'.:{ linshel ]raviilil* aL the L'hengdlc Summer Rrst-.:i Articles of the Month f\f, PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ARABIC AND BIMONTHLY GERMAN BY THE CHINA WELFARE INSTITUTE'N (sooNc CHTNG LING, CHAIRMAN) The lsrton vot, xxvlil No. 7 luLY 1979 Sy rhony in nlno CONTENTS The qnd Our Postbag exchonges betweeniU.S. Chinese musicions thot helped forge deeper friendship. Poge 6 Cartoons 3 Across the Land: The Luoyang Bearing plant 4 Music and Friendship - The Bbston Symphony Orchestra in China Tan Aiqing 6 o step bockword now for o run- Seiji Ozawa as I know Him Liu Dehai IJ orrow.- Poge 15 Economic Readjustment to Speed Modernization 15 Science"and Technology: Fossils Show Eucaryotes Earlier Than Thought; New Spectrum Lines of Fluorine Atom Laser; Multi-Antimycin Fungicide for Agriculture 18 Einstein's discoveries were received peiyuan in Chino Einstein and China Zhou 19 ond celebroted ot the recent l00th onniversory Stamps ol New China: Albert Einsteln Commemorative ZU itth. Poge li Einstein Commemoratlon Activities 21 With the Dong People of Guangxi you yuwen 22 Fable-s for-Today: The Race Of the Frog and the Tiger Guo Sijiu 26 South Fujian 3 Xiamen -(Amoy) Wu Tong 27 Three Senior Citizens Tell Their Stories 34 ln Our Condemn Unfeeling Sons 38 A-Han System Today bhen Rinong 40 Memori g Dehuai (part il) Sonior Citirens Hu 44 Sportsr American Basketball Team in China 47 An lmperial Moun in Resort at Chengde 48 Whot hoppens ofter retirement Iibet's Menba N ionality Zhang Jianghua _ - in Chino? How do and Wu elderly people spend their doys? Three senior citizens Congzhong 54 'Wild yuan describe their lives. poge 34 Man' - Fact or Fiction? Zhenxin and Huang Wanpo 56 2g u Know? Jiaozi, Known as Dumplings 60 Chi e History-X Culture from the Third to Sixth Centuries Jiao Jian 61 Brick painting Roliefs Reveal Lost Arts yang Hong 65 Ro*orl ol The Fabulous Reproductions by ihe Rong eao2nai Snop Chen Sheng Empelors 68 Chengde, A Major Musical Event Zhao Jinglun 74 the cool mountoin resort 250 Chinese Cookery: Almond Float (Xingren Doufu) 75 A Story of an Officer kilometers northeost ol 76 Beijing served os Language Corner: thot Lesson summer copitol of the 7: At the Fair 78 Ging dyno5ty emperors, COVER PICTURES: Poge 48 Front: The "Thousand-armed and Thousand_eyed,, Buddha in the pu Ni.ng Temple, Chengde. Xie Jun yulong Back: A cataract in the Mountains in Si_ chuan province. Jin Xuqi "Wild MEn" Ate .the elusive creotures seen in the mountoins of H.ubei proving-e or beost? fwo onthropologists Editoriol Office: Woi .Fon Wen Building, Beijing discuss their findings ond some theories. pige 56 (37), Chino. Coble: "CHIRECON,, beijing. Generol Distributor! GUOZI SHUDIAN, P.O. Box 399, Betjing, Chtno. descriptions of plants and animals. magazine and China Pictorial are But more important are the reports of unique and have won favorite comments the real life of China. More and more from readers. For l7 years I have read Germans are interested in the Chinese and kept all the issues_ of your people because of their ancient culture magazine, which are all the same size. and long history, but very little is Though the present new format is good known here about your country. We from the editor's point of view, it looks look forward to hearing more about the so similar to our magazines here that present condition your people. of it is no longer worth keeping. I feel so H.F. sorry about the change of format. Wurzburg, Federal Republic ol Germany R.P.R. We Had Chinese Guests Arcachon, France Writing Is More Human I am very happy to tell you that when the Chinese Youth Speed Skating Team Congratulations on the overall im- Eight-Year-Old Reader visited Grenoble to iake part in the provement in your magazine. The International Skating Championships writing style is getting lighter, more I have read your magazine and I last February, we invited them to our natural, more human. The addition of think it is very good. I would like to home. Two coaches and a translator of new features gives the reader more see more articles on how the children your team were present. What a happy variety. Would enjoy articles on train in China are taught in school. My evening we had together. My three travel, the performing arts, sports, and mother and father have been receiving sons and a member of the Grenoble particularly television the magazine for some time now. I joined Youth Speed Skating Team also A.H.G. Iiked Chairman Mao Zedong very much. us. A French codch yours and Minneapolis, U.S.A, I am eight years old and would like exchanged experience. I believe the one day to visit China. young people had a good time in my house. We also invited Miss Anne- In recent months, China Reconstructs A.L.R. has Marie Dubois, a member of the French changed-to my eyes-from a poli- Gtoent, U.K. practical team. My other son won third place in tical art form to reports on a real people the French skating tournament last and believable China. Real year. He did not take part in this with reasonable disagreements and On Little Zhenhuan agreements appear your pages. year's tournament because he is now in A in the army. The Chinese team gave China which is an attractive land to Of particular interest for its humane and enjoy us their team flag. It is now hanging visit is appearing. A Chjna and scientific viewpoint was the article which is freer to go about the business on the opposite wall as I write this on Zhenhuan (the baby born coverecl of life instead of talking about it. letter. with hair, in our March 1979 issue-Ed.). is appearing. J.M. K.I.M. "In Our Society" is a column to be retained at all costs. My daughter heard Grenoble, France Olirser, Canada about this child on the radio and came to me in some distress as to his future. Meeting Chinese Players Though a new subscriber, I have At the time I said in Chinese society known China Reconstructs for a long he would be loved and cared for time, and can say that the new size is I am a long-standing reader of China without exploitation (e.g. as a "freak"). more practical. The content always Reconstructs which I buy every month She will be greatly comforted not only improving is of the greatest- interest, from the bookstore run by a member to see that this is true, but to see since so little- was known in the West of the Sino-Venezuela Friendship pictures of this lovely child, who will about this large country with such an Association, whom you know very wel1. eontribute so much to our understanding ancient culture. Keep it up. f am a badminton fan. When your of evolution. Let us hear about him badminton team came to Venezuela in z'P' from time to time, as in a way he 1975, I had the honor to receive them zagreb, Yugoslaoia epitomizes our human brotherhood. and made friends with Wang Wenjiao M.F. and Tang Xianhu. In the same year. I welcome the slightly modified for- Banjul, The Gam,bia I as a member of oqr swimming and mat of your magazine. We have now a diving team visited Beijing. In 1928, I smaller, more attractive and more well- met some of your players in Mexico. rounded size to "devour." I iike the Medicine for the People You see, I am a good friend of your way you keep it alive and change it sportsmen. for the better. saw your magazine friend's I hope more articles on the technique Your new series on Chinese history I in my and development of badminton in China is excellent. The writers of it display home. It so attracted me that I have will appear in your future issues, a fine capacity for objective and subscribed to it myself. I enjoy the pictures, J.R.N. balanced reporting. Hopefully we will varied content and and read it from cover to cover. Caracas, Venezuelo find articles such as those from time to time in your magazine. As a medical student, I hope you will K.K. include in your magazine a column on providing on Real Life in China Kangasala., Finland medicine, information your system of medical education and your I was amazed to see the rich content how to make medicine serve and fine layout of your magazine. My Liked Old Format people. I believe these will help us greatly. friends and I especially appreciate the travel articles, pictures of beautiful I prefer the old format o! China S.M.M. scenery, reproductions of art works and Reconstructs, as both that of your 'Shibin El Kom, Egypt 2 CHINA RECONSTRUCTS Ox-I'ractor (a comment on the lack ol spare parts) W ang Dozhttcttto Jittg Du ( I hr. sign rt'arls : "r-o Snroking,,t S.t,,tr, "illommy, ytru forgot ClLe ru Xtanqi your ball of yarn !', Grafting Shoots (a satire on people who don't investigate before doing something) Zhao Liong .t tILY '1979 $ {_ Cutting the gear of a large bearing u'ith a machine made by the workers. ACROSS THE LAND g .FHE Lucryang Bearing Plant, The Laoglang Beuring r which began operation in 1958, is a modern enterprise sup- plying thousands of factories, Bearings get an antirust spray, A bearing smallel than a wristwateh.