"Confucius Institute" is a non-profit public institute with a mission to promote the Chinese language and culture in the world and to support the local Chinese teaching. The English name for the institute is "Confucius Institute". Confucius is a well-known thinker, educator and philosopher in Chinese history, and his doctrine has a very important influence in the world. To name this institute after him shows the extensive and profound accumulation of Chinese language and culture with a long history. It also embodies the trend for the integration of Chinese language and culture into the world in the new century.

Many experts hold the idea that the top priority in the reform of educational system should be given to the improvement and reform in curriculum and examination system. They point out that the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that the primary and secondary educations are there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. As to the schools, they try their best to get a better way to gradually guide the students to an appropriate view over the world around them.

Pollution is a problem because man, in an increasingly populated and industrialized world, is upsetting the environment in which he lives. Many scientists maintain that one of man"s greatest errors has been to equate growth with advancement. Now "growth" industries are being looked on with suspicion in case their side effects damage the environment and disrupt the relationship of different forms of life, the growing population makes increasing demands on the world"s fixed supply of air, water and land.

During the process of developing a tourist industry, Guilin attached great importance to constructing tourist attractions, maintaining the Li River, and improving its capacity to receive tourists. After more than 20 years" development, Guilin has made remarkable progress in the tourist industry, basically forming a multi-functional and multi-level system as well as overall high-quality tourist reception capacity. Guilin has become a world-renowned tourist city. In recent years, Guilin has always ranked within the top 10 in terms of international tourist arrivals.

On some occasions it is important to adhere to the conventions that characterize serious public discourse and to avoid expressions that we might use in more casual situations. Among the features of formal English are the careful explanation of background information, complexity in sentence structure, explicit transitions between thoughts, and the use of certain words that are reserved chiefly for creating a formal tone. Situations that normally require formal usage would include an article discussing a serious matter submitted to a respected journal, an official report by a group of researchers to a government body, a talk presented to a professional organization, and a letter of job application.

Never has there been a language quite like English. A bold statement, yet nevertheless true. Consider a few statistics. Today, one out of every seven people in the world use English in some way. More than half the world"s books are written in English; the majority of international telephone calls are made in English; 60% of the world"s radio programs are broadcast in English. English is even the working language of international air travel. For the first time in history, a single language has become dominant across a wide range of human activity, ranging from music, film and fine arts to the fields of business, diplomacy, science and technology.

Inadequacy of energy resources or more often of the technologies and organizations for harvesting, converting, and distributing those resources has meant insufficient energy benefits and hence inconvenience, deprivation and constraints on growth. The 1970"s, then, represented a turning point. After decades of constancy or decline in monetary costs—and of relegation of environmental and sociopolitical costs to secondary status—energy was seen to be getting costlier in all respects. It began to be probable that excessive energy costs could pose threats on insufficient supply. It also became possible to think that expanding some forms of energy supply could create costs exceeding the benefits.

Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries and thousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had been curious about the cause of the orbital motion of the moon and planets. What kept them in place? Why didn"t they fall out of the sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about those larger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.