Who Takes Care of Gandmas and Gandpas?

WEI Shouren, a 69-year-old widow liv-ing in Shanghai’s Jing’an District, has recently suffered a re-lapse into her old complaint of constant cramping of her leg muscles. The mas-sages her late husband used to give her considerably eased her pain; now that he’s gone, she must go alone to a mas-seur. Ms. Wei has a son who has been living in the US for five years. She has, upon his insistence, tried twice to live with him and his family there, but has never felt at home in the US.     

Shenzhen People‘s Stories

An Zi's Success StoryAn Zi is a successful Shenzhen businesswoman. She has her own company, and lives in a big house with her caring husband and lovely daughter. She also has a car that she drives to work every day. When she first came to Shenzhen 17 years ago, however, it was as a teenager who had just finished her junior middle school education. She came to the newly emerged SEZ seeking opportunity.     

The Changing World of Social Work

WEARING a ponytail, 29-year-old Wang Qi has an infectious smile and a bright, capable look about her. In spite of her youth, she is director of the Donggaodi Community service station in Beijing’s Fengtai District. In the three years that she has dedicated herself to community-based social work, Wang admits that she has had to learn a lot on the job. The residents in the community highly appreciate her efforts.     

Liu Yujing and Her Organic Store

LIU Yujing is a 35-year-old mother of a four-yearold child.She quit her job as a secretary at a foreign trade company years ago to become a fulltime mother,but during the past half year she launched her own business.Liu's return to the workforce has not taken her far from home however.     

Local Legislation Giving Single Women Birth Right Caught in Debate

Chen Yifan, who is resolved to be single for life, has never expected that at 45, she can realize her dream of producing a baby for herself without having to get married—and legally. The woman is quite successful in her career as manager of a private company in Changchun City, Jilin Province, northeast China. Her personal life, however, is not. She fell in love with a classmate back in the early 1980s, and was heart-broken when the young man left her. Since then, the woman has found that no man in this world is good enough to be her husband. Though single, she wants to have a child of her own. "I'll be burning with envy whenever I see a     

A Path Out of Poverty

正Progress continues in one of the country's most challenging battles Luo Qian,a 33-year-old woman of the Bouyei ethnic group who now runs an"agri-tainment"business in Pingzhai Village,has never regretted her decision to resign from her city job and return to her hometown to start a business.The village is located     

A Happy Return

AFTER spending half of her life in the U.S., Liu Weiyun has returned to China and made her home in Beijing. She has, as she puts it, completed a circle of happiness.     

A New Road to Rural Prosperity

AT peak tourist season, 32-year-old Li Lianfen sees her husband and son just once a week. She has converted her home in Shicheng (Stone City) Village in Beijing's Miyun County into an inn. City people come here to stay and enjoy the beauty and tran-quility of the mountains around her village. As she has no time to look after her son, he attends a primary school in the county seat 20 kilometers away. His father is a teacher at the middle school nearby. They both stay there in the accommodation provided.     

Workout Routine

正Keeping fit has been a fashion in ChinaAbout five years ago,Liu Chun’er,a Beijingbased office professional,hated her own image in the mirror."Fat-laden waist and stocky legs obscured my curve,"she said.She did not even have the courage to wear skirts.Now she loves to don skirts,snap pictures of herself and share them with her friends via social media platforms.Moreover,she has become a fitness role model for her husband and     

Who Takes Care of the Elderly

It is an advertisement. An old granny has prepared a tableful of dishes, waiting for her sons and daughters to come back home to enjoy. But, one after another, her sons and daughters called back, saying that they are unable to return home, because either of working over-time or dining out with friends. The old woman is so tired that she has fallen fast asleep by the table against a background of a grandmother clock ticking away.     

Beautiful Life on a Wheelchair

正A physically challenged woman helps and inspires others with her strong-mindedness and self-esteem Dong Ming, a 26-year-old woman in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province, has been bound to a wheelchair for 17 years. But that has not prevented her from helping and inspiring others. She     

Fund Shortages Frustrate Development in Higher Education

HUANG Yue is a third-year student at Jiangsu's Lianshui County No.1 Senior Middle School. Her teacher is confident of her ability to enter a top university, but Huang has reservations. She thinks it unlikely that her parents' combined few hundred yuan monthly income will be enough to finance a university education. According to the FinancialDepartment of the Ministry of     

A Career At Home

正More educated women choose to stay at home Dai Ping, whose son is a first grader in a primary school in Beijing, has noticed a growing number of higher educated stay-at-home mothers around her community. Currently, 11 children in her     

Studying Abroad

Children from middle-class families are increasingly going abroad for university or even high-school education Cai Meng graduated from a junior middle school in Beijing this year.Unfortunately,her grades in the citywide high school entrance exam were not sufficient enough to gain her entry to her dream school.Lucky for her,her parents have a backup plan:sending her to study at one of the top private high schools in the United States.Cai has spent her whole summer vacation preparing for the move with two intensive education programs:one for improving her English,and another to prepare for the U.S.Secondary     

Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award Bestowed on Quake Heroine

THE 14th Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award has bestowed a special prize to Jiang Min, a Sichuan policewoman who remained at her post after the May 12 earthquake killed 10 members of her family, including her parents and two-year-old daughter. Seeing the many mothers and children in need of urgent help, she gave up a chance to return home to have a last look at her family, and joined the rescue work without hesitation. The agony of losing those she loved most, coupled with overwork through five sleepless days and nights, caused Jiang Min to collapse several times at the rescue site, When her story came out in the media, people lauded her as ＂China＇s strongest policewoman.＂     

Doing the Right Thing

How a property tycoon has ditched profits for helping the elderly and realizing a childhood dream Ever since her teenage years,Wen Xiujie has been full of dreams and few earthly desires. In mid-1980s,when Chinese people invented the term"10,000-yuan house- holds"to describe a well-off family with a new fortune from private businesses, 10,000 yuan(＄6,667 back then)was the weekly pocket money given to Wen, who was a middle school student.As heiress to the family property devel- opment company her father offered     

Guardians of Vitality

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the most frequent official Western guest to China, has visited China 11 times in her 12 years in offi ce, which has earned her a reputation as one of the world leaders who know China best.     

FROM ONE TO THREE

<正>More efforts needed to build a family-friendly society as parents can have up to three children iong Yue has made up her mind not to have a second child. “It’s too energyconsuming and my family has reached a consensus not to have another kid,” the 33-year-old stay-at-home mother of a 2-year-old in Shenzhen,     

Still Waters Run Deep

Despite her quietness,China’s 200 meters butterfly gold-medal winner has a strong will to win     

Meeting Best Friends

It was a tough battle for U.S.playwright Helene Hanff who struggled in the 1940s and 50s to find a producer for her work.But more than two decades after her death, the unfulfilled author has found fulfillment in a country that didn't figure in her life when she was alive China.