Seeds of Change

正New plan lays down targets for modernizing agriculture and upgrading rural industries As a child, Qin Jing used to watch his father and other family elders grow mushrooms to make a living in the 1990 s. Now 37 years old, he is the general manager of a mushroom processing and sales company in Suixian, a county under the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province, central China.Suizhou is one of the leading mushroom-growing regions. Qin has witnessed     

Sino-Indian People’s Ambassador WEI FENGJIANG

I was revising an article on the evening of March 9, 2004 when the telephone rang. I picked up the receiver and heard a wom- an’s sob from the other end. Who was it weeping so grievously late in the evening? “It’s me, Wei Chaoyun, Mr. Xu. My father Wei Fengjiang passed away on March 5 ...” My heart tightened. Holding the receiver in one hand, I could not utter a word for quite a while. Then, all of a sudden, tears gushed from my eyes, wetting the front of my jacket. I. Establishing a…     

LETTERS

There were several Xinjiang students in my department when I was in college 15 years ago, some Han, some Uygur. Although they were close with each other, they also fit on well with students from other parts of the nation. There was even a young Uygur girl that fell in love with a boy from southern China, and the two were together for much of the four years we were in college. But she hid the relationship from her parents,     

HELLO,MUM!

<正>Two schoolmates invent a small gadget which helps women to boost rate of pregnancy Traditional y,conceiving a child was mainly considered to be a woman’s job.But this hasn’t discouraged two young men,who graduated from the largely male-dominated STEM hub of Beihang University in 2006.Liu Ting and Liu Hongtao have committed themselves to creating a device designed to help women get pregnant,this despite the fact that their respective majors are completely unrelated to the venture—one holds a master’s degree in aircraft engine data processing and the other     

Difficult Integration

On September 14,a 9-year-old autistic child in Shenzhen,south China’s Guangdong Province,died after leaping off the fifth-floor balcony of his home,not long after he was suspended from school for biting other students.He was still wearing his school uniform and carrying a     

Can Brats Be Promising？

It's that time of the year again. As millions of his peers anxiously await the results of their university entrance examinations, the successful investment analyst and author of Essentials of Speculation on Stocks and Futures is busy working out a kink in his 5-million-yuan portfolio. No one expected this. Seven years ago, Xiao Jie was regarded as a demon child: burning his exam papers, fighting in a gang, looting other pupils' pockets to pay for long hours at the Internet cafe. After moving school four times in two years, he quit, at age 14.     

Adopted Foreign Children in Belgium

Daisy, a lovely five-year-old girl, is Mr. and Mrs. Harisen's adopted Chinese child. Daisy's black hair, black eyes and yellow skin are different from the Harisens' golden hair, blue eyes and white skin and tell her adopted identity. Though she is not a natural child of the Harisens, she is well loved by her parents. Daisy, one of the Chinese children adopted by Belgian families, lives happily in her Belgian home.Some couples in Belgium, who can't have a baby or don't have a child, want to adopt a child, so as to have a full     

The Growing Appeal of Individually Owned Businesses

U PON graduating from college last July, Huang Xiaoming leased a booth at Tianyi, one of Beijing’s largest wholesale markets, thereby taking the plunge into private business. This enterprising 22-year-old’s decision was based on experience in the trade learned from his father and his ob- servations as a student. He recalls: “I was always looking around for novelties and gifts in Tianyi. Having seen what a large turnover stallholders there make, I see no reason why I shouldn’t make mon…     

Going Like Clockwork:The Swiss-Chinese relationship

The first object one sees as one en ters the reception of the Swiss embassy in Beijing is a semi-psychedelic plastic cow with a clock attached to either side. What does it mean. the visitor wonders. Could it be an allusion to the fact that it was a Swiss company - Nestle -that played a major role in developing China's dairy industry? Who knows? Whatever the thinking behind it, this cow certainly sets the embassy apart from any other. Cow or no cow, Switzerland is different in many respects from most other countries now represented in China. For one thing, Switzerland was a pioneer in     

Double-Strength Bridge

A U.S. university befriended Chinese students affected by the 2008 Wenchuan quake and a decade later, the bond is stronger Wang Sidi's world turned upside down in 2008 when an 8-magnitude earthquake devastated her home province Sichuan in southwest China, killing nearly 70,000 people. Her father, aunt and four other relatives were among the victims."I was battered by the loss and wanted to leave my hometown to move away from the pain," Wang told Beijing Review on the 10th anniversary of a unique educational cooperation program between China and the U.S. to help heal the wounds of some of the worst-affected young survivors.     

LETTERS

It＇s interesting to see the diversity in people＇s affifudes toward birth.My grndparents have five children（excluding one who died soon after birth）,a normal figure for those of their age.My father has two children,and his siblings each have only one,I have one child,and my younger brother,who is 32 and has been married for quite a few year,has none.     

Imbuing Art with Life

Iremember that when I was a child two peonies grew in the courtyard of my house. One was white and the other was pink. As well as tending to them, loosening the soil and bringing them water, I often observed and drew them. I saw how it requires persistence and patience for a peony to survive the harshness of winter and come forth in spring to bring its beauty to the world. From this early interest, my ambition has always been to be a painter specialized in these fascinating flowers. Later when I became an adult and gained more knowledge and experience,     

Why China Will Grow Rich Before It Grows Old

正THE announcement of the relaxation of China’s one child policy created great discussion in China and internationally.But its significance was widely misunderstood.Contrary to myth,the increase in China’s labor supply plays little role in China’s rapid economic growth.In reality,96 percent of China’s economic growth comes from factors other than a rising labor supply.Therefore,there is no reason why China’s economy should slow significantly because China’s working age population stopped growing in 2012.The mistaken view,sometimes expressed,that China will grow old before it becomes rich is therefore the reverse of the reality:China will grow rich before it grows old.To demonstrate clearly why,first the facts will be stated and then their implications analysed.     

A Street With History

A mixture of old and new,entertainment and business,Beijing's Xidan Street is a booming area that attracts scores of visitors About 2 km west of Tiananmen Square is Xidan Street,one of the most famous com- mercial areas in Beijing and once the home of temples and entertainment venues. Xidan was a burgeoning commercial area as early as the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). At that time,businessmen,travelers and traders from southwest China used to stop in Xidan before heading for other parts of Beijing.They fuelled a boom in shops,markets,     

Eyes Behind Me

IT was a wild boar.Bright moonlight illuminated the billowing field of tall crops and a wild boar coveting the ripe maize.The boy’s eyes opened wide,and the same was true for the wild boar.The two stared each other out.Behind the boy in the dense corn field was a makeshift shack that had taken his father a whole afternoon to complete some days ago.As the wind blew,the crops     

Shenzhen:Pacesetter for Open China

KINGDEE is the large financial software vendor that dominates the south China market. It was in Shenzhen that Xu Shaochun, now chairman and CEO of Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd., successfully guided the company through its transition from a private enterprise to a software giant.Xu Shaochun came to Shenzhen ten years ago. On arrival at Shenzhen Railway Station he saw two signposts, one pointing to Shenzhen, and the other to Hong Kong. He was immediately aware of the differ-     

Brought up in Beijing

<正>I think I have the best of two worlds.I was born in Bangladesh,and I grew up in China,the land of Confucius and my second home.The earliest and most prominent memories of my life are from China,and Chinese is a language I have spoken since childhood.When I was just over 2 years old,my parents and I moved to Beijing.My father received an invitation from China Radio International to work     

Flower Affairs

A girl named Keyi who lived in Suzhou lost her mother when she was in her childhood, and since then on she and her father depended on each other to eke out a living. Poverty made her swear to work hard and hunger for success ever from young; she wanted to change the living conditions so as to let her father live a better life. In college, Keyi and her classmates once went to a Christmas party sponsored by a foreign company, in which she met an Englishman with who she had sex that night. Later, she found that she was pregnant and had abortion.     

Stewed Dongpo Pork

Dongpo is the pen name of Su Shi (1037-1101), a prominent writer of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). His father Su Xun was also a highly regarded writer and personally tutored him from an early age. Su Shi took part in the imperial exam at 19, and achieved     

Success of a Young Entrepreneur

Lu Dongjing looks like any other young Chinese man.He is always smiling.Luis currently manager of the Tongzhou Xinxing Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant.general amnager of the huayu Electrical Engineering Company. and general manager of the Xinxing Group.It is hard to believe that such an accomplished entrepreneur was, only a decade ago, a poorfarmer. Born in 1971 in Hengshui,Hebei Province.Lu 's family was very poor when he was a child.On finishing junior high school, in order to hel…