A Matter of Taste：Cultivating the Vineyards of the Future

The chateaux vineyards of France may have something to worry about; an ambitious and venerable Chinese winery is determined to make its mark on the international wine market A look at China＇s vineyards; a look at the future of wine.     

Love and the City

IN recent years February 14 has become a special occasion for many urban youth, particularly those in college. With the popularity of Valentine’s Day on the rise, courting couples are encountering new problems.     

Custodian of Huizhou’s Lacquer Art Traditions

GAN Erke was born in 1955 in Huangshan, Anhui Province. Today, Gan has considerable expertise in painting, carpentry, carving, and traditional lacquer techniques. Over the last three decades he has been instrumental in revitalizing the Huizhou pineapple lacquer tradition. Gan has also played an important role in bringing a local strand of lacquer inkslab art back from the brink of extinction.     

Grim Challenges Afoot for China’s Photovoltaic Industry

THE European Commission launched on September 6 an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar panels and their key components (solar cells and solar wafers) originating in China involv- ing a total sum of around US $20 billion.     

Capital Changes

THE handover clock in Tian’anmen Square counting down the seconds till Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, smatterings of Cherokee jeeps, yellow miandi mini-buses and red Xiali taxis amid a sea of bicycles, and waistbands sporting bibiji are characteristics of the 1996 Beijing streetscape long since gone.     

Land of Opportunity:Americans Follow Their Dreams to China

TWENTY years ago,Americans were a rare sight in China,especially outside metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai. If somebody happened to meet one,he or she usually proved to be a senior managerial employee,technician or English teacher. They were usually here because they had been dispatched by their home headquarters rather than out of their own wish to discover China,and though they were usually given generous financial compensation,they often lived in the poor conditions of China at that time.     

Empowering China’s Children——An Exclusive Interview with Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to China

MOST of China’s lay population learn about the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) through its projects in the country’s disaster-affected or poor rural areas. People are also acquainted with UNICEF China through its publicity activities, and Goodwill Ambassadors such as popular film stars Maggie Cheung and Chen Kun and celebrated broadcast journalist Yang Lan. The history of UNICEF’s collaboration with China can be traced back to 1947,     

Saving Tomorrow at the Durban Conference

Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, delivered a breakthrough with promises of real action by the international community to reduce the impact of climate change. Delegations recognized the urgent need to raise collective efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent average global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius. The Durban talks ended on a high point with a roadmap toward an international climate accord that included all of the world’s major carbon emitters for the first time. This accord is to be finalized by 2015 and will take effect from 2020.     

Fostering a New Breed of Officials

ALMOST as old as the Communist Party of China (CPC) itself, the Party School of the CPC Central Committee has been the center of learning for China’s top leaders for some eight decades, equipping the country’s highest officials and up-and-coming young leaders with the academic tools and knowledge needed to fulfil their potential. Since the 1930s, the school has served as a venue where the ideals central to the CPC are explored and where solidarity within government is cultivated. All of     

Expanding China-Africa Cooperation

WE reaffirm that China and Africa will continue to deepen the new type of strategic partnership of political equality and mutual trust, economic win-win cooperation and cultural exchanges." The Beijing Declaration, one of the two outcome documents, the other being the Beijing Action Plan, of the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FO- CAC) held from July 19 to 20,