Wang Weili, a sculptor living in the United States who lived for a year in Tibet 20 years ago, writes about the progress he has witnessed in the region: "Modern industries, transport, school education, medicare, science and technology, which did not exist in Tibet before, all now show shining progress. Tibet has got rid of the closed feudal system and entered a modern society. My friends, who were former slaves, told me: 'We have jumped from hell to paradise.'"
A group of Chinese and French experts attending a symposium on human cloning at Fudan University in Shanghai yesterday called on the international community to promulgate an international convention to ban human cloning as soon as possible.
Wang Weili, a sculptor living in the United States who lived for a year in Tibet 20 years ago, writes about the progress he has witnessed in the region: "Modern industries, transport, school education, medicare, science and technology, which did not exist in Tibet before, all now show shining progress. Tibet has got rid of the closed feudal system and entered a modern society. My friends, who were former slaves, told me: 'We have jumped from hell to paradise.'"
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said in Beijing on Thursday that facts have proved the separatist-minded "East Turkistan" terrorists have become a faction in the international terrorist movement
Preparations by China to send a manned spacecraft to the moon by 2005 are under way, a senior space official said Thursday in Beijing. "For mankind in the 21st century, space application will become as essential as electricity and oil in the 19th century," said Liang Sili, the state's leading space scientist.