Forging Ahead Toward a Powerful Stone Producer in the World

The reform and opening has given impetus to the rapid development of China’s stone industry, laying the foundations for its development to a higher level, and for the realization of the development target of a powerful stone producer in the world by the year 2010. Its major features are as follows: 1. Production of major products in China’s stone industry has witnessed significant growth, leaping to second place in the world and ranking among the world’s major stone producers. In 1995, total production of the national granite slabs, marble slabs, terazzos

China's Greatest Contribution to the World Lies in Safeguarding Democracy and Wellbeing for One-Fifth of Humanity

China has a population that is one-fifth of humanity. Most of its people live in rural areas. This country has been built and developed on the ruins of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism and on a foundation of ＂poverty and blankness.＂ The founding of New China created the political condition for the advancement of people＇s democracy. Since the adoption of reform and open policies, or gaige kaifang, China has gradually found an effective way, suited for Chinese conditions,

Top of the World

香港影星黎明和张曼玉主演的《甜蜜蜜》是一部很受观众欢迎的电影。在电影里,黎明扮演的黎小军对教他烹饪的师傅说,他将来要在纽约最高的大厦的顶层开一家饭店,取名TOP OF THE WORLD。看到这里我不禁拍案叫绝,因为top of the world有两层含义:一为“世界之巅”的意思,

Top of the World

香港影星黎明和张曼玉主演的《甜蜜蜜》是一部很受观众欢迎的电影。在电影里,黎明扮演的黎小军对教他烹饪的师傅说,他将来要在纽约最高的大厦的顶层开一家饭店,取名TOP OF THEWORLD。看到这里我不禁拍案叫绝,因为top of the world有两层含义:一为“世界之巅”的意思,而on the top of the world这个短语又有兴高采烈。

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.

A Research of the Course “Taishan Cultural Communication with the World” under Blended Learning Model and Outcome-Based Education Concept

The course “Taishan Cultural Communication with the World” has been online and offline teaching and learning for two terms based on the theoretical ideas: Blended Learning and Outcome-Based Education. This paper uses the data from one semester to state how to carry out the program and the good results. At the same time disadvantages are also the points that should be taken into consideration. From the teaching and learning practice, students have benefited from the online videos, complementary materials and discussions;they need to be guided as well, especially the guidance offline to make up. Furthermore, the balance of time online and offline is a great challenge.

Regard History as a Mirror and Create a New World of Peace,Development and Cooperation—In Commemoration of the 60^(th) Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World's Anti-Fascist War

The year 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the world’s anti-fascist war. China and many other countries have held all kinds of activities to commemorate this event that has most deeply impacted human history. The Second World War, the crudest war

China's Technologies for Exploration and Mining of Uranium Deposits Have Stepped into the World's Top Team

On June 2011, the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, an Institute within the China National Nuclear Corporation （CNNC）, and the Department of Geology ＆ Mining CNNC carried out a project Scientific Drilling.for Deep Metallogenic Research in the Xiangshan Large Uranium Ore Field. A year later on June 21, the project, representing the first scientific drilling of China＇s uranium, was officially launched, and successfully completed on June 17, 2013. A 2818.88 m of drilling depth has broken the previous record 1200 m of exploration depth.

Xinjiang Opens Its Door to the World——An interview with Wang Lequan,Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Xinjiang is a good place, with pastureland to the north and south of the Tianshan MountainThe Gobi Desert has been changed into fertile fields, irrigated by melting snows.

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 &

Strong earthquake activity all over the world and strong-moderate earthquake activity within and near China （October, 2005-November, 2005）

Illustration All the data in this catalog are chosen from the ＂Preliminary Seismological Report of Chinese Seismic Stations＂ （Its abbreviation is ＂Monthly Report＂）. The catalog includes the events of M≥4.7 in and near China and M≥6 all over the world. The ＂Monthly Report＂ is monthly compiled by the Ninth Section of Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration.

From the Beginning of the World to the Beginning of Life on Earth

Hypersphere World-Universe Model (WUM) is, in fact, a Paradigm Shift in Cosmology [1]. In this paper, we provide seven Pillars of WUM: Medium of the World;Inter-Connectivity of Primary Cosmological Parameters;Creation of Matter;Multicomponent Dark Matter;Macroobjects;Volcanic Rotational Fission;Dark Matter Reactors. We describe the evolution of the World from the Beginning up to the birth of the Solar System and discuss the condition of the Early Earth before the beginning of life on it.

The development on tansnational tourism in the roof region of the world

The roof of the world is the region which takes the largest plateau on the Earth as its core and covers surroundrig area of this core with and elevation of more than 2000m above sea level. The surrounding border areas are Kunlun Mountains－Altun Mountains－Qilian Mountain on the north,Hengduau Mountains on the east Pamirs and Hindu－Kush Mountains on the wot and the piedmont belt of the Himalayas on the south． This region covers the contiguous areas of China， Nepal， Sikkim,Bhutan, India, Myanmar，Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. In China the region involves the wbole Xizang Autonomous Region, the whole Qinghai Province， the southem part of Xinjiang Uygur Athenomous Region,the southwestern part of Gansu Provice, the western part of Sichuan Province and the northwestem part of Yunnan Province, covering a tltal area of 2700 000km2,of 70% of the roof region of the world.

Strong earthquake activity all over the world and strong-moderate earthquake activity within and near China (October 2006～November 2006)

All the data in this catalog are chosen from the ＂Preliminary Seismological Report of Chinese Seismic Stations＂ （Its abbreviation is ＂Monthly Report＂）. The catalog includes the events of M≥4.7 in and near China and M≥6 all over the world. The ＂Monthly Report＂ is monthly compiled by the Ninth Section of Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration.

Commissioning of First in the World DMTO-II Demonstration Unit in Pucheng City

On December 21, 2014 the first in the world coal-basedsecond-generation methanol-to-olefin （DMTO-II） commercialdemonstration unit was successfully started up atthe Clean Energy Chemical Company Limited in Puchengcity, Shaanxi province, which has symbolized the majorachievements of this phase associated with the disseminationand application of the new generation technology formanufacture of olefins from methanol, the independentintellectual property rights of which are in the hands ofthis Chinese enterprise.

The World's Salt Lakes:Today and Tomorrow

The 12th International Conference on Salt Lake Research,which is organized jointly by International Society of Salt Lake and The Institute of Mineral Resources,Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,will be held on July 14–18,2014 in Langfang,Hebei Province,China.The conference themes focus on future and global salt lake sustainable research and development and will bring together international specialists in limnology,sedimentology,geology,geochemistry,biology,

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.