SOCIETY

Role Model Citizen A citizen donates blood in Taiyuan, capital of north China’s Shanxi Province, on March 5,2013 in an effort to follow the example of renowned altruist and national hero Lei Feng. Lei Feng was a young Chinese soldier known for devoting almost all of his spare time and money to selflessly helping the needy.Lei died after being hit by a falling pole white helping a fellow     

Self-made Billionaire at 32

His bespectacled face and mild expression gives him the look of a young Bill Gates. Ding Lei, 32 year-old founder of Netease, has no known kinship with this dollar billionaire, nor is he on the international Forbes list. But Ding, with his 7.5 billion RMB, is the richest man on the Chinese mainland.How did he make so much so young?     

Tibet Advances Amidst Challenges in 2009

For Tibet, the ＂roof of the world,＂ 2009 was an unusual year. It is the first year following the March 14, 2008 Riots in Lhasa that stunned China and the rest of the world. It is a year when the world financial crisis wrecked havoc and a serious draught hit Tibet following a rare snowstorm that hit southern Tibet and an earthquake measuring 6.6 degrees on the Richter scale that hit the Dangxiong area in the region.     

Liang Yiyong： Beautiful Harmony between Landscape and Peonies

Liang Yiyong＇s landscape paintings touch us with their stunning grace and with a refined beauty conveyed in the village houses, mountains and rivers in the autumn and winter seasons-the type of delicateness often seen in paintings by artists from southern China. As a painter from the north, however, Liang draws on the strengths unique to north China artists, which is translated into vigorous color.     

Closer to Nature

China's first series of nature documentaries has won audience acclamation,although its makers faced a struggle due to lack of funds and knowledge China's first commercial nature documentary series Forest China,which hit TV screens across the nation on December 1,2007,has been met with mixed opinions. Since 2004,the crew for the 11-epi-     

More Earthquake Misery

Less than four months after the devastation of the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, another quake brings further death and destruction to southwest China on August 30, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China, the border of Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. Panzhihua City, Huili County in Sichuan and Yuanmou County and Yongren County in Yunnan were worst hit.     

Back in Time：Visit to a Dong Village

FIOR hundreds of years the Dong ethnic group has nestled on the Hunan-GuizhouGuangxi borders in southern China. With a population of around 2.9 million, it is a relatively largeminority but has shared territory in these mountainous regions withthe Han, Miao, Zhuang, Yao, Shui and Tujia ethnic groups.     

Human Rights Training for Officials

The 9th workshop on human rights held by the State Council information Office(SCiO) opened in nanjing, in east China’s Jiangsu Province, on august 23. More than 60 officials from across the country and central government agencies participated in the training course, which lasted four days. SCiO Vice Minister Dong Yunhu attended the opening ceremony and gave a speech. Dong noted in his speech that respecting and protecting human rights is an important governance principle of     

Songs of Nature in the Mountains： Music of Zhuang in Black

There is an ancient, a mysterious branch of the Zhuang nationality that lives simply and peacefully in a stretch of mountains on China＇s southwestern frontier. The musical debut of this group at the opening ceremony of International Folk Song Festival in Nanning, Guangxi, in November 2011, was a smash hit. The performers＇ jet black clothing, solemn expressions, and heavenly songs unveiled the serenity and holiness unique to the Zhuang in Black.     

Finding ‘Friends’

American television shows find a devoted Internet audience in China "It is the end of an era!" many Chinese netizens exclaimed after the four heroines of the ABC network’s hit TV     

An Ode toYouth

正A TV show sheds light on urban youngsters’diverse lifestyles Ode to Joy, a light comedy depicting modern urban life, has proved to be a hit in China. The 42-episode drama follows fve young women living on the same foor of a high-end residential compound in Shanghai.It was director Kong Sheng’s frst dabbling in the genre, having built his reputation on history and war themes. He won the Magnolia Award for Best Director with his costume drama,     

THIS WEEK

VIRTUAL SUMMIT President Xi Jinping attends the Group of 20 Extraordinary Leaders'Summit on COVID-19 in Beijing on March 26.Guided by the vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity,China will be more than ready to share its good practices and provide assistance in its capacity to countries hit by the growing outbreak,Xi said.This is the first time for the leaders of the world's 20 major economies to hold a summit online.     

THIS WEE

正BRINGING CULTURES TOGETHERA representative of the New World Press,a subsidiary of the China International Publishing Group,signs a copyright export agreement with a Lebanese publisher at the London Book Fair on April 12.The 45-year-old fair is a global marketplace for rights negotiation as well as the sale and distribution of content across print,audio,TV,film and digital channels.     

Ready for Reality

The recent popularity of TV dramas on historical events and national policies shows the change in viewers'aesthetics After watching a recent episode of The Awakening Age,a TV series on the founding of the Communist Party of China(CPC),Yang Meng,a program engineer in Beijing.     

Drum Towers of the Ethnic Dong Gruop

The ethnic population of the Dong people is about 2.5 milion.They live in the border area of Guizhou and Hunan provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwestern China and north Hubei Province in central China.Drum towers are found wherever the Dong live.Indeed,the towers are the most distinguishing symbol of their culture,which is why experts have chosen to call the ethnic Dong cultule the ＂drum tower culture.＂     

Exhibition Highlights Development of Human Rights in China——An interview with Professor Dong Yunhu, vice-president and secretary-general of China Society for Human Rights Studies

An exhibition on human rights in China was held in the Cultural Palace of Ethnic Groups, Beijing, November 17-26,2006, jointly by the Information Office of the State Council, China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and China Human Rights Development Fund. The exhibition attracted more than 10,000 visitors from in and outside the country and aroused much media attention. Following is an interview by our reporter with Prof. Dong Yunhu, vice-president and secretary-general of the CSHRS, on the exhibition.     

Special Stamps： Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

N October 2003, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of five special stamps featuring the Chinese folk legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.Liang and Zhu are the Rorneo and Juliet of the East, whose tragic love story is known in every Chinese household.The legend goes that Zhu disguised herself as a boy in order to be able to study. The first stamp shows her and Liang, her classmate, on Caoqiao Bridge     

Rational Solution To Income Gap

While enjoying an economic boom, China has seen a widening income gap that has appeared like a chasm between its urban and rural citizens. What are the deep roots of this situation and what is the best way to deal with it? Ding Yuanzhu, researcher at the Macro-Economic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, shares his views on this issue in an article published in Wen Hui Bao. Excerpts follow:     

China Prepares for Its WTO Entry

DON'T buy electric appli-ances now. People sayprices are likely to plum-met after China joins theWTO." This is a quote from IdleSister Ma, a Chinese hit TV sit-com. A drop in prices and a leap inliving standards were perhaps allChina's WTO membership signi-fied to the common Chinese peo-ple when negotiations first started.As China's WTO membershipbid enters its final stage after 15years of negotiation, however, theChinese people now have a betterunderstanding of the situation andof C…