CIS Ambassadors to China Visit People's Daily OnlineInvited by People's Daily President Xu Zhongtian, a group of CIS ambassadors and journalists to China, as from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyz,Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries paid a visit to People's Daily Online around ten o'clock October 24. Picture shows President Xu Zhongtian, deputy Editor-in-Chief Jiang Shaogao talk with CIS ambassadors in the new editorial department building.  |  |
Beijing, HK to Cooperate in Financing and Services Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will mainly focus on their cooperation in the sectors of financing and services in the coming years, a senior HK official revealed here Tuesday. |  |
Tung Congratulates BOC (HK) for Successful Restructuring Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa on Tuesday extended warmest congratulation to the former Bank of China Group for its successful restructuring and the establishment of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd. |  |
Reporters Detained at Tadzhik-Afghan Border A reporter argues with a Russian military officer at the Tadzhik-Afghan border October 23, 2001. Many correspondents who waited to enter Afghanistan were detained here over 20 hours . |  |
President of Chile Visits ChinaChinese President Jiang Zemin (L) shakes hands with visiting President of Chile Ricardo Lagos during the welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 23 October 2001. Lagos, who is in China for a three-day official visit, arrived in Beijing 22 October after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shanghai. |  |
Kidnapped Chinese Hostage Home Kidnapped Chinese hostage Zhang Zhongyi ��L2) accompanied by his parents (R1,2), arrives at home in Fuqing city October 23, 2001 . Zhang bore a two-month-long abduction before being set free by the Philippine kidnapers. |  |
Wild Animal Rescue Center in Qinghai Rescue staffs set some owls free in Xining, capital city of northwest China's Qinghai Province October 23, 2001. More than 320 heads of 32 species plateau wild animals have been saved since the founding of this Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wild Animal Rescue Center in 1994. |  |
Wild Rescue Center on Plateau Rescue worker Meng Xianggui feeds milk to a group of four-month-old blue sheep, the State's second-class protective animal, at the Wild Rescue Center in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province October 23, 2001. The center has rescued over 320 heads of wild animals in 32 species, and over 80 among them were set free to nature since its founding in 1994. |  |
Panda Performs Shooting The Giant Panda Yingying stages shooting during the 1st Chinese Acrobatic Art Festival in Beijing October 22, 2001. |  |
Potherbs introduced to Farmland in Yunnan Farmers collect potherb which will be sold in cities in Xingjiacun village of Baoshan city, southwest China's Yunnan province, Oct 23, 2001. Sorts of Potherbs growing in moutainous areas have been introduced to farmland of Baoshan city. Such potherbs that are not polluted by any chemical fertilizer or pesticide, are welcomed for their nutrition. |  |
New School After Flooding Happy children pose for a picture in front of their newly-built primary school in Tonggu County in south China's Jiangxi Province October 23, 2001. The new school is a replacement of three former schools suffered from frequent flooding. |  |
Checkup for Dolphin A dolphin ashore waits for a regular checkup at the Yangtze Dolphin Nature Reserve in Tongling City, east China's Anhui Province October 23, 2001. Less than 2,000 heads of dolphins, a rare species in the world, live in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. |  |
Tourist Sites Close due to Strike in Paris Several visitors hit a close door of the famed art hall Louvre due to its employees' strike in Paris October 22, 2001. Besides Louvre, the city's other famous museums and sightseeing sites, such as L'arch de Triomphe, fontainebleau, Ausseil Museum and Pompidou Center, also shut down for two weeks because of strikes. |  |
Future-Type Vehicle in New York A fan admires a new type car joining a float parade in New York October 20, 2001. This future-type vehicle, driven with charged batteries, has an hour speed of over 128 km. |  |
