Sino-Japan Undergraduates Left Gulha KangriOn April 1 a team of 40-odd students from China Tibet University and Japan Tokai University left Lhasa for Gulha Kangri Peak. The mountaineering team is to carry out scientific exploration there. Here the university students encourage each other before departure. |  |
Weekend Sentiment of BeijingersBeijing enjoys a mild weather in early spring. People go out to bathe themselves in the warm sunshine during weekends. Pictured here are children enjoying the fun of skate-scooters in Street Park in Jianguomen. |  |
Haier International Material Circulation Center Put into Use in Qingdao Haier International Material Circulation Center was put into formal use in Qingdao on March 31. The center has instituted an automatic and intelligent system to handle the circulation of all goods through laser guide technology, and has developed a laser-guide conveyance system, aisle stacker crane, robot, shuttle car, etc. by this technology. |  |
Yunan Hongta Drew With Beijing Guo'an 2-2Yunnan Hongta's Chilean player Luis Mosrri (C) and Beijing Guoan's player Milen Dimitrov (R) from Bulgaria play for the ball during their first division Chinese soccer league match in Kunming, April 1, 2001. The match ended 2-2.  |  |
Mummy of a Man Found in Nanjing The picture shows a 500-year-old mummy taken out of a coffin with its clothes and footwear preserved very well unearthed from a tomb of Ming Dynasty(1368--1644) in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province. The hands and feet of the 1.71-meter-high mummy were preserved so well that skin are very soft and joints can move freely. Scientists said it is a rare ancient mummy which was preserved so well. According to the 30-centimeter-long moustach, it is a mummy of a man who was about 60 years old when he passed away. |  |
Mummy of a Man Found in Nanjing The picture shows a hand of a 500-year-old mummy unearthed from a tomb of Ming Dynasty(1368--1644) in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province. The hands and feet of the 1.71-meter-high mummy were preserved so well that skin are very soft and joints can move freely. Scientists said it is a rare ancient mummy which was preserved so well. According to the 30-centimeter-long moustach, it is a mummy of a man who was about 60 years old when he passed away. |  |
Paper-Cut of ChinaHou Xuezhao, a peasent woman presents her paper-cut works with the design of snakes and flowers in Majiagou village, Ansai county, northwest China's Shaanxi province. Hou's paper-cut creations, permeated with traditional culture of China, have been showed and well received in Beijing and Hongkong. |  |
Top Chinese Leaders Plant Trees on "Olympic Green" Chinese President Jiang Zemin waters a newly planted tree at the "Olympic Green" in Beijing Sunday, April 1, 2001. As a gesture of support for Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and other top leaders, including Li Peng and Zhu Rongji, planted trees in the park. |  |
Beijing Marks Tree Planting Day Two newly-married couples plant a tree in an activity held at Wuhuan Plaza in Beijing Sunday, April 1, 2001. More than 2 million citizens plant 1.2 million trees for the 17th tree-planting day in Beijing. |  |
2001 Exhibition of Dunhuang Historic Relics Opened in Guangzhou Visitors appriciate the replica of No. 158 grotto of Muogao Grottoes at the 2001 Exhibition of Dunhuang Historic Relics opened at Guangdong Gallery in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province Sunday, April 1, 2001. More than 100 pieces of art treasures from Dunhuang such as hand-written sutras and replica of the No. 158 grotto are shown in the exhibition. |  |
2001 Exhibition of Dunhuang Historic Relics opened -- A mother explains the items on display to her son at the 2001 Exhibition of Dunhuang Historic Relics opened at Guangdong Gallery in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province Sunday, April 1, 2001. More than 100 pieces of art treasures from Dunhuang such as hand-written sutras and replica of the No. 158 grotto are shown in the exhibition. |  |
Clean Energy Goes Into Tibetan FamiliesA Tibetan woman living in the southern part of Tibet Autonomous Region heats up water with solar furnace fixed at her coutyard April 1, 2001. More than 100,000 solar furnaces have been put into use in the living of the local people since early 1980s. |  |
Art Festival Held At A Residential District Three senior citizens arrange flowers in two vases for a competition held at Jingansi Residential District in Shanghai April 1, 2001. Various competiotions,sponsored by the local neighbourhood committee, have been held for the residents with a bid to enrich their cultural life. |  |
Art Festival Held At A Residential District Senior citizens perform waist-drum dance at the art festival held at Yuhua Neighbourhood of Jingansi Residential District, Shanghai, April 1, 2001. Various competiotions,sponsored by the local neighbourhood committee, have been held for the residents with a bid to enrich their cultural life. |  |
North China's Sapling Base Workers check the yew saplings in a hothouse at the North China's Sapling Base set up at the northern suburb of Beijing Friday March 30, 2001. The base covers an area of 156.5 hectares, with 30,000 square meters occupied by hothouses. More than 20 millions of saplings are put out every year from the base. |  |
Wild Monkeys Rescued from Criminals' Hands Four of 9 rescured rhesus monkeys live peacefully at the Rare and Precious Animals Rescue Center in Guiyang, capital of Soutwest China's Guizhou Province on Wednsday, March 28, 2001. They are among the wild monkeys illegally smuggled and then rescued by the center. The center will set these monkeys free back to nature in proper time. |  |
