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Chinese President Meets Russian Foreign Minister
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| China's new central leadership will serve as a link between past and future and work steadfastly with Russian leaders to expand and carry forward the Sino-Russian ties, President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing Thursday. |
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Beijing Relic Protection 'Top Priority'
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| Beijing has made increasing efforts to protect its relic collection particularly as it becomes an international metropolis, Vice-Mayor Zhang Mao told a relic protection conference Wednesday. |
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CPC Puts Forward New Government Leadership Proposal
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| A list of proposed candidates for leading official positions of government bodies was adopted Wednesday at the Second Plenary Session of the 16th Communist Party of China Central Committee. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee presided over the session. |
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US$3.6 Billion Earmarked for Water-Conservation Projects
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| Chinese government will set aside US$3.61 billion from an issue of state treasury bonds for water-conservation projects, including flood control and water supply facilities, to fight against acute water shortage, said Vice-minister of Water Resources Zhang Jiyao Tuesday. |
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Relief Efforts Continue in Xinjiang
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| Rescue workers with search dogs combed the rubble of flattened villages in near freezing weather in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, hoping to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 266 people by Tuesday evening. |
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World Bank Says China Is Poverty Reduction Model
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| China has set an international example by reducing the poverty of hundreds of millions of people in the last 20 years, said Yukon Huang, chief of the World Bank (WB)'s resident mission in China. |
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Rescue Work Underway for Earthquake Victims
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| The Chinese government has made an immediate start on rescue work for victims of Monday's earthquake in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwest China. Some relief goods have now arrived. |
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Vice-President Positive on Sino-US Relations
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| China is ready to work with the United States to maintain and advance a positive momentum in the development of Sino-US relations, said Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao in Beijing Monday while meeting with visiting US Secretary of State Colin Powell. |
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Experts Call to End Illegal Reclamation of Land
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| The central government should have a nationwide land use registration and supervision system to curb rampant reclamation of land from farmers by local and grass-roots governments, experts say. |
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China Becomes Net Wheat Exporter
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| China exported more wheat than it imported last year with a trade surplus of 90,000 tons, becoming a net exporter for the first time in history. Ministry of Agriculture will continue to help some major wheat-producing areas to improve their quality of wheat and international competitiveness. |
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