Taiwan's Investment in Fuzhou BoomingBusinessman Cai Xiaoqiu (centre) from Taiwan Province chats to an employee of Fujian Qinglu Co. The sports shoe manufacturer based in the Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone has achieved an annual output of 10 million pairs of shoes - all exported to Europe, the United States and Japan. Since the zone was established in East China's Fujian Province in 1985, large numbers of business people from Taiwan have moved to invest there. |  |
China to Enhance Exchanges with Vietnam: Li Peng China's National People's Congress (NPC) will enhance exchanges with the Vietnamese National Assembly, Li Peng, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, told his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Van An in Hanoi on Friday.  |  |
Vice-Premier Meets Western Forum Participants Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing met Friday afternoon with some participants in the three-day 2001 China Western Forum, which concluded Thursday in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. |  |
China Draw Qatar 1-1 in World Cup Qualifier Defender Li Weifeng drove in a header to salvage a precious 1-1 draw with Qatar in an Asian World Cup qualifier Friday in Doha. |  |
China Draw Qatar 1-1 in World Cup Qualifier Defender Li Weifeng drove in a header to salvage a precious 1-1 draw with Qatar in an Asian World Cup qualifier Friday in Doha. |  |
Xiamen Enforces More Strength on Smuggling Customs officers inspect a confiscated cargoboat carrying smuggled cigarettes on the sea near Xiamen, an important port city of southeast China's Fujian province. The customs strengthened its efforts striking smuggling. The import and export value adds to RMB 8.76 billion yuan from January to July, 2001, with a 9.7% increase comparing with the same period last year. |  |
Xiamen Enforces More Strength on Smuggling Customs officers inspect fake Toyota cams on the sea near Xiamen, an important port city of southeast China's Fujian province. The customs strengthened its efforts striking smuggling. The import and export value adds to RMB 8.76 billion yuan from January to July, 2001, with a 9.7% increase comparing with the same period last year. |  |
China Unicom's CDMA Network to Kick Off Technicians test facilities in Motorola's Hangzhou plant in east China's Zhejiang province. Motorola is to provide China Unicom with CDMA network facilities worth USD $407 million, which will enable China Unicom to start its CDMA service in China. |  |
Chinese Premier Zhu Arrives in St. Petersburg, Russia Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji arrived in St. Petersburg on Friday afternoon to attend the sixth regular meeting of Chinese and Russian premiers, and to pay an official visit to Russia in a bid to boost the growing strategic partnership of cooperation between the two countries. |  |
