Jiang Zemin Visits Hi-tech Achievement ExhibitionGeneral Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese President Jiang Zemin Thursday night visited a national exhibition of the achievements made by China's "863" High-Technology Program in its 15 years of history.  |  |
Forum on Mao Zedong's Poems Held in BeijingCo-sponsored by Chinese Poetry Society and China Social and Cultural Development Foundation, March 1 saw a symposium on "Mao Zedong's Poems" being held in Beijing. Present at it were famous poets and scholars from the literary and art circles and student representatives of Tsinghua University. |  |
Sino-Japan Cooperation for Sewage TreatmentMarch 1 saw a success scored at a middle-stage experiment for the disposal of hi-density industrial sewage, a hi-tech project imported from Japan into Yunnan Province, and it will soon be expanded on a large-scale. |  |
A Face-lift for the Mother RiverLeague members from the Lanzhou Railway Institute, Gansu Province, held a voluntary activity of cleaning litters and rubbish along the Yellow River. Picture shows students are clearing the dust besmearing the "Mother River" sculpture. |  |
Cargo-handling at Ningbo Port Hit Record HighThe goods-handling capacity at the Ningbo Port in 2000 exceeded 100m tons, setting a record in history, thereby placing itself among a few large ports with a handling capacity of over 100m tons in the world. |  |
World's first man-loading HTS maglev test vehicleThe first man-loading HTS maglev test vehicle was developed by China Southwest Jiaotong University on December 31, 2000. Experts including Gan Zizhao and Zhao Zhongxian, academicians of Chinese Academy of Science, are testing the vehicle. |  |
A Serious Smuggling Case Cracked down in GuangxiSuspected of smuggling, a cargo ship is recently seized by Guangxi Beihai Customs, in Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is the most serious smuggling case discovered in Guangxi this year. Photo shows staffs of Beihai Customs are on board the non-marked cargo ship for examination. ���� |  |
Chinese and ROK Enterprises to Cooperate on Gene Transfer Technology ProductsWith their respective advantages in gene technology February 28 saw the Donghu High Technology Group of Hubei Province signed a contract with a ROK company on cooperation of gene transfer technology products. Photo shows representatives of the two parties are signing the contract. |  |
Intelligent Vehicle Checking System Set up in ChangchunA Comprehensive Vehicle Checking Center was recently established in Changchun, Jilin Province. Photo shows a jeep is receiving a headlight check. |  |
Hebei Promotes Protective Cultivating TechnologyPhoto shows a technique of mechanized harvesting and returning the powdered straw to fields which will make the soil more fertile to and reduce dust flying up from uncovered ground, is being promoted on a big scale in Dingxing County, Hebei Province. |  |
Chongqing Builds up a Landscape Garden CityPhoto shows a bird's-eye view of resident housing estates in Nan'an District of Chongqing Municipality. The city has devoted great efforts to environmental reconstruction in recent years in order to build it into a landscape garden city in west China. |  |
Energy-saving in rural areas of Heilongjiang Workers checks the straw burning in a boiler at a village straw gasification station in Hulan County of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The province has developed a new technique of energy by purifying, processing and transporting through pipes of the gas released by the burning straws. Some 300 stations of such kind have been set up in rural areas of the country since 1996. In the past, farmers burnt straw directly for cooking and warming that heavily polluted the environment and wasted large amount of raw materials. |  |
Energy-saving in rural areas of Heilongjiang A technican takes a regular check on the valves of a gas tank at a village straw gasification station in Hulan County of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The province has developed a new technique of energy by purifying, processing and transporting through pipes of the gas released by the burning straws. Some 300 stations of such kind have been set up in rural areas of the country since 1996. In the past, farmers burnt straw directly for cooking and warming that heavily polluted the environment and wasted large amount of raw materials. |  |
Shanghai Fair Kicks Off The 11th East China Fair has attracted more overseas exhibitors and foreign investors than in the past because of Shanghai's economic boom and China's impending WTO accession, the first day of the fair, which runs from March 1-7, indicated. |  |
Hu Jintao on Innovation in Party Theory and Practice "Entering the new century, we must continue along our modernization course, achieve the reunification of the motherland, safeguard world peace, and promote common development," said Hu Jintao, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. |  |
Chinese President Jiang Zemin Meets Cuban FMChinese President Jiang Zemin met with Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque of the Republic of Cuba t the Great Hall of the People here Thursday. |  |
Vietnam, Russia to Further Develop Friendship, CooperationVietnam and Russia Thursday signed here a joint statement on the strategic partnership between the two countries, affirming that the two countries will consolidate and further develop their traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation in the 21st century. |  |
President Jiang Reiterates Good-Neighborly Relations with NepalPresident Jiang Zemin said Thursday that China is willing to work with the Nepalese side for a continuous growth of China-Nepal good-neighborly cooperative relations in the new century. |  |
China's First Magnetic Train Track Construction Kicks off in Shanghai Chinese and German officials attend the kicking off ceremony of the construction of China's first magnetic train track in Shanghai March 1, 2001. The track with a tatal investment of RMB 8.9 billion is about 30 kms long with a maximum design speed of 430 km/h. |  |
