CV–the Vital First Step

正When enjoying the excitement of coming to China to ind a job,does it ever occur to you that 100of the CVs you’ve sent out don’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese HR?! To keen overseas job seekers who want to work in China:While anticipating the excitement of coming to China to find a job,does it ever occur to you that maybe100 of the CVs you’ve sent out won’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese company HR?Does that shock you?If you expect to get a good job because of your years of work experience and career     

A Piece of the Action

The Olympic Games will bring a tourism boom to Beijing,Everyone wants a slice of the cake by any means On a day in March a group of mysterious visitors arrived at a star-level hotel in Beijing. Unlike other guests,their aim wasn't to relax or have fun.They were there to do a job-faultfinding among the capital's myriad hotels. The group was part of a drive to improve the quality of Beijing's hotels in the run-up to the Olympics. "We have invited hundreds of people from different industries,such as journal- ism,to conduct secret inspections on the service quality of hotels," Deputy Director of Beijing Tourism Administration(BTA)     

Delegation of Eritrean Ministers in China

At the invitation of the CPAFFC. a 6-member del-egation of Eritrean ministers ledby Woldai Futur, economic ad-viser to the Office of the Presi-dent of Eritrea, paid a goodwillvisit to Beijing, Tianjin. Sichuanand Shenzhen from April 5 to 14.2002. Members of the delegation     

Google FITTING IN

Search engine giant's path to China is proving to be a bumpy ride You have to hand it to Google; it knows how to make a big splash. When the doyen of search engines came to town to reinvent itself, no expense was spared. Booking the banquet hall of Beijing's most famous five-star hotel, cramming it full of the cream of the IT world and a gaggle of journalists from 170 news agencies,     

Final Divide

Montenegro's independence deals a death blow to the glory of the former Yugoslavia On May 21, Montenegro held a referendum to decide its statehood. According to results announced by the referendum commission, of the 86.5 percent of registered citizens who participated in the voting, a total of 55.5 percent were for independence. With     

A Fruitful Trip

President Xi Jinping's state visit to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21 to 26 started with Italy and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Italian Government on cooperating on the Belt and Road Initiative. It was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Italy in a decade while Italy became the first Group of Seven country to join the initiative, creating new space in the global efforts to advanee the venture.     

Suzhou Heaven on Earth

On the Eve of the New Year, morethan 5,000 local residents and touristsonce again flocked to the Temple of ColdMountain to hear the tolling of the bellby the temple's Buddhist abbot in a yel-low patchwork outer vestment and to par-ticipate in a night of carnival celebrations.Everywhere near the temple that night, ofcourse, there were more people travellingfor pleasure than there were pilgrims, al-though most of them tried to get a bless-ing and fortune for the coming year fromthe tolling of …     

Smarter and Healthier

When Bai Chunxue was first exposed to the concept of the In ter net of Things (loT) nearly a decade ago, as a doctor doctor of respiratory medicine,he was troubled by the unsatisfactory feedback of patients about the experience of seeing a doctor. The complaints included waiting too long to get a diagnosis. To better meet patients' needs, Bai, who works at the Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, began to explore the application of loT in medical treatment.     

LANGUAGE DILEMMA

Linguists and the government hope to preserve the diversity of China's languages When Xu Shixuan, a linguist from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returned to a southwestern county bordering Myanmar in 2002 to study the local language after a nine-year interval, she was struck by the change to Li Xuewen, a master storyteller in the village. Xu could not relate the silent and listless old man with watery, turbid eyes to her vivid memory of Li reciting tales of his ancestors.     

Provide Equal Protection to Property Under All Ownerships

Question: The formulation of Real Rights Law of the People's Republic of China is now a hot topic of debate with- in China's legal community. To the gen- eral public, however, the law is entirely new. Would you tell us the main con- tents of the draft law and what the law means to the Chinese society? Answer: Real right, also known as right of property or property right, refers to the right of a natural person and a corpo- rate entity to the disposition of a certain piece of property. Real…     

No Terror or Tension

One who has not been to Kashi has not been to Xinjiang, as a saying goes. Once a bus-tling trade hub on the Silk Road, today the city is a typical multiethnic community in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.The city is close to China's border with India in the south and central Asia to its west. Marco Polo (1254-1324), one of the first Westerners to travel to China along the Silk Road, once described Kashi as the "Cairo of the East."A terrorist attack erupted on the morning of August 4 this year, when terrorists attacked a group of border policemen jogging in Kashi. Using a dump truck, homemade grenades and knives, they killed 18. Three months have passedsince August when nightmare haunted the city, and life is gradually brought to normal. Cheng Gang, a correspondent with the Beijing-based Global Times made a trip to Kashi in October. Below are excerpts from his account of the journey.     

Farmers' Self-decision Right in New Countryside Construction——An interview with Lu Xueyi,a specialist on rural issues

EDITOR'S NOTE: In October 2005, the central government of China put forward the historical task of constructing a socialist new countryside. Since then, China has adopted many practical and effective measures for the construction of a socialist new countryside. This year farmers had a good harvest of grains, incomes for fanners have continued to increase and execution of social programs in the countryside has accelerated. It can be said that construction of a new socialist countryside has had a good beginning. How to evaluate the current state of affairs relating to the building of a new countryside? How to respect and safeguard farmers' human rights in constructing a new countryside? What issues should be paid attention to in the protection of farmer's rights and interests? Lu Xueyi, a specialist on "san nong"-related issues ("san nong" refers to agriculture, the countryside and peasantry), addresses these questions in a recent interview.     

An Auto Industry Legend

QI Yumin was vice-mayor of Liaoning's Dalian City until about a year and a half ago. Then he took the helm of the Brilliance Auto Company, based in the provincial capital of Shenyang. At the time, the ailing company was "waiting to be wound up." But Qi went on to change its destiny.When he was vice-mayor of Dalian, Brilliance was to Qi just another auto maker with the same old problems. In December 2005, he took a different view. He was appointed president of Brilliance Auto Company, executive president and chairman of the board of China Brilliance Automobile Holding Company, and president of Brilliance Jinbei Automobile Co., Ltd. En route from Dalian to Shenyang, Qi encountered a Christmas snowstorm. It just about reflected his mood. As he wrote in a text message to his sister, "I am going to a strange city to take a strange job in a strange company. I don't know what to feel."     

Olympic Maps Available

Beijing is publishing a set of Olympic maps covering everything from the location of sporting venues to the city's history As soon as Zhou Liyi hopped off the train from Shanghai to Beijing, he hurried to Wangfujing Xinhua Book Store,one of the largest of its kind in Beijing,to buy an Olympic map. Zhou is a Shanghai resident who came to Beijing on business and plans to return as a     

Desert Groove

<正>From the far southern reaches of the Sahara,a musical trio brings Tuareg culture to China Born to a family of blacksmiths in the city of Agadez,on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger,nothing predestined Goumour Omar Adam to become a musician.In fact,his journey into music was     

On Answering the Question Related to the Legal Regulation of Working Hours in the New Era:Western Experience and Chinese Approach

The popularity of flexible working hours around the world has slowed down the historical trend of reducing working hours.It even shows signs of regression. Whether and how to guide the current society with flexible working hours to return to the historical track of reducing working hours, improve the quality of working hours, and promote a smooth transition from the era of traditional standard working hours to the era of flexible working hours has become a question related to the legal regulatio...     

Nuptials That Can Last Three Years

The Qiang are a monogamous people. Before a couple become husband and wife, they go through a good many rites such as engagement and wedding ceremonies. When a young man takes a fancy to a young woman, he sends a matchmaker to sound out her family. After getting approval from the head of the family, the husband-to-be goes to his fiancé＇s home to organize an engagement banquet and consults to fix the date of the wedding. At the appointed time he entertains his fiancé＇s relatives and friends at her home, and prepares the betrothal gifts. During the whole engagement process, the bride-to-be is supposed to keep out of public view, hiding away in her room or at the home of a relative.     

China＇s West： Generating Change

OVER a century after droves of Americans were heading to the western states to seek out new opportunities, the Chinese government launched its own campaign to put Western China onto a fast development track. By 2010, thanks to the Western Development Program, the pace of economic growth there overtook that of the eastern coastal region to become a new economic engine in China.     

SOCIETY

正A Global Mission Touching on a series of topics related to eco-civilization,the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference was held in Guiyang,capital of southwest China’s Guizhou Province,from July 6 to 8.Under the theme of Embracing a New Era of Eco-Civilization:Green Development with High Priority to Ecology,the forum sent a signal to the world that eco-civilization matters to all of humankind and thus international cooperation is     

Transformations of China’s Legal System

FROM"rule of man"to"building a legal system,"to"rule of law"and finally,to the"rule of the Constitution,"the development of China’s legal structure epitomizes its learning curve of state governance.From Rule of Man to Building a Legal System The fi rst building block of the PRC’s legal construction was the establishment of the socialist legal system.In September 1949,the Common Program of the