Olympic Maps Available

Beijing is publishing a set of Olympic maps covering everything from the location of sporting venues to the city's history As soon as Zhou Liyi hopped off the train from Shanghai to Beijing, he hurried to Wangfujing Xinhua Book Store,one of the largest of its kind in Beijing,to buy an Olympic map. Zhou is a Shanghai resident who came to Beijing on business and plans to return as a     

Easy Come,Easy Go?

<正>The Internet has become a new platform for testing people’s credibility On April 22,a post on the microblogging website Weibo.com caught netizens’ attention across China.Fu Weigang,a 34-year-old lawyer who works at the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law,said in the post every time his post was forwarded,he would give 1 yuan(The Internet has become a new platform for testing people's credibility On April 22,a post on the microblogging website Weibo.com caught netizens' attention across China.Fu Weigang,a 34-year-old lawyer who works at the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law,said in the post every time his post was forwarded,he would give 1 yuan($0.15)to the son of Zhang Miao,a young mothers tabbed to death by a student in Xi'an,capi-     

A Tale of Three Cities

<正>An integrated transportation grid will connect Beijing,Tianjin and HebeiProvinceRen Aifan,a 28-year-old who works in downtown Beijing and dwells in Yanjiao,a town in neighboring Hebei Province,has to spend four hours in commuting every day."I get on a bus at 6:50 a.m.and take Beijing’s Subway Line 1 around 8:00a.m.When I get off at Chongwenmen Station and arrive in my office,it’s usually almost 9:00a.m.,"Ren told Beijing Review,complaining about the crowd in the bus enveloped in     

COMPETITION BUILDS STRENGTH IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

Transitioning from a“planned”economy to a“market”economy may be a long and arduous task for China,but opening its financial markets to foreign competition will help build stability and strength for the Chinese economy, says U.S.Ambassador Alan Holmer.Holmer,who was recently named as Special Envoy for China and for the Strategic Economic Dialogue,answered written questions by Beijing Review on his views of the economic relationship between China and the United States and the reforms he sees as vital to a good bilateral relationship.     

Going for a Grammy

This Valentine's Day could have beend ismaying for two young lovers who de-cided to spend it at home.The host,26-year-old Ye Fei,who is originally from Hubei Province and works as an editor for a news-     

Cooperation and Healthy Competition

There is potential for China and the United States to work together in many areas and improve global governance. Competition is not an obstacle as long as it is healthy. This was the message from a webinar, Reset and Reshape—China-U.S. Relations and Global Governance, held on March 12. Hosted by Beijing Review, the event was attended by experts on China-U.S. relations from both countries. This is an edited excerpt from what they said。     

Swimming Upstream

正A Japanese actor’s ups and downs in ChinaKoji Yano from Osaka,Japan,came to Beijing in 2001 to follow his dream of stardom.Before,Yano had lived and struggled in Tokyo for eight years working as a bar tender,an actor’s assistant and occasionally as an extra."I wanted to become a great actor,but I couldn’t make it in Japan at the time,"the 43-year-old said.     

MAKING CULTURE COUNT

Chinese and Japanese citizens have found themselves inextricably linked by strong cultural bonds. This is evident from the interviews conducted by Beijing Review reporters Zhang Yuying and Miao Xiaoyang. They spoke to Yu Qiang, a Chinese writer who has been devoted to promoting China-Japan friendship and cultural exchanges for the past two decades;Weng Xianxian, a graduate student at the Beijing-based Renmin University of China; and Goro Yotsumoto and Shoji Hanamura, Japanese students at Capital Normal University in Beijing.     

From Need to Want

Gao Yuning finds it hard to explain to his students who were born in the 1990s and beyond why Chinese people used to "buy" products with food stamps. "My young Chinese students may have heard from their parents about what life was like in that period, but for my students from the West, they have no idea at all," Gao told Beijing Review. "The use of food stamps was based on a shortage economy." Gao, in his late 30s, received his PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge in 2011 and currently works for Beijing-based Tsinghua University as anassociate professor.     

Great Expectations

While Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing describes President Hu Jintao's U.S. visit as fruitful, opinions in the United States are mixed. One reason for this is the failure of the American media to provide an opportunity for the American public to know about the Chinese leader and China's domestic and foreign policies, according to Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. In an interview with Beijing Review immediately following Hu's visit, Li, who is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, shares his views on Hu's visit and related issues with Beijing Review's Wang Yanjuan in New York.     

How Do Chinese Manage Their Money Matters？

JI Jing, a 24-year-old sound engineer, works out a budget on each payday so as to make ends meet each month. Ji found work in Beijing after graduating from college, and now makes a     

Island for Old Men

正A China Mobile office keeps island residents in touch with the modern world and each other One day every three weeks, Shi Hua spends six hours commuting to and from an island on the outskirts of Shanghai. The 33-year-old Shanghai local has been making the trip for the past three years as part of her work for Chinese telecom carrier, China Mobile.     

FINDING WARMTH AT THE WORKPLACE

With“staying local for the Spring Festival”becoming the norm this year,the number of railway passengers has dropped significantly,something Lan Xuechun,a 32-year-old stewardess working at the Beijing Railway Unlike the holiday period in the previous years when the station bustled with travelers,this year it looks quiet.Lan,who wears goggles,a face mask and gloves,told Beijing Review,“I can fully understand what‘sacrificing for others’means.”This is Station,has noticed.     

Twenty-two Evenings in Spring

TWENTY-TWO Evenings in Spring, a recent addition to Shenyang-based Spring Breeze Literature Publishing House's fiction series, Cotton Tigers, may also be read as writer Xu Kun's autobiography. A native of Shenyang, Xu Kun has lived in Beijing for more than ten years and works as a researcher for the Institute of Literary Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Now in her late     

The Deep End

China's seniors have warmed up to winter swimming, but in some cases these 'polar bears' are breaking the law Wu Shoutian, a 59-year-old Beijing resident, swam every day in 2004. In the winter of 2005, he stopped for two weeks when his 88-year-old mother was sick and needed care. Wu, retired from an auto supply company in Beijing, has insisted on swimming     

Advertising The Punch-Line

正Joking around in adverts has become a popular way to make money A Chinese singer who struggled to gain popularity for years has finally made it—as a joke writer,or duanzi shou in Chinese,on social networks.By creating short and funny pieces on Weibo,China’s Twitter-like microblogging service,Xue Zhiqian now has     

Looking to Asia

The United States has been shifting its strategic focus from the Middle East to Asia. Professor Clifford Kiracofe from the Virginia Military Institute and the Washington and Lee University, an expert on U.S. foreign policy and national strategy, recently spoke to Beijing Review reporter Ding Zhitao about the implications of the move and its influence on Sino-U.S. ties.     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正RENOWNED SCHOLAR DIESYang Jiang,a well-known Chinese writer,translator and foreign literature scholar,passed away in Beijing on May 25 at the age of 105.Proficient in English,French and Spanish,Yang made a name for herself in the field of translation.Her translation of Don Quixote into Chinese from its original Spanish has been generally regarded as the best version to date.     

Betting on China

<正>China is expected to maintain an economic growth rate of 7-7.5 percent in 2015,predicted Chinese economists at the sixth annual economic forecast hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research(CCER)on January7 in New York City.Corrie Dosh,Beijing Review’s contributing writer,covered the event.Her report follows: