(BEIJING, May 8)Â – Patent submissions in the Chinese capital increased to 31,680 in 2007, breaking the 30,000-mark for the first time, the chief of the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, Liu Zhengang, said on Thursday.
The performance was up 19.3 percent over 2006 and included 18,763 patent submissions for inventions, which accounted for 59.2 percent of […]
(BEIJING, May 8)Â – Atos Origin, worldwide Olympic partner for the Beijing Olympics, and the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) Technology Department announced on the 100-day countdown to the Olympics that the first technology rehearsal for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has been completed.
The test showed that technological staff, systems and procedures […]
Beijing will buy 2,800 buses to expand the city’s reserve and replace outdated buses in preparation for the Olympic Games, according to Liu Xiaoming, director of the Beijing Municipal Transport Commission.
In addition, the city’s transportation department will open 34 bus routes to the Olympic venues, he told the Beijing Daily.
Liu also promised to make at […]
The Supervision Committee of the Games of the 29th Olympiad held its 17th full session on Monday to outline its tasks for 2008.The meeting reviewed the instructions of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and recent speeches of BOCOG president Liu Qi on the Olympic preparations; heard […]
 Beijing has attached great importance to upgrading food safety citywide as a precondition to ensuring food safety for the upcoming Olympics, an official said on Thursday.
Since 2005, the city has engaged in an all-around effort to improve food safety, with guidelines already formulated, said Tang Yunhua, a spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Office for Food […]
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) held the 10th event of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Partner Club today. With Christmas and the New Year approaching, such an event is aimed to extend BOCOG’s appreciation of the important contributions by the Partners and to facilitate better communication in the […]
On July 13, 2001, China’s capital was awarded in Moscow the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games. People will remember this historic moment and a new page will be written in the Olympic history.
The celebration extended to all the Chinese who live abroad, uniting them with their homeland Through the Games, China and the […]
　　Shenyang,the largest city in Northeast China, is the political, economic, and cultural center of Liaoning Province. It is also an important industrial base and a famous historical city. As the host city of the 2006 International Horticultural Exposition and venue for the football (soccer) matches of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Shenyang will soon be […]
　　Shanghai, Hu for short, is situated on the estuary of Yangtze River of China. It is the largest industrial city in China. Covering an area of 5,800 square kilometers (2,239 square miles), Shanghai has a population of 18.7 million, including 2 million floating population.
　　Originally, Shanghai was a seaside fishing village and in time its gradual […]
　　Tianjin (Jin for short) is a municipality direct under the Central Government, as well as an opening city. It’s situated in the eastern part of the North China Plain, covering an area of 11,300 square km. and with a population of six million.
　　It has a semi-humid continental climate in the warm Temperate Zone. With an […]
