AN ESSENTIAL CORNERSTONE

<正>The Shanghai Communiquésets the foundation for current China-U.S.relations Forty-fi ve years ago,U.S.President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing for what he would later call"the week that changed the world."The beginning of a lasting,mature,and crucial relationship between the world’s two most important powers was established on     

Speech by New Zealand-China Friendship Society National President Margaret Cooper (Excerpts)

Rewi Alley was a great man——a New Zealander who made a difference to many thousands of Chinese people.We are here today to reflect,remember and honour this man,acknowledge the work that he did in China during the sixty years that he lived with the people he loved,and celebrate the links that he established between our two countries.     

Milan''''s Mayor Visits Beijing

At the invitation of the CPAFFC, Gabriele Albertini, member of the European Parliament and mayor of Milan, paid a goodwill visit to Beijing on November 25, 2005. Before he came to Beijing, he visited Shanghai and attended celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of friendship-city relations between Milan and Shanghai. He met with Han Zheng, mayor of Shanghai. They expressed satisfaction over their cooperation up to now and exchanged views on further promotion of the friendly and cooperative relations between the two cities. He was also present at the forum entitled "Milan: Italy's     

New Vision for Old Ties

On the 40th anniversary of the normalization of China -U.S. diplomatic relations, a diverse group of diplomats, athletes, entrepreneurs and economists has advocated a more creative approach to resolving trade tension between the two largest economies in the world, with the bottom line that the bilateral relationship had endured in the past and would continue to do so in today's era of greater engagement.     

Should Rich and Poor Live Apart?

If Beijing real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang had his way, the rich and poor in China would live apart and there would be a clear distinction between the two. The outspoken businessman made his views known at a recent conference dealing with the real estate industry, and had the audience seeing red. Ren said in the past, the whole of China was a poor community, and now that some people had led others to become wealthier,     

Bureaucratic Obstacles Visa hassles and other red tape hamper Chinese investment in India By Yu Lintao

Zhao Quanzhen is leaving India,and with it a career that he now questions.After working in the country for more than seven years,Manager of Air China's India Office,worries about the profit outlook of his past station despite more and more new routes being added between China and India. Since Zhao was sent to Mumbai for the opening of a new flight route linking China and India in 2004,the number of routes operated by Air China between the two countries has quickly increased.There are now more than 20 flights a week.     

Scientific Peaks

For more than two decades,Zhou Qilin,a professor at Nankai University,has kept a rigid and tight work schedule.Six days of the week,he arrives at the laboratory between 7 and 8 a.m.,and stays until about 8 p.m.,devoting himself to chiral chemistry research.     

Sino-lndian Strategic Partnership Reaches New Heights

ASHOK K. Kantha became Indian Ambassador to China on January 6, 2014. From high-ranking officials to ordinary citizens, ,all Indians value India-China relations, he said; moving forward, India intends to strengthen its cooperation with China and upgrade the bilateral strategic partnership to a new high. As Indian am- bassador to China, Kantha said he would endeavor to enhance friendship between the two nations.     

SCFA President Jesus Osuna Sanz Visits China

Jesus Osuna Sanz,president of the Spain-China Friendship Association (SCFA),paid a friendly visit to Beijing,Chongqing and Tibet from May 9 to 27. It was the first visit to China he made at the invitation of the CPAFFC with the purposes of furthering mutual understanding and discussing future cooperation between the two organizations.     

Lessons in Love——University class attracts huge crowds of curious onlookers

Zhou Dan, an articulate lawyer, led a semi-secret life until recently when he was invited to give a talk to the Homosexual Studies class at Fudan University in Shanghai. To launch such a course, the first of its kind in China, would have been unthinkable two years ago, says Zhou,     

For Better Global Governance

On May 7,the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies affiliated to publishing conglomerate China International Publishing Group and The Bridge Tank,a French think tank,hosted a webinar on China-France cooperation and how the two countries can jointly promote a more just and equitable global governance in the post-epidemic era.Following the China-France Global Governance Forum in Paris in 2019,this webinar was the latest initiative to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on global governance between the two countries.     

THE STALLING POINT

A series of disputes cause another rift in the strained relationship between the two Koreas The uneasy relations between Pyongyang and Seoul grew even tenser recently.South Korean Unification Minister Kim Ha Joong said that the jointly run industrial park in Kaesong would not be expanded until progress on the North Korean nuclear issue was made.Later,General Kim Tae Young,South Korea's new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,told a parliamentary hearing that the military would attack a suspected North Korean nuclear weapons site if it believed the country was going to launch a nuclear attack on South Korea.     

To Be a Well-off Witkey？

A "witkey" is a person who sells knowledge and experience to others via the Internet. What are the opportunities and challenges of this new and rapidly expanding area of e-commerce? IT was one o'clock in the morning, and Huang Weiguo was hunched over his keyboard, busily applying the finishing touches to the product he was about to send to his client via a witkey website. He had spent two similarly tedious late nights staring at his screen, making sure that the package he returned would be a high-quality job. "It's a very demanding job, but the hours can be flexible. What's more, you can find the work you specialize in directly on these witkey websites."     

Intangible Heritage Lives

<正>Experienced craftsmen share their works of art in downtown Beijing On Beijing’s Qianmen Avenue,hidden between two alleyways a few steps from Tiananmen Square is the small workshop of Yao Huifen.From the outside,you would have a hard time believing that this new and modern-looking shop contains a world of millennial treasures.Yao is a master craftsman of traditional     

Strategic Ties

Over the past seven decades,diplomatic ties between China and Russia have gone through an extraordinary journey.Since the disintegration of the Soviet Un ion,China-Russia relations have made a smooth transition,becoming more stable and mature.China and Russia have carried out pragmatic cooperation in various fields based on equality and mutual benefit.This has achieved win-win results,benefiting people in the two countries.Some in the in ternational community are reluctant to see the two come closer and have tried to sow dissension,propagating that the ties would inevitably deteriorate and that the friendship is not in the actual interests of the two countries.     

Descendants of Frontier Soldiers 600 Years Ago

The Venetian traveller Marco Polo would be surprised if he saw Chi nese people today, wearing jeans or suits and living in apartment buildings. "They are so different from their ancestors," he would say.But in the southwest of the country, a group of people still adhere to the cultural traditions, style of dress, language, customs, religious beliefs and architecture of 14th-century China.     

The Tastemakers

JIM Boyce granted me an interview in a bar at 6 p.m.,in between tasting a flight of 13 liquors at 4 p.m.and getting ready for yet another interview at 8 p.m.The first thing he did was recommend I try a white bourbon.Like they say,it’s a tough job but someone has to do it.Boyce sips and scribbles for Beijing Boyce,his nightlife blog,and Grape Wall of China,a website he runs with a host of other contributors from the wine industry.His real work is brand consulting and market research however,with a specialty in natural resources,but wine takes up much of his spare time.My sense is that for Boyce the landscape of Chinese wine seems to be many things - a national coming-of-age drama for an industry,an international cast of characters,a struggle of market forces,treasure rediscovered,and a plot begging for the emergence of heroes.That would explain why readers like his style of sharing what he’s learned,as he learns it.     

Dr.David Iancu’s Family China Visit

I think I’ve always been fasci-nated by this faraway coun-try——China.When my father was opening hisChina items box,items that he brought back at theend of World War II,I was en-tering a world of wonder.Hewould take out the medals re-ceived from the commander ofhis unit,where he had been thechief medic;he would take outthe ivory chopsticks and showus how to hold and how to usethem;he would take out his lionshapedjade sealbearinghisname,and he would show us how towrite our family name,Ianc…     

A Traditional Chinese Wedding

DAVID is a British man who came to work as a teacher in Beijing.There he met a girl called Miss Wang, and romance soon blos-somed between the two. They decided to get married, so they firstwent through the marriage registration procedures required by Chi-nese law. That was the easy part. When it came to the ceremonyitself, the young Briton found that he had much to learn about the Chinese way,as each detail of a traditional Chinese wedding symbolizes some cultural or philo-sophical elemen…     

Starting Life Anew——From a man on death row to an outstanding teacher

A teacher in the prime of life was put on the death row for a probation of two years for killing his lover; while serving prison terms, he performed meritorious deeds on three occasions and scored 12 merits and had his prison terms reduced on six occasions. After being set free, he took up his teaching position again, with outstanding performances.