Local residents in Urumchi city looking at a model of Fengyun-1 weather satellite on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day on March 23, 2008. The weather bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held a scientific exhibition at the People's Square of Urumchi city. The theme of the World Meteorological Day this year is "Observing Our Planet for a Better Future." It calls for an international cooperative observation that will provide alarms for weather disasters, to prevent possible loss from extreme weather conditions.

Local residents in Urumchi city visited the exhibition on environment of the Taklamakan Desert in western China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

The Shenyang Meteorological Exhibition was free for visitors on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

Forty young reporters in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region visited the weather exhibition on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

Students took note of their discoveries during their visit to a weather exhibition in Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

Students took note of their discoveries during their visit to a weather exhibition in Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

Over 260 students and their parents visited the Jinghe Weather Station in Xi'an city, capital of Shaanxi province on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

A mother helps her child look through a theodolite on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

Staff members at the weather exhibition explained the usage of thermometers in Guiyang city, capital of southwestern China's Guizhou province on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008.

(CRI, Xinhua News Agency March 25, 2008)