内蒙古开展“学雷锋”志愿服务活动

The Women＇s Federation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region （in North China） on March 1 launched the activity entitled ＂One Million Women Learn from Comrade Lei Feng to Offer Volunteer Services.＂ The activity＇s purpose was to promote the spirit of Lei Feng.     

静静的喜洲古街

A friend told me about Xizhou, and 1 remembered the place because the word xi meant happiness, and it was a character in my name. When I visited Dali, Yunnan Province, 1 asked my friend to take me to Xizhou.     

My Daughter's Homeland

Millions of urban educated youths were assigned to bordering regions, pastoral areas, as well as agricultural areas, during China's chaotic "cultural revolution" (1966-1976), to take part in Iocal production. Known as "urban educated youths settling down in the mountain and rural areas to join in labor," the movement was rigorously carried out all over the country during that time. Settling down in remote, poverty stricken villages and pastoral lands, these young people spent their youth in hardships. They shared the hard lives of local peasants and herdsman, and were tempered by the most rigorous challenges. Many of them returned to cities when the "cultural revolution" was over. However, their lives in the countryside have been ingrained deeply in their memories. This has become the most unforgettable part of their life. Here are the memories of Zhang Yaping, one of the young urban women who once stayed in Inner Mongolia.     

国务院妇儿工委办公室组织专家开展“儿童纲要实施项目”国家级督导

To promote the National Program for Children＇s Development （2011-2020）, the Office of the National Working Committee on Children and Women （NWCCW） under the State Council, in cooperation with the United Nations International Children＇s Emergency Fund （UNICEF）, implemented a five-year （2011- 2015） project to promote implementation of the program in the 20 counties, cities or districts in which the project was introduced. The purpose of the project is to help solve the problems children face in their lives, to promote children＇s development and to protect children＇s legal rights and interests.     

公益

“美丽中国爱心行”走进玉树 Led by Chen Xiaoxia, Secretary-General of the China Children and Teenagers＇ Foundation （CCTF）, a group from the foundation＇s ＂Love Travel in China＂ project began a two-day visit to Yushu Tibetan Prefecture, in northwestern China＇s Qinghai Province, on September 24, 2013. The prefecture was rocked by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14, 2010.     

中国古代女性有地位吗?(英文)

Women in ancient China were prohibited from holding any position of power. Essentially,the women were"objects" sold into marriage.Their feet were bound to prevent them from escaping. While they could not hold positions of power,women were in control of their homes.A man was permitted to have more than one wife,and the women had a rank within the household.The first wife could dictate who went where,how much     

关爱儿童

《我国家庭教育指导服务现状调查报告》发布 Initial findings are in and, based on the survey＇s results, the Chinese Government plans to play a greater role in the guidance of family education across the nation. The Chinese Family Education Guidance Service Report was released -- by officials from the China Family Education Society （CFES）, the Department for Children of the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF）, and the China National Children＇s Center （CNCC） during a news conference in Beijing, on September 15.     

多措并举抓好基层妇女参政工作

Meixian County, in Meizhou, in South China＇s Guangdong Province, in recent years has encouraged women to participate in villages＇ democratic autonomous management, in part to promote rural economic and social development. Tile county has strived to improve the percentage of women members and directors of villages＇ committees.     

今日青海蒙古族(英文)

APart from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, another residential area of the Mongolians is Qinghai Province, where they have mainly settled in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Henan Mongolian Autonomous County. Some Mongolians can also be found in the eastern areas of Qinghai. The Mongolians have their own spoken and written language. Due to the minority melting pot in Qinghai, quite a few Mongolians also know how to speak and write in Han, Tibetan     

公主墓中的金面具(英文)

In 1986, a pure gold mask was unearthed from a tomb in Inner Mongolia, which contained the remains of a Qidan Kingdom princess and her husband—dating from the Liao Dynasty (916-1125). A rare find, the mask bestowed by     

The Dreams of a Farmer's Daughter

WANG Yuling lives in Hekou Township of Kailu County, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. She studied for years and loves reading deeply, but failed the college entrance exam and came back home to be a farmer. Though she gets up early and returns home late, plants in spring and harvests in autumn just like other women do, she is different from them. Her different feelings have led to many dreams and much depression. She has written in her diary: "I am a     

The Madam Fair

"NADAM" means "entertainment" or "game" in Mongolian. The Nadam Fair, a traditional Mongolian gathering, is held each year in summer or autumn and features horse racing, wrestling, shooting, singing and dancing. In the summer, I, together with my friends, traveled to Dong Ujimqin Banner of Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia for     

Devoted——A Portrait of a Korean Ethnic Painter

IT was in September 1997 in London,Britain, that I came to know PiaoChunzi. She was holding a personalart exhibition at the Atmosphere Gallery,quite renowned in London, during hervisit to Britain and I attended the     

《狼图腾》(英文)

By Jiang Rong(Translated by Howard Goldblatt) Penguin Press HC,2008 Wolf Totem is set in 1960s China,at the time of theGreat Leap Forward(1958-60)and on the eve of theCultural Revolution (1966-1976).Searching for spirituality,Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen travels to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to live among the nomadio     

Friends From Different Countries Long for the FWCW

“WE regard the UN's decision to have China host the FWCW as a natural and logical choice," said Mr. Farid Rahman, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s area representative in China and Mongolia, when meeting our staff reporter.     

AIona普拉提工作室

Alona Vostrikova teaches what she preaches; she promotes a strong body, and mind, during her Pilates classes. She teaches Pilates in the Westin Hotel, in Beijing＇s Chaoyang District. Alona was born and raised in Blagoveshchensk, a relatively small town in Russia that is close to the border with China. In fact, Alona was able to see China through binoculars. In 1997, Alona decided to cross the river and study Mandarin in Changchun, a city in Jilin Province. It was an opportunity for Alona, who had majored in physical education at the Russian State Academy of Physical Education, to start a new life and career-- in China.     

Woman Artist Engages in Children's Fine Art Education

XIE Lifang was born into a physics professor's family in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1949 when New China was founded. Living in a place surrounded by beautiful landscape of the Yuelu Mountain, she was fond of painting from her childhood. After she graduated from a junior high school, she was admitted to the Hunan Theatrical School to study stage arts. During the ten years' chaos of the "cultural revolution," (from 1966 to 1976) the school's regular education     

Years of Trials and Hardships Give Way to Happiness

Imarried my wife in 1946. I was 19 years old then and my wife Shao Chunrong was 22. The second year after we got married the Kuomintang army was forcibly recruiting able-bodied men. I ran away from home to avoid being forced to join. For two years I wandered the country; Chunrong was left alone at home to make a living selling pancakes. In 1951 I got a job as a teacher, and soon was sent to the Linjiang Middle School in Jilin Province, far away from my home. Chunrong again waited in peace for me,     

“Because She Is My Teacher”

IT was in late autumn when my engineering corps sent me to the Bayinbuluk Pasture deep in the Tianshan Mountains to learn how to play tumbubra, a traditional gourdshaped string instrument played by ethnic peoples in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In order to rehearse for a performance of storytelling accompanied by tumbubra, I was to learn how to play the instrument from a Kazak folk artist, Uncle Aken. Three doctors and nurses from the