The Great and the Small

AALL living things are differ-ent-in species,individualcharacteristics and otherfactors,Stretch out a handbefore you.and you see five fin-gers of different lengths.If youattempt to modify your hand bymaking the long fingers shorter orpulling at the shorter ones tolengthen them,you are bound tosuffer unbearable pain and frustra—tion because this conflicts withnature.     

The Great Wall Past and Present

The Great Wall has been synonymous with China since travelers and adventurers first spoke of the Middle Kingdom to the rest of the world.     

The Making of the“Tibet lssue”

TIBET has been an integral part of China since the 13th century, when the Mongols unified the country and established the Yuan Dynasty （1271- 1368）. The central government placed the Tibetan region under its direct jurisdiction and set up three Offices of the Pacification Commission and the Chief Military Command to exercise control over Tibetan-inhabited regions.     

Ancient and Contemporary Changes to the Great Wall

The total length of the Han Dynasty Great Wall exceeded 10,000 kilometers, and was around 6,000 kilometers in the Ming Dynasty.     

Yabuli：The Making of a“Chinese Davos”

ALBERT Suen,presi-dent of the Associa-tion for the Promotionof Trade and Eco-nomic CooperationbetweenMacaoandHeilongjiang,and     

QQ＇S Founder Pony Ma-Youngest of the 2004 China＇s Top Ten Economic lnfluentials

OICQ, or QQ, is a Chinese instant messenger (IM) service,that has dominated the domestic online chat scene for quite some time. There are several similar Chinese services, but none has yet been able to topple QQ from its number-one slot.     

China and the EU’s Economic Compatibilities

AFTER Chinese New Year’s celebrations died down, the first few weeks of the Year of the Dragon saw a busy schedule of meetings between Chinese and European leaders. On February 2, China welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her fifth visit in six years. A couple of weeks later, on February 14, President of European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for the 14th ChinaEU leaders’ summit in Beijing. The next day they met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, and four days later Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Ireland and met with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.     

Tradition and Modernity——The Life of the Hui People in Ningxia

LOCATED in northwest China, Ningxia is the country’s only Hui autono-mous region. Of its 6 million inhabitants, more than 2 million are Hui. While embracing modern life, the Hui people still keep faith with their own traditions and beliefs.     

The Vigorous Development of China's Township and Village Enterprises——A Miracle in the History of World Economic Development

HAVING made a detailed study of the development of China's township and village enterprises, an official from the World Bank exclaimed: "The development of China's township and village enterprises has created not only a miracle in the history of employment, but also a miracle in the history of world economic development."     

How Can We Save the Great Wall？--Interview with Dong Yaohui, vice president of the China Great Wall Society

Ivisited Dong Yaohui,vice-president of the China Graat.Wall Society,at his home in Songzhuang a new residential extension of urban Beijing＇s Tongzhou District.He was in his studio at work an oil painting of,     

China and the U.S. Should Pull Together, Not Rock the Boat——An Interview with Jia Xiudong, Invited Research Fellow of the China Institute of International Studies

Equal treatment for Chinese enterprises in the U.S. was an agenda item in the second round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED). By the end of 2010, American investment in China exceeded US $60 billion, while China’s investment in the U.S. was only one-f ifteenth of that, around US $4 billion.     

New DreamssBiloom on the Ancient Ik Road——China and Central Asia： Bright Prospects for Economic Cooperation

IN 138 BC, the royal court of the Western Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian on a mission to the Western Regions, thus assigning the ancient Silk Road for trade and business exchanges between China and Central Asia, West Asia, as well as Europe and Africa. Since that time, this route saw China＇s papermaking technology, compass, gunpowder, printing techniques, silk, tea and porcelain spread to the world, while spices and gems came into China.     

The Second China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum: A Fruitful Event——An Exclusive Interview with Wang Zhengwei, Chairman of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

OVER 2,000 years ago, the Old Silk Road linked the Chinese civilization and the Arab civilization. The ancient transcontinental road, once echoing with the clanking of the bells of camels carrying bolts of silk and other goods, began the history of trade and cultural exchange between China and the Arab world. Now, the China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum has established a new platform for exchanges between the two sides and accelerated Ningxia’s opening to the countries west of it.     

The Important Strategic Policy of Promoting Peaceful Development of Cross-Straits Relations： Studying the Speech of General Secretary Hu Jintao

At a forum marking the 30th anniversary of the issu- ance of the Message to Our Compatriots in Taiwan, General Secretary Hu Jintao com- prehensively reviewed and summarized our experience over the past 30 years in developing cross-Straits relations, and set forth six guidelines for promoting the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations, furthering the peaceful reunification of the mothel-land and achieving the great renaissance of the Chinese nation in these new circumstances. These six guidelines point out the direction for further developing cross-Straits relations and an effective way to promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland,     

Traces of the Past and Tomorrow＇s Opportunities

In his book No Future Without Forgiveness Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, wrote: “Forgiving and being reconciled are not about pretending that things are other than they are...True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the pain and degradation, the truth... If the wrongdoer has come to the point of realizing his wrong, then one hopes there will be remorse,     

What Are the Real Problems of China＇s Economic Growth？

正CHINA is the world’s second-largest economy,and how its economic growth progresses will inevitably influence that globally.The outside world has followed closely the sustainability of China’s economic growth.Such interest was the basis for the BBC documentary How China Fooled the World.The documentary is centered around China’s economic growth having been driven by vast amounts of credit from the banking sector over the past few     

The Role of China＇s Imports in the Global Economy

ENTERING the WTO in 2001 has not only brought China a share in trade dividends but also opened up greater opportunities for the world economy.     

Taking a Path of Human Rights Development Suitable to the Economic Basis and Humanistic Environment of China, Realizing“Chinese Dream”

The Sixth Beijing Forum on Human Rights is opened today,which is co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundation for Human Rights Development.First,on behalf of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development,I would like to express warm congratulations to the opening of the Forum,and heartfelt thanks to the friends who have always cared for and supported for the development and progress of human rights cause of China.Since the first session of the Forum in 2008,six years have passed.For past six years,human rights experts,scholars,renowned personages and governmental oicials from countries in the world have gathered in Beijing once a year,discussing the