Cargo Volume Increase at Guangzhou Port A view of the Huangpu Container Wharf at the port of Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province��April 17, 2001.The port handled 27.272 million tons of cargo in the first quarter of this year, up 13.34 percent compared to the same period of last year. |  |
Tianjin Hosts Eighth Spring Commodity FairThe Eighth Tianjin Spring Commodity Fair, one of the country's two large domestic commodity fairs held every year, started Wednesday in this northern port city.  |  |
Chirac Stresses Importance of Cultural Exchanges with China Chirac told visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing that the French people need to know China's traditional culture as well as contemporary culture. More Chinese contemporary literary figures should be introduced to the French people, he said. |  |
China Foils US Bid at UN Human Rights Session An anti-China attempt, brewed by the United States, was foiled once again as a China-tabled "no- action" motion was passed by voting Wednesday at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. |  |
Return Our Comrade-in-arms,Return Our JetA Chinese citizen holds an anti-US slogan as he protests outside the building of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing April 18. China and the US were holding delicate talks on the fall-out of April 1 plane collision incident. The slogan reads "There is a limit in claiming superpower and it is time to end hegemony.return our comrade-in-arms,return our jet" |  |
Premier Encourages Shanghai to Speed up Modernization Drive Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has urged Shanghai to seize favorable opportunities and make full use of its advantages to speed up its modernization drive. |  |
National Kite Contest The mini-kite measuring only 0.002 square meters is made by Wang Guangwu from the Luoyang Tractor Factory in central China's Henan Province. It is one of the smallest kites to compete at the 11th National Kite Contest held in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province��April 17, 2001. |  |
First "Housing Bank" Made its Debut in ShanghaiWhen Jinfeng Housing Agency, the first "housing bank" in Shanghai, opened its business April 18, things will become much easier for citizens to let and lease houses. They can "deposit" spare residence in the agency and withdraw rental fees through current deposit bankbooks. |  |
Senior CPC Official Meets Lao PRP DelegationWei Jianxing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met Wednesday with Osakan Thammathewa, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (PRP), and his party. |  |
NPC Chairman Meets President of First Chamber of NetherlandsChairman Li Peng of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC) met with President Korthals Altes of the First Chamber of the Netherlands Wednesday. |  |
NPC Chairman Meets Yugoslavian Deputy PM -- Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, shakes hands with Miroljub Labus, deputy prime minister and minster of foreign economic relations of Yugoslavia, during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, April 18, 2001. |  |
Hu Jintao Meets Vietnamese Party General Secretary Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao (R) meets with General-Secretary Le Kha Phieu of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi on April 18. |  |
Environment-Friendly Bullet Train Made in Qingdao Picture shows the newly-built environment-friendly bullet train manufactured in the Sifang Rolling Stock Plant in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province, April 18, 2001. The train will be put into running soon on the section of railway between Nanning and Beihai in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The passenger train has been installed with advanced satellite-based global positioning system, electronic information display system and vehicular phones. The train's waste-gas emission has reached European No.2 standard. |  |
Tibetan Gorge Nature Reserve DelimitedThe Nature Reserve of Tibetan Gorge, centered at the great canyon of the Yarlung Zangbo River, has been delimited lately. Photo shows the famous U-shaped turning of the Yarlung Zangbo River. |  |
Tuoketuo Electric Power Generating Company Starts ConstructionTuoketuo Electric Power Generating Company, with a designed total installed capacity of 3.6 million kw, is a key project of "power transmission from the west to the east" in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The 1st-phase project of two 600,000 kw generation sets, which is estimated to be put into operation in the late 10th Five-year Plan period, will transmit power to Beijing, Tianjin, and Tangshan through the supporting 500-kv power channel. |  |
Yangyang, A Cloned Goat Growing up HealthilyChina has made ceaseless development on clone technology under the guidance of Professor Zhang Yong of the Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology. Photo shows the cloned goat "Yangyang" (left) and the adult goat it cloned from. |  |
Nikki Webster Supporting Beijing's 2008 Olympic BidNikki Webster is the 13-year-old star of the Olympic Torchlight at the Sydney Olympiad opening ceremony. On April 17, she attended the support ceremony held by mayors of 100 Chinese cities in Beijing to show her support for Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. |  |
1st Auto & Motorcycle Expo Held in XinjiangApril 17saw the opening of the 1st Xinjiang International Auto & Motorcycle Expo in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with 35 types of imported and China-made autos. Pictured here are visitors viewing the buick sedans. |  |
China's First Specialized E-commerce Data Center EmergesBeijing State Research Info Tech Co. Ltd. on April 17 held a press conference with Intel, Dell, etc. at the Beijing Jingguang Center, announcing the establishment of China's first specialized E-commerce data center. Photo shows Li Ming, deputy director of the Information Center under the Development Research Center of the State Council, and president of the Beijing State Research Info Tech Co. Ltd., addressed the conference. |  |
Harvesting Green Tea A woman picks tea leaves in a greenhouse in Yanma township in Junan County, east China's Shandong Province. To meet the demands of the market, a green tea base of 10,000 mu (about 667 hectare) has been built in the township. The local farmers can also harvest green tea in greenhouses one season ahead of usual time. |  |
