Larus Ichthyaetus Found in TibetOver 50,000 60cm-long black-headed larus ichthyaetus were found by scientists on July 5. These birds are living on an island of Nagqu Prefecture in Northern Tibet Plateau, Tibet Autonomous Region! This important discovery makes the island a larus ichthyaetus habitat with the largest number and at the highest elevation in China, thus proving Tibet to be one of the habitats of larus ichthyaetus.Photo shows two adult larus ichthyaetus and a nestling larus ichthyaetus. |  |
Larus Ichthyaetus Found in TibetOver 50,000 60cm-long black-headed larus ichthyaetus were found by scientists on July 5. These birds are living on an island of Nagqu Prefecture in Northern Tibet Plateau, Tibet Autonomous Region! This important discovery makes the island a larus ichthyaetus habitat with the largest number and at the highest elevation in China, thus proving Tibet to be one of the habitats of larus ichthyaetus. Photo shows crowds of larus ichthyaetus. |  |
2001 NSR China Model CompetitionJuly 5 saw a news conference on 2001 New Silk Road (NSR) China Model Competition held in Beijing. Among nearly 10,000 competitors signed up for this competition are high school students and postgraduates, the average age of women is 17.8 and men 23.4 respectively. Photo shows models of the New Silk Road Models, Inc. at the news conference. |  |
Sino-US Teachers and Pupils Meet in FuzhouAn opening ceremony for a Sino-US Friendship Summer Camp was held on July 5 in the "Global Village" of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province. Over 100 Chinese teachers and pupils and 15 American teachers and pupils will spend their summer-vacation lives here for 20 days. Pictured here are Chinese and American pupils picking corns in a botanical garden. |  |
Communists Study Jiang's SpeechThese days saw Communists in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Dali in Yunnan Province study and publicize Jiang Zemin's speech made on July 1 at a grand gathering marking the 80th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Photo shows a Communist (left) and two Communist Youth League members studying the speech. |  |
China Donates Humanitarian Aid to Afghan Refugees within PakistanThe hand-over ceremony of humanitarian aid worth 2 million RMB (about 242,000 U.S. dollars) by the Chinese government to Afghan refugees within Pakistan was held on Thursday.  |  |
Study Jiang's Speech, Improve Work: PremierThe Leading Party Group of the State Council on Thursday held a meeting to study Jiang Zemin's speech on July 1 at a grand gathering marking the 80th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). |  |
German Chancellor Schroeder Meets with Israel PM SharonGerman Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brief the media in Schroeder's Chancellery in Berlin on Thursday, July 5, 2001. Sharon is on a one-day visit to Germany. |  |
Chinese Top Lawmaker Meets Palestinian GuestLi Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), met Thursday with Salem Zanoun, chairman of the Palestine National Council, at the Great Hall of the People. |  |
Ministers of OAU Meets in Lusaka Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, secretary general of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), makes an address at the opening of the 74th ordinary session of the council of ministers of OAU in Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday July 05, 2001. |  |
Fujian Prepares to Fight No.4 Violent Typhoon Policemen help local fishermen leave the seaside of the Dongshan Island in east China's Fujian Province on July 5, 2001. The No. 4 violent typhoon will hit the area, and more than 4,000 people, who are engaged in cage culture on the sea, are dispersed to safer places. |  |
New Street Open to Traffic in Beijing Several cars travel on the Guang'an Street, a newly constructed avenue which was just open to traffic earlier this morning, in downtown Beijing on July 05, 2001. The 6.2 kms long street, with 3 lanes to both east and west directions, forms a new communications artery of Beijing. |  |
New Street Open to Traffic in Beijing Several cars travel on the Guang'an Street, a newly constructed avenue which was just open to traffic earlier this morning, in downtown Beijing on July 05, 2001. The 6.2 kms long street, with 3 lanes to both east and west directions, forms a new communications artery of Beijing. |  |
Three Gorges Dam Rising Photo shows the No. 7-14 generating units of the Three Gorges water control project that is under construction on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River on July 5, 2001. The pouring work of some 13.17 million cu m concrete for the second phase of the project has been finished. About 28 million cu m of concrete will be used in the project. |  |
Three Gorges Dam Rising Picture shows the dam section of the power station for the Three Gorges water control project which is under construction on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River on July 5, 2001. The pouring work of some 13.17 million cu m concrete for the second phase of the project has been finished. About 28 million cu m of concrete will be used in the project. |  |
Advertisement for Talents to Hong Kong Several young men sign up for employment at anexhibition stall during the first "Advertisement for Talents to Hong Kong" Fair held in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province July 5, 2001. It is the first cooperation between Guangzhou and Hong Kong to promote the Hong Kong's plan to input the inland talents to work in Hong Kong. |  |
Successful Reform of State-Owned Enterprise A worker manages a spindle at the knitting workshop of the Ankang No. 2 Silk Mill in northwest China's Shaanxi Province July 5, 2001. After restructuring reform and introducing auto silk reeling machines instead of the old ones, the mill has reversed losses into profits, for example, earning 2.13 million yuan in 2000. |  |
Farmers Dig Mountain for Traffic Villagers cheer as passing through the tunnel newly built by themselves in Xiaodongyu Village in the moutainous County Neiqiu in north China's Hebei Province July 5, 2001. It costs the villagers six years for digging the 1,250-meter tunnel in order to improve the traffic. |  |
Formal Talks on China's Accession to WTO Ends Deputy Foreign Trade Minister of China Long Yongtu (R, in front row) talks, while Working Party Chairman Pierre-Louis Girard (L) listening beside at a press conference at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva July 4, 2001, after formal talks on China's accession to WTO ended. |  |
