Dave＇s China Adventure

It was a cool foggy morning in Palm Beach, Florida the morning my friend dropped me off at the airport at 6 AM. He said,Are you really leaving today for China ？ You don＇t even speak the languagel You m...     

My Trip of Friendship Award

It was an amazing honor to meet Vice Premier Ma Kai at Zhongnanhai on Sep.29th.We were touched when he gave us our plaques and shook our hands at such a prestigious venue,during perhaps the first time the annual ceremony had been held there. We were moved when he said:"Foreign experts working in China are close friends of the Chinese people",and "We have already taken you as part of the big family of China".We also appreciate his call for us to continue to contribute to China's innovative,coordinated,green,open and shared development.     

＂Inspire Confidence, Stay Relevant＂

(Continued from the last issue)However,I did not feel I had made the right choice and the next time I saw her I apologized.She said to me I had done nothing wrong and said "it’s not your fault teacher,it’s my fault my English is too poor." But I still insisted that I had made a mistake.Yes,I had corrected her,but at what cost? The experience obviously embarrassed her,and her peers by the third time she repeated the word incorrectly had been shaking their heads.She may have left the classroom being able to pronounce the word correctly but what about the damage to her confidence? I thought about it for literally hours.I feared that perhaps next time she might not want to stand up,or shout out the answer in class in case she might be humiliated again.In her mind it was her own incompetence but for me it was my own ignorance.     

I had a dream

I had a dream. Like Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a speech memorized by almost all Chinese students, I had a dream. My dream was that one day I would teach in a foreign country. Little did I know how fascinating and rich teaching in the Law School of Shandong University would be.     

The Global Development Initiative Promotes a Fairer and More Peaceful World

<正>I came to China in 2005 and I have been teach ing in Beijing at Min zu Un iversit y of China for the past sixteen years.While I have taught a number of courses during my years in China, as faras my teaching goes, I am probably best known for teaching Chinese universit y students to do public speaking and to tell the world about China in English. A common lesson I teach my students is that, whenever they can,     

Tobacco Control： China＇s New Challenge in Health

I am Richard Peto from University of Oxford, UK. I am honored to receive the prestigious Chinese Government Friendship Award. Ever since my early visits to China I have had the privilege of working closely with many distinguished medical scientists in China. This has been an exciting chapter in my academic life. My first visit to China was over 30 years ago, as economic reforms and the open door policy were just beginning. Beijing then was very different; streets were full of bicycles rather than cars, there were piles of winter     

Offer a Informative Window into China

I＇m Ravi Shankar from India and I have been with China Daily for more than a decade; l＇m currently executive editor of Overseas Editions. An American professor friend insists that only two things have shaped the world since the 1990s： the Internet; and the amazing growth of China. It is an enriching experience to be here at such a time and enjoy every moment of it. It has been a profound and rewarding journey for me in telling the China story around the world. We write on the real China and the Chinese -- the very people that embody the Chinese Drearn （zhongguo meng）. China Daily is very much a part of communicating that China Dream, not just to those in China, but to people across the globe.     

MY FAVOURITE CITY IN CHINA–QINGDAO

I have lived and worked in China since April 2009. During this time I have enjoyed living and working in three cities, each has its own charm, Wendeng, Weihai and Qingdao. My husband and I have also traveled to many fascinating places; QuFu, Jinan, Weifang, Yantai, Dalian, Shenyang, Chifeng, Keqi in Inner Mongolia, Be? ing, Luoyang, Xi’an, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Shanghai (several times and for EXPO), Tai’an (climbing Mt Tai Shan), Weihai, Shidao, Wendeng and others. We were English teachers at the Weihai Health School, in Wendeng for two years, where students are taught to be nurses.     

国家开放与优秀领导力

When I was growing up in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, the country was full of optimism about the future. We were building a magnificent infrastructure of roads, airports, railroads and seaports that would link each part of the country for commerce and tourism. We all believed in President John F. Kennedy when he challenged the country to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. The first jumbo jet, the Boeing 747, was a product of this belief in the future.     

如何在中国找工作

Job opportunities for foreigners in China
Thanks to the economic growth, the opportunities for foreigners wanting to work in China have increased considerably in the last few years.     

China Through Different Eyes

正On the 22nd of May at a Foreign Experts Symposium in Shanghai,it was a great honour for me as a foreigner,to present to President XI some of my observations on how to attract foreigners to contribute to China’s innovation ambitions.It is also my honour to consider myself as one of the foreign experts,which President called"private ambassadors"and members of the Chinese family.It is my privilege to answer to     

The Big Red Fish

In the last decade, I had the opportunity to come across and hear about incredible stories of brave founders of Chinese families companies. These companies have become more and more important in the national economy and society. Accord-ing to recent statics, they are estimated to be more than 80% of Chinese non-public ownership companies, reaching 90% in Zhejiang province. Most of them can out-perform over the no family firms around the world as they have a longer term strategy and they desire to build business for the next gen-erations.     

Talent policies define future success of Xiaoshan

In order to maintain a competitive edge,local authorities in Xiaoshan have put forward a series of preferential policies in the fields of talent recruitment.Xiaoshan district,southern gateway of Hangzhou,has enjoyed a comprehensive strength that has made it among the top districts and counties in Zhejiang province.The fast pace of economic development has given the district an obvious advantage in maintaining a net inflow of talents.     

Shanghai still the Favorite City for Expats

Shanghai topped the list as foreigners＇ favorite city in the Chinese mainland in 2013, according to a survey released early November. Shanghai excelled over 29 candidate cities with the highest recognition in terms of working and living environment, expat-friendly policy and administrative capacity. The survey was jointly published by the Beijing magazine hternational Talent Monthly and the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel.     

Celebrating Spring Festival with a Chinese Family

Bring gifts The nice thing about visiting Chinese families is that while k is polite to bring gifts, generic gifts are expected and even welcome. You don＇t have to go overboard, nor do you have to spen...     

Deadlines do not Create New Ideas

American and Australian professor Craig Roberts joined the School of Physics at Nanjing University in September 2019.Professor Roberts received a doctorate in theoretical physics from Flinders University of South Australia in 1988.     

Qipao： Traditional Elegance Reinvents Itself In Modern Chinese Fashion

It was with some trepidation that I first went to teach in China, in 2004.All my information about China had come from old newsreel films. Basically,I was expecting a drab, black and white place where people queued to use the local telephone.     

从英国到中国:《见字如面》节目让大众重温写信时光

Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages in China.But a TV show called Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the present.     

双语资讯

Direct Tourism Train on Guangzhou-Beijing High-speed Rail Now Open京广直达旅游专列开通The direct tourism train on the Guangzhou-Be ing high-speed rail officially opened on March 10. The train (G80)departs Guangzhou on even-number days at 10:00 and arrives in Be ing at 17:59. The return train (G81) departs Beijing on odd-number days at 13:05 and arrives in Guangzhou at 22:32.     

Open Basic Science Needed for Significant and Fundamental Discoveries

Basic science is about new things.A fundamental principle for basic science is luck.I have been very,very lucky throughout my life.Early on,I got to work with some of the most outstanding scientists globally,including British scientists in Cambridge,people like Francis Crick,John Kendrew,and Max Perutz.These are the scientists who redefined life as physics and chemistry in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century.