FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Li Yiyi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of Shenyang Metal Research Institute, has developed a new system for creating a low temperature and high pressure anti-hydrogen material in the research of engineering material. She has also been successful in her research of various types of steel.     

Changes of Zhangjiagang

ZHANGJIAGANG, a small city with a population of 820,000 in southern Jiangsu Province, has become famous recently. Media from the central authorities to the localities vie with each other to report on the city. Over the past three years the economy of the city has quadrupled and increased by over 60 percent annually. In 1995 its average income per capita was US $2,146, which was second among the 100 top counties and cities in China. As new villages and towns have been built one after another, the city has taken on a new look. It was     

The Opening Days of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway has brought great benefit to the poor areas it passes through. Many peasants in the high mountains had never seen a train before. When the new rail opened, old and young alike hurried to take a look at the train. Economic development in the poor areas has been stimulated by the construction of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. The peasants in Xinyang and Xinxian counties of Henan     

Envoys of Friendship

DANG Xiaodong, an orphan bornin Henan, has been in the UnitedStates for more than two years.Her new parents love her very much, "Itseems she has been a member of ourfamily all along. She shows greatconsideration to us, loves her elderbrother and gets on well with ourrelatives." When she left China, DangXiaodong was only one year old andwas still not walking properly. After shearrived in the United States, she learnedto dress herself, brush her teeth and eat     

Let's Get Closer

In order to mark the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, a new book, Let's Get Closer(Selected Articles About Women by Chinese and Foreign Authors Published in Women of China Magazine Since 1979), has been edited by our magazine and published by New World Press. We are very grateful for the thoughts and words of the following authors and groups:     

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.     

Strangers Meet on Shanghai's Bund

TODAY's Shanghai is changing greatly day by day, year by year. I was quite astonished by these changes when I was there recently on assignment for our newspaper. The International Hotel had been the most modern building in the city ten years ago, but now it looked just so-so among the crowd of new buildings. The inner ring road has been built above countless shops and alleys. The Huangpu and Yangpu bridges have added to the elegance of this southern city, making it even more grand and beautiful. And a vast communications network has changed the face of the Bund entirely. Many Shanghai residents, who left for coastal cities when the policy of reform and     

变化的中国

Katie Anne McGowan, from Canada, has resided in China for the past seven years. McGowan, a communications specialist, owns and operates a company in Beijing. She says China has changed a lot while she has been a resident.     

Garment Fashion in 1999's Spring and Summer Collections

Releasing the latest clothes fashions has been a state must since 1996 and hasplayed its role in promoting the development of the garment industry and increasingconsumer spending. Fashion trends show the change in consumer tastes through color,material and     

赤潮肆虐东海(英文)

Since May, a red tide has been noticed in the East China Sea. The used-to-be blue sea now has a worrying dark red color. It is the result of hundreds and thousands of fish and shrimp corpses floating on the surface. By June, red tides had affected the Bohai, Yellow and     

Home of Female IntellectualsZ——Women's Committee of the Chinese Academy of sciences

THE All-China Women's Federation(ACWF) has established some 60.000 basic units in Party and government organizations above the county level throughout the country. The units include women's committees in 78 ministries and commissions of the State Council Program Director Ms. Zhang Xiaoyuan noted that the ACWF has extended its basic organizations from villages and neighborhoods to tens of millions of women workers and cadres nationwide since 1993. The effort has opened a new network serving urban professional women, and meets the new demands the reform and opening have placed on work for women. The results have thus proved highly beneficial.     

“1＋4妇女维权服务模式”维护妇女权益

Alongside the rapid development of China＇s modernization and deepening economic and political reforms, the Women＇s Legal Aid Center of the All- China Women＇s Federation （ACWF） has achieved great progress in protecting women＇s rights and interests. How？ It has been offering better services and legal aid to women. At the same time, many new problems and difficulties have emerged.     

两纲之窗

‘We Have New Classrooms!’"我们有新教室啦!""We have new classrooms!"schoolchildren said excitedly, as they stood in front of the new building at the primary school of Haocun Village,which is located in Huaxian County, Henan Province,on October 11,2007. Since 2004,the government of Huaxian County has invested more than 50 million yuan(US $7 million)in rural schools. That has greatly improved the teaching and studying conditions in middle and primary schools in the county's rural areas,as nearly 110,000 square meters of schools have been built or renovated.     

找不着北

Ian Thompson, 28, from the United States, has been living in Beijing for one and a half years. He teaches oral English classes in several primary schools. Fascinated by the beautiful, ancient city, and the warmhearted local people, he says he plans to live in Beijing for another three to five years. Thompson has taken a Chineselanguage course, but he is more interested in practicing spoken Chinese with his     

汉语流行口语——“高帽”类(英文)

Star of the Show; Big Shot大腕儿Dawan'er This word, which originated in opera circles, used to refer to influential people in guilds. In recent years, it has been used in films and television shows, and has become a pet word of common people. Nowadays, the word refers to people who     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Xinjiang has made remarkable achieve-ments in the implementation of mother-and-child health care. Another five-year international cooperative project in mother-and-child hygiene has been formally undertaken in Xinjiang. From 1990 to 1995, Xinjiang success-fully fulfilled an international cooperative project "Strengthen grassroots Service on Mother-and-Child Care and Family Planning in China," subsidized by UNICEF,the United Nations Population Foundation and the World Health Organization. Seven prefectures and 16 counties and     

On the Road to Breakthrough

LEUKEMIA, a cancer of the blood, causes a great number of deaths each year. After many years of study, researcher Chen Saijuan and her colleagues have proven the feasibility of using retinoic acid (one of the active molecules derived from vitamin A) to cure acute promyelocytic leukemia, successfully expounding the molecular mechanism of the new treatment of the disease. The variant chromosome translocation Chen discovered has since been placed in the record of international leukemia genetics. Chen Saijuan, 46, became a doctor at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital after graduating     

编者寄语(英文)

China has been a World Trade Organization (WTO) member for more than a year. Every Chinese citizen and every foreigner who has recently visited China has felt the affects of WTO membership on China's economy-and on citizens' lives. In this issue, we present a special report on how the WTO membership has changed some Chinese people's lives. Despite the differences in their professions, genders and ages, it's easy for read-     

Inheritance Rights Under Chinese Law

FIFTY-five-year-old Li Xiuhua is a rural woman, whose husband died, leaving her two sons and a daughter, who had all been married. In the past several years, Li Xiuhua and her husband worked very hard and earned a considerable sum of money through pig and rabbit raising. Besides a new house worth 50,000 yuan, they also had a deposit of 100,000 yuan in the bank. After her husband's death, Li Xiuhua's parents-in-law told her that the new house and all the savings would belong to them and their grandchildren if Li     

What Has the Marriage Law Done for Women?

"LAW" has been drawing closer to the lives ofordinary Chinese people since the 1980s. Overthe past 10 years or so China has issued manylaws in rapid succession. "Governing the statebased on law" was put into the Constitution of thePRC in March 1999, laying a solid foundation forthe realization of the nation's four modernizations. I became a lawyer in 1985. Since becoming astaff member of the All-China Women'sFederation (ACWF), I have consulted on theMarriage Law and other regulations and clausesrelated to it.