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Olympic Agenda Targets Clean Energy
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| Pollution-free energies are expected to be the main fuels used during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, says a newly-released "Scientific Olympics" document. |
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Equal Prices for Foreigners
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| Millions of overseas tourists in China now benefit from fair treatment in traveling, accommodation, purchasing and telecommunications, while in the past they would have paid sometimes double the price for Chinese citizens. |
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Beijing's Citizens Enjoy Better Public Transport
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| Beijing’s citizens now enjoy better and faster public transport services and will hopefully be spared the irritating inconvenience of traffic jams by 2008, said Mayor of Beijing Liu Qi. |
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Shanghai Opens Gold Exchange for Trading
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| The Shanghai Gold Exchange, the first gold exchange in China, opened for trade Wednesday, bringing an end to more than 50 years of government monopoly over the gold market. |
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Mainland Ready for 'Direct Links' Across Taiwan Straits
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| With an increasingly earnest request for direct links for mail, trade and transport services being heard from the Taiwan community and its business asociates, the mainland side is ready to realize the "three direct links" across the Taiwan Straits. |
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China, ASEAN to Sign FTA
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| China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are to sign a landmark free-trade agreement (FTA) at the upcoming Sixth China-ASEAN Summit. The trade liberalization project is widely expected to get under way next year, beginning with agricultural products. |
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FM Spokesman: Jiang's US Visit 'Productive'
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| Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to the United States was "constructive and productive," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in Beijing at a regular press conference on Tuesday. |
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China Favors Nuclear-free Korean Peninsula
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| Chinese President Jiang Zemin reaffirmed Monday that China supports a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, during his meeting with Republic of Korea (ROK) President Kim Dae-jung after the conclusion of the Economic Leaders' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. |
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Satellite Sent into Orbit
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| China successfully sent an earth resource satellite, the second ZY-2, into orbit yesterday using a Chinese Long-March IV-B carrier rocket. The satellite is intended for territorial surveys, environment monitoring and protection, urban planning, crop yield assessment, disaster monitoring and scientific experiments in space. |
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APEC Leaders Kicking off Two-day Informal Meeting
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| Leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum on Saturday kicked off their two-day informal meeting in Mexico, seeking to promote economic growth through economic and technological cooperation. The fight against terrorism has become a major topic of the meeting. The leaders believe that a failure in the battle will do harm to trade and impede economic growth. |
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