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<description><![CDATA[About 100 experts on cross-Taiwan Strait relations called for redoubled efforts for accelerating the development of cross-strait relations on Sunday. 
 
     The experts, who came from universities and academic institutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Beijing, focused their attention on political development in Taiwan over the past eight years at a two-day seminar which concluded on Sunday. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[One person died and another was injured after a steel tube of a crane cracked in China's largest industry center of Shanghai at midday Sunday. 
 
     The incident occurred at 12:15 a.m. at a construction site of an underground channel in Huangpu District, when the crane was working. A steel tube of the crane suddenly broke and collapsed, hitting two people. 
 
     The dead was a native manager in his 50s, while the injured coming from neighboring Jiangsu Province has been sent to hospital. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Andre Bugnon, president of the National Council of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland will pay a visit to China from Oct.13 to 17, at the invitation of Wu Bangguo, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Gu Chaoshan is exulted these days. One month ago, the 62-year-old farmer from north China''s Hebei Province felt suffocated all of a sudden, sweating and losing his breath. His son promptly dialed the town hospital. In 10 minutes, he was sent to a first-aid room, diagnosed as suffering from paroxysmal miocardial infarction, and was saved. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will donate 1.665 billion yuan to help Sichuan Province in southwestern China with its rebuilding after the May 12 earthquake. 
 
     The money, about 243.6 million U.S. dollars, will be used in 20reconstruction projects covering infrastructural facilities, schools, hospitals and natural reserves, according to the agreements signed here Saturday. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[The latest tests found that Chinese liquid dairy products met the new temporary restrictions on melamine, the country's top quality control agency said on Saturday. 
 
     It was the ninth investigation on the industrial chemical following the tainted baby formula scandal that killed at least three infants and sickened more than 50,000 others, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). 
 
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<description><![CDATA[China's drug safety watchdog put as top to sales and use of an herbal injection after the product was suspected of causing three deaths earlier this week. 
 
     A total of 4,547 bottles of ciwujia herbal injection, manufactured by the Wandashan Pharmaceutical Company in northeastern Heilongjiang Province, have been recalled, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said on Saturday. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[An earthquake followed by some 1,000 aftershocks has affected more than 60,000 people in the Tibet Autonomous Region this week, the local government said in a news conference Saturday. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Seven people died and 22 others were injured after a truck turned over on a highway in southwest China's Guizhou Province Saturday, local authorities said. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Muslim food business leaders in China are pledging product safety and vowing to follow their religious teachings in food production. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[An aftershock measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Saturday morning. 
 
     Local authorities said, no casualties have been reported. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Construction authorities in west China's Tibet and Xinjiang regions are inspecting the integrity of public buildings after two strong earthquakes shook the remote areas last weekend. 
 
     Schools, hospitals, shopping malls, coach stations and railway stations in the Tibet regional capital of Lhasa and prefectures of Xigaze and Shannan will be assessed for damages and stability, said Wang Yalin, deputy director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Construction Department. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski exchanged congratulatory messages on Sunday to mark the 15th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. 
 
     In the messages, Wen and Gruevski spoke highly of the encouraging progress that has been achieved in the bilateral ties over the past 15 years. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China Yi Gang called for international cooperation on Saturday to restore global financial stability. 
 
     "Our current priority is to enhance international cooperation to prevent further deterioration and spillover of the crisis and restore global economic and financial stability," Yi said. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday that he would learn from China and further develop bilateral relation during his first visit to China. 
 
     While speaking to Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Luo Zhaohui, Zardari said he is expecting the visit to China and wants to get to know the Chinese leaders. 
 
     Zardari will pay a state visit to China from Oct. 14 to 17, his first trip abroad since assuming office in September. 
 
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<description><![CDATA[European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Friday that relations with China is a top priority of the European Union (EU)'s foreign policy. 
 
     In a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to the EU Song Zhe, Barroso said the EU is willing to take the opportunity of the forthcoming 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and the 11th EU-China Summit to strengthen the EU-China cooperation in bilateral and international affairs, thus to give a new impetus to the development of the EU-China relati ...]]></description>
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<title>Scientists complete sequencing giant panda genome </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese scientists have completed sequencing the genome of giant pandas. The announcement was made in Shenzhen on Saturday. 
 
     They hope the new information will give them a better biological understanding of why pandas eat bamboo, have black circles around their eyes and produce few offspring. 
 
     "By sequencing the giant panda genome we've laid the genetic and biological foundation for us to gain a deeper understanding of the peculiar species," said Dr. Wang Jun, a scientist with the  ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Saturday said it expects an increase in grain output for the fifth consecutive year. 
 
     The country has harvested nearly 80 percent of its autumn crops and expects 2008 to be a bumper year, the ministry stated. 
 
     The State Grain Information Center earlier estimated that this year's grain output would reach 511.5 million tons, up 10 million tons from 2007. 
 
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<title>State-owned companies still biggest taxpayers in China  </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A list of Chinese companies paying the highest taxes in the nation shows that the state-owned companies are still the biggest taxpayers in China. 
 
     It also reveals an imbalance between different geographical regions. 
 
     According to a ranking released Saturday by the State Administration of Taxation and China Taxation Magazine, companies in eastern China pay the most taxes. 
 
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