Ma Youyou to Show Chinese Traditional Music to the World Starting from Beijing, the world famous cellist Ma Youyou (Yo-Yo Ma in English) will soon lead his "Silk Road Concert Troupe" to fulfill his splendid "Silk Road Program", a well-schemed endeavor for digging and sorting out national folk music.  |  |
Ma Youyou to Show Chinese Traditional Music to the World Starting from Beijing, the world famous cellist Ma Youyou (Yo-Yo Ma in English) will soon lead his "Silk Road Concert Troupe" to fulfill his splendid "Silk Road Program", a well-schemed endeavor for digging and sorting out national folk music. |  |
2001 National Sports Director Conference held in Beijing 2001 National Sports Director Conference was held in Beijing February 5. Present at the conference were sports directors from provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Yuan Weimin, director-general of State Sports General Administration summed up the work done in the ninth Five Year Plan period and blueprinted the future development for sports industry in the tenth Five Year Plan period. |  |
Yuanxiao Sold as Lantern Festival Comes Yuanxiao made with a washing machine-converted processor is sold on spot in a market in Beijing Saturday Feb.3, 2001. A kind of sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour, Yuanxiao is a typical food for the Lantern Festival which falls on Feb.7, or the 15th of the first lunar month, in China. |  |
Mainland Boat Set to Make First Official Trip to Taiwan in 50 YearsThe "Gulangyu" ferry will leave Xiamen in the southeastern province of Fujian around 9:00 am (0100 GMT), taking about 100 passengers to the small Taiwanese island of Kinmen, just a few kilometers (miles) off the mainland. |  |
New procession:Singer in the street of Shanghai New procession,Singer in the street,came out in Shanghai,which has been new life style filled with individual character.These singers' s performance with specialization attracted so many passers-by. |  |
Exercising in Ice and SnowBraving freezing weather,residents slide on ice for fun in the snow-covered outdoors in Changchun,capital of northeastern China's Jilin Province.The temperature recently dipped to as low as minus 30degrees Celcius. |  |
Oil Fence Sets up at Qinghaungdao Harbor A floating fence is circulated around a tanker at the oil wharf of Qinghuangdao Harbor in North China's Hebei Province Saturday Feb.3, 2001. An environment-friendly approach, the fence could contain any possible leakage while tankers load oil. |  |
Dusseldorf International Fashion Fair Opens Models perform at the Dusseldorf International Fashion Fair Sunday in Germany, February 4. Dusseldorf International Fashion Fair is the largest of its kind in the world. |  |
Pupils in Hefei Denounce Falun Gong Cult Pupils of a primary school in Hefei, capital of central China's Anhui province, write on a large banner to denounce Falun Gong cult on the first day of new term, February 5, 2001. The recent suicide attempts by a group of Falun Gong Practitioners at Tiananmen Square in Beijing astonished and awakened more and more Chinese people to realize the nature of the evil cult. |  |
2nd Global Ministerial Environmental Forum Opens Two Kenyans perform for deputies attending the second Global Ministerial Environmental Forum which opens Monday in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, February 5, 2001. |  |
Traditional Festivities to Greet the Lantern Festival Chinese folk actors perform in the traditional festivities to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival in Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province February 5, 2001. The lantern Festival, which is on the 15th of the first lunar month, will be on February 7 this year. |  |
Choose Glutinous-rice Ball for the Lantern Festival People choose glutinous-rice balls in a super market in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region February 5, 2001. The glutinous-rice ball is a kind of popular food eaten on the forthcoming Lantern Festival February 7, 2001. |  |
Hengyang Railway Station Busy for Spring Festival Travel Season Passengers wait in line to get on the train in Hengyang Railway Station in south China's Hunan province February 5, 2001. Hengyang Railway Station has been busy to increase its transport capicity to deal with the surge in the number of passengers since the 5th of the first lunar month this year. |  |
Tigress Turns Out to Have Tumor in Abdomen Doctors doing a special operation on a 21-year-old Manchurian tiger Monday confirmed that the tigress had a tumor in its abdomen, instead of original suspicions of the tiger being pregnant. |  |
Large-size Traditional Festival Lantern Coming out in HK Large-size traditional festival lantern came out in Zheda garden of HK,which brought the festival atmasphere in the busy region. |  |
