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Create awareness among youth
2011-06-01 10:11
With China's rapid development and changing social values, young people's needs for sexual and reproductive health information and services are growing as behaviors change.
Policy still necessary but can be tweaked
2011-06-01 10:11
When the "cultural revolution" broke out in 1966, major national newspapers called on the 600 million Chinese to join the "great movement of smashing the feudal, the bourgeois and the revisionist ideas".
Loneliness of the single child
2011-06-01 10:11
Shao Pei and his wife Zhou Min, both only children, are considering moving to another neighborhood in Beijing with a higher population of children. That's because their only daughter, nicknamed Xiaoxiao, is turning 2 years old soon and will need to make friends. The couple, in their early 30s, live in a high-end apartment building in the capital's expensive Central Business District, densely populated with young elite white-collar workers but few children.
On track for high speed
2011-06-01 10:56
Board any of China's high-speed trains and you'll step into a clean and comfortable cabin worthy of airlines. More important, the trains will whisk you to your destination almost as quickly as propeller-driven aircraft. These trains cover the 1,069-km journey between Guangzhou and Wuhan in about three hours, while the 120-km trip between Beijing and Tianjin is done in half an hour.
Passenger turnover trails off the rails
2011-06-01 10:56
The length of China's railway network soared from 49,900 km in 1980 to 91,000 km by the end of 2010, making it the world's second longest. Its passenger and cargo transport facilities have also ranked among the top. Despite the railway's growth, its role in the nation's economic development is trailing off compared to other transport means.
It's not just the speed of the trains
2011-06-01 10:56
My first trip to Beijing was to work at China Daily, and it started with a bus. My hometown, Nantong city in eastern Jiangsu province, had no rail connection.
Timeline
2011-06-01 10:56
1981: First Automobile Works ends a two-decade program in which it makes 1,510 Red Flag cars used for government officials.
A people on the move
2011-06-01 10:11
In 1983, Zhen Zhicheng, then 6 years old, was free as a bird in the steep mountains of Hubei province, where his parents, both Beijing natives, had been living since 1970 alongside tens of thousands mobilized from around China to work at the No 2 Automobile Plant in the small town of Shiyan.
From banned workers to people with social problems
2011-06-01 10:11
The late American anthropologist Clifford Geertz once described a result of "agricultural involution", which was caused by internal pressures due to population growth, as increasing labor intensity in the paddy fields. China's agriculture faced the same problem, and its farmers were bound to the farmland for thousands of years.
Moving tales from my migrant beat
2011-06-01 10:11
The sheer scale and radical nature of transformations in China in the past century suggest that very few could claim not to be migrants of one sort or another.
Changing face of tourism
2011-06-01 10:11
Rong Jikai, a retired senior professor in Beijing, has been overseas to "dozens of places" such as Japan, Thailand and Nepal -- but always for work and never as a tourist. But since his retirement, Rong, in his 80s, and his wife Xiao Shuqin, in her 70s, are trying their best to make up for this.
The journey, not the destination, that counts
2011-06-01 10:11
The road winding its way in front of me looked endless, emerging from behind a slope at one point and disappearing into a misty bamboo jungle at another. Sometimes, it scraped by craggy cliffs high on the edge of the gorge overlooking the ribbon-like river down in the distance; sometimes it rolled away along the riverside in the gloom of the valley, rising and falling as it crossed tributary streams and dodged old villages.

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