Last night I watched the ‘Dialogue’ , which is a very pop ‘talk show’ TV program of CCTV2.  the topic of this issue is ‘how to make the world know China’. Zhao Qi-zheng and He Dele were invited as honored guests.

So far, China has become the 6th largest economic entity in the world. but how much on earth does the world know China? I have been in BBC Learning English discusion group for several months and there was a topic on China last November. People from other place of the world, most of which did not come to China,  told their impression of China. In their mind, China is a large country with huge population, long history and it is a socialism country in which people are lack of political freedom and not well educated. Some people even do not know the relationship among Mainland, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao. During the ‘Dialogue’, a guest told us a story. he said when he first arrived in America, an american told him he was not like a Chinese. he was amazing and asked the american why he felt like that. the american said Chinese should wear gown like the actor in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

all that above make a conclusion that the world does not know China enough or the world has a misunderstanding of China in some fields. Zhao Qi-zheng said the reason why the world know less of China is not simple. First of all, the Chinese character is difficult to study and understand. Compared to other characters in the world, Chinese charactor has more implications, which makes the traslation more hard and less accurate. Secondly, some media reports are not based on fact. The media here is a word in general, which includes TV, radio, paper, movie, internet and so on… For the some benefit some foreign media report negatively which makes some people misunderstand China. Last but not least, the behavior of some international corporations of China have a great direct influence on knowing China. these corps in foreign countries are representatives of China just like Mcdonald is a representiative of United States in China.

He Dele added a new point that reference book is also a tool to know China. As the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he make his effort to make people around the world know a true China through the Encyclopaedia Britannica and now there are over 2000 issues about China collected in the book.

Making the world know China is not the responsibility of some people, but the responsibility of every Chinese people. Pay more attention to your daily life and you may find more chance to show a true China to the world.

[people]
Zhao Qizheng – the news office director of the council
He Dele – the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica

[new words to me]
anchorman – 新闻节目主持人
honored guest – 嘉宾
gown – 长袍

一年一度的部门联欢如期举行。由于部门今年的业绩一片飘红，大家脸上都带着笑容。联欢吗就是要放下一切不愉快的事情尽情的玩，起码我是这么做了，晚会结束后我的嗓子都喊哑了:)。

吃吃喝喝、玩玩闹闹向来是联欢的主题。参加联欢获得快乐最大的秘诀就是'积极参与'，尤其是在互动游戏中体味快乐。我是这么想的也是这么做的。参与游戏还有个最大的好处就是有小巧而实用的奖品亚，多参与多得奖，多多益善吗:)。

对于结束一天辛勤工作的我们来说，吃首先是第一位的。今年活动的地点是家4星级酒店，环境尚可，菜肴也颇对我的口味，我自然不能放过这么好的机会，填饱肚子是第一要务，不补充能量怎么能在后面的游戏环节独领风骚呢。:)

联欢会上游戏是必不可少的一道大餐。其中的一个互动游戏'好爸爸'还让我们感到了亲情的存在。

每年部门联欢会都有一个固定的节目–部门颁奖，今年我也榜上有名。在领奖的时候感受到的同事们的掌声让我在高兴之余也很是振奋。不用想太多，高兴就好。

总之，得奖的得了，取乐的乐了，想玩的玩了，大家各得其所。