Wednesday, September 01, 2004

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Is Chinese drowned in the sea of English?: English language has never been so popular in China. Among the new additions to everyday Chinese, you find "E-mail", "WTO", "SARS" and "MBA"; wherever you look you find English, in newspapers, TV shows and even in government documents. But some academics worry that too much English language will hold back the development of the national language.

China's 10 major risk factors before 2010: One must think of danger in time of peace. At the time when the "11th Five-Year Plan" is in the making, the topic group of the National Development and Reform Commission conducted an survey among 98 well-known Chinese and foreign experts from various ministries and commissions under the State Council, major scientific institutes and academies, main people's organizations as well as foreign universities and international agencies stationed in China.

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