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TAIPEI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Luo Qingquan, Communist Party of China (CPC) chief in central China's Hubei Province, left Taiwan Monday with a one-thousand-strong delegation after an eight-day visit to the island, expressing confidence in the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations."The visit was very smooth and fruitful... I'm expecting Hubei and Taiwan to carry out more exchanges and boost cooperation," Luo said as he departed the island.Luo's delegation arrived here on April 19 for a Hubei-Taiwan cultural festival filled with exhibitions, forums and performances featuring Hubei culture.Luo said the two regions reached a consensus on exchange and cooperation in economic, scientific, technological and cultural fields.He noted Taiwan's advanced farm-products processing technology could be well applied in Hubei, a province rich in agriculture.During the trip, the delegation also visited medium- and small-sized companies, farm and schools in Taipei, Taichung, Yunlin and Hsinchu.The Hubei-Taiwan festival has been held in Hubei's capital Wuhan six times since 2004. It was the first time the event was held on the island.The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have been recently intensifying their exchanges, especially high-level visits to the island by mainland delegations, which is seen as a sign of increasingly solid relations.Earlier this month, a municipal government delegation of about 260 people headed by Shanghai mayor Han Zheng visited the island to promote the upcoming Shanghai World Expo.During the trip, several Shanghai companies and Taiwanese counterparts signed 28 agreements on long-term exchanges and short-term purchases, along with agreements on investments in finance, chemical materials, steel, tourism, intellectual property rights and farm products, among others.
¡¡¡¡XIANGNING, Shanxi, April 5 (Xinhua) ¨C- Nine miners trapped under the flooded Wangjialing coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province were taken out of the shaft Monday morning miraculously to safety, after 179 hours underground.The survivors were immediately sent to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. Their blood pressure and heart rates remained normal after having being trapped in the shaft for one week.One of the survivors, named Li Guoyu, 38, had a lucid mind and told doctors that he comes from central China's Henan Province. The identities of eight other workers were not readily available yet.A rescued miner is taken to a hospital in Xiangning County, north China's Shanxi Province, April 5, 2010. Nine survivors were rescured out of the flooded Wangjialing Coal Mine and they were identified Monday morning. Rescue for other trapped miners at flooded Wangjialing coal mine is continuingLi said they had been unable to pass urine for two days, because they dared not drink the murky water flowing in the tunnel.A total of 144 other fellow miners remain trapped, but rescue workers heard banging on the metal pipe, indicating further signs of life.Thousands of people kept standing along the road at midnight and burst into applause when the ambulances carrying the survivors passed by.
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BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's four-nation Asia tour, which took him to South Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Myanmar and a tripartite summit of China, South Korea and Japan, was fruitful and widely applauded, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Thursday.The week-long tour was conducted against the backdrop that China needs to strengthen mutual trust and further deepen cooperation with the four countries while certain complex and sensitive issues in the region needed to be properly handled, Yang told reporters.The premier made the visits with confidence and hope for peace, friendship and cooperation, he said.POLITICAL MUTUAL TRUST PROMOTEDChinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during the third trilateral summit in South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on May 29, 2010. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama met in the trilateral summit with the aim of mapping out future cooperation in East Asia. During his visits, Premier Wen repeatedly emphasized the importance of mutual trust in relations and cooperation between nations, and expounded China's position on its peaceful development, its friendly policies toward neighboring countries, and its notion of building a harmonious world.Wen also stressed that China would never seek hegemony and that China's development poses no threat to any other countries, Yang said.Leaders of the four nations said they attached great importance to China's role. They believed that China's development is critical for peace and prosperity of the region and the world at large. They expressed their willingness to keep high-level exchanges with China and to strengthen communication and coordination on major issues.Wen and South Korean leaders agreed that both China and South Korea are important countries in East Asia and have broad common interests, and that the two countries should continue to push forward the bilateral strategic cooperative partnership.In Japan, Wen pointed out that China sees Japan as a strategic partner, not a competitor or a rival. He said the two neighbors should view each other as partners so as to have peaceful coexistence, long-lasting friendship and common development.In Mongolia, Wen stressed that the development of good-neighborly partnership of mutual trust between China and Mongolia serves the fundamental interests of the two peoples and contributes to peace, stability and common development in the region. The Mongolian side reiterated its firm adherence to the one-China policy and strong support to China on the questions of Taiwan and Tibet.In Myanmar, Wen said China respects the Myanmar government and people for their choice of a development path in line with this country's conditions, and wishes Myanmar stability, unity and development. He said China would like to join hands with Myanmar to push forward the development of a good-neighborly cooperative relationship.
¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡GENEVA, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The international community should have "a sense of urgency" in their efforts to realize the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu said here on Monday."The deadline of the MDGs is only five years away, and we are facing huge challenges at this critical moment," Chen told the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO)."The international community should have sense of mission and urgency to reach consensus, coordinate actions, and accelerate progress," Chen said.Addressing delegates from the WHO's 193 member states, Chen said that despite the unremitting efforts of the international community, "the MDG health indicators of women and children have been improving slowly and the situations are far from optimistic.""China holds that health of women and children constitutes an important element in a country's national basic health system and it reflects the social and economic development level," he stressed.Chen said the attainment of the MDGs would be "a historical milestone," and he urged governments to share this responsibility and "take stronger measures."One of the proposals the minister made at the conference was to improve the health of the people, particularly women and children."The ultimate goal of social and economic development is better life and brighter future for the people, and health is the basis of good life," he said.To improve the health of the people, countries need to build a strong and powerful health system so that they can provide comprehensive health services and tackle public health emergencies, according to the minister."All countries should attach importance to the building of such a system with articulated political commitments and substantial input," he said.Chen also highlighted the importance for controlling chronic and noncommunicable diseases, which "consume large quantities of health resources and afflict social and economic development.""To ensure sustainable health, social and economic development, the international community should conduct researches and take more effective countermeasures in its fight against such diseases, " he said.The minister also called on developed countries to increase their assistance to developing countries so that they can improve their health system and be more capable of dealing with health challenges."Health is an eternal theme of mankind, and the attainment of the MDGs is our common pursuit. China hopes that countries worldwide will stay closer and help each other to ward off disease threats and build our beautiful homes of health and harmony," Chen said.The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the WHO's supreme decision- making body. This year's five-day conference will discuss a wide variety of public health issues as well as administration and management matters.
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