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.

	12-year-old masters 'Face-changing'
	Qi Xiaoyu, 12-year-old boy, has been the city's youngest artist of "Face-changing".

	Students of HK family school
	Children in traditional costume attend class at a family school in Hong Kong.

	Anti-AIDS pokers in Shandong
	5,000 sets of anti-AIDS poker cards were sent to construction sites and hotels.

	Acrobats perform Hollywood scenes
	An acrobat dressed like "Spider-man" stunts between two galloping cars during a show.

	Fashion store's jeans installation
	A huge round installation made of jeans at a fashion store was showed in Nangjing.

	Skiing Festival opens
	Heilongjiang International Skiing Festival opened on December 7, 2006.

	Wonderful Chinese folk art
	A folk art exhibition was opened here recently, displaying over 100 works of more than 20 artisans.

	It's time to deck the malls
	Although Christmas is not a traditional Chinese holiday, many recognize its business potential.

	Farewell to student
	Wang Yang, a student, was stabbed to death while trying to stop a cell phone theft last weekend.

	Smile in Doha
	Qatari people smile to welcome guests in Athletes' Village in Doha.

	Their hearts go out for love
	Netizens pray for the recovery of brain cancer patient Tang Xuelong.

	Airbus A380 Arrives in Shanghai
	Starting from Toulouse, France, the route comprises 10 airports.

	Unique "7+1 Club" in Beijing
	"7+1 Club" is formed by seven dwarves and Tian Ge, the famous TV hostess.

	Chinese style wedding for foreigners
	Seven couples from some foreign countries attended the mass wedding ceremony in Shanghai.

	Auto China 2006
	The Auto China 2006 opens to the public on Nov.21 and will last till Nov.27.

	Company breaks its promise of rebuilding school
	Students from Dai ethnic minorities have a class at a shabby classroom in Yunnan.

	Fuwa airliner unveiled by Air China
	Air stewardesses take a photo in front of an Olympic Fuwa airliner unveiled by Air China in Beijing.

	Winter warmth for needed people
	The clothes will be sent to disaster victims and poor urban and rural residents nationwide.

	Xing Huina Hope School opens
	The school is funded by the China Sportspersons' Education Fund．

	New drug user detection device
	A new drug user detection device has been developed after five years research in Yunnan province.

	"Black and White" twins in China
	The twins, now almost 10 months old, attract much attention with their similar features and different skin tones.

	Water Cube
	"Water Cube" is a major venue of the 2008 Olympic Games and can hold 17,000 people.

	Free hugs aim to warm people's hearts
	A free hug campaigner shows passers-by a card asking strangers for hugs.

	Street performances mark China-Africa Summit
	Street performances celebrate the weekend's Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

	Three Gorges scenery
	Pictures taken on Oct. 30, 2006 show the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges.

	Children's Mini-Forum
	Children's Mini-Forum on China-Africa Friendship was held in Beijing, Oct. 31, 2006.

	African culture hot in Beijing
	Beijing residents are very interested in the upcoming Beijing Summit of FOCAC.

	Halloween popular in China
	Halloween is becoming increasingly popular in China.

	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.

	FM's office opens to university students
	Six of the 108 students were lucky to take a look at the minister's office, which was open to non-official visitors for the first time.

	Recovered lepers back to school
	The youngest, and third generation, of the recovered lepers from the Yi ethnic minority take a lesson at a primary school.

	Coming-off-age ritual in Guangdong
	A total of 100,000 students attended the ritual to mark their entrance into adulthood.

	Urban children experience farming
	Children learn the knowledge of growing paddies from a farmer in Shaoping County to experience farming.

	Girl with a special hairstyle
	A girl's hairstyle ttracted attentions from passers-by.

	The International Mosaiculture
	Top notch avant garde horticultural art will be on display until Nov. 30.

	Lovely pig gizmos fascinate white collars
	Many shops have already started selling all kinds of pig gizmos as early as October 9, 2006, which attract many young white collars.

	Prairie tourism blooms
	The region is now attracting tourists from at home and abroad.

	Wedding tradition exhibition
	The exhibition is part of preparations for the coming National Day on October 1.

	Gigantic mooncake
	Residents wait to taste a gigantic mooncake during a mooncake festival in Chengdu.

	Create the Olympic rings logo
	Labourers weld on the Olympics rings at the Olympic sports centre in Anhui.

	Sixth Beijing Int'l Tourism Culture Festival
	Over 2,500 actors and actresses from 23 countries and regions　performeded.

	Summer Palace gets new look
	The reparation work of the Summer Palace in Beijing was completed and reopened to the public.

	Robots shine at IT expo
	Third China (Jinan) International Information Technology Exposition opened in Jinan.

	Shenyang Ocean World to open
	Shenyang Ocean World will be opened to the public by October 1, the National Day.

	Children rejoice at school opening
	Children rejoice at school opening

	SMART-1 crashes into moon's surface
	European-made SMART-1 solar-powered satellite crashes into moon's surface yesterday.

	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.

	Parents accompany students to university
	Many parents accompanied their children to the university at the new term for freshman students.

	First children barbershop
	First children barbershop only serves children under 12 in Shijiazhuang

	U.S. students learn Chinese calligraphy
	American college students learn to write Chinese characters with brush pens at Lanting of Shaoxing City.

	Water project award
	Three local high school students won the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Tuesday.

	Extreme sports loving farmer
	Wang Shichun started to learn to do extreme sports after 50 years old.

	Agriculture tourism becomes new attraction
	Agriculture tourism has become a new attraction of city dwellers.

	Int'l Youth Dance Festival
	The International Youth Dance Festival began on Saturday with an attraction of over 600 young performers .

	Shanghai Petroleum Exchange opens
	China opens Friday the petroleum exchange in Shanghai, 1st oil products market for mainland.

	Life returns after cease-fire
	Life returns after a month-long war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.

	Is university worth it?
	Over a third of young Chinese say their college study experience was not as rewarding as they had expected

	Dress like Garfield
	Chinese dressed like the American cartoon character Garfield, take a break at their commercial stall.

	Tibetan students visit museum
	A total of 140 students of the Tibetan ethnic group from a middle school in Jinan visited the museum on Thursday.

	Root sculpture trainning
	A folk artist of the city's Weihe Village has opened a free root sculpture training class for local students.

	Fashion show
	Every model wore costumes made of waste stuffs including newspapers and magazines.

	Experiencing colorful science world
	The exposition, opened at the Military Museum on Thursday, provides youths with a colorful science world.

	Children's opera show in Suzhou
	The young performers will perform Peking, Yue, Yu and other local operas in the show.

	Singing Contest in Nanjing
	Aug 1st is 79th anniversary on August 1 of the founding of the Chinese armed forces.

	Chinese Valentine's Day celebrated
	Chinese celebrated Chinese Valentine's Day, which falls on seventh of the seventh lunar month in Chinese lunar calendar.

	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!

	Yao Ming and his girl friend
	Yao Ming and his girlfriend Ye Li attend at a commercial promotion event in Beijing July 26, 2006.

	Body shaping course for pupils
	To shape and strengthen their bodies, many pupils take the dancing class during the summer vacation.

	A section of Xi'an city wall collapsed
	A sect of the ancient city wall about 30 m. long collapsed on July 25 during a reinforcement project to the wall.

	Special Olympics mascot debuts
	The 4th National Special Olympic Game mascot, a cartoon tiger, "Wei Wei" debuts in Harbin.

	Dwarf meeting in Nanjing
	Fourty eight short adults from acorss China get together and a dwarf club is also founded.

	Watermelon with human face
	Watermelons with human face were put in the counter of a cold drink shop in Suzhou.

	Yi ethnic group celebrates Torch Festival
	The Torch Festival, which falls on June 24 of Chinese lunar calendar, is the largest festival of the Yi ethnic group.

	Crazy mud players
	The sports meet marks the opening of the Sea Mud Carnival on the island beach.

	2006 In'l Beach Festival
	2006 In'l Beach Festival kicked off in Dalian, which lasts from July 16 to July 19.

	Water Lily Festival
	The 20th Water Lily Festival was kicked off in Jinan, drawing a great number of tourists.

	Hunting jobs in summer vacation
	52 undergraduates from Sichuan Province arrive in Beijing to serve as housekeepers in their summer vacation.

	Liu Xiang makes new world record
	Liu won the race in a time of 12.88 seconds, a new world record in the men's 110-metre race.

	Activities mark World Population Day
	The various activities to commemorate World Population Day include a call for better health care for girls.

	Underwater ballet
	Professional actresses from Russia perform ballet under water in an aquarium in Qingdao.

	Foreign children visit Botanical Garden
	Foreign children visited a botanical garden in Shenzhen as part of an ongoing cultural exchange program.

	Rules for volunteers
	It is the third local rules for volunteer services in China which is put into effect on July.1.

	Tibetan students 1st come home by train
	College students of the Tibetan ethnic group come home by train for the first time.

	Xinjiang uses plane to kill mosquitos
	The local government plans to spray pesticide becomes a major mosquito-breeding area in summer.

	Robort contest at primary school
	The First East China Robot League Matches for Teenagers was held in Suzhou.

	Students embrace graduation season
	July is a graduation season when lots of students have to say goodbye to their university life.

	HK celebrates anniversary of return to motherland
	Pupils perform during the grand celebration for the 9th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.

	1st batch of trains on highest railway
	"Zang 2" arrived at Golmud railway station at about 00:13 a.m. on July 2.

	West Plan
	Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China to encourage undergraduates to work in the country's less developed areas.

	Graduation ceremony in Fudan University
	Graduates smile at their graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai June 28, 2006.

	1000-meter-long cartoon murals
	The first-ever huge cartoon wall of the capital is reportedly more than 1000 meters long.

	60 students poisoned by food in Zhejiang
	About 60 students had food poisoning after eating leftovers at their school's dining hall in Zhejiang.

	Sand therapy clinic in Turpan
	Visitors receive the sand therapy clinic in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

	Stephen Hawking sightsees in Temple of Heaven
	Stephen Hawking, the famous British physicist, spent two hours visiting the Temple of Heaven.

	Waterfall-watching Festival attracts visitors
	The sluices of the Xiaolangdi dam have been opened for the launch of the new waterfall-watching festival.

	Chinese girl greet Afgnan President
	Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left front, is greeted by a Chinese girl upon his arrival in Shanghai.

	Tianjin metro starts trial operation
	After four years' construction, the Line 1 of the Tianjin Metro opens to trial operation on Monday.

	Wedding on World Cup opening day
	Being diehard football fans, the couple chose to marry on the kick-off day of 2006 FIFA World Cup.

	Chinese wedding photos over 100 years
	Progression of Chinese wedding photos over 100 years.

	Dance on the blades
	A girl walks barefooted along a line of blades during a performance in Nanjing.

	Students preparing college entrance exam
	Some 9,500,000 students across the nation will take part in the cutthroat examnation.

	Suzhou receives UNESCO heritage prize
	Suzhou's Pingjiang Block received the Honorable Mention Prize of 2005 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.

	Fishing ban starts on S. China Sea
	Fishing will be banned over the next two months in the South China Sea.

	Kindergarten hosted picture exhibition
	Nearly 200 pictures created by a group of kindergarten kids were exhibited to celebrate Children's Day.

	Dragon Boat Festival is coming
	With over 500 teams participated, the annual dragon boat contest of Rui'an was inaugurated.

	Duan Wu culture festival
	Dragon boat festival is held to commemorate Quyuan, a patriotic poet in ancient China.

	Happy Physical Activity
	Given rising obesity levels, the government wants parents to pay attention to children's nutrition.

	Grown-up ceremony for 18-year-old youths
	Some 1,000 18-year-old youths took part in the grown-up ceremony.

	Volunteers learn sign language in Jinan
	A sign language learing activity attracted 10,000 volunteers who will communicate with the deaf and dumb in communities and special schools for them.

	Museum Day
	56 museums and memorial halls in Shanghai were opened for free to visitors on Thursday.

	Typhoon Chanchu moves northward in China
	Typhoon Chanchu continues to move northward along the coastal areas of east China's Fujian Province after it landed in Guangdong.