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Citizens were looking for their own surnames on the ground carving
featuring "hundreds of surnames" in the center of the People's Square in
Guangxi's Liuzhou City on Mar. 1. The 314 Chinese family names carved on
the ground are of different sizes and mixed with one another randomly in
different Chinese calligraphic styles, such as Li (official or clerical
style, originating in between 25 and 220AD), Kai (regular style,
originating in 173AD), Xing (running style, originating in 87AD) and
Zhuan (seal style, originating in between BC221 and AD220). According to
designer Mr. Ni, the carving is made from brass, 4-odd meters in both
length and width, and weighs 10 tons. It mirrors the fascination of
Chinese characters with several hundred surnames, from which people can
find their own family names while making close contact with the ground
carving.

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Paris fashion: Dior's gothic chic

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A model presents a creation by John Galliano for Christian Dior during
the Autumn/Winter 2006-07 ready-to-wear collections in Paris, 28 February
2006.

PARIS - A slender silhouette of straight skirts with jackets belted by
oversized square buckles set the tone for Christian Dior's ready-to-wear,
presented inside the late 19th century Grand Palais.
The 'gothic chic' of John Galliano told quite a different story at
Dior.The British designer sent out models wearing black headbands over
their long, ironed-straight hair, eyes hidden behind dark glasses, or
with a large crucifix hanging around the neck.
He used lots of bold red and black, pairing his skirts in printed suede
or black leather with knee-high boots, while also calling upon mink, goat
fur trim and beige sheepskin. And he added the occasional print of black
flowers.

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The Chinese Navy organized a squad composed of frigates, mine sweepers
and submarine chasers to conduct the exercises for key items, such as
berthing vessels with and without an anchor, chasing submarines at sea
and arranging teams to navigate in narrow watercourses in a certain
region of the East China Sea, on Feb. 23. The inspecting and guiding team
consisting of four units carried out complete supervision on the
exercises, in an effort to avoid favoritism and ignorance of training and
ensure that the exercises imitate the real battle and cultivate qualified
soldiers.

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Zhejiang supports 93 farmers to go to university

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93 farmers from 25 underdeveloped regions of Zhejiang Province (95 were
accepted actually but two gave up because of joining the army) stepped
into Zhejiang Forestry University and became regular university students
in this school for two years of education and a junior college diploma.
They are the first group of farmer university students in the province.
Starting from 2006, Zhejiang will provide adult education with academic
credentials for youths, who are under an age of 25, have received senior
high school education and are engaged in agricultural and forestry
production, from needy rural households.

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CNOOC, Devon jointly develop S.Yellow Sea

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-23 14:47:33

Chinanews, Beijing, Feb. 22 (By Jia Quanxin) - CNOOC Limited announced on
Wednesday that its parent company China National Offshore Oil Corporation
(CNOOC) has signed a production sharing contract with Devon Energy
Corporation for block 11/34 in the South Yellow Sea.
Block 11/34 covers a total area of approximately 10,840 square kilometers
in the northern part of South Yellow Sea Basin. Water depth of the block
ranges from 20 to 60 meters. CNOOC has acquired 2-D seismic data and
drilled wells in block 11/34, one of the blocks CNOOC offered to public
bidding in 2005.
Under the terms of the contract, Devon, which is specialized in oil and
gas exploration and production, is committed to conduct 2-D seismic
survey and drill prospecting wells during the exploration period. All
expenditures incurred during the exploration period will be borne by
Devon. CNOOC Ltd. has 51%-strong of interests in the event of any
commercial discovery in the block.
This contract is the eleventh between CNOOC and Devon.

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Clay sculpture contest held in primary school

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Pupils appreciate clay works made by their classmates during a clay
sculpture contest in a primary school in Dancheng, Shandong province on
Feb. 21, 2006. About 30 students good at making clay sculpture attended
the contest.

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Appreciating plum blossoms on wetland

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-20 17:38:23

The supreme sight of plum blossoms in Xixi National Wetland Park, which
kept silent for a century, will open to the public from Feb. 18 to Mar.
25, 2006. It is the first time for Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park to
hold the "Xixi plum blossom appreciation festival" since it opened in May
2005. After the refitting of the Xixi wetland, the 49.5-odd-acre "Xixi
Plum Villa" has more than 3,000 plum trees, and this place will become
the chief scenic spot for tourists to appreciate plum blossoms.

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HK Disneyland not adapted to China yet

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-17 16:33:09

Chinanews, Feb. 17 - Nearly 3,000 tourists from afar with valid tickets
were refused to enter the Hong Kong Disneyland, which claimed that the
action was to avoid safety-related accidents in the overcrowded park. The
"entry rejection" incident has aroused discussions in the society.
According to a China Youth Daily report, consensus deemed that although
HK Disneyland's rejecting its visitors reflected the failed measure of
its executives, there appeared a deep-seated reason behind the incident,
that is, the "Mickey Mouse" in HK has not truly adapted itself to China
yet, and HK Disneyland has neglected the feature of the tourism and
consumption culture in mainland China.
There are three golden weeks in mainland China, which fall on the Spring
Festival, early May and early October. All are high seasons for mainland
Chinese to tour around. The Spring Festival golden week overlaps both the
annual Chinese New Year and the winter vacation for students. HK
Disneyland's key target tourists will be the freest in this period.
However, HK Disneyland happened to ignore this in its Spring Festival
organization by regarding Chinese public holidays as usual days.
Hong Kong Disneyland's unawareness of the mainland lies in other aspects.
In 2005, 12.5 million mainlanders traveled in Hong Kong, setting a record
high and accounting for over 50% of Hong Kong's 23 million visitors from
all over the world last year. On Feb. 13th, Hong Kong Tourism Board
revealed that in January, 2.2 million tourists paid a visit to Hong Kong,
rising 15% year on year and setting a high. Consensus believed that the
"entry rejection" shows that Hong Kong Disneyland's understanding and
estimation of the mainland's consumption prospect are far behind the
times.
According to experts, the "entry rejection" manifested that services of
Hong Kong Disneyland have a poor local receptivity. Its neglect of the
cultural characteristics of the mainland's consumption and its
management's deficiency in service attitude and strain capacity finally
led to the result that no one wanted to see.

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Fuzhou held its first "king of dogs" competition on the evening of Feb.
14th. The audience burst into laughter when a child appeared with a
famous foreign dog bigger than her.

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Pictured, the float parade named "an appointment for meeting in Beijing"
(performed by the team from Hunan's Shan County).

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www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-14 15:25:43

The new China-made "dummy human" surfaced at Sichuan University on Feb.
13. After more than two decades of efforts, Professor Lin Daquan, who is
reputed as "father of dummy humans," and his fellows developed the
new-generation "dummy human" successfully, becoming pioneers of China's
development of "dummy human" technologies.

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Feb. 12, 2006 was the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar
calendar, and Nanjing held a metro group wedding ceremony on the Lantern
Festival. 12 new couples boarded the special metro train and let all
passengers share their joy. A mother and her son, together with their
spouses, took part in the group ceremony and were especially eye-catching.

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Turin throws big party to start Olympics

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Stefania Belmondo, a three-time gold medal winner in cross-country
skiing, lights the Olympic flame during opening ceremonies for the 2006
Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy Friday, Feb. 10, 2006.

Athletes gather during the opening ceremony of the Turin 2006 Winter
Olympics in Turin, Italy, Friday, Feb. 10, 2006.

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Three Gorges saw passenger transport peak

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The number of passenger liners and speed boats arriving at and departing
from Hubei's Yichang Port recorded 41 on Feb. 8, and the figure of
coaches exceeded 140 on that day. Passenger transport volume by boat and
bus accumulated to 40,000, setting a new high in the past ten years.

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Dragon dance on Wuyi Mountain

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A folk dragon dance team were performing dragon dance in front of a local
shop on Wuyi Mountain on the evening of Feb. 7. Before the Lantern
Festival on the 15th day in the Chinese lunar calendar, native villagers
in Fujian's Wuyi Mountain enjoy the tradition of organizing dragon dance
teams to start a "dragon dance tour" and raise funds in local shops and
households. Shop owners and housemasters should light up firecrackers to
"welcome the dragon" and send out red envelops with lucky money inside.
The funds raised will be used for commonweal such as rural highway
construction.

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Hang up lanterns and drink wine

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-07 16:37:07

Lanterns were selling hot in the bazaar of Chenghuang Town in Guangxi's
Xingye County on Feb. 6, the ninth day of this Chinese New Year. Folks in
many places of Guangxi follow the custom of hanging up lanterns and
drinking wine on Jan. 10th in the lunar calendar. It is said that on that
day, any household who had a new-born boy in the previous year should
hang up lanterns in the sacrifice site for the god of the land, the
ancestral temple and the main hall of the house. Lanterns in the
sacrifice site and the main hall should be burned on Jan. 16th in the
lunar calendar, which are called "fallen lanterns".

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