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.     

Seaside Qingdao to Become an Ocean of Flowers

PLANT growing isn’t represented at the Olympics. Perhaps the two-week time span of the modern games is too short to grow a gold medal specimen. But the International Horticultural Expo, often regarded as the Olympics of horticultural science, seems to whip up the kind of excitement among green-thumbed enthusiasts usually reserved for the quadrennial sporting fixture.     

Dreamless Sleep and Bye Bye Beijing Belly——The TCM Route to Senior Health

HAVING entered the penultimate of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man,or in my case,woman,I find that hitting 60 and official old age sparks a general reevaluation of what constitutes enjoyment and a sense of well-being.The saying you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone truly hits home with the realization that life without physical fitness is a weary,worrisome trudge.Consequently good health,along with gray hair in recession,     

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,     

＂Made in China＂as a Good Thing

"MADE in China" is everywhere. In America especially,it is a rarity to enter a store and not see these three short words wherever you look. China is the world’s biggest exporter. It possesses abundant natural resources,relatively cheap labor costs by international standards and an extensive transport and business infrastructure. All this means Chinese products are extremely price competitive.     

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     

A Smart Oilfield City and People-friendly Oasis

IN 1955, 22-year-old Wang Yanming left his hometown in Hebei Province for Karamay in China’s far west. As an oil worker,     

Moving to the Interior:Industries Relocate West

THROUGH all the years he has held his post, Wang Ji has been on a never-ending hunt for potential investors.As chief of the Domestic Investment Promotion Department at the Xi＇an Hi-tech Industrial Park in Shaanxi Province, he has long struggled to attract investors from China＇s developed east. Recently, however, he has sensed a change in the wind as a growing number of corporations have started approaching him. During the 13th China East-West Cooperation and Investment Trade Fair last April, he secured a record RMB 24.1 billion in investment deals.     

Be Your Own Boss

SINCE the emergence of China＇s first private business in 1980, the proportion of private enterprises in the national economy has grown steadily and swiftly. In 2004 the government enacted an amendament for the protection of private property in the Constitution, and in the following years created a series of policies that encouraged individual entrepreneurship.     

Mom’s Verdict

NEARLY every mother nurses a hope-the hope of keeping her child far away from Internet pornography and indecent content. In January 2010, a group of mothers were selected from a shortlist to be deputized for the