China-made Hi-tech Products March Towards RomeChina and Italy signed a long-range-controlled electric meter contract worth of US$160 million in the head office of ENEL Italian Electric Power Company in Rome on March 16. It marked a substantial step by Chinese hi-tech products to enter European market. Picture shows Li Shuzhi (right), president of China National Machinery and Equipment Import & Export Corporation, shaking hands with Franco Tat��, the general manager of ENEL Italian Electric Power Company at the signing ceremony. |  |
Solar Energy Deployed on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Photo shows a large solar power plant in Anduo county, northwest China's Qinghai province. More than 90 percent herdsmen use clean power including solar and wind power on north Qinghai-Tibet plateau. |  |
Measures Taken to Prevent Foot-and-Mouth Disease at China's North Border A medical staff disinfects a truck from Mongolia in China's border city of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Strict measures are taken to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from coming from Mongolia where the disease broke out from May, 2000. |  |
Shanghai Shenhua Beat Beijing Guo'an 3-1Shanghai Shenhua's Mao Yijun (L) and Beijing Guoan's Xu Yunlong fight for the ball during their first division soccer league match in Beijing, March 18, 2001. Shanghai Shenhua won 3-1.  |  |
Gallery Show of Jinsha, Lancang & Nujiang Rivers Opened in BeijingCo-organized by the Ministry of Construction and China National Committee of the UNESCO, March 14 saw a gallery show featuring the scenic areas of the three rivers running parallel over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau opened at Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities. |  |
Badly-burnt Falun Gong Follower DeadLiu Siying, the 12-year-old girl who captured wounded seriously January 23 in Falun Gong Suicide Incident at Tiananmen Square in Jishuitan Hospital in Beijing March 18, 2001. Liu died March 17 from heart attack. is seen having her temperature tested by a nurse in this undated file photo(Left) in Jishuitan Hospital in Beijing .Photo(Right) shows an empty bed of Liu Siying |  |
Japanese PM Yoshiro Mori Arrives in USJapanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) is greeted by Bill Koeppler (R) of the U.S. State Department as he leaves the plane at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, March 18, 2001. |  |
Vice-Premier Qian Qichen Arrives in the USChinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen walks past supporters as he arrives at La Guardia airport in New York, March 18, 2001, starting his visit to the United States at the invitation of the US government. |  |
30th Anniversary of "Ping-pong Diplomacy" Marked in Beijing A grand reception was hosted at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Sunday evening to mark the 30th anniversary of the historic "ping-pong diplomacy" in China-US relations. |  |
Egrets Endangered in Southesat China Forest A bulldozer razes a forest to the ground with panic-stricken egrets flying around in a forest in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian province. With the land planned to be built into a human residence area, over 3,000 egrets of 7 species are facing a loss of their living environment. |  |
