Visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji says China and Denmark should properly deal with their differences according to the principles of mutual respect and seeking common ground while reserving differences and seeing bilateral ties from a broader perspective.
In talks with his Danish counterpart, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Zhu Rongji says China proposes the two countries continue to enhance exchange and cooperation at all levels to expand the scope of economic cooperation and trade. China welcomes Denmark to take part in the development of China’s western regions and further cooperate in the fields of culture, education and social security.
Rasmussen says relations between the two countries are now better than ever. Danish entrepreneurs are showing great interest in investing in China, and about ten enterprises have set businesses in the country. He hopes the two countries can cooperate in environmental protection, ocean shipping and tourism.
Premier Zhu Rongji, who attended the Fourth Asia-Europe Meeting summit and the Fifth China-EU Summit, is in Denmark on the second leg of his three-nation European tour, and will go to France next.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has voiced his concerns about wider global consequences if Israel continues to besiege the Palestinians and their leader Yasser Arafat.
He made the remark during brief talks with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Abdul-Aziz about the worsening situation in Palestine and a possible US war against Iraq.
President Mubarak also stressed the importance of taking a unified Arab stance to deal with all challenges, including the Iraqi issue. He said such matters should be resolved peacefully within the framework of the United Nations.
Mubarak's visit to Saudi Arabia coincided with Israel's defiance of Tuesday's UN Security Council resolution, which urged the lifting of Israel's siege on Arafat's Ramallah headquarters and an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands.
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Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is urging Iraq to allow the return of international weapons inspectors to Baghdad as soon as possible. He says it is main way to solve tensions with Iraq.
Ivanov made the remarks after the British government released a lengthy dossier on Iraq on Tuesday. The dossier says that Iraq can launch a chemical or biological missile with 45 minutes notice, and could produce nuclear weapons within two years with essential components from abroad. Iraq has dismissed the dossier as 'lies and allegations.'
The minister also denied reports that the UN was discussing a new resolution on Iraq and said such discussion was pointless.
He said the possibility of resolving the Iraqi problem by political means had not been exhausted and a military solution could only further aggravate the situation.
But meanwhile, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber has reiterated that Iraq must comply with all UN Security Council resolutions.
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US and British warplanes have bombed installations in southern Iraq's Thi Qar and Misan provinces, wounding one civilian. Thi Qar and Misan provinces are in Iraq's southern no-fly zone.
US and British military planes have been patrolling Iraq's no-fly zones since the 1991 Gulf War. Both claim to protect Iraq's Kurdish population in the north and Shiite Muslims in the south from Iraqi persecution.
Iraq says that more than 1,400 Iraqis have been killed and an identical number injured by US and British bombing since the end of the Gulf War.
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Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee says that "some powers" were involved in the attack on Swaninarain temple in Gujarat, and that it was not the handiwork of just two persons.
Vajpayee made the remark on his visit to the temple from the Maldives, where he had been on a four-day official visit.
Asked whether the attack was spearheaded by the Pakistanis, Vajpayee said that whatever happened in Gandhinagar was being investigated.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Yaswant Sinha said that the attack was similar to the attack on Parliament by Pakistan-based terrorists.
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China's Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA, mobile telecommunications network now has more than 100,000 subscribers in the country's largest city.
China Unicom Shanghai Branch, a subsidiary of China Unicom and the only CDMA operator in the country, revealed that the number of its subscribers is growing at an average daily rate of about 1,0 00.
It says this rapid growth is attributable to the high quality of the CDMA system and service, as well promotion by the company since the network went into operation in early January.
Last year, China Unicom started the second phase. When completed, it will give the CDMA network nationwide coverage and the capacity for 50 million subscribers, making it the largest CDMA network in the world.
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A government release says that more than 200 authorized insurers operate in Hong Kong, justifying its position as a regional insurance hub.
The release says that premiums for long term insurance business in Hong Kong have seen double-digit growth over the past five years. Investment-linked business is one of the insurance sectors that recorded a remarkable 30 percent growth in office premiums in 2001.
Total gross premiums of the Hong Kong insurance industry reached nearly 10 billion US dollars in 2001, representing about 6 percent of Hong Kong's GDP.
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The markets are looking better than they were yesterday. US and European stocks made a rebound on Wednesday after conglomerate General Electric helped calm worries with a reassuring profit forecast.
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 159 points, to 7842.
And the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index shot up 40 points, to 1222, after dropping to a six-year low the previous trading day.
In Europe major stock markets held on to most of their gains on Wednesday, supported by a better-than-expected survey of German business sentiment and a strong start on Wall Street.
In London, the FTSE 100 closed 25 points higher at 3696.
In Frankfurt, Germany's DAX index closed up 89 points at 2963.
And in Paris, the CAC-40 index ended 43 points higher at 2785.
Official statistics indicate that China has already become one of the world's top choices for foreign investment, with the average amount of foreign investment in real terms reaching more than 140 million US dollars per day between January and August.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation says more than 21 thousand foreign-funded companies were approved during the first eight months of this year, an increase of 30 percent over the same period last year.
And the total amount of actual foreign investment has already reached more than 34 billion US dollars. And for the whole year, the ministry predicts that the figure is expected to surpass an unprecedented 50 billion US dollars.
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China and the World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO will jointly hold a WIPO Intellectual Property Summit in Beijing next spring.
The summit, aiming to enhance the awareness of and respect for intellectual property worldwide, will be the first major high-level meeting in the field of intellectual property.
Chinese officials say the Chinese government attaches great importance to the issue of intellectual property rights, or IPR, and has made unremitting efforts to protect intellectual property.
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Despite the fact that formula milk is inferior to breast milk, breastfeeding is on the decline due to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic and globalization.
The Chairperson of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action says that despite the obvious advantages of breastfeeding, many hospitals and doctors are encouraging the use of formula, especially in developing countries. The Chairperson continues to say the reasons for this include the increased marketing power of formula manufacturers that comes with globalization.
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2--I don't like folk music very much.
1--What kind of music do you like?
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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。
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常用的句型。如，征询关于时间安排的意见时，可以说How
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