China's first leisure English magazine "English Corner" started publication in Beijing, March 21.
"English Corner" is a folk term. In the early 80s, people gathered in the "English corner" to exchange thoughts and feelings in English, and tell their gains in English studies and their understanding of the world.
The new magazine aims to gather old and new readers together and show them the trend of English study in today's world by providing them with standard, practical, easy, interesting, fashionable and advanced contents, integrate the English familiar to them with modern English, so that they can raise their English level during their spare time.
The magazine is sponsored by the prestigious Foreign Languages Press.
(People's Daily 03/22/2001)
