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million towards new Gaelic digital TV channel. The Scottish government is looking at the success of programmes in Ireland (1926:500,000 speakers2020: million speakers of Irish Gaelic), Wales (an, increase in Welsh speakers in the past 10years) and Catalunya in Spain. 3. Zhou Koudian – Home of Peking Man In December, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a plete skull of “ Peking Man” on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40odd individually fossilized skeletons of “ Peking Man” , male, female, old and young, all at the same place. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most mon site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing’ s civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossils remains prove that “ Peking Man” was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Inside the 140meter Peking Man Cave, stratum accumulation was of a depth of40 meters. The inhabitants spanning more than 300,000 years left their remains, stone tools and traces of fire here. On Dragon Bone Hill were also found fossilized remains of Upper Cave Man, who lived 18,000 years ago, as well as sites of New Cave Man,