News in Brief 　　* Beijing Earns 2.3 Billion Yuan of Profits From Industrial Production-Beijing registered an industrial added value of 61.39 billion yuan in 1998, up 9.1 percent over the previous year; earned more than 2.3 billion yuan in profits, an increase of nearly 2 percentage points; (by Wu Kunsheng); 　　* Hainan Science and Technology Investment-Invitation Week Sees Brisk Business-The Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Investment-Invitation Week held in Haikou between January 11-14 saw brisk transactions. Transferal and cooperation contracts and agreements were signed for a total of 184 scientific and technological projects which involved total investments of 4.23 billion yuan; (by Bao Hongjun) 　　* Xi'an to Host East-West Regional Trade Talks-The '99 China Eastern-Western Regional Cooperation and Investment Trade Talks, jointly sponsored by the State Economic and Trade Commission, the State Administration of Internal Trade and people's governments of Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, and Shaanxi provinces, and Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin municipalities, will be held in Xi'an between April 6-10 of this year; (by Yu Jianfeng) 　　* Dongtan Coal Mine Sets New National Coal-Mining Record-the comprehensive mining team of Dongtan Coal Mine under the Shandong Yanzhou Mining (Group) Company had a coal output of nearly 5.011 million tons, breaking the highest domestic record of 4.1 million tons set by the team itself. (by Li Yanan) 　　 HomeNews 1999-01-15 Page1 Full Story in Chinese