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Public Bidding to Regulate Land Use
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| The Ministry of Land and Resources issued a regulation yesterday requiring public bidding on land use to be carried out in a uniform way. "After the new regulation becomes effective on July 1, investors should no longer find our land bidding procedure puzzling," said Wang Shouzhi, deputy director of the Department of Land Utilization Management under the ministry. |
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Chinese, Afghan Foreign Ministers Hold Talks
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| Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and his Afghan counterpart, Abdullah Abdullah, on Wednesday discussed bilateral ties, the Afghan situation and exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern. |
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Black Box from Crash Recovered
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| Chinese salvage workers yesterday found one of the two "black boxes", or flight-data recorders, that could reveal why a China Northern Airlines passenger jet crashed on May 7 with 112 people aboard. |
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Jiang Meets Harvard President
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| Educational exchanges between China and the United States have a great potential and might also help push forward the Sino-US relations, noted Chinese President Jiang Zemin during his meeting in Beijing Monday evening with the president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers. |
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China Condemns US Congressional Acts on Military Cooperation with Taiwan
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| China's National People's Congress (NPC) Foreign Affairs Committee has strongly condemned the Fiscal Year 2003 Defense Authorization Act recently adopted by the US House of Representatives, which contains items strengthening US-Taiwan military cooperation. |
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Why Is Selecting China's ‘National Flower’ So Difficult?
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| The peony was the top choice for "national flower" in a referendum held throughout China in 1994. But no final decision has ever been made and not everyone agrees with that choice -- or even if one flower should represent a country acknowledged as the source of 85 percent of the world’s flower species. Other top vote getters: Orchid, lotus, chrysanthemum, and plum blossom. |
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China Among Countries with Wide Income Gap
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| China is now one of the countries with a wide gap between resident incomes. Such a problem of uneven income distribution is outstanding compared with other social problems facing China, according to Lu Zhiqiang, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, who delievered a speech at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on May 9. |
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Accord Reached on DVD Royalties
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| Chinese makers of digital video disc players and foreign holders of patents on DVD technology have settled a dispute over the size of royalties to be paid by the Chinese side. The Shanghai-based China Audio Industries Association (CAIA), representing 90 percent of China's more than 100 makers of DVD players, said Thursday it signed an agreement last month with the 6C group of foreign electronics giants. |
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Measures Designed to Assure Nuclear Power Industry Safety
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| A Shandong reader, Zhang Han, of Guangming Daily, a Beijing-based Chinese language newspaper, recently asked the newspaper about what safety measures are in place in China to guide the nuclear power industry. A Guangming Daily editor did some research to provide a description of the China’s nuclear safety regulatory system. |
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ADB Shanghai Meeting Fruitful
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| The 35th annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) concluded Sunday. Participants showed great confidence in the development of the macro-economy of the Asia-Pacific area and expressed strong support for strengthening ADB aid as well as sincere hope for improving regional cooperation. |
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China Tolerates No Interference in Taiwan Issue
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| Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Thursday that Taiwan, rather than being a protectorate of any foreign country, is an integral part of Chinese territory, that the Taiwan question is the country's internal affair and that China will tolerate no outside interference. |
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Red-crowned Crane Can't Recognize Destroyed Wetlands
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| Two fires during the past seven months have left the Zhalong Nature Reserve in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province -- the habitat of one-sixth of the world’s entire population of wild red-crowned crane -- burned beyond recognition. Drought and human water consumption in the area have further depleted the wetlands. |
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China Expands Compulsory Education in Rural Areas
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| The Chinese government will put five billion yuan (US$603.89 million) before the end of 2005 into the second phase of its project to promote compulsory education, to help students in rural areas have schooling, Ministry of Education sources said in Beijing on Thursday. The project will cover 522 county-level places in 19 provinces and regions in central and western parts of China. |
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Search Team Finds Black Box Signals
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| The bodies of three more passengers from the crashed China Northern Airlines plane were found Thursday, bringing the number retrieved to 69 by late Thursday night. Two of the three bodies were picked up with trawl nets, according to the Liaoning Division of the Coastal Guard. |
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