Fudan Leads the Way in Higher Education Reforms

SHANGHAI-BASED Fudan University, China's equivalent to Harvard, is taking tentative steps towards educational reform. Its aim is to make Fudan a world standard comprehensive university that nurtures and trains Chinese people of creative talent and makes them fit to compete within the global market.     

Embracing 3G

The curtain rises on a new era of third-generation mobile phone services in China     

3G in Growth Spurt

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology （MIIT） said China＇s 3G users surpassed 20 million by May, and are expected to reach 150 million by the end of next year. The recent MIIT report shows that by the first quarter of 2010, the China Mobile TD network had covered at least 238 cities, while rivals China Unicorn and China Telecom have built 335 and 342 WCDMA networks respectively. In all, China＇s 3G base-stations have reached over 367,000. Meanwhile, the prices of 3G mobile phones have declined dramatically. Prices vary from RMB 3,000 to RMB 1,000, almost at par with 2G mobile phones. The commercial use of 3G mobile service in China went into its trial phase in April 2008.     

Battling for 3G Supremacy

Chinese telecom carriers aim to carve up a bigger slice of the growing 3G pie one year after China kicked off its third-generation (3G) wireless services,     

The Gateway Province that Leads the Country

Over the past 20years unprecedentedchanges have takenplace in China, andGuangdong is a primeexample of this process.Having transposed fromits role as window onChina during the ColdWar, to that of gatewayand experimental ground for reform in the era ofopening-up, the magnitude of Guangdong's influence on China's recent progress is not easilydefined.Guangdong has maintained its leading position nationwide, which is reflected in the following statistics. In the later stage of the Ninth FiveYe…     

The Heavenly Way and the Human Way

HAVING never worshipped the godhead,China's population is generally regardedas atheist. Religion is not, however, analien concept. People frequently exclaim"Good Heavens!" (tian na) and "GoodLord!" (lao tian ye a). To their mind, tian —Heaven — is perceived on the one hand as thesupreme force that rules the universe, and on the     

Dodging Responsibility Leads to Crisis

正More than 3.5 million people find themselves currently displaced from Afghanistan due to the deteriorating security situation in the country,according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi.Significant movements across borders are not yet taking place.     

Smoothing the Way

China rolls up its sleeves to revitalize its large and fragmented logistics industry With its infrastructure boom roaring on,     

Paving the Way

<正>This November,the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)proved to be the most noteworthy event in China.Deciding the country’s direction for the next five to 10 years,the meeting was as significant as the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee in 1978,where the reform and opening-up policy was drawn up.     

Paving the Way

正An ethnic minority group in China successfully shakes off poverty Huang Bingfeng came to Beijing as a deputy to the National People's Congress(NPC) annual meeting with good news from his hometown.On May 9,Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shook off poverty,adding Maonan to the list of ethnic groups in the country to beat back poverty.Some Maonan people wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping sharing the joy of poverty elimination and expressing their determination to continue to build their hometown.Xi replied to the letter,encouraging them to take this as a     

Leading the Way

正The launch of glass futures highlights a crucial step in the development of China’s financial derivatives Speculators have recently been fixated on the share price of Luoyang Glass. The attention has put a strain on its chief executive officer Song Jianming, who is afraid that unusual fluctuations in the trading     

Easing the Way

Muddassar Sharif, a Pakistani living in Shanghai, is an ardent entrepreneur.He started nine businesses during his four-year undergraduate studies at New York University Shanghai. After some failures and many lessons learnt, he finally established an artificial intelligence (Al) company that seems to be on the right track.     

Leading the Way

正The port city of Guangzhou is poised to spearhead the Belt and Road Initiative Alan Murray,editor of Fortune magazine,announced that the 2017 Fortune Global Forum will take place in Guangzhou,capital of south China’s Guangdong Province,at a press conference on September 13.Guangzhou was chosen as the host city for     

Paving the Way

正Shenzhen takes the lead in providing social care for people with disabilities When Li Si was a child,his role model was Zhang Haidi,the writer who has been cal ed China’s Helen Keller for overcoming childhood paraplegia to become an activist for the rights of people with disabilities.One of his primary school books carried Zhang’s photograph and to him,she symbolized the qualities of cherishing life and striving for selfimprovement.     

China＇s First Dragon Chip Supercomputer Is Cheap, Fast, and the Size of a Fridge

According to the China Internet Development Report, issued by the China International Network Information Center, China＇s broadband users account for 85.9 percent of the country＇s domestic network users, with ADSL responsible for 46.5 percent of that figure. In 2007, nearly 40 percent of newly registered users were rural dwellers, while the total number of China＇s Internet users reached 210 million people in the same year, setting China on a course to surpass the U.S. in early 2008. in addition, the number of Chinese domain names reached 11.93 million with an annual growth of 190.4 percent, and .CN domain names increased fourfold over 2006, to 9 million,     

CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin Leads Delegation to the Philippines

Invited by Lorenzo Ku, Honorary Chairman of the Association for Philippines-China Understanding, CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin led a goodwill delegation to visit the Philippines from June 7 to 10. It paid an official call on Feliciano Belmonte, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Alfredo S. Lim, Mayor of Manila, attended the evening party marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, a calligraphy and painting exhibition mounted by the China Friendship Art Ex...     

Democracy Is the Way

<正>China sees more positive changes in grassroots elections Li Mengzhi still recalls how he entered the shortlist for head of the Yangxi County Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC) in Guangdong Province.On June 7,Li stood behind a podium with six other candidates where they would eachd eliver a 15-minute self-introduction speech.The 136 audience members then voted immediately after the last speech.Li,an official in charge of housing and urban-rural development in Yangjiang City,     

Libraries on the Way

<正>An NGO campaigns to help rural students find the joy of reading Tan Li joined the Gan Quan Library,a Trural library in Chengde,north China’s Hebei Province,after graduating from the Shanxi University of Finance and Economics in July.