A resident signs on a banner to promote the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian Province November 30, 2005. China will contain the number of HIV carriers to less than 1.5 million by the end of 2010, Health Minister Gao Qiang pledged Wednesday on the eve of World AIDS Day which falls on December 1.

Drug addicts play cards with HIV/AIDS prevention information in a drug rehabilitation center in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region November 30, 2005.

Students of a nursing school let go of balloons in an event to promote HIV/AIDS prevention in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province November 30, 2005.

A girl walks past a billboard promoting AIDS prevention in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province November 30, 2005.

(Xinhua News Agency December 1, 2005)