Clay Figurines in China（Ⅱ）

Huishan Clay Figurine Huishan clay figurines are producedin the western suburb of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and are one of China’s mostfamous folk arts, having a history stretching back over a thousand years.     

A Foreign Education in China

SINCE the first batch of foreign students - 33 eastern Europeans - came to Beijing to study in 1950,their number in China has seen a continuous increase.According to statistics from the Ministry of Education (MOE),China has welcomed a total of 1.69 million students from 190 countries and regions;currently there are nearly 240,000 foreign students in China.In November 2009 U.S.president Barack Obama announced on his visit to China that from 2010 to 2013 the U.S.would send 100,000 Americans to follow suit.     

am Today,Jam Tomorrow？

YOU can buy anything in New York,except for a smooth ride in and out of the city. This common saying could equally apply to Beijing. 2010 seemed to produce one nightmare traffic jam after another:at the beginning of the year,snowfall resulted in gridlock on over 90     

World Cultural Heritage Protection in China

ON June 24,at the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) held in Paris,the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The West Lake is the only lake in China and one of the few lakes in the world that was declared world cultural heritage.     

Struggling for a Better Life

Real Life Stories of Migrant Workers and Urban Transplants Author:An Dun Hardcover:221 pages Publisher:New World Press RMB 48.00 IN recent years it’s been the case that any major event in China makes big international news,whether good-like its heartening growth-or bad, such as food contamination     

Farewell to Home at Danjiangkou Reservoir

NINE years ago Miss Zhao was a freshman in a Bei-jing university. When washing her hands she kept the water running while soaping her hands, just like she always did.     

Land of Moon,Mother and Matriarchy

XICHANG City,also known as Moon City, reflects both the romance and the space-age connotations of the nickname it has earned.This capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province,is situated in southwestern China,and is considered a seat of old culture with more than 2,000 years of history.Xichang City is also renowned in the world for Xichang Satellite Launch Center.     

Tomb Figures Full of Life

IN the early 20th century when a railway was being built in Luoyang, Henan Province, large quantities of pottery shards were excavated from a number of ancient tombs that had been exposed during the construction work. The fragments were glazed in three colors – yellow, green and white. A few years later, utensils glazed in the same three colors and unmistakably identical style were unearthed in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.     

Rebuilding Shattered Families

WHEN we first met in Gangou Village of Gaochuan Township, Lin Xingcong had just returned from his hillside farming plot.     

To Build World-class Universities Calls for Restructuring Higher Education——An Interview with Zhu Yongxin,vice-chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy,and vice-president of The Chinese Society of Education

As of 2010,there are over 2,000 universities in China,and the gross enrollment rate reaches 26.5 percent.China needs to carefully deal with a series of problems existing in higher education before the country reaches targets set more than a dozen years ago to build a