Piano Prince to Perform in Hong KongSources from Hong Kong told that Li Yundi, youngest gold winner of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, will turn up in Hong Kong and give a performance at 19:30 at the Culture Center of Hong Kong on January 7, 2001.  |  |
Piano Prince to Perform in Hong KongLi Yundi, an 18-year-old student studying at Shenzhen Art School, beat all other world top pianists and won the gold at the 14th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, which was held in Warsaw October 2000. So he became the youngest, also the first Chinese gold winner of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in history. |  |
15 Falungong Activists Charged in SingaporeALL 15 Falungong activists arrested on New Year's Eve in Singapore were charged in a magistrate court Tuesday with illegal assembly and obstructing police officers from carrying out their duty. |  |
Ships from Jinmen Island Arrive in Xiamen Lu Jiao, a 81-year-old woman £¨1st right £© living in Xiamen is excited to meet her nephew Chen Qinghao£¨1st left£© who arrived in Xiamen by a ship from Jinmen Island Tuesday, January 2, 2001. Two ships, "Tai Wu" and "Wu Jiang", carrying 180 compatriots from Taiwan sailed from the harbour in Jinmen island to Xiamen, a city in mainland China's Fujian province, and are welcomed in Xiamen. |  |
National Library Branch Reopens Visitors look at an ancient training chart displayed in the 70-year-old Capital Library, now part of China's National Library, in Beijing Tuesday January 2, 2001. After three years of repair, the National Library branch reopened to the public on the New Year's Day. |  |
Rushing to Buy First Day Covers of the New Century Residents of Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, buy first day covers of the new century January 1, 2001. |  |
A Large Word of "Dragon" Written at the Foot of the Great Wall A 21-meter-long, 13-meter-wide inscription of a word "Dragon" is made by An Shi, a young calligrapher, at the foot of Badaling Great Wall in Beijing Monday, January 1, 2001. An writes the large word without interruption in 25-kilogram-weight ink, with a 40-kilogram-weight writing brush to welcome the coming of the new year. |  |
The First Trading Day in New CenturyStock dealers talk with one another Tuesday at Shanghai Stock Exchange which had been closed on Monday for the New Year holiday. Both Shenzhen and Shanghai composite index ended up at the close of the first trading day in 2001. |  |
Steamer Taima firstly coming up to Horsetail Harbor of Fuzhou Steamer Taima from Mazu firstly came up to Horsetail Harbor of Fuzhou on the morning of Jan 2nd,2001. |  |
Nature Reserves in Tibet Picture shows the nature reserve in the Grand Canyon of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Tibet, January 2, 2001. It is one of the 13 nature reserves in Tibet where Tibetan wild plants and wild animals are under well protection. |  |
Tibet rkyans in Qiangtang Nature Reserve Tibet rkyans (Asiatic wild ass) look around on a lawn in the Qiangtang Nature Reserve, Tibet, January 2, 2001. Situated at an elevation of 4000 metres, Qiangtang Nature Reserve is one of the 13 nature reserves in Tibet where Tibetan wild plants and wild animals are under well protection. |  |
Inner Mongolian Farmers Urged to Raise goat in Folds A farmer of Zunger Banner (county), west of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, feeds his goat in a fold January 2, 2001. Farmers in the west region of Mongolia are urged to raise their goat in folds in order to protect lawns from detreriorattion and sand erosion. |  |
Concrete Pouring of Three Gorges Project Sets World RecordThrough the endeavors of over 10,000 builders, by daybreak of December 31, the annual task of pouring 5.4 million cubic meters of concrete for the Three Gorges Project had been fulfilled, thereby setting a new world record of hydropower project construction. |  |
