摘要
ON October 1, 2009, the world's biggest birthday party was held in Tian anmen Square in central Beijing -200,000 people gathered to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The rest of the public watched the live broadcast on TV or online, sharing the pride and confidence of a nation rejuvenating itself on its great joumey of opening-up and reform.
WHEN 38-year-old Chinese astro-naut Yang Liwei took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on board the spacecraft Shenzhou-5 at 9:00 a.m. on October 15, 2003, he was fulfilling an ancient Chinese dream. He orbited the earth