The famous jade seal (YUXI) used by Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century is scheduled for auction on May 17 in London. It is now valued at £1 million. The YUXI is 3.4-inch long, emerald green, crystal clear, in double-gourd shape (representing earth and symbolizing luck and longevity). It has been missing since Boxer Rebellion in 1900. It was checked out by Bonhams, the auction houses in Britain. Experts there identified and recently confirmed that this is truely unusual jade seal. The Emperor's Seal was placed in SANXI HALL, in Forbidden City. It could be looted and smuggled into Europe during and after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
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Human Sperm Bank in Shaanxi Provincial Women's Hospital was established on September 1st last year, the first one in northwest China. The hospital's Sperm Bank accepted donations from more than 300 people since its inception, but less than 30% of them passed the test. Donors are mostly of under-graduate students and graduate students of universities, especially majored in science or engineering.
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RMB10 (~US$2), one can buy three apples, or five Metro tickets, or seven tomatoes ...
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The simulation of police vehicle is in accordance with the 1:1 ratio to mimic the Nissan police car's rear pattern. One cannot identify the vehicle is fake or not from 30 meters away. Energized by solar battery, it can be placed 24 hours in the accident prone sections without interruption. So big a warning for driving at night, after placing this sections at highway, the number of accidents decreased by more than 60% during three months.
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Each meal in cafeteria of Google China included 30 Chinese and Western dishes, such as seafood, poultry, fish, all kinds of meat, fruit, soup, vegetables, porridge, sweets, staple food, drinks, and spicy soups. In addition to the common beverage such as coffee, cola, there are dozens of various fruit juices, beverages. So many choices and varieties, that each dish is to be rotated to appear once month. The chef also particularly tagged nutritious food and non-nutritious foods with different color signs, in order to adjust the diet of the Google engineers.
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Nanning, Guangxi Ladies of Government Tax Bureau held a dancing competition. It is to celebrate the International Women's Day.
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Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said, the organ shortage is a bottleneck in organ transplantation surgeries in China. In the absence of citizens who volunteer to donate organs, executed prisoners has become the main sources of organ supply for transplants.
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Apple today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices worldwide. The 25 billionth app downloaded, Where’s My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. “We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”
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They are waiting for deputies to the National People's Congress in the People's Great Hall.
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According to public information, last year (2011), 11 representatives were sacked and sentenced. 3 were sentenced to imprisonment， 3 were sentenced to life imprisonment, 5 were sentenced to death.
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The outburst of violence in Xinjiang, a remote desert Muslim region of western China, has underscored the tensions over Chinese rule in ethnic-minority areas.
At 6pm on February 28, in Yecheng county, Xinjiang (a remote desert Muslim region of western China), 9 terrorists suddenly dashed into the crowd on a Pedestrian Street.
They armed with knives and stabbed the passers-by, 13 innocent people were killed and many were injured.
Local security men could not control the violence at all and called the police force.
Police forces came, they killed 7 terrorists and captured 2 on the spot.
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The Fifth Session of Eleventh CPPCC National Committee opened. It is scheduled to close on the morning of March 13. To defend the sessions, police stepped up. Many CPPCC members are actress, actors, singers, dancers, comedy actors. The Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress will be held on March 5. Delegations arrived Beijing by March 2.
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Tap water smells an unusual smell, everybody in Wuhan is worrying about the water quality problems. Last night, Wuhan Water Group explained, "This due to the pollution in the Waterworks upstreams." At present, Wuhan Water Group is to increase input of the amount of chlorine.
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Zafka Zhang, 30, founder of China Youthology. Zhang's market-research company helps the likes of General Motors, Nokia, Pepsico, Nestle, Wrigley and McCann Erickson tap into China's youth culture. Youthology has been profitable since 2008 (five months after the company started) and is now gearing up to launch its own social-networking platform to track opinions and trends of young people throughout China.
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Jian-Shuo Wang, 33, founder of Kijiji. Wang is a start-up addict. In college, Wang founded Hotales.net, an online marketing site. After six years at Microsoft he struck out on his own. In 2005 he launched Kijiji, eBay's classified-advertising business in China, now with listings in more than 300 cities. Three years later Wang spun off Baixing.com, an online community with listings for houses, jobs and second-hand goods.
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