Outside the Box Bringing Originality to Chinese Industry

IN a moment of revealing insight, Henry Ford is said to have remarked, If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse. This quote goes some way in explaining the relationship between originality and industry, and apparently had a big influ- ence on former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. When it comes to China’s originality trailblazers, Bai Minghui and Zhao Yu are two names that definitely spring to mind.     

Reviving Hebei’s Traditional Dramatic Arts

TWO thousand years before the advent of cinematography, Chinese people had already started to use tricks of light to create moving images telling stories. Shadow puppetry first appeared in the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) and has remained an influential part of the Chinese culture ever since. Many believe that shadow puppetry was even the forerunner of Chinese opera, which itself has     

Browse,Click, Buy Domestic Consumers Head Overseas with Online Shopping

Internet shopping,the phenomenon that has revolutionized the way Americans and Europeans purchase,is nally hitting China.     

Enabling China’s Disabled

I love the vocational rehabilitation center. I love the disabled persons’ home. It’s my second home. These were the first words written by Yang Jia, 32, at the vocational rehabilitation center of Heyi Subdistrict Disabled People’s Home in Beijing. Yang suffers from amentia. For her, writing is hard,     

First Single Children Come of Age

China’s first generation of single children have now reached the age where they are expected to have gained a solid footing in their careers and started their own families.For many this has been a painful transition.     

Give and Take:China’s Experience of Agricultural Cooperation

WU Liangyong,a prominent Chinese expert on architecture and urban planning,once said,You can’t imagine industry without the support of agriculture,or urban life without any connection with the countryside.As the global economy becomes more integrated,international communication about agriculture is growing and,with its massive import and export volume,China is no small player. Its international cooperation on agriculture is becoming increasingly influential in its primarysector development,evolving from focusing on trade,attracting foreign investment and importing technologies to establishing farms abroad,exporting domestically-developed facilities and technologies and participating in the formulation of international agricultural rules.     

Capturing Africa

LIANG Zi has lived an eventful life by any standards. Daughter of a military officer, she joined the army at a young age and was trained as a war correspondent. Her coverage of the China-Vietnam war in 1979 won her a place at college, bypassing the cutthroat national entrance exam.     

Early Childhood Education Attracts Greater Interest

AFTER joining early childhood education classes my son has become well mannered and has leant to listen to instructions," says Chai Fei. On the whole, her two-year-old son Borui has benefited immensely from the classes, run by RYB Education Institute, she says. Early childhood education classes have taken off in China in recent years. Parents enroll their toddlers for different reasons: some want their kids to get an early start at school;     

Sci-tech Fuels Nine-year-straight Grain Output Increase

IN 2012, China’s overall grain output topped 589.57 million tons, maintaining an increase for nine consecutive years. "A glance at the history of world grain development shows that, among the current six top grain producing countries, only India achieved a five-year-straight increase between 1966 and 1970 and the U.S. between 1975 and 1979. China’s nine-year-straight grain output increase hence sets a new world record," chief economist of China’s     

Dream Factory–Made in Xi'an

AT the end of 2008, Zhongxian County of Chongqing Mu-nicipality produced China’s first cup of pure, undiluted citrus juice, a natural beverage free of