Sago-cycases Blooming in ChongqingThe Clean Energy Project lasting for one and half year in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China has rewarded the local citizens a blue sky. Seen on the picture is the male and female cycases blooming at the same time as a result of the improved environment. |  |
Occidental Cars Witness a Boom in ChinaAs China started to impose additional duty on the imported cars and accessories from Japan as a response to Japan's temporary restriction on the importation of China's agricultural produces, sales of Japanese cars has seen an overall decrease in China. Meanwhile, cars from the United States and Europe show an unusual purchase boom in the slack season. Here is the salesman introducing a Ford car to the customer. |  |
Chinese Outstanding Athletes in Moscow to Support Beijing's Olympics BiddingAt midday July 10, the exhibition platforms of candidate cities bidding for the 2008 Olympic Games were opened to the media for one hour. Photos show Chinese well-known athletes --- Lang Ping, Huang Zhihong and Wang Zhizhi--- were interviewed in front of Beijing's exhibition platform. |  |
APEC Youth Festival Opens in ShanghaiVice Mayor Zhou Muyao(from left),Zhou qiang,official with the Communist Youth League of China,and Martin Cauchon,Canada's minister of national revenu launched the forum.  |  |
Chouioia Cunea Successfully Bred for Killing American White MothAltogether 200 million Chouioia Cuneas, bred by a research institute in Tianjin, have been lately released in over 10 areas of Tianjin in order to kill the natural enemy-- American White Moth, thus protecting some 50,000 trees. Photo shows technicians fixing the pupa of Chouioia Cunea on trees during the pupation period of American White Moth. |  |
China's Biggest Expressway Toll StationLocated at the juncture of Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, the toll station of Beijing-Shanghai Expressway is presently China's biggest toll station of expressway. There are 30 charging channels here. |  |
Scientific Research Institute Built on Barren SandbeachThe year 1999 saw the establishment of an agricultural hi-tech scientific institute in over 2,000 mu (15 mu = one hectare) of beach, some 20 km away from Zhengding County of Hebei Province in north China after seven undergraduates were assigned to work in the local agricultural bureau. Here is Zhang Yanzhao (first from left), head of the scientific research institute, with cadres of the agricultural bureau, examining the growth of de-toxic young sweet potatoes. |  |
China Delivers First Batch of Training Planes to EgyptThe first batch of training planes manufactured in a joint Egyptian-Chinese factory were delivered in Cairo on Wednesday. The K-8E planes, produced under a contract signed between Egypt and China in December 1999, were mainly used for training pilots. |  |
Top Chinese Lawmaker Meets DPRK Visitors Li Peng (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, shakes hands with Secretary General Kim Yun Hyok of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing July 11, 2001. |  |
Living Order Return to Normal after an Earthquake A peddlery sells bean curd to a customer at an open air market in Donghua Township in Chuxiong, capital city of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunan Province Wednesday, July 11, 2001. The living order of the people in Chuxiong has return to normal after an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale took place in the area on July 10. No casualty are reported. |  |
SW China Hit by An Earthquake Wang Minghai, a farmer of Donghua Township, clears a collapsed wall which was broken down in an earthquake in Chuxiong, capital city of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunan Province Wednesday, July 11, 2001. The earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale only caused minor damages to some buildings in the area on July 10. No casualty are reported. |  |
Chinese Union Chief Meets Austrian DelegationWei Jianxing, president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), met here Wednesday with a delegation from Austrian trade unions led by Fritz Verzetnitsch, President of the Austrian Confederation of Trade Unions (OGB). |  |
Hu Jintao Meets Rwandese Guest Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao (R) talks with General Secretary Charles Murigande of the Rwandese Patriotic Front in a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, July 11, 2001. |  |
Rescuing Boar from Flood A Chinese armed police officer carries an imported boar to a boat in a suburb of Nanning, capital city of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Tuesday evening July 10, 2001. More than 10,000 imported boars that got trapped in the flood were moved to safe area Tuesday night in Nanning. The water level of the Yongjiang River flowing through Nanning has been keeping five meters higher than the warning level over the past week. |  |
Jiang Zemin Delivers Speech at Lecture on Legal System Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivers an important speech at a lecture on legal system held at Zhongnanhai in Beijing Wednesday, July 11, 2001. |  |
Jiang Meets DPRK Friendly Delegation Chinese President Jiang Zemin(R) shakes hands with Kim Yun Hyok, secretary general of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Zhongnanhai in Beijing July 10, 2001. |  |
