As Northeast China's vast countryside awakes from its six-month winter slumber, now is the busiest time for hundreds of millions of farmers. Chen Sufen is busier than most. The 50-year-old is responsible for planting almost half of the 400 square kilometers of cultivated land in Liaozhong County, of Liaoning Province, the major grain-growing area in northeastern China.
The National People's Congress (NPC) approved a law in 2004 to promote agricultural mechanization that also guarantees a raft of measures for farmers buying and using farming machinery.
You need a license to practice certain professions for example, to operate on a patient or to handle a lawsuit. But do you need a license to sing and dance and get paid for it?
I occasionally appear as a guest on a national television show called Today's Movies and TV. The producer usually partners me with a beautiful lady and we chat about the latest releases, a la Roger Ebert.
There is no need to flatter a good friend's art works, just as we do not need tell our wives how beautiful they are every morning at breakfast.
London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Tonight, Poly Theater, Beijing
Yu Feng, famous painter, fine arts critic and prose writer, passed away at 91. She died on Sunday morning of cancer, her son Huang Dawei said.
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