Books Sent to Yi Autonomous AreaWith the spring festival approaching, Shilin Yi Autonomous County, in southwest China��s Yunnan Province, organized the departments concerned to send medicines and books on culture, health and science and technology to ethnic minority people, so that they will be able to spend a happy spring festival. The picture shows Yi farmers choosing books. |  |
Bush and ClintonPresident Bush and wife Laura walk down the steps of the Capitol Building with former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary following Bush's inauguration in Washington January 20, 2001. |  |
Bush Sworn In as 43rd U.S. President President Bush and first lady Laura Bush became the standing residents of the White House on Saturday after braving cold, damp Washington streets to complete the last block of the presidential inaugural parade on foot.  |  |
Brilliant Miss Chinese Miss Chinese International winner Bernice Jan Liu from Vancouver (C) poses with first runner-up I Pai Jennifer Huang from Montreal (L) and 2nd runner-up Vivian Lau from Hong Kong (R) at the Miss Chinese International pageant in Hong Kong January 20. Twenty Chinese nationals and regions from around the world participate in the beauty contest. |  |
Tibetan New Year Party HeldMore than 300 people from all walks of life in Tibet, southwest China, gathered in Lhasa Hotel Saturday to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival and Tibetan New Year. |  |
Salt-Water Spring Tastes Less salty Ice is formed nearly to enclose the creek originating from a salt water spring in the dryed-up Lop Nur lake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The photo was taken Friday Jan. 19, 2001. The ice layer betrays a desalination evolution that the salt-water spring is undergoing, the cause of which is yet to be found. The spring is what remains of the Lop Nur lake that dried up in 1972. |  |
Pupils Stage Charity Sale for Inner Mpngolia Second-grader Zhu Ruoyu manages to sell his picture at a charity sale in Hangzhou, Capital of Zhejiang Province, Saturday Jan.20, 2001. With all the proceeds going to the blizzard-stricken families in the Inner Mongolia, pupils from the Times Elementary School staged this fund-raising sale by selling their 300 pictures and calligraphy works. |  |
Phone Net Extends to Remote Villages in Guizhou Pan Xiaoqiu, a 6-year-old girl of Ethnic Miao, gives it a try at her first phone call at Nanhua village in the eastern mountainous regions of Southwest China's Guizhou Province Saturday Jan.20, 2001. Phone net is extending to remote villages after covering all the townships. |  |
Dinosaur Ice-made Dinosaur ice-made appeals to so many people in the recreation ground ice-carved,which lies on the side of Songhuajiang of Harbin. These dinosaurs brings the people back to the romote antiquity. |  |
Motorcar on the Snowy Ground To ride on the motorcar on the snowy ground is to be loved by the people in Changchun South Lake Park with 300 RMB per one hour.It is reported that the winter in North China is beyond the record in the year history. |  |
Fire Drill Staged in Yinchuan Firefighters stage a fire drill in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Yinchuan Hui Autonomous Region, Saturday Jan.20, 2001. Fire security has been stepped up in the city while the Spring Festival is coming around the corner. |  |
Huge Load of Pirated CDS Intercepted in Henan Traffic police check pirated compact discs in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan Province, Saturday Jan.20, 2001. A busload of 100,000 pirated CDS have been intercepted on an intraprovincial expressway linking Zhengzhou with Luoyang, of which 2,000 are pornographic. |  |
Pigeon to be Reduced at London's Trafalgar Square A man feeds the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, central London with his son January 19, 2001. The last pigeon feed seller in Trafalgar Square is to be stripped of his license, it was announced January 19, 2001. The Greater London Authority will implement a one month phased withdrawal of feed from the capital's famous landmark. |  |
Vice-President Back from 5-Nation Tour Vice-President Hu Jintao returned to Beijing Saturday morning after winding up an official visit to Iran, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Uganda. |  |
Premier Zhu Meets with Kim Jong Il in ShanghaiChinese Premier Zhu Rongji met with Kim in Shanghai. Zhu, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee, accompanied Kim to visit the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai GM Automotive Co., and Shanghai Huahong NEC Electronic Co. |  |
President Jiang Zemin Meets with Kim Jong IlKim Jong Il, General-Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee and Chairman of the National Defense Commission, paid an unofficial visit to China from January 15 to 20. Kim made the visit at the invitation of Jiang Zemin, General-secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President, a spokesman with the International Department of CPC Central Committee announced in Beijing Saturday, January 20. |  |
