Witnesses to Reform and Opening-up

Humble Beginnings When Lin Mingyue and Fan Zeng- sheng made the decision to leave the U.S. for China's mainland 26 years ago their friends were at a loss as to why they should choose to exchange their large house and family car for a poky apartment, a push bicycle and a public transportation in as yet underdeveloped Shanghai. Many of these incredulous friends, however, have since followed the couple's example and also settled in Shanghai. Lin made her first visit to the munici- pality in 1…     

Futuristic Farming

Cross-strait agricultural relations look good judging by the founding of a Taiwanese-backed coffee farm in Hainan Lin Wen-ding's story is an ironic one. Once a leader of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, which is often at odds with Chinese mainland policies, Lin Wen-ding now resides in south China's Hainan Province, a success story of better cross-strait relations. Lin Wen-ding, who dropped his politi-     

The World Bank＇s New Chief Economist Takes on Poverty

PROFESSOR Justin Lin Yifu is nothing if not a patriot. ＂The main reason I returned to China was because I wanted to make a contribution to the economic development and economic transition of China,＂ the World Bank＇s new chief economist once famously said while delivering a talk at the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge University in 2007. Lin was trying to explain why he left Yale in the late 1980s after spending time there as a senior research fellow, and the implication was that he could well have chosen to stay on in the West, as so many of his fellow Chinese graduate students were then doing,     

NOT ONE LESS

正A school that hopes to see fewer students With her short hair dyed bright purple,15-year old Du Fangmei is easy to spot in her class.She practiced giving a haircut to a mannequin head as she talked to Beijing Review in her classroom."My hair was dyed by the hairdressing teacher last month," she said in standard Chinese."I like it a lot."     

A PANDA PACT

正Staff members transport Dingding, a female panda born in 2017, at the Bifengxia Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on April 29.Dingding departed for Moscow along with Ruyi, a male panda born in 2016, for a 15-year collaborative research project.     

Xinjiang,I Love You

<正>How a Fujian painter came to call the northwest region his second home Camels in the desert,cows and sheep grazing serenely on grasslands,and beautiful young Uygur and Kazak ladies attired in colorful,traditional clothing.The aforementioned are just some of the typical elements a viewer may encounter in one of Chinese painter Lin Feng’s paintings.From May 20 to June 1,more than 70 of Lin’s works were put on display at an art exhibi-     

Once and Future

Traditional museums in China get innovative to woo the public Cecilia Lin, a college student in Henan, a province rich in cultural relics, recently became one of the first visitors to experience new trial exhibits opened at Henan Museum. In February, the museum introduced new services for visitors to interact with other visitors through their phones.     

Searching for Xiaokang

正Economists predict slower,more sustainable growthJustin Yifu Lin,Honorary Dean at Peking University’s National School of Development,delivers a speech at the annual Forecast of China’s Economy held by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York City on January 7As China’s stock market plunged for a second time in a week,fueled by a weakening yuan,leading economists gathered     

One Classroom,Two Languages

Bilingual education is helping ethnic minority students from Xinjiang to realize their dreams "It’s snowing.It’s snowing.On the snowfield are there little painters painting..."In a classroom at a school in Baishikante Township in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,students     

Movie Journey To the East

正American actor finds success in his 20-year career in China By Yuan Yuan Getting up at noon and going to bed at6 a.m.—this has been American actor Jonathan Kos-Read's schedule for the past month.Currently on location in Guiyang capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province,he is acting in a movie soon to be released on the Internet.The story concerns a group of heroes protecting Earth from invasion by dark wizards,and     

Spreading the Spirit

Schools across China are promoting the Olympics in the hope of leaving a lasting cultural legacy The walls of the classroom were deco- rated with Olympics-themed paper- cuttings and paintings with a sporting theme,while a projector showed photos of sports competitions and students answering questions on Olympic values.This was a class focusing on the Olympic Games at the High School affiliated to the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts and an example of how profound an effect the Olympic Games has had on .China.     

New Bricks in the Wall

Whenever a newcomer enters the classroom, he points at the wall. "Look at that!" says Li Shunye, indicating a picture of something that looks a bit like a pink furry fox, only with an oversized tail. "It's a squirrel," says the 9-year-old. "I made it."     

Credit checks VS.debit balances

Lu Qian, a business manager in a Beijing company, faced legal pro ceedings because he failed to make the mortgage loan payments on his newly-purchased house for several months in succession.Lu stopped paying the amounts due to the Beijing-based Haidian branch of China Construction Bank in September 2002, 21 months after the latter had approved a 10-year mortgage worth 4.55 million yuan (US$ 550,000), to be repaid at the rate of 49,000 yuan (US$ 6,000) per month. Demanding the payment from Lu without success, the bank took him to     

Home Swish Home

LIN Chi-Jung likes to tell a comely story he once got from a veteran devel- oper. “He said that he felt so touched when seeing houses with their light lit up at night, it touched his heart to know that there are so many families living happily in those houses that he built.” Now the chairman of Sunrise Real Estate, Lin says see- ing “laughter and happiness” in family hearth is the reason he’s in business. It helps that Sunrise makes plenty of money doing so. Headquartered at hold- ing…     

MIRACLE RESCUE

Atotal of 115 workers had been miraculously retrieved from the flooded Wangjialing Coal Mine in north China's Shanxi Province by the afternoon of April 5, after being trapped underground for more than a week. "It is a miracle in the history of Chinese mining rescues," said Luo Lin, Director of the State Administration of Work Safety, who stood waiting at the pit entrance. "The trapped miners displayed an unwavering determination to survive for eight days and eight nights."     

Practical Learning

A new vocational school in Beijing offers free education to children from poor rural migrant families Three years ago, Wang Lin was admitted to a key middle school in Sanhe County, Hebei Province. But, like many rural children who struggle with poverty, Wang gave up the opportunity to attend the school because of its cost-3,000 yuan. His mother was seriously ill at the time, making the situation     

LOVING THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

Fans love football despite the absence of China at the World Cup If his boss were not a football fan, Liu Chenguang, 28, might have to quit his job to watch the televised World Cup games. Liu works for a private firm in Beijing. "It is obviously unrealistic to ask my boss for a month's leave just to watch football at home," he said. "Quitting seemed a more practical choice." To Liu's surprise, he didn't have to take this drastic measure as his boss, Lin Yuan, introduced flexible work time during the World Cup. While allowing     

Li Wei and His Fold Carving Art Museum

AS 53-year old Li Wei stands in the golden autumn sunshine, gazing fondly at hisSongtangzhai Folk Carving Art Museum, his glowng pride is reminiscent of a mother's for her infant. Located at the end of Liulichang East Street, a Beijing district famous for its traditional Chinese culture, the museum houses folk carvings Li has collected from diverse places in China over the past 30 years. Among them are stone, wood and brick carvings, and some are genuine curiosities.Li's eyes glint at the sight of a few visitors crossing the threshold. He swiftly steps forward, insisting that they first view the exterior of the museum before entering, so as not to miss one detail of its splendor.This Ming Dynasty (1368-     

Envoy of Friendship Between the Chinese and Israeli Peoples——Mr.Teddy Kaufman,President of Israel-China Friendship Society

It was on the third day after Iarrived in Israel at the recep-tion in celebration of the found-ing of the Chinese People's Lib-eration Army in the Chinese Em-bassy that I first met Mr. TeddyKaufman. Ambassador Lin Zhenintroduced me to him. After ex-     

Shooting Stars

正Despite the convenience of smartphone cameras,innovative photo studios are finding creative ways to make big business Feng Rong’s birthday gift from her 20-year-old son Lin is a photo shoot at Dabei Photo Studio. The family, who regularly had their portraits taken there in the distant past,haven’t been back since2002.