Expats Prefer China Big Cities

The living environment has become a growing concern for expatriates working in Shanghai and Beijing, although the two cities topped a list of the most attractive Chinese cities for expats, a new study found. The survey — 2012 Amazing China, conducted between September and December by International Talent, a magazine under the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs — gauged v...

Elementary Schools Need More Male Teachers

Political advisors in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Sunday called for more male teachers to be recruited to elementary schools. A current lack of male teachers in China's kindergartens, primary and middle schools weakens the chances of students receiving balanced education from teachers of both genders, local political advisors said at the annual session of Gu...

Questions and Answers About Chinese People and Foreigners

In Samuel Huntington's 1996 landmark book The Clash of Civilizations, he argued that people's cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflict in the future. And although the theory was later critiqued and disproved from multiple perspectives for being too static and fatalistic, it's no small secret that globalization has led to a plethora of cross-cultural misunderstand...

The Original Name of ‘China'

China is the appellation of our country given by foreigners. The porcelain china is the transliteration of the place name Changnan, which was the old name for the porcelain town of today's Jingdezhen (Jingde Town). In the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), people built their cave-houses and cut logs to make pottery. And in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), people combined the advantages of celadon from th...

Attitude of Expatriates in China on the Social Insurance

According to China Employment Express, foreign Expatriates working in China continue to hold a wait-and-see attitude toward participating in social insurance. So far, only half of them join the program. In addition, 13 countries have signed agreement with China, with an aim to help expatiates in China to have access to more preferential policy by reducing their burden. “Compared to October las...

HNA Group Wins Award for Charity Project

Volunteers from Hainan Airlines visit cataract patients at a hospital in Zimbabwe in March 2011. Thanks to a charitable program co-launched by HNA Group, the parent company of the airline, more than 1,400 people in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique have undergone eye surgery and had their sight restored since 2010. A Chinese company received a 2012 South-South Award for offering financial aid ...

City sets Standard for Chinese Teachers

Beijing plans to set standards for Chinese language tutors who teach foreign students in public schools by introducing a new qualification certificate, education authorities told the Global Times Monday.The Beijing International Center for Chinese Language, affiliated to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, said that 400 teachers have qualified under the new system, and are working at ...

Lectures with Attitude

At Fudan University this year Professor Liu Yongtao's course, The History of Diplomacy in Modern China, attracted 27 students. Liu said that the course is intended to provide an introductory survey of Chinese diplomacy from 1949 to the early 21st century. In the course the students will discuss, among other topics, human rights, Sino-African relations, China's panda diplomacy and how Wester...

Tomb of 800 Years ago Unearthed Recently

A Song dynasty (960-1279) tomb containing a couple buried together was unearthed on the campus of Zhejiang Normal University on Jan. 11. 2011. The tomb, found in a gymnasium construction site, has two chambers. The husband was buried in the north chamber, in which a light rack and some ancient coins were found. The wife's chamber is in the south of the tomb. Some precious items were unear...

Chinese Books Gains Worldwide Popularity

Popular worldwide Nowadays, one can easily find in U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon's "China Bookstore" translated versions of almost all popular Chinese books such as Wolf Totem, The Tibet Code, The Flowers of War, Zhu Rongji Meets the Press, The Deng Xiaoping Era, and A History of Chinese and Foreign Civilizations. The "China Bookstore" provides 110,000 types of books about Chinese celebrities...