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China and South Korea Friday continued their joint operation to search for missing crew members who were aboard a suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk by a South Korean cargo ship in waters near the west coast of South Korea. According to Seoul's Coast Guard, three patrol vessels and a helicopter were dispatched to the spot to work with China's professional salvage ship "Beihai Rescue 108" to search for the missing sailors. But so far there has been no progress yet. The suspected Chinese fi ...

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&$Jia Qinglin (L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with participants of the founding meeting of the 6th Board of Administration of the China Green Foundation (CGF) in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. Founded in 1985, the CGF is a national non-profit organization focusing on promoting afforestation campaigns in China. ...

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&$ Chinese Ambassador to France Kong Quan (L) addresses a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at the Chinese Embassy in Paris, capital of France, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei) &$
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&$ Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with visiting Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng) &$
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&$ Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, meets with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Tao) &$
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&$Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2010 shows the scene of a traffic accident on the Changping Speedway in northeast China's Jilin Province. A bus ran into the rear of a car and then collided head-on with a truck on the speedway Friday afternoon, leaving 26 people dead. (Xinhua/Xiao Xiao)&$
&$ At least 26 people were killed in two traffic collisions in northeast China Friday, and an uns ...

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&$Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (R) meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Oliveira Guterres in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)&$
&$ Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met here Friday with Antonio Oliveira Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Dai hailed the cooperation between the Chi ...

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&$ Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych(R) visits the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Ding Lin) &$
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&$ A local citizen rides motorcycle in rain on a street of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Sept.3, 2010. Under the impact of tropical storm Lionrock, a thunder storm hit Wuhan on Friday. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)&$
&$ Tropical storm Lionrock continued to bring widespread rain Friday to southeast China, as its was downgraded to a tropical low pressure front in Guangdo ...

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&$Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (R) meets with Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Yingquan)&$
&$ Kenya and China have agreed that the friendly cooperation relationship between the two countries has been deepening and developing based ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao received the credentials of six new foreign ambassadors to China in Beijing Friday. The ambassadors were: Arafan Ansu Camara from Guinea-Bissau; Francois Ngarambe from Rwanda; Abdul Karim Hashim Mostafa from Iraq; Anatol Urecheanu from Moldova; Niwa Uichiro from Japan; and Rosario Portell from Uruguay. &$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

In commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the victory in the anti-Japan War (1937-1945), China's central government will give some veterans of the war a one-off cash payment of 3,000 yuan (441 U.S. dollars), to honor their contributions to China and its people. The payment will go to veterans who joined the army between July 7, 1937 and Sep. 2, 1945, and who currently live in the rural areas, said a statement published on the Civil Affairs Ministry's website Friday. Local civil affairs ...

The Vancouver mayor and a delegation of representatives from 22 corporations in the Canadian city will bring a green message to China in an upcoming trade mission designed to promote and sell clean energy technology, mobility and infrastructure. As part of the 11-day trip which will start on Sept. 6 in Beijing and cover seven cities, Mayor Gregor Robertson will accompany the business delegation as a conduit to open doors to the Chinese government officials who are interested in greeni ...

Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu here Friday called on cooperatives to push forward reform and innovation, so as to increase their economic strength and social influence. Hui made the remarks when addressing the opening ceremony of an Asia-Pacific regional assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). He said cooperatives should make use of their advantages, choose the right target and improve safeguard mechanisms, so as to realize sustainable development Hui said China atta ...

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&$ Soldiers and citizens attend a ceremony to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Changsha, China's Hunan province, Sept 3, 2010. (Xinhua Photo)&$
&$ Top Chinese leaders paid homage to the Chinese soldiers who died fighting Japanese aggression during the Second World War Friday, the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to China. At ...

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&$ Soldiers and citizens attend a ceremony to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Changsha, China's Hunan province, Sept 3, 2010. (Xinhua Photo)&$
&$ Top Chinese leaders paid homage to the Chinese soldiers who died fighting Japanese aggression during the Second World War Friday, the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to China. At the Muse ...

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&$Lufthansa's Airbus A380 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport for the first time in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 2, 2010. The airplane, Lufthansa's third Airbus A380, will fly from Frankfurt to Beijing regularly. (Xinhua/Ma Ruzhuang) &$
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Citizens in mainland China are increasingly looking forward to travel in Taiwan and direct cross-strait flights routes in western regions are seeing greater demand, according to a Taiwan tourism quality explanation meeting held in Beijing on Sept. 2. The Beijing Office of Taiwan Cross-Strait Tourism Association invited tourism department officers from six provinces that have recently opened tourist routes to Taiwan to participate in the meeting. Officials from the National Tourism Administ ...

China will allocate a one-time living allowance to anti-Japanese war veterans living in the countryside in the mainland to mark the 65th anniversary of China’s victory in the Anti-Japanese War, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The allowance shows the care of the Party and the country to the veterans who contributed to the victory in the Anti-Japanese War, the ministry says. Those who joined the army and fought against Japanese invaders between July 7, 1937 and Sept. 2, 1945 wi ...

The United Kingdom-based Financial Times recently published an editorial titled "China's New Scramble for Africa," in which the author stressed that criticism of China's burgeoning relationship with Africa as being "a new form of colonialism" is largely misplaced. According to the article, Western-led development strategies, however well-meaning, did not break the vicious cycle of poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, while Chinese investments, made for sound business reasons and boosting e ...

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&$A view of the "suicide bridge." (Photo: Globaltimes.cn)&$
&$Chen Si, 42, felt relieved that nothing unusual happened on August 22 as he returned home from his volunteer shift patrolling for suicide jumpers on Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. But he was still worried about the young woman he rescued the day before. She was the No.193 jumpe ...

Tropical storm Lionrock continued to bring widespread rain Friday to southeast China, as its was downgraded to a tropical low pressure front in Guangdong Province after a fierce landing in Fujian Province on Thursday. Lionrock brought heavy rains up to 308.5 millimeters in the central part of Guangdong in the 24 hours till 8 a.m. Friday, said Liang Jian, chief weatherman of the provincial meteorological station. He said the station had issued a warning that rainfall could reach up ...

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&$A Huaxia jet's wings scraped the ground while landing Saturday. (Photo: Globaltimes.cn)&$
&$ Jet producer Bombardier Thursday told the Global Times that the Huaxia Airlines accident in Guiyang, Guizhou Province Saturday will not hamper the future of jet sales in China. "The CRJ series is our flagship product, and the accident will not impact sales in China," said Xiao Xiao fr ...

China's food monitoring and risk assessment systems are to be upgraded with new technologies and more funding, said a government report received by Xinhua Friday. The report was submitted to China's top legislature by a food safety office under the State Council, or the Cabinet, which gave an account of the government's work in implementing the Food Safety Law. To improve assessment of safety risks of food and agricultural products, the government had already drawn up regulations a ...

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&$Rescuers work at the scene of landslide at Dashifang Village in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The landslide happening on the night of Sept. 1 has left at least fifteen people dead and 33 others missing. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)&$
&$ The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 15, and 33 ...

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&$President Benigno Aquino Jr., gestures during a news conference at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila August 18, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)&$
&$ Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Friday said he is taking responsibility over the failed attempt to save the lives of the eight Hong Kong residents who were held hostage by a dismissed police officer. Local ...

Two Chinese Navy ships began the first visit to the south Pacific island kingdom of Tonga on Friday. The training vessel, Zhenghe, and the frigate, Mian Yang, with hundreds of sailors on board arrived in Tonga capital of Nuku' alofa on Friday on a four-day goodwill visit. During the visit, there will be a "Public Day" for the training vessel to be open to the public. Chinese Navy Rear Admiral Leng Zhenqing, who serves as the commander of the visiting formation, said they hav ...

Zhongguancun Science City's first batch of 11 projects launched at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Thursday, officially kicking off construction of Beijing's Zhongguancun Science City. The area will be built into China's most influential innovation center of technology in the next few years. Secretary of the municipal Party committee Liu Qi, Mayor Guo Jinlong and other Party and leading government officials attended the ceremony. Beijing Municipality decided to construct ...

To meet the needs of the lunar exploration and scientific research, and to achieve the standardization of lunar geographical names, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China published the first batch of 470 standard Chinese translations of lunar geographical names. As of now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has published more than 9,000 lunar geographical names, including more than 1,900 important geographical names. An official from the Ministry of Civi ...

As the dolphins swam by and frolicked among the waves, cheers erupted from three nearby motorboats. &$
&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. (Photo by Huo Yan / China Daily)&$
&$ The cameras flashed and clicked as the majestic creatures dived deeper in the shallows of Qinzhou's Sanniang Bay in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, before darting, almo ...

Hsieh said he expects that forthcoming discussions could address the issue of an open market for the cultural sector, as he believes that it is a prerequisite for mutually beneficial exchange. Issues such as intellectual property rights protection will also be included in the high-level talks, according to Xu. Cai's trip has triggered widespread speculation that cultural issues will be high on the agenda of the next round of high-level talks between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. ...

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&$Cai Wu (C), honorary chairman of the China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles, arrives at Taipei to visit southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 2, 2010. Photo: Xinhua&$
&$ Heading a 50-member delegation from the Chinesemainland, Minister of Culture Cai Wu embarked on a week-long visit to Taiwan Thursday, marking the highest-level visit to the island in 12 years. Land ...

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&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Huo Yan / China Daily&$
&$ Development plans prioritize rare sea creatures. Li Xing and Huang Chaohua report from Qinzhou. As the dolphins swam by and frolicked among the waves, cheers erupted from three nearby motorboats. The cameras flashed and clicked as the majestic cr ...

The housing market in this country is in a "very big bubble" that may last until the central bank increases interest rates and Beijing introduces a real-estate tax, The Bloomberg News quoted StarRock Investment Management as saying Thursday. "China's property market has a very big bubble, which may last for a while," Jiang Hui, investment director at StarRock Investment, said at a conference in Shanghai. "Only higher interest rates and the introduction of a property tax can bring down real-es ...

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&$Li Xinyi dances during the 2010 reality TV show The Top Talent on Henan TV on Aug 22. Li won the contest. Li Yang / for China Daily&$
&$ Two months ago, his tattered clothes and soot-covered face told the tale of his difficult and impoverished life as a coal deliveryman. Today, he has taken that story and turned it into a successful song and dance number. Forget Gene ...

Results from the latest epidemiology study have pointed to a thyroid-related disease outbreak in China that may be related to the nation's 1995 mandate to add iodine to salt, experts said. Roughly one out of 15 Chinese is suffering from hypothyroidism, one of the most commonly seen thyroid problems here, showed the study sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association's endocrinology branch. That's almost twice the incidence reported in late 1990s. The survey, which started last M ...

Local health authorities have admitted waiting five months before announcing that secret recalls had been ordered for a brand of camellia oil that had been found to contain excessive carcinogens. The oil was manufactured by Jinhao, a well-known edible oil maker based in Central China's Hunan province. An official with the provincial bureau of quality and technical supervision confirmed, on the condition of anonymity, that in March, the bureau found excessive amounts of a harmful el ...

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&$Visitors are captivated by the State Grid Pavilion's Magic Box, which uses 112 LED panels to create a visual illusion for visitors. Song Weixing / for China Daily&$
&$ The Expo 2010 Shanghai is lighting up the new green potential of LED technology. More than one billion LE ...

With the central government's pledge to upgrade the annual trade fair here to a country-level political and economic platform, Xinjiang is stepping up its efforts to establish itself as a leader in trade between China and its western neighboring countries. "It will speed up Xinjiang's bid to become China's window facing the west," said Nur Bekri, chairman of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region government. The annual China Urumqi Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Fair (Urumqi Fa ...

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&$Left: Chen Xinnian on Tuesday shows how he managed to build the underground apartment. Right: Chen Xinnian (left) and his wife Liu Shula dance in their underground apartment in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Tuesday. Photos by Yan Huazhuang / for China Daily&$
&$ Chen Xinnian, a 64-year-old former miner in Central China's Henan province, is now anxiously awaiting the results of a go ...

The Expo Garden has seen a sharp decrease in the number of visitors this week, but organizers said the drop is temporary and visitors would increase again with the National Day holiday around the corner. More than 223,000 visitors entered the Expo Garden on Sept 2. It was the third day that the number of visitors hovered around 200,000. The high on Aug 21 reached more than 560,000 visitors. According to Expo organizers, the drop in group visitors and the start of a new semester ...

China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has published the official Chinese names for places on the earth's moon, in a first that eliminates confusion and will help the nation's lunar exploration efforts. The ministry published the Chinese names for 468 places and will publish more at a later date. The International Astronomical Union has given names to more than 9,000 places on the moon, said a ministry official Thursday. The project to standardize Chinese lunar names was init ...

Donald Tsang Yan-Kuen, Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( HKSAR), who was currently on a visit to Russia, said here Thursday that Hong Kong was the "best business partner" for Russia in Asia. Chinese Hong Kong and Russia have locked several key cooperative sectors, including technical innovations, in particular communications and information technology, as well as financing, Tsang told Xinhua in an interview. According to Tsang, Chinese mainlan ...

Economic cooperation and investment among northeast Asia countries is accelerating, a senior trade official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province. "Northeast Asia has the advantages of modern technology, abundant natural resources and huge markets, which lays a solid foundation for common prosperity through cooperation," Koo Bon-Tai, vice trade minister of the DPRK, said at the Sixth Northeast Asia I ...

China's Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang Thursday called upon Chinese industrial firms to improve the quality of their products as part of the efforts to transform China's economic growth pattern. Chinese enterprises should boost the quality of industrial products by upgrading their technologies and establishing a quality-based credit system of enterprises, said Zhang at a forum held in Beijing which focused on how to improve the quality and reputation of Chinese industrial products. ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday it would urge industrial enterprises to produce high-quality products as part of the effort to enhance the image of "made in China." The Ministry would also draw up a blacklist displaying the names of those firms breaching quality-related regulations, said Li Yizhong, Minister of the MIIT. The MIIT would reward those companies that have good records for producing quality products with increased policy ...

A vast majority - a staggering 90 percent - of the post-1980 generation believes it is incapable of supporting parents, according to a recent survey, which polled 1,612 people born in or after 1980. The survey was conducted by the social research center of China Youth Daily via two major websites, minyi.net.cn and hudong.com. About 40 percent of the respondents claimed to be the only child. Nearly 74 percent of those polled said that their workload is so overwhelming tha ...

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday China welcomed the resumption of peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. "China hopes both parties will seize the opportunity and take a practical attitude to actively push forward the peace process and make progress as soon as possible," she told a regular news conference. Li Guofu, director of the Center of Middle East Studies affiliated to the China Institute of International Studies, said it was a big step ...

Beijing and Kiev signed 13 agreements on Thursday, the first day of the Ukrainian president's state visit to China, in what analysts are predicting could be the beginning of a new "Silk Road". Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych spent the opening day of his four-day state visit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao. Both leaders agreed to lift their ties in a comprehensive way. &$
China, US communicate on defense issues despite suspension in military exchanges
A senior Chinese general Thursday met with the head of a leading U.S. think tank and discussed the building of strong military ties between the two countries, despite military exchanges between the two nations having been frozen since January. "A sound and stable China-U.S. military relationship is good for bilateral strategic trust and regional peace and stability," Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian told John Hamre, president ...

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&$ Rescuers work at the scene of landslide at Dashifang Village in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The landslide happening on the night of Sept. 1 has left at least eight people dead and 40 others missing. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)&$
&$The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 12, and 36 ar ...

A senior Chinese general Thursday met with the head of a leading U.S. think tank and discussed the building of strong military ties between the two countries, despite military exchanges between the two nations having been frozen since January. "A sound and stable China-U.S. military relationship is good for bilateral strategic trust and regional peace and stability," Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian told John Hamre, president of the W ...

The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province last month has risen to 33. An explosion ripped through the fireworks factory in the Wumahe District of Yichun City on Aug. 16. Some 153 were injured in the accident and three people are still missing, Gao Weidong, vice director of Yichun's publicity department, said. A preliminary investigation showed the plant was illegally producing fireworks, as the local work safety department cancele ...

China's central government Thursday urged more efforts to boost vegetable output, ensure market supply and to stabilize vegetable prices. Both the market and the macro-control measures must be used to tackle the problems in big cities of sharp changes in vegetable price, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said Thursday in a statement on the government website www.gov.cn. City mayors must shoulder the responsibility to ease pressures on vegetable supply, and local governments should take m ...

China said Thursday it welcomes direct peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine, urging a serious and practical manner from both sides. "We hope the two parties seize the opportunity of the peace talks to achieve positive results at an early date," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference. Israel and Palestine are scheduled to resume their direct peace negotiations Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President M ...

China and India said Thursday maintaining continuity and stability in economic policy is important to the global economic recovery. The two sides achieved the consensus during the fourth round of a financial dialogue between the two nations in Beijing. The dialogue was co-presided over by Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao and Indian Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla. Maintaining the relative stability of major reserve currencies is important to achieving robust, sustainable and ba ...

Visiting senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan said here Thursday China would like to further expand bilateral cooperation with Kazakhstan in all fields. While meeting with Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Liu, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said China and Kazakhstan had enjoyed a long-lasting friendship and were good neighbors and strategic partners. "In recent years, high-level exchanges between the two co ...

China's Ministry of Transport Thursday sent two airplanes to search for missing crew members who were aboard a fishing boat, possibly a Chinese boat, sunk following a collision with a Republic of Korea (ROK) cargo ship in waters near the coast of the ROK. One helicopter and and fixed-wing aircraft took off from Penglai Airport in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, at 2:20 p.m.. The China Maritime Search and Rescue Center said it had received information that a ROK cargo boat, named "O ...

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&$ Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony held for Yanukovych at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)&$ &$Source: Xinhua&$
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&$ Chinese President Hu Jintao (3rd L) holds talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (3rd R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) &$
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&$Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)&$
&$ China and the European Union (EU) in Beijing Thursday pledged to promote bilateral ties, as the two sides strive to overcome the negative impact of the international financial ...

Two warships of the 5th Escort Task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)- Navy left Myanmar Thursday after concluding a five-day friendly call at Yangon's Thilawa Port . The mission of the two warships -- "Guangzhou" and "Caohu", led by Commander of the Chinese escort task group Zhang Wendan, was aimed at promoting friendly relationship between the two armed forces of the two countries and exchange between the two navies. A grand see-off ceremony was launched for the two Chi ...

China Thursday called on all relevant parties to make joint efforts to negotiate and discuss the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference China has always advocated the resolution of international disputes through dialogue and negotiation. She said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is "sensitive and complicated," expressing the hope that all relevant parties remain calm and exercise restraint. ...

Wang Zhaoguo, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said here Thursday that China was ready to work with Mauritius to push forward bilateral ties. Wang, also vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made the remarks when meeting with Mauritian President Anerood Jugnauth. He said China was willing to make concerted efforts with Mauritius to deepen political mutual trust and cement economic and trade cooper ...

Former U.S. President James Carter will visit China next week, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday. Besides Beijing, Carter will also visit China's economic hub, Shanghai, and central China's Hunan Province during his six-day visit that starts Sept. 5, Jiang told a regular press briefing. Carter is scheduled to attend a conference on international sister cities in Shanghai and the fourth China Zhijiang International Peace and Culture Festival in Hunan, Jiang said. &$

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will visit China as a British special representative for international trade and investment from Sept. 2 to Sept. 11, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday. Prince Andrew will meet with senior Chinese government officials and entrepreneurs to discuss ways to expand bilateral trade, Jiang told a regular press briefing. Jiang hailed the development of China-Britain trade and economic cooperation in recent years, adding that it has huge potential ...

China said Thursday the details concerning a suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk by a Republic of Korea (ROK) cargo ship are still unknown. "The situation concerning the boat's crew members is unknown," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular press conference. All crew members of the fishing boat are unaccounted for. The suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk in waters off the ROK coast at around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday. The boat's name and the exact number of sailo ...

A 107-strong Chinese military unit set off from here Thursday morning on a military plane for anti-terrorism drills in south Kazakhstan. The drills will be conducted under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The unit will be the first People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit to arrive at the drills named "Peace Mission 2010," the Ministry of National Defense said Thursday. The first PLA unit to leave for the drills took a train Tuesday from Zhurihe, Inner Mongolia, ...

China stressed Thursday its assistance to flood-hit Pakistan is sincere, timely and unconditional. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu made the remarks at a regular press briefing. She said China will continue to offer Pakistan support and help in Pakistan's reconstruction. China is Pakistan's intimate neighbor and an all-weather partner, Jiang said. The Chinese people feel sympathy for the Pakistani people as they suffer the effects of the floods, she said. According to the sp ...

Jiang Shusheng, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, left here Thursday for a visit to Canada, Russia and Belarus. During his trip, Jiang is scheduled to attend the conference of G20 parliament heads to be held in Canada, the sixth Baikal economic forum in Russia, and visit Belarus. Jiang paid the visit as guest of Noel Kinsella, speaker of the Canadian Senate, Sergei Mironov, Russia's chairman of Federation Council and Vladimir Andreichenko, Belar ...

Thomas E. Donilon, U.S. deputy national security adviser and Lawrence Summers, U.S. director of the White House's National Economic Council will pay a visit to China from Sept. 5 to 8. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu made the announcement here Thursday. Jiang said Chinese and U.S. sides would exchange views in depth on China-U.S. relations and other major issues of common concern. &$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ &$

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&$ Performers from Pyongyang Art Troupe visit the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 1, 2010. Over 40 performers from Pyongyang Art Troupe of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) visited Beijing recently. They will stage singing and dancing performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in late October. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) &$ < ...

A bright, unidentified flying object that was visible for at least three hours slowly moving to the west was witnessed over the skies in southwestern Haiyan County of eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Aug. 31. The unidentified flying object that constantly twinkled was not at a high altitude and was much larger and brighter than stars around it. Many people witnessed the UFO at the scene that evening. "I have no idea what it is," a witness said. The reporter found that not onl ...

No excessive drug residue was detected from 66 randomly-tested samples on lobsterlings and products labeled pollution-free, according to the Hubei Aquatic Products Bureau on Sept. 1. The provincial department yesterday informed the public that it has randomly tested 66 samples from 40 breeding bases, 12 wholesale markets and two supermarkets on lobsterlings and pollution-free products across the province and no excessive drug residues were detected and all tested samples were qualified. Li ...

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&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) shakes hands with Catherine Margaret Ashton, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)&$
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Changzhou City of Jiangsu Province, which had been famous for its "e-governance" in recent years, introduced another innovation. From the Aug. 31, the Changzhou Internet spokesman Web site(www.czbbs.gov.cn) was launched officially and 76 institutions that involve people’s livelihoods and draw high attention from netizens have become the first institutions listed on the Web site. Changzhou established its "Internet Spokesman" system in since June this year. The main duties of each "Internet ...

China's Ministry of Health will provide free measles vaccine inoculation from Sept. 11 to Sept. 20 for 100 million children all over the country to eliminate measles infection by 2012, which will be the fourth infection eliminated by China, said Hao Yang, vice director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health. Hao said a nationwide immunization activity targeting children aged 8 months to 14 years would be carried out in all provinces of China. All children with ...

Two survivors in the bloody August 23 hostage crisis are willing to cooperate with the Philippine government's investigation, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Thursday. "There are two survivors who are willing to be interviewed. We are making arrangements," de Lima told reporters, after emerging from the initial meeting of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC). The IIRC is a multi-sectoral body tasked to probe last week's hostage crisis that left eight tourists from Hong ...

A once war-ravaged Chinese county in northeast China will build a memorial park on facilities left behind by the Japanese invaders of World War II, to commemorate the invasion and Russian assistance, county authorities said Thursday. Sunwu County in Heilongjiang Province, separated from Russia by the Heilongjiang River, was the base for more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers. The invaders left behind 160 war facilities, 24 of which are government-protected cultural relics. ...

The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to eight, and 40 people are still missing, local government said Thursday. As of 2:30 p.m., rescuers had retrieved eight bodies and saved 23 people from the rubble of homes in Wama Village of Longyang District, the city government of Baoshan said in a press release. It said the accident happened at about 10:20 p.m., trapping 71 people from 20 families. Rescuers ar ...

More than 3,000 human remains were recently uncovered at one of the construction sites of the Yichang-Badong Highway in a village near Yichang City, Hubei Province. Local historians identified the remains as those of the officers and soldiers of the 4th Reserve Division of the Kuomintang's 75th Army Corps who died in the war against Japan (1937-1945), according to a report by the China News Service. The construction site is located on a hillside behind the office of the village committee. ...

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&$Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (L) reviews an honour guard at Mexican defense ministry in Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 1, 2010. Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie is in Mexico on an official good-will visit at the invitation of Mexican Secretary of National Defense Guillermo Galvan Galvan. (Xinhua/David de la Paz)&$
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&$ Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (L) arrives at Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010, to start a 4-day visit . (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)&$
&$Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych arrived in Beijing Thursday to start his four-day state visit to China. During his stay in Beijing, Yanukovych will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao Thursday afternoon, and m ...

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&$Catherine Ashton (left), the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and State Councilor Dai Bingguo shake hands during a high-level strategic dialogue in Guiyang, Guizhou province, on Wednesday. [Jiang Dong / China Daily]&$
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A government official in southwest China, whose alleged graft diary was posted online, told a court Thursday that his behavior was a breach of discipline rather than the law. Former tobacco official Han Feng, 53, appeared at Nanning Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, charged with taking bribes worth 1.01 million yuan (148,324 U.S. dollars). The scandal around Han was dubbed "Diarygate" by the Chinese media. His diary appeared online in Marc ...

Seven people are dead and eight are in hospital after a blowout on a truck caused a pile-up involving five vehicles in northeast China Wednesday, the local government announced Thursday. The accident happened at around 2:30 p.m. when the truck's tire burst in Jianshan District of Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, a spokesperson for the city government told a news conference Thursday. Three people died at the scene and 12 were injured, the spokesperson said. The i ...

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&$Rescuers try to move a block of mud and rocks at Wama Village of Longyang District in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to four, and 44 people are still missing, local government said Thursday. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, rescuers had saved 23 people from the rubble of ho ...

The arrest of a foreigner who knowingly bought a large amount of fake designer clothing in China for infringement of intellectual property was approved recently, according to Hangzhou Customs. Hangzhou Customs and local police jointly tracked down the man who had in his possession more than 8,000 suits of counterfeit Nike and Adidas sportswear. It is said that this was the first infringement case related to foreigners that Hangzhou Customs has found. The man was detained on July 20. H ...

Giant pandas remain an endangered species despite the births of 23 cubs in Chinese zoos over the past two months, a leading panda researcher in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Thursday. "The baby boom began in early July, with 23 cubs born in captivity -- 14 at the Wolong research center, eight in Chengdu and one in Beijing," said Zhang Zhihe, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Since the boom, the total number of giant pandas in captivity at ...

The death toll from the massive mudslide in Zhouqu County, in northwest China's Gansu Province, has risen to 1,471 as of Wednesday after four more bodies were retrieved, with 294 others still missing, rescue headquarters said Thursday. A devastating mudslide hit Zhouqu on Aug. 8, ripping many houses from their foundations and tearing multi-story apartment buildings in half.&$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to four, and 44 people are still missing, local government said Thursday. As of 10 a.m., rescuers had saved 23 people from the rubble of homes in Wama Village of Longyang District, the city government of Baoshan said in a press release. It said the accident happened at about 10:20 p.m., trapping 71 people from 20 families. Rescuers are still searching for the miss ...

This year's eighth tropical storm, dubbed Lionrock, made landfall at Zhangzhou city in east China's Fujian Province early Thursday morning, local meteorologists said. Its central pressure reached 990 hectopascals upon landing and the maximum wind power reached Force 9 where the center of Lionrock passed. Affected by Lionrock, heavy rain occurred in the coastal areas along Zhangzhou and the rain was the heaviest in Dongshan and Zhangpu counties. Local meteorologists have warned residents t ...

An official daily of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday praised the unofficial visit paid by top leader Kim Jong Il to China in late August. Kim's two unprecedented visits to China this year indicated the deep friendship between the DPRK and China, Rodong Sinmun said in an editorial. The visit in August is an event of great significance to further consolidating and developing the historic and traditional DPRK-China friendship, it noted. The trip deepened the frien ...

Investors worldwide have got a breather Wednesday after a week of economic woes, as both China and the United States reported better-than-expected factory data. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that PMI, or purchasing managers' index, a major gauge of economic activity, rose to 51.7 percent in August, up 0.5 percentage points from July. The figure has greatly eased earlier fears of a precipitous decline of the world's second largest economy. Later in the day, investor ...

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&$Fishing boats stay in harbor at Shadi Village of Yongning Town, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Sept. 1, 2010. Tropical storm Lionrock will bring heavy rains and strong gales to southeast China's coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun which hit Fujian Province a day ago, local authorities said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)&$
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Three people died and 57 others were missing when landslides hit a village in Baoshan City of southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday night, local government said Thursday. The landslides happened at Wama Village of Longyang District, the provincial government's emergency office said in a statement. It said the area was home to 20 families of about 82 people. Rescuers saved 11 of the villagers in time, while 11 others were working away from home and were therefore unaffected by the ...

All 246 tourists were evacuated Wednesday after being stranded for more than two days on an island in east China's Zhejiang Province due to approaching tropical storms. The tourists, including six Russians and more than 30 students, boarded three speed boats Wednesday and arrived at a mainland harbor in the afternoon. They had been staying in hotels in Nanji Island, a popular tourist destination in Wenzhou City of Zhejiang, after local transport authorities suspended ship services Monday ...

The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) said on its website Wednesday that the country's Red Cross societies have received cash and materials donations equal to 2.32 billion yuan (about 342 million U.S. dollars) by Aug.17 for disaster relief efforts in quake-hit Yushu of northwest China's Qinghai Province. The RCSC said so far, donations in cash and materials equivalent to 2.12 billion yuan had been delivered for reconstruction projects in Yushu, including 18.78 million yuan in cash and materia ...

China has taken a new move to prevent wrongful convictions in death sentence cases and limit the number of death sentences by ensuring the appeals process for the condemned. According to a judicial interpretation published by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme People's Procuratorate on Tuesday, once an appeal has been accepted by a higher court, those sentenced to death are not allowed to stop it. "In some cases, defendants are threatened by police officers and judges involved ...

The "straddle bus," a newly-developed vehicle that may reduce traffic jams by about 30 percent and is less costly than urban subway system has theoretically proved workable, its designer said Wednesday. A work group led by Professor Zhang Jianwu from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University conducted the research that proved it could work, said Song Youzhou, the vehicle's inventor and chairman of the Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment Company (SHFPE). The ...

After living through major tragedies, such as the Wenchuan Earthquake that claimed over 68,000 lives and the Zhouqu mudslides that left 1,400 dead, the new semester starting Wednesday may bring a much-needed sense of normality to the affected students. Senior high schoolers of the mudslides-hit Zhouqu County, northwest China's Gansu Province, began a new semester on a usual date, Sept. 1, which is the first day of school in many parts of China, but at a place 400 km south of Zhouqu, the prov ...

A local smoking-control law came into effect Wednesday in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province. The law covers all of Guangzhou City. There, smoking in most public places, like offices, conference rooms, halls and elevators, is strictly prohibited. Places of business larger than 150 square meters or having more than 75 seats may designate an area for smokers. Those who break the law will be fined 50 yuan (about 7.35 U.S. dollars) and businesses not meeting their ob ...

China and Kenya pledged here on Wednesday to enhance exchanges between the parliaments of the two countries in experience of state governing and legislation supervision, and strengthen coordination in international and regional parliamentary organizations. The move came after Kenneth Marendethe, speaker of Kenya's national assembly met Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, late in the day. During the meeting, ...

China donated a number of acrobatics props to a Tanzanian arts institute on Tuesday in order to boost cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. Speaking at the hand-over ceremony held at the Tanzania's seventh world heritage site in the east of the country, Director of Culture Development of Ministry of information, Culture and Sports of Tanzania Herman Mwansoko expressed gratitude to China's assistance to his country in the sectors of cultural and education, as the bilate ...

Chinese and European Union (EU) officials held a high-level strategic dialogue on Tuesday amid heightened international discussion on where China is headed after displacing Japan as world's second-biggest economy. Catherine Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and State Councilor Dai Bingguo co-chaired the one-day, closed-door meeting in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province. The dialogue is to outlay the foundation for the coming Chi ...

by Xinhua writers Hao Yalin, Wang Li China Wednesday called for the European Union to have a balanced, objective, comprehensive understanding of the world's largest developing country during an upgraded strategic dialogue held in the underdeveloped province of Guizhou. State Councilor Dai Bingguo told the EU side that despite rapid economic growth, China has no possibility to be arrogant, nor is it pretending to be a richer or poorer country than it actually is, with unfathomable strategi ...

China on Wednesday rejected reports of the presence of over 11,000 Chinese troops in northern Pakistan, saying that such "groundless reports" were made with "ulterior motives." "We believe the attempts of some people to fabricate stories to provoke China-Pakistan or China-India relations are doomed to fail," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu in a statement. The comment came in response to recent reports of some American and Indian press that China had deployed more than 10,000 t ...

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Wednesday asked Party and government officials to carefully use the power in their hands and to take responsibility to serve the people. &$
&$Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd L), who is also president of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the fall semester of the Party School, in Beijing, capit ...

A senior Chinese official Wednesday urged local governments to cooperate with the central government in supervision and inspection work. He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting on central inspection work. Head of the country's discipline and supervision work, He asked officials of local governments, especially those at the county level, to cooperate with central government ...

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&$ Investigators and forensic experts from Hong Kong of China work at the site of tourist bus hijacking in Manila, capital of the Philippines, Sept. 1, 2010. The bus carrying 23 Hong Kong tourists was hijacked by a dismissed Philippine policeman on Aug. 23. The Philippine police killed the hijacker in an operation to rescue the hostages on the night of Aug. 23. But eight Hong Kong ...

At least four people were injured Wednesday in a gas outburst at an office building in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Compressed gas gushed out of a container at about 5 p.m. on the second floor of a 20-story office building in Nanning, the regional capital. The building's air-conditioning equipment and fire-fighting facilities were located on the second floor, and the gas was likely carbon dioxide, Wen Shourong, vice mayor of Nanning, told a Xinhua reporter at the scene. ...

China's top leaders have congratulated Vietnam on the celebration of its 65th National Day. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have respectively sent congratulatory messages to their Vietnamese counterparts. The Vietnamese leaders include General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vi ...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will arrive in Hong Kong on Friday, paying an official visit, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said on Wednesday. Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's chief executive, will meet Yanukovych on Saturday at the government house. During his stay, Yanukovych will visit Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and have lunch with local businessmen. &$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

All crew members went missing after a Chinese fishing boat was sunk by a South Korean cargo ship in waters off west coast of South Korea later Wednesday, the consulate office of the Chinese Embassy to South Korea told Xinhua. Seoul's Coast Guard informed the embassy that the Chinese fishing boat, whose name and detailed conditions remain unknown, was sunk by the 1,250-ton cargo ship Ocean Ace No. 6, owned by South Korea's HC freight company, in waters about 68 sea miles ( about 126 km) west o ...

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Wednesday expressed "serious concern" about the United States' proposed strengthening of its trade remedy practices. The MOC said the move will undermine order in international trade. U.S. attempts to increase exports should rely on improvements in its industrial competitiveness and an open international trade environment, the ministry said in a statement on its website. The U.S. should not limit imports with trade remedy measures, the statement added. ...

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&$Jia Qinglin (L, front), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with delegates attending a conference held to push forward the education of non-communist personnel in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) &$
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China Wednesday implemented a system requiring mobile phone users to provide their real names when buying a telephone number, in a move to combat spam and fraud. As of Wednesday, new customers will have to register with their identity card numbers or other valid documents when buying a pre-paid SIM card from mobile phone operators. Foreigners living in China are also required to register with their passports or ID cards to subscribe. In Beijing, street newspaper stands w ...

A former prison warden and four other prison staff have been charged with dereliction of duty in connection with a prison break that left a policeman dead in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in November 2009. Zhang Heping, former head of the No. 2 Prison in Hohhot, was charged along with former chief of the second section Wang Jun, policemen Xu Fumeng and Liu Wenzhi and gate guard Qian Guojun, said a spokesman for Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's procuratorate. Four prisone ...

Rescuers continued to search for six people missing in the sea off the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province Wednesday, after a French oil tanker collided with a Chinese cargo vessel Tuesday. All seven crew members aboard the Chinese vessel were thrown overboard when the collision occurred at about 11:10 a.m. Tuesday near Ningbo City. Only one crew member was rescued. The 800-tonne vessel had completely sunk by Wednesday afternoon. "Rescuers are finding it hard to go under the water t ...

A chemical spill left an unknown number of people injured in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wednesday, local authorities said. The accident took place at about 5 p.m. in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Highway Administration in Nanning, the regional capital, a spokesman of the local fire-fighting squad said. Medical workers have arrived at the site. &$&$Source:Xinhua&$&$ ...

The South Pacific Tourism Organization (SPTO) and Tourism Fiji are collaborating with Air Pacific in commissioning the China Central Television (CCTV) to undertake a TV documentary program on Fiji's tourism attractions for the Chinese and other Asian markets. SPTO said on Wednesday that they initiated a series of negotiations with the CCTV officials at the Shanghai World Expo and secured the commitment of the China's national television station to send a team of crew to undertake the project ...

A bus collided with two trucks in the northeastern Chinese city of Shuangyashan Wednesday, but information on casualties was not immediately clear other than that the bus driver had died, local authorities said. The accident took place at about 3:30 p.m., and a rescue operation was going on, the city's emergency affairs office said in a statement. "It is not clear how many passengers were on board," it said. Sources said the bus driver had died and the collision had left some others dea ...

As far as land grabs go, it was quiet and secret -- and the perpetrators almost got away with it. Almost 200 Chinese city government officials stealthily changed their identities on the administrative computer system and immediately became eligible for a countryside housing plot of up to 144 square meters. The civil servants had taken advantage of China's long established hukou -- or household registration -- system, which identifies everyone as a "rural" or "urban" resident de ...

China Express Air (CEA), which was ordered to halt flights after a landing scare Saturday, said it will strive to complete required safety inspections within five days so it can apply to resume operations. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Saturday ordered the airline to halt operations and conduct safety checks after the right wing of a Bombardier CRJ 200 regional jet scraped the ground on landing at Guiyang Airport in southwest China early on Aug. 28, CEA said in a statement ...

Tropical storm Lionrock will bring heavy rains and strong gales to southeast China's coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun which hit Fujian Province a day ago, local authorities said Wednesday. Tropical storm Lionrock had weakened but was moving quicker at 10 p.m. Tuesday, heading towards the coastal cities of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, according to Guangdong Provincial observatory. Moving at a speed of 83 kilometers per hour, Lionrock is expected to make landfall i ...

During World War II, China was the major battlefield in the fight against the Japanese fascist aggression as well as the major oriental battlefield in the war against fascism worldwide. The Chinese people suffered tremendously in the war and made an indelible contribution. As the major battlefield of the Pacific War, China inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese, costing them 1.5 million troops, up to 70 percent of the total Japanese troops killed during World War II. The country's resi ...

China's "textile town" Shaoxing County is set to reduce its annual textile printing and dyeing capacity by 710 million meters of textile before September 15, in a bid to save energy and cut emissions, sources with the county government said Wednesday. The reduction is about 5 percent of the current capacity of the county, which is located in east China's Zhejiang Province. The local government has closed down 600 sets of illegal and outdated textile printing and dyeing facilities in 40 com ...

China needs to raise the proportion of Chinese brands in its exports, to improve the nation's trade quality and efficiency, a senior official said here Wednesday. Chinese brands make up less than 10 percent of China's exports, said Fu Shuangjian, deputy director at the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), at the 2010 China Trademark Annual Meeting, which kicked off Wednesday in Xining, capital city of west China's Qinghai Province. Excluding overseas invested companies, l ...

The Pacific island nation of Samoa is to give 50,000 U.S. dollars in aid to China to assist the regions affected by flooding over the past month. The Samoa government said it wishes to help China because of the assistance it has extended to Samoa in past years, Radio New Zealand International reported on Wednesday. &$&$Source:Xinhua&$&$ ...

Many Australian political analysts have forecasted that Australia's major political parties will seek to continue to build a close and productive relationship with China, and believe this process will continue even with a minority government. "Both major parties understand the importance of building and maintaining Australia's close relationship with China, especially in terms of trade and defense," Professor Zareh Ghazarian, senior political analyst of Monash University in Australia told Xin ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao has formally appointed six new ambassadors to foreign countries, according to a statement from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Wednesday. Hu made the appointments in line with decision made by the NPC Standing Committee. Liu Hanming was appointed ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, replacing Chen Ligang. Gong Jianzhong was appointed ambassador to Ghana, replacing Yu Wenzhe. Gu Ziping was appointed ambassador to Slovakia, re ...

A 3-carat diamond ring worth nearly 2.2 million yuan was stolen by a foreign man from a Tiffany's jewelry store at the Malls at Oriental Plaza in Beijing on Aug. 27. On Aug. 30, a netizen posted a thread on a Web site saying that "a diamond ring worth more than 2.1 million yuan was stolen at the Malls at Oriental Plaza on Wangfujing Avenue," which led to hot discussions. The netizen said a foreign man visited the jewelry store many times to see the diamond ring and stealthily substituted ...

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&$ Local farmers weigh Lycium chinensis (the fruit of Chinese Wolfberry) in Dulan County of northwest China's Qinghai Province, Aug. 31, 2010. There are 80 square kilometers planting area of Lycium chinensis in Dulan county with about 46.7 square kilometers among them entering harvest season this year. Lycium chinensis industries dominate local economy in Dulan. The plant area of ...

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&$Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2010 shows the fifth strategic dialogue between China and the European Union in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. China and the EU opened their fifth strategic dialogue Wednesday in Guiyang. State Councilor Dai Bingguo and visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton co-chaired the one-day closed-door meeting, during which the two sides wil ...

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&$Kim Yong Nam (R), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of DPRK, meets with visiting Lt. General Zhang Youxia, commander of the PLA's Shenyang Military Command, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Sept. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Yao Ximeng)&$
&$ A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Wednesday that the DPRK would make efforts to move forward military ...

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Li Jianguo, vice chairman and secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, met here Wednesday with a delegation of Japanese law-makers of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The group was headed by Tsutomu Takebe, a member of the House of Representatives and former LDP secretary general.&$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

A Public Diplomacy Research Center was announced to set up at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) on Aug. 26, and this is China's first institution to specialize in public diplomacy research. And Zhao Qizheng, director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, holds the office of honorary director of the Public Research Center under BFSU. Since the entry of the 21st century, public diplomacy in China has arrested a growing widespread ...

China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, will be launched in the later half of the year, said Sun Jiadong, a top space scientist and the winner of China's State Supreme Science and Technology Award, on Tuesday. Sun said that Chang'e-2, which is named after the Chinese goddess of the moon, will choose landing sites for the country's lunar lander and rover. Sun also said that China's manned lunar landing project is in progress now. He said that the manned lunar landing is an important explora ...

An alarm over massive environmental damage along the Yangtze River and its Three Gorges reservoir has been raised by officials as authorities plan to spend billions of yuan treating sewage and planting forests in a major clean-up campaign. "Generally speaking, the ecological state (of the river) is still far from what the people are demanding," said Jia Zhibang, director of the State Forestry Administration at a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office on Tue ...

Southern China's Shenzhen City has drafted new labor rules to smooth industrial relations in the special economic zone (SEZ), after the manufacturing hub was stung by a series of worker strikes earlier in the year. The draft law is scheduled to be reviewed as early as September in a meeting of the standing committee of the Municipal People's Congress, which stipulates that the class salary negotiations shall be conducted at least once a year. Fu Bolun, one of the law's chief dr ...

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&$Dark cloud is seen over downtown Shanghai, east China, Aug. 31, 2010. Heavy rains and thunderstorms are predicted to hit Shanghai as this year's six, seventh and eighth tropical storms are active at sea in east China. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)&$
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The impoverished population in rural areas of China's ethnic autonomous areas fell to around 19.55 million in 2009, down 1.48 million from a year earlier, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission said Tuesday. Impoverished people accounted for about 16.4 percent of the rural population in ethnic autonomous areas, the commission said in a report. The impoverished rural population in ethnic autonomous areas accounted for 54.3 percent of China's rural population in 2009, compared with 44.5 ...

Thousands of security guards have been deployed in kindergartens and schools on Tuesday, one day before the launch of the autumn semester in China, in a bid to better safeguard campus security. About 2,000 specially trained safety personnel, uniformed and wearing helmets and knife-proof vests, are deployed at kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Beijing. All schools in China should take student safety as their first priority and enact concrete measures to protect student ...

A Chinese court Tuesday upheld the death sentence imposed on a man for the shooting to death of four people, including two policemen in south China's Guangdong Province last month. The Guangdong Higher People's Court ratified the verdict Tuesday after reviewing the case as handled by the Intermediate People's Court in Jieyang City earlier in August. The death penalty will now be examined by the Supreme People's Court for approval. Hu Yihua, 29, robbed two people of 2,800 yua ...

China and Japan need to continue candid exchanges to smooth over thorny security and diplomatic issues and achieve mutual understanding. This was the consensus from the two countries' political and security opinion leaders during the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, which ended Tuesday. "Long-term cooperation and friendship is the only choice for both countries" against the backdrop of a globalized world, Yuji Miyamoto, former Japanese ambassador to China, said in a keynote speech at the f ...

Greek and Chinese authors and publishing houses here Tuesday signed a cultural exchange agreement to promote book publications in both languages. Two children's books will be published according to the agreement. One is written by a Greek author and illustrated by a Chinese illustrator. The other is written by a Chinese author and illustrated by a Greek illustrator. The two books will be published simultaneously in Greece and China. Giorgos Poussaios, general secretary for T ...

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said here Tuesday that EU needs to know more about China as for the latter's phase of development, and hopes and goal in this regard. China is progressing rapidly and has huge potential of the future, said Ashton, who emphasized that it was also important to better understand what China is up to so that EU could efficiently engage itself with China's process of development. China absolutely ...

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&$ Li Changchun (2nd L), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visits the 17th Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)&$
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At least 246 tourists remain stranded on an island in east China's Zhejiang Province Tuesday as tropical storms and a typhoon cut off ship ferrying services Monday, local authorities said. The tourists, including six Russians and 26 students, have to stay in hotels in Nanji Island, a popular tourist destination in Wenzhou City of Zhejiang, after local transport authorities suspended ship services Monday due to strong gales triggered by two approaching tropical storms and typhoon Kompa ...

China has cracked 278,000 criminal cases and broken up nearly 1,650 mafia-style gangs since it launched a campaign to maintain public security in rural-urban fringe zones and on campuses in January. About 256,000 suspects had been arrested as of Tuesday, according to a national working group on maintaining public security composed of officials from government agencies, including the Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Minist ...

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&$Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets with Donald Tsang Yam-Kuen, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in Moscow, capital of Russia, Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua)&$
&$ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Donald Tsang Yan-Kuen voiced their support here on Tuesday for the develo ...

The number of criminals convicted of human trafficking has risen sharply in the first seven months of this year, the country's top court said on Tuesday. &$
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The online voting for the "Wang Hai Cup Chinese Entrepreneur Award for Outstanding Contribution" will be launched on Sept. 6. The public can visit the official online voting platform built by People's Daily Online and vote for candidates that they think best represent Chinese entrepreneurship. As part of the 2010 International Chinese Business Festival to be held in Shangqiu, the selection aims to recognize Chinese entrepreneurs who have made outstanding contributions to China's economic and ...

China's banking regulator will strictly implement the central government's macroeconomic policies that aim to curb soaring housing prices, an official said Tuesday. Ye Yanfei, deputy head of the Statistics Department of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), said the CBRC will restrain speculative property investment and support the building of affordable housing while controlling risk. China's housing market and lending to the property sector are crucial to the nation ...

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&$China's special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei (R front) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)&$
&$ Visiting China's special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei said Tuesday that Beijing plans to put forward fresh measures to resume the stalled six-party talks at an e ...

China and Japan need to continue candid exchanges to smooth over thorny security and diplomatic issues and achieve mutual understanding. This was the consensus from the two countries' political and security opinion leaders during the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, which ended Tuesday. "Long-term cooperation and friendship is the only choice for both countries" against the backdrop of a globalized world, Yuji Miyamoto, former Japanese ambassador to China, said in a keynote speech at the forum ...

One typhoon and two tropical storms are forecast to land or brush past East and South China coasts on Tuesday and Wednesday. The converging forces will bring heavy rain to the region as they move further northwest. &$
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Mobile phone customers will have to present ID when purchasing a phone number from Wednesday, in the latest campaign by the government to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones. Foreigners will also need to register with their passports or other ID in order to subscribe to mobile phone carriers. Also from Wednesday, street newspaper stands will be banned from selling SIM cards, the Beijing Evening News reported. The report sai ...

U.S. Commerce Department announced on Tuesday its decision not to initiate investigation on allegations that China's currency practices constitute an unfair subsidy. The currency allegations under review were made in the context of countervailing duties (CVD) investigations of two Chinese products -- aluminum extrusions and coated paper. "Two allegations before it that China's currency practices constitute an unfair subsidy under U.S. countervailing duty law failed to meet the ...

China's top political advisory body will hold an international conference from Sept. 6-8 to enhance cooperation and understanding between China and the world, said a source from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Friday. Distinguished persons and experts from home and abroad will attend the conference of the 21st Century Forum to discuss cooperation under new challenges, said Zhao Qizheng, head of the CPPCC's Committee of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference. ...

A recent survey conducted by CPA Australia found that nearly 50 percent of respondents consider the growing gap between the rich and poor as the greatest challenge facing China's future economic development, and nearly 30 percent think that the economy's excessive reliance on the government’s stimulus policies is also one of the main obstacles for its development. In addition, nearly 70 percent of professional people are "confident" or "very confident" about the Chinese economy's bright fu ...

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&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) meets with his Ecuadoreancounterpart Ricardo Patino in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 13, 2010. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)&$
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&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd L) meets with his Ecuadorean counterpart Ricardo Patino (1st R) in Beijing, ...

The first intelligent grid pilot in a residential community was completed in Chongqing New North Zone on July 12. This is also the largest intelligent residential community pilot in China powered by the State Grid. It integrates three networks: the telecommunication network, the computer network and the cable television network. Shan Yecai, the general manager of the Chongqing Electric Power Corporation said the completion of the first large-scale intelligent residential community pi ...

An exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Western Development Strategy opened at the National Agriculture Exhibition Center in Beijing yesterday. The vice premier of the State Council Hui Liangyu announced the opening of the exhibition, which is themed on the ecological and living environment in western regions. Hui Liangyu gave full affirmation to the 10 years of tremendous achievements in the improvement of the social and economic environment in western regions since the implemen ...

The number of people aged 60 or above amounted to 167 million in 2009, accounting for 12.5 percent of the total population, according to statistics released by China National Commission on Aging on Tuesday. Compared with 2008, the number of elderly people saw a net growth of 7.25 million, an increase of 0.5 percentage points. The statistics also show that the average life expectancy in 2009 was more than 73 years old, and over 18.99 million elderly are 80 years old or above. It is es ...

Rescuers said Tuesday the drilling of a passage through the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to rescue 10 trapped workers is progressing slowly. By 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, rescuers had dug six meters into the 40- to 50-meter-long collapsed section of the railway tunnel in Binyang County, Nanning City, capital of the autonomous region. The debris is mainly rocks, which is difficult to drill through, and so it might take four days to reach ...

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&$On July 11, the world’s first specialized robot system capable of being used in minimally invasive spine surgery was put into clinical trials in Xinqiao hospital in Chongqing. The robot system with complete independent intellectual property rights was jointly researched and developed by the Third Military Medical University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which indicated a new era of domestically produced robots ...

Rising water levels in the Yangzi River have caused about 18.3 million people to suffer flooding in China's Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Chongqing regions since July 8, according to a CRI broadcast. State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters informed Monday that the water level of the main stream of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake has continued to rise. Some of them are around or above the warning line. The statistics from State Flood Control and Drought Re ...

A recent poll shows 69 percent of Taiwan residents believe the Taiwanese government's policies on cross-Strait relationships help improve ties between the island and mainland China, according to Xinhua.net on July 12. About 55 percent of those surveyed show their support for Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou and around 47 percent of respondents are satisfied with Ma's performance since he took office. In addition, about 50 percent of them are satisfied with Wu Den-yih's performance since he too ...

Some world-class cruise giants are showing more and more their interests in China's markets. Recently, Carnival Cruises, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Mediterranean Cruise have set up branches in Shanghai and opened or plan to open regional cruise routes with Shanghai as the home port. China has huge tourism resources. The President of Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau Dao Shuming said that the number of outbound trips by Chinese tourists via cruises stood at 200,000 last year. It is predicted ...

From a technical level, it is entirely possible for China to launch a manned lunar landing around 2025, said Long Lehao from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Long is an expert on strategic missile and rocket technology, the chief designer of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology carrier rocket series, and vice chief designer of the national lunar probe project. His remarks came during his lecture for Chengdu residents titled "Achievements and Prospects of China's Space Technology" ...

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&$Visitors on a boat roamed the artificial wetlands covered with flower beds in the Baihe River.&$
&$ The Shuangliu county government recently conducted a comprehensive sewage treatment to improve the water quality of the Baihe River, the only main drainage channel in Shuangliu county of Chengdu, Sichuan province. It was a sewage ditch because of severe pollution and blocked drains. The Shuangliu govern ...

Around 39 percent of China's mobile population above the working age in 2009 was born after the 1980s, said Zhang Chunsheng, an official from the National Population and Family Planning Commission Sunday in Shanghai. At the Forum "Everyone Counts" held in the Shanghai World Expo U.N. pavilion, Zhang said that members of the mobile population born after the 1980s were all better educated than the previous generation, which has led to a higher class of floating workers. They are moving away fro ...

China will further intensify efforts to cultivate rural utility personnel, including rural brokers, and to select 100,000 rural-based talents to give priority support in the second half year. According to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), there will be 13 million rural utility personnel by 2015 and 18 million by 2020 when each rural village will have at least one or two utility personnel. Liu Fan, deputy director of the SAIC, said related business sectors attach gr ...

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&$On July 9, children learn ballet in the National Center for the Performing Arts, in which refined arts can be experienced and learned during the summer vacation from July 7 to August 31. (&$&$Photo by Chen Bin:, People’s Daily, July 9,2010. Editor: Li Mu&$&$)&$
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&$On July 11, children donate their saved pocket-money to th ...


 

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