Ethnic Miao Festival in Guizhou £Á group of Ethnic Miao children aged from 3 to 12, stage their costumes at the Miao Sisters Festival in Taijiang County in the Miao-Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Guizhou Province April 9, 2001. The 5-day-long festival, opened on April 7, offers the youth a chance to chose their lovers. |  |
Successful Operation on Conjoined Babies Nurses hold the twin-brothers Tu Kang and Tu Jian to say good bye at the No. 1 Hospital attached to the Fujian Medical Sciences University in Fuzhou, capital of south China's Fujian Province April 9, 2001. Born on September 13, 2000, this conjoined twins from a rural family are granted aid from the society and underwent a successful operation to separate from each other. |  |
Highway Construction in Tibet The renovation project of Lhasa-Yangbajing Section of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway has entered its last phase at a cost of 300 million yuan in the Tibetan Autonomous Region April 9, 2001. The region invested more than 4 billion yuan to improve the highway traffic during the period of the State "Ninth Five Year Plan". |  |
"Crouching Tiger", Glory Won: Hollywood Scheme?The martial art film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" by Taiwan director Ang Lee has drawn wide attention as the first Chinese film that "wins" Oscar awards. Along with a heap of Western titles bestowed it was granted four Oscar awards including "Best Foreign Film", and the news has sparked a hot debate among Chinese worldwide.  |  |
Colleagues of Wang Wei Pilots of the Chinese navy stand at attention in front of their planes before training Sunday, April 8, 2001. As colleagues of Chinese pilot Wang Wei who went missing following the mid-air collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet on April 1, they said that the United States should apologize to the Chinese for the incident. |  |
U.S. Diplomats Meets Spy Plane Crew for Fourth Time Chenci, the head of Hainan Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, is followed by U.S. Embassy military attache Neal Sealock after U.S. diplomats in China met with crew members of the U.S. spy plane for the fourth time in Haikou, capital of south China's island province of Hainan. |  |
Kite Contest in Northwest China A kite made up of 44 patterns of facial makeups in local opera attracts visitors to the first "Zhongwang Cup" Kite Contest in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province April 8, 2001. Boasting a length of 45 meters, the kite is made by Yang Huaizhong, chairman of the Kite Association in Tianshui City and his fellows. Some 1,300 participants in two seperate groups representing students and adults attended the competition. |  |
Wang Wei's Wife in Hospital Ruan Guoqin (front), wife of missing Chinese pilot Wang Wei, cannot move her eyes away from the map of China which she already read hundreads of times although lying in sickbed in a hospital of Beijing, April 9, 2001. She hoped that her husband could be back soon safely. |  |
Liaison Office of Central People's Government in the HKSAR Moves to New Office Building Picture shows the national flag raising ceremony in front of the new office building of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR), April 9, 2001. Monday is the first working day in this new building. |  |
Thick Cloud Brings Mid-day Darkness to North China A truck and a motorcycle run side by side on the street of Shjiazhuang with lights on at around 11:30 A.M. Monday, April 9, 2001. Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei province, was shrouded in darkness for about 10 minutes around mid-day when a thick black cloud passed over the area. |  |
Russian Violinist to Perform in Beijing One of the world's leading violinist, 70-year-old Eduard Grach, with his Moscoviya Chamber Orchestra, performs at the Century Theater Sunday night in Beijing, April 4, 2001. |  |
Sudden Snow Hits Lanzhou Some people pass by the grassland covered by snow near the Dongfanghong Square in Lanzhou, capital of China's northwest Gansu province April 9, 2001. A sudden snow-fall brought white color to the city which had been hit by a fierce sandstorm the day before. |  |
Chinese Catering No Responsible for FMD in Britain British Agriculture Minister Nick Brown said that no evidence that Chinese catering was responsible for the foot-and-mouth outbreak after meeting with representatives of the Chinese community in London April 8, 2001. He also apologized for the harmful effect of British media reports on the Chinese catering. |  |
Chongqing Holds the Exhibition of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea Wang Xiaowei (L), a Chongqing resident, points at some items for his 12-year-old son while visiting the exhibition of the war to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53) in Chongqing, China's southwest municipality April 9, 2001. The exhibition, displaying 670 file photos and over 400 objects, attracted a lot of people to visit. |  |
President Jiang Met with Argentine CounterpartPresident Jiang Zemin said Monday in Buenos Aires that China "never gives in to any outside pressure on principle issues related to China's state sovereignty and territorial integrity." Jiang made the remarks in his formal talks with Argentine President Fernando de la Rua. |  |
