The Chinese Puzzle of Low Profit Tea

There are too many tea varieties, factories, and styles of packaging and too few registered trademarks and known domestic and international brands. No brand name means no market, let alone reputation or consumer loyalty. Beneath the superficially prosperous Chinese tea industry there lurks a nagging insecurity over its dearth of brand names.     

A Change in Rural Economy

AGRICULTURE in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has become a profitable industry. Sun Shiming, 47. lives in Shika, Guigang City. He owns 6 mu (1 mu=1/15 hectare) of farmland and until recently made a living off it by planting rice. When he discovered he I could earn several hundred yuan more per mu from planting sugarcane, he immediately switched. Sun Shiming's     

One Country,Two Doors From Hong Kong to Shenzhen

PRIOR to Hong Kong's return to China on July 1, 1997 manned sentry boxes lined the Shenzhen/Hong Kong border. Since 1997,border security has been less stringent. Illegal border crossings are negligible and travel between Hong Kong and the interior areas is more flexible.The boxes are still there,but closed-circuit television is sufficient for monitoring purposes,so few are guarded.     

Chinese Economy Aims for Stable Development

At the 12th APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) informal leadership meeting held in late 2004, Chinese President Hu Jintao stated that a comprehensive analysis of various factors showed that in 2005, the Chinese economy would maintain stable and relatively rapid development, and that neither the overheated economic growth, nor "hard landing" predicted in some economic circles would occur.     

An orange Farmer＇s Happy Life

ONE day in September,Liu Fugui got up eady to witness the early tangerine harvest in Shimen,Hunan Province. He stood on the balcony brushing his     

Dot Coms Resurrected and Running

THE summer of 2004 saw the highest level of overseas investment in China‘s Internet business ever. On June 15, household name search engine Google sank US $10 million into its Chinese counterpart Baidu. Shortly after Japanese Internet retailer Rakuten laid out US $110 million on a 20.4 percent share in Shenzhen-based Tencent. com, becoming its second largest stockholder.     

Shanghai Minhang Economic＆ Technological Developemnt Zone：An Exotic Flower Thriving in Puxi

LOCATED in southwestern Shanghai, the Shanghai Minhang Economic & Technological Development Zone has emerged as a superior development zone with a favorable environment for foreign investors to work and establish businesses.     

A Small But Magnetic Emeriging City

SITUATED in western Jiangxi Province, Xinyu City covers an area of 3,178 square kilometers and has a population ot 1.09 million. Its green environment is widely admired. Xinyu is also a national ferromanganese produc-tion base.     

Cyber Springclean Overdue

Virus attacks are 7ustone of the many dubiousaspects of the net suchas fraud,corruption,embezzlement,andpolitica,and commercialespionage that requireattention and control.     

十月革命与巴黎公社

俄国十月革命没有可以直接效法的样板,可以借鉴的只有几个先例。其中,布尔什维克掌权后准备实施的措施大部分来自巴黎公社的经验。十月革命后,这些措施有的付诸实施,有的却并未落实,其中缘由值得研究。