Psychological Counseling Helps Prison Inmates Turn a New Lease in Life

Psychological counseling for prison inmates appeared in Jiangsu in the late 1980s, and it is now available in all prisons in this east China province. According to Yu Airong, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Prison Administration     

Should Visiting Parents Be Written Into Law?

On July 1,the newly amended Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly formally took effect.According to the law,adult children are required to visit their parents regularly.The same day,a woman was ordered bya court in Wuxi,east China’s Jiangsu Province,to visit     

An Inspiring Visit

正International students learn about development and local culture while visiting Jiangsu Province Kimmy Cassandra Frederick,a native of Grenada,painstakingly tried to synchronize her jump with two middle-aged local women she had just met in the picturesque Zhouzhuang Town in Kunshan City,east China’s Jiangsu Province,after she had toured the iconic     

The Ongoing Housing Dilemma

Relaxation measures put housing control policies to the test Housing regulators in Yangzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province announced on May 8 the beginning of an incentive policy for new home buyers. Jointly issued by local finance and housing     

A Day of Remembrance Ritual for ancestors becomes national mourning for lives lost to the novel coronavirus outbreak

Zhang Yupeng was standing on his balcony in Nanjing,Jiangsu Province in east China,waiting for the clock to strike 10 on April 4.It was the day of Qingming Festival,the traditional time to remember one's ancestors and other departed souls and pay respects to them.Sharp at10 a.m.,air raid sirens started wailing while the traffic on the road below him came to a standstill,with the drivers sounding their horns.     

ASONG OF TEACHING

Dr. Mark H. Levine is a sociologist from the United States who left the academic world in the mid-1970s and spent the next three decades in the practice of public sociology, a full-time volunteer for organizations of low-income workers, working and living in poor and minority communities across the US. In fall 2005, the author came to China to aid in the national campaign for English education, and taught at a teachers＇ college in the east coast province of Jiangsu.     

Racing to Communicate

ZHEJIANG Province in southeast China borders the East China Sea to its east, Fujian Province to its south, Anhui and Jiangxi Province to its west, and Jiangsu Province and Shanghai to its north. Its 101,800-sq-km land area is home to 44.22 million people. Zhejiang has a coastline measuring 6,486 kilometers, the longest in China. Across its vast sea area are scattered over 3,000 islands of a total area of 1,670 square kilometers.     

Food for Thought

Though Chinese novelist Gao Xiaosheng passed away in 1999, his status as a household name remains intact, thanks to the to the novellas that he started to write from 1979. His creation Chen Huan she ng a simple and honest Chinese farmer, has been given a new lease of life by the Changzhou Farce Troupe from east China's Jiangsu, Gao's home province, highlighting the theme of change and development in the rural areas in the past decades.     

NEVER FORGET

正Historians as well as survivors and family members of the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre gather in Nanjing,east China’s Jiangsu Province,on February 26,supporting a draft decision submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress(NPC),China’s top legislature,which suggests setting national memorial days to commemorate the victory in the war against Japanese invasion,and the victims of the 1937     

THIS WEEK

<正>COOPERATION ON THE FAST LANE Premier Li Keqiang rides a high-speed train with the foreign leaders attending the Fourth Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries on November 25.The 100-km trip from Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province to Shanghai takes 25 minutes.     

Kunshan： Creating a Well-off and Harmonious Society

Kunshan, a county-level city in east China's Jiangsu province, has become known nationwide for howcasing the target of China's economic and social reforms that aim at building up a "harmonious society under socialism," a "society of relative affluence in all aspects." Speaking on the city's achievements, Li Yuanchao, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, has had the following to say. "Tangible benefits for the people are the point of departure and end result of the reforms." "Old Sixth"     

A Day of Remembrance

正Ritual for ancestors becomes national mourning for lives lost to the novel coronavirus outbreak Zhang Yupeng was standing on his balcony in Nanjing,Jiangsu Province in east China,waiting for the clock to strike 10 on April 4.It was the day of Qingming Festival,the traditional time to remember one's ancestors and other departed souls and pay respects to them.Sharp at10 a.m.,air raid sirens started wailing while the traffic on the road below him came to a standstill,with the drivers sounding their horns.     

The Ongoing Housing Dilemma Relaxation measures put housing control policies to the test

Housing regulators in Yangzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province announced on May 8 the beginning of an incentive policy for new home buyers. Jointly issued by local finance and housing bureaus,the announcement said that financial rewards would be offered to people who buy fully furnished houses smaller than 144 square meters from July 1 this year to June 30,2013.     

From Shanghai to Wuxi

Wuxi provides lots tosee for visitors to the Shanghai Expo Located in the Yangtze River Delta,Wuxi in east China’s Jiangsu     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Independent Survey Needed It was recently revealed that the results of a public opinion survey on local economic and social development in Qidong City,east China's Jiangsu Province,was manipulated.According to a report by national broad-caster China National Radio,local people     

OUTLINING A VISION

正Suzhou New District provides a model for Sino-Japanese cooperationAt the end of the 20th century,when Japan's Fujifilm and the United States'Kodak were competing for China's film market,the head office of Fujifilm forecast the market would slump and began to explore other options.They launched a branch in Suzhou,a vibrant city in east China's Jiangsu Province,and Ji Ruikang,who had been working for Fujifilm in     

A Boost to Renting

<正>China strives to develop its housing rental market with more preferential policiesChina will launch a pilot program in 13major cities,including Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou,to build rental housing on rural land in an attempt to increase rental housing supply,the authorities announced on August 28.Nanjing,the capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province,has become the second city in China after Guangzhou to grant equal rights to home renters and buyers,according to an announcement from the local government on August 18.     

Honoring History for Peace

The newly-renovated Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum was reopened to the public on December 13,2007,just in time for the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. On December 13,1937,the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians in the fol- lowing six weeks. Located in Nanjing,capital of east China's Jiangsu Province,the new museum covers an area of about 6.7 hectares,which is almost four times the size of the old museum.In addition to the Peace Bell and     

New Charm of an Ancient Art

<正>Su Embroidery has prospered for more than 2,000 years Suzhou, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, a city dubbed "Heaven on Earth" and the "Venice of the East," has long been a major producer of silk due to its mild climate and prosperous sericultural industry. Therefore, the embroi- dery industry is quite advanced there.     

NEVER FORGET

正Students sing a song to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing,capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province,on December 13,the 79th anniversary of the atrocity and China’s third National Memorial Day.Japanese invaders captured Nanjing,China’s capital at the time,on December 13,1937 and began a rampage that lasted more than a month.Over 300,000 unarmed Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered.