Better Rails, Better Life

The China Railway Pavilion showcases the development and future of China’s impressive railway network At the ongoing World Expo in Shanghai, the China Railway Pavilion is one of the technological masterpieces stunning the visitors.     

Better Village,Better Life

A special post office is gaining a positive reputation for sending slow mail The image of a smiling panda suspended from a pole greets visitors along the Second Middle Street in the 798 Art Zone,a once industrial area that has been reclaimed as a gathering place for Beijing's innovative artists.     

Better Today,Better Tomorrow

LIKE her fellow Tibetans in Yamda Village,Doilungdêqên,Drakse knows first-hand how much local lives have improved.She is now 52,and when a little girl in the 1960s,her family of five toiled on a plot of less than a half-hectare,with the assistance of a horse,goat or donkey.After she spent two years in the classroom her parents sadly couldn’t afford any more education for her,and they needed her help on the farm in any case.At age 16 Drakse joined her father on the road building team,earning RMB 5 a day.They had roasted barley flour for all three daily meals in those years,an unthinkable privation for Tibet’s youth today.     

Better Environment,Better Games

No one would believe that Donghaochong Stream,now a leisure site for Guangzhou's residents,used to be a smelly,stagnant waterway of filth; it was a stain on the city's image in the run-up to the Guangzhou 2010Asian Games.After a year of intensive water purification work,the 3-km stream has been transformed into the Seine of south China-the water is cleaner and businesses,including Starbucks and other cafés,have sprung up on its banks for tourists and citizens to enjoy.     

Better and Better

<正>For Muslim Chinese,"minority"means enrichment,not division Aboard showing pictures of 28 senior residents who have performed the haj pilgrimage stands at a park at the village gate.Sixty-eight families comprising 620 people from the Hui ethnic group live in the village,which in 2013 was renovated under a government program devoted to the minority group.     

Bigger,But Better?

正China's largest firms need to build competitiveness and profitabilityThe Fortune Global 500,an annual list of the globe's top 500 companies by revenue,now includes 110 Chinese firms,an increase for the 10th consecutive year,according to the Fortune Global 500's 2016     

Happier Children, Better Future

Children are the future of humankind and society as well as extensions of their parents’ lives. For various reasons, certain children encounter diffculties and misfortune in their lives and need special care. Over the past decades governments, as well as enterprises, NGOs, institutions and philanthropists, within and outside of China have done theirpart to help the children there who are less fortunate than most.     

Greater Rights,Better Protection

<正>During the 2022 Spring Festival holiday in early February,Zero Tolerance,a documentary on the anti-graft campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC),went viral online,with many applauding the central authorities for curbing corruption with an iron fist.The program also documented China’s achievements in advancing whole-process people’s democracy.     

Bigger Net,Better Net

正China aims to provide a universal health care system to its people China's basic medical insurance program covered more than 95 percent of its population, or about 1.28 billion, by the end of 2011, said Minister of Health Chen Zhu.     

Happier Lives, Better Jiangsu

<正>East China’s Jiangsu Province pushes for a wealth boom as its economy thrives Jiangsu Province had the limelight J at the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress(NPC) held on March 5-14 as the east     

Better Understanding,Closer Ties

When members and guests of the Committee of 100, a well-known non-political organization comprised of prominent Chinese-Americans of various professions, convened in Washington, D.C. for their 18th annual conference from     

Smarter Industry,Better Life

<正>Intelligent technologies help China upgrade its traditional manufacturing industry while bringing convenience to people’s lives Like the countless white-collar workers in China’s many state-owned enterprises based in Beijing, Zhou Yun is busy from sunrise to sunset, with little time for housework     

The Earlier,The Better

正Liu Lili,7,and Liu Tingting,5,who hail from Qixingguan District in Bijie,Guizhou Province,have rarely seen smiles on the faces of their family members,many of whom have either physical or mental disabilities.This family environment had slowed down many aspects of the sisters' development,including their language skills.     

For Better Health,Try Eastern Magic

Can too much of anything good be dangerous to your health,like the legendary"Midas Touch"for example?Today people often debate whether or not too much gold or money hurt people physically.How about too much beer?Can one ever play too much badminton or tennis?Take your pick the facts of the matter are any one of the above mentioned can lead one into a strange realm of the outer limits of mental or physical pain.Then of course comes the question of remedies,what can one do?Most teachers become familiar with problems such as sore throats from     

Better Connectivity

正Sustainable transport promotes sustainable development The image of a red truck exiting a tunnel on its way to Dulongjiang Township in Yunnan Province has been printed on a stamp issued on October 15 during the Second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference(UNGST Conference). The stamp shows how the development of transport can help alleviate poverty.     

Better Together

正Mechanism for cooperation among Lancang--Mekong River countries matures Our River of Peace and Sustainable Development.This was the theme of the Second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation(LMC)Leaders’Meeting in Cambodia,on which the curtain was lowered on January 10.The conference     

Better Wiring

China wants high-tech industry, but needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure, says one of the country's top telecoms analysts, Cui Xiaolong of Analysys International.     

Better Charity

<正>China’s biggest problem with philanthropy is not the amount donated,but efficiency in using it China’s latest wave of major philanthropists are not just donating their money,they’re requiring charity funds be used in a more efficient way according to blueprints they’ve set out themselves.While a bit demanding,the     

Post-Pandemic World Needs Better Globalization,Not Less

正Even at a time when the novel co ronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is sweeping the world,beef from New Zealand,red wine from Chile,and detergent from Germany remain just a click away for Chinese customers.This offers a glimpse of how globalization has led to the creation of a highly integrated global web of interdependence and altered the way of living in many parts of this closely connected global community.The pandemic has jolted global supply chains and halted much of cross-bordertravel.It has also exposed once again some of globaliza-     

Steamed Perch with Scallions and Black Beans

Perch usually live in coastal waters but in early spring they venture into freshwater estuary areas to forage for food and lay eggs.Perch grow fast into large and fleshy fish,and are,therefore,much sought after by fishermen,particularly along Shanghai’s HuangpuRiver where they are considered a delicacy.Songjiang District of Shanghai City was once renowned for its perch,the Trachidermus fasciatus species,meaning four-gilled