Selected Images from Recent Events
Ariel view of the fireworks over the Olympic Village in Beijing during the opening ceremony on Friday, August 08, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese President Hu Jintao officially opens the Games. (Xinhua Photo)
Thousands of Chinese performers pay tribute to China's ancient history during a presentation at the opening ceremony. (Xinhua Photo)
Basketball star Yao Ming carries the Chinese flag during the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov shake hands after signing the additional protocol on the eastern part of the border between China and Russia, in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2008. The protocol marked the completion of the 4,300-kilometer China-Russia border survey and determination. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) meets with his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush during the G8 summit meeting in July 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd R), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2nd L), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (1st L) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (1st R) pose for a photo as they meet at Toyako in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 9, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
Two men pass by the reception for foreign journalists at Beijing International Media Center (BIMC) on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Located 2 kilometers away from the Main Press Center, the BIMC is the home for journalists who do not have Olympic media accreditation. (Xinhua Photo)
Residents manually clear algae from the coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province. Qingdao will host the Olympic sailing regatta in August.
Chen Yunlin (R), Chairman of Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kun, Chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) in Beijing, China, June 12, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)
A woman and her child mourn at the cemetery of quake victims in Yingxiu of Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 12, 2008, one month after the May 12 earthquake. (Xinhua Photo)
Wang Yi, newly appointed director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, speaks at an executive meeting of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in Beijing on June 3, 2008. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)
Chinese Primier Wen Jiabao has become the 6th most popular politician on Facebook, a U.S.-based social networking Web site.
Torchbearer Peng Shujie runs with the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Wuhu, east China's Anhui Province, May 29, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) talks with Lee Myung-bak, president of the Republic of Korea (ROK) during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, on May 28, 2008. Lee Myung-bak arrived in Beijing Tuesday afternoon, starting a four-day state visit to China. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with Lee Myung-bak, president of the Republic of Korea (ROK) during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, on May 28, 2008. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
The aerial photo taken on May 28, 2008 shows the place where soldiers temporarily live at the Tangjiashan quake lake near Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
Chinese armed police work to stabilize the Tangjiashan quake lake near Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 28, 2008. The earthquake-induced lake is at risk of bursting and threatens thousands of people downstream. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
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