Fhe Spirit of Wenzhou

AS soon as the policy of reform and opening-up began to unfold in China, the tough and shrewd Wenzhou people began to actively test the implications for business and trade. At first, they just sought inconspicuous jobs like cobbler, barber or peddler - much like their counterparts in other parts of China. Gradually, though, people found more and more retail operations, especially clothing and electronic stores,were being run by the Wenzhounese. Various kinds of products made in Wenzhou also flooded into the market. Such phenomenon made people take notice. Curiosity became admiration of Wenzhounese cleverness, and their big fortunes.     

Nanchang： Shifting to a Low-carbon Economy

SUMMERS in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, are quite agreeable thanks to the high forest coverage there. In advance of the Fifth Central China Expo, to be hosted by the city in September, Nanchang went all out on a greening campaign： ＂Forest City, Garden Nanchang.＂     

Fhe Legacy of a Great Master

CELEBRATED artist Wu Guanzhong passed away at the age of 91 on June 25, 2010. His lifetime achievement was to successfully apply Western oil techniques to traditional Chinese painting, making a great contribution to the modernization of the classic ink- and-wash genre. His works continue to set new records at auctions, and at the time this article was written his auctioned volume of work had amounted to a value of RMB 1.78 billion.     

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     

The Spirit Lives On

正One international physicist-turned-farmer and her journey through life in China Joan Hinton never could have imagined that China would become the destination of her lifetime. She came, saw, experienced, anticipating more progress and development to occur nationwide, and then just ended up living here her whole life.     

Everyone Lives in Dignity

During a recent interview with Chongqing Daily, Zhou Tianyong, Deputy Director of the Institute for International Strategy at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee,elaborated on how to relate the Chinese Dream to progress.     

New Lives Of Nomads

People in Gannan enjoy the benefits of local development through their new settled lives Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Gansu Province is situated at the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Although the majority of local population is Tibetan,Gannan is also home to a further23 ethnic groups including the Han,Hui,Tu and Mongol peoples.     

Master of Many Trades

"My major is business administration. I have also worked in finance and international trade and have had my own fashion boutique and restaurant. I seem born to flit from one industry to another," says Fan Jinghui, director of Sino-Canadian Council for the Promotion of International Trade.     

Antique Furniture Reassessed

In the past ten years, the antique furni-ture market has visibly expand-ed from just a few shops in scattered loca-tions to repro antique furni-ture streets lined with shops in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.     

Lives on the Snowy Plateau

正Title:Living on the Roof of the World(II)Authors:Xu Chaoqing,Li Lin et al.Price:RMB 78Published by New World Press,Beijing,2013The 1,300-year-old Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa is bathed in morning sunshine.Rainbow hued prayer banners l utter on towering gilded l agpoles as smoke spirals from incense burners.Drolma Lhamo,in her late 70s,i ngers her prayer beads as she makes her morning devotions,just as she has done for decades.Drolma Lhamo lives deep in the labyrinthine alleys of Barkhor Street.Born in a traditional courtyard residence there,she moved     

Saving Minds,Saving Lives

When Charles Kuen Kao, former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and pioneer of fiber optic telecommunications, was bestowed with a Nobel Prize in physics at the age of 76 in 2009,he could scarcely recall the details of the fiber optics technology he had helped develop.     

Happier Lives, Better Jiangsu

<正>East China’s Jiangsu Province pushes for a wealth boom as its economy thrives Jiangsu Province had the limelight J at the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress(NPC) held on March 5-14 as the east     

Weibo, Changing Our Lives

A photograph, a video or up to 140 characters of text - these are the tools of communication available to users of Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging service that commands a large and growing following on the Chinese mainland. In August of 2009, the popular news and entertainment website Sina.com.cn launched a test version of Sina Weibo, becoming one of the first mainland web companies to experiment with a microblogging service. According to statistics from the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), by the first half     

New Houses,New Lives

CUP of coffee in hand, 40-year-old Qian Yuchen sits leisurely before his French windows, luxuriating in the warmth of the afternoon spring sunshine. Years ago, this was the kind of scenario he could only dream about, or see on a television commercial. Now it is his living reality. Qian and his mother formerly occupied a 50-square-meter room allocated     

Many Roads to Riches

Farmers in China's southwest have developed innovative ways to make a good living GREEN IDEA: The villagers of Hongyan in Gongcheng Prefecture, Guangxi, have made a good living through developing ecologicaltourism     

Putting Individuals and Their Lives First

The Fifth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parlia-ment, and that of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s PoliticalConsultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top political advisory body, tookplace in early March as planned.For over a decade, the two annual sessions havebeen important platforms for Chinese people to voice their opinions and discusspublic affairs.Proposals presented by deputies to the NPC and members of the CP-PCC will be considered by the government as potential policies.The sessions haveimmense political significance and are drawing more and more attention from all overthe world.     

The Many Faces of The Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic,lasting for about two years,has undeniably presented one of the greatest protracted challenges to humanity.Now it is surging with more variants that spread even faster.It has exerted a profound impact on a world doused in turbulence and transformation and poses a serious threat to our safety and health.All of us have seen the well-established rhythms of our personal lives abruptly altered.COVID-19 is a huge stressor shaking up our psyche and triggering our fears and uncertainties.     

One Wedding,Many Cultures

My friend Liz was getting married.To Dima,another friend.I got the news from the couple in person one day when they came for dinner at my apartment in east Beijing.Dima lives in Tianjin,a short train-ride from the capital.Liz,a Torontite,had flown over for a new-year visit They’d been doing long distance for a year. I heard all about the proposal.Dima had dragged Liz from a bar mere minutes before the 2012 New Year countdown got underway,promising to show her his ’magic trick’ He barreled her up