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National Narcotics Ban Awareness for All the Public

Students stick on the placard on National Narcotics Ban Awareness for All the Public, in the classroom of Yuhong Middle School, in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Nov. 19, 2008. Policemen on duty get on the campus to promote the knowledges and discretion of students on their understanding of the drugs ban, discerning the narcotics ban, and self-protection from drugs as well.

SYSU Initiates Yearly Donation Program

    Graduates of 1988 Class suggested to initiate SYSU Yearly Donation Program on November 8, SYSU’s first Alumni Day.     Yearly Donation is for alumni, students, students’ family, faculty and society to give away to the university once a year. The fund raised from the donation will be used to meet this year’s most urgent needs. The emphasis of the donation is not

Chinese basic scientific knowledge on rise

    BEIJING, Nov. 17  -- Scientific and technological awareness has been increasing among the Chinese people, according to a survey released on Sunday.     The survey by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) reveals that people with basic science and technology knowledge account for 2.25 percent of the total population of 1.3 billion,

Chinese software standard approved by int''''l

    BEIJING, Nov. 4  -- A Chinese software standard has been approved by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the China Electronics Standardization Association (CESA) announced on Tuesday.     The standard, Unstructured Operation Markup Language, is a read and write access standard for electronic documents and was

China''''s ancient Qiang culture emerges from fog of

    BEICHUAN, Sichuan Province, Nov. 15  -- "Once the culture of a nationality is destroyed, the nationality ceases to exist."     The sentence written in Jia Dechun's proposals on the protection of southwest China's Qiang nationality is a constant reminder of the urgency of his task since the devastating May 12 earthquake.     The Qiang, a

China opens nationwide job fairs for graduates amid

    TIANJIN, Nov. 16 -- China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security started a weeklong job-hunting service campaign on Sunday to help university graduates get employed amid the global financial crisis.     Nationwide job fairs and online recruitments will offer more than 520,000 job vacancies for the graduates.     Statistics showed

Graduates swarm to job fair

Job seekers crowd into an employer's stall at the job fair for medicine graduates in Nanning, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 15, 2008. A job fair kicked off here on Saturday with over 5,000 jobs vacancies provided by more than 100 enterprises.   Job seekers crowd into an employer's stall at the job fair for medicine graduates in Nanning, capital

Tourists complain about ticket price for Olympic

    BEIJING, Nov. 12  -- The managing company of the National Stadium, nicknamed Bird's Nest, in Beijing (schools in Beijing, study in Beijing) has drawn flak from the public for charging visitors 50 yuan (7.3 U.S. dollars) a time to visit the iconic building.     The ticket price for a visit to the Bird's Nest, open to the public from Oct. 1, is about the

Record find of oracle bones in Shaanxi

XI'AN -- Archaeologists in Shaanxi (schools in Shaanxi, study in Shaanxi) province have unearthed more than 1,100 oracle bone characters, shedding new light on the number of such inscriptions in existence. The find was made at a cluster of tombs in Qishan county that date back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC). Lei Xingshan, head of the dig team, said in Xi'an (schools

Exhibit on spacecraft Shenzhou VII held in Beijing

People visit the domestically-made Feitian space suit specially designed for extravehicular activity (EVA) during an exhibition featuring the Shenzhou VII manned space flight at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing, China, Nov. 11, 2008. People visit the domestically-made Feitian space suit specially designed for extravehicular activity (EVA) during an

Tsinghua President Gu Binglin Delivers Speech at

Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin attended the first ASEM Rectors’ Conference held at the Free University, Berlin in Germany from October 27 to 29. More than 100 representatives from universities in such countries as the U.K., Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia participated in the conference. Tsinghua President Gu Binglin spoke on “An Asian Perspective

Traditional Chinese medicine entering global markets

BEIJING, Nov. 9 -- An indigenous Chinese herb, growing across the country, has been used to treat a variety of diseases for hundreds of years. Now it has entered global markets. It is called Danshen in Chinese, or Salvia miltiorrhiza in Latin. Its product, Fufang Danshen Diwan, extracting curative ingredients mainly from the herbal plant, is now available in 16 African countries and becomes

Artists perform traditional drama during parade in

A float representing Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County moves along during a parade in Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 9, 2008. The parade was part of local celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.   Artists perform traditional drama during a parade in Guilin, southwest

Chinese youth delegation leaves for India

    BEIJING, Nov. 10  -- A 100-strong delegation of Chinese youths left Beijing on Monday evening for a 10-day visit to India at the invitation of the Indian government.     The delegation, led by Wang Hongyan, vice president of the All-China Youth Federation, consists of public servants, entrepreneurs, local governmental officials, artists, reporters and

China awards outstanding people in spacewalk mission

China held a meeting Friday morning to award people who made outstanding contributions to the Shenzhou VII manned space flight. Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and He Guoqiang attended the meeting. Zhai Zhigang was titled of "Space Flight Hero" Vice-Premier Li Keqiang announced a decision

Agricultural Bank of China receives 130b yuan

BEIJING -- The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) on Thursday signed an agreement with Central Huijin Co., an investment arm of the government, for a 130-billion-yuan (19 billion US dollars) capital injection in preparation for an eventual stock listing. Xiang Junbo, the state-owned bank's president, said the injection would boost the bank's capital base, improve its financial status and enhance