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No longer a ticket to better future
2011-06-01 10:11
Pan Yingjie, the president of Shanghai Ocean University, can never forget the summer of 1977 when an examination changed his life. It was not the easiest of times for the 27-year-old Pan then as life seemed bleak after the daily toil at a rural fertilizer plant in Anhui province that was not only sapping his energy, but proving a health issue for his pregnant wife.
Welcome changes to English teaching
2011-06-01 10:11
English learning has changed over the years in China. I taught English first at Lanzhou University in 1990-1991 and 1992-1993. I have also taught English at Beijing International Studies University from September 2001 onward.
Decision that changed the course of my life
2011-06-01 10:11
I was one of the first few that appeared for the gaokao, or the college entrance exam, in 1977, when it was resumed after the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). I was 30 then. Nine years of hard labor in rural environs till then had made me, a Beijing native, give up hope of ever returning to a campus, let alone think of being one of the veterans of China Daily.

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Geng Jiasheng, 54, a national master technician in the manufacturing industry, is busy working on improvements for a new removable environmental protection toilet, a project he has been devoted to since last year.

No longer a ticket to better future

Welcome changes to English teaching

Decision that changed the course of my life