Ethnic Yi People Celebrate "Torch Festival"June 24 to 26 in the lunar calendar marks the annual "Torch Festival" of Ethnic Yi people. Gathered in Stone Forest Autonomous County, Yunnan Province are some 100,000 people celebrating their festival by showing their traditional culture and in the meanwhile creating business opportunities. Picture shows the traditional bullfight. |  |
Ethnic Yi People Celebrate "Torch Festival"June 24 to 26 in the lunar calendar marks the annual "Torch Festival" of Ethnic Yi people. Gathered in Stone Forest Autonomous County, Yunnan Province are some 100,000 people celebrating their festival by showing their traditional culture and in the meanwhile creating business opportunities. Picture shows the Yi people are dancing a "three-stringed fiddle" dance. |  |
Tales from a Bear Raising FarmSprawling in the suburbs of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province is a bear raising farm of 60,000 square meters in area, the biggest one in Asia. In the 16 years since its setting-up, researchers have completed state-level studies on bear's artificial breeding techniques. Now the raising ground claims over 800 black, brown and sun bears with the artificially bred ones to grow by 50 to 60 annually. Picture shows a little black bear is "towing" a tourist along. |  |
Nanjing People Protest Japan PM's Shrine VisitAugust 14 saw scholars from China, Japan and South Korea, Nanjing Massacre survivors together with Nanjing people gather in the Memorial Hall of Nanjing Massacre to condemn Japanese Prime Minister's visit to the war criminal shrine. |  |
People Voice Protests by Paying Homage to Victims of Nanjing MassacreOn August 14, throngs of people voiced their protests and indignation over Japanese Prime Minister's visit to the war criminal shrine by paying homage to the Memorial Hall of Nanjing Massacre. Picture shows people are listening to the narration of historical facts in front of a sculpture wall displaying the tragic massacre scenes. |  |
Small-scale River Reach Harnessing Taking EffectsIn recent years, people of Qianxi County, Guizhou Province, have successfully conducted small-scale harnessing in river reaches. Since the work started last October in its Edingpo project on Tuomeihe River it has covered an area of 2.5 square kilometers with 400mu terraced fields and four water pools built and 1740 mu of land forested. Picture shows a much-improved local environment, which used to be ripped seriously by water and soil erosion. |  |
US Warplanes Strike Radar Site in Southern Iraq An F/A-18 Hornet, from the USS Harry S. Truman, patrols the 'no fly zone' over southern Iraq in support of Operation Southern Watch on Feb. 9, 2001. US and British planes conducted an air strike August 14, 2001 on a surface-to-air missile site in southern Iraq to knock out a radar that provides information for missile firing, the Pentagon reported. (Photo Source: US Navy via Reuters)  |  |
FISU Chief Killian Arrives in Beijing George E. Killian, president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), arrived in Beijing Tuesday night to attend the 21st World Universiade. |  |
Relatives of Seven Killed in Sea Peril to Be CompensatedRelatives of seven fishermen killed when a ship collided with their boat last year will receive compensation totaling 5.5 million yuan (662,700 U.S. dollars). |  |
International Agriculture and Food Fair 2001 China Opens Picture shows the exhibition area of the International Agriculture and Food Fair 2001 China, which opens on August 14 in Changchun, capital city of Jilin Province. Enterprises from more than 20 provinces and cities of China and some countries and regions such as United States, Spain, Netherlands and Canada, will attend the fair. |  |
China Builds Magnetic Train with Own Technology China's first magnetic levitation train car based on Chinese technology came off the production line Tuesday at the Changchun Passenger Car Plant (CPCP) of northeast Jilin province. |  |
Japanese PM's Visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" CriticizedHistorians, war victims and witnesses, veteran soldiers, and massacre survivors gathered Tuesday to condemn Japanese Prime Minister's visit to the war criminal shrine. |  |
