Up in the Air

Acknowledging that the kite originated in China, a plaque in the aircraft pavilion at the National Aeronautics and Space Museum in Washington D.C. reads, "the earliest aircraft are the kites and missiles of China." Attached to the sport is the belief that by letting go, one can let loose any bad luck or ill health to join the spirits. The finder of a kite, then, is by superstition, bound to bad luck.     

Should We Donate Money To Cyber Beggars?

Beware, beggars are going hi-tech. Now it's no longer just on the streets that you can be stopped by a beggar, rattling a rusty tin in your face followed by the wail for "money." Websites begging for money are up and running in China, and by all accounts proving rather profitable. On the homepage of one of these websites, the instruction reads, "We are eager     

Voices

CASS:Labor Shortage within Two Years A recent report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says that there is less surplus labor in rural China than previously estimated. It presages a labor shortage in China by the year 2009. Entitled “Growth and Structural Change of Employment in China,” the report predicts that this shortfall will raise the wages of rural laborers. It was generally understood that China had 100 to 150 million surplus laborers in the countryside. The report, however, gives a gure of 52.12 million aged under 40     

“Fundamental Rights and Private Law” in China

The Qi Yuling case is a crucial juncture in the study of “fundamental rights and private law” in China, yet relevant research is underpinned on two clues. The first is that the increasing interest in the “constitutionalization of private law” worldwide provides knowledge resources and reference materials for scholars in China; the second is the understanding and exploration of the judicial application of the Constitution since the 1980s. Among them, such concepts as “the Constitution has direct ...     

Advancing Law-Based Governance

<正>“Comprehensively advancing law-based governance is an essential requirement and important guarantee for socialism with Chinese characteristics,” reads the Resolution of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party Over the Past Century,which was adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19 th CPC Central Committee in November 2021.     

Defining Responsibility

The notion of a“responsible China”was first put forward by former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick,when he said in an address in September 2005 that he hoped China would be a“stakeholder”with the United States in the current international system and should take its responsibilities in international affairs.American and Western media picked up on the term and now China also refers to itself as a”responsible big nation." Although both sides speak of“responsibility,”they mean different things by it.In the view of Wu Jianmin,President of the International Bureau of Exhibitions and former Chinese Ambassador to France,China's “responsibilities”are mainly in the following areas:     

The Chinese Vision for Digital Human Rights

<正>Under the tremendous impetus of the information revolution, humanity is transitioning from an industrial society to a digital society, and digital human rights have become a prominent global issue. Guided by the strategies of “Rule of Law in China”and “Digital China,” China’s digital legal construction has made significant achievements with distinctive features. This implies that China will also play a more important role and have a greater impact in the field of digital human rights. T...     

The Priority Is ‘Soundness’

It has been put forward in the Central economic growth is an innovation made on Economic Work Conference that China’s the basis of years of experience in China’s economy is to be developed in a sound and economic growth, which also enriches the rapid way, where “soundness” is particular- people-first outlook on development. ly stressed, different from the past emphasis For quite a long time in the future, given onthe growth rate. Theemphasis on “sound- the actual situation in China’s e…     

Inscrutable Sanxingdui

VISITORS to the San- xingdui Museum in Chengdu, capital city of southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, are seldom content with just one trip. The that ended in antiquity. The Yellow River across northern China and the Yangtze that traverses the south are considered the cradles of the Chinese civilization. The Sanxingdui was a highly developed and relatively museum, as its guide says, “is an intrigu- ing riddle.” No amount of intent brows- ing can shed any light on the origins of its…     

世界卫生组织：中国十大防疫措施（英文）

正"In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history", reads the Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19). The following are 10 measures China has taken to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to the report.     

Human Rights in Civil Judicial Documents:Conception and Function

Traditional human rights theory tends to hold that human rights should be aimed at defending public authority and that the legal issue of human rights is a matter of public law. however,the development of human rights concepts and practices is not just confined to this. A textual search shows that the term “human rights”exists widely in China’s civil judicial documents. Among the 3,412civil judicial documents we researched, the concept of “human rights”penetrates all kinds of disputes in lawsuit...     

Adhering to the Values of an Intellectual

Iwas among the first law students China given the opportunity to travel to the Soviet Union for an education. But upon returning to China,I found that I was unable to put what I had learned into practice. China＇s legal system was still barely in existence, or at least, in function prior to the openingup and reform that started in 1978. After the chaos that decades of ＂class struggle＂ caused in China ended, together with a determined group of teachers,     

Development and Peace Hold Key To National Rejuvenation

While developing productivity and immensely increasing material wealth, China needs to gradually secure fairness and social justice, said Premier Wen Jiabao in an essay published on February 26. He called these the “two interrelated and mutually beneficial tasks” that will form the backbone of socialism for many years to come. Excerpts of the essay, entitled “Historical Tasks in the Primary Stage of Socialism and China’s Foreign Policy,” follow:     

China Revisited

It was in November 1975 that Iwas posted to the People's Re-public of China as Tanzanian Am-bassador Extraordinary and Pleni-potentiary. I served in China fornine years. During that period Ivisited many places in all the prov-inces except Tibet and Taiwan.China was coming to the end of     

MARKET WATCH

正OPINION Worries of the Trade Champion The General Administration of Customs recently announced that China outstripped the United States in international cargo trade last year.For some,this implies that China has risen to become the largest trading country on the globe.It is arguable that China’s great performance in trade comes at the expense of economic     

LETTERS

Many congratulations for the fabulous magazine China Today,the best magazine in Asia.I hope that the Beijing Olympic Games will be the best in history and that China will win a record number of gold medals.I have always loved China, and will always do so.     

Cooperation or Competition?

<正>U.S.President Joe Biden recently delivered his second State of the Union(SOTU) address to Congress after taking office in January 2021.During the February 7 speech,he said the U.S.seeks “competition,not conflict” with China,but also stressed that “winning the competition with China should unite all of us.”     

A Change in Value

A Wall Street Journal report on May 3, said the IMF is likely to declare, for the first time in more than a decade, that the yuan is fairly valued. “China’s contributions to the world economy in recent years are obvious to all. It’s natural for the IMF, a multilateral international organization,to change its attitude toward the Chinese currency,” Tan Yaling, President of China Forex Investment Research Institute, said during an interview with China Radio International.     

The African Human Resources Development Fund

The African Human Resources Development Fund is a special fund that was set up by China at the 2000 Ministerial Conference – a follow-up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. It is used exclusively for training African personnel in various f ields. The development of human resources is an important part of China’s Policy to- wards Africa. The document states that the Chinese government will give full play to the role of its “African Human Resources Development Fund” in trainin…     

China Takes Wing

COVER STORY If all goes according to plan, Chinese air travellers will be boarding big commercial airliners designed and manufactured in China by the year 2020. The aviation market, long dominated by Boeing and Airbus, will face a home grown challenge in a lucrative arena that is forecast to see China purchase 2230 new aircraft in the period leading up to 2025. It is hoped that many of those aircraft would be stamped “Made in China.” With government lending its weight to the development process, the civil aviation industry is aware it will take time to get into full flight and has fastened its seatbelts. Known for its high risk, hi-tech input and snail pace returns, the industry is taking it one step at a time all the way to the runway.