Chinese Education＇s＂No Child Left Behind＂

STARTING this fall semester, primary and middle school students in Beijing can take classes given by the city’s best teachers, all without having to leave their homes. By registering their student ID numbers on the website www.bdschool.cn or on the BGCTV digital cable TV network,     

Investment:The Most Sustainable Model for China-Africa Cooperation——An Interview with Chi Jianxin,President of the China-Africa Development Fund

Setting up the China-Africa Development Fund (CAD Fund), the aim of which is to support Chinese enterprises’ investment in Africa and exploration of the African market, was among the eight measures to advance practical China-Africa cooperation that President Hu Jintao raised in November 2006 at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).     

Culture-Powered Economy

CULTURAL industry is currently one of the most vigorous sectors of China’s economy. In 2011, its output value was more than RMB 3.9 trillion, and its share of GDP exceeded three percent for the first time.     

Raw Deal for Rural Left-behind Women

RAPID social development and the need for man power in urban areas have prevailed upon manymen to leave their rural home-towns and hence     

Colorful Xiniiang in Diversified Progress

XINJIANG generally brings to mind magnificent natural scenery, abundant fruit harvests and graceful Uygur women. It is indeed     

An Imperial Enclave

THE ancient city of Kaifeng sits at the center of the Central Plains, by the Yellow River in Henan Province, where the first light of Chinese civilization shone. Due to its central location, Kaifeng took several turns as national capital and home to seven royal families that ruled either a united or broken Middle Kingdom. Today the deep tincture of its antiquity can still be seen or sensed on a trip to this 2,700-year-old city,     

Zhuang Brocade： State of the Weaving Art

WITH a population of over 16 million, Zhuang is the largest ethnic minority group in China. Over 90 percent of Zhuang people live in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, and the rest reside in neighboring Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. Throughout the centuries, the Zhuang people have been admired for their outstanding brocade weaving skills.     

A Young Skater’s Road to Olympic Champion

THE medal will bring about many changes for me. It will give me an opportunity to provide my parents a better life, especially my mother who worked so hard to support the family by knitting sweaters for others,” Zhou Yang said candidly in front of a pack of cameras after winning the women＇s short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The moment was echoed repeatedly on TV screens across China, plucking the heartstrings of tens of millions of Chinese people.     

Macao a Decade on

WE have higher incomes, better public security and more job opportunities; our government is also more attentive to public opinion and has increased subsidies for public undertakings. But there are too many casinos around, and housing prices are too high. This is how Zheng Bingkun, a 59-yearold bus driver, sums up life in Macao since it returned to the PRC.