Proposed changes to China's famously grueling university entrance exam will focus on improving the standards and methods of language tuition in the nation's schools, as Tang Yue reports from Taiyuan and Beijing.

The most popular weekly publication in China isn't produced in Beijing or Shanghai, but in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, a province better known for coal mining than literary endeavor.

Nevertheless, with a circulation of 16 million, English Weekly is shaping the English skills of Chinese students like no other book or newspaper - its editions aimed at senior high school students garner more than 8 million readers a week, accounting for one-third of all children in China's senior high schools.