|
"Solid Water" Invented for Planting in Deserts
|
|
| Chinese scientists have developed a kind of "solid water" that can be used for planting trees in deserts. Ninety-seven percent of the "solid water" is actual water, while the rest 3 percent is a kind of macromolecular polymer extracted from animals and plants, according to Dr. Wu Yunxiang, a researcher from the Shenyang Senlu Solid Water Company. |
|
Chat with a ‘Crouching Tiger’
in a Lijiang Teahouse
|
|
| Just outside the downtown of Lijiang, beside a crystal-clear creek, stands the House of Green Snow Teahouse where visitors can find in its owner, Yu Yong, “one of the dragons and tigers hiding in Lijiang” ready to talk over a cup of tea about the art and history of this ancient city in the land of the Naxi people. |
|
|
World Bank President to Visit China May 23-30
|
|
| World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn will visit China at the invitation of the government of the People's Republic of China, from May 23 through 30. The purpose of his visit is to assess recent economic developments and discuss with senior leaders the World Bank Group's assistance strategy for China after its accession to the WTO. The World Bank president also will participate in a ceremony for China to join the Development Gateway Foundation as a founding member and also for the launch of the China Development Gateway. |
|
|
China Voices Concern Over India, Pakistan Tensions
|
|
| As a neighbor of both Pakistan and India, China is very concerned about the deteriorating situation between the two countries and hopes that both India and Pakistan will exercise restraint and find a peaceful settlement through dialogue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Tuesday. |
|
|
China Becomes World's Chief Platinum Consumer
|
|
| According to sales records in the first quarter of this year, the sales of platinum in the Chinese market reached 560,000 ounces, surpassing Japan for the first time as the number one platinum market in the world. |
|
|
Nine Steel Products Face Quota Tariffs
|
|
| China is to join the European Union in protecting domestic steel companies against surging imports in a retaliatory move against United States tariffs on steel imports. Starting from Friday, China is to levy tariffs of 7 percent to 26 percent on imports of nine steel products that exceed certain quotas. |
|
|
9 Jiangsu Universities Join in 100th Birthday Celebration
|
|
| Nine universities in east China's Jiangsu Province are celebrating their 100th birthday. President Jiang Zemin sent a letter of congratulations to the ceremony. The nine universities, developed from the same source, Sanjiang Normal School in 1902, are Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing Normal University, Hohai University, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Forestry University, Jiangsu University and Jiangnan University. |
|
|
China Sets up Diplomatic Ties With East Timor
|
|
| China and East Timor yesterday formally established diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level in Dili. A communique on establishing diplomatic relations signed by the foreign ministers of both countries made China the first country to set up diplomatic ties with East Timor following its independence. |
|
|
Seven Killed in Xinjiang Coal Mine Accident
|
|
| Seven miners were killed and 16 injured when a coal mine collapsed in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Monday. |
|
|
Nations Join Hands to Tackle Drug Issues
|
|
| China is striving to join forces with a select group of Southeast Asian countries to combat drug trafficking and narcotic-related crime in the region. The call came after reports claimed drug addiction, especially the abuse of amphetamine-type stimulants has become even more rampant in the region in recent years.
|
|
|
Royal Shakespeare Company to Perform in Beijing, Shanghai
|
|
| The Merchant of Venice will be presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Beijing Poly Theater from Thursday to Sunday and at the Shanghai Drama Arts Center from May 31 to June 6. |
|
Yangtze Flood Comes
One Month Earlier
|
|
| Floods on China's largest river, the Yangtze River, have arrived a month earlier than normal, because of continuous rainfall over the past month in the middle and lower reaches of the river. On Sunday, water level in the Yangtze River reached 25.1 meters in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, topping the "danger level." |
|
|
Photos Bring Back Life of Old Beijing
|
|
| Some 85 black and white images of old Beijing in the 1930s-40s by the photographer Hedda Morrison (1908-91) from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia are on display at the Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument in Beijing. "It is the first time in more than 50 years that these photographs are exhibited in the city that they chronicle, fulfilling a long-held wish of Hedda Morrison and her husband Alastair to share the photographs with the people of Beijing," remarked Claire Roberts, senior curator of Asian Decorative Arts and Design of the Powerhouse Museum. |
|
|
Beijing Party Congress Attracts Foreign Media
|
|
| More than 100 correspondents from 20 overseas news organizations including the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP) are covering the Ninth Beijing Municipal Party Congress, now in session. Officials said this record number of overseas correspondents reflects growing world interest in Beijing following the city’s successful bid for the 2008 Olympic Games as well as China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. |
|
|
New Regulations Aim to Protect Workers' Health
|
|
| A new regulation issued by the State Council went into effect Sunday aimed at helping to protect employees working with dangerous materials from occupational diseases. Noting that such diseases have become very "serious" in China, officials from the Ministry of Health said the regulation provides workers with a new legal weapon to protect their rights. |
|
|
Beijing Sets Ambitious Goals for the Next Five Years
|
|
| Beijing will take the lead in China to achieve modernization in the next five years, with an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 9 percent, Jia Qinglin, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, pledged Friday. |
|
|
Chinese, Tajikistani Presidents Hold Talks
|
|
| Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Tajikistan President Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov held talks in Beijing on May 17 and exchanged views on bilateral relations and regional and international issues of common interest. |
|
A Scholar's Ride
on the Celestial Horse
|
|
| She has served in the Air Force, worked on stage and in film, received a national award for her painting, earned her doctorate in oriental languages and cultures -- and most recently has written a book: Celestial Horses, a study in both word and picture of the role of the horse in Chinese culture, published in 2002, the Chinese lunar year of the horse. |
|
|
Explosion Kills 11 Miners in Hunan
|
|
| Eleven miners have been confirmed dead following a gas explosion at a coal mine Wednesday in Xinhua County, central China's Hunan Province. Besides, seven other miners are still missing. |
|
|
.gif){kind=small}
