China’s absorption of foreign investment is an important content of China’s fundamental principle of opening up to the outside world, and also an important component of Deng Xiaoping Theory, and is one of the great practices of building up socialist economy with Chinese characteristics. The Third Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1978 confirmed over again the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, and realized the historical transformation of key work for the entire Party. It also established the basic line of focusing on the central task of economic construction, and made up the great decision of reform and opening up to the outside world. The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures, was promulgated by the National People’s Congress in 1979, then the work of utilizing foreign capital as an important content of opening up to the outside world initiated as China’s fundamental principle. After twenty years of great efforts, the scale of absorbing foreign capital increasingly expanded as well as the level was increasingly upgraded when China’s law and managerial system on foreign investment have been gradually perfected. The achievements won the whole world’s attention, which effectively promoted the continuous, fast and healthy development of national economy.
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China’s Absorption of Foreign Investment

Highway
China is a vast country, and the highway extends in all directions. Highway volume continued to grow. By the end of 2005, the length of highway reached 1.9305 million km, and the road network structure has been further improved. In the length of total national highway, national road was 132,674 km, provincial road was 233,783 km, county road was 494,276 km, rural road was 981,430 km, special road was 88,380 km, accounted for 6.9%, 12.1%, 25.6%, 50.8% and 4.6% of the total roadway length respective.
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Infrastructure Of China

Land Resources　
China has 9.6 million square kilometers land area, accounting for 22.1% of the land area of the asian continent, and accounting for 6.4% of the world’s land area, it is one of the countries which have a vast area of land. China’s abundant land resources has two significant geographical features: 1、The share of mountains which have higher elevations and greater volatility (including hill, mountainous and tableland) over the plains (plains and the high plains), as the ratio of two-thirds and one-third; 2、In complex and diverse ecological environment, formed the features of more grassland, limited arable land, low forest percentage and the percentage of land which difficult to use is high. At present, grassland accounts for 37.4% of the total land area of China, farmland accounts for 10.4%, woodland accounts for 12.7%, and the land such as desert, Gobi, high and cold desert, tor, mountain glaciers and permanent snow which are difficult to use accounted for 20.5%. Nevertheless, it still has great potential for further rational use of land resources in China, in addition to the existing lawn, woodland and farmland, it is estimated that there are still about 33 million hectares of uncultivated lands suitable for agriculture, more than 6,000 million hectares of grazing land and more than 9,000 million hectares of barren hills, wasteland and woodland suitable for forest to be developed and utilized.
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Natural Resources of China

in hot water
to throw cold water on something

英语里有好些习惯用语都和“水”，就是water这个字有关系。有的用：hot water；还有的用：cold water or deep water。在英语里用这些词汇组成的习惯用语就和水一样普遍。但是，它们都有一个共同的特点，那就是它们一般都含有贬意。今天我们要向大家介绍两个用water 这个字组成的习惯用语。第一个是： in hot water

In hot water的意思并不是“在热水中”，它的确切意思是指某人或某些人遇到非常麻烦的问题了。举个例子来说吧：
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美国习惯用语讲解五

doggy bag
sunny side up
over easy

在这一课里，我们要讲几个和吃东西有关的词汇。第一个是: doggy bag。

Doggy这是字是dog,也就是“狗”这个字的形容词。Bag大家都知道是“口袋”的意思。Doggy bag连在一起是指饭馆里把客人吃剩的菜放在盒子里，然后把它们都放在一个纸口袋里让客人带回家的那种口袋。那末，这和狗又有什么关系呢? Doggy bag这个说法的出现有它特殊的背景。以前美国人也不好意思把在饭馆吃剩的菜带回家，怕有失面子。所以有的人就会对服务员说：
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美国习惯用语讲解四

It goes in one ear and out the other.
to play by ear

 今天我们要讲几个和耳朵，也就是ear有关的成语。中国人经常说那些不听劝告的人对别人的话总是“一个耳朵进一个耳朵出”，把它们当作“耳边风”，或者说“左耳朵进，右耳朵出”。美国人和中国人在这个说法上是完全一模一样。他们是这样说的： “It goes in one ear and out the other.”
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美国习惯用语讲解三

Greasy spoon
potluck

 今天我们要讲两个和吃东西有关的俗语。第一个是: “Greasy spoon”

Greasy 是油腻的意思, spoon 是指调羹,也就是汤勺。 Greasy 和 spoon 这两个字合在一起就是指那些有点像夫妻老婆店那样的小饭馆。这些小饭馆一般来说菜谱上花色品种并不多,碗筷也好像不那么干净,装潢也不讲究,但是菜的味道倒不错,价钱也很公道。
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美国习惯用语讲解二

give me a hand
foot the bill
blow out
lock, stock and barrel
hook, line and sinker

        每一种语言都有它独特的成语和俗语。而学习外语的人经常在理解这些习惯用语时会感到很困难。这是因为你不可能从组成某个习惯用语的字面上来懂得它的意思。
比如,美国人经常说:“Give me a hand.” 按照字面来理解, “give me hand”就是“给我一只手。”可是,它的意思却是“帮我一下忙。”

       另外一个例子是: “Foot the bill.”

     “Foot”的意思是 “一只脚”,而“bill”在这儿的解释是“账单”。“Foot the bill.”并不是把帐单踩在脚底下,而是付账的意思。
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美国习惯用语讲解一