Wenzhou Moves on witha More Diversified Banking Sector

ZHEJIANG is one of the richest and most developed provinceson China’s mainland. It has been leading economic growth since the     

Xinjiang Is a Good Plac

Besides its breathtaking natural scenery and rich cultures,Xinjiang has much more to offer,having grown into a paradise for investors and a new driving force in China's economic growth.     

A Brush with Red History

Jinggangshan in the Luoxiao Mountains on the border between Jiangxi and Hunan provinces was headquarters of the Communist forces from October 1927 to February 1930.In the darkest days of the Chinese revolution the Red Army led by Mao Zedong established the first rural revolutionary base in this geographic fold,putting into practice Mao’s military strategy of "establishing base areas in the countryside and finally seizing the cities." The principle led to the overthrow of the old regime and the founding of the People’s Republic of China.     

Community Care for Seniors

COUNTED as a separate country, China’s 200 million elderly (over 60), at one seventh of its total population, would be the fifth largest in the world. China has seen the world’s fastest growing population of over 60s since 1980, with an annual increase of 3 percent. The number of octogenarians and above has been growing even faster, registering yearly growth of 5.4 percent. But herein lies a problem.     

Riding Out the Freeze

IT was at the lowest level I’ve ever experienced," says Li Zhongjian, describing last year’s business confidence in Zhejiang Province’s economic powerhouse, Wenzhou. Li, who has been doing business for 30-odd years, is president of Wenzhou Orient Light Industry Co., Ltd, one of the city’s most prominent enterprises. Nowadays, however, Li is cautiously hopeful about the future. After the release of the China’s 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015) for the Growth of Small     

The Zigzags of History

MR. Patten＇s mistakes will be written into history and will be condemned for all .time.＂ Lu Ping impressed the world with his unflinching comment on the last British governor of Hong Kong, at a press conference following an unpleasant meeting between the two in Beijing in 1993.     

Zhang Jiao, ArdentAdvocateof A orestation and Green Farming

ERSTWHILE multimillionaire Zhang Jiao, now tens of mil- lion of yuan in debt, considers herself both lucky and wealthy. Her riches consist in a formerly barren 3,000-plus-hectare hill in Yanqing County, Beijing, that, thanks to Zhang’s     

Building a More Prosperous Yamda

CLAD in a white fleece coat and pink woolen hat, Purbu sits on the thick carpet of her new two-storey house and sips from a bottle of juice. The small table beside her is piled up with candies and snacks, glossy Tibetan-style furniture fills the room and the windows, whose thick glass keeps out the harsh winter wind, offer a view of her spacious yard from which a yak peeps curiously into the room. Enjoying an hour of leisure, our hostess confesses that sometimes she is not sure if she is in a dream, and has to pinch her-     

Making Waves The Success Story of Entrepreneur Li Haojie

IN 1992, Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of China’s reform and opening-up drive, gave his famous "Southern Tour" talks while inspecting Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and a number of other cities. Deng enjoined the Chinese people to further the nation’s reform and openingup imperative and approach the changing times with courage and fortitude.