President Jiang Zemin is calling for both Chinese and international media communities to increase exchanges and cooperation as part of their new efforts to promote mutual understanding among the people of all nations.
While Meeting global media leaders participating in the seventh annual meeting of the International Council of the Museum of Television and Radio in Beijing, Jiang Zemin says China's radio and television system has progressed along with the country's economic and social development, pointing particularly to the rapid growth of the Internet in the country.
He expects China will see faster social and economic developments in the coming years following its accession to the World Trade Organization, and encourages more cooperation between international media communities and their Chinese counterparts.
Chairman of the Council, Frank Bennack praised China's brilliant achievements over the years, saying his Council will continue to promote international media exchanges and cooperation so as to enable the world to learn more about China.
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The United States has presented a new draft resolution on Iraq to the UN Security Council.
Washington hopes the council will vote to adopt the new resolution by the end of the week.
The draft has changed significantly since it was first put forward last month, but it still frees the US to take military action against Iraq.
In an attempt to meet the concerns of other Security Council members, the new US draft gives Iraq a "final opportunity" to comply with UN inspectors.
But it remains to be seen whether the latest draft, written with British support, will satisfy the other three permanent members of the security council - France, Russia and China.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan says the UN Security Council should make a quick decision on the Iraq issue, and urges all sides to take a flexible and cooperative attitude.
Tang Jiaxuan telephoned his American, Russian and French counterparts as well as the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan about the latest development on the Iraq issue.
Tang Jiaxuan says as the current chairman of the Security Council, China is willing to take a constructive role to help resolve the Iraq issue, and hopes that all sides continue to take a flexible and cooperative attitude and reach a consensus in getting the UN arms inspection team back to Baghdad as soon as possible. China hopes that the Iraqi issue can be resolved through political consultations.
Kofi Annan and the foreign ministers of the three countries have all supported China's stance and pledged close consultation and cooperation in reaching an agreement within the Security Council.
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Chinese Mideast envoy Wang Shijie is in Cairo to kick off his maiden tour of the region.
The Chinese diplomat will meet with Arab League chief Amr Moussa and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. They will discuss the latest situation in the Mideast region, focusing especially on the deadlocked peace process.
The Chinese envoy will also travel to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian self-ruled areas.
At the request of Arab countries, China named Wang Shijie as its Mideast envoy in September, in an effort to help solve the Arab- Israeli conflict at an early date.
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Microsoft has announced that it will open its third Chinese software training center in the eastern province of Jiangsu.
The Seattle-based company is joining forces with Jiangsu NandaSoft Co Ltd, a maker of network security software.
The center will assist software developers throughout Jiangsu, one of China's wealthiest provinces.
Microsoft says financial terms have yet to be hammered out.
The US company has already established similar training facilities in Beijing and Shanghai.
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General Electric Company, or GE, has signed an agreement in Dalian to establish its first Global Development Center.
Following a search for a strategic partner that began in early 2000, GE has selected Dalian Haihui Technology Company from hundreds of IT firms.
The center is expected to take advantage of China's large pool of software engineers. It will help to open up GE's software business to new markets in southeast Asia, Japan and China.
Unilever has announced the opening of a global purchasing center in Shanghai.
The multinational consumer products giant says its exports of raw materials from China would exceed 500 million US dollars over the next five years.
Currently 90 per cent of the raw materials the company uses to manufacture its products in China come from its more than 200 mainland suppliers.
Unilever says China's resources and productive forces will be a strong driving force for the company's future development and growth.
The Dutch-based conglomerate produces more than 20 brand products in China.
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China will upgrade its satellite-launching rockets and push for a manned space flight in the near term.
The performance and reliability of the nation's existing Long March series of rockets will be improved. The rockets have been used to launch 30 foreign-made satellites since 1985.
Development of the next generation of launch vehicles will focus on producing non-toxic, non-polluting and low-cost units.
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Tianjin is to begin construction of another subway line.
The new line will form a ring around the downtown area, and meet with its existing tracks. Of the 24 kilometers of tracks, 14 kilometers will be built underground, with the remaining 10 kilometers running on bridges.
The project is expected to be completed in 2005.
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China's second International Vocal Competition has wrapped up in Beijing.
Romanian soprano Caterina-Celia Costea and Russian bass Mikhail Kazakov have won first prizes in their respective performance categories. Chinese soprano Liu Hongling picked up third prize.
Chinese soprano Wu Lihong and Irish tenor Robin Tritschler have earned a special prize for their excellent performance of Chinese songs.
The singing competition attracted more than 70 contestants from 17 countries.
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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