.ri:-r .$ Everlasting spring br Qitrn Sottg.rutt t : CHING tlNG (MME" SUN SE!-VI- "!18J}'.PUBIISHED LYBY-THE I tN ets-oriiiNls'inrilin,Tne l-Ah Genunru, poRt AND c Articfles o thE qmtf? voL xxxt $tQ. 1 JAN!,JARY 1982. ilrlew Trends in E&NTENTS Foreign Trode Volume ond volue Ihe 30th Anniversory of ehino Reconstlucts ore up; monufqctured Three Decades Mirroring the New China 2 qoods' ore overtoking Beginnings, Growing Pains and Prospec'ls 6 iow moteriqls os mojor ln lts Founder's SPirit 7 Headers' Letters Olo and New 8 From Noted Artists I Econon'ricsT5ociety 13 New Trends in Foreign Trade lhem. Poge China's Shipbuilding Boom 19 A Chinese Village's 45 Years 24 A Villoge's 45 Yeors Firsl Rarlway to the 'Roof of ihe World' 29 Basic Forms in the Sociaiist Economy 42 Eminent socio'cnthroPologist The Fashion Scene in Beijing 6t Fei Xiootong, visiting Koixiongong for the third time ouel 45 Yeors, Scienee uses it 65 s misrocosm through Fighting Back the Deserts 3B which to view the historY of uPs Studying Tibet's Weather 57 ond downs, p Protecting Hare Yangtze Alligators 74 ond tuture pro pects ol the rurq The Arts Flecent Trends in Chinese Writing 16 Symposium on Dai Literature Aa A Dance TriumPh 4B Foshiom Seene in Beiiing Medicine The new fosh,ion conscious' Trilrute to a Pioneer: Dr Samuel Rosen 34 ,ress" seems here to stoy, AE Lin Oiaozhi China's Beloved Baby Doctor ll os - nof Archeology hind China's Ancient Weapons 58 sby in- Across the Lond dustries to keep up with new lnternational Tournaments: Fencing, Swimming, Water demonds" Poge 67 Polo 47 Hainan, the Treasure lsland (ll) 53 'Flying Dragon' ls Good to Eat 62 Chinese Shipbuilding Reviues Dalian Seamen's Club 63 Beautiful Huangshan 64 , its Products now sold in the int I : leods the woY in Golumns ond Speciols shi Poge-Chino's 19 Children: Budding Scientist 23 Do You Know? China's Maior Holidays 37 Sketches by A Lao 76 Ancienl Weopons Legends and Tales from History: Story ot Yi Yin 77 Language Corner: Lesson 13 Bone, stoner bronze, iron Address. 7A ond steel recent excouo- tions hove- helped scholors Cover Plctures trsce the history of weoponry'metol- Front: Shipyard worker Wang Hongxun ond developments in Back: Bohai Offshore Drilling Platform No. 5, built by lurgy ond croltsmonship since the Dalian Shipyard. Wang Hangxun lhe Stone Age. Poge 58 Editoriol Officc: Woi Wen Building, Beijing (37), Chino Annudl suhscri'ption in U.S.A, UStB.0o Applicotion to mqil qt second Coble: "CHIRECON" EeijIng. closs postoge rqte is pending in Son Froncisco' ln North Americq, Genersl Dirkibutor: GUOJI SHUDIAN, F'O, Box 399, Eeijing, Chino' send oddress chonge to Chino Books ond Peri'odicols, lnc,, zyzg 21 street, Son Froncisco, CA 94100. Three llecades ttlirroring the ilew Ghina ISRAEL EPSTEIN T;r ROM 1952 to 1982 is a whole progress, remarkable as it is, has na's past, present and efforts for .f generation. During this time not been unbroken or sufficient. the future. - the new Chin4 the building of It has been interrupted, even at Of our beginnings, Dr: Chen which our magazine was estab- times put into reverse, by un- Hansheng has written in the ac- lished to reflect, has forged far foreseen twists, turns and errors, companying memoir. To add some ahead both domestically and in which should have been avoided details, the first issue was planned its position in the world, though or rnore quickly remedied. not in an office that did not Yet - a Bei- not without setbacks. Our maga- Of the three distances, the first exist - but on a bench'in zine, too, has moved forward revolutionary change from jing park by two persons, Dr. io zigzag fashion. the-the old China to the new China Chen and Li Boti. Working Per- To gauge the progress of the led by her Communist Party is sonnel, when we actuallY started People's Republic, three distances the most decisive historically -and publishing in 1952, totaled just six. need to be measured. First, the the indispensable basis for reduc- These six did the organizing, edit- distance between China bef ore ing the other distances. ing and staff writing of articles, liberation in 1949 and China to- translation from the Chinese, day; here the progress has plainly editorial correspondence, PromG' been phenomenal. Second, the Goals and Growth tion, photo-co)Jection, laYout and distance between. the things ac- copy-reading fact everYthing is de- -in complished and those still to be Today, the new ihi.ru but the mailing which was from addressing the long, done; clearly the achievements in terminedly Shanghai, where the Printing, too, of shortening the second all fields are but a fraction of hard task was done, and where two of us distance. And she is J.earning those required to turn a country traveled regularly to put each is- populous from the gains and faults of her sue to bed. so vast and into a years to extend what modern socialist land, developed first thirty Today, we have more language proved and discard then. as it should be both materially has valid editions than we had PeoPIe what has not. including those and culturally. , Third, the dis- A11 departments, is process, so important photography and design, crepancy between what was done It this of the Chinese people and to all have larger staffs than the whole in these 30 years and what might to involves a quarter magazine had in 1952. The total have been done,. thus seen, the others since it of all humanity, that our magazine personnel numbers some two has sought to illuminate not in hundred. And fine printing facili- ISRAEL EPSTEIN, etlitor-in-chief of terms of abstract argument,- but ties are at hand here in Beijing China Reconstructs, has been with the perhaps not as ef- magazine since it started. mainly through close-ups of Chi- - soruetimes First English-language is- sue, 1952, First Spanish issue' 1960' French edition began 1963. Arabic edition. from 1964' CHINA RECONSTRUCTS fectively used as the relatively ,s primitive ones available then. !i. Many of us recall with fondness those early direct, family-like a: days when the whole the entire ll a:. new society which we- knew was behihd us-and the part-our small .initiating force felt so $ palpably linked, as did -we to our early readers. The new nation was young then, the magazine newborn. As the poet Words- worth wrote during the French Revolution long ago, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven," and our opening announcement re- flected that feeling: The purpose of China Re- constiucts is to present the work and achievements of the Chinese people to people abroad who believe that al1 nations should cooperate for peace and mutual benefit. As practically everybody now 196l: the late Premier Zhou Enlai, Vice-Premier Chen Yi anal DenB Yingchao, knows and even the illdisposed accompanied by Soong Ching Ling and Jin Zhonghua (then editor-in-chief) view the commemorative exhibition can no longer deny in the face on the magazine's tenth annivcrsary. of mounting facts, China has moved ahead tremendously. is strong music, cinema Weak and divided for many country She drama and enough repel attempts - decades, our country has be- to all to and on works that embody our come united turn back the clock. best national tradition"g and our Long racked by malignant in- Chi.na Reconstructs will new expenence. flation which brought ruin to chronicle the life of the Chinese Quickly, the magazine proceed- agriculture and urban occupa- people in authoritative articles, ed to do what it undertook. Its tions alike, China now has a vivid features, representative first cover, reproduced on p. 2, was stable price level and a nation- photographs, drawings and of peasants bringing farm imple- wide economy that serves all eharts. It will relate how dif- ments to their own plots acquired the people . ficulties are overcome and prob- in the land reform, the most basic Moreover, events have proved Iems solved, It will'report on change in Chinese society in 2,000 that China is now a strong our resurgent art, literature, years. The back cover featured a Russian edition, 1966-1978; Portuguese eilition began ceased publication I979. German etlition, from 1978. 1980. First issue in Chinese,1980. rVadrrnirieang vol Iti$er3*ft{F( *nd ?ecliril s i&'t " O i.esr*$,"j JANUARY 1982 striking woodcut the rebuilding i i,.1i?'.Y of China's wartorn- industry. The r:i lead article, by Soong Ching Ling {' (Mme. Sun Yat-sen, the late Hon- l',. orary Chairman of the People's i Republic of China and head of the China Welfare Institute, our pub- lishers) was entitied "Welfare Work and World Peace." It was the first of the more than 30 notable pieces she was to write for Chi,na Reconstructs over almost three decades. After enumerating the brand- new medical, labor insurance, child-care and other services available to the mass of Chinese '' people for the first time in his- -@ tory, Soong Ching Ling wrote: u'Such ' ,!tt-/.*E policies, principles and pro- .s gress are possible only in nations that are truly independent-na- 1978: So_ong Ching Ling receives Isract Epstein and Li Boti, both on the maga- fine's.reditorial_board, at her home. On the right is Luo Shuzhangq, a member,bf tions which allow no infraction of the Standing Committee of the National peo[le,s Congress, their own right of self-determina- tion while at the same time seek- ing cooperation with al1 who re- 'World renowned actor Mei Lan- Katayama, Burmese political tead- spect that right.