China Embarks on Massive Upgrading of TransportationChina is to carry out massive projects of upgrading its highways, ports and transport facilities and equipment in the next five years, Vice Minister of Communications Hu Xijie said Thursday.  |  |
New Freight Train Scanner System in Service Two staff members from the Customs of Manzhouli, a Chinese city on the Sino-Russian border, survey the cargo through the new scanner system March 27, 2001. The freight train scanner system, said to be one of the world's most advanced scanner systems, is jointly developed by the Nuclear Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Beijing Huali Technololgy Development Company. It is especially designed to combat smuggling activities on the railway line. |  |
Beijing's 4th Ring under Construction An bird's eye view of the viaduct bridge on the Fuxing Road which is nearly completed and it is a part of the Fourth Ring in Beijing March 27, 2001. The 65.3-kilometer Fourth Ring, a key project of the State "Five-Year Plan", is under busy construction. The line, expected to be open to traffic in June, will link seven expressways and 10 main stems of the city. Its designed speed is 100 km per hour. |  |
Four-crop Wheat Bred in Qinghai Wang Zhiwei (right), a wheat-breeding expert from the Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, observes the growing situation of a new strain of wheat with his assistant in an experimental plot in northwest China's Qinghai Province March 27, 2001. Wang has successfully bred a four-crop wheat by using a new technique of molecular screening and cross-breeding at the world advanced level. Qinghai featuring strong solar radiation, long sunshine time and less pollution, is proper for the growth of wheat. |  |
US Diplomat UpbeatDeparting U.S.Ambassador Joseph Prueher,who plans to leave China in early May,chats with Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi at a dinner organized by U.S.businesses in the Shanghai Wednesday, March 28, 2001 |  |
China Holds Asia's Largest Int'l Clothing & Accessories Fair Picture shows a poster of the Nineth China International Clothing & Accessories Fair, the largest of its kind in Asia, opened in Beijing March 28, 2001. About 700 domestic and overseas garment companies are displaying their latest styles of clothing and accessories at the fair which covers an area of 45,000 square meters. |  |
Say No To Counterfeit Goods An official with the industrial and commercial administration bureau together with a policeman of Kaifeng County in central China's Henan province, sets fire to a heap of confiscated counterfeit cigarettes and other goods March 28, 2001. A new initiative is being taken in the county to fight against the counterfeit and poor-quality goods with a purpose to safeguard the rights and interests of the consumers. |  |
Vice Premier Meets with Togolese Guest Vice-Premier Li Lanqing hailed Wednesday the smooth development of relations between China and Togo, saying that friendly cooperation has been increasing since the two countries forged diplomatic ties nearly 30 years ago. |  |
Tianjin Week Opens in HKTianjin Week, a large-scale promotion campaign to raise the profile of the north China port city of Tianjin, was opened Wednesday. |  |
China Issues Communique on Major Figures of PopulationChina has a population of 1,295. 33 million, according to the communique on major figures of the 2000 population census issued Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics. |  |
Nelson Supervising Wang Zhizhi Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donnie Nelson(left) supervises Chinese basketball star Wang Zhizhi in basketball tactical training at Xiannongtan Gymnasium in Beijing Wednesday, March 28, 2001. Wang will leave Beijing for U.S. on March 29. |  |
China Enhances Efforts to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency The Chinese Central Government has set up a work commission to handle the increasing number of juvenile crimes in this country, according to the commission's first session Wednesday. |  |
Coexisting in the Forest Members of a patrol group observe the Rhinopithecus roxellanaes in a forest at Xiangguqing, the south strip of Baimangxueshan nature reserve in Yunnan Province. A group of almost 400 Rhinopithecus roxellanaes and scores of families of Lisu Ethnics coexist in the area for a long time. Farmers of Lisu Ethnics live in the mountains without hunting and lumbering and the monkeys never destroy crops of farmers. A group of four farmers was set up a few years ago in order to protect the Rhinopithecus roxellanaes and their habitats in the forest. |  |
Coexisting in the Forest Three Rhinopithecus roxellanaes play in the trees at Xiangguqing, the south strip of Baimangxueshan nature reserve in Yunnan Province. A group of almost 400 Rhinopithecus roxellanaes and scores of families of Lisu Ethnics coexist in the area for a long time. Farmers of Lisu Ethnics live in the mountains without hunting and lumbering and the monkeys never destroy crops of farmers. A patrol group of four farmers was set up a few years ago in order to protect the Rhinopithecus roxellanaes and their habitats in the forest. |  |
Say No To Counterfeit Goods Officials with the industrial and commercial administration bureau of Kaifeng County, central China's Henan province, explain to consumers how to distinguish fine quality goods from the counterfeit and poor quality goods during a promotion in the county town March 28, 2001. A new initiative is being taken in the county to fight against the counterfeit and poor-quality goods with a purpose to safeguard the rights and interests of the consumers. |  |
