from Sanming City government website: http://www.sm.gov.cn/bmzd/smjsw/%BF%C6%C…
计划生育宣传教育方法
方法：
（一）典型引路典型引路，又称典型示范，就是通过典型的人和事，来教育群众，鼓舞群众。榜样的力量是无穷的，具有鲜明时代特点的典型本身就是一面旗帜，具有很强的感染力和号召力。积极发现培养典型，热情颂扬时代典型，借助榜样的力量，对人们进行教育、影响、带动，可以把抽象的说教变成形象的示范，为使群众学有榜样，赶有目标。典型引路用得好，可以起到“点这一盏灯，照亮一大片”的作用。
运用典型引路进行宣传，可以通过经验交流会，请先进单位或典型人物作报告，介绍其经验和做法；也可以通过向各地发文件、通报事迹材料，推广他们的经验和体会；还可以通过大众传播媒介，如报刊、杂志、广播、电视等刊登、传播他们的先进事迹；也可组织现场会、座谈会、演讲会等方式，现身说法，达到自我教育，自我启发的目的。 (more…)
陈丹青：好一场举世未有的青歌赛
南方周末 陈丹青
政治运作周全平衡，是属明智，施之于文艺，便起乖悖。
又一届宏大漫长的CCTV青年歌手大奖赛隆重播出好几周了。我呆看几眼，叹为观止：从《我爱祖国》到《想你想得心发慌》，从军人演唱的革命战歌到伯爵夫人咏叹调，谁说咱文艺不够多元？民族、民间、美声、原生态、主旋律、流行曲，青歌赛囊括了几乎所有歌曲类型，同台比，分组拼，力避厚此薄彼，处处协调精心。评审者一律是资深专家与历届获奖者，但仍然根据不同辈分、资望、民族、职衔等等，细细考量配置。另有“监审组”高居其上，间或“当庭”陈述。判分的精确，不在话下；评审发言绝对秉公而断，情理并茂。电视台主持人则必口吐莲花，应声总结。还专设庞大豪华的“第二现场”另请权威当场回应观众来信。至于我曾反感的知识考试，实则考题任选，占分则微乎其微。总之，全过程晶莹透明，好比高清晰电子显像屏幕及诸位年轻歌手酥嫩光洁的扮相，望之如对美玉，无可挑剔。 (more…)
前面评论过地产公司对国际市场融资途径并为断绝，例子是刚刚上市的华程。这里又增加一个新例证，地产公司还可向国际市场发行债券。这些债券尽管评级（标准普尔）不高，凭着高额回报率，还是吸引了众多投资者。
见：Chinese bond yields attracting investors
作者：严钰 发布日期：2008-04-18
http://www.eeo.com.cn/eobserve//finance/…
网络版专稿 记者 严钰 4月18日，备受关注的基金一季报发布，上投摩根、工银瑞信、融通、银华、益民5家基金公司披露旗下34只基金2008年一季报。季报显示，在股市大幅调整的情况下，基金股票仓位明显下降，股票仓位平均降幅超过7个百分点。
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London Stock Markets Encourage China’s Smaller Firms
from: http://huiylc.com/2008/04/london-stock-m…
LONDON has become a gateway to Europe for China’s businesses with about 400 Chinese companies investing in the United Kingdom, and with many choosing the capital to host their European headquarters.
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How long does it take the average country to adopt a typical technology? The surprising answer: nearly half a century, or 47 years. “There is, however, substantial variation in these lags, both across countries and across technologies,” write HBS professor Diego A. Comin and colleague Bart Hobijn of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
They discuss two questions: ‘What are the key economic aspects that differ across technologies that influence the speed of diffusion?’ and ‘What are the key cross-country differences in endowments, institutions, and policies that impinge on technology diffusion?’ Here is their paper.
NYSE Euronext likely to launch A-share IPO in China
NYSE Euronext will likely become the first foreign company to launch an initial public offering of A shares in mainland China, Caijing magazine reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
John Milton (1859)
Walter Bagehot
THE “LIFE 1 of Milton,” by Professor Masson, is a difficulty for the critics. It is very laborious, very learned, and in the main, we believe, very accurate; it is exceedingly long,—there are 780 pages in this volume, and there are to be two volumes more; it touches on very many subjects, and each of these has been investigated to the very best of the author’s ability. No one can wish to speak with censure of a book on which so much genuine labor has been expended; and yet we are bound, as true critics, to say that we think it has been composed upon a principle that is utterly erroneous. In justice to ourselves we must explain our meaning.
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There are two methods on which biography may consistently be written. The first of these is what we may call the exhaustive method. Every fact which is known about the hero may be told us; everything which he did, everything which he would not do, everything which other people did to him, everything which other people would not do to him, may be narrated at full length. We may have a complete picture of all the events of his life; of all which he underwent, and all which he achieved. We may, as Mr. Carlyle expresses it, have a complete account “of his effect upon the universe, and of the effect of the universe upon him.” 2 We admit that biographies of this species would be very long, and generally very tedious; we know that the world could not contain very many of them: but nevertheless, the principle on which they may be written is intelligible.
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Ranking of Chinese Law Schools by Scholarly Impact (Citations)
Beijing University Law School １４０４
Renmin University Law School ９３０
Wuhan University Law School ９００
China University of Political Science and Law ８２７
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law ６１８
From 中国人文社会科学学术影响力报告２０００－２００４, by 南京大学中国社会科学研究评价中心. See:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2007-10/19/content_6905868.htm
In the name of “socialist new village” movement, China’s provinces, such as Jiangsu, have been confiscating peasants’ houses and lands without giving them reasonable compensation since 2006. In these provinces, peasants were mandated to move to the concentrated residence, assigned a unit of the government-built apartment building, and given a pathetic amount of monthly stipend in exchange of their old houses, lands and traditional life style.
Many peasants refused to leave their homes. The local governments, in return, played all kinds of dirty tricks on them. Mr. Chou Lin, for example, experienced man-made black-outs, water supply cut off, and noisy fireworks outside of his window during night, because he rejected the government’s notice to move. Mrs. Jin, a 60 year-old lady from Nantong, was beaten up by the gangsters hired by a government-supported developer, and they broke her ribs.
For those who moved the “concentrated residence,” they were disappointed. Mrs. Zhao Meilan, a homeowner of a 200-square-meter house and a 0.4 acre land, was reallocated to a transitional apartment less than half the size of her old house. She was given a 25$ monthly stipend, which covered less than a fraction of her living expenses.
Here is more.
A Chinese blogger uploaded detailed descriptions and photos on some cases. Please see here.