GeorgeSun’s Weblog

The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People’s Congress, in west China’s Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods. If passed, it would become the world’s first panda law.(Xinhua News Agency Nov 24,2007) Funny. But the funniest part of it is the reason why Chinese government passes such a weird law.

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Since being a child, I had been told by my school teachers over and over again that “Religion is the opium etherizing people’s spirit”, a piece of logion written by Karl Marx. And every time after that statement the teachers would add: “As a member of the socialistic nation, every one of us is an atheist.” Well, it sounds nice. Ironically, for so many reasons the real activity of Communist Party is quite distinct from their propaganda of atheist, especially when it comes to political movements as to Tibet. Last week, when Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader and Nobel Prize laureate, announced publicly the possibility that he might choose a successor by appointment or through an election before his death, Beijing government instantly denounced that it disobeyed the Tibetan rite. “The reincarnation of ­living Buddhas…” said the Chinese foreign ministry. “clearly violated religious rituals and historical customs.”

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“Because I’m Naxi, I have a strong sense of roots and belonging,”

Cun Yanfang, a member of the indigenous Naxi people from one of southwest China’s more remote villages, has garnered international attention for her ability to change local attitudes. Being a member of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and a graduate from Kent University in England, she is now traveling to Yunan Province and starting a campaign to save the region’s prized golden monkeys. (Christian Science Monitor, Nov/23/2007)

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Before narrating anything about my hometown to you, I’d like to quote a line in the movie drama composed by Zhangke Jia, an avant-garde Chinese director who wins the golden lion for best film at the 63^rd Venezia Film Festival, saying : “An ancient town with one thousand years of history is now demolished in ten months. It will of course arose loads of problems” (Still Life, 2006)

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10 years ago，a treaty dealing with the disposal of 100,000 gas bombs which were abandoned by Japanese invaders after the Second World War was issued by both Chinese and Japanese government. However, during all those years, Japanese government not only delayed bomb disposal time, but also let the Japanese businessmen be earmarked corruption while defusing bombs.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Cao Gangchuan Monday to discuss broadening defense relations, which is his first time in China after inauguration. Gates said China and America would establish a hotline between their defence ministries and defense relations between the two countries should expand as the United States and China’s economic ties strengthen. (United Press International Nov. 5, 2007)

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When aspiring journalists talk about where they would like to work,they usually mention huge metropolitan newspapers or other media companies with news departments that would make them a foreign or London correspondent.In a word,they want to work for the best places that they can ever pursue and have scores of specialist traveling around the world.They want to have fun,interview some celebrities,cover great events and write about them.

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