Swinging Good Samaritan

China ’ s rising golf star, Liang Wenchong , is fast becoming a legend in the making after stunning victories in a number of tournaments that att r ac t e d ma n y of the gam e ’ s top player s. Yet his most recent victory in the China Tour Championship, on October 29, showed the true heart of the 28-yea r - old golf talent after he donated the en t i r e 150,000 yuan winner’s purse ba c k to the even t ’ s organ i z er . Liang su g gested the money be used towar ds setting up a national…     

EYE ON THE OLYMPICS Shanghai, the host city of the 2007 Special Olympics, is preparing a warm welcome for the athletes

The emblem of the 2007 Shanghai Special Olympics is an eye with two tumbling athletes in the center, whi c h res e m b les the shape of a blossoming yu l a n , the city’s flo wer .The crea tor of the emblem, Zhou Baomei, a teache r , said she is most impres s e d by the look in the eyes of mentally disable d students. “Tha t look is about their longing for lo ve, care and success,” she said. “Tha t’ s also a look of att e n t i o n . ” Ne xt October, the Special Olym p i c s will tak…     

Stabilizing China''''s Finances A stabilized Chinese financial industry not only will be conducive to domestic development, but will also contribute to the world economy

On October 30, the Peopl e ’ s Bank of China — China ’ s central bank— issued the Repo r t on Chinese Financial Stability 2006. The repo r tco n c luded that China’s fin a n c i a l ref or m has undergone tremendous brea k - th r oughs, financial risks have been handled pr op e r ly, and that the Chinese fin a n c i a l in d u s t r y is gen e r al l y stable . “A stabi l i z ed Chinese financial sector is good news for the wor ld economy,” noted Liu Fuxiang, prof essor with Unive…     

The Medicine War

While the rest of the wor ld is embracing trad i t i o n a l Chinese medicine (TCM), in its birthplace it is facing a li f e- o r -d e a th situati o n .An Internet petition to rem o ve traditional medicine from Ch i n a ’ s healthcare system has brought the predicament into the spotlight. Its vanishing legac y, the prob le m a tic situation of both TCM practices and the medicine market, and its res t r ic t e d de velopment due to the prevalence of Wes t e r n medicine remind us that TC…     

Great Expectations The EU wants China to shoulder heavier international responsibilities. Is that too much of a burden for a developing country?

Fairness and mutual responsibility are likely to become key notions in China - European Union (EU) rel a - tions, exp e r ts say. In a rec e n t l y released policy paper on China, thesixth the European Commission has adopt- ed since 1995, “fair” and “res p o n s i b i l i t y ” ar e the wor ds that claimed the most att e n - tion from Chinese analysts. Ac c o r ding to Feng Zhongping, Direc t o r of the Institute of European Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporar y Interna …     

Delegation of Salvadorian Association of Friendship with the People''''s Republic of China Visits China

The delegation of the Salvadorian Association of Friendship with the People’s Re- public of China (SAFPRC) headed by Juan Manuel Flores, mayor of Quesaltepeque visited Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai from April 19 to 28 at the invi- t a t i o n o f t h e C PAF F C . Uyunqimg, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and Li Xiaolin, vice president of the CPAFFC, met with and entertained the delegation on separate occasions. Vice Chairperson Uy…     

To Your Health Herbal cuisine, which combines the properties of food and medicine, is becoming more popular, but its futuredepends on customer education and regulations to insure safety

Wang You hong ’ s life has been in a whi r l ever since the res t a u r an t whe r e he is the head che f opened six months ago. Wan g , 34, wor ks in a res t a u r ant inno r th e r n Beijing that specializes in herbal cu i s i n e . Ever y day he is bu…     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Free Education Could Restore Teachers’ StandingIt was rec e n t l y disclosed by Tan Songhua, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Education, that the Chinese Gover nment is planning to offer free education to students in six normal univer si - ties direc t l y under the Ministry of Education. The news is ext r em e l y wel c o m e , given the increasing blame on ed u c a tion in recent yea r s. Sever al yea r s of commerci a l i z a tion of the education sector have erode…     

State of the Market

Foreign Trade China ’ s for eign trade volume is exp e c t - ed to hit $1.7 trillion in 2006, a yea r -o n - year increase of more than 20 percent, said Fu Ziying, Assistant Minister of Co m m e r ce Ac c o r ding to Fu, the country’ s for ei g n tr ade volume has risen from sixth to third in the wor ld during the past five yea r s, with im p o r t and exp o r t volume growing at an aver age annual rate of 24.6 percent. China has set the goal to kee p for ei g n tr ade volume at $2.3 tril…     

China''''s Media Morphosis From new content to new media, communication is more profitable than ever in China

Walking the streets of Beijing, a Westerner , glancing at the ma n y news p a pe r s being rea d by Chinese, might think that Ch i n a ’ s media is vas t l y under-de vel o p e d . In fact, the media industry has been mo ving for w ar d in leaps and boun…     

SPECIAL STARS The Special Olympics offers a broad stage for the athletes to show what they can achieve and to encourage more to participate

Qiao Meili, leader of the world ’ s special athletes No one expected Qiao Meili, a Shanghai - b o r n 17-yea r - old gir l who couldn’teven tell the differ ent colors at the age of seven, to become the “leader of the wor ld ’ s special ath l e t e s .…     

State of the Market

Trade and Investment Policies At the 2007 China Industry De velopment Repo r t Confer e nc e , Fu Zi y i ng , Assistant Minister of Co m me rce , gave a speech on China’s for eign trade and investment policies in pr omoting the country ’s interna ti o n…     

Cityscape China To be Launched in May 2007,Shanghai

Following the extraordinary success of Cityscape Dubai, the world ’ s largest interna tional B2B real estate event for inves t o r s and de vel o p e r s, IIR Middle East, the organ i z er of Cityscape , pres e n t e d the Cityscape brand concept to a gath e r ing of top real estate indus- tr y prof essionals here in Beijing to for ma l l y launch the even t ’ s lat- est oriental exp o r t, Cityscape China.Neil Hickman, Exhibition Director of Cityscape China, said, “T his is the fir …     

MEETHAMLET NEAR YOUR HOME

正Benedict Cumberbatch and NT Live productions tour ChinaWhen Zhang Yifan enrolled in the C e n t r a l A c a d e m y o f D r a m a i n Beijing to start his master’s degree,he was given a set of textbooks containing a number of the world’s classic dramas.There were four plays by William Shakespeare among them—Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth and Twelfth Night.     

Modern Man

WHEN the Chinese C o n t e m p o r a r y opened in London’s posh Mayfair dis- trict in 1996, a neighboring gallery owner wandered in to snigger, “Don’t tell me you’re sell- ing this to English people.” It was the f irst gallery in London – and one of Eu- rope’s f irst – to sell contemporary Chi- nese art, and few British dealers gave it a chance. But the 38,000 British pounds it cleared in that fi rst year of business has multiplied many fold since, says co- director Ludovic Bois…     

Nation Rises after 65 Years of Development

正ONE needs look no further t h a n C h i n a’s r a i l w a y s t o observe the country’s enormous development since its foundation on October 1,1949.On the 65th anniversary of that formative moment,every Chinese citizen had access to a modern train service.In1949,the nation had only 22,000 km of railways,and half of the track was in poor condition.By 2013,however,this had expanded to 100,000 km.More than 10,000 km was high-speed infrastructure,with12,000 km under construction.     

Banking On More Openness

As China moves to open itself fully to for eign banks by the end of 2006, many over se a s banks have moved in quickl y to take advan ta ge of the new op p or tunities that China agreed to prov id e in its WTO accession packa ge. For eign banks see a pot of gold in the na ti on ’ s dazzling growth, with abun d an t op p or tunities to tap the huge number of “u n ba n k ed” Chinese. Under WTO commitments, China mus t al l ow fo reign banks into the local curren c y retail lending market …     

Delegation of Association for Germany-China Friendship Donnersberg Visits China and Countess von Borries Conferred Upon Title of Friendship Ambassador

At the invitation of theCPAFFC, an 11-memberdelegation of the Association forGermany-China Friendship( A G C F ) D o n n e r s b e r g ,Rheinland- Phalz, Germanyheaded by Countess Monika vonBorries paid a goodwill visit toBeijing, Xi’an, Fujian andShanghai from April 6 to 18. InBeijing the delegation attended aceremony at which the CPAFFCconferred the title of FriendshipAmbassador upon Countessvon Borries. In Yao County nearXi’an, the delegation paid a visitto the poor childr…     

High Hopes

The six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue resumed after a13-monthlull,but progress is not assuredAfter a hiatus of 13 months and anuc lear test by North Kor ea,thesi x-party talks on the nuc lear disar-mament of the Kor ean Pen i n s u l a resumed in Beijing on December18amid high stakes and high exp e c t a tions.With North Kor ea’s nuc lear test inOc t o b e r,the second phase of the fifth rou n d of the talks has implications far beyond thesix countries invol v ed—China,J…     

Is the Ban on Internet Cafes an Example of Lazy Governance?

Fangshan is an impoverished backwater county in North China ’ s Shanxi Province . It nor- mally flies under the rad a r , but in Ma y 2006, something happ e n e dto drag it into the national arena. All seven In t e r net cafes in the county wer e clo s e…