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Most of the time Chinese people's expectation of policy innovation from each new leadership and their expectation for new major reform and opening-up measures are too high.

Thirty years ago, on December 18-22, the landmark third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, setting a new direction for the country – reform and opening up. Great changes have taken place since then, from household life to the national strength, from the political field to the economic, sports, cultural, and social fields.

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Recently in China there has been fierce debate about "universal value." Some "scholars", officials, Never forget class struggle "educational officials," and others oppose China's development toward democracy, freedom, constitutionalism, and human rights by opposing universal values.

Every year around the beginning of June China's ministry of Education offers a nationwide college entrance examination.

This year the test was offered on June 7-8.

A record 9.52 million people registered for ...

As the December 18 anniversary of 30 years of economic reform in China approaches, there is no better time to reflect back on changes in China’s media. In an interview that appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Economic Observer, journalism professor Chen Lidan (陈力丹), of Renmin University, discusses his personal experiences as a press worker and researcher.

Hu Jintao's rural reform policy may have run into some heavy opposition.

Chinese families across the country are able to send their children to school tuition-free in the nine-year compulsory education period as of Monday. From this fall semester, about 28.21 million urban students in primary schools and in junior high schools joined rural students to benefit from the plan, according to the Ministry of Education. The students still must pay for textbooks and uniforms.

A coalition of advocates met at City Hall in Lower Manhattan to announce the launch of a 24-hour appeal for China to release prisoners -- including journalists, bloggers and artists -- before the Olympics opening ceremony on Aug. 8. "It would show goodwill toward keeping promises they made in 2001 to the International Olympic Committee that they have not yet kept," said Lucie Morillon, Washington director of Reporters Without Borders, which helped organize the appeal.

Campaigns also were launched in Melbourne, Australia; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Hong Kong; Berlin; and other cities.