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1. Monsters of the deep may lurk in beautiful Hanas
2. Museum displays rare kiln relics
3. Briefs ( Page 5, Date: 11/15/97 )
4. What's on (Page 6, Date: 11/15/97)
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Monsters of the deep may lurk in beautiful Hanas
ALTAY, Xinjiang -- For those who want to go back to nature for a
most memorable trek, the Hanas reserve in China's northwestern tip
is a choice that should be included in any itinerary.
Located in Burgin County of Altay Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region, Hanas Lake Nature Reserve is among the few
scenic spots in China -- and perhaps the world -- that remains
almost untouched and unpolluted by development.
And of course it also remains off the beaten track.
Hanas in Mongolian means "mysterious and beautiful."
It takes an arduous six hours to navigate the 140-kilometre dirt
track from Burgin to the lake.
Yet it is a feast for the eyes to see the virgin forests, the
array of flowers and dozens of species of wildlife along the way
in the 2,201-square-kilometre State-level nature reserve.
The ecological system is kept intact in the vicinity of Hanas
Lake.
Living in the reserve are nearly 800 varieties of flower, and 167
species of rare animal, including gluttons, sables and even snow
leopards.
Hanas was born in the quarternary glacial period 200,000 years
ago, as a result of glaciation movement.
Today there are still 210 glaciers in Burgin, nourishing the
ancient beauty in their midst.
The first thing Hanas has to offer is the pure fresh air, which as
some travellers joke ought, to be canned for export.
Guarded by imposing snow-capped mountains, Hanas looks very slim
-- just 1.9 kilometres wide, 24 kilometres long, and 1,374 metres
above sea level.
But the 46-square-kilometre lake is the country's deepest inland
lake, with a deepest point of 188.4 metres.
A stretch of birches stand still and straight near the water,
resembling a retinue waiting to serve some pagan god.
If you turn your eyes back to the lake after looking away for a
moment, you might find the colour of the water has changed from
emerald to ruby.
Some researchers have attributed the colour change partly to the
combination of sunshine, lingering clouds and water vapour.
Others argue the change is caused by unique water composition, if
not by a trick of the lake spirits.
A lucky traveller may be able to witness another mystery: giant
"monsters" in the lake.
Badema, a local Mongolian resident, said four years ago, his son
Patubayev spotted two large, red objects moving in the lake, each
5 to 10 metres in length.
Another story said that decades ago, a Russian found a gigantic
red fish at the shore, which he used 10 horses to carry away.
In the summer of 1996, a New Zealand expedition team also saw six
8-metre-long red fish swimming in Hanas, one of them breathing a
fountain of four metres high.
Scientists have yet to provide a definite explanation of what the
alleged "fish" is.
The main residents living around the Hanas Lake are 600 Tuwa
people, a branch of the ethnic Mongolian group.
Legends go that they arrived here 400 years ago as the descendants
of Ghenghis Khan (1162-1227).
The hospitable people still preserve their old traditions: living
in forests, hunting for food, believing in Shamanism, and holding
numerous religious rituals every year.
The dwellers in the sparsely-populated lake area never have to
worry about summer: the highest temperature registers 18 degrees
centigrade on average, while southern China is being baked under a
scorching sun.
Chen Jiang, vice-mayor of Burgin, said he believes Hanas will
become a world-class summer resort.
In 1996, a total of 36,000 people visited Hanas.
China has listed Hanas scenic spot development project in its 60
key projects in the 21st Century Agenda.
Burgin government has invested 15 million yuan ($1.8 million) to
improve the tourism infrastructure in the reserve.
However, tourism development should never be achieved at the cost
of sacrificing the ecology and environment in the region, said
Chen.
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_Date: 11/15/97_
_Author: Zhao Huanxin_
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Museum displays rare kiln relics
XI'AN -- Everyone who speaks English knows that the word "china"
means two different things: a country and a kind of utensil.
China, the birthplace of china, a hard white substance made by
baking fine clay at high temperature, has a history of thousands
years in making such products, and first exported them in the Han
Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Many peoples around the world knew the
country by its porcelain.
In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the production of porcelain was
carried out in northern and southern China and the technology of
making china was perfected. Gradually six systems of processing
were formed: Dingyao, Junyao, Cizhouyao, Longquan Qingci,
Jingdezhen Qinbaici and Yaozhouyao. In northern China, Yaozhouci
(china made in Yaozhou Kiln) was known as the best blue china with
carved designs.
Some 100 kilometres north of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province in
Northwest China, the ruins of Yaozhou Kiln are located in Huangbao
Town of Tongchuan. As early as the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907),
people here were building kilns to produce china, and later the
town became a key handicraft centre in northern China.
From then to the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when production
stopped, the fires of hundreds of kilns stretching for 10
kilometres in the town burned for more than 800 years, and the
beautiful products made by Yaozhou Kilns had become famous at home
and abroad.
Since the early 1950s, the ruins of Yaozhou Kilns have been
excavated three times, covering an area of more than 12,000 square
metres in which have been found more than 3 million pieces of
cultural relics made in various historical periods, of which more
than 5,000 are complete or can be restored.
In the ruins, Chinese archaeologists discovered some 100 kilns and
more than 100 workshops for making china. At present, they are the
largest ancient porcelain production ruins unearthed with the
largest number of relics and perhaps the most highly developed
technology either in China or the world.
In order to protect the ruins and relics discovered and display
the Chinese ancient civilization, the State invested 9 million
yuan ($1.08 million) to build a museum on the ruins, and in May,
1994, Yaozhou Kiln Museum officially opened to the public,
according to Xue Yaodong, director of Yaozhou Kiln Museum.
Covering an area of 35,000 square metres with a floor area of
6,800 square metres, the museum displays more than 1,000 rare
porcelain wares made in Yaozhou Kilns, of which 137 pieces are
counted as very precious with the most value for historical and
technological research, Xue said.
The museum, China's first and also largest ancient porcelain
technological museum, attracts thousands of visitors from home and
abroad every year. In the museum, visitors can appreciate the real
ancient porcelain wares and enjoy trying their hand at making it
under the direction of skilled craftsmen. Late last month, Yaozhou
Kiln Museum opened an exhibition in Japan of more than 100 pieces
of rare porcelain relics made in various periods in Yaozhou Kilns.
The exhibition will tour the country for ten months.
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_Date: 11/15/97_
_Author: Ma Lie_
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Briefs ( Page 5, Date: 11/15/97 )
Qingdao ocean park
CHINA's biggest ocean park is being built in Qingdao, a coastal
city in East China's Shandong Province.
The park, covering a land area of 52 hectares and a water area of
100 hectares, has attracted an investment of 660 million yuan ($80
million). It will be a seaside resort.
Li Naisheng, vice-mayor of Qingdao, said the roads around the park
and utilities have been completed.
Li said the park's foreign investors will benefit from tax breaks.
Mount Dahua
DAHUA Mountain, located in western Anhui Province, welcomed its
first group of tourists from home and abroad last month after four
years of development by the local government.
A grand temple fair was held to celebrate its opening ceremony,
unveiling a brand new attraction to tourists.
Yunfeng Temple, the most prominent tourist spot of Mount Dahua,
has taken on a new look since the refurbishment. Featuring more
than 10 halls, the temple tops its counterparts in East China for
its imposing grandness and highly-developed artistic level.
The local government also plans to explore more scenic spots like
Jinshi Folk Village in the near future. (CD-Xinhua)
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_Date: 11/15/97_
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What's on (Page 6, Date: 11/15/97)
EXHIBITIONS
Russian treasures -- An exhibition of treasures from the Russian
National Treasury is running at the China National Art Museum.
The exhibition features 1,700 Russian treasures and two-thirds of
the items have never before been displayed in Russia.
All the exhibits are normally housed in the collection of the
Gokhran of Russia. The items include a natural gold nugget
weighing 1,581.8 grams, a 46 kilogram gold ball fashioned in 1890,
and several of the world's most precious medallions.
Time: 9 am-4 pm, November 15 to 23.
Place: China National Art Museum, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng
District.
Tel: 6401-2252.
Lanzi's paintings show -- The one-woman show of Lanzi (Wang
Weilan) is running at the China National Art Museum.
Wang, member of the Shanxi branch of the Chinese Artists
Association, is good at free hand style of the traditional Chinese
painting.
Time: 9 am-4 pm, through November 16.
Place: China National Art Museum, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng
District, Beijing.
Tel: 6401-2252.
Solo art show -- The one-man show of Zhang Guilin's screen
printings is under way at the Qin Gallery.
Zhang, 1978 graduate of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, is
now a professor with the Printmaking Department and director of
the design centre of the department.
Some of his works have been collected by the China National Art
Museum, Shanghai Art Gallery, British Museum and Peter Ludwig
Museum.
Time: 9:30 am-6 pm, through November 21.
Place: Qin Gallery, Ritan Dongyijie, east of Ritan Park, Chaoyang
District, Beijing.
Tel: 6507-4062.
Medici collection -- The '98 China Year of International Fine Arts
will be held in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Original artwork by Chinese established masters and also
up-and-coming modern Chinese artists will be on display.
Meanwhile, the exhibition offers Western art from the Renaissance
to the present, from the ancient Indian art of Latin America to
the sculptures of 10 African countries.
The first is the Italian Medici collection show, featuring
original works of Michelangelo and Sandro Botticelli.
The Medicis were the famous Italian family that ruled Florence
during the Renaissance (1300-1600). Florence at that time was very
prosperous and formed the focus of Renaissance art. The Medicis
patronized Michelangelo, the most famously gifted sculptor of the
Renaissance or perhaps any era.
Through the efforts of the family, especially Lorenzo de Medici,
Florence and their home boasted a rich collection of Renaissance
artwork.
Time: 8 am-5 pm, November 25-January 10.
Place: Working People's Cultural Palace, east of Tian'anmen
Rostrum.
Tel: 6403-1631.
Etchings show -- Tan Ping, a Beijing artist, recently opened his
1997 collection of etchings at the Red Gate Gallery.
Time: 11 am-6 pm, through November 19.
Place: Red Gate Gallery, third floor, China World Trade Centre, 1
Jianguomenwai Dajie.
Tel: 6505-2266 ext 6821
Oil painters' show -- "Marching Towards the New Century," a joint
exhibition of young Chinese oil painters, will be held at the
China National Art Museum.
Sponsored by the China Oil Painting Society and two other
departments, the exhibition will display 203 oil paintings
selected from 2,500 contributions throughout the country. The
painters, younger than 40, are all graduates of art academies.
With different subjects and in different styles, their works
represent the best of China's young oil painters.
Time: 9 am-4 pm, November 26-December 7.
Place: China National Art Museum, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng
District.
Tel: 6401-2252.
BALLET
Italian men in tights -- Italian contemporary ballet company
Aterballetto will present a modern ballet night in Beijing.
Founded in 1979, Aterballetto's artistic direction was entrusted
to Amedeo Amodio, the well-known choreographer and dancer.
Aterballetto has established itself as a fixture at major Italian
festivals and as a crowd-pleasing attraction on tours of Europe
and the United States.
This time, Aterballetto is in China to take part in the Italy Week
sponsored by Chinese and Italian governments, when more than 200
Italian companies are coming to Beijing. The programme includes
"Persephassa," "Songs" and "Canzoni."
The activity is sponsored by the China Performing Arts Agency and
organized by CPAA Cultural Entertainment Company.
Time: November 27.
Place: Beijing Century Theatre, Liangmaqiao Lu, Chaoyang District.
Tel: 6405-5512, 6407-3532, 6407-3534.
CONCERTS
Opera arias -- The China National Song and Dance Theatre will give
a concert, including "White-haired Girl," "Red Coral," "Sister
Jiang," "Waves of Honghu Lake," "Regret for the Past," "Prairie,"
"Village Knight," "Turandot," "Don Juan," "Carmen" and more.
Time: 7:30 pm, November 16.
Place: Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhuajie.
Tel: 6605-5812.
Folk music -- The Folk Music Troupe of the China National Song and
Dance Theatre will hold a concert, featuring its star singers:
Wang Tiechui, Ma Xianghua, Deng Jiandong and Qian Zhiwen.
"Liuyang River," "Moon Reflected in Springs," "Farewell to My
Concubine," "Merry Songs of the Miao Group," "Ambush Around," "A
Hundred Birds Sing a Hymn to the Phoenix," "Story by the Yellow
River," "Concubine Yang's Heart" and "Honghu People's Desire."
Time: 7:30 pm, November 18.
Place: Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhuajie.
Tel: 6605-5812.
Symphony concert -- The China National Symphony Orchestra will
give another concert next Saturday night. Hu Yongyan will be the
conductor.
Time: 7:30 pm, November 22.
Place: Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhuajie.
Tel: 6605-5812.
Vocal concert -- Five woman students of professor Jin Tielin from
the Central Conservatory of Music, will give a concert. They are
Wu Aihua, Zu Hai, Zhang Yan, Chu Qingling and Huang Xiao.
Programmes include Chinese folk songs "Splendid Qingling
Mountain," "Ancient Song," "Hometown is Beijing," "People from all
Continents Happy Together," "Spring is Full at Hometown," "Sea
Wind Brings Sadness" and so on.
Time: 7:30 pm, tonight.
Place: the Art Salon of Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, 48 Wangfujing
Dajie
Tel: 6512-5063 or 6513-3388 ext 1209
Romance night -- A string quartet concert will be held by the
Central Conservatory of Music, including "Colourful Clouds Chasing
the Moon," "Turkish Marching," "Schindler's List," "Waves of
Danube" and "Date on a Misty Night."
Time: 7:30 pm, November 20.
Place: the Art Salon of Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, 48 Wangfujing
Dajie
Tel: 6512-5063 or 6513-3388 ext 1209
Symphony concert -- The China National Symphony Orchestra will
give a concert tonight. Shao En will conduct.
Time: 7:30 pm, November 15.
Place: Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhuajie.
Tel: 6605-5812.
Jazz festival -- The '97 Beijing Jazz Festival will be held from
next Tuesday until Sunday at the International Theatre of Poly
Plaza.
The following is the agenda of the festival:
Tuesday: 7 pm,
Golden Angle Jazz Band (China), Wide Angle Jazz Band (China), and
Nils Landgren Funk Unit (Sweden).
Wednesday: 7 pm,
Antonio Martinez Candela (Spain) and Jon Jang Sextet (USA).
Thursday: pm,
Uli Lenz/Johannes Barthelmes Duo (Germany), Willem Breuker
Kollecktief (Netherlands) and Chinese String Ensemble.
Friday: 7pm,
The Far East Side Band (USA) and Keiko Lee (Japan).
Saturday:
Afternoon concert: 2 pm,
Rhythm dogs (China) and Ensemble for New Improvised Music
(Austria/USA/Lithuania/New Zealand).
Evening concert: 7.30 pm,
John Taylor/John Surman Duo (UK) and Gianluigi Trovesi Octet
(Italy).
Sunday:
Afternoon concert: 2 pm,
Liu Yuan Group (China) and Doky Brothers (Denmark).
Evening concert: 7.30 pm,
Richard Galliano Trio (France) and Betty Carter and Trio (USA).
Place: International Theatre of Poly Plaza, 14 South Dongzhimen
St, Dongcheng District.
Tel: 6608-4160, 6495-1005 or 6497-3278.
German classics -- The Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra of
Germany will perform under the baton of conductor Michael Stern at
the Beijing Century Theatre.
The Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, first formed in 1936, is
one of the most important cultural institutions in the Saarland.
With its large and diversified repertoire, besides radio and CD
productions, it gives more than 40 concerts a season.
The orchestra has already toured Australia, the former Soviet
Union, the USA and Italy.
For this China tour, the orchestra has invited two brilliant
China-born soloists: Han Xiaoming (horn) and Wang Jian (cello).
The programme includes immortal pieces by master composers Richard
Wagner (1813-83), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Richard Strauss
(1864-1949) and Johannes Brahms (1833-97).
Time: 7:15 pm, November 29-30.
Place: Beijing Century Theatre, 40 Liangmaqiao Lu, Chaoyang
District.
Tel: 6405-5512, 6407-3532, 6407-3534.
Chamber music -- Dusan Skovran String Orchestra from Yugoslavia
will present chamber music to Beijing theatregoers in the Beijing
Concert Hall.
Founded in 1965, the Belgrade ensemble has conducted tours in
countries including Britain, France, Russia, the United States and
Turkey.
Under the baton of conductor Aleksandar Pavlovic, the ensemble
will perform Schubert and Mendelssohn.
Time: 7:15 pm, December 9.
Place: Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhuajie, Xicheng District.
Tel: 6605-5812.
OPERAS
Peek-in opera -- Located in an ornate former temple, and painted
and draped in a manner fit for royalty, Zhengyici Theatre may be
worth a visit just for a look inside.
Better yet, stick around until the show gets rolling -- live
Peking Opera packaged in short programmes for foreign audiences.
Each act includes an explanation written in English, similar to
the announcements.
Time: 7:15 pm, daily.
Place: 220 Xiheyan Dajie, Xuanwu District (behind Hepingmen Roast
Duck Restaurant)
Tel: 6303-6233, 6303-6234.
Original opera -- The Liyuan Theatre at Qianmen Hotel is
presenting Peking Opera, original style. The theatre has revived
the ambience of old Beijing by setting up Ming-style tables, so
guests can sample snacks during performances.
The performers come from the Beijing Peking Opera Theatre.
Time: 7:30 pm, nightly.
Place: Qianmen Hotel, 175 Yong'anlu, Xuanwu District.
Tel: 6301-6688 ext 8986.
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_Date: 11/15/97_
_Author: _
_Copyright© by China Daily_

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_[1]The 15th Party Congress_

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[5][LINK] _[6]New Party Leadership elected,
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[7][LINK] _[8]Communique of 15th CPC Central
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_Chinese, U.S. Presidents Hold Press Conference _

WASHINGTON, October 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Jiang
Zemin and U.S. President Bill Clinton have agreed that China
and the United States should strengthen cooperation in
building a strategic partnership oriented toward the 21st
century, with a view to promoting world peace and
development.
This was stated by Jiang during a joint press conference by
the two presidents Wednesday.
The two presidents also shared the view of holding regular
visits between the two countries' heads of state,
facilitating a Washington-Beijing presidential communications
link, triggering the mechanism of a regular exchange of
visits by foreign ministers and other cabinet officials, as
well as strengthening cooperation in economic, scientific and
technological, cultural, educational fields and in law
enforcement.
Jiang described his talks with Clinton as "constructive and
fruitful," and believed that his ongoing visit could attain
the goal of enhancing mutual understanding, broadening common
ground, developing cooperation and building the future.
The two presidents also agreed to handle bilateral relations
and differences in line with the principles of mutual
respect, non-interference in each other's internal affairs,
equality and mutual benefit, and seeking common ground while
putting aside differences.
Clinton said that Jiang's visit to the United States gave
them the opportunity and the responsibility to build a future
that is more secure, more peaceful, more prosperous for both
peoples.
The two countries share a profound interest in a stable,
prosperous and open Asia, and a strong interest in stopping
the spread of weapons of mass destruction and other
sophisticated weaponry, Clinton said.
He said he agreed to move ahead with the U.S.-China agreement
for cooperation concerning the peaceful use of nuclear
energy.
In both China and the United States, trade has been a
critical catalyst for growth, and China is the fastest
growing market in the world for America's goods and services,
Clinton said. He also said the United States would "do
everything possible to bring China into the World Trade
Organization."
Referring to the Taiwan issue, Jiang said that China wishes
to effect the peaceful reunification of the motherland by
means of implementing Deng Xiaoping's concept of "one
country, two systems."
But China is not committed to giving up the use of force in
this regard, he said, adding that this does not target the
Taiwan compatriots, but direct against the foreign force
interfering in Taiwan affairs and against the scheme that
would attempt to separate Taiwan from China.
On the human rights issue, Jiang said the current world is a
rich and diverse one, and concepts on democracy and human
rights and on freedoms are relative and specific ones.
Therefore, they should be determined by the specific national
situation of different countries.

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