Keeping Rural Traditions Alive

正Shandong Province in east China,renowned as the birthplace of Confucius,is steeped in culture.To showcase its diverse folk art forms,the National Museum of China opened an exhibition titled Nostalgia in Mind in mid-July.The over 1,500 exhibits bring a fusion of Yellow River and littoral cultures,which Shandong has inherited by virtue of being on the lower reaches of the Yellow River and surrounded bythesea.     

Zhabei District of Shanghai——A Dream of Its Own

SHANGHAI owes its birth and prosperity to the mighty Yangtze River that enters the sea where the city perches on China’s east coast;the emergence and ascendance of its Zhabei District is also bound into river legends and became part of an historic epoch in national industry.Located in the northern part of the city,Zhabei is home to a growing number of iconic landmarks,buildings and neighborhoods.     

One Community in Cyberspace

The season of the fragrant osmanthus is also the time for Wuzhen,a picturesque river town in Zhejiang Province in east China,to welcome its annual moment in the spotlight Once regarded as a land of rice and fish and the home of Chinese silk,the ancient town with more than 6,000 years of history has been given a new name by the media—the future of the Internet.     

ON CHINESE MEDIA

<正>Clear Water Feeds the Yellow River Outlook Weekly Issue 48, 2022The Fenhe River, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, runs through China’s Shanxi Province from north to south. Due to over-exploitaon, its eco-system has suffered great damage. To solve the water shortage problem,Shanxi provincial government has implemented water transfer projects and established a unified mechanism for water management. For water conservaon,     

Jinjiang——Radiant and Vigorous

JINJIANG is a coastal city in southeast Fujian Province, across the sea from Jinmen and Taiwan. Before opening and reform, its lack of resources, undeveloped industry, large population and insufficient farming land rendered it poverty-stricken. In recent years, however, the city has undergone drastic change.In 1994 Jinjiang ranked 15th among the top 100 cities of China. Despite the impact of the Southeast Asia financial crisis and world economic recession, it has maintained its     

SCUDDING TOWARDS THE WORLD——An Interview with Hui Liangyu, Party Secretary of Jiangsu Province

LOCATED in the coastal region of Eastern China, Jiangsu Province faces the Yellow Sea to the east and borders Shanghai, China's key economic powerhouse, to its south. The Yangtze River traverses Jiangsu from east to west, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal ru…     

A Journey through Ningxia

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region located inNorthwest China between Inner Mongoliaand Gansu is rich in historic remains and culturaldiversity. It has demonstrated considerable successin controlling and using its semi-arid environment.In September 1997 I spent five days exploringthe economic heartland of the Yellow River Valleyand the scenic southern area near Shaanxi Prov-ince.     

The Savory List

正The city of Liuzhou, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China, is the home of the now nationally famous rice noodle dish, luosifen. The reason for the dish's fame is not only its distinctive flavor, but also the unrivaled efforts the city has put into promoting the dish over the last 10 years.Luosifen has its origins as an inexpensive street snack sold in Liuzhou in the late 1970 s. Liuzhou locals, having a lot of love for both river snails(luosi) and rice noodles(fen), created the dish by dipping the rice noodles in a broth made from stewed river snails, yielding a unique and popular flavor. The creators also made good use of other local specialties by topping the dish with pickled bamboo shoots, tofu skin and fried peanuts.     

The Supreme China Rooster

WHEN looking at the map of China, its shape appears uncannily similar to that of a rooster. Its head is in the Northeastern provinces, its magnificent tail includes Xinjiang and Tibet and its wings spread over the resource-rich basins of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. The belly of this cockerel is in the southeast, and Hainan and Taiwan islands are its feet. The tour guide on the Yangtze River cruise who pointed out this similarity to me explained: "This shows that Taiwan is definitely an inalienable part of China; a rooster     

SOCIETY

A Thawing Threat Sanjiangyuan,the origin of China’s three major waterways—Yangtze,Yellow and Lancang rivers,is continuing to heat up and become wetter as a result of global warming,recent monitoring data showed.The headwaters area,on the remote Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,has seen its temperature rise 1.98 degrees Celsius and an increase in rainfall between 1961 and 2012.Due to rising temperature,the maximum depth of local permafrost has decreased by an average of 12 cm every10 years,indicating that most glaciers there are melting.     

A Brief Introduction to Ningxia

Set up in 1958, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region,Ningxia for short, is one of China’s five ethnic minority autonomous regions and the only provincial-level autonomous region of the Hui ethnic. Located on the upper reaches of the Yellow River,it covers an area of 66,400 square kilometers and has a population of 6.39 million,35.4% of them being of Hui origin. Under its jurisdiction are five prefecture-level cities, namely Yinchuan,Shizuishan, Wuzhong,     

Cleaning the Yellow River

WITHIN China's westerndevelopment strategy, amajor issue to be- - resolved is how soil erosion in the reaches of the YellowRiver may be arrested, and anotheris how the amount of sand flowinginto the river may be reduced. Thepeople living on the Loess Plateaumay emerge from poverty and settheir minds at rest as to the threat offloods only when this problem issolved.The Yellow RiverThe Yellow River is the secondlongest in China, having a totallength of 5,464 kilometers. Itssource is in Qi…     

Treasures of Chinese Buddhism

BUDDHISM has been one of the major shaping forces of Chinese civilization. Though not an indigenous religion, Buddhism has the largest number of followers in China, and wields far-reaching influence among its people. During its 2,000 year presence in China it has reached every corner of the country and touched every aspect of Chinese life.     

China: An Exemplar in Respecting and Protecting Human Rights

China has developed its own views on human rights and pursued its own path of human rights development in light of the UN Charter principles,its national conditions,and its experience over many years.Human rights in China have scored remarkable achievements.The Chinese perspective on human rights and the Chinese path of human rights development has become a shining example for the whole world.     

Continuity and Variability in China’s Acknowledgement of International Human Rights Norms

Since the beginning of the era of reform and opening up,and particularly since the beginning of the 21st century,China has achieved great progress in its human rights cause and has made great contributions to the global human rights cause.On the one hand,China,with its growing economic     

Cross-Cultural Familiarity - The People and Their Stories Xi Mentioned on Foreign Visits——Unforgettable Ruling

＂Amity between people holds the key to sound relations between states.＂ Chinese President Xi Jinping has reiterated this in his speeches at various foreign affairs activities. To elaborate, he often provides anecdotes of real people and their stories that demonstrate China＇s respect for other cultures and its sincere desire for peaceful coexistence. In this issue China Today interviewed some of the people and their families that Xi has mentioned. Their experiences highlight the growing friendly exchanges between Chinese people and people of other countries, and a developing and changing China.     

The Yellow River Valley and Its Environmental Protection

The 5,464-km-long Yellow River originates in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province. It is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze, and the fifth longest river in the world. Flowing through Qinghai, Sichuan     

China＇s Greatest Contribution to the World Lies in Safeguarding Democracy and Wellbeing for One-Fifth of Humanity

China has a population that is one-fifth of humanity. Most of its people live in rural areas. This country has been built and developed on the ruins of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism and on a foundation of ＂poverty and blankness.＂ The founding of New China created the political condition for the advancement of people＇s democracy. Since the adoption of reform and open policies, or gaige kaifang, China has gradually found an effective way, suited for Chinese conditions,     

Changes to the way and Beyond

WITH its back to the enchanting Taihang Mountains and its face to the Yellow River, Jiaozuo City in central China's Henan Province is traditionally known as the Golden Plain of Cornucopia. But until recently, its stunning scenery had a hefty price: its mountains and rivers practically cut the city off from the rest of the nation. This has all changed with the construction of an extensive highway network in the region. To the north, it is     

How Should the U.S. View the Communist Party of China?

正The astonishing transformation of China—its economic prowess, its rapid urbanization without slum cities, its scientific and technological prowess, the education of its vast population, its modern infrastructure which is the envy of much of the world, and its continually evolving pattern of governance that has enabled all these developments—has of course all occurred under the leadership of the Communist Party of China(CPC).