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     

Better Economy Provides Bigger Space for Reform

<正>Figures from the National Bureau of Statistics reveal that the Chinese economy performed in a stable manner and had good momentum for growth in August.In the month,the output of industrial enterprises above the designated size——an annual revenue from their main business operations of 20 million yuan($3.04 million)——grew 6percent in real terms.Moreover,in the first     

Bigger Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better

<正>The economic growth rate has always been an important measure for the performance of governments at various levels in China.However,the GDP index was removed from this year’s development program of Shanghai,making the city the first in the country to do so.In his government work report delivered at the annual full session of the local legislature on January 25,Mayor Yang Xiong did not mention Shanghai’s specific expectations for GDP growth in 2015,replacing it with objectives     

Bigger Voice, Bigger Responsibility

The World Bank granted greater voting power to China and other developing countries,marking a significant milestone in its structural reform.     

Shorter List,Bigger Market

正On June 28,the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC)and the Ministry of Commerce updated the negative list for nationwide foreign investment and on June 30 specifi cally for the country’s free trade zones.Compared with previous versions,the 2018 negative lists are different in three regards.First,they are much shorter.The national negative list cut 15 of the 63 restriction categories from the 2017 version,     

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 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 Beans,Better Supplies

Life in the fields has made Wang Qiuling look older than her age.Her face has been wrinkled from long days spent in the sun inspecting soybeans as an agricultural expert.Wang,who works for the Heze Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Heze,Shandong Province,has been breeding better varieties of soybeans for the past three decades.     

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.     

The Bigger Picture

Aseries of policies are being issued to create the necessary environment to facilitate the rapid growth of the big data industry in China. On January 5, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIT) jointly issued a scheme for the initiation of a public information resource-sharing pilot program in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guizhou. According to the scheme, the above provinces and municipalities must establish their respective pilot programs by the end of this year.     

A Bigger Stage

After being away from his home country for 18 years, a financial expert backs to Beijing to pursue his dream career     

网络、网络文化与思想政治教育

计算机网络的产生及其优势对人们日常生活的冲击遍布社会各个领域,以至形成网络社会和网络文化,受其影响最大的群体当属高校学生.因此,互联网已成为高校思想政治教育的主战场和制高点,高校思想政治教育工作者必须抓住机遇,迎接挑战,充分利用计算机网络这一现代文明的工具为思想政治教育工作服务.     

When Giants Get Bigger

<正>China's two largest online travel companies Ctrip and Qunar are merging.Where does that leave the smaller players? Two leading online travel booking giants—Ctrip.com International Ltd.and its archrival Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd.—agreed to a share swap and partnership that will create China’s biggest online travel service.The tie-up came amid fierce competition for online travel bookings in China,where rising incomes and an expanding middle class are fueling a     

Gaining a Bigger Say

The recent hike in China’s IMF quota means its international voice will increase Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20(G20) major economies agreed on October 23 to shift more than 6 percent of the     

Small Potatoes Growing Bigger

The social and economic status of rural migrant laborers is improving steadily Rural migrant work- crs arc the offspring of China's transition from an agricultural to industrial society.The year 2008 marks the 30th anni- versary of China's reform and opening-up policy.In the past three decades,dramatic social and economic changes have taken place.As a spe- cial social group,what have rural workers contributed to the social and economic development of China? Wang Chunguang,a research fel- low studying rural migrant workers in the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese     

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.     

A Bigger Role to Play

正Trade unions face heavy tasks of better representing and safeguarding employee interests According to Chinese tradition, all debts should be paid before the New Year. However, two recent cases of