Reed in snow (雪天的芦苇)

days ago, US accused China of it's violation of intellectual property.although Chinese government acclaimed that it have try its best to curb the infringement of IP , the protection of IP confronts really big challenge.Pirated movies are available on the street vendor.and many latest released movie can also be downloaded from many BBS or website.the Pirated DVD for movies are quite cheap ,which is one of the major reason why it is popular here.for example, one DVD only cost you about half US dollar.

i am a law school student and i know that buying pirated DVD is illegal . however, i can not resist the temptation of low price.so sometimes I'd like to buy some of my favorite moives. the legal DVD version is too expansive for me to afford.

tell me about your situation in you place. have you brought pirated DVD ro downloaded movie from Internet????

the gov officier are crack down the vendor

thousands of pirated DVD were ruinde pubicly

where pirated DVD are sold

street vendor

China joins club of bullet train nations

by Benjamin Morgan
Wed Apr 18, 6:46 AM ET
SHANGHAI (AFP) - At 5:38 am sharp on Wednesday the sparkling white, futuristic No. D460 train departed Shanghai Station, heralding a new era of high-speed rail travel in China.

Reaching speeds of up to 250 kilometres (155 miles) an hour, the sleek machine covered the 112 kilometres to the neighbouring city of Suzhou in 39 minutes, cutting the journey time nearly in half.
With it, China also joined a small group of the likes of Japan, the United States and most of the European Union, running bullet trains.
"It felt like we were travelling on an airplane," 78-year-old Shanghai resident Chen Lijuan was quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency as saying. "In the past it took more than an hour to get here."
The carriages were spotless, with the seats striped blue and red looking like those on an aircraft, as students, families and businessmen on the Beijing-Tianjin route settled down for the trip, an AFP photographer said.
In keeping with the high-tech image, the trains support WiFi services for those with laptops and other mobile devices wanting to keep in touch.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Railways told AFP that 52 trains have been deployed on short distance services around China aimed at alleviating overcrowding on what is still the nation's most important form of transport.
By the end of the year, the ministry said 108 more trains will be added.
Liu Dongwei, a driver on the Shanghai-Suzhou line, said China's train technology had come of age, recalling how only a decade ago average train speeds were less than 50 kilometres an hour.
"My job has become easier -- more like operating an airplane," Liu, 38, said.
China, now the world's fourth-largest economy, is keen to show off the new bullet trains as evidence that it can develop its own technology in key sectors.
But they are still mainly built abroad on the basis of technology transfer agreements with industry heavy-hitters such as Japan's Mitsubishi-Kawasaki, Canada's Bombardier, German giant Siemens and France's Alstom.
The head of Alstom's operations in China, Alain Berger, said that given the complexities involving the installation of new tracks, signalling and power sources, Beijing's achievement was to be applauded.
"It is a huge achievement," said Berger.
The debut of China bullet trains on short-run lines such as Shanghai to Hangzhou, and Beijing to Tianjin, comes after months of testing the locomotives at normal speeds.
It is expected that the trains will expand national railway passenger capacity by 18 percent, or 340,000 seats a day, alleviating ticket shortages, especially during holidays.
However, currently only 6,000 kilometres (3,720 miles) of track can accommodate the high-speed trains, with most restricted to of 160 kilometres an hour on 14,000 kilometres of sub-standard track.
Until upgrades are made, trains will be forced to chug along at 120 kilometres per hour over another 22,000 kilometres.
Nevertheless by 2020, China hopes 13,000 kilometres of track, or about one-fifth of the nation's current 77,000 kilometres, will be able to handle bullet trains.
A drawback for the moment is that fares on the new services are nearly 50 percent more than current express trains.
"Tickets are quite expensive," said one passenger, who paid 42 yuan (5.43 US dollars) on the bullet service between Beijing to Tianjin.
The usual price on the fastest express train on the same line is 30 yuan.
Vice Minister of railways Hu Yadong lauded the achievement of what China has called its home-grown technological success.
"That length (of high-speed track) exceeds the total amount of rail lines capable of accommodating trains at that speed in nine European countries," Hu was quoted by the China Daily as saying.
In a public briefing held online Wednesday, Ministry of Railway spokesman Wang Yongping, added: "No country has ever achieved an increase in speed of this scope."

all chinese media and paper are singing highly of the debut of the bullet train .yeah it's good sign, which means we could arrive at other cites faster and more conveniently.however there is a problem. the price is relatively high compared with normal express train. for example, it cost s42 yuan for me from shanghai to hangzhou by bullet train,while it does 23 yuan by normal express train. the bullet train will arrive at hangzhou about half an hour ahead of time. it's good for some business man whose time is measured with thousands of dollars, but it's not the sameting with the ordinary people.high price will have a profound impace on people's way of travelling.

the railway authority should not cancel the ordinary express trains between hangzhou and shanghai.people have to take the bullet train whatever you want or not.that's a bad policy.it's ok if you only take the bullet train once . it's will be a headache for those who commute between those two big cites.

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson hails from Newcastle and took a degree in electrical engineering at Newcastle University before studying at Oxford for an MSc, where he met Richard Curtis.

Although he'd first appeared at Edinburgh when he was 17, Atkinson was spotted at the 1976 Festival by television producer John Lloyd, who went on to produce him in his first starring role - as one of the four members of the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch team. This was followed by the huge success of Blackadder and its sequels which propelled Atkinson to star status.

He then went on to create Mr Bean. A walking disaster, Bean was purely physical comedy, the opposite of Edmund Blackadder's polished dialogue. This clumsy character was a huge success and became another national treasure.

Atkinson made his big-screen debut in 1983's unofficial James Bond picture Never Say Never Again. Despite this film receiving mixed reports, he has continued to juggle TV and film roles. In 1997 Bean came to the big screen, and Scooby Doo topped the US box office in 2002. This was followed by spoof Bond feature Johnny English in 2003.

As a long-time collaborator with writer Richard Curtis, he has regularly contributed to Comic Relief. He even played the 9th Doctor, in the 1999 Doctor Who spoof The Curse Of Fatal Death.
SHOWS
AS A PERFORMERNot The Nine O'clock News UK 1979
Rowan Atkinson Presents...Canned Laughter UK 1979
The Secret Policeman's Ball UK 1979
Peter Cook & Co UK 1980
Fundamental Frolics UK 1981
The Black Adder UK 1983
Weekend In Wallop UK 1984
Blackadder II UK 1986
Comic Relief UK 1986
Blackadder The Third UK 1987
Blackadder's Christmas Carol UK 1988
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years UK 1988
Blackadder Goes Forth UK 1989
Hysteria 2 UK 1989
The Appointments Of Dennis Jennings UK / USA 1989
Mr Bean UK 1990
The Return Of Mr Bean UK 1990
Comic Relief UK 1991
Hysteria III UK 1991
Mr Bean Goes To Town UK 1991
The Curse Of Mr Bean UK 1991
Merry Christmas Mr Bean UK 1992
Mr Bean Rides Again UK 1992
Rowan Atkinson On Location In Boston UK 1992
The Trouble With Mr Bean UK 1992
Mr Bean In Room 426 UK 1993
Total Relief UK 1993
Back To School, Mr Bean UK 1994
Do-It-Yourself, Mr Bean UK 1994
Mind The Baby, Mr Bean UK 1994
Goodnight Mr Bean UK 1995
Tee Off, Mr Bean UK 1995
The Night Of Comic Relief UK 1995
The Thin Blue Line UK 1995
A Gala Comedy Hour - Best Of The Prince's Trust UK 1996
Comic Relief UK 1997
Blackadder UK 1998
Blackadder Back & Forth UK 2000

AS A WRITERNot The Nine O'clock News UK 1979
Rowan Atkinson Presents...Canned Laughter UK 1979
The Secret Policeman's Ball UK 1979
Fundamental Frolics UK 1981
The Black Adder UK 1983
Weekend In Wallop UK 1984
Comic Relief UK 1986
Hysteria 2 UK 1989
Mr Bean UK 1990
The Return Of Mr Bean UK 1990
Hysteria III UK 1991
Mr Bean Goes To Town UK 1991
The Curse Of Mr Bean UK 1991
Merry Christmas Mr Bean UK 1992
Mr Bean Rides Again UK 1992
Rowan Atkinson On Location In Boston UK 1992
The Trouble With Mr Bean UK 1992
Mr Bean In Room 426 UK 1993
Back To School, Mr Bean UK 1994
Do-It-Yourself, Mr Bean UK 1994
Mind The Baby, Mr Bean UK 1994
Goodnight Mr Bean UK 1995
Tee Off, Mr Bean UK 1995
A Gala Comedy Hour - Best Of The Prince's Trust UK 1996

AS A DIRECTORComic Relief UK 1986

Japan's wartime deeds not easily forgotten in China

MARCO POLO BRIDGE, China (Reuters) - The war may have ended more than 60 years ago, but in this Beijing suburb gaggles of schoolchildren and office workers daily relive battles the Chinese fought with Japanese invaders so long ago.

The Marco Polo Bridge, where a skirmish on July 7, 1937, provided the spark for all-out Sino-Japanese war, is one part of China where the history of Japan's brutal invasion seems destined never to be forgotten, despite slowly warming official ties.

"It gives me great pain to come here," said student Li Jie, 25, standing in front of pictures of disemboweled women at the nearby Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Agression.

"It is very tolerant of Premier Wen to go to Japan, considering our history and how much we suffered," she added.

Premier Wen Jiabao flies to Tokyo on Wednesday, the first time a leader of China has visited its eastern neighbor and bitter wartime adversary in seven years.

The trip marks a turning point in relations, poisoned in recent years by spats over history that have at times boiled over into violence. In 2005, Chinese mobs stoned Japanese diplomatic buildings, smashing cars and restaurants.

China thinks Japan has not properly atoned or apologized for its wartime past, especially the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, and this is a message drummed relentlessly into Chinese from an early age.

Still, there is cautious support from some for Wen's Japan visit.

"The Chinese people hope that Wen's trip to Japan can help melt the ice, and gradually open up some of the disagreements and contradictions," museum deputy curator Li Zongyuan told Reuters.

UNDER THE CARPET?

But that does not mean the past should be swept under the carpet in the interests of diplomacy, he added.

"We must not forget history," Li said. "These are questions that cannot be avoided."

The old imperial bridge itself is carefully preserved inside a park, yet modern Beijing is slowly creeping up on what was once a remote outpost of the capital. Apartment blocks rise nearby.

The museum is dedicated to ensuring remembrance of the Japanese invasion and occupation as China's Communist leaders wish the events to be recorded.

"Remember history well, do not forget the past," enjoins calligraphy written by President

<form action="http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search" class="yqin" method="post"/> Hu Jintao inside the low-rise building, which receives an estimated 300,000 visitors annually, including some 10,000 Japanese.

The exhibits show graphic pictures of decapitated Chinese, rusting swords and implements of torture. There is also at least one skull, purportedly of a Nanjing massacre victim.

"We are such close neighbors, we should be good friends," said civil servant Li Dongqing, 40, at the museum with a friend.

"Japan's refusal to face up to its past is a terrible strain. But I'm glad Premier Wen is going," she added, her back to a mural of heroic-looking Chinese soldiers entitled "Glorious Victory."

Xinhua news agency said last week no fewer than four Chinese films about the Nanjing massacre were planned for this year, the 70th anniversary of the capture of China's former capital.

China says Japanese Imperial troops slaughtered 300,000 men, women and children in Nanjing, then known as Nanking. An Allied tribunal after World War Two put the death toll at about 142,000.

(Additional reporting by Eve Johnson)