Two students from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts create a mud sculpture and a painting on April 26 for a man who won the title of "Model Worker" in Beijing for the May Day. More than 200 students and 100 "model workers" attended the event. Provided to China DailyFriendship seen as force for...

The ruins left by the powerful earthquake, including a planned memorial in Yingxiu, a museum of quake ruins in Beichuan, and the "quake lake" at Tangjiashan, will form part of a well-planned six-themed tourism route with the Dalongmenshan fault line, according to Zhang Gu, chief of the Sichuan Provi...

Shaanxi, an inland province in Northwest China, plans to invest 10.4 billion yuan (US$1.25 billion) in road construction in 2002 to improve its highway system."The investment will be used for the construction of 1,200 kilometres of road, of which 110 kilometres will be highways," said Wu Xiaojian, d...