Americans Favor Chinese Goods with a classic TasteIntriguing to an American couple was an apron found as a marketing item with Chinese imperial concubine Yang's image on at Huaqing Pool in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Photo shows the wife tying the apron to her husband's waist. |  |
China Uses Copters for Maritime Petrol Two US-made B-206 copters flew high above the Zhujiang River estuary at 10:15am on June 13, raising the curtain using copters on China's maritime petrol. |  |
Liu Qi Meets with IOC President in MombasaLiu Qi, Beijing mayor and chairman of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bidding Committee, met and shook hands with Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee in Mombasa, Kenya on June 12. |  |
Seasonable Rain Fell in BeijingBeijing had a happy rain after a long spell of drought on June 13. Photo shows people having on raincoats on their way home. |  |
Taiwan Compatriot Donates Bone Marrow to Chinese Mainland Chen Xia, 22, is shown in a TV footage undergoing a bone marrow transplant operation at the No.1 Hospital attached to the Suzhou University in Suzhou of China's southeastern Jiangsu province, June 13, 2001. Chen, who was diagnosed leucocythemia sufferer in September of 2000, was transplanted with the bone marrow donated by a young man of Taiwan province. This is the 86th time that Taiwanese donate bone marrow to patients in the mainland.  |  |
Chinese Vice-Permier Meets World Bank Senior Vice President Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing (R) meets with Nicholas H. Stern, senior vice president for development economics and chief economist of World Bank Wednesday in Beijing, June 13, 2001. |  |
Chinese President Meets Journalists of Four NationsChinese President Jiang Zemin met journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan here Thursday morning.The journalists are here to cover the Sixth Summit of "Shanghai Five" scheduled for June 14-15.The meeting is still going on at press time. |  |
Macao to Resume Imports of Poultry from China's InteriorThe Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will soon resume the imports of live poultry from China's interior, about one month after Macao's entire poultry population were slaughtered to contain the spread of a bird flu virus. |  |
Giant Chinese Chess Contest A view of the giant Chinese chess exhibition match between the champion Wan Chunlin and the runner-up Hong Zhi after the 4th National Chinese Chess Master Contest ended in Liulin City in northwest China's Shanxi Province June 12, 2001. |  |
"Shanghai Five" Summit to be Opened Flags of "Shanghai Five" nations could be seen along the street of Shanghai, June 13, 2001. The sixth Summit Meeting of the "Shanghai Five" is scheduled for June 14-15 . |  |
Flood-Control Works in Xinjiang The Ethnic Uygur farmer drives his cart to join the reinforcement of flood-control works in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region June 13, 2001. Hundreds of thousands of local people build dykes and dams in high summer to prevent the flood from the melting snow-capped Kunlun Mountains. |  |
Tajikistan President Arrives at Shanghai -- President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov (L) shakes hands with Liu Guchang (R), minister assistant of Foreign Affairs of China, while arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport Wednesday, June 13, 2001. Rakhmonov arrives in Shanghai for the sixth summit of the "Shanghai Five" scheduled for June 14 to 15. |  |
