Golden Anniversaries

Senior engineer Xiong Bailing enjoys the party with his wife Xu Lan, a retired editor of the Metallurgy Newspaper. Together, their average age is 73. Their son returned from the United States to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.     

No.2 Vault of Qin Terra-Cotta Figures Open to the Public

In October 1994, another excavation site of the Qin terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses near Qin Shi Huang's Tomb at the foot of Lishan, Lintong, Shaanxi Province was formally open to the public. This is the third vault that was excavated from March 1994 after the excavation of the No.1 and No.2 vaults 20 years ago.     

Quest for BeautyTimes and Methods ChangBut the Goal is the Same

THE Chinese traditionally have held a contradictory attitude about female beauty. In the Book of Songs women's good looks are praised: "How pretty she looks when she smiles at the right moment, how inviting her beautiful eyes are." These are lines which remain famous because the ideal they convey is still popular in modern China. Even the Ballad of Mu Lan, written during the Northern Dynasty, describes how Mu Lan made up in front of the mirror after she returned from active service for her father. Female beauty and women's jewelry was so appreciated in the past that fendai (fen is cosmetic powder and dai is a black pigment used by women in ancient times to darken their eyebrows) and qunchai (qun is a skirt and chai a hairpin) became synonymous with women. Yet at the same time, female beauty was considered mysterious, a taboo whose temptation was very much feared by men. Historically, great beauties were placed in two     

Auntie Lan

TIANLIN 13 Village, where I live, sits in the southwest corner of Shanghai. It was built in the early 1980s. Whenever the people of the community have problems, they always turn to the woman in charge of the neighborhood committee for help. Most of the residents do not know her real name. They simply refer to her affectionately as their "Auntie Lan." I met Auntie Lan for the first time when I came to the neighborhood committee office to donate some clothes for the people of an area hit by an earthquake. The bright and tidy office, with its wall covered by all kinds of certificates of merit, impressed me deeply. Auntie Lan took the trouble to carefully count and record the donated money and clothes. Her neat penmanship on the notebooks was in harmony with the orderly office.     

Stepping Back in Time in Xi'an

AS a metropolitan resident who is used to seeing towering buildings, an incessant stream of vehicles and people, I've always longed to have a taste of an ancient civilization, which is vigorous but exquisite, bold but elegant, natural but mysterious. I realized my dream when I went to Xi'an, a capital with a history of over 1,000 years. Xi'an was once the capital for eleven dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang. This is the place where China's ancient civilization developed. Ancestors at Banpo created exquisite painted pottery; the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1,066-771 B.C.) saw the height of the splendors of the bronze culture; the Qin Emperor Shi Huang (Qin Dynasty, from about 221-206 B.C.)     

一百三十针(英文)

Imet my first girlfriend when I was in my third year at college. Her name was Lan and she studied in the Foreign Language Department. We met through Old Sui, one of my roommates, who came from the same town as Lan. Blood brothers, Sui and I often drank wine together, had heart to hearts and slept together. After I met Lan, Our twosome became a threesome.     

Three Generations, One Oilfield

HUABEI Oilfield in the North China Plain beganto be explored in 1976. Its annual oil output hasbeen over 10 million tons for the past ten succes-sive years and it is ranked ninth amongst thenational enterprises handling oil and natural gas.During its 20-year construction, it was built to bea grand oil city. There are 110,000 emptoyeesincluding almost 40,000 women. It displaysfeatures of a modernized city when you walkthrough it-wide streets, office buildings, grass-land in inhabited areas, hospitals, schools, shopsand various recreation facilities. It takes on thehappy and auspicious atmosphere more than theimpetuousness of a big city On a mission to learnmore about the women working there, talked toHuang Lan, the committeewoman of the LaborUnion of Huabei Oil Administrative Bureau. Thefollowing are the women she sent me to meet:     

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     

甘肃省开展《甘肃省性别平等促进条例》立法调研

A team from the Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs （CIJA）, under the Gansu Provincial People＇s Congress, visited Dingxi and Baiyin （cities in Gansu Province） on September 16, to monitor the cities＇ implementation of the Law of the People＇s Republic of China on the Protection of Women＇s Rights and Interests. The team was headed by Wang Lan, Deputy Director of the Office of C1JA. Officials fiom Gansu Women＇s Federation accompanied the team.     

BESTSELLERS

Xin Yiwu is one of China＇s most popular young writers. Last year, her youth novel, So Young, was adapted to a film by Chinese actress and director Zhao Wei, and that film was hugely popular with Chinese moviegoers. The Promised Day, Xin＇s latest work, is a touching love story. For Feng Lan, a restaurant owner, marriage is like a door that she wants to open. But she doesn＇t find the key until she falls in love with Ding Xiaoye, a waiter in her restaurant.     

Ancient Handicrafts of Shaanxi Province Popular at Home and Abroad

VISITORS to the Qin Terracotta Army Museum in Xi'an may remember the many women souvenir vendors outside the building. Holding aloft handmade bags, wall hangings, vests and caps decorated with the pattern of five poisonous insects, they continuously shout "Hello! Hello!" and are hard to miss. They come from nearby rural areas to sell their wares. Since the terracotta army of Emperor Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty was excavated in     

After Sang Lan Fell

SANG Lan lies quietly in her bed, her pretty face composed and sweet. The 17-year-old Chinese gymnast looks more like a little girl than an experienced athlete, and yet she has displayed tremendous strength after a terrible accident on the vault on July 21st that left her paralyzed. Sang was sleeping when Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen arrived at her Nassau County Medical Center room for a visit. Since the most frightful tragedy of the Goodwill Games happened right before the eyes of thousands of audience members, the Chinese national vaulting champion has become the focus of people all over the     

Sanmenxia:A Pearl by the Yellow River

LOCATED by the Yellow River in the west of Henan Province. the city of Sanmenxia sits at the juncture of Henan. Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. The name of Sanmenxia (Three-Gate Gorge, in Chinese) derives from a beautiful ancient story about a magic axe that could carve out rivers and watercourses. In remote antiquity, a legendary hero named Da Yu was supposed to have tunneled the Dragon Gate, set up a whetstone and cut across     

More Publlc Exerclse Facllities

BEIJING is both an ancient and young city. It is ancient for its history of thousands of years, its splendid culture, the golden roofed imperial palace and the elegant imperial gardens. But everything is quite different from history now. It is the masses of Beijing who are strolling inside the imperial walls and the imperial gardens in the light of the rising and setting sun, integrating their slow motion Taichi with the environment of the imperial buildings. And the city is young for its courage to improve itself: with the emergence of one after another modern buildings and tridimensional traffic nets, a new plan for the exercising of the masses is now under     

中国的俄罗斯族(英文)

A special group of people live in the western foothills along the bank of the Ergun River-of Da Xing'an Ling Mountain. They are offspring of Chinese and Russian Slavs. They have Russian features and most have Chinese names, and they can speak both Chinese and Russian. Their grandfathers were Chinese farmers who settled in Northeast China during the early to mid 1900s, when     

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.     

Yellow River, Cradle of China

THE Yellow River is the Mother River of China. In the hearts of the Chinese people, it is not just an ancient river measuring 4,845 kilometers long that passes through nine provinces and regions, but also a symbol. The poets say that the waterway is the image of ancient China. Thephilosophers say the river is the shadow of a dragon. The river     

A Ballade in Praise of Peace

SINGING the praise of peace and fighting against wars of aggression is the common desire of mankind. It is also part of the theme of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, which is "equality, development and     

A De'ang Wedding

Every wedding is different, but somehow they are all the same. That is what I felt when I attended the wedding of Yang Yubu, a De'ang young woman who is an acquaintance of mine. Chudonggua Village is located at the eastern part of Santai Township. It is about 30 kilometers away from tile seat of Mangshi. When I learned that Yubu was going to get married, I jumped onto a shuttle bus that would take me past the foot of the mountain where the village sits. Halfway along the journey, I disembarked and started