China World Hotel

Over the years, organic food has become very much a mainstream food choice. It is growing in popularity as people become more aware of the impact that their food choices have not only on their own personal health, but also on the environment in

China English under the Circumstances of World English

With the spread of English,English becomes a world language.In the process of blending with various cultures of different countries,there are many varieties of English language. China English,as one of English varieties,conveys unique things to Chinese society in accordance with the way English native speakers use English,and plays a vital role in cross-cultural communication,translation and English teaching in China.

Clinical Biobanks, from the World to China

The 2009 annual special issue of Time Magazine on March 23rd summarized the ＇10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now＇, in which ＇Biobank＇ had been listed as the eighth. Biobank or biorepository has been developed since last century. Tissue banks represented the early type of clinical biobanks and mainly concentrated on clinical usage such as transplantation at the beginning. The first tissue bank in the United States started in 1949 is the United States Navy Tissue Bank. In 1976, the foundation of American Association of Tissue Banks （AATB） claimed the official show of biobanks on social stage （www.aatb.org）. From the end of 20th Century to the beginning of 21st Century, diverse biobanks of clinical samples, seed banks, gene banks, germplasm banks of non-human species and other various types have sprung up.

ON THE AVERAGE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GRANITOIDS IN CHINA AND THE WORLD

The exposed area of granitoids in China represents about ten percent land area of this country. The total average chemical composition of granitoids in who1e China is calculated with 12, 265 samples. And this total average of the world,s granitoids is also approximately calculated with 15, 790 samples adopted from Daly (1933), Nockolds (1954), Beus (1972) and this paper, by a compositive method of sample mean and regional mean. As based on the background of the world’sgranitoids, the regional characteristics of China,s granitoids are rich in the contents of silica, soda and potash.

World Energy Trends, Security and China’s Options

With the heavy dependence of world＇s growing economy on energy supply, the energy issue again comes into the spotlight throughout the world. How to ensure energy security is a great concern to most countries in the world. In this paper, trends in energy supply, energy security mechanism and new challenges are analyzed. As well as, China＇s security strategies are also proposed.

Protecting the national parks and the world heritage sites in China: challenge and strategy

About 70% of its land area as mountains and plateaus, China is the largest mountain country in the world. Thanks to its vast territory (9.6 million km2), outstanding relief and varied climates, China boasts extremely plenty of ecosystems and landscapes. From south to north, it traverses almost all the temporal zones from tropical rainforest in the southernmost to frigid-temperate needle-leaved forest in the northernmost; from east to west, it sees a gradual transition fro humid forest landscape to extremely arid desert landscape; vertical change of landscapes is most striking owing to the existence of many high mountains (above 6000-7000 m, e.g., the Himalayas, the Kunlun, the Tianshan, the Hengduan, etc.) and plateaus, especially the immense Tibetan Plateau (averagely 4500 m above sea level). All of this give rise to the richness and diversity of ecosystems and landscape in China. Some of the ecosystems are endemic to China, e.g., alpine desert and alpine steppe in the Tibetan Plateau. As a result, China bears a great responsibility in the protection of global ecosystems and landscape.

PROGRESS IN “APPLIED RESEARCH ON DROUGHT & DESERTIFICATION”——A fruitful cooperative program between China and the World Laboratory

World Laboratory (WL) is an international organ financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its operation is exclusively for the Third World countries, where basic research projects are carried out and research results are applied to the benefit of the local areas and the world as a whole. The Project of"Applied Research on Drought &

Perceiving China's Energy Development from the World Key Energy Statistics

As the world's authoritative organization on energy information, the International Energy Agency (IEA), which was founded in 1974, releases Key World Energy Statistics every year from 1997 (hereinafter referred to as the "Key Data"). The "Key Data" released in 2007 announced the 2005 statistics, and also provided the 1973 statistics for comparison. From the published data, we can clearly find the development path and trend of the world energy and power industry. Also, China's strong development momentum, high- speed growth of energy consumption and the enormous challenges in the sustainable energy supply are especially noticeable. This paper reviewed the "Key Data" to perceive China's Energy Development. The analysis and interpretation of these data are purely from the author's point of view.

China Needs the World,and the World Needs China——Mr.Li Lanqing on China's economic opening to the outside world

Mr. Li Lanqing, Vice Premier of the State Council, expounded on China’s economy heading towards the 21st century,at the 32nd ICC World Congress. He said: China is greeting the 19th year of its reform and opening to the outside world. In the past 18 years, especially in the 1990s,China’s economy, as an integral part of the world economy, has assumed three interrelated new features, under the circumstances of speeding up the development, deepening the reform, and expanding the opening. 1. Lasting trend for sustained and rapid economic growth. China has 1.2 billion people with everrising income and consumption levels and huge market demand, and the Chinese people have the habit of saving. So there are large amounts of bank deposits to

China and the World——The New Era

THE significance of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)reaches beyond China to the global theater.China’s development is impacting the world due to both the size and the success of the nation.Emblematic of China’s development,beyond becoming a moderately prosperous

Perspective of World Economy and China's External Economic Environment

Owing to a series of impacts of the "9·11 terrorist attack," the accounting scandals of big companies, Iraq War and the SARS crisis in the past two years, the world economy that might have rebounded forcefully has been on a wavering process of slow recovery.

The Best of Both Worlds:Supply and Demand China's Role as a Source of Refractory Minerals for Global Markets

China has long been recpgnised as an important source of refractory raw materials far refractory markets world-wide. Bauxite, magnesia, fused a-lumina , and refractory clays in particular, have maintained China s strong position as the world ' s leading supplier of these minerals. However , important changes have taken place in the structure of Chinese and global supply of these minerals. More-over, the world refractory market and the minerals trading sector have also undergone a radical transformation that has influenced mineral supply, and shifted end product manufacture to China. This paper highlights these changes and sees hour they have, impacted on China as a world source of refractory minerals.

The World＇s Largest Conglomerate Type Oilfield Has Been Discovered in the Junggar Basin of China

The Junggar Basin in the northern part of Xinjiang is the second largest inland basin in China. It is located between the Altai and Tianshan Mountains, which is bounded by the Junggar bounded Mountain in the northwest, the Altai Mountains in the northeast and the North Tianshan Mountains in the south. It belongs to a triangular close inland basin, and extends 700 km in EW and 370 km in NS, covering an area of 38x104 km2. The elevation is about 400 m, high in the east （about 1000 m） and low in the west. The central basin is the Guerbantonggute desert, which accounts for 36.9% of the total basin area.

‘China model'enriches world experience in growth

|Editorial Note| Since reform and opening up,China has embarked on a path of development featuring socialism with Chinese characteristics,scoring remarkable achievements that have drawn attention from all over the world.What has reform and opening up achieved?What are its experiences?What are the intrinsic values of socialism with Chinese characteristics?How is China’s development path viewed in the international community? This paper gives an overview of these questions,shedding light on the problems that the country faces and optimism about its future.

Seizing Opportunity to Improve China's Relations with the World

Iraq war reveals two basic features in current international situation. The first feature is disturbance. Terrorism endangering the world is a disturbance, weapons of mass destruction being proliferated over the world is a disturbance, great powers realigning is a disturbance.