Chinese Flourishing Period, the world's first newspaper printed on gold paper, is available for Beijing collectors.

The 20-page collection focuses on China's past ten sessions of the top legislature and the top advisory body and records the prosperity of Chinese cultural, social and economic development.

The rare edition is printed on 16,000 square centimeters of gold paper, and the luxury edition is on a sheath of 39,000 square centimeters.

Collectors can have the gold book from Wang Fujing Book Store in down town Beijing.
 
(Xinhua News Agency March 16, 2004)