Will an Official Residence System Help Curb Corruption?

正The official residence system is a mechanism under which accommodation is allocated to major officials at various levels of government during their terms of office.The most important aspect of the system is that officials have only the right to use,but are not entitled to own,the properties provided,and they are required to move out after they leave office.This is not a fresh     

Some Thoughts On Democracy

In analyzing the question of democracy, we need to concentrate on its essence. It won't do for us just to look at the form it assumes. The people want democracy because they need to have certain demands met and certain interests realized. They will strive for democracy when they are denied of the right to pursue their demands and interests. It is clear that democracy has always been associated with the people's demands and interests. The essence of democracy     

Eden in the Xinjiang Mountains

Nature's greatest splendors are often secreted in the remotest of spots. This is certainly true of Kanas Lake, deep in the Altay Mountains of northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. This area of sublime, and as yet unsullied, natural beauty is home to 2,000 people of the Tuwa ethnic minority. The ancestry of these herder-hunters is unclear. Certain anthropologists believe that they are descended from Genghis Khan's "Mongol hordes" that swept through on their 13th century rampage of Central Asia and Europe. Others argue that they are the posterity of Siberian migrants, and cousins to the Tuvan people of Russia.     

China''''s First Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

MOST Chinese people pay small heed to the cases of sexual harassment that occur in the United States, the complex judicial procedures they entail, or their background, as they exist in a country far from China that has great cultural differences. The firs…     

Letters

New InsightsI love your articles entitled "China in the Year1000" and "China and the United States AreDestined to Be Partners" (January 2000). Both articles provide insight not found elsewhere. TheChina/US article appeals to my business interestswhile the year 1000 article appeals to my love of history. The China/US story was well writted andoffered useful facts and updates on policies that arehard to find elsewhere. The year 1000 story was alsowritten in a lively manner and had good p…     

Heaven On Earth

<正>The old Chinese saying"to the people,food is heaven"is a good indication that the people of China are pretty serious about food and eating.Suffice it to say,they love to eat,and when they are not actually eating,they are either talking about eating or planning what to eat next.     

Tourism in Ningbo

ITis said that whenEmperor Qinshihuang,the first emperor inChinese history, dispatched a fleet of ships to Japan to seek theelixir of life 2,000 years ago,they started from today's NingboCity in Zhejiang Province.Ningbo boasts a large number of cultural and historicalrelics. The Hemudu ruins of theNew Stone Age prove that theYangtze River, like the YellowRiver, was one of the cradles ofthe Chinese nation. The ruins ofkilns at Shanglin Lake were thebirthplace of blue porcelain inChina. …     

Tradition Revisited

When one looks at the scope of all the speeches and articles by the Ghinese president published in the two volumes of Xi Jinping: The Governance o f China,(and the many more he publishes during his travels to foreign countries), one has to come to the conclusion that he is without a doubt the most visionary and broadly developed intellectually of all the leaders on the world stage today.     

MONTHLY REVIEW

Ancient tombsArchaeologists have recently excavated two ancient tombs dating back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-771 BC) and discovered many precious articles in Baoji, a city of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.Liu Junshe, chief of the archaeologist work group, said that many rare articles, including 11 pieces of bronze ware, jade and other precious stones were found in the tombs.The unearthed objects indicate the tomb owners were possibly nobles, but further details are needed to confirm their     

Manas the Immortal

The Kirghiz believe that the power of Manas can help them conquer all enemies. According to their belief, in places where descendants of Manas live, no enemy is invincible, and they will call the name of Manas when battling invaders. During the Second World War, the Kirghiz and Kazakh cavalries of the Soviet Union shouted out ＂Manas＂ as they launched attacks on the German Fascist troops.     

Gastronomic Wonderland——Catering Vogues

Chinese food is often the first encounter Westerners have with Chinese culture. Restaurants established by Chinese citizens abroad over the past three centuries effectively introduced Middle Kingdom cuisine to the world. But few Westerners comprehend the full magnitude of Chinese cuisine until they visit China. It is only then that they discover how similar ingredients cooked according to respective regional tastes create diverse, distinctive flavors and textures. The culinary excel-lence distilled in the so-called eight jewels of Chinese cuisine is achieved using the best of ingredients and techniques of each region while retaining local characteristics. Western visitors may also observe that, as in the West, dining is a favored setting for social and business intercourse. The catering trade is consequently as sensitive to changing market trends as the fashion industry.     

Heroes of Our Times

The course of China’s modern history,revolution and nation building has been indelibly impressed by the selfless contributions of Party members.The following "hall of fame" highlights a few names from that huge galaxy.From disparate backgrounds and in varied occupations,their common denominator is the desire to work for the greater good of the country and its people,and to do all in their capacity to achieve this goal.To reflect on their stories is also to remind us that what qualifies them for inclusion is intimately bound up with the values and conditions of the various periods in which they lived.     

China''''s Legal Assistance System:Important Judicial Guarantee For Human Rights

On July 21. 2003. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signed the State Council Order No. 385, making public the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Legal Assistance. The Regulations has 31 articles in six chapters. The document came into effect on September 1, 2003. This is the first national law on legal assistance in China. The purpose of enacting the law is to ensure that citizens in financial difficulty could get necessary law service and the     

The Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River-The ancient Disneyland in China

The annual chrysanthemum festival was held as scheduled in Kaifeng on October 28th, 1998. There was all in bloom and was full of tourists in this city that day.It was also the time to open the Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River. Huge crowd of tourists seemed to be driven by a sort of great charm and moved into this fascinating place. All of them wanted to get the wonderful feeling that once they enter into this garden place, the place will take them back thousands of years in time.     

ACFA Delegation Visits China

In August, the sun blazed in Beijing like a ballof fire sending out waves of hot air.The delegation of the Algeria-China Friend-ship Association (AGFA) headed by its presidentIsmail Debeche was invited to pay a goodwill visitto China. This was the first batch of Algerianfriends the CPAFFC received in 13 years and alsothe first delegation sent by the ACFA since itsfounding in November 1993.On August 3, Wang Guangying, vice chair-man of the Standing Committee of the NationalPeople's Congress, met with the delegation. Assoon as he saw the delegation members, he toldthem that they had come in the hottest season inBeijing and that their journey could be very tir-ing. Debeche said humorously that they had beenlooking forward to visiting the great China, thatthey wanted to see with their own eyes the tre-     

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.     

Chinese Festivals： Keeping Traditions Alive

WE all love holidays and the happy gatherings of family and friends that they bring, and the Chinese are no exception. The Chinese celebrate festivals based on the lunar calendar dating back thousands of years. The popular favorite is Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, which falls on the first day of the first lunar month. According to the Western solar or Gregorian calendar, in 2004 it falls on 22nd of January. Spring Festival, or chunjie, dates back to the     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Small Screen Scam Shopping Recently, the Beijing Consumers' Association issued a survey report, exposing six major flaws in TV shopping. One of the most obvious that emerged was that so-called gold jewelry articles were actually made of cheap metallic knock-offs. TV shopping was introduced to China in 1992. The total busi-ness volume of this form of buying reached 15.6 billion yuan ($2.23 billion) last year.     

Can Opening ‘Ethics Files’ on Medical Staff Improve Patients’ Care?

Healthcare workers in Shanghai are walking the line after recent news that regulations issued by local health authorities will soon enforce the opening of an “ethics file” for each of the city’s 140,000 medical workers. According to the regulations, once it is found that medical workers have taken commercial bribery orhongbao (cash gift in envelopes), or even disrespected the rights and interests of patients, they will be deprived of the right to be awarded the title of “excellent worker” and the right to pro-motion. The regulations also advocate dis-missal.     

Successors to Cause of Sino-US Friendship

The 92-year-old Dr. Charles M. Grossman, president of Evans F. Carlson's Friends of the People's Republic of China, arrived at the Beijing International Airport with his son-in-law Mark Johnson on August 31, 2005. The 85-year-old Jeanne, daughter-in-law of Evans F. Carlson, and Karen Loving, granddaughter of Carlson arrived in Beijing 15 minutes later on the same day. It was quite meaningful that they met in Beijing as they had never met in the United States. They had come to China on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of