President Hu underlines unity of Chinese people

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with delegates attending the national working conference of the overseas Chinese affairs in Beijing Feb. 28, 2005.

Chinese President meets Malaysian Supreme Head of State

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) holds a ceremony to welcome visiting Malaysian Supreme Head of State Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Feb. 28, 2005.

Winners of 77th Academy Awards

Actor and director Clint Eastwood poses with his Oscar statues at the 77th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, Feb. 27, 2005. Eastwood won the Academy Award for best director and best picture for his work on "Million Dollar Baby."

Shadow play in need of protection

Artist Wang Junjie (L) teaches young actors how to perform shadow play in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 25, 2005. Shadow play is a kind of folk art with a history of 600 years in China. In the play, folk artists operate props made of donkey hide or paper board behind a white transparent curtain. Under the illumination of lights, spectators will watch the shadow play. But with the modernization of China, many folk art, including shadow play, face a menace of disappearance, many Chinese intellectuals called on the government to take measures to protect those folk art.

Car bomb kills over 100 in Iraq

Local people gathered at an explosion site outside a medical center in downtown of Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad Feb 28, 205. A suicide car bomber killed at least 106 people and injured at least 200 in the city. This is the deadliest attack in Iraq in 2005.

China issues white paper on regional autonomy for ethnic minorities

Wu Shimin, deputy director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on Feb 28. The Information Office of China's State Council on Monday issued a white paper titled Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China.

Paradise for birds in Liaoning Province

A flock of water crows fly over or swim on the Hunhe River in Fushun City in northeast China's Liaoning Province Feb. 28, 2005. The river and its surroundings have become a paradise of birds thanks to the improving of water quality and the ecological environment.

Symposium marking 10th anniversary of law on people's police

Luo Gan (C), member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau and the secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the CPC Central Committee, delivers a speech during a symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Law on the People's Police of the People's Republic of China becoming effective, in Beijing Feb. 28, 2005.

NPC, CPPCC end session

Wu Bangguo (C), chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, presides over the closing meeting of the 14th session of the 10th NPC Standing Committee in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 28, 2005.

Tianjin Tongrentang becomes new owner of Goubuli

Photo taken on Feb. 17, 2005 shows a branch store of the state-owned Tianjin Goubuli Catering (Group) Corp., a 147-year-old famous Chinese snack producer, at Wangfujing Street in downtown Beijing. The Tianjin Tongrentang Chinese Medicine Pharmacy won the final bid on Monday for Goubuli company listed on the Tianjin Municipal Property Right Transfer Center by 106 million yuan.