Today’s Europe is not only a super union but also a smaller and smaller assembly. Smaller the nation it is, the greater soft originality it needs to attract the world’s attention. Moreover, it is more convenient for smaller countries to make flexible policies to develop education and the nation’s soft power. In Korea, originality has infiltrated into every aspect of the nation’s economy. It is linked with tourism, hairdressing, film industry, and the new Country Movement. Wherever you are, you can see the importance Korea attaches to culture and originality. Now, originality industry has been the vital content economy. All this should be owed to the government’s efforts put on originality industry. In 1999, the Korean government approved the law promoting cultural industry, in which favorable policies were made to help with the development of culture, entertainment, and content industry. In addition, Cultural Industry Fund has been found, providing special loans for Korean’s creative cultural enterprises. The fund is 54.9 billion won in 1999, and in 2002 it is up to 232.9 billion won which increases by four times in short four years. With the efforts made by the government, the relevant industries develop quickly in a short time: the game software industry increases by one time between 1998 to 2001, and the Korean movie export increases by 50 times between 1995 to 2001. It is not only a contingency for the occurrence of Korean Stream.

　　The Strategies of Small Nations on Originality

　　One of the smallest countries in the world is Israel, a tiny nation. It astonishes the world that it still maintains powerful national strength and sustainable development in continuous wars. On the Promised Land of God, what on earth support the development of Israel? The answer is simple and clear, i.e. the perfect education and scientific research system. The establishment of the nation relies on Jewish immigrants from all over the world. Taking in high quality talents and cultivating high quality people are the most important strategy the government puts in the first for the development of the nation. The territory of the country is very small, so it is short of natural resources including land. But the shrewd Israelites think in this way: intelligence production is more rewarding than material production. In the eyes of Israelites, if a land of 100 square meters is only used for grains, it can not feed few people. However, if it is used to grow vegetables and fruit, the income will be much higher than that of grains. And once it is used for intelligence production, the values it creates can not be imagined. Just because of this, high-tech companies are everywhere in Israel, more than 2,500 companies over the country, which is only after America. The more high-tech companies there are the greater demand for high quality talents. That will make people to update their knowledge from time to time, so as to form an excellent circle of education, geniuses, science and technology, and development. Compared with the western developed countries, the input of Israel into R&D and the number of science and technology employees all rank first, and the per capita of works is on the top list in the world. Genius advantage not only makes Israel develop quickly, but also attracts big high-tech companies to invest and build bases there, and to take in high level talents.

　　 Israel, with less than 0.2% of the world’s population, won 15% of the world’s Nobel Prizes. And with only 6.8 million populations, Israel is equivalent to some of China’s central cities, such as Changsha in Hunan, Wuhan, and Chongqing, but it is as developed as the most advanced countries in the world. It ranks first in the world in terms of it per GDP, per living standard, and per science and technology talents index. All these should be attributed to the strategy for the development of science and technology and culture flourish. And this point is very worthy for China to learn in the process of our nation’s construction.

　　Open Nation Annual Chinese Characters　Chinese Characters in 2007 Released by Open Nation　Ren

　　Summary:  The year of 2007 will pass soon. Looking back, we can find out that the status of China has risen in the world. All the evidence leads to a key definition of this year which exhibits meaning through shape. The Chinese character in 2007 is Ren, which indicates that in 2007 the development of China is based on taking people as the dominant factor. The establishment of the essence of Ren has placed a fundamental base for China’s goal of harmonious society.

　　Reasons for Recommendation: In China, there are movements advocating human rights, such as the saving of modern “slaves” from illegal mines in Shanxi, and Yu Dan’s interpretation of “Renyi”in Confucius’s thought. What’s more, the most controversial movie Lust, Caution, the the movie Show Your Sword that wins universal praise and its hero Li Yunlong, Shanghai Grand and its character Xu Wenqiang, the war movie Assembly and its director Feng Xiaogang and hero Guzi Di, and the famous figure in Lecture Room of CCTV, and Guo Jingming on the fortune list, all these are wonderful because of the reflection of Ren. The core creativity of Haibao announced in 18 Dec.2007 in Shanghai World’s Fair is the Chinese character Ren. Most importantly, in the 17th National People’s Congress, the president, Hu Jintao, indicates that the essence of the Scientific Outlook on Development is people, which are written into the CCP’s party constitution. And in the development of cultural soft power and originality industry, the creativity and values of men have played an active role. In the program Face to Fauve between Wang Zhi and XXX of CCTV, people’s values, motivations, and ideals are explored in different creative angles, and this makes the program popular all the time. It is sure that Ren has been the crucial Chinese character in 2007. Meanwhile, it will be the foundation of China’s transformation and development.

Primary Selection of Chinese Characters in 2008

Chinese Characters Selected	Reasons for Recommendation
和he	China’s developmental strategy on the peaceful rise and building a harmonious society
竞Jing	In 2008, the sports culture competition among nations, also the mode of peaceful development
友You	China’s peaceful development mission and good neighbor policy, making friends with neighbors and the world
涨Zhang	Faced with the challenge of the rise of price, also the tendency of stock market and house prices
创Chuang	The emerge of originality industry and creative classes,the new era of originality economy
软Ruan	A powerful cultural country and its soft power strategy, competition in 21st century in soft power and small scales
节Jie	Energy conservation, official abstention, and the whole saving
汇Hui	Beijing Olympic Games, the integration between rural areas and urban areas, transformation, culture, capital, and technique flow
扶Fu	The goal of China’s harmonious society, help with the poor, cities’ assistance with countries, capitals on  business
助Zhu
孝Xiao	Traditional moral of China, having great influence on aging