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Morning on the grasslands. ll'ang Xitrntin '+ 8i!. _,1 f\9 i\ FOUNDER: SOONG CHING LING (MME. SUN YAT.SENI llse3.1e8ll. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE ClllNA wELFARE tNSflTUTE tN ENGLISH, FRENCH, spANlsH, ARAHC, GERMAN, poRIUGUESE AND cHlNEsE VOt. XXX No. 12 DECEMBER 1981 Articles of the M onth CONTENTS ln Memory of the 1911 Revolution Noti,onwide celebrotions mork the 70th onni- Politics versory'of ol the Hu Yoo' ln Commemoration: the 70th Anniversary of the 1911 bong the Centrol the Bevolution 4 Committee ex on peocelul reun mother' Economy iond, ond invi visit the Diversilying the Rural Economy 11 moinlond. Poge 4 Our Brigade's Uphill Struggle 1B Herdsmen on the 'Roof of the World 46 ;& Hainan, the Treasure lsland (l) 56 After the Deluge China's Prepared Food lndustry h4 Losses ore severe ofter Culture ond Art summer floods in Sichuon province, but A People's Cultural Center in Dalian 41 people ore rebuilding Pursuit 44 with couroge, ingenuity The Road l've Traveled 45 ond hope. PoEe 7 Husband-and-Wife Design Team ta The Wanfotang Grottoes 71 Medicine,/Sports Lives Mentolly lll New Lives, New Hope for the Mentallv lll 19 New for the Beijing lnternational Marathon Race 66 Progroms medicotion, occupotionol theropy ond sociolizotion in Shonghoi Across the Lond help potients into normol life ond ovoid Alter the Deiuge 7 relopses. Poge 19 A Famous Beiling Dish 32 Beijing's New Subway Network 52 Herdsmen on the Friendship 'Roof of the World' Journalists Make Friendship Visit to Thailand Scientific arosslonds Notionolities monogemenl in Yushu New Turning Point in Tibet 29 Tibeton Autonomous Future Scientists Spread Their Wings Summer Prefecture the highest - postorol lond- in Chino Science Camp for National Minority Youth 34 brought prosper' Science -ftrosity lo hordy locol Puee 46 China Launches Three Satellites with a Single Rocket 22 herdsmen. Columns ond Speciols Our Postbag Hoinon, the Treosure Cartoons J lslond Children: Triplets Go to School 55 Ups ond downs in Hoinon's Do You Know: How China Communicates with the World? 33 economic development; curent News Briefs-Animals and Plants 62 dynomic growth reflects recent Legends and Tales from History: Jie the Tyrant Last policies stressing tropicol. cosh King of Xia 6B crops suited to locol condi- Language Corner: Lesson 12 tions. Poge 56 A Letter 69 Cover Pictures Front: Two girls from Xinjiang attending the Summer Summer Science Comp for Minority Youth Science Camp for National Minorlty Youth. Young people ol 54 minority notionolities lrom Liu Chen oll over lhe country ottend the first-ever Summer Back: Bubber plantalion on Hainan lsland. Ou Songde Science Comp in Beijing. Poge 34 Edltorlol Office: Woi Wen Eullding. 8€iiing e7), Chfno, Coblc: "CHIRECON" Belilrg. Gemol Dirtlbutor: GUOJI SHUDIAN, P.O, Bor 399, B.lilng, Chino. for their work. The siory "Tombs ot script, one of the ancient scripts of the Huns in Their Horneland" is a very Bharat. Indo-Sino (Bharat-China) rela- good example of what I mean by educa- tions in all fields date from the pre- tional, as I did not know the "Huns" Christian era, when Brahmi script was from Europe were associated with Asia. in force. The above-mentioned mark- POSTBAG Every issue is read and re-read for ings, also primitive carved inscriptions articles like that. Thank you. (like on page 64) should be considered WILLARD G, SIBUS once again Matter-of-Fact Analyses to co-relate with Brahmi Auburn, N.Y., U.S.A- and other ancient scripts of Bharat. Hope you will continue to publish I am sorry to learn that Sichuan such articles. province been Home has stricken by floods. of Overseas Chinese C. B. DESAI Please accept the enclosed 10 Marks as Bedkihal. lndia a donation to express my concern and Great has been my joy to find in sympathy. My friendship for your your August issue an article concerning eountry is heartfelt. the 900,000 Hakkas and their ancestors' Rural Youth I hqve read man;' magazines from land. Indeed. your article is one of abroad, but none is more appealing those links that come to strengthen I was particularly interested to see than China Reconstructs. The articles relations berween foreign and Iocal articles on rural youth and on the are clear, concise and many-sided. Hakkas. energy problem in your June issue. as Most admirably, your editors do not I am certain that your article would both touch on my work in rural development remain silent about exisring problems be warmly welcomed among Hakkas in this country, recently ravaged in China. Instead, they make matter- abroad (especially the young). In fact. by war, landlocked, still too dependent of-fact analyses of them. This gives it moving young on routes through South is to note that the Africa, the feeling that people in your country generation of Hakkas abroad are more and with no oil of its own. Articles such are working very hard to overcome eager today to keep-?nd to unclerstand as the April ones on biogas and difficulties. the cultural ties with "Meixran" Such solar energy are very wel- come- GEHD WEDEMEYER ties do stand the test of time. I suppose you could not go into al1 the technical Wiesbailen, Wesl. Gsyrn,snll Warm thanks to you f or having details often in a generai magazine, but I would like to Thank gou for your ilonation, uthich broadened my understanding of the home of our ancestors and its achieve- see more about development efforts has been fortuarded, to China's Red using means Cross Society. Ed. ments and plans. within reach o{ rural - WONG CHUT TUEN people. The other essential. the spirit ()uangzhou, China and cultivation of the people is often More Economic Data well covered, as in the three-part re- port from Zhongshahai in your June Overseas Chinese University rssue. I am particularly interested in the economic aspeets of BRIAN MACGARRY the country, It In the June issue I read the article Salisburu, Zimbabtoe might be in-formative to have some about the overseas university in China regular features on the progress of where youth from Asia are studying economic programs through the use oI technical and material sciences. Is Correction charts or' graphs on a recent as well there some university for social and I read with interest the story about as historical basis. political, and especialiy philosophical a premarital clinic in Shanghai in As the redevelopment oI China under sciences where youth of your friendly your November 1980 issue. physi- the new modernizations beeomes bet- part government As a of world learn about cian I too consider these premarital ter defined, it might be helpful to and social life? Why is the university clinics to be very important health explain how these programs will be not some town? Why are there not in tacililies in modern China, implemented and progr.ess monitored. some European studel)ts? Are students llowever, I disagree with the doctors, .Because there could be a Iot of in- going painting exhibitions, to the on recommendations that women suf- terest among the academic community cinemas? Do theater, concerts, the fering from congenital or rheumatic in learning or studying in China, an they watch TV, listen to radio, gramo- heart diseases should be advised not exchange forum might be established phone records and tape-recorders? - Do to have chiidren. In China today as a regular featule of the magazine. you student follow have clubs which medicine has advanced to such a stage, Procedures for a Chinese student to actual evdnts in social and the other especially in Shanghai, study in this or other countries wouid my hometown, areas of life? Are the students learn- that most congenital and rheumatic help people in this country understand ing about European life, and llfe in heart disorders can now be successfully better how they might help in arrang- parts the world? other of corrected and patients allowed to lead ing study or teaching assignments. IVAN SLOTHAUER normal JOHN STOCKTON lives thereafter, including Zemun, Yugoslavia childbearing. Rochester, N.Y., U..S.A. TSUNG O, CHENG Ancient Rock Carvings Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Educational Value The articie "Ancient Rock Carvings You are quite ri.ght. We should har*e in Inner Mongolia" (Ivlarch 1981) in- sai.d toomen who sulfer trom serious Your June issue as usual is better terested me very much. On page 65 cases of such d.iseases should, not haue than the previous issue. To me its in- it says that "Many marks on the chililren before treatment. When their formation and edueational value is carvings are primitive words or cases haue improoed, after treatment, almost beyond compare. I enjoy emblems of different tribes. Other theA can of course haue child,ren. As articles such as "The Dazu Treasure- deeply carved marks are possibly Uou said in gour letter, mast congenital House of Carvings" and others pertain- numerals." and ,rheumatic heart disorders can be ing to the history of China. I per- I found a fantastic resemblance in successJullg treated ln Chi.na today. sonally wish to congratulate your staff these Ietters and numbers to Brahmi - Dat. 2 CHINA RECONSTBUCTS CARTOONS I l\ real lan. IIe Wei. pa % -\h- 't\ | r-# E\ eryone has his k; own strengths. Yang Chao Two ways to fight graYity" Zhuang XtLortg Avantl draws ctrickens. Qu Jianfang, DECEMBER 1987 I 0 memoratiom: rh 70rh * aB$Efr?fffirffiry of the 1981# Ieader of the 1911 Revolution, and arated from the mainland and has lffi i311 Hi,;,"J-,:N his comrades. remained so for 32 years. What a which overthrew the dynasty, Qing "D1.,Sun Yat-sen was a great misfortune f or our nation ! the last feudal dynasty in China, national hero, a great patriot and Great changes have taken place in terminated the system of au- the great forerunner of the demo- China and the world as a whole.
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