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Improve System to Care for Floating, Rural Stay-at-home Children
More than 61 million stay-at-home children and more than 28 million floating children live in rural China. The Chinese Government and countless people in society attach importance to the children＇s healthy growth. In recent years, officials from the Department for Children, under the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF）, have emphasized the need for the caring-service system for floating and rural stay-at-home children, and they have explored new methods for providing related services to the children.     

数字解读(英文)

1.3 Million Chinese Xinhua News Agency,China's national news-wire organization,has reported that nearly 1.3 million Chinese have benefited from the Project of Water Cellar for Mothers during the past seven years.The project,which launched by the All-China Women's Federation and the China Women Development Fund in 2000,is aimed at providing safe water to 300 million people in drought- stricken rural areas of the country.The Chinese Government is committed to achieving the goal by 2020. More than 100,000 water cellars and 1,200 water supply facilities have been built in 23 provinces,municipalities and regions-including West China's Shaanxi and Gansu provinces,the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region,and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.     

Rural Wives

ACCORDING to recent statistics. 66.1 percent of the 72.22 million rural and township population who have "floated" to urban areas are male. That is to say, about 47.74 million rural male laborers have left their homes and fields to work in cities. Consequently, about 40 million married women have been left behind in the countryside to manage everything from household chores to agricultural production, This is a new phenomenon in the countryside that has resulted from China's reform and opening up to the outside world.     

Hani Women Gear Up for Opening

Most of the 1.253 million Hani people live in mountainous areas between the Honghe and Lancang rivers in the south of Yunnan Province. The Hani language, with a Latin alphabet similar to the Yi language, was formulated in 1957. Both the Hani and Yi nationalities evolved from the ancient Qiang people. The tribe, called Heyi 300 B.C., is said to be the ancestors of the Hani. The tribe moved south to Mount Ailao and Mount Wuliang, the present home of the Hani. The social development of the Hani was unbalanced at the founding of New China in 1949. The area inhabited by the Hani nationality belonged to the feudal society, with some areas still at the end of the primitive society. The Hani people tend to live in the mountainous areas at between 1000- 2500 meters above sea level. The Hani, who have engaged in agriculture for generations, have mastered method for reclaiming the terraced fields, which was included in the "Agriculture Encyclopedia" by Xu Guangqi, a scientist in the Ming Dynasty. The Hani have a long h     

Traditional Chinese Medicine Takes Effect in Treating AIDS

SINCE the first case of AIDS was found in the United States in June 1981, AIDS patients and persons infected with HIV have reached 17.41 million in the world. Among the more than four million AIDS patients, over two million have died. Currently, China has 1,435 patients infected with HIV. AIDS is a serious threat to health and the development of social economy, especially to women and children. Since there is still no effective cure for AIDS the death rate of AIDS patients is nearly 100 percent, many countries are trying to find medicines to combat this disease. Chinese doctors and researchers have made some progress in treating AIDS with traditional Chinese medicine. After numerous selections and     

Combating Floods

In summer and autumn of 1998, the river vatleys of the Changjiang, Songhua and Nenjiang rivers were stricken by exceptionally serious floods, As of the, 22nd of August, the flooded areas stretched over 52.4 million acres. More than 223 million people were affected by the flood. 4.97 million houses were ruined, economic losses totaled RMB 166 billion, and most tragically, 3,004 people lost their byes. It was one of the costliest disasters in Chinese history. Millions of People's Liberation Army soldiers and local people joined hands to battle the floodwaters. Thanks to their unified efforts and tenacious struggle, they successfully withstood the rising, water, resumed production and began to rebuild their homes.     

Twenty-Year Reunion

A massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale struck the city of Tangshan at 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976. The city, which had history of well over 100 years and a population of over one million people, was left in ruins. The violent earthquake killed 242,469 people, with 164,851 people sustaining injuries, 2,652 children under 16 years of age left as orphans and 885 elderly people as widowers. Some 96 percent of the city's buildings and houses collapsed, with a direct economic loss of 10 billion yuan. Earthquake tremors spread over a two million square kilometer area, with hundreds of millions people placed in peril by the natural disaster.The Tangshan earthquake set a record as the world's strongest earthquake of the century. The people of Tangshan have set a new record for the rate of reconstruction accomplished over the past 20 years. The support of the People's Liberation Army and people across the nation combined with the unyielding efforts of survivors led to the establishment of a new Ta     

Grandmother, Mother and Me

MY nationality, the Zhuang nationality, has the largest population among the minority nationalities in China, the population being 15.49 million. In my hometown the Zhuang people still keep their own culture and a strong sense of the nationality. Since 1949, great changes have taken place in the families of the Zhuang people, including the life of women. The different experiences of my grandmother, my mother and myself reveal the changes of this ethnic group. My grandmother was born at the beginning of the century, when the bourgeois democratic revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Revolution of 1911, was undertaken in China to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. This revolution didn't influence my grandmother's life much, for during her time the Zhuang people didn't have much contact with the Han     

编者寄语(英文)

China has more than 60 million disabled people-nearly five percent of the country's total population. That means that in every six families, there is a family with a disabled member. The Chinese Government is devoting great effort to improving the lives of disabled people and is taking various measures to solve the difficulties faced by them, in education and employment for example. However, protecting disabled people from poverty and discrimination still calls for long-term mechanisms to be in place, a sound social welfare system and awareness of the general public to disability issues. On May 15, 1991, China's Law on the Protection of the Disabled Person came into effect, stipulating the third Sunday of May every year as the National Day for Helping the Disabled, which calls on the public to show their concern. Many kind-hearted people have reached out to help the disabled. Yang Jinhua, Director of Huanggang Social Welfare House in Hubei Province is one such person. She has been honored this year as on     

Is It Better for Older People to Live With Their Children?

EVER since there have been families in China, it has been traditional for the elderly to spend their later years living at home with their children; if the children have married and presented their parents with grandchildren, the household may consist of a large extended family in which three to four generations live under one roof. Nowadays, many elderly Chinese still fit into this mold. According to a sampling survey taken in 1995, among households with older members, 67.64 million seniors—or 74.73 percent of the total—lived with their adult children. Though some older people live apart     

Woman Sends Regards to Family and the Loess Plateau

WITH a population of ouer 8 million, the Hui nationality liue ouer the largest area of any other minority nationality in China. The Hui reside in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Henan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the Beijing and Tianjin municipalities.The origin of the Hui people can be traced back to the end of the seventh century, when Arabs and Persians often came to do trade in China along the ancient Silk Road. Some stayed on and started families. Their children have been traced to Guangzhou and Quanzhou. At the beginning of the 13th century, more Arabs, Persian and people from Central Asia came to China, where they married into the Han, the Uygur and the Mongolian nationalities. Gradually a new nationality—the Hui—was formed.With the founding of New China in 1949, the NingxJa Hui Autonomous Region was established. The industrial and agricultural output in the region in 1990 was 12 times that in 1957, when t     

Confidence Could Boost Women's Career Opportunities

THE profits seen in market competition have made many people dissatisfied with the idea of keeping the same job all their lives. Many people are finding better opportunities in enterprises large and small, new and old, run by the Party and the government. Nowadays, the want ads have become an importment part of the newspaper for many people looking for a better life. In contrast to the phenomenon that women     

Once Ordinary Women

ON each of their name cards, Yuan Jinxiang, Shi Yun and Ruan Youlan have distinguished titles: general manager of the Jinxiang Industrial and Commercial Company; general manager of the Dapeng Group Co. Ltd.; and chairman of the board of the Malan Direct Trading Co. Ltd., and general manager of Zhengfu Real Estate Co. Ltd. Their total capital comes to over 100 million. But when you know their history, you'll discover a decade ago they were only a farmer, an educated youth who went to the countryside and later returned to the city, and an housewife from Hong Kong.China's reform and opening have brought many marvels in the country's history, but the marvels about people, especially women, are most impressive.     

爱，不可以无所顾忌

The generation gap that exists between people who were born in the 1950s and those who were born in the 1980s has been a cause for concern since the Parents Are Scourges appeared on the Internet. Generation gaps are normal, as older people tend to recall days that have passed and make judgments based on their experiences while younger people, who are full of hope and who tend to look to the future. They love to put their judgments to the test.     

Rural Girls Seek Education in Beijing

SINCE the policy of reform and opening was implemented in China, the Chinese farmers who toiled in the fields for thousands of years have been awakened. They have surged into large and medium-sized towns and developed areas. Now they earn more money than ever and have a chance to see the world. Many of these people are women. A new trend is quietly emerging among young women from farming communities who have traveled to the     

Zhao Zhibing, Engineer to Vice Mayor

HELPING to build cleaner and more livable cities, Jinan City Vice Mayor Zhao Zhibing is universally acclaimed by her people. As leader of 5.4 million people in Jinan, Shandong Province, she has a cultivated, outwardly soft and inwardly tough character. Her modest, down-to-the-earth statements and actions leave deep impressions with the people of Jinan.     

Women Farmers Live in New Houses

MOVING into the tidy, cozy and newly designed homes, women farmers in Hancunhe Village in the southwest suburb of Beijing feel their lives have really changed. They know the majority of people living in cities do not have such houses. The villa-style houses with large courtyards have water, gas and telephones. They go to work at regular hours instead of getting up to     

I Want to Look at the World

MORE than a decade ago, for a peasant to get the chance to visit, work or even live in Beijing was almost equal to a dream for most rural people. However, with reforms and the policies of increasing openness, dreams that seemed impossible in the past are now realities for many people. According to statistics, the daily floating population of Beijing is about one million. People from all parts of China are pouring into this metropolitan     

"Bainiaoyi, " Bamboo-Pipe Wind Instrument Troupe

The "Bainiaoyi," or Bamboo-Pipe Wind Instrument Troupe, consists of young men and women of Miao nationality of the mountain villages in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Each of them can dance and sing well, and are often invited to perform in provinces and cities across China. Because of this, these young peasants who live deep in the mountain villages get a chance to leave their isolated homelands to visit other parts of the world and broaden their scope. The Miao people aren't the only ones to benefit from these travels. More and more people now have the opportunity to