food safetyincidents in 2014.     

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     

E-Commerce Takes Off

PRIOR to opening her e-store, 28-year-old Yu Jing was an office worker in a joint-venture company in Zhuhai, Guang-dong Province, working a steady 9-to-5 job. At the beginning of June, spurred by her dream of a free and happy life, she finally quit the job to open an e-shop on Taobao, specializing in silver accessories and Korean cosmetics.