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On the eve of the new year |
| New year lights decorate a major commercial street in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province December 28, 2006. |
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Farewell to student |
| Wang Yang, a student, was stabbed to death while trying to stop a cell phone theft last weekend. |
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Smile in Doha |
| Qatari people smile to welcome guests in Athletes' Village in Doha. |
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Auto China 2006 |
| The Auto China 2006 opens to the public on Nov.21 and will last till Nov.27. |
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Water Cube |
| "Water Cube" is a major venue of the 2008 Olympic Games and can hold 17,000 people. |
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Three Gorges scenery |
| Pictures taken on Oct. 30, 2006 show the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges. |
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Children's Mini-Forum |
| Children's Mini-Forum on China-Africa Friendship was held in Beijing, Oct. 31, 2006. |
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Leukemia girl's works auctioned |
| A special auction is held here for Jiang Monday to collect part of the sky-high expense for the girl's medulla transplant operation and medical care. |
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Gigantic mooncake |
| Residents wait to taste a gigantic mooncake during a mooncake festival in Chengdu. |
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China's Fang sails to victory |
| China's Fang Zhennan salvaged national pride with a gold medal in the men's RS:X event at the Qingdao International Regatta. |
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Water project award |
| Three local high school students won the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Tuesday. |
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Int'l Youth Dance Festival |
| The International Youth Dance Festival began on Saturday with an attraction of over 600 young performers . |
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Is university worth it? |
| Over a third of young Chinese say their college study experience was not as rewarding as they had expected |
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Dress like Garfield |
| Chinese dressed like the American cartoon character Garfield, take a break at their commercial stall. |
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Root sculpture trainning |
| A folk artist of the city's Weihe Village has opened a free root sculpture training class for local students. |
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Fashion show |
| Every model wore costumes made of waste stuffs including newspapers and magazines.
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China win Women's Asian Cup |
| China has won the AFC Women's Asian Cup, beating hosts Australia 6-4 after Chinese goalkeeper Zhang Yanru blocked two shots in the penalty shootout! |
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Crazy mud players |
| The sports meet marks the opening of the Sea Mud Carnival on the island beach. |
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Water Lily Festival |
| The 20th Water Lily Festival was kicked off in Jinan, drawing a great number of tourists. |
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Underwater ballet |
| Professional actresses from Russia perform ballet under water in an aquarium in Qingdao. |
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Rules for volunteers |
| It is the third local rules for volunteer services in China which is put into effect on July.1. |
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West Plan |
| Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China to encourage undergraduates to work in the country's less developed areas. |
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Dance on the blades |
| A girl walks barefooted along a line of blades during a performance in Nanjing. |
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Happy Physical Activity |
| Given rising obesity levels, the government wants parents to pay attention to children's nutrition. |
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Museum Day |
| 56 museums and memorial halls in Shanghai were opened for free to visitors on Thursday. |
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It's Mother's Day! |
| Students celebrated the Mother's Day,which falls on the second Sunday of each May. |
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Red Cross raises funds |
| The activity called for more attention to be focused on the health care of rural people. |
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Students safety |
| A doctor checks an "injured" student yesterday during a fire drill at Beijing No 55 Middle School. |
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Challenge your imagination |
| 775 exhibitors from around the world are presenting around 1000 products at the exhibition, which runs from April 5-9. |
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Solar eclipse |
| The track of the eclipse stretched from eastern Brazil , across the Atlantic to north Africa, then on to the Middle East, Central Asia, west China and Mongolia. |
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Qianmen area |
| People show growing interest in recalling their memories of the centuries-old city. |
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Special Task Forces |
| A team of female police officers take part in a training session in Jiangxi. |
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Love for mom |
| The children expressed their love for their mom on the eve of the International Women's Day which falls on Wednesday. |
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Sharks get pregnant |
| untralsonic check-up showed that a female nurse shark is pregnant with one shark. |
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"Could Be Beautiful" |
| Chinese director Zhang Yuan poses for photo at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin. |
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Spring is coming |
| Spring comes with its warm climate, green leaves, fancinating flowers and lively birds' singing. |
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A new Disney hotel in Tokyo |
| Disney characters perform during a ceremony marking the start of a new hotel's construction at Tokyo Disneyland. |
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Lantern Festival |
| Chinese people celebrate on Sunday the traditional Lantern Festival. |
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Lesson for life |
| Students of Shenzhen Experimental School learn to help others. |
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Snow fun |
| Heavy snow has fallen in many parts of eastern and northern China since Sunday. |
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Foreign "Male Nurse" |
| A foreign male teacher may serve to bring a masculine sensibility to the children. |
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Fancy fishes |
| Some loveable Chinese New Year fancy fishes tattooed with auspicious words appeared in Zhengzhou. |
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Shaolin Kongfu |
| team of martial art practitioners staged a show to attract customers before Spring Festival. |
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Great minds |
| Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin confers an honorary doctorate degree on Susan Hockfield. |
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New wave in hair |
| Nearly 800 Chinese hairstylists had entered the contest for the L'Oreal Color Trophy. |
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Sugar-coated fruit on a stick |
| Stalls selling sugar-coated haws and other fruit on a stick always prosper at a marketplace in Henan Province's Yanling County. |
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Ticket to ride |
| Students in Shaanxi Province queue up to buy train tickets back home for Spring Festival. |
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Job fair in Nanjing |
| University graduates flock to a job fair at the International Exhibition Center. |
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Little soldiers |
| Students take part in a meet to show what they have learnt from a military training course. |
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Photos taken by taikonauts on show |
| More than 30 photos taken at the outer space by Yang Liwei, astronaut of Shenzhou-5, Fei Junlong and Nie Hangsheng, astronauts of Shenzhou-6, are on display for the first time... |
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Job fair for students in Chongqing |
| Job hunters flock to an employment fair in Chongqing Municipality in southwest China November 23, 2005. More than 300 enterprises from the city and Jiangsu and Guizhou provinces ... |
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Test under scrutiny of webcams in Sichuan |
| An exam is under scruity of several webcams in southwest China's Sichuan province November 21, 2005. Up to 7000 local cadres take part in the exam in an effort to get promotion... |
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Swimmers take icy plunge in Dalian |
| Winter swimmers enjoy themselves in the sea off Golden Pebble Beach in Dalian, where an international winter swimming festival is being held until Tuesday. The seawater is already freezing in this Northeast city... |
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HK held "Kidult Festival" |
| The "Kidult Festival-Three Artists Exhibition" showed up in Time Plaza on Oct. 24, and world renowned artists were invited to exhibit their dolls with human image... |
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Wolfowitz in Northwest China |
| World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz poses for a photo with students of a primary school in Dongxiang County, Northwest China's Gansu Province Thursday October 13, 2005... |
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Confucius Birth Annivesary Marked |
| A grand ceremony is being held in Qufu Wednesday in the birthplace of Confucius to mark the 2,556th anniversary of the great Chinese thinker. |
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Chaerhan Salt Lake |
| An excavator arranges a mound of potassium chloride fertilizer at the Qinghai Salt Lake Industrial Group Co., China's largest producer of this kind of fertilizer... |
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Leshan giant buddha |
| The 1,203-year-old buddha statue is 71 meters high and is the biggest buddha statue in the world... |
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Tibetan people hail great progress |
| economic and social development of Tibet 40 years after it was turned into an autonomous region, Wangqen, former president of Tibet University... |
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Beijing-Tokyo Forum held in Beijing |
| Beijing-Tokyo Forum,gathered more than 60 Chinese and Japanese officials and experts to promote relations between the two nations is held on Aug 23,2005... |
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Heaven and Earth Sculpture Exhibition |
| Heaven and Earth Sculpture Exhibition, aiming to display contemporary Chinese sculpture achievements, opened at the Millennium Monument in Beijing on July 30... |
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Samye Monastery, the first Lama temple in Tibet |
| The Samye Monastery located on the north bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Zhanang county, Tibet Autonomous Region was founded by Lotus Master in mid 8th century while he was preaching there.. |
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Children performed at arts festival |
| More than 500 children representatives from mainland China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Macau and Hong Kong spent four days in the festival... |
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Mysterious castles in the East |
| Yongding earthen buildings are a unique product of Kejia ethnic group originated from their ancient art of architecture during the centuries after their migration from the Yellow River basin to Fujian's Yongding County... |
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Naoyu Festival |
| Naoyu Festival is a festival to drive away evil spirits and pay for peace and harvest... |
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Costumes of the ancient Kingdom of Quici |
| A contestant participating in the Xinjiang division contest of the 2006 Miss Tourism Queen International displays national costumes of the ancient Qiuci Kingdom in front of the Thousand-Buddha Cave ... |
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Yungang Grottoes attract 15 mln tourists |
| About 15 million tourists have visited the Yungang Grottoes, a 1,500-year-old World Heritage sitein northern China's Shanxi Province, over the past five decades... |
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Surgery on tiger to remove tumor |
| Doctors operate on a tiger to remove three tumors from its body in the Fourth People's Hospital in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province July 25, 2005... |
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Giant map |
| Children draw pictures on a 20-meter-long and 14-meter-wide canvas of a map of China in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou Province on Sunday. Some 200 children took part in the event... |
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A convivial meeting |
| convivial meeting was held in the gymnasium of Tsinghua University to celebrite the First Session of the 10th National Committee of the All-China Youth Federation... |
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Session of All-China Students Federation |
| The third Plenary Session of Twenty-third Committee of the All-China Students Federation (ACYF) was held in the south meeting-room in Jingfeng Hotel on July 21... |
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Hong Kong Disneyland to open |
| Visitors walk in the Hong Kong Disneyland, located at the territory's mountainous Lantau island during a press tour July 20... |
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"Seven Swords" premieres |
| Hong Kong director Tsui Hark's big budget martial arts film "Seven Swords" premiered on July 18 in Changsha, in south China's Hunan province... |
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"Haitang" approaches Hangzhou |
| Tourists enjoy cool while a storm is nearing at the West Lake of Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province... |
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Journalists on Tour for Xinjiang's 50th |
| Nearly 100 journalists from Chinese news websites are being taken on the eight-day tour to see the development and changes that have taken place in the region... |
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Kids get creative |
| More than 10,000 youngsters from China and abroad have been finding this out since July 12, at Shanghai's largest ever Science and Technology Exposition for Youth, held at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum... |
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Gold edition of "The Art of War" |
| On July 13, the first Chinese-English gold edition of "The Art of War" was issued in Hubei's Yichang City. The book is in the style of ancient Chinese books, printed in 16 mo. with a total of 40 gold pages... |
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Nanjing Olympic center |
| An aerial view of the newly built Nanjing Olympic center stadium and the natatorium in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province June 30, 2005... |
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Honor Zheng He |
| Zheng He started his seven expeditions to the West Seas in Jiangsu's Taicang. As the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's Expedition to the West Seas approaches, Taicang held entertaining commemoration performance... |
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Job-hunting pressures |
| About 10,000 Chinese college students look for a job at a job fair in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, July 10, 2005... |
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Thai-China fair held in Beijing |
| Tai-China fair was held in Beijing on July 3,2005.Tai artists made the fruit carving at the Thai-China fair to mark the 30th anniversary of official diplomatic relationship between the two nations in Beijing, China, |
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Miao Dragon Boat Festival |
| Ethnic Miao racers compete in the Miao Dragon Boat Festival on the Qingshui River in Shidong township, Guizhou province, July 2, 2005. The festival, celebrated from July 1st to 3rd... |
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Dalian |
| It's been 100 years since Dalian City was founded in September,1899.For the past century,especially since the People's Republic of China was founded 50 years ago... |
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Weihai |
| Recognized as one of China's most beautiful costal cities, it's the perfect place to forget about your worries and find a true sense of peace and happiness... |
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Bid for 2008 |
| July 13, 2001 saw a jubilant and sleepless night in Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China and winner of the bid for the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in 2008... |
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The Silk Road |
| China is the first producer of silk in the world. The Silk Road is the collective name given to a number of trade routes linking the Chinese and Roman Empire... |
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Shanghai |
| Shanghai, called "Hu" for short, is a bustling metropolis located at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Connected with Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the west... |
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Chinese Cuisine |
| The Chinese nation has a civilized history of 5,000 years and has created a splendid traditional culture. Being one of the important fruits of China's age-old culture... |
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The Great Wall |
| To the northwest and north of Beijing, a huge, serrated wall zigzags it's way to the east and west along the undulating mountains. This is the Great Wall... |
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Terracotta Warriors and Horses |
| The museum covers an area of 16,300 square meters, divided into three sections: No. 1 Pit, No. 2 Pit, and No. 3 Pit respectively. They were tagged in the order of their discoveries |
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Ethnic Minorities |
| China serves as home to 56 official ethnic groups. The largest group, the Han, make up over 92% of China's vast population... |
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Chinese Tea |
| Tea, as one of China's specialties, is the most popular beverage for Chinese. And there is a system for researching tea including tea drinking... |
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Tsinghua University |
| Situated on several former royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty, surrounded by a few historical sites in northwest Beijing, is the campus of Tsinghua University... |
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Yellow Mountains |
| The Yellow Mountains are a marvel: within an area of 154 square kilometres there is a crowd of peaks, 72 of which have names indicating the shapes they resemble... |
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Water Splashing Festival |
| The Water Splashing Festival, held by the Dai Nationality in the sixth month of the Dai calendar (in the middle of April), is the grandest ceremonial occasion for the Dai. |
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Wuyishan City |
| Wuyishan City, a developing tourist city named after the famous mountain in Fujian Province in China, is located in the north of Fujian Province bordering Jiangxi Province... |
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Shaoxing City |
| Shaoxing, an ancient small city of Zhejiang Province in China, has been admired since the past. The picturesque hills, with continuous mountains... |
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The Summer Palace |
| Located 15km from Beijing, the Summer Palace is the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China... |
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Chinese Wedding Traditions |
| Red is central to the wedding theme of China. It signifies love, joy and prosperity and is used in a variety of ways in Chinese wedding traditions... |
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Tibet |
| Tibet (Xizang), the Roof of The World, remains unknown to the world until the very beginning of last century. The massive snow land has exerted an awesome draw to travelers and adventurers... |
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