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CRI, China Radio International, is like CCTV-News, attracting English-learners' attention in the mainland. However, unlike CCTV-News, which can reach to every part of China, CRI is available to a dozen of cities. Surely, wherever and whenever you are, you have access to it via internet. I finished my education in Lanzhou, where we were lucky to receive it by readio. In 1990s, internet and telephone were the luxuries only mentioned in the magzines or books. Therefore, radio, by which we began to know more about the world, became one of the necessities to the university students. 
The host and hostess, one native, the other nonnative, gave us talk show about music, singers and film stars. Their ability of mastering languages and understanding of music added luster to the program, which attracted our attention everyday. After I lefte Lanzhou ten year ago and went to another ciity, where CRI was not available, I seldom listened to it again.

Miss the time I spent with my classmates, who witnessed my youth.
Miss the time when we relied on radios, instead of internet, to know the world. 

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Reply Lizzieliu 2014-12-15 19:14
   yes,people always miss the thing that it can help them remember the time they miss much.nowadays people seldom listen to radio,and there are few channels that we can get on to the radio,i know that one is by the radio machine,and one is from the car,while,in the pass i can listen to the radio on my phone,but after i change my phone to apple,i can't find they now,just from some app i download,and it is limited to the wifi condition.
Reply Sumingyu 2014-12-15 20:36
This reminds me of my good old days before 2007 when we bought a computer to satisfy son’s demands. I had been an enthusiastic radio listener since childhood. In my early teens in our native village, I ever with great interest listened to the sequential novel reading on the Central People’s Broadcasting Station. The most fascinating novel broadcast at that time was Li Zicheng read by Cao Can. In order to tune in to the program in time at noon, I rushed home every day as the lunch break arrived from the school in a neighboring village 2 kilometers away. After I moved to my second hometown, I was still carried away by the storytelling by Liu Lanfang over the radio as a teenager. Later when I grew up and began work, I tended to listen in to BBC & VOA regularly in spite of the unsteady reception until the computer took over its place.
Reply umbrellazh 2014-12-15 21:32
Sumingyu: This reminds me of my good old days before 2007 when we bought a computer to satisfy son’s demands. I had been an enthusiastic radio listener since c ...
Actually, it is a satire. It seems the hi-tech products do a less job in promoting people's sense of happiness. Perhaps, the reason why we devise such products is to facilitate our life and make us content. The former has been realized, while there is still a loooong way to go for the latter. Instead of being content and happy, we are becoming worried and greedy. That is ture of radio and internet. In the time without  internet, we communicated with each other face-to-face. We can not deny that friendship built then had solid base and could last longer. Internet really make our life colorful and easier, which, however, results in a vast gap among different people.
Reply A-C 2014-12-15 22:12
As the generation after 90s, I have little idea about radio, what we contact is nearly Internet. After you mentioned CRI, I click its website, there are so many useful sources which we can learn. Thanks for your sharing.
Reply Tange 2014-12-15 22:19
miss the college-days when the roomate listen Radio in night ,  that was the good time

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