Driving Along the Roads （Ⅲ）

On August 22, 2004, we took the cross-country vehicle of Dorje and traveled around the roads of the Shannan region, cradle of Tibetan culture. Our car ran like the wind of the bituminous macadam surface.The broadleaf poplar and elm forests beside the roads were restful to our eyes.These new forests might have been planted when I first entered Tibet about 10 years ago. At that time, the Agricultural Ministry and UN Food and Agriculture Organization jointly invested in Tibet for Project 3357. In 1992, phase one of this project was completed and each investor came on an examination and acceptance visit. We also took the opportunity to carry out interviews.     

西藏：路的故事——西藏公路修筑史话（续二）

自1954年12月康藏、青藏公路通车以后,西藏又开始了新的公路建设,先后修筑了新疆叶城到阿里的新藏公路,拉萨到亚东的拉亚公路,拉萨到泽当的拉泽公路,日喀则到定日的日定公路和黑河到昌都的黑昌公路。当然,这些公路和现在的路不能同日而语,大都只是能粗通汽车的沙石路,但是,它们是西藏现代交通的雏形,为西藏现代公路的发展奠定了很好的基础。到了1959年西藏民主改革以前,     

Female Builders of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway （Ⅱ）

Iinterviewed these most common and lovely women over a period of several days. They have sacrificed their love and friendship to the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, plunging themselves into building railways on the ancient permafrost.     

Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅱ）

During the period from 1950 toearly in 1951,Chairman Mao Zedong sent a cable to Peng Dehuai, saying:“it is said that the road extending from Qinghai to Tibet is smooth and good”. On December 9, 1950, the PLA Southwest Military Area sent cable to the Central Military Commission: “It is easier to build highways from Yushu to Lhasa by way of Naqu and Qamdo than from Qamdo to Lhasa by way of the 39-Tribe and Taizhao,     

Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅲ）

After the Xikang-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were opened to traffic, other highways were constructed including the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway extending from Yecheng in Xinjiang to Ngari in Tibet, the Lhasa-Yadong Highway, the Lhasa-Zetang Highway, the Xigaze-Tingri Highway and the Heihe-Qamdo Highway. Sand and stone may only have covered these roads,but they were an embryonic form of modem transportation in Tibet and served as a solid foundation for development of modem highways. Until 1959, before the Democratic Reform in Tibet, the overall length of highways totaled 5,648 kilometers, creating a primary Tibetan road network with Lhasa as the center.     

Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅳ）

Tibet‘s First International Highway The China-Nepal Highway is Tibet‘s only international highway. It extends 1,036 krn from Lhasa to Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. The Tibetan section extends 827 km. Construction of the highway lasted 10 years. Between March 1951 and October 20, 1955, the Lhasa-Xigaze Highway was constructed, bringing to an end a history of the Xigaze region possessing no proper roads. In 1955 the 90-km Xigaze-Gyangze section was constructed, being opened to traffic in October 1955. In 1956, the Lhasa-Yadong Highway was constructed, extending 547 km. In 1958, the Xigaze-Tingri Highway was completed, followed in 1960 by the Lhasa-Burang Highway.     

留下岁月的印痕（二）

1978年12月中共中央召开的十一届三中全会．是新中国成立以来党的历史上具有深远意义的伟大转折,也标志着我国开始进入以社会主义现代化建设为工作重点的新时期。随着新的历史时期的到来,制订一个新的山西经济发展规划,便成为当务之急。能源重化工基地建设战略的确立,就是适应这一新的历史时期要求的必然产物。     

夏菊花传（四）

在另一个世界里 八国之行,除第一站南斯拉夫外,其他七国均为比较发达的资本主义国家。当时．这些国家与“百年魔鬼舞翩跹”后刚刚建立的新中国相比,无论从经济上、人民的生活水平上都有着相当大的差距。夏菊花在回忆这段经历时对笔者说：“要说走出国门看世界,我们应该是新中国成立后最早的一批使者。当时,灯红酒绿、满街霓虹闪烁的西方世界,对于长期封闭在贫穷落后环境中的中国人来说,简直好比一场梦游!”而年轻的夏菊花第一次走进另一个世界,她对那里的繁华不卑不亢,她对担当文化使者的神圣任务尽心尽职,她甚至面对那里一座座高耸入云的高楼,心中燃烧起了“一定要为改变祖国的落后而努力”的新的激情!这是多么难能可贵的精神品格呀!     

徐永昌与阎锡山（五）

1929年3月1日,徐永昌应阎之召回到太原。这期间,中国的政局正发生着急剧的变化。二、三、四集团军名义上已被撤销番号,实际上并未编遣,与蒋介石的矛盾日益尖锐。徐永昌的看法是：“当时二、三集团军军饷,是就各集团军地盘所收入以供之,兵多款少。第一集团军地盘既富庶,又有商埠海关,收入自然较裕。     

宁夏扶贫开发大事记（1982——1999）（三）

1月14日财政部、国务院扶贫开发领导小组联合印发了《“三西”农业建设专项补助资金使用管理办法》(财农字[1995]10号)。2月10日自治区主席白立忱在固原指出：“今年宁南山区的工作要围绕经济建设这一中心,开辟县城经济、“1236”工程、劳务输出三个战场。”     

发展的幻象——近代华北农村农户收入状况与农民生活水平辨析

近年来,国内有关近代华北农村社会的研究存在着一种引人注目的倾向。素来被认为是衰落破败的近代华北农村,在不少学的笔下则呈现出欣欣向荣的农村资本主义自由发展的耀眼图景。而与之相对立的过密型商品化理论,以及近代中国农村经济衰退论,则被当做“近代农村经济史研究的主流思维”而遭致激烈的批评。甚至挞伐。     

徐永昌与阎锡山（四）

十二,孙岳逝世,国民三军正式归附阎锡山;北伐告成。徐永昌出任绥远省政府主席。     

Challenging the Limit of Life （Ⅰ）

In early November 2004, the TAR Federation of Trade Unions and its female workers committee cited female workers in the forefront of track-laying with the China Railway No. 11 Bureau Group. It was the first time for me to come to Amdo to interview this group of women who toil at an altitude of nearly 5,000 meters in disregard of freezing cold nights.     

中国农村吉祥图案（二）

天官赐福相传,在北海岛上有块当年元始天尊修炼灵胎时遗留下的仙骨。星移斗转,这块仙骨仰吸天气,俯饮地泉,居然修炼成人形,并与北海龙王的女儿结婚生下三个儿子。     

汪尧田与中国入世之路（下）

1998年汪尧田从事外贸教育与研究50载,又喜逢80华诞。6月9日,上海外贸学院为汪尧田举办座谈会。李岚清副总理闻讯后特地打电话表示祝贺;对外贸易经济合作部部长石广生致贺电,     

A Trip to Lhasa River （Ⅰ）

The Lhasa River originates from Nyangqentanglha Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is 551 km long and is one of the five major tributaries of the Yarlung Zangbo. For many years, the average diametric flow volume has been 6 billion cubic meters, which is about one-eighth of that of the second largest river in China, the Yellow River. The drainage area is nearly 30,000 square km. The Lhasa River is the Mother River of the Tibetans, which witnessed the changes of ancient Tibetan culture. The drainage area of the Lhasa River serves as the center of politics, economy, culture, transportation and religion in the whole Tibet,as well as the significant part of three-river area （the Yarlung Zangbo River, the Lhasa River and the Nyang Qu River） that Tibetan government attaches importance to the development there.