Beijing,Tianjin,Shanghai Revisited

"Please fasten your seat belt!We are now landing in Beijing."Leaning against the window, Ilooked down and discovered anunexpected spectacle. A moderncity made me think more of anAmerican metropolis than thegreen oasis that met my eyes inJuly 1946 when I was flying fromChengdu to Peiping on board aD. C. 3 of the C.N.A.C. The     

Inside High Walls——Prisons in Shanghai and Suzhou

The article is based on a visit to the Tilanqiao, Qingpu and Women's prisons and a juvenile delinquent rehabilitation center in Shanghai and the Suzhou Prison of Jiangsu Province in February 2001 by the author, a graduate student of human rights. She made the trip with a group of experts from China Society for Human Rights Studies.     

Shanghai and the Next Century

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Cheap and Cheerful in Beijing

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Protect Lawful Rights and Interests of Farmer-Workers——Report of an investigation to Shanghai and Jiangsu

On June 22-30, an investigation group made up of Vice-President Chen Shiqiu and a number of executive council members of the ChinaSociety for Human Rights Studies, and experts and scholars on human rights, conducted investigation in Shanghai and Wuxi, Zhenjiang and Changzhou in Jiang-     

Pudong and New Developments in Shanghai

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Olympic Games Bridge Beijing and London

IN April 2006, Mayor of Beijing Wang Qishan and the visiting Mayor of London Ken Livingstone signed a "sister city" agreement that reflected their joint commitment to work together in promoting the two international metrop-     

Bright Star between Beijing and Tianjin

ON looking at a map ofHebei Province,a bigcity midway betweenBeijing and Tianjinmunicipalities springs to view.Itis Langfang.Covering 6,429square kilometers,and with apopulation of 3.85 million,Langfang is a peaceful city withexcellent transport facilities.Itdoes not have a land port or air-port,but is only a one-hour drivefrom Beijing International Airportand the Tianjin New Port.Mayor     

Dreamless Sleep and Bye Bye Beijing Belly——The TCM Route to Senior Health

HAVING entered the penultimate of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man,or in my case,woman,I find that hitting 60 and official old age sparks a general reevaluation of what constitutes enjoyment and a sense of well-being.The saying you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone truly hits home with the realization that life without physical fitness is a weary,worrisome trudge.Consequently good health,along with gray hair in recession,     

Shanghai——China’s Most Internationalized Metropolis

SHANGHAI was a humble fishing village in the 11th century during the Northern song Dynasty. The area expanded into an agricultural hinterland and cotton and silk industry center during the Ming Dynasty     

Lao Ye and His Life in Shanghai

LIKE many foreigners whocome to China for the longrun, Mr. Jepsen has takena Chinese name: Ye Push-en. Each Chinese namehas a unique meaning - in this case,Ye means "plant," Pu means "general"and Shen is another name for Shanghai.Says Ye Pushen, "I hope to have the vi-tality of a plant and the courage to takeroot anywhere. In other words, I wantour products to be accepted by China'sgeneral public, and Shanghai is whereI live and work! That's the significanceof my Chinese name." Those…     

Love and pain:High-rises in Shanghai

This was a bitter line of land- scape in old districts of Shanghai: around four or five o'clock every morning, in front of night soil collection stations, inhabitants with night-stools and spittoons, both old and young, men and women, crowded the small space. Zhang Qingzhi's home was in a dis- trict called 'Ju Yuan' - a shantytown ex- tending over 200,000 square metres in Lujiazui, Pudong. Over a dozen families lived under the same roof: 'Everything in my home, from table to chair to sofa wa…     

Beijing Ready for the Olympics——Beijing Olympics - Striving for the Highest Quality Services

August 8, 2008 will see the grand opening o1 the ⅩⅩⅨ Olympic Games in Beijing, when athletes from over 200 countries and regions will gather in the capital.
With a 3,000-year history, and serving as China＇s capital for about eight centuries, Beijing boasts a number of historical sites and a rich cultural heritage. Over the last 800 years, it has been the political and cultural center of China, and it is now emerging as one of the world＇s most bustling metropolises.     

Sands and dusts enveloped Beijing in Spring

Sands and dusts enveloped Beijing times in spring. It shocked most of us although we've encountered it several times during the past years.The disaster consisted of three similar sandrelated disastrous weather phenomena of different intensities—a sandstorn of dust storm, drifting sands and blowing sands. It     

Getting Around the Capital——Transport in Beijing

THE number of motor vehicles in Beijing hit 3.2 million in February this year - almost double the figure of late 2001. Despite the municipal government having spent some RMB 110 billion on improving traffic systems since Beijing was announced as the host city for the 2008 Olympics, an average day still sees chronic congestion in the capital. In August, hundreds of thousands of athletes, coaches, sports officials, media personnel and tourists will flood into Beijing, placing even more pressure on the city and potentially creating a major headache for residents as well as the government.     

Beijing： The Old and the New

As the 2008 Olympic Games draw near, Beijing, a dynamic modern city undergirded by 3,000 years of history, is throwing open its celebrated nine gates to the world.     

Winter in Beijing,Past and Present

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Beijing Arbitration Commission:Qualified and Efficient

FOUNDED on September 28, 1995, the Beijing Arbitration Commission takes pride in its efficient, competent staff. Director Jiang Ping is a nationally recognized civil and commercial law expert, and former president of the University of Political Science     

Shanghai and San Francisco Cooperative Relations Further Develop

Shanghai and San Francisco formally estab-lished friendship city ties on January 28,1980.Since then, the cooperative relations between thetwo cities, on the whole, have developed health-ily and steadily. The two sides have signed 6 two-year memorandums of more than 80 items of     

Beijing Olympics——Striving for the Highest Quality Services

IN preparing for the Beijing Olympics,the goal has been to create a quality event with a strong Chinese flavor that will showcase the nation s history and culture to the world.As well as a sports meeting,the Beijing Olympic Games will be a diverse cultural pageant.The organizers are striving for the highest level of quality in all aspects of the Games,including the opening and closing ceremonies,media services,security,cultural events,and the organization of Beijing's infrastructure. The Beijing Olympic Games have been planned un- der the auspices of three overarching concepts:a green Olympics,a sci-tech Olympics,and a people-orientated Olympics.In practice this has meant ensuring sustainable development in the construction of venues and support- ing services,utilizing the latest and most advanced tech- nologies and promoting innovation,and upholding and enhancing the well-being and interests of people. The opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games will strive to realize the spirit of"One World,One Dream"by emphasizing the themes of"civi- lization"and"harmony."They will trace the evolution of Chinese civilization and its blending with the outside world,realizing a perfect combination of Chinese cultur- al and Olympic elements. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BO- COG) has organized five Olympic cultural festivals to further the Olympic spirit. We have also organized publicity activities,such as a global tour of the Fuwa mas- cots,and an Olympic family tour of Beijing,to enhance foreigners' understanding of China and the Beijing Olympic Games.Cooperating with the Chinese Minis- try of Education,we have established 556 Olympic education teachers' schools. Meanwhile,we have organized 207 primary and middle schools in Beijing to con- duct international exchanges,to strengthen mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese young people and their counterparts from around the world.