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     

The Kingdom of Daughters by Great Lugu Lake

DEEP in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China, live the mysterious Mosuo, who still maintain the custom of "visiting marriage," also called Ahxia marriage. Ahxia means "intimate friend" in the Mosuo tongue. If a couple loves one other, the man can spend nights in his Ahxia's house and leave at daybreak. During the day, they work and live in their mothers' houses, or with other maternal blood relations.     

Woman Sends Regards to Family and the Loess Plateau

WITH a population of ouer 8 million, the Hui nationality liue ouer the largest area of any other minority nationality in China. The Hui reside in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Henan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the Beijing and Tianjin municipalities.The origin of the Hui people can be traced back to the end of the seventh century, when Arabs and Persians often came to do trade in China along the ancient Silk Road. Some stayed on and started families. Their children have been traced to Guangzhou and Quanzhou. At the beginning of the 13th century, more Arabs, Persian and people from Central Asia came to China, where they married into the Han, the Uygur and the Mongolian nationalities. Gradually a new nationality—the Hui—was formed.With the founding of New China in 1949, the NingxJa Hui Autonomous Region was established. The industrial and agricultural output in the region in 1990 was 12 times that in 1957, when t     

女性新闻(英文)

University for Elderly Women Established in Beijing中国第一所妇女老年大学在北京成立The China Women's Development Foundation established the country's first university for elderly women on February 21,2008.The university is in Beijing. The purpose of the university is to offer elderly women a favorable place in which they can enrich their lives,expand their knowledge,cultivate their interests and make friends, Gu Xiulian,Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the All...     

Concern Yourself with New Life

ALL parents hope their children will grow up healthy and clever. To provide children with good health care and education early on and to mold them into talented people who will be able to contribute toward the next century is the mission of China's development program for children. In order to implement the "National Program of Action for Child Development in China in the 1990s," to mobilize all walks of life to become concerned with the health of mothers and children and the fate of the next generation, as well as to improve the quality     

Ancient Theater Restored to Life

BEIJING Opera fans and foreign tourists who love the "treasure of China" as it was will be delighted to know they can now enjoy Beijing opera in a theater with a more than 280-year history in the art. The Zhengyici Theater is located on Xiheyan Street, Beijing, opposite the famous Hepingmen Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. Xiheyan Street, near the Forbidden City, has been there since the settlement of the city and gradually won a reputation as a commercial and cultural center. Most of the residents were     

Come and Play Baselall with a machine!

In the past, mechanical pitchers wereused only for the training of professionalbaseball players in China. But now ordinaryChinese people too can have a try if they goto the Baseball Ground at the OlympicSports Center in Beijing's Asian GamesVillage. Four mechanical pitchers areinstalled there. They serve the balls fromdifferent angles and speeds, just like ahuman pitcher. When I step into the batter's box readyfor a hit, I feel like one of those baseball     

陕西省妇女儿童维权服务中心成立

Employees of the Shaanxi （in Northwest China） Women＇s Federation and lawyers with Yongjiaxin Law Firm on September 1 established the Shaanxi Women and Children＇s Rights-protection Center. It is based in the law firm＇s offices. The federation entrusted women volunteers from the law firm to receive calls from ACWF＇s hotline, 010-12338, and to provide advice to women on how they can protect their legalrights and interests.     

Freedom of Divorce

MS. Zhang and her husband came to realize they were not right for each other after three years of marriage. According to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, citizens have freedom of marriage and divorce so the couple sought to end their unhappiness and begin new lives separately. As they had no children, and were in agreement on the divorce, the only     

建议

Dear Women of China,
I＇m a Hindu and, as part of my religion, I＇m a vegetarian. I want to study abroad in China next fall, but nay family and trouble finding vegetarian food to eat while I＇m in China. Are they telling me the truth or are they just exaggcrating？     

Jiangxi Cuisine

JANGXI cuisine (Jiangxi is a province in southeast China and called Gan for short) has no position among the regional cuisines in China. This is not because Gan dishes are not tasty, but because they have no distinctive features and few of them are representative or famous. Yet this became the style of Jiangxi cuisine. The multiplicity of food choices in     

两纲之窗

Office Helps,Cares for Disadvantaged Residents国办印发《关于进一步做好困难群众基本生活保障有关工作的通知》The General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China recently promulgated a notice on strengthening work related to guaranteeing the basic living of disadvantaged residents in various regions of the country.The notice stresses the regions should help and care for the residents,so they can enjoy the Spring Festival(on February 12).     

青岛市妇儿工委办进一步推进为妇女儿童办实事工作

The Shandong Provincial Party （Communist Party of China） Committee has included work related to the protection of women and children＇s legal rights and interests in the standards for the evaluation of government organs＇ work. Officials of the Qingdao （a city in East China＇s Shandong Province） Working Committee on Children and Women recently monitored the city＇s work related to women and children, and they concluded the city had done the following during the first half of this year：     

商机(英文)

Western Treasure Chest 西部的优势 China prizes its western regions, because they are abundant in natural resources. According to the Development Research Center of the State Council, unutilized land and grassland there account for 55.2 percent and 73 percent of the total in the country. The region boasts     

DEAR READERS

The new year brings new hope to China,including to those people who provide psychological counseling,and to the people who receive such services.This month,Women of China focuses on the development of psychology in China. In the past,most Chinese people were not familiar with psychology,and they considered it to be a mysterious     

你知道吗?(英文)

China is the largest country in the world,in terms of people, with about one-fifth—1.32 billion people—of the world's population 90.9% of China's population aged 15 and over can read and write.     

Women's Salon

Entrepreneurs, businessmen, experts and scholars have come to Shanghai together with their families from 19 countries of Europe, America and Asia since China began its policy toward openness to the outside world. While many foreign women have been well educated and held professional positions in their countries, they often felt lonely in China, as they     

读者来信

Dear Women of China, I saw a post on your Weibo account, in which you reported that foreigners who intend to work as teachers in China may face a higher threshold, as employers nationwide will require teachers to have previous teaching experience. I worked as a trainer and head teacher. I wouldn＇t mind if new teachers did not have experience as long they were willing to learn, and as long as they loved the trade. I would never consider the race or place of origin, but only the teaching quality and proper language skills, of a potential teacher.     

《中国东西》

In the modern consumer society, the development of technologies and global trade is ushering global commodities into people＇s lives at an unprecedented speed. Even in a small town in China, people can get exactly the same things -- Coca- Cola, iPhones and Nike shoes -- as most people in the rest of the world. At the same time, there are many ordinary objects in the daily lives of Chinese, and those objects embody China＇s national identity.