By Xinhua writer Guo Ying
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — Among the excited shopaholics and selfie-takers among China’s outbound travelers is another group – more serious and usually carrying their medical records.
Late afternoon sun sends a long shadow across the Jimmy Fund building of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston(from Facebook).
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, Nov. 12, 2015, — Today is the birthday of Sun Yat-sen (Nov. 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925), first president and founding father of the Republic of China. The painting below was created by artist Minghuang Zhang to honor Mr. Sun’s birthday. The photo was taken recently at Empire Auction Inc. office in Boston Chinatown.
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Singapore, Nov. 7, 2015, — At 3 PM local time, Xi jinping and Ma Ying-jeou formally met each other and shaked hands in front of more than 500 reporters for 90 seconds. It is the first handshake between leaders of the two sides of Taiwan Straight in 66 years, and will open a new era of peaceful cross-strait exchanges.
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Oct. 31, 2015, — Mr. Wang Jianlin, Chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group, was invited to speak at Harvard Business School on Friday. The talk titled Going Global The “Wanda” Way attracted about 900 students. Mr. Wang talked about ambitious goals of making Wanda first-rate global company in real-estate, high-end hotel, entertainment and sports.
Mr. Wang speaks at HBS (file photo).
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Tencent ranks as the largest Internet enterprise in Asia and third largest services provider worldwide, after Google and Amazon. It serves the most users in China and is Asia’s first Internet enterprise with over USD $100 billion market value. Tencent provides a wide range of online services, gaining strength in mobile services, including gaming, social communities, advertising, reading, videos, music, and eCommerce, which are top-ranking in China’s Internet and mobile industries.
To support heavy Internet service traffic, Tencent installed over 300,000 servers running on the live network and has purchased nearly 10 percent of all servers in the Chinese market in recent years.
Eric Xu speaks at a tech conference in 2014(file photo).
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By Xue Zhaofeng , speech at US-China Hi-Tech Summit, Boston 2015
I’m pleased to give some remarks on behalf of Peking University Business School’s (BiMBA) “Modular Innovation and China’s Opportunities” delegation. Our members are mostly from the EMBA alumni of Peking University Business School (BIMBA). All of them are excellent leaders from the investment and industry fields. Our trip to the United States is to search for the origins of innovation, and to explore new technologies, new business models, and new business opportunities.
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By Xujun Eberlein
Nearly two years ago, when I translated Yang Jisheng’s response to Dikötter’s strange comments on Tombstone, I said I was intensely interested to find out whether Mao really said “It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill,” and if he did, in what context. I received a couple of clues, but none provided the complete context, and I have been left wondering since. I even sent an email to Yang Jisheng asking if he knew about this Mao quote, but did not hear back – perhaps the email address I got from a journalist friend was no longer valid.
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By Chen Rui, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
In the afternoon of September 28, 2015, studio No.2 of China Film Group (CFG) was crowded with people from diverse background. Professionals from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, Chinese Federation of Literacy and Art Circles (CFLAC), China Literary Criticism Center, State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of PRC(SARFT),People’s Daily Press, CCTV, China Film Association, Xinhua News Agency, People.cn, CNR, ifeng, China.com, China Research Center for International Economic Development, China Business Journal, China Biographical Literature Association and Central University of Finance and Economics etc., as well as friends from France, the United States, Singapore, Britain, Indian and Spain gathered together to watch
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Deepen US-China Cooperation Cooperation and Create a Bright Future for High-tech Industries
Speech at the US-China Hi-Tech Summit
By Ming Yi, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Industry and Information Technology Commission
Translated by Menglai Han, Anna Tse
Respectful guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends:
I’m very pleased to attend the US-China Hi-Tech Summit, and I enjoy meeting with you to strengthen our friendship, deepen our cooperation and seek common development. Firstly, on behalf of the Guangzhou city government, I want to express my sincere thankfulness to Haiyin Capital! I also want to give everybody warm welcome and good wishes!
Mr. Ming Yi (right) and translator Anna Tse at US-China Hi-Tech Summit, Boston 2015(photo by Menglei Han).
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Boston, Oct. 5, 2015, — Less than a week after receiving the Warren Alpert Award from Harvard Medical School, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou is selected as one of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The other two scientists sharing this award are: William C. Campbell of Ireland and Satoshi Omura of Japan.
The picture of Tu Youyou was featured on nobelprize.org in the announcement today.
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