Exercising Government Power in the Interest of the People——In celebration of the 55th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China

The story goes back to October 24, 2003 when Xiong Dem-ing, a woman living in a poverty-stricken village in southwest China, was on herway back home with a sack of pig feed on her shoulder. She happened to meet Premier Wen Jiabao, who was visiting her village in Yunyang County, Chongqing     

Hill Dwellers Climb Cultural Mountain——Miao people record their identity and history in eco-museum

Instead of running away, she stood to attention with arms akimbo and gave a serious smile. The giant wooden basket on her back almost made her fall as she tried to straighten her body. When I raised the camera, Yang Jiaxiu was walking along a narrow, muddy mountain path in a virgin fir forest, carrying about 50 kilograms of water. She twisted her body to pour the water into a large tank when she finally arrived at her house. Then the Miao woman put down the     

Meeting Best Friends

It was a tough battle for U.S.playwright Helene Hanff who struggled in the 1940s and 50s to find a producer for her work.But more than two decades after her death, the unfulfilled author has found fulfillment in a country that didn't figure in her life when she was alive China.     

Heritage Boosts Income

When Yang Mei was unable to continue working as a construction worker after her back was severely hurt in an accident 10 years ago,she didn't expect a skill she had learnt as a kid to offer her another chance to earn a living.Yang,now 46,is leading a wax painting collective involving over 300 women in her hometown,Zhongying Village in Bijie,Guizhou Province in south west China.She is also running her own wax painting company.     

Outstanding Woman,Brilliant Success——Lily Lee Chen,the First Chinese-American Woman Mayor in the United States

I first met her at the VIP re-ception room of the CapitalInternational Airport in Beijing.Among many distinguishedguests a lady in a gracefully-cutbright red dress immediatelycaught my eyes. Over 50 yearsold, she was small in stature, slim     

UNITED WE WIN

Wei Shanshan,who lives in Jianghan District in Wuhan,received a call saying there was a package for her from Kyoto,Japan.It was the 26th day of the sealing off of the city in Hubei Province,central China,which is the epicenter of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)outbreak.On her way to fetch the package at the gate of her community,Wei thought to herself,maybe it is from a friend studying in Japan.But she was not sure because her friend studies in Tokyo,not Kyoto.     

A Long Way to Go

正Anti-Domestic Violence Law has seen results but challenges still persist From being a smiling 25-year-old who was expecting to become a mother,Li Hongxia,a resident in Beijing,became part of a grim statistic in February when her husband strangled her while she was hospitalized.It was the culmination of a period of documented battery.     

Flower Affairs

A girl named Keyi who lived in Suzhou lost her mother when she was in her childhood, and since then on she and her father depended on each other to eke out a living. Poverty made her swear to work hard and hunger for success ever from young; she wanted to change the living conditions so as to let her father live a better life. In college, Keyi and her classmates once went to a Christmas party sponsored by a foreign company, in which she met an Englishman with who she had sex that night. Later, she found that she was pregnant and had abortion.     

African Woman Gets No.2 UN Post

With a pledge to work for an inte-grated UN, former Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro was sworn in as UN deputy secretary gen-eral on February 5, making her the first woman from the African conti-nent to hold such a powerful posi-tion in the world body.Migiro’s appointment early last month was widely seen as a signal of new UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s reform initia-     

Mourning Hugh Deane——A Good Old Friend

HUGH Deane, who diedin New York in June thisyear at the age of 84,was a friend of China forover 60 years - also the dura-tion of our personal amity.We first met in 1940, duringChina's war of resistance againstJapanese aggression. I was trav-eling to Chongqing, wartimeprovisional capital of her thencentral government, from HongKong, where I had been workingwith the China Defense Leagueunder Soong Ching Ling (Mme.Sun Yat-sen). During the jour-ney along what was at that timea fatiguing a…     

Willing and Able

正E-commerce unveils business opportunities for people with disabilities There was a time when Gao Mengwen felt her life was a cruel twist of fate.The26-year-old native of Hangzhou,in east China’s Zhejiang Province,has had cerebral palsy since birth and can move around only in a wheelchair.One of her biggest fears for several years was how she could earn a living and not be a financial burden on others.It was technol-     

THE LINGUISTIC LEAP

<正>Maori language and culture help to boost China-New Zealand tiesMatilda Gaby knows she was born near Nanchang,the capital of Jiangxi,a province in central China,but she has no other recollection of her life there or her Chinese biological family.She was adopted by a New Zealand couple when she was9 months old and spent her early years in     

The Chanel of China

正Grace Chen has turned haute couture into design diplomacy By Sudeshna SarkarYuan Yuan If Grace Chen had not watched Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood films of the 1930s and'60s as a schoolgirl,her life could have turned out differently.But it was as if fate took a hand in propelling her to become a fashion designer,with her father,a college teacher who was deeply interested in art,encouraging his two daugh-     

Grape Expectations

<正>South African winemakers pursue multi-barrel strategy to become China’s new toastWhen Nondumiso Pikashe was teaching English and life orientation in a school in Cape Town,she thought there was no place for wine in her life.Her brother was awine abuser and in her community,wine was regarded as something that created drunkards.     

大爱无疆的草原额吉——记“人民楷模”国家荣誉称号获得者都贵玛（英文）

正Duguima, a Party member and a herder from Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was a teenager when she was given the task of raising 28 orphans from Shanghai. Born in a Mongolian family in 1942, she was honored as a People's Role Model for her selfless contributions to ethnic unity and progress. In the 1970 s, Duguima's self-taught medical and obstetric knowledge allowed her to save more than 40 young mothers who lived on the prairie.     

Money in the Cyber Bank

Chinese online payment gateway Alipay gives e-tailors an investment option When Wang Bowen,24,graduated with a master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing in July,she had more on her mind than her fresh diploma. Already having secured a spot as a reporter at the state-run Xinhua News Agency, Wang wasn’t anxious about landing a job. She was,however,anxious about her savings, locked up in deposit accounts capped by a government-mandated return rate of around 3 percent.With the cost of living in Beijing skyrocketing and inflation denting low-yielding accounts,Wang was looking for a financial alternative. Enter Yu’ebao,launched in mid-June.     

TheVoice of China

正Spokespersons discuss their trials and tribulations Jiao Yang remembers having had butterflies in her stomach when she held her first press conference in 2003.Jiao,the first spokesperson of the Shanghai Municipal Government,was a greenhorn at that time.And to make her nervousness worse,there were almost no examples she could follow,as China’s spokesperson system was in its infancy.Finally,Jiao wrote several drafts of her     

The Story of Xuer

Xuer, or "snow," lived in the world for six years. She was daughter of my wife and my best friend. Her father died of lymphoma six monthsbefore she was born, and I became her stepfather a month after her birth. We so named her because she was bom on a day when a sudden heavy snow hit Beijing. I promised my friend before his death to take good care of his wife, whom I loved secretly since I was in high school, and their unborn baby. But the happy days of the three of us lasted less than a yea…     

Farewell to Home at Danjiangkou Reservoir

NINE years ago Miss Zhao was a freshman in a Bei-jing university. When washing her hands she kept the water running while soaping her hands, just like she always did.     

The Truth Must Be Told

IN 1943, Li Shuxian was driven out of her home in Changchun City, Jilin Province in northeast China by Japanese soldiers and as a result had a miscarriage that deprived her of the ability to bear another child. Two years later, she adopted a 3-year-old Japanese orphan, and renamed her Xu Guilan. Says Li Shuxian, "I had mixed feelings at first. What decided me was knowing that Xu Guilan would die if I didn't adopt her, so I overcame my hatred of the Japanese and raised her as my own." Now 81, Li Shuxian