Beautiful Lotus in Blossom in TaiwanThe lotus in the south of Taiwan is now in blossoming and picking period. Various kinds of beautiful lotuses have been picked and transported to flower markets all over the island province. Pictured here are four lotuses in bloom in a pond. |  |
Yangchong Bridge Under Busy ConstructionYangchong bridge, linking up Xi'an/Nanjing Railway and also a key project in the development of China's western regions, is under busy construction. |  |
Electrical Appliance Price War in Nanjing Nanjing Wuxing (Five-star) Store, a shop specialized in electrical appliance in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province, attained a turnover over 15 million RMB (about 1.88 million US dollars) on its opening day. |  |
China Trounced the Maldives 10-1Fan Zhili (left ) battles for an airball with a Maldives player in the World Cup Asia zone Group 9 qualifiers in Xi'an, northwest China. China trounced the Maldives 10-1. |  |
Hu Jintao Interviewed by Vietnamese Media in HanoiChina is willing to join hands with Vietnam in the new century to push bilateral traditional friendship to a new height and open up a brighter future for the relationship between the two parties and the two countries, Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao said Sunday in Hanoi.  |  |
Passing On Botanical Knowledges Doctor Li Xinhua (2nd R), a botanist with the Zhongshan Botanical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows PLA soldiers how to tell eatable wild plants from the poisonous ones at a training site in east China's Jiangsu province April 21, 2001. The PLA (Chinese People's Liberation Army) soldiers are undergoing a field training and Li was invited by the local community to pass on botanical knowledges to them. |  |
China Celebrates Earth DayCaiwang Duoji(right), a senior engineer of Land and Resources Department of Tibet Autonomous Region, shows a fossil to some Tibetans in Lhasa Sunday, April 22, 2001. Technologists of Land and Resources Department of Tibet introduce how to protect geological relics in Lhasa to celebrate the 31nd World Earth Day. |  |
Chinese Vice Premier Back from Three-Nation Visit Chinese Vice Premier Li Lanqing (R) is greeted by Chinese State Councilor Luo Gan at the Great Hall of the People Sunday, April 22, 2001. Chinese Vice Premier Li Lanqing who came back to Beijing Sunday after concluding an official visit to Uzbekistan, Georgia and France. |  |
Li Ruihuan Meets with S. Africa's Deputy President Li Ruihuan (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference shakes hands with South Africa's Deputy President Jacob Zuma in Cape Town, April 21. Li arrived here on Thursday for a six-day official goodwill visit to South Africa. |  |
Aerial Sowing in the West A biplane of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force makes aerial sowing above the suburb of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, Saturday April 21, 2001. It is the first sowing launched by the PLA Air Force in the new century. The PLA Air Force has sowed more than 900,000 hectares of land by planes in the last 20 years, making a great contribution to the afforestation in China's west. |  |
