Where Westerners Stray in Their Exploration of China’s Human Rights

Respecting and protecting human rights is an impor-tant fruit of the progress of human society and a significant landmark for a modern civil society. It is a common pursuit for people throughout the world and a long,     

A Review of Literature on Language Anxiety

This paper is a review literature on language anxiety. It begins with a discussion of the concepts of general anxiety and language anxiety,and then continues with an introduction of the techniques for identifying language anxiety. Subsequently,literature on the relationships of language anxiety to learner variables and language learning/using are covered. Finally the dispute and theories concerning language anxiety are presented.     

PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

Beijing Review: Could you explain the domestic backdrop for the 12th Five-Year Plan? Hu Angang: From 2011 to 2015, China will still be in its golden period of development. The fast trend for industrialization, urbanization, knowledge informationization, infrastructure modernization and economic globalization going on now are all interlinked. They support and strengthen each other and are the five major forces driving China's development. The Chinese economy will continue to maintain relatively fast growth with a potential annual growth rate hitting 8-9 percent.     

Making a Difficult Decade Easier

Premier Wen Jiabao has played a major part inkeeping relations steady between China and the EU This year will see two meetings of the China-EU Summit. The first meeting, originally scheduled to be held in Beijing last October     

改革开放以来中国农村社会的结构转型及其意涵

传统社会向现代社会的转型本质上是社会关系的转型。当前,我国农村社会正由传统向现代过渡,反映这种社会关系转型轨迹的中国农村经济、社会及政治结构出现了实质性的分化:乡村利益格局日益趋向多元化,教育及文化的发展使农民的意识从"身份取向"向"权利取向"转变,并自发形成了以自主治理为特征的乡村社会团体。农村经济-社会结构的转型构成了未来我国新型乡村治理关系的基础。     

The Transformation and Prospects of NATO

The end of the Cold War has undermined NATO’s raison d’être.But instead of disintegrating,NATO has survived and,moreover,reformed and expanded.An epitome of the swiftly changing international security landscape,NATO’s development is the product of policy adjustment across the Atlantic and is constrained by conflicting interests both within and outside the organization.In the future,the extent to which NATO can exert its influence depends on its capacity to tackle new threats. Transforming NATO has posed a s...     

北京市监狱系统开展监区文化建设探索与实践

监区文化，对于罪犯的心理、品格和行为举止等，具有重要的教育、矫正、约束和调适作用，特别是渗透着和谐、情感等人文色彩的监区文化，对于罪犯改造质量的提高具有十分积极的作用，是社会主义先进文化在监狱的具体体现。一直以来，北京市监狱管理局十分重视和加强各监狱的监区文化建设，遵照司法部关于“开展监区文化建设要从实际出发，不搞花架子”的要求，围绕市司法局“一二七”基本工作思路（即“一个中心、两大矛盾、七项主要工作措施”），     

Slowed Exports Growth

The first half of 2010 is showing that the impacts of the financial crisis are still lingering.Zhao Jinping,a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council,says that the possible implementation of exit strategies in developed countries may deal a heavy blow to a global rally,and it will certainly result in slowed exports growth for China.Zhao published his opinion in the China Economic Times.The first part was published in issue No.33.Edited excerpts of the second part follow: