Demands of a Two-Horse Company

YANG Jie, 23, starts work at his office on Youth Road in Wuhan, Hubei Province at 9 am each day and returns to his dorm to sleep at 10 pm. He eats a modest lunch in the small restaurant downstairs and has a takeaway for supper. It was in the summer of 2005 that Yang Jie and Li Chao opened their Qi Hang Advertising Company. Their small firm deals with large and small concerns alike, and in order to stay solvent, they spend their lives either at the office, where they deal with clients an…     

Youth Literature

IT was nightfall in a Beijing office building, one autumn day in the early 1950s. A 19-year-old clerk locked himself into the small, windowless room that was both his office and dorm. He sat at the table, and in the dim light began scribbling on a sheet of white paper. This was the night that this young office worker covertly embarked on a pursuit that would take him to the apogee of the Chinese literary altar. He was Wang Meng. A year later, he finished his first novel Long Live Youth (Qingchun Wansui). It centers on a group of bright, exuberant senior high school students, all beautiful in their way, and the happiness, frustrations and woes that accompany their growth. The young Wang Meng, like them, was full of dreams. When later asked why had he started writing, he said, "Youth needs the glow, caress, encouragement, edification and nourishment of literature, while literature needs the energy, empressement, candor, honesty and courage of youth."     

穿袈裟的女孩们（英文）

<正>It was by no means a coincidence that I encountered these nuns.When I met them for the first time,they had just moved to Qiongmao Temple in Guide County,Qinghai Province,and I was new there too.Living very close to where they stayed,I would often visit them for a chat.Without an intrusive camera on that first visit,I looked closely at their young and vigorous faces,while they     

A RECORD SIXTEEN DAYS

When Raz Gal Or was waiting at the Beijing Capital International Airport to board a flight to Tel Aviv ahead of the Spring Festival,both the 26-year-old entrepreneur and his friend Brian O'Shea were struck by the number of people wearing masks in the airport.Having been preoccupied with their businesses,they were not aware that an epidemic was spreading in Wuhan,Hubei Province in central China.Several days later,they collected 229 boxes of medical supplies in Israel in a day.     

Give and Take

When American farmers take delight in their recent bumper harvests of soybean and cotton, they perhaps do so without the knowledge that on the other side of the Pacific, Chinesefarmers are suffering. They suffer because much of these excessivecrops are finding their way into the Chinese market, driving downdomestic produce prices, reducing Chinese farmers’ income andcreating an imbalance in China’s agricultural sector. While the U.S. Government complains that their manufacturingindustry i…     

SNS in China——New Space for Interpersonal Relationships

Social Networking Service （SNS） sites have exploded onto China＇s Internet scene with such a force that many companies have blocked access to the sites during office hours - leaving employees anxiously counting down the minutes till they can get home and reconnect with their Iriends. And while Kaixin001 is the undisputed king of the Chinese 5NS arena, others like Hainei and Xiaonei are signing new subscribers in their millions. More recently, some of the top web portals in the country fike Sina and Yahoo got in on the act, too.     

PARTNERS IN SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

China and Britain have been enhanc- ing their cooperation in the areas of science and technological innovation ever since they set up a Sino-British comprehensive strategic partnership in May 2004.They are now about to step up their teamwork in these fields. When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited China in mid-January,he said that collaborating in science and innovation was an important part of the two countries'     

Champion of Chinese New Year Prints

IT was 7:00 o'clock in Beijing on a bitter cold January morning when an elderly man arrived at the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles office.It was the day that members of the China Society for Folk Literature and Art were to travel to Weifang City, Shandong Province for a meeting promoting     

Foreign-funded Banks：A Grip on Their Holy Grail？

ON December 11, 2006, China honored its WTO commitment to open its Renminbi business to foreign banks. Since that date, both locally incorporated foreign-funded banks and joint venture financial institutions are licensed to offer RMB services. Non-incorporated branches may also accept time deposits from Chinese citizens within the territory of China of no less than RMB 1 million for each time. It seems foreign banks at last have one hand on their holy grail - China's 1.3 billion customers. But their grip is so far a weak one. China Youth Daily carried out a survey, and of the 3,384 respondents, 85.2 percent said that they paid close attention to the development. As regards their impression of foreign banks, 66.7 percent said their main advantage was a better service. Just 10.8 percent said they would open an account in a foreign bank, and 16.4 percent said they would wait and see what happens. What lies ahead for foreign banks in China, and how will the phenomenon impact domestic banks in the Chinese mainland?     

To the Rescue!

Local officials and the Central Government have different ideas about how to put the country's topsy-turvy real estate market back on track when Meng Qinghai, a correspondent for China Central Television, traveled to Shenzhen in July, he discovered a disturbing situation-one similar to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis had emerged in one of China's most economically developed cities. Some home buyers there reported that they had stopped making their monthly pay- ments on their mortgages. The reason was simple: When their home prices dropped,     

云南农业大学英专学生论文写作中的问题及对策(英文)

This paper discusses the issues of thesis writing for English major students in Yunnan Agricultural University to transfer students’ attention to the problems they bore from complaining the extrinsic comfortlessness and based on this awareness,the aim of this paper is to lead students to figure out the best way to write a Graduate Paper efficiently.The research indicate that:(1) students fail to regard their graduate thesis positively and leave the responsibility of failure writing mostly to the improper supervision received;(2) ability of arranging their time was limited which allowed them to make it an excuse that they have no time for writing;(3) students turned to not like communicate with neither instructors nor classmates,which restrained themselves from getting better and laid the ground of bewildering on thesis writing.     

A Giant Mystery

Millions of years ago, during the era called the Cretaceous period, the planet we call home was ruled by giant creatures that have long since disap- peared. The legacy of the dinosaurs is not only the mysteri- ous ecological environment they lived in, but also the cause of their sudden (relatively speaking) extinction. One theory suggests that dinosaurs may have passed down their distinctive DNA to birds to keep their genes alive. Buried fossils of various species provide us with an opportun…     

A PINK DAWN？

Most gays in China are still tight-lipped about their preferences, but their shouts are getting louder all the time. W HILE debate rages on in the West about whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry, here in China, talk is focused on whether they should be tolerated at all. Up until a few years ago, homosexuality was off icially regarded as a social disgrace and a mental disease. Though the formal stance has diluted signif icantly, how far off is an attitude change among the general p…     

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: PRESERVATION AND IMPACT

正In March 1974, Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and their neighbor Wang Puzhi set out to dig a well near the Lishan Mountain in Lintong, east of Xi'an. Lintong was an area full of underwater springs and water courses, so they knew that they wouldn't have to dig far before finding water. What they discovered instead that day led to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in Chinese history—the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qinshihuang(259-210 B.C.) of the Qin Dynasty(221-206 B.C.).     

The Power of Poetry

<正>Writing a poem might not be part of the development of young students,but if it makes them dream,learn more about literature,and get an understanding of the diversity of the world,then it has important meaning. SEVEN young poets from Suyu Hope Primary School in Huitong County,Hunan Province won applause from the audience when they read their poems at an award gala for the Lu Xun Literature Prize,held on November 20,2022 in Beijing.It was the first time the child poets had left their hom...     

Why Critics Don't Care for Facts About Xinjiang

Many foreign public figures like Dogu Perincek from Turkey and Kawa Mahmoud from Iraq have been regular visitors to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China,and have seen the changes in the once impoverished area over the years.When an online international meeting was held on February 22,where local officials gave a briefing on the socioeconomic developments,they were among the representatives from more than 80 countries and regions who shared their views and experiences.     

Germany Readies For Chinese IPOs

Even the freezing cold of a Beijing winter could not stop Duke Alexander’s China visit last December. As the IPo divisional director of Deutsche Boerse AG, Alexander visited China five times in six months, with the aim of helping the first Chinese enter-prises in history to launch their IPOs on Deutsche Boerse AG. He revealed that “in the first quarter of 2007, the first Chinese enterprise will trade on the Deutsche Boerse AG.”Deutsche Boerse AG’s IPO seminar, held in Beijing, attracted many Chinese entrepreneurs looking into listing their companies in Germany. The vice president of a Beijing investment company said that his company was considering an IPO through either the London AIM or Deutsche Boerse AG. “Deutsche Boerse AG’ sfee for launching an IPO is 20 percent lower than that of AIM, but also involves addressing the requirement that the company must be estab-lished in Germany,” he said. The businessman said he was still undecided on the final destination of his company’s IPO launch. Why have there been no Chinese IPOs on the Deutsche Boerse AG in the past?Why would a Chinese enterprise want to list on the Deutsche Boerse AG? What strategies has Deutsche Boerse AG implemented to compete with other prestigious global stock exchanges? We explored these questions in an exclusive interview with Alexander.     

Rejecting Change

正British voters overwhelmingly reject an alternative voting system The British electorate,in only the second ever national referendum held in their history (the first was on joining the EU,over 35 years ago) rejected alterations to their voting system from the current first-past-the-post system to a form of alternative voting similar to that used     

Punk Power Diplomacy

A breezy stage in the moun- tains of far-north Nor- way on a summer night is an unlikely launch pad for an unlikely Chi- nese musical career. But when Beijing punk band SUBS belted out their back catalogue at the Oya Festival under a midnight sun last year they won over hearts and minds across Scandinavia’s fjord-carved kingdom. So much so that when the band went back for a second tour this year they sold out some of Norway’s top rock clubs. That Norway fell for a punk band that most pe…     

The Return Of ’White Pollution’

As an office worker on Jinbao Street,one of the most bustling business areas in Beijing,Su Wei is accustomed to bringing his lunches to the office in polystyrene boxes."My colleagues and I all eat food from such boxes," Su said,unaware that there had ever been aban on polystyrene bowls and takeout boxes.