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Wenchuan: Anti-quake Action Continues P8

A/H1N1: Socialized Media Seen From

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May 19th to 26th, the Fourth China-ASEAN Youth

Camp was held in China.

May 2nd to 5th, an ACYF work group attended the es-

tablishment of Youth Committee of SCO in Russia.

On May 18th, the Korea Youth Delegation visited China

National Erzhong Group Co.

June 8th to 9th, International Symposium on Youth

Employment and Entrepreneurship co-sponsored by In-

ternational Labor Organization, World Bank and ACYF

was held in China.

ACYF INFORMATIONRoundups

Beijing: Innovation ChangesLivingInnovation & Design - Young PioneersContest Closes

Shanghai: “Open Small Shops”Contest Kicked off295 shop booths provided free forgraduates

Qinghai: Voluntary Tree-planting Activity HeldThousands of Leaguers join in

Hubei: Environment ProtectionEducation HeldLet Children Value Resources and ProtectEnvironment

Sichuan: Bamboo KnittingTraining Course OpensFirst 100 rural young receive free training

Local Trends

“Go West” Program is in Full Swing

The Latest Statistics of “Go West”Program

Stories of Volunteers

Celebrations of May Fourth Movementand China Youth Day

Promotions of University GraduatesEmployment

China Welcomes Overseas Talents Home

Special Education School of YaoFoundation Contracted

Environment-friendly Envoys ProgramLaunches

16th Beijing University Student FilmFestival Closes

Stories During CollegeEntrance Exams in 2009

Socialized Media Seen From“Separation Diaries”

“Post 80’s” VS “Post 90’s”– A Campus Campaign

Social Perspective

Focus: “Go West” Program

Latest Data from CYLC CC

Statistics of University GraduatesEmployment

Who is Your Role-model

How to Look at Nationwide Hit of EnglishLearning

Survey and Statistics

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Celebrations of May Fourth Movementand China Youth Day

May Fourth Movement, outbreaking ninety years ago,is a movement of ideological liberation and new culture. Itimpregnated the May Fourth spirit of patriotism, progress,democracy and science, which became a valuable spiritualasset stimulating all Chinese people to unite and work forthe rejuvenation of the nation.

A grand gathering to mark the 90th anniversary of theMay Fourth Movement was held in Monday morning at theGreat Hall of the People. Contemporary youth were calledupon, under the present historical conditions, to further theMay Fourth spirit, and contributing to society in a bid tobecome a striving new generation with aspirations, faith,morality and knowledge, a generation that shoulders the glo-rious mission given them by the era.

Around the May Fourth Youth Day, young people allover the country held multifarious activities to mark theoccasion. The ACYF and CYLC CC appraised and conferreda series of awards including the 13th China Youth May FourthMedals. Peking University sponsored a concert themed at

C h i n a i n t r o -duced a set of policiesand measures to pro-mote employment ofcollege graduates, in-cluding encouragingthem to get jobs incentral and westernChina as well as smalland medium-sized

enterprises, to join voluntary campaign to serve westernChina, to join major scientific research projects; setting upyouth employment and internship bases; providing rural small

Welcome Back, Returnees

The financial crisis has promoted a new upsurge ofreturnees from abroad, and the “1000-elite Program” hasprovided more opportunities for overseas talents. Thepopulation of returnees between 1978 and 2007 is up to320,000, while the figure in 2008 alone exceeded 1/6 ofthose in the past three decades. Many people are lookingforward to a brand-new era of returnees.

What’s most valuable in the 21st century? The talent!This is a saying in Chinese film “Mobile Phone”. It is not ajoke, but a true portrayal of reality.

Promotions of University Graduates Employment

China Welcomes Overseas Talents Home A Timely Program

The financial crisis has brought about a wild rise ofunemployment all over the world from 2008 to 2009, leavinga drastically dwindled space for overseas students. The shockon high-end talents also intensified competition for talents.

In late March 2009, the details of “1000-elite Program”were released. To lure overseas talents back home, it mademeticulous arrangements to meet their consideration, suchas providing ample expenses and treatment for them,assigning specialized officers to take care of theirconventional anxieties, such as their social security, children’seducation, citizenships and visas. The range of its policy

credit loans; sponsoring online policy consultation weeks,etc. These are unprecedented in both coverage and amountof money involved.

Since November 2008, over 4 thousand internship baseswith 121.7 thousand internship posts have been set up. Withthe collaboration of other ministries, the Ministry of Educa-tion has run 10 nationwide online recruitment programs, pro-viding some 400 thousand job information, and the dailyclicks hitting 11 million at the maximum. Related depart-ments and schools held over 63 thousand job fairs for the2009 graduates.

“Advancing Together with Motherland” to mark the occasion.Financial Youth League Work Committee held the 2009 Fi-nancial Youth Forum in Beijing. The Shanghai League orga-nization unleashed the countdown of Shanghai Expo 2010to promote Youth Expo Action. By organizing young peopleto search stories of youth models, Yunnan League kicked offa publicity campaign on the theme of My Hometown andMy Business.

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covers Chinese origin as well as foreigners. This program isperhaps unprecedented in both intensity and extensity.

Behind the Brain Drain

China has a century-plus history of sending studentsabroad. It had sent only 130 thousandstudents abroad from 1872 to 1978 whileafter the reform and opening up, thefigure quickly soared to 1.2117 milliontill 2007.

In striking contrast to the hugenumber of students sent abroad, it is thedata on huge brain drain. Recently,however , a long wi th t he r ap iddevelopment of domestic economy, thepercentage of returnees is increasing.The returnee population first hit 20thousand in 2003 and the figures hit 35thousand, 42 thousand, and 44 thousandin 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively.Between 1996 and 2007, the averager e t u r n r a t e w a s a b o u t 2 9 . 5 % .Nevertheless, about 70% remainedabroad. It is easy for them to return, but difficult to goabroad once again. It is not only the amount of salariesthat worries them when thinking of coming back, but alsoconcerned with their identity, children’s education,corresponding social security, etc.

In 1983, Deng Xiaoping made an speech on UsingForeign Talents and Expanding Opening Up. In 1992, theChinese government introduced the policy of “supportingstudents to study abroad, encouraging them come back and

offering them free choice in coming and going.” From thebeginning of 21st century, the strategy of reinvigorating Chinathrough human resource development is adopted, and thegovernment introduced all kinds of programs and documentsto attract oversea talents to return. In 2004, China formally

introduced the green card system forforeign talents in China. From the seriesof policy changes, one can see the effortsChina has made in calling talents backhome.

Our Expectation

“The catch phrase years back amongus was ‘Only the fool wants to go back’,but now it turns out to be ‘Why are youstill here?’” In his book entitled China’sNew Revolution, famous writer LingZhijun wroted.

“What does the change mean for thisgeneration of students studying abroad?What does it mean for the future of China?”Qian Ning kept inquiring the issue in his bookentitled Studying in the USA.

The answer is getting clearer and clearer in the 21st

century. People like Li Yanhong, Deng Zhonghan, ZhouYunfan and Zhang Chaoyang, have been writing the miraclesof assets in the digital era at home. Ling asserts that the nextthree or five decades will definitely see China with all itssectors and branches dominated by returnees!

Both the country and the returnees are looking forwardto that day.

On April 30, the stone-laying ceremony of SpecialEducation School of Yao Foundation was held in Jiuquancity.

Sponsored by Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, thefoundation is a charity benefit foundation set up within theframework of China Youth Development Foundation. It isdedicated to all social benefit charity activities to promoteyoungster health and welfare. The school will be the firstspecial education school in Jiuquan and an important project

Special Education School of YaoFoundation Contracted

of Gansu province.

The school will start enrollment in this autumn, and it’llimplement standard technical recuperation education.Disabled children could study for free. It is expected to haveover 160 students by 2011. The Youth League of Gansu, YaoMing and the Yao Foundation will show further concern forthe school’s construction and development and make greatercontributions to the disabled children’s education throughoutthe province.

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ACYF INFORMATION

On April 26 evening, the awarding ceremony of the 16th

Beijing University Student Film Festival hit in Beijing.

Compared with last year, when “Assembly” made aclean sweep of all the three major awards of Best Film, Di-rection and Actor, it is rather well balanced this year. ZhouXun (Jue Zhou), the best actress in the last two years with“Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Perhaps Love”,became the queen a third time with her new work of “TheEquation of Love and Death”. Zhen Zidan (Donnie Yen), the

Kung Fu star experienced his film emperor debut with“Grandmaster Yip Man”. And the Best Film went to “For-

16th University Student Film Festival Closesever Enthralled”, directed by Chen Kaige. Besides, the win-

ner of Best New Artist is Yu Shaoqun, the actor of teenagerMei Langfang in “Forever Enthralled”. Zhang Jiarui won theBest Director Award with his finale “Red River” of theYunnan trio.

Chen Kaige characterized his feelings as “greathappiness” when receiving the award. “There is reason tohold the festival in spring. All university students are in thespringtime of your life. I can feel young and rigorous to bewith you. I owe myself also to all Chinese film goers. Thankyou so much for your support!”

B e s t F i l m : “ F o r e v e rEnthralled”

Best Director: Zhang Jiarui,“Red River”

Appraisal Committee’s Award:“If You Are The One”

On June 5, the World Environment Day, Environment-

friendly Envoys Program kicked off in Beijing. Six central

cities will be selected where 1 thousand young envoys will

receive systematic training, and each of them will train another

1 thousand trainees, thus to guide 1million people to join in

emission-reduction and environment-friendly communities.

Meanwhile, the envoys will encourage the trainees to

submit emission reduction schemes for families, campuses,

offices and enterprise designers. The organizing committee

will give professional technical guidance to the top 100

schemes and implement them in one-year.

Environment-friendly Envoys Program Launches

Some of the awardees for the 16th Beijing University Student Film Festival

Organizing Committee’s Award: “Super Typhoon”, “Deng Jiaxian” and “Seeking Happiness”

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Roundups

Best Actor: Zhen Zidan( D o n n i e Y e n ) ,“Grandmaster Yip Man”

Best actress award forZhou Xun, “The Equationof Love and Death”

Best New Artist: Yu Shaoqun,“Forever Enthralled”

Beat View Award:“PaintedSkin”

Most Popular Director: Ye Weixin,“Grandmaster Yip Man”

Most Popular Actress: ZhangJingchu, “Red River”

Most Popular Actor: Fan Wei, “Set off”

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On April 8, the Innovation & Design - AnnualYoung Pioneers Contest and the awarding ceremonyended in Beijing. Twelve cultural creative pioneers fromvarious sectors stood out, bringing the spectators withsuspense, happiness and affections.

Beijing: Innovation Changes Living

Shanghai: “Open Small Shops” Contest Kicked Off

Recently, “Open Small Shops”, a university studentbusiness creation internship contest kicked off in Shanghai,to provide the university graduates with more convenientenvironment to start business.

The Shanghai residents under 35 and new Shanghaigraduates are available to join the contest. The organizerprovided 295 booths (6-10 m2) , exempting them fromrent for one year. The rent exemption measure will lowerthe cost by 45%. Besides, the contestants can acquirebusiness training allowance and a monthly grantinternship as well. Finally, 1/4 of them will get an awardamounting to some 2 million yuan. They can also freelyopt for continuing or quitting the management after thecontest.

The organizer expects to discover a new way to promoteuniversity graduates employment and entrepreneurship, withcares from all areas of the society. Application and appraisalis kicked off. The internship stage will start in June this year,

With their impulse, inspiration and enthusiasm fororiginal art, Zhong Yongjian, founder of the firstdomestic campus network TV station, and Song Yang,designer of Nike sports shoes as well as representativeChinese young cartoonist together with eight otheryouth e l i tes were f inal ly crowned. Besides , 20nomination awards was introduces, covering a wide rankof innovative design, including sculpture, dancing,cartoon, planar design, multimedia, ornament andcostume design, creative planning, film and video,music, CRBT, broadcasting stations, and networks.

Presently, the new cultural industry is booming fastin China. Cultural innovation is impacting and changingpeople’s living with its irreplaceable edge and charm.A good idea can bring convenience and fun to all.According to Yuan Xiaobo, secretary general of thematch organizer, the match is designed to provide anarena for demonstration, to discover and foster moreinnovative designers, to draw the attention of all socialcircles and augment the status of innovation anddesigning in economic development.

and the management stage will last from this December tonext June.

Qinghai: Voluntary Tree-Planting Activity HeldOn Apri l 10, the Qinghai Youth Federat ion

launched a voluntary tree-planting activity in Xining.T h o u s a n d s o f y o u n g p e o p l e f r o m n e a r l y 4 0organizations took part in it. Over 400 mu (15 mu makea hectare) of mountainous land was leveled, over 1000pits dug and some 15,000 meters of water ditches dug

on that day. The ecological practice enhanced theinitiative and enthusiasm of youngsters in ecologicalconstruction.

For 22 years since 1988, the federation has beenmobilizing and organizing youngsters to join in the

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Hubei: Environment Protection Education Held

On April 22, the 40th World Earth Day, an environmentprotection education was held in Guangfutun ElementarySchool in Wuhan.

At the ceremony of the event, the school authoritiesmade a proposal to suggest pupil to guard the earth. Aseries of environment protection activities were held,including environmental is t s tars , environmentalprotection invention contest. They displayed thechildren’s paintings, writ ings, photography, andChinese calligraphic works on the theme of resourceconservation and environment protection.

In recent years, Hubei province introduced aprogram of “save water, paper, rice and electricity”, andall environment protection activities to popularizeenvironment protection knowledge, and make green theschool campus. And foster a sense of protecting theEarth from childhood by minor practice around.

activity. Over 300000 young people have taken part in,and they have leveled over 40000 mu of land, dug over3 million pits and planted over 3.5 million trees. Since1999, the federation has been organizing Mother RiverProtection Operation among youth. In the 11 years eversince, over 3 million youth have joined in to plant treesand grass as well as environmental consciousnessadvocacy. Furthermore, the federation has collectedover 18 million yuan by socialized operatito build anumber of Mother River Protect ion projects insuccession. Over 100000 mu of area has been improved.Such activities have made positive contributions toprotect the ecological environment and foster ecologicalconcept of youth.

Sichuan: Bamboo KnittingTraining Course Opens

On April 17, a bamboo knitting training course forrural youth started in Qingshen county, Sichuanprovince.

The training course was a part of the rural youthtraining program, which is developed by the SichuanYouth Federation. It provides 100 young farmers aweek-long training for free. Via expertise forums,exchange of experience and visits to demonstrationsites, the trainees were expected to promote employmentand business piloting. The training course is animportant move of youth federation to cope with thefinancial crisis. The improvement of young farmers’skills, promotion on employment and entrepreneurshipand pushes on economic development, are all importantfor rural work and development.

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Let’s Cherish The Memory

8 people were buried under theruins.

For two days, the 3 year-old girl Lulu hadbeen staying with the body of her mother.Now she and her papa are the only ones alivein family.

Three days before the quake, Yingying’smom had just celebrated her fourthbirthday. But now, her daddy, mom andgranny were in the dust.

The memory is still fresh in thedebris.

People returned to mourn the dead.

Tan Qianqiu died a martyr’s death inprotecting his students. His Alta MataWuhan University built a bronze statueof him in front of his former dormitorybuilding.

In May 10 evening, students of HanshanMiddle School let fly KongmingLanterns, wishing the people ofWenchuan quake area good luck.

The twin girls died in the quack. An artist molded the ashes of their victims into apottery of “Flower of Life”.

On May 11 , k ids of Xingta i HuiKindergarten of Hebei province extend bestwishes to the people of quake areas.

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Life Carries on Living

President Hu Jintao presents a wreath in front of the memorial wall of thedevastating Wenchuan quake.

Zhang Xuezhong, his wife, and theirnew house in Anxian county ofSichuan.

Workers on the construction ofChengguan Railway, which issupposed to link up the quake areasby May 12, 2010.

The whole nation marks the firstanniversary of Wenchuan earthquake.

The quake victims moving into newhouses in Shanxi province

Engineers on the site of August FirstMiddle School in Longnan city.

An air-view of a newly buil tpermanent resettlement area inXiaoyudong town of Pengzhou.

Photos: Anti-quake action continues

At the first anniversary of Wenchuanearthquake, 156 children of Sichuan sent analbum of Beautiful Flowers bearing theirsignatures to Premier Wen Jiabao. Recently,they’ve got a reply from the premier in hispersonal writing, which reads as follows:

April 26, 2009My dear kids,

Thank you so much for your BeautifulFlowers. I’m deeply moved when I see yourdelicate works. They’re by no means ordinarypainting works, but the true portrayal of yourpersonal experience in the heroic rescue and reliefeffort. Daring to face disasters, you haveconfidence and courage to overcome difficulties.Standing up on the debris, you have staunch anddauntless backbones. Burying deep your sufferingsand great love in your hearts, you have great forceto forge ahead. After experiencing disasters, youare purer, better, stronger, and solemner than ever.You have become aware of how to become usefulwith perseverance and help others out to build abetter life. You are the very personalization of themost beautiful flowers grown up on the debris. Youare the very future and hope of our state and nation.

At the first anniversary of the Wenchuanearthquake, the best action for us to memorize thevictims especially the kids is to do rehabilitationworks well after quake. Our country is still hauntedby disasters. Only with scientific outlook, practicalmind and hard working, can we surmount them,and people and above all the kids can lead atranquil, harmonious and happy life. You haveexpressed your longing for me in your paintings. Imiss you, too. I miss all the kids in the quake areas.I love you!

Affectionately yours,Wen Jiabao

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Cameramen shot 100 pictures ofhopefuls’ beaming faces at the firstanniversary of the Wenchuan quake.

We Hold Hope...

Youth Models

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On April 15, the CYLC CC, together with the Ministryof Education, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of HumanResources and Social Security, launched the 2009 recruitmentof “Go West” Program - a program encouraging universitygraduates to serve the western China as volunteers - whichattracts college students’ great concern.

Since its implementation in 2003, the program has sentnearly 100 thousand volunteers to over 500 poor towns andtownships in central and western China. After the expiration,some took up grassroots management jobs, others becamebusiness leaders in mountainous regions, and still othersbecame popular scientific and technological experts.

With the fallouts of the financial crisis, China feelspressure in promoting employment. Meanwhile, there is anshortage of grassroots personnel in western China, whichprovides a broad space and platform for the students toperform.

To meet the most common and urgent needs of youngpeople, the organizer is planning their work from the wholeinternational and domestic situation. They play a positiverole in guiding college graduates to serve the west whilechanging their concept of employment and get well trained.

“Go West” Program is in Full Swing

The Latest Statistics of “Go West” ProgramOn May 10, the recruitment of “Go West” Program

was crowned with success. A total of 96785 universitygraduates from over 1000 colleges and universitiesnationwide applied. This was a marked increase over theprevious years. Over 64 thousand of them were universitygraduates and above, accounting for 66.2% of the total.The proportion of applying students from western Chinahas remained high, hitting 47.7%.

Supported by central finance, the program has beenexpanded from 10 thousand volunteers to 15 thousand thisyear. Apart from the 4 thousand volunteers who work for atwo-year period from 2007 and a one-year period in 2008, itis planned to recruit 11 thousand new volunteers. The list ofvolunteers will be released in early July.

This year, the service period will be changed from 1 - 2years to 1 - 3 years. Volunteers will work in 11 specialoperations - post-quake reconstruction, grassroots youth work,education, medical care, agriculture, modern long-rangeeducation among rural Party cadres, grassroots procuratorates

and people’s courts, legal aid, developmental finance andrural safety construction. Meanwhile, Jiangsu, Liaoning,Fujian, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Zhejiang and Hainan willimplement local projects, recruiting graduates to work in poorareas in their own provinces.

The Post 80’s Volunteer Teacher in Poor CountyFour years ago, Peng Yang, a post

80’s (people born between 1980-1989)postgraduate, as a teacher of GuizhouInstitute of Finance and Economics,chose to become a volumteer teacherin a poverty-stricken mountainous areain Guizhou, instead of studying abroad.Not long ago, she sent a letter from theWumeng mountainous area entitled

Who is Going to Succeed Our Work. Starting from Hangzhou,this letter went through Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, etc,thus a relay of love and hope carries on.

Impacted by Peng Yang, over 100 university studentsjoined in the contingent to educate children in poor areas.The spirit of the times, embodied by young volunteers relayin education, is the traditional virtues of the Chinese nationas well as the pursuit of the contemporary youth.

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S i x y e a r s a g o , Ig r a d u a t e d f r o m t h euniversity and became oneof the first volunteer teamto go west. And now I’mworking in the organizationdepartment of Damaoqi ofInner Mongolia.

During the voluntaryservice day, I got to knowthat many excellent kidsthere were forced to dropout because of familypoverty. I sent them somenecessary utensils for

studies and gave them psychological tutoring. But as I hadonly 800 yuan per month in allowances, I could finance butfew kids. Then I spent my days off visiting the homes of 21poor students in Wuke town, and got a financial aid from theOverseas China Education Foundation. In 2008, I transmittedthe family visits report onto the China Volunteer Net, andposted a blog calling for aid. With the help of media publicity,the Baotou City Overseas Chinese Affairs Office donated200 thousand yuan and Zhipin Recruitment Co donatedanother 30 thousand yuan. The children also got 1.6 thousandnew books.

For six years, I spent over 8 thousand yuan out of myown pocket in visiting 320 poor students of 37 villages,running an errand of nearly 2.5 thousand kilometers, donating418 thousand yuan, and helping 300 poor kids in nine schoolsin Damao banner in realizing their dream of getting back toschool. Although we are often in the red, I feel myself quiterich when I see the children return to school with big smiles.

I Love the Kids on the Grassland-2003 volunteer Chen Yunguang

I g radua ted f romZhejiang University. In2005 I came to Tonglai ofSichuan province, servingas a junior middle schoolEnglish coach in the localchildren’s palace, as part ofthe “Go West” Program.With the backing of Tonglaiproject office, I created aweekend love classroomfor students left behind. Icontacted my Alma Matera n d l a u n c h e d a n e tcampaign to send bookswest, collected over 7000

books and set up eight love bookstores, and through media,collected over 100000 yuan in tuition and allowances for 52poor students. Due to my outstanding performance duringthe service period, in July 2007, I was transferred to SichuanYoung Volunteer Association to become a volunteer behindthe volunteers.

On May 12, 2008, Wenchuan was rocked and ravagedall of a sudden by a quake of 8 degrees at the Reich scale.According to division of work, I was responsible for therecruitment and dispatch of volunteers for rescue and relief.In the six months of overloaded operations, I began workeveryday before seven o’clock a.m., receiving phone callsand registering applications on the spot, and sendingvolunteers to work in quake- hit areas. I can’t remember howmuch road I have covered, how many phone calls I havereceived, and how many emotional volunteers I have hosted.Whenever they thundered at me pointing at my nose or shedtears silently joining me hand in hand, I’d always explain tothem patiently, or join them tearfully, giving them warmthand information within my capacity.

Incomplete statistics showed that we have dealt with 1.18 million applications, sent out 180 thousand volunteers anddeveloped 1.78 million voluntary services. Due to our orderly,effective organization and dispatch, the volunteers playedan irreplaceable role in the rescue and relief effort.

Lifelong Persuit- 2005 volunteer Jiang Yinfeng

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The 8th “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Proficiency CompetitionOpens.

One hundred Anhui Provincial Art Occupational Collegestudents joining traditional adulthood ceremony.

After the domestic cartoon film “The Pleasant Sheep andBig Big Wolf” was produced, nearly 50 TV stations played itas a hit for years without decline. The Pleasant Sheep serialbooks are one of the most popular books for primary schoolpupils.

Xi’an holds a 10000 poem recital rally. Picture shows astudent playing the role of the great poet Li Bai reciting Tangpoems.

Kids are celebrating Children’s Day.

Some of the cosplay unions in Changchun advocated the2009 Changchun International Cartoon Art Festival on thestreets.

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By the end of 2008, theCommunist Youth Leagueof China had a to ta lmembership of 78.588million, an increase of 3.149million, or up by 4.2% over2007, released by theorganization department ofthe CYLC CC. According tothe you th popula t ionprovided by the NationalBureau of Statistics, Leaguemembers acquire 26.02 %of China youth, up by 1.22percentage points over2007.

Statistics show that ofall the Leaguers, 40.337 million were students, accountingfor 51.3%, 21.171 million were workers in the first industry,accounting for 26.9%, 5.668 million were workers in the

second industry, accounting for 7.2%, and 11.413 millionwere workers in the third industry, accounting for 14.5%.Compared with 2007, student Leaguers increased by 1.609million, or 5.4%. Those in the first industry increased by 846thousand, or 4.2%. Those in the second industry increasedby 129 thousand, or 2.3% And those in the third industry andother sectors increased by 566 thousand, or 5.2%.

Out of all Leaguers, there were 35.681 million females,or 45.4%, 6.414 million were of ethnic groups, or 8.2%.Compared with 2007, female Leaguers increased by 826thousand, or 0.8 percentage points less, ethnic group Leaguersincreased by 43.1 thousand, up by 0.3 percentage point, andLeaguers in non-public economic organizations increased by912 thousand, up by 1 percentage point.

By the end of 2008, there were 2.836 million grassrootsLeague organizations including 172 thousand grassrootscommittees, 28 thousand grassroots work committees, 211thousand League general branches and 2.425 million Leaguebranches.

Latest Data from CYLC CC

Statistics of University Graduates Employment

The Blue Book on Employment: 2009 China Univer-sity Student Employment Report published by China So-cial Sciences Documentation Publishing House on June10 in Beijing shows that technology and management werethe two major categories of 2008 university graduates whohad the highest rate of employment after half a year.

According to the Blue Book, law and philosophy regis-tered the lowest rate of employment. Resource developmentand surveying and mapping were the major categories ofsecondary occupational school and college graduates whohad the highest rate of employment, while tourism and cul-tural management registered the lowest. Those who remainedjobless after half a year among university graduates werethose of ten specialties. Eight of these specialties also sawthe most jobless in 2007. They were, namely, law, computerscience and technology, English, international business andtrade, industrial and commercial management, Chinese lan-

guage and literature, electronic information and engineeringand accounting. 146700 secondary occupational school andcollege graduates from ten specialties remained jobless afterhalf a year, accounting for 34.2%. Seven of these specialtiesalso saw the most jobless in 2007. They were, namely, ap-plied computer skills, machinery and electricity integratedtechnology, e-commerce, accounting computerization, logis-tics management, computer net technology, and commercialEnglish.

T h e B l u e B o o k c o n s i d e r s e f f e c t i v e o r a lcommunication, and persuasion skills in talks as a basicwork capacity that university graduates have to improve.These are capacities of communication and creativity.

As the Blue Book shows, 1% of 2008 universitygraduates ran their ownbusiness, as compared with1.2% in 2007. The rate ofemployment for them afterhalf a year was about 86%,2 percentage points lowerthan in 2007. According theMOE figures, out of the735600 jobless after half ayear (including those whogot jobs first and lost themlater), 515900 continued toseek jobs, while another165100 remained inactive,b o t h i n w o r k o racademically.

Guangzhou introduced a new rule recent ly ,demanding a unified English examination for thosebelow 35. Was it a need for work or a makeshift measureon the eve of the Asian Games? While English learning

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Who is Your Role-model

According to anonline survey, Lei Feng,Zhang Haidi and Li Suli,who had been role-models for youth sincethe 1960s and 1970s, ares t i l l u p h e l d b ycontemporary youth.

A s t h e s u r v e yshows, in response to thequestion “Who Are YourRole-models of Youth”,

Lei Feng, well-known for his warm heart to people got themost votes (1168 votes, 14.16%), Li Xiang, pilot in innovationborn in the 1980s came closely second (1944 votes, 12.65%),and Zhang Haidi, disabled but strong-minded came third(1007 votes, 12.21%). Besides, Xu Benyu, model volunteer,Lee Kai Shing, the richest Chinese, and Yang Liwei,spaceflight hero, also got high votes. 86.30% of the voterswere young people between 14 and 34.

“I admire Lei Feng mostfor his selfless devotion andfearlessness of fatigue,” saidXiao Na, who had worked in astreet committee for one year.“These examples are actuallyaround. They are doing themost common and triflingthings. Yet they work in adown-to-earth manner, takingup complaints while workinghard. They are examplesworthy modeling after.

“We are imbued withinnovation and emotions. LiXiang is our absolute idol,” saidSui Haoyan, a third-yearunversity student, whose team of cameramen was beginningtheir process of piloting, adding, “We want to reach thestandard of our idol.”

How to Look at Nationwide Hit of English Learning

Survey and Statistics

1: How do you think about the rule of intenseEnglish training and unified examination amongcadres below 35?

A: Highly necessary. Cadres should take the lead in learningEnglish.

B: It depends on what job you are doing.

C: Absolutely unnecessary. It is a waste of resources. Youcan’t learn English well quickly.

D: It is right to select cadres who knows good English.

E: English is not the standard for selecting and judging cadres

is a hit, there is query questioning the usefulness ofEnglish. What is your opinion of the whole nationlearning English?

Following are the results of the survey

2: What do you think are the main reasons for theEnglish hit?

A: Threshold for entrance examination and employment

C: English will be more common used as the society is gettingmore open.

E: I can’t afford to get behind as everyone is doing.

B: Out of practical need for work

D: It is a link for learning foreign culture

A: 8.1%

B: 30.6%

C: 38.9%

D: 0.7%

E: 21.7%

A: 62.6%

B: 4.3%

C: 21.4%

D: 2.9%

E: 8.8%

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Beijing: A nervous teacher puzzled by twins

Xiao Du was assigned to takethe exam at Beijing No. 2 MiddleSchool, while his elder twin-brother was in another school.When Xiao Du and his mom cameto the entrance of the school, ateacher stopped him in a sweat, ask-ing him nervously if he had cometo the wrong examination room.

Xiao Du was confused at thefirst place. Then he was clear the

teacher had mistaken him for his twin brother. At the sight ofa student he mistook as coming to the wrong place, he gotalmost mad.

Guangdong: Writing exam considered easy, whilemath exam overly difficult

The theme of writing inGuangdong exam this year wascommon sense-related experienceor viewpoints, allowing optionaltitles and styles of writing. Manyexaminees felt easy for that.

But most examinees found itdifficult to get through the mathexam that afternoon. All questions,big or small, involved great

amount of calculation and very trifling. Some of them evencried after the exam, as they had no time to finish the lasttwo big questions.

Hebei: Five special examinees properly arranged

When the 2009 entranceexam began, there appearedfive special examinees in Hebeiprovince with different cases.They were properly arrangedfor different sites and took partin the exams.

An examinee in Cangzhouwas affected by contagious chicken pox prior to the exams.He was timely cured, but had to undergo medical quarantinefor seven days. June 7 was the very day he finished the saidquarantine. For safety sake, he was arranged to sit for examsin a separate site, with medical staff waiting outside.

Sichuan: A welcome drizzle at the largest exam site

On the early morning of June 7, Dujiangyan MiddleSchool, the largest site of college entrance exams in Sichuanquake areas, found itself in a fine drizzle. It was cooled downfrom scorching heat, portending well for the students in thedisastrous quake-hit zone.

Dujiangyan Middle Schoolwas the first permanent schoolbuilding that went into operationafter the quake. All 3500 exam-inees in the city were to sit forexams here, and 1041 rural exam-inees were lodged in the studentdormitories.

Shaoyang: A 43-year-oldfather joins two sons in en-trance exams

On June 7, there sat three spe-cial examinees in Shaoyang: a 43year-old father and his two sons.

The father was called XiaoHeqing, villager of Zhongshanvillage of Shaoyang .In 1986,Xiao joined the college entranceexams for the first time, butfailed. He repeated class for oneyear and failed once again. Thenhe had to give up and workedelsewhere to support his family.

Over the years, Xiao deeply felt it imperative to be knowl-edgeable and skillful to work outside. To make up the gapof general knowledge and professional skills, he gave uphis well-paid job and returned to Guizhu Middle Schoolin Shaoyang, where his younger son studied, and beganmaking his final dash in pre-exams review. Moved by hisfather’s spirit, his elder son also returned for the exams,thus the three of them becoming examinees in the sameclassroom.

Beijing: Many examinees came late and got zeromark for it

June 8 was the final day for2009 college entrance exams. Athunderstorm brought great incon-veniences to Beijing examinees.

“The traffic jam was terrible.”complained an examinee did not ar-rive at the exams site until 9:33 amthat day. He was too late to sit forthe science general exam. Anotherstudent phoned 120 to ask for help

at 8:50 am. Despite the ambulance speed, he did not arriveuntil 9:20am because of the congestion. He was also bannedfrom entrance.

The traffic jam brought by the thunderstorm deprivedmany examinees of their chance. The subjects involved wouldbe given zero mark. Thus, the examinees would surely losethe chance of getting enrolled this year.

Stories during College Entrance Exams in 2009

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The Ministry of Health announced on May 11 aconfirmed case of A/H1N1 in Sichuan province, thefirst of its kind in the Chinese mainland. Those whocontacted the patient on May 9 on the 3U8882 flightfrom Beijing to Sichuan as well as people who hadclose contact with these passengers were also placedunder medical observation at designated places or athome. After beginning a seven-day quarantined life,many began to write related diaries. This drew greatattention from net pals as their isolated life wasbroadcast live on the net.

Blogging for Quarantined Life

What to do nex t a f t e r be ing p laced underquarantine? This could be one of the main reasonsfor writing isolated life diaries.

“I phoned my friend telling him I don’t know whatto do these days. He said why not write some diary tokill time. I suddenly find it a good idea. For one thing,it can be time-consuming, and for another, it can beinformative to those who are mindful of me,” saidcindy33shan who was on the same flight with the firstA/H1N1 patient, adding, “They can become aware ofmy la tes t developments as wel l as the cont ro lmeasures taken by the Chengdu Center for DiseasePrevention and Control.”

L i k e w i s e ,the bloger “I’llnever tell you”said, “I used tot h i n k w r i t i n gb l o g s i ssometh ing fo rt h e y o u n gpeople. I won’tbother to do so,but now that Ia m u n d e rq u a r a n t i n e , Ij u s t d o s o t omake fun.”

Z h o n gShuang’s b log“My separationd i a r y : I w a sb r o u g h t t o athree star hoteli n s u c h as c e n a r i o ” i salmost the mostpopular online.

Her blog did not begin until May 11, the very day shewas placed under quarantine.

Humor and Optimism Lauded

The separation diaries online were usually veryh u m o r o u s . T h o s e w h o w r o t e t h e m w e r e v e r yoptimistic, describing the seven-day period of medicalobservation as “a paid leave of absence.”

“I’ll never tell you” said he was “lucky enough towin the bid.” He described his interview with massmedia as “his becoming a scene for appreciation.” Ahorde of journal is ts carrying videos and taking

Socialized Media Seen From “Separation Diaries”

Social Perspective

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cameras took snapshots of me profusely ...” and heimmediately took out a cell phone to shower them withsnapshots too ... .

Zheng Qiang’s diaries were overwhelmed withrecords of eating. Most photos were about dieting:“Three meals a day, two meats and two vegetables,fruits, milk and asking for more.” Though simple, thefirst day, he recorded 67327 clicks. His mobile phonewas almost stuck up with a flurry of messages.

“Miss Qian,” urged to stay home with husbandfor seven days on end, went s t raight for onl ineshopping of beautiful dresses, delicate lunch, andhousework equipment.

These quarantine diaries were lauded for theireasy and humorous. By press time, ZhongShuang blogwas haunted by over 380000 visits, “I’ll never tell

you” received over 2000 remarks in his QQ space.

And all quarantine diaries without exceptionexpressed thanks and admiration for the staff of thedisease administrative center. “cindy33shan” was mostt y p i c a l w h e n s a y i n g “ T h e y a r e r e a l l y v e r yprofessional, very skillful, very efficient and veryhumanistic. They managed to find most of thosecontacted within hours, they worked day and night tocheck information went on doorstep to test, register,and go on errand the whole night and finally got ussafety to the unified isolation spot, where to take ourtemperature, send us meals and fruit, all in a uniformmanner. We were a bit unhappy at first, but seeing theworking staff heavily dressed for protection with theirhair soaked in sweat, and seeing they were kept onthe run for our sake, we were all moved.”

Focus on Socialized Media

There is no much testimony or modification forsuch diaries. They reflect specific, individual true

experience, and hence capture higher praises from thenetizens. As the netizens get in direct contact with theclients of the news item, read their diaries and have afeel of their quarantine lives, get to know the mentalityof being quarantined, and get better informed aboutthe genuine widespread flu. A/H1N1 is no longer arigid concept. It is linked up with net pals of theirgreat concern.

If communication master Mcluhan were still alive,he would smile. For no matter what event, evensomeone under quarantine in a deadly disease canpossibly turn out to be a bigwig overnight. To makedeep analysis, this also embodies the attention ofgovernment depar tments and re la ted organs tosocialized media as Internet as blog, as well as theapproval of their communication impact.

In turn, social ized media more easi ly evokenetizen echoes and response with their perspective ofcommon people and their grassroots character. We canr e a l i z e t h i s i f w e h a v e a l o o k a t t h e e q u a l l ymultifarious replies from the netizens. Furthermore,socialized media also give a more comprehensivesupplement to the public on a public event, narratingit from a different angle from the mass media.

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“Post 80’s” VS “Post 90’s” – A Campus Campaign

Shen Liang, bornin the 1980s, (nowcalled “80hou” or“post 80’s” in Chineseterminology) is amonitor of newly en-rolled students ofZhejiang TechnologyUniversity, and sevenof her 11 students wereborn in the 1990s(“90hou”). One day,the 90hou classmateleader made an ap-pointment with her toh a v e a s p r i n gexcursion. Shen wentto the designated spot

very early in the morning, but she waited for half an hourpassed. No soul turned up. It turned out to be the Fool’s Day.

Looking at the 90hou flooding in, the 80hou who stillfound themselves in an ivory tower had to leave their spaceand get along with the 90hou.

Clear Contrast Between Two Sides

Slanting Liu Hair, flatties, one-piece dress plus coloredjeans are the typical attire of Li Meng, a fashionable 80hougirl. While skyrocketing plait, jeans with holes and a T-shirtwith Obama’s portrait, is for the 90hou girl Zhang Panpan.

Li Meng is four years older than Zhang. “But what at-t r a c t s m e i s“The�Eagle�Shooting�Heroes”,while Zhang prefers “ThePleasant Sheep and the BigBig wolf.”

The 90hou have noidols, and the fashion idolsare themselves. To watchTwilight in spear time, theyfind the vampires quitefashionable. “Harry Potter isfor the 80hou,”they say.

According to the analy-sis by Wang, a middleschool teacher, the 90houare a generation that grewup on supermarket food-stuffs and imported goods.The change of social con-cept deprived them of theirsense of loyalty to socialorganizations. Certain so-cial phenomena made themindifferent to loyalty. Theirgoal is to pursue and admire

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individuality and egoism.

Same Problem Over Net Addiction

A 90hou Fu Yan, is addicted to net games, even at mealor when awake. His mom Mrs. Lin worries very much forthat.

Fu Yan’s tutor Zhang Shuai is a 80hou. Zhang admitsfrankly, he was also addicted to the game of Warcraft as afreshman, but he is nothing to the 90hou, who regard net-works as indispensable as water and fresh air. Zhang saidthe 90hou easilyget upset with thes l i g h t e s tchallenge. Theyf i n d t h e n e tfascinating, giv-ing them a senseof equality, freefrom parental andteachers criticismand commentsf r o m a b o v e .They feel moreindependent andhypothetical.

After over-c o m i n g n e taddiction, the80hou shouldwrite something to warn the 90hou, Zhang Shuai said.

Life in a Consumer Society

Li Xiaoming, an 80hou veteran editor with a BeijingFashion magazine, said, her internee Yu Yu the sibling 90hou,though still a freshman, has have long mulled her career. Lisaid she had no idea of what she was to do when she was afreshman.

Speaking of why she interned so early, Yu Yu saidsmilingly, “Aren’t we in an employment crisis? There willbe no turn for the better in a few years to come,” addingthat she will go on interning in a magazine so that she won’tbe discarded because of relative inferiority when shegraduates.

In his media interview, a literature commentator XieYoushun had this to say, From a certain angle, although the90hou children have not really mounted the social arena, andare still being meticulously protected and educated, they aregenerally precocious due to the social impact of a changingsociety. From the very beginning, they prefer to be the petsfor a consumer society in the technological era.

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International Exchange (April 1 - June 30)

Among the delegations that visited

China during the period from April 1 to

June 31 at the invitation of ACYF and

its member organizations, there were:

A 37-member Chinese youth delegation headed byZhang Zhe, deputy secretary-general of ACYF, visited Koreaat the invitation of Ministry for Health Welfare and FamilyAffairs.

A 25-member Chinese youth delegation headed by DongXia, vice director of International Liaison Department, CYLCCC, visited D.P.R Korea, at the invitation of Kim Il SungSocialist Youth League of D.P.R Korea.

A work group headed by Ni Jian, assistant president ofACYF, visited Italy, Malta and Hungary, at the invitation ofItalian Young Entrepreneurs Association, Malta Ministry ofEducation, Culture, Youth and Sports and Hungary Ministryof Social Affairs and Labour.

An ACYF work group headed by Dong Xia, vice-secretary-general of ACYF, attended Youth Committeeof SCO in Russia and visited Germany at the invitationof Russian Youth Federation and German FederalMinistry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women andYouth.

A Chinese youth delegation headed by Dong Xia, vice-secretary-general of ACYF, attended Social InnovatorLeadership Program in America, at the invitation of MercyCorps.

An ACYF representative attended the Sixth InternationalCo-ordination Meeting of Youth Organizations in France, atthe invitation of Council of Europe.

Two representatives attended ASEAN+3 Youth Caususin Thailand at the invitation of Ministry of SocialDevelopment and Human Security of Thailand.

Two representatives attend International Youth Campin Indonesia, at the invitation of State Ministry of Youth andSports, Republic of Indonesia.

A 10-member Chinese youth delegation headed by LuoMei, secretary of CYLC CC secretariat, visited Romaniaand Russia at the invitation of Youth Organization ofRomania Social Democratic Party and Russian YouthFederation.

A 4-member Chinese youth delegation headed by LuYongzheng, Vice president of ACYF, attended the 3rdASEAN+China Ministerial Meeting on Youth and the 2ndASEAN+3 Ministerial Meeting on Youth, at the invitationof Ministry of Social Development and Human Security ofThailand.

A 100-member delegation headed by Ni Jian, assistant

president of ACYF, visited Britain at the invitation of BritishCouncil.

Among the delegations and groups

sent by ACYF and i ts member

organizations during the same period

there were:

The Germany Youth Association Delegation headed byPhilip Misfeldt, Member of Parliament and president ofBundestag.

The Pakistan Youth Delegation headed by ShahidBhutto, Ministry of Youth Affairs of Pakistan.

The Mongolia Youth Delegation headed by EnkhtaivanNyamtseren, Commercial Councilor of The MongolianEmbassy in China.

The Japan Junior Chamber Delegation headed by AsatoShigenobu, president of Japan Junior Chamber

The Korea Youth Delegation headed by Chang Ok Ju,Ministry for Health Welfare and Family Affairs

The Greece General Secretariat for Youth Delegationheaded by Zannetopoulos Konstantinos, Head� of Directorateof Planning, Organization and Research, General Secretariatfor Youth, Ministry of Education of Greece.

The India Youth Delegation headed by Arun Yadav,Ministry of Youth Affairs�and Sports of India.

The Socialist Youth League of D.P.R Korea Delegationheaded by Sin Jong Hyon, Minister of Propaganda of Kim IlSung Socialist Youth League of D.P.R Korea.

The Australian Political Exchange Council Delegationheaded by Rachel Stephen-Smith, Director of the Office ofMinister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

Among the international events

sponsored by ACYF during the same

period there were:

The 4th China-ASEAN Youth Camp.

The opening of 15th ASEAN Young Leaders TrainingProgram (Vietnam).

The closing of 14th ASEAN Young Leaders TrainingProgram (Laos).

International Symposium on Youth Employment andEntrepreneurship co-sponsored by International LaborOrganization, World Bank and ACYF.

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