Yellow River Thaws out Ferries of the Yellow River have reopened to navigation after the Yellow River thawing out in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Photo shows a ferryboat rowing on a river. |  |
Rice Seedlings Grow on SweatThe ethnic Dai farmers in Xinping Yi Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province are busy spraying seedlings with insecticide to prevent plant diseases and insect pests. |  |
Hitech Agriculture Yields Bountiful ResultsGuangdong witnesses now a booming hi-tech agriculture on a provincial scale in recent years. Photo shows a vegetable planting base using computer irrigation system. |  |
Clone Technology Serves Agriculture The Agricultural Science Academy of Sichuan Province has reaped remarkable economic and social successes by using clone technology for transgenic seeding of crops including ripe, fruit vegetables and the like. Photo shows the new flower species developed, sold on the market. |  |
Concert of Three Top Tenors to Hold in BeijingA concert featuring the three top tenors in the world, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, will be held inside the Forbidden City in Beijing on June 23. Then 100,000 people will enjoy the performance of three tenors. The date scheduled for the event will coincide with the Olympic Day, and the concert has been designated as an event in Beijing's Olympic bid drive. The photo shows a Beijing resident reading an advertisement on the concert. |  |
Orchards Benefit Today's NanxiNanxi County, Sichuan Province is by now highly reputed for a yearly increased income and improved life by local farmers from many orchards developed with expertise. Photo shows a farmer pruning his pear trees. |  |
Nanhu Lake Cleaning up Environment A mass drive for cleaning up local environment has been launched recently in the Nanhu Lake area, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province to greet the upcoming 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Photo shows the beautiful lake scene of Nanhu. |  |
Guiyang to Hold Kite Fair/ContestGuiyang, Guizhou Province is to hold the 6th China International Kite Fair and the 11th National Kite Contest scheduled April 15-18. Picture shows the contestant confident about his 58-meter-long dragon kite to win out in the contest. |  |
Chinese Basketball Star to Play in NBA Chinese basketball star Wang Zhizhi(right) takes a photo with Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donnie Nelson in front of Hepingmen Roast Duck Restaurant in Beijing March 26, 2001. Nelson arrived in Beijing on March 25. Wang will go to United States with Nelson and his first game for the Dallas Mavericks could be against the Atlanta Hawks on April 5, 2001. |  |
World Taijiquan and Health Conference Closes in SanyaThe inaugural World Taijiquan and Health Conference (WTHC) closed on Monday evening after a colorful ceremony in China's southern most and only tropical coastal city Sanya, in south China's island province Hainan.  |  |
Nanjing 2nd Yangtze Bridge Opened to Traffic The first motorcade runs on the 21-kilometer-long Nanjing 2nd Yangtze Bridge which is opened to traffic on March 26, 2001. The bridge consists of several parts such as Nancha Bridge, Beicha Bridge and Baguazhou connecting line etc.. The 628-meter-long span of the main part of Nancha Bridge is the largest one in China and the third largest span in the world. |  |
The First White Lion Cub ever Born in China A zoo keeper of the Bifengxia Ecological Zoo in the city of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, holds the first white lion cub ever born in China March 25, 2001. The one-month-old lion cub is the first baby of its mother "Yamei" who does not know how to take care of her baby. So the zoo keeper had to separate the cub from its mother. White lions, originally African, are extremely rare in the world and there are no more than 10 in China. |  |
Border Expressway Under Construction in Yunnan The Dabao Expressway linking the well-known historical and cultural City Dali and border City Baoshan is under construction in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The 166-kilometer line at a cost of more than 7 billion yuan is a key section of Kunming-border expressway. Parts of the expressway is expected to be opened to traffic this year. |  |
Build Nests for Birds A student from the No. 6 Vocational School in Nanning, seat of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, fixes a nest for a bird to be set free back to nature March 25, 2001. The city held an event to build nests for free birds to commemorate the 20th anniversary of China's "Birds' Protection Week". |  |
