Sunnyside Up for Nature and Commerce

A small company taps into the emerging carbon market with solar projects that deliver business value and social benefits.ENVIRONMENTAL projects, such as the promotion of solar cookers, can be implemented successfully through     

An American Historian Renowned for Telling Chinese Stories

JONATHAN Spence, Sterling Professor of history at Yale University, is a controversial figure in academic circles because his history books are so popular with the public they become bestsellers. Spence writes for Englishspeaking readers, but he has a large fan base in China. Chinese translations of his books abound,     

Hi-tech Adds Glamour to World Expo

CEMENT, telephones, camera film, steam engines, and electric motors. A slew of innovative new inventions have been displayed at World Expos since the fair＇s inception in 1851. It has always been a showcase for the envelope-pushers in science and technology. This year＇s Shanghai World Expo, which opens on May 1,2010, will have plenty of the next generation of gadgets to impress and amaze.     

Voices of China：Call for a United World

2009 was a year when the fates were capricious with both China and the world While wrestling with the global financial crisis, we had to juggle the concerns of global warming energy shortages, pirates, and many more competiing problems,     

Same Game, New Rules Define Foreign Business Opportunities

FOREIGN investment has provided much of the fuel for China’s economic rise over the past 30 years, with its infusions of capital, technology and modern management concepts. In China’s manufacturing powerhouses - the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta - a good portion of local factories whose products are made for export are foreign-funded. These foreign businesses, and the legions of their counterparts in the rest of the nation, are the sources of much of China’s international trade surplus, and employ tens of millions of rural workers whose factory jobs bring extra cash to their families.     

努力开创成人高校学报工作的新局面——全国成高学报第三次代表大会暨学术研讨会在贵阳召开

在全国人民热烈响应党中央号召积极支援西部大开发的号角声中 ,全国成人高校学报联络中心第三次会员代表大会在我国西南第二春城贵阳市召开。这次会议是步入 2 1世纪之后我们成人高校学报联络中心召开的第一次会议 ,是一次富有历史纪念意义的盛会。这次会议的任务主要有四项 :一是总结 1 996年第二次会员代表大会以来学报联络中心的工作 ,提出今后工作的设想 ;二是选举产生联络中心新一届工作班子 ;三是开展学术研讨 ;四是表彰 5年来为成高学报事业的发展做出了突出贡献的优秀会务工作单位和优秀会务工作者。一、 5年来的主要工作回顾和总结…     

The Womanly Arts

THINK of a Chinese painter and it is likely you are thinking of a man. The world of Chinese art is generally believed to have been dominated by prolific males. But there are some brilliantly accomplished female painters, past and present, who are well worth a special look back in history, or who are essential to grasping the unique contributions of women to contemporary art.     

A Family Builds an Oasis

FOR generations Wang Wangui＇s family has lived in Yinda Village, Jiuquan City of Gansu Province. The village is an island of growth surrounded by desert, in an area along western China＇s historic Silk Road that once linked ancient China to the West more than 1,000 years ago.     

Beyond Borders

Asian nations seek cooperation in the face of the financial crisis As the global financial crisis continues to spread worldwide, its impact on the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ASEAN Plus Three countries-China, Japan and South Korea-is deepening, according to a semi-annual report recently released by the East Asian Economic News of the World Bank Faced with slumping exports and other challenges, Asian countries have come up with huge bailout packages in an ef...     

Citizens’Political Participation Inspired by the Internet

IN general, I surf the Internet to get to know what issues netizens are concerned about, and their opinions and suggestions on the work of the Party and the government," said Chinese President