Chinese President Jiang Zemin says China will further perfect its socialist legal system and accelerate the reform of of the justicial system.
He made the comment when meeting in Beijing with Sandra Day O'Connor, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Jiang points out that China has made great progress both in economic and legal development, and the country has established an overall strategy for becoming a socialist country strictly ruled by law.
The president adds that the development of Sino-US relations is showing good momentum, and will stay on a healthy and stable road if the two countries deal with problems with a view to the long term and mutual benefit.
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Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has arrived in Austria for a four-day official visit.
In a written statement delivered at Vienna airport, Zhu Rongji spoke highly of the development of bilateral relations.
The Premier notes that China is willing to see Austria's more positive role in European and international affairs.
During the visit, Zhu will meet with Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel.
This is the first leg of Zhu Rongji's European visit. He is also scheduled to visit France and Denmark to attend the Fourth Asia-Europe Meeting summit and the Fifth EU-China Summit.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan urges all parties to properly handle the issue of China's Taiwan sending representatives to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting in the coming month.
He says APEC's memorandum of understanding has a clearcut position on the ranking of representatives from Taiwan attending APEC meetings, and it has already become standard practice. He hopes the parties concerned will resolve the issue in accordance with this.
On the visit to the US by the wife of Taiwan leader Chen Shuibian, Kong Quan asks the US government to strictly abide by the three Sino-US Joint Communiques and other commitments.
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Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri has announced to the United Nations that Iraq is free of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, saying the country is ready to cooperate with the Security Council and international organizations.
"...Iraq was, and still is, ready to cooperate with the Security Council and international organisations. However, Iraq rejects any transgression by whomever at the expense of its rights, sovereignty, security and Independence. That is in contradiction with the principles of the charter and international law."
Sabri's address included excerpts of a letter from Saddam Hussein.Sabri quoted his president as saying that the nation was free of weapons of mass destruction.
The speech at the UN's General Assembly heavily criticised the United States and Bush for trying to link Iraq in some way to the tragedy of September 11.
The Minister called on the UN to help protect Iraq's sovereignty in the face of possible US military action.
The foreign minister's address was greeted with loud applause by diplomats from around the world.
Separately, the White House pressed reluctant Russia and France to support a UN Security Council resolution authorizing possible force.
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The Head Office of the China International Travel Service has been listed among China's top 500 companies. Annual income at the company has reached four billion yuan, or roughly 483 million US dollars.
As China's only World Tourism Organization member, CITS has 13 subsidiary companies abroad in United States, France, Sweden, and Australia. It also has cooperative relations with more than 1,000 foreign travel agencies. Domestically, CITS has branches in 12 domestic cities, including Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangzhou.
At the beginning of this year, CITS and American Express established a joint venture company specializing in business travel.
CITS has also invested in big companies such as Taikang Life Insurance Company, the Bank of Communications and Hainan Airlines.
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Another spate of bad economic news on Thursday, with brokerage downgrades and soggy profits further demoralizing investors.
The Dow Jones Industrial finished down 230 points, closing below 8,000 for the first time in nearly two months. It closed down 2.8 percent, at 7,942.
The Nasdaq composite index also fell, about 2.9 percent, to 1,216.
European stocks stumbled again Thursday. The market was affected by profit warnings from French catering group Sodexho Alliance and US computer services firm Electronic Data Systems.
London's FTSE 100 closed down 1.3 percent at 3814.
Paris's CAC 40 index fell below 3,000, losing 2.5 percent to end at 2927.
In Frankfurt, the Xetra DAX sank 3.8 percent to 3007.
The Chinese government will invest some 600 million US dollars in the next few years to bolster the orange and animal husbandry industries in the Three Gorges area. This will create jobs for hundreds of thousands of resettled residents.
The Deputy Director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, says more than 100 thousand workers will be laid off from over 500 technically-backward factories which have been ordered to shut down by the end of this year. The closures are due to serious pollution emissions in the dam area of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project.
Meanwhile, 80 thousand rural residents will be moving into new resettlement townships this year, which will add to the unemployment problem in the Three Gorges dam area.
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China has basically and preliminarily completed the historic transition from the planned economy to the market economy after 13 years’ endeavor.
China has continuously eliminated economic systems blocking the development of the productive power, basically establishing the Socialist Market-Oriented Economic System.
It represents that the market plays a fundamental role in resources allocation. And only five kinds of industrious commodities are still produced by planned order. About 90 percent commodities and service price have been decided by the market.
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Only by speaking decent Putonghua, or standard Chinese or Mandarin, can western China draw more investment and help its economy to take off.
This is the consensus reached among ordinary residents, academics and officials of this vast region, where ethnic groups are widely distributed.
When the development drive was launched three years ago in the western region, the vice-president of the Qinghai Institute for Ethnic Minority Nationalities, said communication is the prerequisite for cooperation between the region and the outside world.
You're really dug yourself into a hole this time. 你真是自找麻烦。
1--Do you want black or white coffee?
2--White, please.
1--Look! There's a folk concert tomorrow evening.
Do you want to go?
2--I don't like folk music very much.
1--What kind of music do you like?
2--I like classical music. Do you?
1--Not very much. Classical music sends me to sleep.
2--I don't believe you.
1--It's true.
2--You are funny!
1--So are you! How about another coffee?
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注解：
1）black or white coffee：加糖或加牛奶的称作white
coffee.什么也不加的称作black coffee.
2）folk concert：民间音乐会。folk作“民间的”、
“具有民族传说的”解。如folk dance，folk music,
folk songs, folk tale等。
3）classical：经典的。如classical music, classical
literature等。
4）How about...?（你以为）...怎么样？征询对方的意见时
常用的句型。如，征询关于时间安排的意见时，可以说How
about tomorrow？征询活动内容时可以说How about playing
tennis now?征询人选意见可以说How about Jane?等
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