ACYF INFORMATIONRoundups 2World Expo Youth Summit Looks to the Fu-ture

The Third General Assembly of Chinese Young Volunteers’ Association Held in Bei-jing

Guangzhou Asian Games and Asian Para Games Concluded with 590 thousand Vol-unteers’ Participation

ACYF Held Seminar on Social Integration of New Generation of Migrant Workers

The 6th “Rejuvenation Cup” National Youth Vocational Skill Competition Concluded

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Deng Zhonghan: Young Acad-emician Embarks on his Mi-crochip Dream

Wang Weidong: A legendary figure born out of Taobao.com

Xu Tiantian: Female Architect Creates Her Would

Sun Xianlong: An Idea Com-bines Teddy Bear and School Uniform

Guizhou: 2010 Entrepreneur-ship Week for Returned Over-seas Chinese Scholars inaugu-rated

Beijing: the 5th Beijing College Students Singing Competition Concluded

Guangdong: 15 Chinese Young Volunteers Departed for Sey-chelles

Hunan: the 6th China Youth Development Forum convened

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Sichuan: Wenchuan Youth Rec rea t i on Cen te r B roke Ground

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Metropol is or Smal l Ci ty : Where Should We Start?

Contemporary Chinese Youth

Guangzhou Asian Games

Leave the first-tier cit ies, choose another lifestyle

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The 3rd General Assembly of Chinese Young Volunteers’ Association Held in Beijing

On December 5, the 25th International Vol-unteer Day, ACYF held the 8th Chinese Young Volunteer Awarding Ceremony and concurrently the 3rd General Assembly of CAYV (Chinese Young Volunteers’ Association).

341 outstanding Chinese young volunteers, 186 outstanding voluntary organizations and 106 out s t anding voluntar y pro-grams were awarded in the cer emony. The candida t es were recommended by related organizations and communi-ties, appraised by the appraisal committee and announced for public comment beforehand.

The 3rd CA YV congress elected a new council embrac-ing a large number of young

volunteer representatives and personages who are active in charity and voluntary service. Mr. Zhou Changkui was elected chairman of the council and made a report to the assembly on behalf of the 3rd council.

Since its establishment in 1994, CAYV has conducted voluntary services actively in fields

such as pover ty alleviation, help-ing the aged and minors, community service, environmental protection, rescue and relief work and over-seas services. It now boasts a total membership of more than 31 million, all regularly registered in CAYV or-ganizations at dif ferent levels. Over 100 thousand college students have been selected and sent to grassroots organizations since the implementa-tion of “Go West” project 8 years

Expo 2010 Youth Summit, themed “Youth, City, Future,” was held at the Expo Center.

The summit is a specially set up in the Expo for youth, focusing on the challenges and re-sponsibilities of youth in urban planning and de-velopment and topics of innovation, low-carbon life and harmony with nature. Af ter the open-ing ceremony, the invited guests gave keynote speeches, illustrating their views on the coexist-ence between youth and cities and their vision of the trend of youth development from dif ferent perspectives.

Three workshops were held with the re-spective themes of “Innovation: Driving Force of Progress for Youth and City”, ”Low Carbon Lifestyle: New Way of Urban Life for the Youth” and “Harmony: Essential Element to Youth and Urban Development”.

Af ter several rounds of discussions and con-sultations, the organizer accumulated the ideas from the youth representatives and proposed the Initiatives of Expo 2010 Shanghai China Youth Summit, which was later announced by the youth representatives from the world’s five continents to youth all over the world.

The World Expo Youth Summit is hosted by the Executive Committee of Expo 2010 Shanghai and the All-China Youth Federation and is organ-ized by the Shanghai Municipal Youth Federation and the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordi-nation.

Expo 2010 Youth Summit Concludes Successfully in Shanghai

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On November 27 and December 19, the 16th Guangzhou Asian Games and 10th Asian Para Games concluded respectively in Guangzhou. During the games, nearly 590 thousand volunteers worked inside and outside the venues.

According to Wang Huanqing, Head of the Volunteers Department of the Organizing Com-mittee of the Guangzhou Asian Games, the vol-unteers mainly college students in Guangzhou, supplemented by Guangzhou residents, ethnic groups from other par ts of the country, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, overseas Chinese and Chinese nationals abroad and for-eign friends. Among them 60 thousand worked for the Asian Games and 25 thousand for the Asian Para Games. Their working places include 53 competition venues, 11 non-competition ven-ues, 18 independent training venues and the of-fices of 20 special work groups. The rest half a million volunteers worked in 600 city volunteer booths, road intersections, bus stops, parks, and the streets and communities of 12 districts (cities).

The volunteer selection and test process started in September 2009 and ended at the end of Au-gust 2010. Meanwhile, 21 bases of recruitment and training and 32 common bases of recruitment and training were set up in Sun Yat-sun Uni-versity, South China Polytechnics University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

To better organize and serve the volunteers, the organizing committee introduced protection and incentive policies for both venue volunteers and city volunteers. They also held a special job fair for the volunteers who were about to grad-uate this year.

Since the first day the volunteers went to their posts, the accumulated working time of the venue volunteers reached 8 million hours and that of the city volunteers reached 22.66 million hours, totaling 30.66 million hours.

Guangzhou Asian Games and Asian Para Games Concluded with 590 thousand Volunteers’ Participation

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Nearly 500 young volunteers have been sent to Asian, African and Latin American countries to work in the fields of education, medicine, agricul-ture, administration, culture and sports under the

“Chinese Young Volunteers’ Overseas Service” program. Nearly 100 key colleges and universities have sent some 5,000 volunteers to the central

and western poverty-stricken parts of the coun-try to support education in the implementation of the postgraduates-support-education program during the past 12 years. A national young vol-unteer service network is taking shape with 35 provincial associations and over 5,000 prefectural and county-level associations of CAYV, nearly 2,000 college organizations, and 130 thousand service stations, centers and bases.

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The 6th “Rejuvenation Cup” National Youth Vocational Skill Competition Concluded

On October 29, the final round of the 6th “Rejuvenation Cup” National Youth Vocational Skill Competition sponsored by ACYF and Minis-try of Human Resources and Social Security con-cluded in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning province. The Liaoning team got team champion-ship, and Fang Wenmo, Liu Gang and Chen Lizhun got single-item championships in dif ferent jobs.

The first five champions were honored with

the title of “national skilled young worker” by both sponsors, the title of “national skilled worker” by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Besides, ap-praisal given would be taken as an important reference for the promotion of the awardees to the status of technician or sen-

ior technician according to their original technical skill level. The sixth to 20th contestants will be directly promoted to senior worker qualifica-tions and those in such qualifications to technician qualifications.

The Rejuvenation Cup contest is a national contest. It has been held six times. It has an ever expanding coverage and impact on the young workers. It is an ef fective measure for ACYF to

serve enterprises in de-veloping scientifically and help young workers ma-ture. It has helped discover and train large numbers of young hi tech talents and played a positive role in building a contingent of young skilled workers.

On December 17, the Seminar on the Social Integration of New Generation Migrant Work-ers was held in Beijing. Eight experts and schol-ars from research institutions, such as the State Council Development and Research Center , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Youth and Children Research Center attended the seminar.

In consistence with the unified arrangement of ACYF, provincial and municipal youth federations star ted taking research on the issue since last June in order to grasp the first-hand information with the living and working conditions of the new generation migrant workers and seek ways and channels to promote their social integration and growth in cities.

In the seminar, the at tendants pointed out that the seminar was of great realistic and his-torical importance because the issue will persist throughout the process of urbanization. It is im-

pera tive to se t up e f -fective work mechanisms t o b r e a k a way f r om p olic y and in s t i t u t i o n o b s t a c l e s and b ar r i-

ers and settle the issues of employment, housing, social insurance and education of the children of migrant workers. Meanwhile, the experts made suggestions on how youth f ederations should further their roles by dealing with the feedbacks from the migrant workers regularly. They sug-gested creating bet ter atmosphere for the mi-grant workers, organizing social forces to serve them and providing them enterprising and training opportunities so as to help them fulfill the trans-fer from migrant workers to city residents and integrate into society.

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Beijing: the 5th Beijing College Students Singing Competition Concluded

On December 4, the final round of the 5th Beijing College Students Singing Competition concluded at the Studio of Beijing Radio. This competition was jointly sponsored by Beijing Youth Federation, Radio Beijing，Beijing Students’ Federation and Beijing Association of Young Volunteers, and was organized by RBC Net and Qingmeng Net Radio.

Af ter two rounds of fierce competition, ten top campus singers stood out of the hundreds of the entrants. They were Zhou Zihao and Yan Meimei from Beijing Sport University, and Hu Xiaotong of Beijing Jiaotong University.

The final was held on the eve of Interna-tional Volunteer Day, which intended to high-light the theme of voluntary service. In the be-ginning of the competition, the ten top singers joined the winners in the previous four contests in singing old songs, which enlivens the atmos-phere of the final. Besides singing, they also told true stories of voluntary service, which re-sponded to the theme of the event.

The singing contest concened on September 30. More than 360 contestants from over 30 colleges and universities took part in the first round. The three league matches and the two rounds of network PK contests aroused the passionate at tention of people from all walks of life. Making the most of the Internet, the competition was live telecasted by its own of-ficial website and RBC Net. In addition, the two rounds of network contests were available on the Qingmeng Music TV. Many new means of interaction were also employed, such as mi-cro blogs and text messages, thus of fering the young people with diversified means of partici-pation. The five-day live telecast of contests received 101,808 ef fective online votes, 34,629 microblog forwards, and 2,439 text message votes.

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On November 10, the 6th China Youth Development Forum kicked of f in Chang-sha, capital city of Hunan province. With the theme “Youth and Youth Work in the Cyber Age”, the forum was jointly spon-sored by China Youth & Children Research Center(CYCRC) and China Youth & Children Research Association. Hunan Youth Federa-tion and Hunan Youth & Children Research Association co-organized. Nearly 300 ex-perts and scholars from 23 provinces, munic-ipalities and autonomous regions, including the HK SAR attended the forum.

A t the opening cer-emony, Wang Hongyan, Chairperson of CYCRC, made an address entitled

“Actively Meet the Chal-lenge of New Media and Make In-depth Research o f Youth W ork in the Cyber Age.” She analyzed the challenges posed by new media and shared with the audience how youth federations of all levels should respond to them. She pointed out that five issues needed to be addressed in this regard: first,

further research the impact of new me-dia development trends on youth; sec-ond, further research the new charac-teristics of key network audiences; third, further research the concrete approach of using new media to guide youngsters; four th, fur ther research the possibili-ties of attracting youth via new media on a long-term basis; and fif th, further research the ways and means to set up new system for organizing and mobiliz-ing youth via new media.

Af ter the opening ceremony, Xi Jieying, Executive Vice-Chairman of CYCRC, made a keynote speech entitled “Probe Deep into the Cyber Generation and Promote their Healthy Development.” Xi considered that Internet can give youth more freedom, more opportunities to express their own thoughts and more confidence in forming their own ideas. And at the same time, the internet sector should be developed in a scientific

way, so tha t youth can use int erne t in a he al t h y and ef fective way.

This forum ha s held i t s annual meet-ing f o r f i v e t im e s f r o m 2005. Now, it ha s b e c ome an impor tant pla t f orm f or e x c h a n g in g thoughts, dis-

cussing issues, promoting development and making friends.

Hunan: the 6th China Youth Development Forum convened

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Guangdong: 15 Chinese Young Volunteers Departed for Seychelles

On December 9, the depar ture cer-emony of Chinese Young Volunteers to Seychelles was held in Dongguan city of Guangdong province. The team was com-posed of 15 members selected by Dong-guan Youth Federation.

A t the ceremony Zeng Yingru, Vice President of Guangdong Youth Federa-tion and Chairperson of Guangdong Young Volunteers’ Association gave a general in-troduction of the voluntary service situation and encouraged the volunteers to dedicate to their duties, bring goodwill to Seychelles and make progress through this experience.

More than 200 people applied for the

program, and af ter rounds of elimination, fif teen people were finally selected in the team. Among them are nine doctors, four engineers and two teachers, who mainly came from the health, education and con-struction sectors of Dongguan city. All of the volunteers have bachelor degrees and two of them have master degrees. They have an average age of 31.

Since 2007, ACYF and Minis tr y o f Commerce have sent 49 young volunteers to Seychelles in total. The departure of the forth volunteers team to Seychelles marked the successful end of the task of the year of 2010.

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Co-sponsored by ACYF and Society of Returned Chinese Students from Europe and US (SREU), the Week was inaugurated on December 28 in the Guizhou provincial capi-tal of Guiyang. Over sixty representatives of Chinese students studying abroad and Chinese scholar organizations in 14 countries attended. They came from USA, Britain, France, Ger-many, Japan and ROK among others.

They heard an introduction of Guizhou and Guiyang’s economic and social develop-ment and their items of at tracting investors and intellectuals from abroad. They also vis-ited and inspected Guiyang’s new and hi-tech industrial development zones, economic and technical development zones, foreign scholar enterprise parks and related enterprises. They got acquainted with the rich resources of both Guizhou and Guiyang, their positional superiorities, their need for high level per-sonnel as well as preferential policy of fers. Many said they would make contribution to Guizhou’s economic and social development via participating in its construction in many forms such as establishing enterprises, and developing personnel, technical and program cooperation.

It was reported that the Week partici-pants would go to the Miao and Tong eth-nic autonomous prefecture in southeastern Guizhou for commercial investigation and progrom consultations. Since 2001 ACYF has launched nine annual Weeks together with SREU under the theme of innovations and entrepreneurship to serve the motherland worthily. So far more than 3600 Chinese stu-dents studying in 26 countries and regions in-cluding US, Britain, Japan, France and Germa-ny have returned to see nearly 60 park areas in 19 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. There they have got release of products, and carried out project consulta-tions and exchanged activities involving many areas such as computer, telecommunications, network, medicine, and bioengineering. The annual Weeks have organically integrated the domestic need for personnel, investment and project cooperation with the speciali-zation research orientation of Chinese stu-dents studying abroad and their intentions in investment and entrepreneurship, providing them opportunities to get acquainted with the motherland’s achievements and development as well as a platform for their return to make contribution to the motherland, much to the appreciation of many quarters.

Guizhou: 2010 Entrepreneurship Week for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars inaugurated

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The launching ceremony was held in Yingxiu town on October 15.

To suppor t Sichuan province in recon-struction in 2009 ACYF decided to donate 12.72 million yuan to help build youngster ac-tivity centers at a quake-stricken area. Af ter repeated seminar discussions, ACYF invited world-renowned American Chinese architect

Leoh Ming Pei firm to make the design. It was finally decided to choose Yingxiu town, Wenchuan County as the venue. The project scheme designing, geological prospecting and surveying as well as construction map de-signing have already been completed.

According to the concept design, scheme design and preliminary design by that firm and the construction map design by China Ar-chitecture Academy, the center will cover a ground area of 8037 sq. m. and a total floor space of 4597 sq. m. When completed, the three floor center will include a CYLC res-cue exhibition room, a 4D movie room, a quake observation room, a film theater, a li-brary center, a small or medium-sized training classroom, and some outdoor ground space. The project is to be delivered for operation within 2011.

Sichuan: Wenchuan Youth Recreation Center Broke Ground

Deng Zhonghan: Youngest Academician Embarks on his Microchip Dream

Deng is now board chairman of China Star Microelectronics Co LTD. He entered Uni-versity of Science and Technology of China in 1987, and entered UC Berkeley in 1992. Within five years he became PHD of elec-tronics engineering, and won Master degrees in economic management and physics. He was the first scholar ever to win such degrees in the three dif ferent disciplines of science, en-gineering and commerce in UC Berkeley in its history of 130 years.

Years around 1999 China’s chip industry at a historical stage crying out for a break-through. The State was planning to push the development of chip industry. Late famous patriotic Chinese Professor Tian Changling, who then served as the president of UC Ber-keley, encouraged Deng to return to China for entrepreneurship and serve the mother-land with the knowledge he acquired. And he recommended him to Academician Zhou Guangzhao who then served as the chair-man of China Association for Science and

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T echonolog y. Zhou immedi-ately recommended him to Vice-Minister Qu Weizhi of Ministry of Information Industry at that time. Deng star ted his journey home since then.

On October 14, 1999, Deng registered a company in Beijing and formally established the China Star Microelectronics Co LTD to pursue digital multimedia chip designing, R&D and industrializa-tion. In March 2001 the Starlight Chinese chip project he chaired pushed out China’s first super CMOS digital image processing chips with ownership of in-tellectual property rights, namely the Starlight No. 1 of million gate level, applicable to PC video recording, successfully achieving the in-dustrialization of core technical products and bringing the history of China of no chips to a complete end.

However, when they promoted the sale of chips of their own to Sony, a Sony manag-er scorned at them and claimed they were the original inventors of this technique and they could show them an exhibition if they wanted to see.

“We felt much suppressed at the time,” Deng said. Af ter returning to China, he lost no time in calling a meeting. “I told them I would come back and keep my words anyway.”

As the Chinese saying goes, those who work hard will be rewarded. By the end of 2004, Sony laptops eventually employed China Star Microsof t imaging chip technique instead of its own. Later on Starlight Chinese chips were widely applied to many international name brands such as Apple, Samsung, HP, Dell, and Lenovo, achieving large-scale industri-alization, occupying over 60% of the global market in computer imaging chips and creating an era of large-scale application of visible In-ternet communication.

On November 15, 2005 China S tar Micros lis t ed in Nasdak, broke through seven ma jor core t ech-niques in multi-chip area and applied over 500 pat-ents so that China Star Mi-cros was not only China’s first chip designing enter-prise listed in Nasdak, but above all the first Chinese enterprise listed there with integrated core technique and intellec tual proper t y rights. In December 2009,

Deng aged 41 was elected an academician of China Academy of Engineering, the youngest ever in China.

　Although China’s chip industry is much stronger than how it was when Deng returned to China, yet Deng considers China is only a big, but not yet a strong, producer of elec-tronic products.

　“Most of the integrated circuits for do-mestic consumption have to be imported and the core technique remains our shortage, seri-ously restraining the sustainable development of our electronic information industry,” Deng said.

　 　Confronted with such a situa tion, Deng’s strategy is to dedicate to the large-scale application of leading international tech-niques. He said, “Let as many people as pos-sible share the progress of civilization brought by science and technology and be af fected by the power of advanced science and technol-ogy.” For example, the successful marketing of Starlight series multi-media chips promotion, and their sale on a global scale facilitating us-ers in their hundreds of millions to share the convenience of Internet TV communication brought about a change in lifestyle and boost-ing the rapid development of related industries.

On August 26, 2010, Deng Zhonghan was elected vice-president of ACYF.

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Graduated from accounting department of a top university, Wang Weidong served as auditor, consultant, agent, tax collector and also finan-cial manager of Eastcom Group and of Loreal-Paris Group, one of Global 500. At the end of July 2003, Wang’s wife Zhang Dinghua started an online store with RMB 500 at Taobao.com. At first Wang didn’t quite understand his wife nor did he know much about such a new mode of purchase by Internet. But sharp-sighted Wang soon found e-commerce as an emerging indus-try in China. It would be highly developing, and free registration of Taobao.com of fered the small shop owners access into this market freely. In the beginning of 2004 Wang and his wife resigned from their high-salary white collar jobs and em-barked on their careers to Taobao.com entre-preneurship.

Once White Collars, Wang and his wife made an accurate market positioning of their cosmetics named Lemon Green Tea. As they both thought white collar ladies as the main consumers of cosmetic goods. Compared with other consumer goods for females, that would be the best mer-chandise that could enhance the reputatoin and bring consumers together within a short span of time as it featured brands concentration, quick circulation, great variety and big quantity. Ac-

curately market positioned, Lemon Green Tea was just like a duck to water. As their cosmetic goods busi-ness became a bigger scale, they dis-covered a broader market develop-ment opportunity. They began trying to sell some related interesting goods to white collar ladies there. They contacted a supplier of fashionable wrist watches and the supplier re-sponded that he had enough watches in stock. But within one month, 2031 fashionable wrist watches were sold out, exhausting all his s tock. Then they contacted a supplier of orna-ments, again 1012 pieces o f them were sold out in 15 days. In the first

few months, in order to save money, Wang and his wife did all the jobs including replenishing, transporting, packaging and delivery of goods. Once they found themselves run short of funds af ter replenishing five boxes of goods each weighing 50 kilograms. Wang managed to drag all the five boxes from the first to the third floor, just in order to save 10 yuan transport fees. An electrical bicycle became Wang’s vehicle, and the storehouse, post of fice and express delivery company were his haunts. When hungry, he just took a simple meal of several yuan by the street, and was busy rushing about the job. In Decem-ber 2004 Wang rented a single house and began recruiting shop assistants. In March 2005 he set up a company of his own in Shanghai. In August 2007 Lemon Green Tea became the first five star grade store of Taobao.com with a staf f of 110.

It is seven years since the inauguration of Lemon Green Tea in 2003. It is now the first online s tore o f China’s C2C, No.1 credit in Taobao.com online store and the only three-gold crown shop. It boasts a staf f of nearly 300, and over 600000 Page Views and over 60000 IP everyday. President Ma Yun of Taobao.com. said that the goal of Taobao.com was to become online Wal-Mart, and flourishing Lemon Green Tea seemed to verify our goal.

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For Xu Tiantian, Beijing is jus t like a world o f archit ec ture. As an archit ec t graduated from Harvard University, she is also mother of two daughters, beginning her career as an architect in Boston. She learnt from another woman architect how to en-dure pressure. Then she went to Rotterdam in Holland. Af ter returning to China, she ran a company of her own in Beijing now.

It is truly dif ficult to start a business, but her struggling experience told her that where there is a will, there is a way. “Some-times it is very dif ficult indeed,” she said,

“In the Uni t e d States, most of t he a r chi t e c -t ur al p r o je c t s were elaborately p l a n n e d , b u t early pr epara-tions were of-t en inadequa t e in China so that many pr o jec t s s tar ted in great s p le n d o r , b u t were abandoned halfway.”

She is no w engaged in four p r o je c t s : t w o thea ters, a re-t a il mall , a n d an amus ement center. Besides, she is planning a new project in Inner Mon-golia. She said that architecture is booming in China nowadays, but there also is poten-tial crises at the same time.

“It seems people here are not yet aware that good design takes lots of time,” said she calmly, “Sometimes a design need to be completed within three days. That is the reason that good designs are few in Beijing city.”

Xu feels that the secret of her success is continuous learning.

Xu is more than equal to a task in the male-dominated area of architecture. Once she asked a male architect to make an

unique design, but he simply ignored her. She then kept on pressurizing him.

“I must hasten him all the time, and I finally reached my goal,” she claimed.

She said tha t most of the time she did not con-sider her s el f a s an insider woman in t hi s p r o f e s -sion. “ Sometimes, somebody told me,

‘Your work seems not at the hands of a lady,’ Here she paused for a mo-ment as if thinking of something, and

went on, “They thought they were praising me, but I didn’t think so.”

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Sun Xianlong: An Idea Combines Teddy Bear and School Uniform

Sun Xianlong would always vow to go on with this program to himself when he receive messages begging for consignments of woo-len toy bear-cubs in school uniform.

Selling toy bear-cubs in the various uni-form of middle schools in Beijing is an en-terprising project of Sun Xianlong, a fourth-year undergraduate of China University of International Business and Economics. Nowa-days the toy was pursued by those s tudent s born in the 1990s in Beijing campuses.

When Sun first s t ar t e d busine s s upon entering the university, he suf-fered a great loss because the prod-uct was unmarket-able and the cost w as high. When he was about t o graduate, he found two par tners. This time they intended to produce creative woolen toys. Af ter market investigations, bear cubs in school uniform became their first choice, because a younger sister of one of his partners was studying at Beijing No. 171 High School and it was easy for her to get the style. Hence, the first set of 50 toy cubs in school uniform became ready.

As the product was in favour at that school, s tudents of other middle schools in Beijing f ound Sun’s regis ter number on his website, leaving messages to ask him

whether he makes toy cubs in the uniform of their own schools. Some say, “How mean-ingful to wear uniform for three years with such a design!” Such fervor of consumers greatly inspired Sun and his partners. To set up channels for sale, Sun again opened an online store and unexpectedly many senior high school graduates found him directly for the product. 　

By now Sun has s old ou t o v e r 50 v ar ie t ie s o f mor e than 4000 toy cubs in s cho ol uni f orm. The team of four is all paid by the sal-ary, basically in the f orm of wages plus deduction. While all other three have no upper limit , Sun se t his at 3000 monthly.

“I f t h e r e w a s n o profit for one month, I would have to pay

them with my o wn wages,” Sun said with smiling. 　

When starting a business for the second time, Sun is much more mature. He borrowed a debt of 150000 yuan instead of asking for money from his parents. “We struck a bal-ance of income and expenditure last Sep-tember and began to gain profit last Novem-ber. Furthermore we have paid one third of my debt.” Sun said.

Presently, he is planning to sell the prod-uct to the provincial market outside Beijing.

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Metropolis or Small City: Where Should We Start?

Earning less and spending more, the cost of living in big cities is get ting higher and higher. Whether to stay and live in a bustling city like an ant waiting for development opportunities, or to return to a small one for an easier and more lei-surely life?

To such a question of choice in planning life, there is no right or wrong answer.

According to the data released by the Min-istry of Human Resources and Social Security on January 22, in 2009 a total of 6.11 million students graduated from colleges and universities, and 87% of them got jobs. The percentage was be-yond anticipation of the ministry.

But stories of university students living like ants at tracted public at tention at the end of 2009. While the percentage of employment drew great at tention, people also focus on the em-ployment structure and imbalanced regional dis-tribution of employment.

Being the Elite in Small City Rather Than the Marginal Man in Big City

Earning less and spending more, the cost of living in big cities is get ting higher and higher. Whether to stay and live in a bustling city like an ant waiting for development opportunities, or to return to a small one for an easier and more lei-surely life?

To such a question of choice in planning life, there is no right or wrong answer.

According to the data released by the Min-istry of Human Resources and Social Security on January 22, in 2009 a total of 6.11 million students graduated from colleges and universities, and 87% of them got jobs. The percentage was be-yond anticipation of the ministry.

But stories of university students living like ants at tracted public at tention at the end of 2009. While the percentage of employment drew great at tention, people also focus on the em-ployment structure and imbalanced regional dis-tribution of employment.

Being the Elite in Small City Rather Than the Marginal Man in Big City

“Live in a big city, and work as a white collar in an of fice building, preferably in tourism,” such was the definition of ideal work of Lichuan, a girl from Chengdu a year ago. She didn’t think much about the living cost and the anticipated de-velopment, but the high cost of living in big city broke her dream of metropolitan life to pieces several months later.

A company from Guangzhou was recruiting at Sichuan University with a salary of 3200 yuan per month. Lichuan went there gladly. But she was confronted with the unexpectedly exorbitant cost of living there. In order to save rent money,

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she had to share a room with several colleagues in a suburban apar tment. The room was sun-less with poor surrounding. It took more than one hour to go to the of fice everyday. Af ter three months commuting in hot summer of Guangzhou, Lichuan lef t the city. The most unbearable thing in Guangzhou was loneliness, she said. There was almost no communication with other people ex-cept online contact and such a way of life made her feel like fleeing the city. By the end of De-cember 2009 she returned to a branch company in Chengdu. Af ter an interview, she entered hu-man resources section.

Knowing the dif ferences of cost of living be-tween the two cities, Lichuan found this thing was important.

In Chengdu Lichuan’s monthly salary was 2700 yuan, somewhat lower than that in Guangzhou. But she spent only 450 yuan per month in renting a room with TV and air-conditioned for herself in a city proper apartment building. Instead of over one hour’s single way to the of fice in Guangzhou, it takes her only eight minutes walk to her of fice. Af ter making daily expenses she can save over 1000 yuan in Chengdu.

A matter of what to accept and what to re-ject though, it was just a choice between first tier and second tier cities. As for a small city or the countryside, Lichuan never bothered to think of getting a job there.

A social survey made by China Youth News showed 24.5% were ready to go to a small and medium-sized city, and only 5.3% were ready to go to the countryside.

It also showed tha t 53.3% of the public thought it possible for them to realize their values in small and medium-sized cities, and 52.2% were more ready to work in bigger cities especially the first tier ones. Beijing and Shanghai were their first choice, and the percentage ran as high as 42.2%.

“Whether a lion or an antelope, you had bet-ter start running when the sun rises early in the morning”

Unlike Chuanli who stoped highly competitive first-tier big city life, Zeng Shaoquan chose to

work for a better life in Beijing. In May 2008 he found a job as a salesman of insurance. His of fice is on the seventh floor. Going out of the elevator he can see a large notice covering up almost all the wall surface and the notice tells the story of the lion and antelope as follows:

“In Africa, when the Antelope wakes up every morning, the first thing that comes to his mind is

“I must be able to run faster than the fastest lion ” or I will be killed by a lion. And at just the same time, the lion wakes out of his dream and first thing flashing into his mind is “I must be able to catch up with the slowest antelope; otherwise, I will starve to death” so, whether you are an an-telope or lion, you ought to dash forward without hesitation when the sun rises.”

Whoever sees the notice would be shocked by the eyesight of the lion and antelope. Every morning when Zeng enters the elevator or the of fice, the word “running” always lingered his brain.

The seventh floor is all surrounded by all sorts of notices, posters, and a roll of honor, photos and figures writ ten in Chinese characters. How much everybody earns every month and the top ten in each department are all posted there. Comparing the present earnings and the perspec-tive development … For Zeng, invisible pressure was hidden behind the face of everyone and the figures of RMB amount.

In the insurance industry the rate of turnover is as high as 90%. Every month, some staf f mem-bers lose their job because of failing to complete their targets, but Zeng managed to persist.

Staf f-member, professional chief, manager I, manager II, senior manager I, senior manager II, regional supervisor, regional vice manager, regional general manager…. The position ladder appeals to Zeng to go on and insist. He is now a manager I.

These are young people struggling in big cit-

ies but living in poor conditions for the time being. Xi Jieying, director of CYRC described them as young people living downward but making up-ward dreams. He warned against portraying them pessimistically. Their living conditions are poor, but their great dreams are waiting to be realized.

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Leave the First-tier Cities, Choose Another Lifestyle

Why chose this city? Why chose this city?

Survey shows first tier cities were chosen for many reasons. Employment opportunities and well developed level deemed as the most important factors.

Table I. Reasons for choice of first tier cities

More job opportunities mean higher demand-ing recruitment requirements in first tier cities than in second tier ones. Indexes in 51job.com show that the absolute number of job oppor-tunities in the four major first tier cities Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen is higher than in second tier cities. Besides, the higher level of urban development is also an important factor attracting people to stay.

Nothing remains unchanged as time flies. We had many reasons to go to a first tier city; we now have many to leave.

Why to leave? Why to leave?

Why to leave the city we once loved? Which factors? Table II shows five major reasons for white collars to leave

Table II. Five major reasons for white collars to leave

The housing price is so high that in-numerable white collars become keenly competitive. Some experts argue against buying own apar tments and propose renting them instead. But most Chinese are desirous of possessing their own apar tments as the traditional custom, especially those married. The forum on-line of 51job.com made a survey, which showed that 17% white collars would not get married until having owned an apartment, and 62% said they could rent temporarily and save money to buy one

eventually. Only 3% chose renting for marriage instead of buying one.

Pain for Three Years of and Change during a Pain for Three Years of and Change during a decade decade

Who want to leave first tier cities? Investiga-tions showed 59% white collars want to leave, and 11% have tried. More men than women want to leave.

Whether to leave or not is an important de-cision. It has much to do with the duration of life and work in that city.

Where to leave for? Where to leave for?

Survey shows that 23% of interviewees are targeted on Wuhan, Chongqing and Xian in the central and western parts of the country, 21% on second tier Nanjing, Hangzhou and Suzhou in the eastern coastal part of the country, and 9% on northern cities like Dalian, Qingdao, Harbin and Shenyang. But 10% of them have not decided, but anyway not first tier cities.

It is worth to mention that departure is easier said than done. From the data we can see that most have just the idea of leaving, only a few

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have taken action. When asked the reason, the answer is no good job opportunities yet available. Survey also shows some white collars apply the same criterion for the second tier cities as they do for first tier ones.

The gap between second and third tier cities and the first tier ones is not to be ignored. Many have to think carefully whether they can find jobs elsewhere first before they leave Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and survive.

Redefined success of lifeRedefined success of life

A newly published White Book on Happi-ness of Middle Families said that according to investigation results, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Fujian and Chongqing have the highest happiness index, while the most economically developed Shenzhen, Bei-jing and Shanghai have the lowest; hence, they are cities where middle families don’t feel happy enough. Such data indirectly give the subjective

reasons for white collars to leave.

What is a successful life? Does it necessar-ily mean to be a member of the elite and have an wonderful enterprise? Some may think it is enough just to get contented psychologically. Others re-define a successful man as one who has a good wife, a lovable child, healthy and long-lived par-ents, and a group of good friends. If such a life is obtainable in second or third tier cities, why cling to a first tier one?

Quick pace of life and work pressure could be the motive power for some to go on, but a torment or torture for others. Success or not de-pends on whether one has attained his goal. De-parture is just a choice, just as staying behind is another choice.

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Contemporary Chinese Youth

Recently, Delegate to Congress in Zhejiang province proposed that kindergartens should raise the male teachers’ quantity. The photo is “Sunshine Boy” Wang Xufeng who was a kin-dergartener for 17 years.

Two people are warding at Qiliqiao railway sta-tion which is 10 kilometers distant from Tongbai county west in Nanning city. There is no computer and no leisure entertainment activity, and that dating with the girlfriend has to be scheduled a month in advance.

On October 28, 11 degrees youth series movie of “The Old boy” (The bright eleven - Old Boys) was shown and evoked the collective nostalgic of the generation after 80s.

In December, Jinlin Agriculture engineering Polytechnic College retrieved the emissions dis-charged by Siping Cogeneration Power Plant of discard heat recovery for teaching buildings, teachers apartments and students apartments heating.

Recently, middle school students organized by ACYF in Zhejiang province Wenling city draw on the side walls in Renmin road in unban dis-trict, and more than 100 students took part in and drew 68 theme publicity painting.

On December 14, Chinese player Dong Fuli 2-0 won Wu Yishan from Chinese Taipei in the quarter-finals of women’s singles wheelchair tennis in Asian Para Games.

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International Exchanges

On December 7, the delegation of American Council of Young Political Leaders(ACYPL) vis-ited Tencent.

On November 10, Cabinet Office of Japan en-tertained China youth delegation.

On November 15, more than one hundred del-egates visited Victoria palace in India.

Pop Culture Group of Japanese teenagers friend-ship messenger delegation visited Beijing Ailian Dancing school.