An Unusual Judo Team

Unusual Li Lingling The deciding match of judo in the 48-kg category at the Eighth National Games was a showdown between the 27-year-old judo legend Li Aiyue from Zhejiang, the world champion, and a 19-year-old from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region named Li Lingling. The fierce competition between the two best judo athletes in China attracted great attention of judo experts and fans. The result? Li Lingling won the championship. Li Lingling grew up in Guilin, a region famous for its beautiful landscape. Although she only began training in judo     

Li Women Have a New Role to Play

The Li people, with a population of more than 1.11 million, live mainly in the mountainous areas of Hainan, an island province in south China. They speak the Li language, which includes several dialects. The Li people are the original inhabitants of Hainan. As early as 4,000 years ago, when their ancestors began to settle on the island. According to historians, the Li group belongs to one of the ancient "Baiyue' tribe and is closely related to the Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Shui and Dai ethnicities. In the third month of the lunar calendar, when the spring sun shines     

More Than Just A Job

MY husband, Li Li, was among the first group of people to be laid off in China. It happened in 1987. The state-funded orchestra that he was working with had to reduce its size. Except for a few players of electronic instruments, all the members of the troupe were made redundant. Li Li, an oboe player, was one of them. Unemployment was still new to us at that time. Chinese people had     

Chinese Girl Blasts Onto the World Tennis Scene

IN May of 1998, at the Italian Open Tennis Championship, Chinese player Li Fang won in straight sets over Martina Hingis, the top seeded player in the world. With this win, Li re-entered the world top fifty. No Chinese tennis player had ever cracked the world top 100 before. Seventeen years earlier, during the summer of 1981, eight-year-old Li Fang had been admitted by the part-time sports training school of Xiangtan Steelworks of Hunan Province to play tennis. The facilities     

Do Parents Have This Right?

IN April of 1998, Li Cheng was taken to court. The month before, Li had tried to end the life of his own child, who was only three days old. The doctor's attempts to stop him managed to prolong the child's life for only two days. Consequently, Li must be punished by law for killing his own child. However, response to this case has varied. Li Cheng's work unit posted bail for him. "We will respect the opinion of the court, no matter what the verdict," said the representative from his work unit. "However, if our application is refused, we do not intend to cease paying his salary." In the petition for bail, they maintained that Li Cheng was a talented, hard-working staff member. His act must have been commit-     

庆祝西藏妇联成立40周年(英文)

The year 2000 is the 40th anniversary of the Tibet Women's Federation. From June 3 to 10, Li Qiufang, Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, participated in the series of commemorative activities observing the occasion, which was held in Tibet Autonomous Region.     

Xidi Village

One of China's most celebrated poets, Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) once wrote a poem about the beauty of Yixian County, located in southern Anhui Province: Yixian is the Fairy Land of Peach Blossoms. A hundred miles of natural scenery: The land is covered with bewitching flowers and trees. The locals still revere the     

A Visit to the Rehabilitation Center for Drug Addicts

TWENTY-four-year-old Mu Li has come to the rehabilitation center in Tianjin of her own free will. After a year on drugs, she now wants to quit. This is her second time being hospitalized. The first time, she stayed for 20 days in the center. Not long after she was discharged, however, she was on drugs again. So she came back to the center, begging to be hospitalized again. The Tianjin Rehabilitation Center for Drug Addicts (TRCDA) where Mu Li is being treated was established in 1992, although cases of drug abuse were then still rare in the city. However, with the increasing rate of drug abuse in coastal     

《归来》

The movie, a period drama adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi, by Yan Geling, tells the story of a man＇s reunion with his wife and daughter after years of separation due to the Cultural Revolution （1966-1976）. The film, directed by Zhang Yimou, features powerful performances by veteran actors Gong Li and Chen Daoming.     

National Program of Action for Child Development in China in the 1990s(Abstract)

I. Introduction 1. The children of today will run the families of the 21st century. Their survival, protection and development decide, for the most part, the quality of a people and lay the foundation of human progress as a whole. The 1990 World Summit for Children endorsed the "World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children" and the "Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s," (hereinafter referred to as "Declaration" and "Plan of Action" for short), In March 1991, Premier Li Peng signed the two documents on behalf of the Chinese Government, making a solemn commitment to this major undertaking. 2. The wholesome development of children has a bearing upon the future of China. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese Government have always paid close attention to the survival, protection     

Traffic Police in Ji'nan

The 13 traffic policewomen of No. 7 Ergang Road in the city of Ji'nan. Shandong Province, hold a special feminine spiritual outlook. Wearing their olive green berets, under the guidance of Captain Shi Li, they began to take point duty at the traffic stand on October 1, 1996. Graduates of the Shandong Public Security Professional College at the average age of 22, these women began formal group training in Sep     

Picture of Beautiful Women with Flowers in Their Hair

The painting Picture of Beautiful Women with Flowers in Their Hair is attributed by some to Zhou Fang—a well-known painter of figures in the Tang Dynasty. Painted on silk, this 46×180 cm work depicts some of the aspects of the luxurious lives of noble women during the reign of Li Kuo, an emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The painter, by employing fine lines and deep colors, creates a leisurely and carefree mood. In this scene, a group of beautiful women, five mistresses and one servant girl, are playing with dogs, catching butterflies, and enjoying the flowers on a walk in rate spring. The noble women are dressed in gorgeous silk     

我们家的“特别收藏”

The Lis'Exhibition Hall In the community of Douyaxiang,located in Donghu District of Nanchang,capital of East China's Jiangxi Province,there is a special exhibition hall that promotes the spirit of Lei Feng(1940-1962).Lei,a deceased Chinese soldier,is a role model appreciated by people,from generation to generation,for his honesty and warm-heartedness.The family of Li Wenwen established that hall.     

读书(英文)

China's Museums《中国博物馆》Authors: Li Xianyao and Luo Zhewen Publisher: China Intercontinental Press This book provides a cultural matrix of China's vast wealth of history, as displayed in the country's many museums. The vivid photos and excellent text contribute to a greater understanding of Chinese history. The book is divided into 10 chapters, and     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Support Sends Girls Back to School The International Symposium on Girls' Education—Walking Toward the Fourth World Conference on Women, was convened on August 24 in Xining City, Qinghai Province. The meeting announced the recent words of encouragement by State leaders Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and others to the All China Women's Federation and the China Children's Fund who organized the "Chunlei Plan" which aims to support girls entering school. Jiang Zemin, Party Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President     

Families Should Cultivate Children's Good Habits

"HABITS—character—fate," this is the summary of Mr. Li, head of the senior high group of the No. 35 High School in Beijing, who has been teaching for dozens of years. He believes the habits that a person cultivates will finally decide his fate. In other words, the most important factor in determining a person's fate is not his disposition, but his habits. Habits can help change one's disposition. An ancient admonition says, "The habits     

Li Xiuying's Family Planning Center

PEOPLE in Yinan County refer to Li Xiuying, a doctor highly respected for her gynecological and obstetrics surgical skills, as "Magic Scalpel Li." Li Xiuying assumed the post as vice director of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the People's Hospital in Yinan County at the young age of 27. She held the post for 12 years until 1988 when she was became director of the county's Family Planning Service Center. Li had never pursued the new position, and was unable to accept the unexpected transfer, preferring instead to continue working in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics throughout her career.     

绘彩骑马女俑(唐)(英文)

This colored burial figu rine was unearthed from a tomb in Yanshi City, Henan Province and dates back to Tang Dynasty (618—907). The tomb belongs to the wife of Li Hong, the fifth son of the em-     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Nie Li Admitted to the Standing Committee of NPC Nie Li, the first woman lieutenant general of China, was voted in by election as a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee in March at the Second Session of the Eighth NPC. Nie Li was born in September, 1930, a native of Jiangjin in Sichuan Province. From 1955 to 1960 she specialized in the automatic control at Leningrad Precision Machinery and Optical Instrument College in the former Soviet Union. When she returned to China, she     

Thirty Days in America

At the invitation of the Center for Foreign Journalists (CFJ) in America, seven other Chinese women journalists and I attended a monthlong work/study program in the United States that focused on women and development. The program was organized and administered by CFJ and was carried out in Washington D.C., New York and San Francisco. The head of our delegation was Chen Xiuxia, the vice-chairwoman of the All-China Journalist's Association Subcommission for Communication. The six other members were representatives of major national newspapers based in Beijing. They were: Chen Yi from Economics Daily, Hu Shuli from China Business Times, Li Xing from China Daily, Mu Ya from People's Daily, Wang Weiqun from China Youth Daily and Xiong Lei from Xinhua News Agency.