Selected Works by Chinese and Russian Women Painters

Over the past two years,Chinese and Russian women paintershave exchanged visits introducing each other to the typicalcharacteristics of their art.They have exchanged ideas andestablished friendships.     

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     

Western Fast Food Comes to China

IT'S common knowledge that the Chinese have opened many restaurants outside their own country. Now fast food from the West can be had in the big cities of China. Western fast-food restaurants dot the streets of Beijing. And the food is not the only thing that attracts people. "They are clean and well-lighted and decorated in bright colors," said one scholar in Beijing. "They are not like Chinese restaurants that are often decorated in heavy and solemn colors or use old furnishings." The American fast food giant McDonald's is one of the most visible     

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Dear Women of China,1 read on your website that villagers in East China's Jiangxi Province celebrated a harvest festival in September 2019.China has so many interesting festivals,and Chinese celebrate them with various activities.They are really interesting.Hathaway/India Dear Women of China,I think you have done a good job in introducing Chinese culture and women to the world.You have informative and in terest ing con tents in your magazine.I hope the layout design will be more vivid and creative in the future.     

Former State Employee Becomes Entrepreneur

Since China began economic reform in the 1980s, many rapid changes have taken place in society, which have made the Chinese feel excited, restless and at times a little bewildered. However, this market economy has also brought profound changes to people's ideas and concepts. They have begun to look upon themselves and their life with new eyes and have begun to consider their individual values. A rough statistic reveals that there are about 600,000 selfemployed business people in China today. The signs of the times are obviously reflected in the actions and outlook of these individuals. The following is a story about self-employed Chinese.     

"Foreign Mothers" of Chinese Orphans

Since Shanghai opened to the outside, a large number of foreign wives have lived there. They have organized a charitable association which has attracted people's attention. They donate money and material goods to the Shanghai Children's Welfare House, as well as contributing their maternal love to the Chinese orphans. Every week, no matter whether it is raining or windy, they visit, holding the children in their arms and feeding them. Some of them     

榜样的力量——身边的妇女创业故事

Given the vigorous support of the Chinese Government and women＇s federations, at all levels throughout China, there are many outstanding examples of women who have started their own businesses in various regions of the country. They have not only realized, through their painstaking efforts, their dreams of getting rich through hard work, they have also employed many women and helped some women start businesses. As a result, they have created tremendous social and economic benefits.     

Bright and Brave Women in the Chinese Military

CHINA has the largest number of women soldiers, and women with the highest military rank, of all the armies in the world. In 1955, when the Chinese army conferred titles for the first time, Li Zhen was given the rank of Major General. From 1988 to the present, 13 more outstanding women have become major generals and Nie Li was promoted to Lieutenant General. They now hold leading posts in higher     

让世界看到丰富多彩的中国

German vlogger Robert Adolf moved to China in 2017.Four years later,Adolf and three-Liu Ming,Zhu Kewei and Dong Yuze-of his Chinese friends developed a plan to document,in video,China's ethnic groups.They have since been traveling to villages across China to record the customs and cultures of the country's various ethnic groups."I want to let more foreigners see the colorful Chinese culture," Adolf says.     

Photographer Follows Progress of Rural Family

At the 1994 Spring Festival Party held by China Central Television, a press photographer and the four large photos he had on display became one of the highlights of the event. The photos were taken in 1950, 1963, 1979 and 1994, respectively of an ordinary rural family in Zhejiang Province. They were selected from nearly 1,000 photos taken by the photographer on more than 50 visits to this family. They trace the changes of an ordinary Chinese family and vividly illustrate the historical changes that have taken place in New China. The photographer was Xu Yonghui, a senior reporter with Zhejiang Daily. In this issue we feature a few of his photos and a report which testify to those changes.     

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     

Only Children Are No Longer "Little Emperors" ——About Family Education in China

ONLY children have become a common concern of society since China adopted its family planning policy 20 years ago. A report titled "Little Emperors in China," published several years ago, delineated the real living conditions of only children in contemporary Chinese cities. Almost all of these children were found to dominate their families. They were called the "little suns" of the family. There were never parents in Chinese history like oday's parents who shed their hearts' blood for and expected so much from their     

两纲之窗(英文)

Visits Promote Friendship Between Chinese, Russian Families家庭互访增进中俄民间友谊The women's federation in Suifenhe,in China's Heilongjiang Province, and the local government of Partizansk,a city in Primorsky Krai,Russia, organized several visits between Chinese and Russian families to promote     

Improving System to Care for Rural Left-behind Children

The Chinese Government and countless people in society attach importance to the healthy growth of rural left-behind children. In recent years, officials fl＇om the Department for Children, under the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF）, have emphasized the need to enhance existing system for caring for rural left-behind children. They have explored ways of providing services to care for rural left-behind children.     

“女汉子”进行时

The phrase ＂nil hanzi＂ （manly woman） has become popular in recent months; in tact, the features of＂nil hanzi＂ have been listed and discussed extensively on the Internet. Such women, who are independent and who have tough personalities, don＇t act like spoiled children. They don＇t like to wear makeup. They make friends with men easily. They work hard to support their families. They are capable of dealing with problems, both at home and in the workplace.     

Ethnic Women Get Down to Business

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is located in Northwest China, with an area of 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for one-sixth of the total area of China. It has a 5,400-km borderline, with the Commonwealth of Independent States, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as its neighbors.Xinjiang is known for its beautiful grasslands, splendid snow-capped mountains and vast desert. Billions of years of natural evolution has given Xinjiang colorful natural landscapes.Thirteen minority nationalities live in this region—the Uygur, Kirgiz, Kazak, Tajik, Hui, Mongol, Xibe, Russian, Uzbek, Man, Daur, Han and Tatar These nationalities have an ancient history, splendid culture and unique national styles. They have lived in harmony for a long time and contribute to Xinjiang's development and prosperity.In the late 1980s China began to implement a policy of reform and opening up to the outside world, which exposed the Xinjiang minority nationalities to modern civilization. In this issue we introduce to     

Caring for Those In Special Need

"Millions of men and women in the world are living in a miserable abyss. They can hear sounds that others don't, see images that others cannot, and their minds are filled with eccentric ideas. Even as they smile, misery is gnawing at the heart; they may sit quietly, but it feels like hundreds of horses are stampeding inside their brains. They are overwhelmed by worry and fear. In this way, the serious person becomes silly, the energetic goes dull, the cheerful turns gloomy and the honest may cheat you.In other words, they have been plunged into uncontrollable fantasies that take them far away from reality. They are the mentally ill, and they are deeply unfortunate." Professor Xia Zhenyi, a well-known Chinese psychiatrist, offered this sympathetic view of his patients. He reminds us: "Mental patients are human beings too."     

THE MAN NATIONALITY WOMEN

The Man nationality,with a population of 9,821,180,live in northeast China,mainly in Liaoning Province.They have their own language,but now most of the Man nationality people use Mandarin Chinese except for a few elderly people in the remote villages of Heilongjiang Province.     

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Your Chinese Horoscope 2006: What the Year of the Dog Holds in Store for You 《2006狗年运势》 Author. Neil Somerville Publisher: Harper Element The year 2006 is the Year of the Dog on the Chinese zodiac. What does this mean for you? The ancient art of Chinese Astrology, which predates the Western zodiac, is a detailed system of divination that has been used in the Orient for thousands of years. The depths of its wisdom and the accuracy of its character analysis and predictions have caught the imagination of the West in recent years, and have resulted in the rapid rise of its popularity. Your Chinese Horoscope 2006 is a popular and enlightening guide, which contains all the predictions you will need to take you into the year ahead-a year that offers great hope, advancement and opportunity. This complete astrological guide, now in its 19th year, includes an introduction to the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac; an explanation of the Five Elements, including which one governs your sign; and what the Year of the Dog has in store for you, your family, your loved ones and friends.     

Chinese Women Farmers Hew Out A Path in Russia

I was told that many women farmers living on the Chinese border do business in Russia. What's more, the number of successful women in business was increasing year after year. In fact, in the Russian city of Ussuriysk, which is 53 kilometers away from Dongning County, China, the market has even given rise to a Chinese commodity town and two big warehouses devoted especially to wholesale Chinese commodities. An influential Chinese commodity-distribution center facing Russia's far east is forming. These facts pique my