Chapter 22 Chapter 21 1998

1998 was a year of comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up.In the spring, the Ninth National People’s Congress held its first meeting. Before and after this meeting, a series of reform measures and plans were put forward, mainly including the reform of the grain distribution system, the reform of the financial investment system, the reform of the housing system, the reform of the medical system, and the fiscal and taxation system. Reform etc.The supporting reform measures include: rural reform, reform of state-owned enterprises, reform of financial institutions, institutional reform of the State Council, etc.According to the decision of the Ninth National People's Congress, the State Council has reduced the number of departments from 40 to 29, except for the General Office. This is a difficult task.Among them, more than 200 local functions have been transferred to enterprises and social intermediary organizations; more than 100 functions have been adjusted and transferred between departments;The total staffing of the State Department decreased by 47.5%.

From October 12th to 14th, the Third Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing.The plenary session believed that the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers is a major issue related to the overall situation of my country's reform, opening up and modernization. A great achievement and a wealth of experience created. In the middle of the year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council held a meeting on the basic living security and reemployment of laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises, and issued the "Notice on Effectively Improving the Basic Living Security and Reemployment of Laid-off Workers from State-owned Enterprises".Then it was decided to reform the medical insurance system for urban employees nationwide.This shows that the public medical care and labor insurance medical care system that has been implemented for more than 40 years will be automatically cancelled.

According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, the annual GDP in 1998 was 7,955.3 billion yuan, an increase of 7.8% over the previous year; At the end of last year, it rose slightly by 9 basis points. From March to the end of the year, more than a dozen newspapers and magazines in the capital, including China Youth Daily, Beijing Youth Daily, and Beijing Evening News, successively published reports, comments, or reprinted "Confrontation--Records of Three Emancipation of Thoughts in Contemporary China", which became mainstream both at home and abroad. The publication of the book was widely reported by the media.This book is regarded by some as "a 20-year history of ideological emancipation and a history of reform and opening up with a unique perspective."

This year, a catastrophic flood that was rare in history hit most of China, but the raging flood finally receded under the influence of the fearless spirit of millions of soldiers and civilians who took strict precautions and fought to the death.According to preliminary statistics, a total of 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have suffered from floods of varying degrees, with a disaster area of ​​318 million mu, a disaster area of ​​196 million mu, a population of 223 million, 3,004 deaths, and 4.97 million houses collapsed. , the direct economic loss amounted to 166.6 billion yuan.

"Meet in 1998" stole the limelight at this year's Spring Festival Gala.In addition to the beautiful melody of this song, it is mainly due to the affectionate singing of the two "big sister" singers, Faye Wong and Na Ying. People's Daily, January 3rd (Reporter Wang Chu) "Electronic eyes" formed a shock wave as soon as they appeared on the streets of Shenzhen, shaking more than 400,000 motor vehicle drivers in the city, making Shenzhen a "safe, smooth and civilized" traffic environment. , a powerful step has been taken. On the morning of January 2, the reporter drove slowly on several main roads in Shenzhen. At 39 major intersections, ports, squares and other places, 58 "electronic eyes" from different angles silently watched the tide-like traffic flow.

People's Daily, January 6th (Reporter Chen Hongbiao) In 1997, Zhejiang Province publicly recruited national civil servants for the first time. More than 20,000 people in the province applied for the exam, and 59 farmers were admitted.Among them, a farmer couple in Yuhuan County were both hired, which became a good story in the local area.The couple are Chen Yunfeng, 29, from Yantang Village, Chengguan Township, and Huang Saihong, 26, from Shanbei Village, Chumen Township. Peasant's Daily, January 12th Open the "Farmer's Daily" every day to see the market conditions of "vegetable basket" products such as vegetables and fruits in Haozhou, a small city in northern Anhui.The "vegetable basket" information of Haozhou and a group of large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing and Shanghai is the same as that of "one network", which is unexpected for Haozhou, which was called "Siberia" in Anhui 10 years ago.

People's Daily, January 17th (Reporter Zhao Ronglin) A few days ago, the middle school students of Beijing Chinese Canadian School acquired knowledge through the Internet in their classrooms and gave impromptu speeches.This is the first time that the "International College Education Network" introduced by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and the Canadian Federal Government has been put into use in secondary schools in my country. People's Daily, February 5th (Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei) The library of Huangtang Town, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province uses computers to manage book lending.And generally applied for reading cards for the farmers in the town, open 10 hours a day.

Xinhua News Agency, February 7th The "English Corner" may not be unfamiliar to people in some large and medium-sized cities. It is indeed quite refreshing to hear that Nanzhang Village, Hequn Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province also has its own "English Corner".On a winter night, at 5:30 p.m., Nanzhang farmers had dinner, packed up, and rushed to Nanzhang Middle School. The "English Corner" was set up in the music room of the middle school in the village. "How are you? Have you super." Some farmers who arrived early have already started talking and practicing their spoken English.

People's Daily, February 16th (Reporter Shang Yibo Bayar) The Mongolian herdsmen who newly called Sumu in Otuoke Banner, Inner Mongolia, now many of them use modern communications such as "big brother" and "BP machine". tool.Xinzhao Sumu is open and vast, more than 70 kilometers from south to north, covering an area of ​​more than 2,750 square kilometers.In the past, the communication conditions here were very backward, and it was difficult for the herdsmen to communicate with the outside world when there was an emergency; people often had to ride horses or camels for half a day or even a day or two to hold meetings, arrange or report production between Sumu and Gacha.The herdsmen in Sumu live very scatteredly, and it is very difficult to install wired telephones. In 1995, Xinzhao Sumu installed a new set of mobile phone equipment. "Big mobile phone" and "BP machine" have become another trendy consumer product for herdsmen after motorcycles and cars.Xinzhao Sumu has become the Sumu (township) with the most mobile phone users in the farming and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.Modern communication tools have provided great convenience for Xinzhao Sumu herdsmen to communicate with each other and contact the outside world.

Xinhua Daily, February 17th: 400 years ago, human red blood cells still exist as if they were alive. This is an amazing discovery that Professor Zheng Tianzhong, a well-known bioplastic expert in my country, revealed to the reporter.In the biological preservation room of Jiangsu Provincial Education Commission Suyi Company, the reporter clearly saw that there were red thin thymus and bronchiole epithelium with complete structure in the lungs of the ancient corpse. Professor Zheng Tianzhong said that so far, in the ancient corpses unearthed in my country, the cell structure It is rare to find one that can be completely preserved, and it is the first case that it can still "survive" after being unearthed through technical preservation.

Beijing Evening News, February 17th, it is not new to go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, and it is rare to buy medicine without going to the pharmacy.Beijing State Grid Information Company has recently opened the "Interconnected Pharmacy" on the Internet. Friends on the Internet can buy the medicines they need by typing on the keyboard or making a phone call.Friends on the Internet can also find out the details of various medical institutions in the "Roster Quick Check", and publish their own information in the "Expert Appointment", so that they can seek medical advice without leaving home. News from Fuzhou, Hebei Daily, March 3 Farmers in northern Fujian want to know where their products can be sold, and all they need to do is make a phone call to the information service station of the township supply and marketing cooperative.This is the latest attempt by Nanping's supply and marketing department to connect thousands of farmers with ever-changing markets.Purchased microcomputers to build a product distribution center for agricultural and deputy county magistrates. The center was connected to the information microcomputers of the national supply and marketing cooperatives, and farmers in northern Fujian began to do business online. popular with readers China Reading News, March 4th (Reporter Cheng Suzheng) Bi Shumin, a writer, chose the unique theme of drug rehabilitation based on her unique life experience as a doctor and her unusual life experience. His own artistic means and expression methods fully express his own life insights and aesthetic experience in his works.Therefore, this novel has distinct aesthetic characteristics.Among the few full-length masterpieces at present, it is welcomed and favored by readers. Guangming Daily, March 7th: After earning a certain amount of income, people turn their attention to the consumer market. The concept of low consumption and high accumulation in the past has evolved into the current concept of more production and more consumption.The state stimulates people's consumption, and businesses try to get customers to consume. When people consume, they don't forget to say: "I am contributing to stimulating domestic demand!" Two words, a win-win situation!Chengdu - free water and wine business.The words "drinks are free" can be seen in restaurants large and small.Wuhan - teach how to eat.After shopping, they will also teach you how to eat.Jinan - selling business cards.Shopping malls must give a sales-specific business card to customers who come to shop. The business card is marked with the name of the salesperson, the place where the product is sold, and the contact number.Nanjing - the maximum consumption limit.The maximum amount of consumption is implemented in the catering industry. When paying the bill, it is 50 yuan per person, and there is no charge for the excess consumption.Beijing - Housing has a "warranty card".After buying a new house, Beijingers will get a house quality warranty card issued by the construction unit.Shanghai——promotion with emotion.Some high-end hotels hold birthday banquets or wedding banquets, etc., and the restaurants will handle birthdays, wedding dates, etc. "commemorative files" for customers, so as to implement "friendship tracking" for new and old customers.Guangzhou - "sales on credit".A Wujiaohua operating company purchases air-conditioners, color TVs, refrigerators and other electrical appliances, as long as they pay for the purchased goods, they can go home and use them first. Guangming Daily, March 10th (Reporter Huang Yiding) The word "Internet" was rated as one of the top ten popular words in China by CCTV "Oriental Time and Space".By the end of the 20th century, the Internet had rapidly "spread" around the world, and more and more new things were born due to the Internet, and new concepts emerged in an endless stream.The Internet makes people understand that the world is changing too fast: shopping has e-commerce, school has distance education, communication has e-mail, and even dating has online dating.Everything feels radically different from conventional life.As a new social network culture, it began to spread to China. People's Daily, March 23 (Reporter Zhang Ming from Xinhua News Agency) Shanghai's first 24-hour bookstore recently appeared in the West District of Shanghai.The bookstore allows readers to buy books, borrow books, or even sit in the classroom to read, adding another highlight to Shanghai City that never sleeps. People's Daily, Ningbo, March 28 (Reporter Fan Weiguo) A few days ago, Xu Ayuan, a large grain grower in Sunlu Village, Luotuo Town, Ningbo City, bought 500 kilograms of phosphate fertilizer at the production material store.He unhurriedly took out a small book like a current passbook, handed it to the salesperson to record a sum, and then shipped the goods.This kind of small book that can keep accounts for shopping is the "agricultural credit card" issued by the local credit union.According to reports, more than 5,000 farmers in the city have used this convenient card. People's Daily, Shijiazhuang, March 28 (Reporter He Wei) Wang Jianqing, a farmer in Liuxinzhuang, Shijiazhuang, took home two computers at a time. He said: "One is for my son to learn homework, and the other is for myself to trade stocks." In recent years, Young people in this village established the "Association of Computer Technology for Learning", and more than 30 households in the village have purchased computers.Farmers use computers to speculate in stocks, discuss business with computers, and propose marriages with computers. They have tasted the sweetness of new technology. Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, April 3rd. The "Guangdong Provincial Public Library Automation Network" project organized and implemented by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture recently passed the technical appraisal organized by the Ministry of Culture in Guangzhou Zhongshan Library.The system has established a large number of bibliographic, full-text, fact and image databases, with a total of more than 4 million records and more than 100 million Chinese characters in full-text data.The web server of the provincial public library adopts Chinese full-text retrieval software with international advanced level, and users can use natural language retrieval. Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 6 (Reporter Zhang Xuequan) In the past, Shanghai residents wanted to eat bright red tomatoes and tender green cucumbers in the cold winter, and they had to be shipped from Hainan.Today, these fruits and vegetables grown in the suburbs of Shanghai can also be picked in cold winter.Vegetable cultivation is no longer subject to seasonal restrictions, due to Shanghai's promotion of new computer vegetable growing technology.Computer growing vegetables is a revolution to traditional planting methods.Planting vegetables in artificial greenhouses is controlled by humans with temperature and humidity, which has large fluctuations and poor accuracy, slow crop growth and low yield.The computer grows vegetables completely eliminates unfavorable factors. The temperature control and humidity control sensors installed in the shed continuously send information to the computer 24 hours a day. If the temperature is insufficient, the heater will automatically heat up. If the temperature is too high, the computer will issue instructions The ventilation windows on the roof will automatically open; if the humidity is not enough, water will be sprayed automatically; if the light is not enough, the lighting equipment will automatically fill in the light.Therefore, vegetables are planted in four seasons, and they can produce high yields every season. Guangming Daily, Tianjin, April 7 (Reporter Chen Jianqiang) Get on the train first and then buy a ticket, or a monthly ticket—this kind of "transit-oriented" passenger train will be opened between Beijing and Tianjin on April 1. Tianjin Railway Sub-Administration's new measures to accelerate the reform of passenger trains. Guangming Daily, April 9th ​​(Reporter Zhang Yuling) At the beginning of February this year, the Beijing Library broke the old rule of being closed on Saturdays and holidays for decades, and changed to open 7 days a week, and holidays are also open as usual.According to statistics, more than 140,000 readers were received in March, 30,000 more than the same period last year; more than 660,000 volumes of literature were circulated, an increase of 330,000 volumes over the same period last year.After experiencing the "Cultural Revolution" in an era of disregard for knowledge, people's thirst for knowledge has become stronger and stronger.Perhaps it is to make up for the lost time; perhaps it is because of the challenges under the "knowledge economy", the number of people who are busy going to the library to "recharge" on weekends is increasing day by day. People's Daily, April 10th (Reporter Wang Hua) "Chinese style" has blown from the west to the east of the earth, from 1997 to 1998, and the limelight has become more and more powerful, forming a popular fashion.The "Chinese style" of this year's clothing is a brand-new style at the end of this century. Although it is also a side-front stand-up collar with painted buttons, it is also well-cut and outlines the curves of the human body vividly and vividly, but the style, fabric and color , already has a richer connotation.In its selection, people's aesthetic ability has been improved, and people feel that clothing is the second skin of human beings.The new styles and patterns of Chinese clothing are even more eye-catching. Among the many choices, people appreciate the charm of national culture.Chinese clothing has been recognized by people from all walks of life. People's Daily, April 14th (Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Zhongzhong) A "multimedia shopping guide station" has been set up on the commercial street of Huaihai Road in Shanghai, where people can inquire about product information for free. Nanfang Daily reported on April 14 that attractive slogans such as "20% off", "30% off" and "50% off" are common in shopping malls in Guangzhou, but the increasingly mature and calm consumption is no longer very popular.Recently, Huangqi Guangkelong launched the strategy of asking customers to set prices by themselves, which caused quite a stir, and there were many patrons.The specific content of the activity is: the mall puts two prices on some imported electrical appliances, one is the purchase price, and the other is the retail price that combines the prices of various shopping malls. Customers only need to add 10 yuan to the purchase price. available for purchase. People's Daily, April 23 (Reporter Dong Rentie) The development of China's first interactive movie disc was recently completed at the CD-ROM National Engineering Center of Tsinghua University.This CD-ROM titled "The Story of the Great Wall" vividly presents the Great Wall and its surrounding natural and cultural landscapes to the audience through a love story of the reincarnation of a dragon and a phoenix.Different from the traditional movie discs in which the plots were developed sequentially in the past, "The Story of the Great Wall" uses the latest video special effects and virtual reality technology to enable readers to reconstruct the famous passes on the Great Wall according to their own imagination, and to maximize the use of multimedia electronic publishing. interactive features of objects.At the same time, "The Story of the Great Wall" is also the first domestic multimedia CD-ROM using real-time 3D technology.Due to the adoption of true real-time 3D technology, all the animation scenes in "Story of the Great Wall" are constructed from exquisite 3D models, which feel realistic enough to make the audience feel as if they were there. People's Daily April 27th (Reporter Xu Wen) American ESS Technology Corporation and China Shida Group Corporation presented the newly developed interactive VCD development platform and interactive VCD player to the Ministry of Education for audio-visual teaching, so as to comprehensively promote quality education in our country.Using this development platform, a large number of teaching resources such as slides, projections, videos, and recordings in the past can be edited and converted into VCD discs to increase interactive learning content, especially suitable for kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and families in remote areas. Xinhua Daily, April 28th, during the rectification of non-motor vehicle traffic order in Nanjing, nearly 60 middle schools in Jianye, Yunwu, Gulou and other districts have successively received "traffic violation record cards".For students who "ride with a card" and have traffic violations, the traffic police will not impose a fine or confiscate the car, but will detain the record card and make a record and hand it over to the district education committee for feedback to the school for criticism and education.This has increased the traffic safety of students, and many parents have generally reported that children feel more at ease riding to and from school now. Xinhua News Agency, May 8. Nearly 100 farmers in Chongjiang County, Jiangxi Province actively bought the production rights of patented products and developed a batch of agricultural and sideline products with high technological content and broad market prospects, thus realizing their dream of making a fortune.The new thing that farmers buy patents shows that the majority of farmers in our country have greatly enhanced their awareness of science and technology, especially patented technology, which is more favored by farmers because it is protected by law. Guangming Daily, July 7th Anyone who pays close attention to China's securities market has probably noticed such a phenomenon: the industries run or participated in by universities have risen unusually in China's securities market.Especially in recent years, all listed companies with a university background, such as Tsinghua Tongfang, Dongda Alpine, Tianda Tiancai, China Hi-Tech, Tongji Technology, etc., have almost without exception become dazzling stars in the Chinese securities market. The high-tech attributes and the accompanying extraordinary high growth have made them the darlings of stockholders, and their stock prices have risen again and again, and some even soared by 50% or more than doubled in just a few months. People's Daily, July 10th (Reporter Luo Yong) Recently, 8 student dormitory buildings of Peking University were equipped with 78 self-service magnetic card washing machines. Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University and more than 40 university student dormitories in the capital have been used. Hebei Daily, July 14th: 809 young teachers in Bilin District, Xi'an City, who have been taking tests with a straight face on the podium in middle schools for a long time, have now also become the candidates for the test. From July 2nd to July 5th at noon More than 700 teachers successfully passed the teacher examination organized by the city.Among them, the written test scores of 3,500 learning Chinese characters reached an average of more than 90 points, and the level of Hanyu Pinyin and Mandarin "three characters" (chalk characters, brush characters, and pen characters) has also improved significantly. Wen Wei Po, July 19th Hunan Satellite TV's "Happy Camp" is a trump card variety show covering 26 provinces and cities across the country. It has been broadcast for more than a year, and the ratings have reached more than 30%, setting off a whirlwind of "happiness" across the country ". "Happy Camp" is a large-scale variety show integrating knowledge, fun and participation.After it was broadcast, it created a sensation in the TV industry and the audience. At present, more than 50 people from all over the country have come to Hunan Satellite TV to learn and learn. In the early 1970s, a small number of taxis began to appear on the streets. In a city as large as Wuhan, there were only 15 taxis in 1972. Most citizens did not know that they could take taxis besides crowded buses and trams.With the rise of the private economy after the reform and opening up, the number of private taxis has gradually increased. By this year, the number of taxis in Wuhan City has reached 12,290. Taking a taxi is no longer a luxury. Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, July 22. For the first time, the archaeological project that a Paleolithic Central Plains region that is about 200,000 years old is the intersection of northern and southern cultures has been confirmed in kind. Worker’s Daily, July 23. In Dongning County, Heilongjiang, layoffs did not bring too much pressure to people. On the contrary, some people were secretly happy, and many even offered to resign themselves. Their pursuit is to earn money from “foreigners” money.As of June this year, Dongning County had 120,000 people directly engaged in foreign economic and trade work, more than 1/10 of the total population of the county. More and more smart outsiders. Xinhua News Agency, July 31 Last year, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Commission for Discipline and Supervision made a decision to expel Chen Xitong, a former member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and former secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee.Subsequently, the procuratorial organ filed a case for investigation.Today, the Beijing Higher People's Court has just announced Chen Xitong's corruption and dereliction of duty case: Chen Xitong was sentenced to 16 years in prison for corruption; the stolen goods were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury. People's Daily, August 7th (Reporter Luo Maocheng) In order to cooperate with the first unit of the Ertan Hydropower Station, which is about to officially generate electricity, Sichuan's first "power highway" - the first 500 kV transmission line from Ertan to Zigong and Zigong to Chengdu The double-circuit 500 kV transmission lines on the same tower have all been completed, and the commissioning has been completed a few days ago, and they are fully equipped for power transmission. People's Daily, August 10th. In Dahuazhuang Town, Dongli District, Tianjin, there is a team of vegetable brokers active. They provide information, prices and transportation services to vegetable farmers, and play an important role in solving the difficulties of vegetable farmers in selling vegetables.In the first half of this year alone, through their hands, 38 million kilograms of celery and cabbage were sold to Northeast and North China for vegetable farmers. Workers' Daily, August 10th (Reporter Song Changxing) The reporter learned from the State Council Information Office that there are currently 45 news outlets including the China International Internet Network News Center - People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, China Daily, and CCTV. Newspapers, periodicals, radio and television programs of propaganda units have entered the Internet.In addition, 17 provinces, municipalities directly under the central government, and autonomous regions have also released local information through the Internet. People's Daily, Beijing, August 18th (Reporter Ran Yongping) August 18th will be a day of great significance in the history of China's mobile phone development - China Telecom's mobile phone users have exceeded 20 million, accounting for 1/7 of the global GSM users , which marks that China Telecom's mobile phone has matured from its infancy.Since China Telecom launched its mobile phone business in 1987, it has developed a total of 10 million users in the 10 years to July 17, 1997; and from July 17, 1997 to today, China Telecom only took one year and one month , the total number of users increased by another 10 million.The development of China Telecom's mobile phone can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds, reaching a new level every year. Beijing Evening News, August 28th. Nowadays, life in rural areas is getting more and more prosperous, and there are more slack days. Rural women can also go shopping freely. They began to pay attention to the cosmetics in department stores. Suddenly, one day, they couldn’t hold back any longer. The beauty-loving heart quietly walked into the beauty parlor to dress up beautifully and shorten the gap between urban and rural areas, which is no longer a difficult dream for rural women. Wen Wei Po, August 28, 10 years ago, "hitting" was a new thing.Nowadays, with the development of the market economy, great changes have taken place in the business concept of enterprises, and renting trains and chartering planes has become a reality.Since its launch in 1995, Hainan Airlines' "July 1 Special Plane Charter Service" has been praised and welcomed by international users. The emergence of "Seven in the Sky" shows that the market concept and private awareness of our country's operators are increasing. Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 22 (Reporter Feng Yizhen) Information came from the recent Shanghai Color TV Festival that the color TV market in Shanghai has a bright future.Experts believe that Shanghai has entered a new round of color TV consumption boom.In the first 10 days of the Color TV Festival, 9,120 color TV sets were sold, with an average daily sales volume of 912 sets, an increase of 96.9% compared with the sales volume in the first 10 days of last year's Color TV Festival.In recent days, the average daily sales volume has been around 1,000 units, more than double that of the same period last year. People's Daily, September 24th (Reporter Liu Fengmei) A few days ago, China Education and Research Network (CERNET) announced that it will realize the upgrade of the national backbone network and take the lead in providing online data and voice integrated applications in China.The backbone network upgrade uses Cisco's routers, LAN switches, and voice technology over IP, allowing calls to be made over a data network higher than IP. The pricing standard for global telephone communications is equivalent to that of local calls.Compared with the traditional telephone system, it is a more economical solution.With CERNET officially launching the Internet phone service, the establishment of my country's Internet phone billing standards will definitely be put on the agenda. Xinhua News Agency, November 2 News CCTV recently announced the results of a national TV audience sample survey conducted last year, showing that my country has a total of 1.094 billion TV audiences (95% of the total in rural areas) and is the largest audience group in the world. The average viewing time per person is 131 minutes per day. News (programs and TV dramas) and comprehensive cultural programs are the programs that viewers watch more, and TV has become one of the main channels for news information. People's Daily, November 6th (Reporter Sun Jiashun and Liu Shuyong) A new type of leather that is listed as a world leather-making problem - washable suede garment leather, was recently successfully developed by researchers such as Professor Wang Quanjie, director of Shandong Yantai Leather Research Institute.After testing, its technology and product quality are higher than similar foreign products, and its production cost is only 80% of that. Xinhua News Agency, November 12th Yanchi County of Ningxia Autonomous Region used various forms to guide farmers to study law and help farmers enter the market with legal knowledge, and achieved remarkable results.In the past, due to weak legal awareness and poor management quality, farmers who went to the sea in Yanchi to enter the market were deceived from time to time.In this regard, the county party committee and the county government insisted on educating farmers from different perspectives, promoting the principle of "knowing the law and becoming poor soon, but not getting rich and growing long" to guide farmers to study the law, "so that the county has avoided losses of more than 3 million yuan in the past two years." sincerely admire China Reading News, November 18th (Reporter He Zhenbang) Liu Zhenyun's new novel "Faces and Flowers of Hometown" took 8 years to create, with a length of 2 million words. After several revisions, it was finally published by Huayi Publishing House.This should be said to be a remarkable event in the Chinese literary world at the end of the 20th century.First of all, it is the first real "spiritual novel" in China.Secondly, it is a meaningful experiment in the style of modern novels.Third, its magnificent and rich artistic imagination is also shocking.The author and editor patiently and meticulously polished the work, as well as the ingenious art of binding, all of which make people feel sincere admiration when reading this novel. Xinhua News Agency, November 20th In the past two years, as the Internet has swept the world at an astonishing speed, the coverage of my country's multimedia network has been expanding.As a rising star in the education system, many colleges and technical secondary schools have also begun to enter a new era of information networking in modern China.Although my country's online schools are in the process of construction and improvement, this does not prevent students from studying in many schools on the Internet. Xinhua News Agency, November 23rd, in the small attic of Zhu Zhonghua, the vice president of the Jiangsu Province Food Ticket and Cloth Ticket Collection Association, is full of various tickets in his collection. In addition to these two kinds, there are oil tickets, light bulb tickets, cotton tickets Tickets, bean products tickets, etc. can be described as varied.There are more than 15,000 kinds of tickets in his collection alone. Tickets "retired" in the economic field but began to become popular in the collection circle of our country. People's Daily, November 23 (Reporter Chen Jie) On November 16, Tianjin Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China launched the first "self-service safe deposit box" business in northern my country, from retrieval, unpacking, sorting, closing, and storage. The intelligent system is operated by the customer alone, without the presence of bank personnel, and the 2-hour round-the-clock operation service is implemented. In November, the National Working Conference on the Medical Insurance System for Urban Employees decided that starting next year, the reform of the medical insurance system for urban employees will be carried out nationwide and completed by the end of next year.At the same time, the public medical care and labor insurance medical care system that has been implemented for more than 40 years will be automatically cancelled. The State Council decided that party and government agencies should stop the practice of distributing welfare housing in kind for more than 40 years, and promote the monetization of housing distribution.It was originally scheduled to end at the end of June, and there was a rush to buy houses by government agencies. Worker's Daily, November 28th, "Please talk to my lawyer if you have anything to do." This line was once only heard in Western, Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, and now it has begun to be spoken by Chinese people. "Private lawyers" have quietly entered the lives of ordinary Chinese people step by step in recent years.This marks that my country's lawyers no longer stay in providing legal services for enterprises, institutions, and the government, but have entered a new era of working for ordinary citizens, being hired in litigation, and providing advice and reference for life decision-making.This has not only accelerated the pace of my country's legal civilization construction, but also promoted the integration of my country's lawyer industry with internationalization. Worker's Daily, November 29th, China's first tie trend conference was recently held in Shengzhou, Zhejiang.The four main themes of China's tie trends in the spring and summer of 1999 were displayed at the meeting, which were "subjective", "passionate", "jumping" and "century".This marks a new situation in which the apparel and tie industry has moved from a supporting role in the clothing system to the foreground, and is developing towards professionalism and large-scale branding. People's Daily, November 29th (Reporter Ao Teng) my country's first domestically produced newspaper stacker for rotary printing presses has been successfully developed by Tianjin Daily.After 20 months of trial operation, this set of equipment has achieved or surpassed the equipment imported from the United States and Japan in various technical performance indicators, and the transportation distance, counting, and code reporting standards have all been improved. Xinhua News Agency, November 30th. Whoever says that there is a heart of grass will get three springs.Respecting the elderly and respecting filial piety have always been the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, but with the changes of things and the progress of the times, in the new era, the traditional concept of old-age care has been injected with new connotations, and spiritual support has gradually become popular in modern families, becoming a happy family together. Beautiful scenery.A phone call, a letter from home, a greeting card, and a visit, in the ocean of life, thousands of waves of spiritual support bloom. People's Daily, November 30th (Reporter Yang Jie) At present, more and more elderly people love to sing.In order to activate the cultural life of the elderly, the Elderly News sponsored by Heilongjiang Daily edited and produced a song tape "The Sunset Knows Autumn" specially for the elderly.This is the first tape of songs specially recorded for the elderly in our country. Xinhua News Agency, November 31st, a high-tech equipment power grid automatic monitor that can monitor the operation of power distribution network system equipment and quickly detect faults passed the appraisal of more than 30 experts and professors in Beijing today.It marks a major breakthrough in my country's distribution network automation industry technology, and also fills the domestic gap. Beijing Evening News, December 1st, China's housing construction authorities recently revealed that in the first three quarters of this year, the national economical housing construction momentum is gratifying.According to reports, the state issued three batches of affordable housing construction plans this year, with a total scale of 1.1 billion square meters and a total investment of more than 170.3 billion yuan. At the same time, it also arranged a 371.1 billion yuan guiding credit plan. There are famous bar streets in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenzhen, and most of the people who like "clubbing" are young people.They are plants that have not yet taken root in the city, have no support to rely on, and lack personal free space.During the day, they work diligently in their positions and abide by all current regulations. At night, they go to the "bar" to relax their nerves and mood.Bars have become the spiritual dependence of young people in the city. People's Daily, Beijing, December 7th (Reporter Meng Xianli) my country's translation force continues to grow. At present, more than 500,000 translators are active in various fields such as my country's politics, military, economy, and culture. An important force in the cultural exchanges of various ethnic groups.This is what the reporter learned on the 4th National Council of the Chinese Translators Association a few days ago.As a joint organization of translators' associations in various provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in my country, there are currently 53 group members including the Tibetan Translators' Association, and joined the International Federation of Translators in 1987. This summer, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Northeast Nenjiang and Songhua River basins experienced catastrophic floods that have not happened in a century.The scenes of the raging flood and the desperate struggle of the soldiers and civilians on the TV were thrilling and touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers. The TV report on the 98 flood fighting and the TV disaster relief performance once again showed the powerful power of TV.And this "Flood Heroes" restores this magnificent scene.After witnessing the scene of "heroes all over the place setting the sun" in the TV series, the audience suddenly realized a fact from these documentary pictures: In fact, the beautiful and noble feelings deep in our hearts have not disappeared. This age of life is not an age far from heroes. It seems that "foot massage" has become popular all over the country overnight, and foot therapy shops have blossomed all over the country. "Foot massage" has also become a way of entertainment for people to soothe their nerves. Workers' Daily, December 7th (Reporter Yu Yuemin) In people's minds, construction workers who have always been covered in dirt and mud are now beginning to break into the stock market with a "reborn".Approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, 10 million A-shares of Beijing Urban Construction will be issued nationwide on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on December 9. People's Daily, December 14th (Reporter Wang Hongyang) In Shanghai, in the past, individuals "if you want to buy a house, you should find a bank", but recently, "if you want to buy a house, you should find a lawyer".A few days ago, the Shanghai City Cooperative Bank launched a "one-stop" service for the public, in which a designated lawyer acts as an agent for borrowing money and buying a house on behalf of the public, which is very popular.这一服务，由专职从事金融律师业务并具有长期办理住房个人抵押贷款经验的律师所办理，主要包括：代理借款的委托中介业务；代理从签订购房合同到借款的全过程委托中介业务。 “买房请律师”的最大好处是：为借款人把好购房合同关。广大个人购房借款人，一般不太熟悉有关购房程序、手续等知识，很容易在选购住房时受一些不良房地产商的哄骗而上当。委托银行提供的律师作中介服务，可以从源头上为借款人和银行设卡把关，规避借款人和银行的各种风险。 90年代我国消费热点主要集中在以下几个方面：一、普及家电用品。据调查，目前家电商品包括彩电、黑白电视机、收音机、电扇、洗衣机、冰箱、录音机等。而且高收入家庭对家电商品需求量向更高的层次发展，把钱投向录像机、放音机、组合音响、空调器、吸尘器、小家电上。二、购买商品房交纳提高的房租。到2000年，我国城镇居民平均每户将有1套住宅。需新建住宅21亿平方米，总投资6500亿元。三、安装住宅电话。到2000年，我国电话普及率将由1000多万门提高到6000多万门，而且其中大多是住宅电话。四、购买摩托车和小轿车。目前我国摩托车市场销售活跃，前景可观。小轿车已经开始进入城市家庭。五、室内装饰用品销售旺盛。在1991年建材订货会议上，销售额占前10名的产品半数以上是室内装饰用料，迫使一些厂家由生产传统的建材转向新型建材和装饰材料。 所谓DIY是Do It Youself的英文缩写，就是你自己亲手制作的意思。它起源于欧美，已有50年的历史。近来在北京以及一些大城市DIY逐渐成为一种流行事物，从电脑、家具到服装服饰等，大家都喜欢上了DIY一词。通过DIY可以自我设计出服装，避免一件衣服穿到街上、社会场合与他人雷同的尴尬，符合自身特点，自己的品味，展示自我个性的另类。 今年以《宰相刘罗锅》、《天下粮仓》、、《雍正王朝》等为代表的一部部内地古装历史剧开始在华语电视市场上走俏起来，受到亿万观众的喜爱。并开始进袭港台地区，成为新的流行和市场标范。 由北京青年电影制片厂、北京紫禁城影业公司出品的《离开雷锋的日子》讲述的是：乔安山是雷锋的亲密战友，两个人一同入伍，同在一个班，同驾一辆车。然而雷锋的死却和他有着直接的关系。雷锋牺牲了，这意外的车祸也给乔安山造成了巨大的精神打击，一度精神失常。30多年来，他时时处处学雷锋，助人为了做好事，不为名、不为利，只为雷锋班长争光，把雷锋精神传播下去。这部影片上映之初并没有过多的宣传，然而在各城市放映时却场场爆满，大受人们的欢迎。人们呼唤雷锋，呼唤雷锋精神。如果说焦裕禄是干部的楷模，那么雷锋则是每一个公民的榜样。 新华社12月25日讯1978年，盲目“解冻”，捧着矛盾小说的年轻人，几乎无一例外的十分吃惊：中国也有过股票。1984年9月，一家股份有限公司——北京天桥百货股份有限公司诞生发行定期3年的股份。同年11月，新中国第一支规范化股票——“小飞天”股票由上海飞天音响公司公开发行。“股”在中国重新出现了！现在股票、债券、基金在我国已成为一个热门话题，“股”开始深刻而广泛的改变中国百姓的日常生活和形为方式，这也标志着我国已开始迈向股民时代。 新华社北京12月26日讯改革开放使我国城镇住房制度得到稳步推进，住房建设得到快速发展。城镇居民住房已经基本上告别短缺阶段，进入住房数量与住房质量提高并垂阶段。 新华社12月28日讯不知何时，城市里的最后一个国有浴池悄悄隐退了。城市消费现在也悄悄改变着潮流。有朋友来或朋友相见，安顿以后，“我请你去洗澡”，“去洗脚吧”代替了“请你去歌舞厅”。洗浴变成了消费的一种新时尚，正悄悄在各城市蔓延。 《梦开始的地方》是一个极具象征意义的词汇，这是一部在今年诞生的20集电视剧的名字。片中的主人公们在什刹海开始他们青春撒野的旅程，最后又在原地归于宁静。这部剧叙说着一个奇妙的轮回，在这个时空轮转之中，影像、笑声、殴斗、情欲、奔跑、死亡，都浸润着一种说不清道不明的魔力。阳光灿烂的日子、空寂的街道、老城门下的往事、莫斯科餐厅的聚会、放逐、合欢、生离死别——这是一个就迥异于老三届一代人的青春记忆、同时又和亿万人的集体回忆暗中契合。 由冯小刚执导的内地第一部贺岁片《甲方乙方》播出后，一举夺得3000万元的票房成绩，在全国引起了轰动。这也为电影业开启了一个贺岁片的新时代。这部讲述梦想与现实之家可怜又可笑的茅盾贺岁片备受国人的喜爱，给国产影片打了一针强心剂。 人民日报12月28日讯（记者谭克扬杨卓文）国内首套多媒体数字式语言学习系统，日前在长沙研制成功并通过专家鉴定。此前该成果首批实用化设备已在湖南省第一师范学校、岳阳广播电视大学等多家教学单位相继投入使用。这项高科技成果是由国防科技大学和长沙西城电子公司联合研制的。 今年，报国寺开展了全国首届全国徽章展览。展览会场共设3个展厅，其规模之大令许多业内人士都惊叹不已。而展品则以从全国各地收集来的毛泽东徽章精品为主。该展览引起了一些国有博物馆的重视，许多博物馆有关人士看完展览后都不禁称赞：民间也有这么好的毛泽东像章！此后，军事博物馆、抗日战争纪念馆甚至韶山毛泽东纪念馆等都推出了毛泽东题材的收藏品展览。如业内人士所说，这次徽章展览活动掀起了全国毛泽东像章收藏的第一次热潮。