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Shanghai opened East China Fair

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The 16th East China Fair opened in Shanghai New International Expo Center
on March 1, attracting many foreign investors to wait in queue for talks
and purchase in the fair. More than 3,540 domestic and foreign
enterprises participated in this fair, including over 140 overseas
enterprises from 17 countries and regions such as the United States, the
UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Korea and Singapore.

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Chinese School - Shenyang's first DSH began operation

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Shenyang's first DSH began operation

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-01 16:17:35

Huimin Hospital, the first Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) of
Liaoning's Shenyang located in the city's Heping District, formally began
operation on Feb. 28. In order to solve the difficulties and high
expenses of medical services and medicines for the public, Shenyang
invested 36 million yuan (US$4.44m) to rebuild Heping District's People's
Hospital into a DSH, whose most prominent characteristic is low prices.
The hospital's medicine price level is 10% lower than before, and its
costs of examinations and hospitalization fall 50%.

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Chinese School - China's first "fossil" book

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China's first "fossil" book

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A book titled "footprints in the nature -- fish fossils" inlaid with real
fish fossils showed up in three bookstores including the Book Building in
Beijing's Xidan area. This book issued a limited edition of 1,000 volumes
and is only available in Beijing. It is a book about popular science and
illustrates the formation, variety and distribution of fish fossils in
China. It is the first book that is inlaid with natural fossils in China.

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Chinese School - Holland's tulips blossoming in Liuzhou

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Holland's tulips blossoming in Liuzhou

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Grand tulip show kicked off in Liuzhou, a city of Guangxi province on
Feb. 25, 2006. 400 thousand tulips from Holland draw lots of citizens.

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Chinese School - Bull horns carved with Shui ethnic characters

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Bull horns carved with Shui ethnic characters

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Pictured, the part of the bull horn carved with a picture of fairies
flying in clouds and some Shui ethnic characters, meaning ��tiger, moon,
time, and wolf��.

Chinanews, Feb. 23 �C Experts who are doing the saving work for the Shui
ethnic culture in Guizhou recently discovered a pair of bull horns
bearing some Shui ethnic characters in the Libo County where the Shui
ethnic people live. The bull horns are estimated to have a history of
about one thousand years.
The bull horns, measured 35 centimeters wide, are carved with pictures
and 20 different Shui characters. So far, scientists recognized eight
characters, which meant ��leopard, year, day, greedy, tiger, moon, time,
and wolf��. The two bull horns, with different pictures and characters
carved on it, formed a pair and each represented the Chinese conception
of "yin" and "yang."
The horn representing "yin" was used for harvest occasions or
celebrations while the horn representing "yang" was used on war time
occasions. The bull horns were regarded as a piece of ethnic treasure and
provide very useful information on studying the Shui ethnic characters.
Shui character is a hieroglyph character used by the Shui ethnic people
in ancient time. It was carried down orally or through manual scripts. As
a symbol of an ancient civilization, Shui character has been selected
among the first batch of the Chinese file and document heritage list. It
is also among the first batch of the Chinese intangible cultural heritage
list.

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Chinese language - Stewed noodles used as skipping ropes

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Stewed noodles used as skipping ropes

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Taiwanese girl group SHE participated in their first fan club party in
Henan on Feb. 20th to promote their new album named "I don't want to grow
up." At the fan club party, the three girls learned to make stewed
noodles, a famous snack in Henan, and used long stewed noodles as
skipping ropes.

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Educational funds help kids to go to school

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Several pupils from Huangju primary school in Bishidu Town of Hubei's
Ezhou City happily received enrollment fee and bags presented by the
educational fund of the village on Feb. 20, 2006. The villagers
established the "Huangju Village educational fund" with donations from
both the village and the society, in an effort to support needy students
and reward outstanding students in the village. When the new semester
started, this village granted a total of 14,800 RMB (US$1,825),
benefiting 80-odd students in the school.

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Learn Chinese - Folk art shown in Guangdong

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Artists from folk art troupes in Guangdong province perform various
stunts, showing local characteristic folk culture in Yunfu city,
Guangdong province on Feb. 18, 2006.

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Chinese language - Yao Ming likely to become beer trademark

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Yao Ming likely to become beer trademark

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Chinanews, Feb. 17 - "This is Jet Li spirit produced with Yao Ming steel
tube." If you see such an advertisement, do not take it as a joke. Such
messages are very likely to appear in the market in the near future.
According to Shanghai media, the State Administration of Industry and
Commerce's (SAIC) Trademark Office's preliminary report on examination
and approval shows that Jet Li and Yao Ming have been preemptively
registered as trademarks for wine and spirit in advance, and if no one
files any objection within three months, these trademark applications
will be formally approved.
Registration applications for these household names did not come from the
celebrities themselves. The application for the trademark of Yao Ming was
filed by a Mr. Xiao in Guangdong's Zijin County on March 9, 2004.
Trademark applications for Jet Li wine and spirit came from a trade
company in Nanjing and a Zhejiang resident in 2004.
The applicant of Yao Ming beer is really sharp-minded, said Zhou Hong,
deputy general manager of Chofn Trademark Office. Yao Ming's name has
been registered as the trademark of more than 10 categories of products,
including automobile and toy, but not of beer.
Mr. Xiao has not only registered Yao Ming's name as a trademark for beer,
but also for elbows of metal pipes and steel tubes. The reporter tried to
get in touch with Yao Ming and Mr. Xiao yesterday but failed. Zhou said
that if no objection is filed within three months, these trademark
applications will be formally approved.

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Changsha citizens walk their dogs

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As it turns warmer and warmer, Changsha citizens walk their dogs one
after another, creating a scene in streets of the city in early spring of
the Year of the Dog.

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Chinese Mandarin - Pupils "whisper in teacher's ear"

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Pupils "whisper in teacher's ear"

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-14 17:09:11

On the first day of the new semester, the Airport Primary School in
Shandong's Jinan City launched an activity called "whisper in teacher's
ear." The children sent their expectation of, blessings for and
suggestions to their teachers by writing them on paper and cards and
drawing pictures and put them in the "whisper boxes". They also make a
promise to study harder in the new semester.

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Learn Mandarin online - Two pagoda-shaped giant lanterns

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Two pagoda-shaped giant lanterns

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An activity called "welcome the giant lanterns" was held in Shangwang
Village in Shiqiaotou Town of Zhejiang's Wenling City on Feb. 11 to
celebrate the Lantern Festival, wishing for agreeable weather, safety and
prosperity in the new year. A pair of hand-made pagoda-shaped lanterns,
which took 20-odd villagers over 2 months to complete, were carried by
80-odd people parading in the fields. The lanterns are 16.38 meters in
height and more than 1,000 kilograms in weight.

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Folk performance

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Chinese folk performers celebrate the approaching Lantern Festival in
Zhejiang, Jiangsu Province, China February 11, 2006. The traditional
Chinese Lantern Festival will fall on February 12 this year

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Festive lanterns made by folk artists

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In order to welcome the upcoming Lantern Festival, folk artists in
Shizhong District of Shandong's Zaozhuang City designed more than 1,000
imperial lanterns, large electric lanterns and colored gas-filled model
lanterns which were popular with citizens.

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Monument closed for repair and reinforcement

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-09 09:21:12

The 37.94-meter-high monument, built in 1958, is closed to visitors for
thorough repair and maintenance. The repair and reinforcement project
started Wednesday and will last for three months.

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Chinese School - Forex reserves should be cut by half: Chinese banker

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Forex reserves should be cut by half: Chinese banker

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(Source: Shenzhen Daily/Agencies)

BEIJING, Feb. 8 - The government should ideally cut its foreign exchange
reserves by half at the end of last year, to help ward off risk and ease
upward pressure on the yuan, a Bank of China official was quoted as
saying yesterday.
China's foreign exchange reserves swelled 34 percent in 2005 to a record
US$818.9 billion, signaling upward pressure on the yuan despite July's
revaluation, setting off calls by some Chinese economists to find ways to
slow down the growth.
"China's foreign exchange reserves should roughly be kept at a level
between US$300 billion and US$400 billion, which will be appropriate,"
the Financial News quoted Wang Yuanlong, a director at Bank of China's
Australian operations and former economist at the bank, as saying.
"China should use its interest rate policy and exchange rate policy to
adjust the foreign exchange reserves," Wang said.
Wang said China needed adequate foreign exchange reserves to fend off
risk as it was in transition between a planned and market-driven economy,
but the current level of reserves had far exceeded conventional prudence.
The soaring reserves made it hard for the central bank to control money
supply, while it faced an "opportunity cost" as the chunk of the reserves
had been invested in U.S. Treasuries, which usually yielded less than
foreign investment in China, he said.
China should also "reasonably choose currency structure and asset
structure for its foreign exchange reserves," Wang said.
China's reserves, which will soon surpass those of Japan as the world's
highest, are enough to repay its entire foreign debt and still buy 10
months' worth of imports.

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