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	State Council General Office Calls for Conscientious Implementation of General Secretary Jiang Zemin's Important Instructions and All-Out Support for Various Localities in Their Anti-Flood Work The call is contained in the Circular issued by the General Office which stresses that various departments should concert their efforts and work in close cooperation, they should think of what the afflicted areas think and be anxious about what the afflicted areas are anxious for, urgent matters should be handled immediately and special matters specially.
	Jiangxi Province Declares Entry Into the Emergency Anti-Flood Period, Anhui Province Goes All Out to Guarantee Safety of the Wanjiang River Dykes The water level of the five main rivers, including the Yangtze and Jiujiang rivers, the Poyang Lake and the Ganjiang River has surpassed the record level, the situation there is extremely grim. The water of the Wanjiang River has remained high for one full month since the latter half of June. The second and third flood peaks of the Yangtze River are expected to enter the Wanjiang River, so the anti-flood situation is very grim.
	PLA and Armed Police Force Play the Role as a Shock Brigade More than 100,000 PLA officers and men and armed policemen fighting on the frontline against flood and dealing with emergencies, in order to ensure safety of dykes, important cities, main communications lines and reservoirs, people's properties and lives, they have thus played the role as a shock force.
	Pictured here are thousands of PLA officers and men who, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jingjiang river dyke, have been working continuously for days and nights with amazing perseverance, they have avoided dozens of dangerous breaches. Here the soldiers are transporting sand bags to reinforce dykes.
	First Batch of Central Government-Allocated Anti-Flood Materials Are All in Place The State Anti-Flood Headquarters indicates that when necessary, rapid and emergency allocations will be made to guarantee the supply of anti-flood materials.
	Power Output Exceeded 530 Billion KWH in the First Six Months
	Oil Output Surpassed 78 Million Tons in the First Half of the Year
	The Nation's Commodity Markets Maintain Steady Growth
	Bai Yaoping-Outstanding Representative of of the Naval Force He is an eminent naval officer capable of flying over the sky and operating a warship on the sea; he is a cross-century army man daring to face the challenge of a new technical revolution. Picture shows Bai Yaoping directing the sailing of the 542 Vessel.
	Shouldering a Sacred Mission Our Commentator says as we are going to greet and celebrate the 71st anniversary of the Army Day, our newspaper will, as of today, carry a series of reports on Bai Yaoping. Bai is captain of a missile escort vessel of the Donghai Sea Fleet of the Chinese navy. Bai exhibits a high sense of responsibility and historical mission, he digs into new technology, grasps new equipment, studies modern war and keeps abreast of world military development, thus accomplishing a series of important tasks of major military exercises and going abroad on visits by piloting ships, making him an outstanding representative of our army in studying high technology and advancing toward modernization.

	The State Development Bank Decides to Make Huge Investment to Support Power Grid Construction The bank plans to extend loans worth 50 billion yuan for rural power grid construction.
	Thoroughly Reversing the Passive Situation in the Work of the First Six Months Labor and Social Security Minister Zhang Zuoji stressed this at the National Working Conference on Old-Age Pension Insurance and Re-employment Service Center Construction.
	The Rural Economy Experienced Steady Operation in the First Half of the Year, Efforts Are Still Required to Increase Income and Reduce Burden on Farmers
	Party committee and government of Fengjiakou Town, Nanpi County of Hebei Province firmly carry out State Council instructions regarding the purchase of summer grain. Picture shows an old farmer, taking the money gained from grain sales, said happily, 'There is no IOU--I Owe You-this year!' (IOU is something which cannot be turned into cash)
	Daqing Oilfield Maintains Steady, High-Yields to Adapt to Change in the International Market
	Bank of China Promises to Provide the Handan Iron and Steel Group Co. Ltd. With Loans to the Tune of 2 Billion Yuan and Offer Omni-Directional Services in Settlement, Consultation and Financial Management
	Order (No.248) of the State Council of the PRC The Regulations on the Development, Operation and Management of Urban Real Estate is hereby published and is put into practice from the day of its publication. Signed by Premier Zhu Rongji on July 20, 1998.
	This Set of Regulations Contains 43 Articles in Six Chapters -- General Principles, Real Estate Development Enterprises, Real Estate Development and Construction, Real Estate Operation, Legal Liability and Supplementary Provisions

	Party Members in Datong Have Made Remarkable Achievements in the Aid-the-Poor Program 259,000 people in 80,000 families have got rid of poverty with the help offered by 110,000 party members on the basis one member to one family in this city of Shanxi Province.
	Growing Up With Project Hope - An Account by Zhang Shengli, the First Receipient of the Aid From the Project Hope

	A Ticket Is An Invitation Card - Chengde Summer Resort Attracts Tourists With Rich Cultural Contents Listed among the World Cultural Heritages by UNESCO in 1994, Chengde Summer Resort, covering an area of 5.64 million square meters, is the largest imperial garden in China. In order to lure more tourists from home and abroad, the administrative department of the resort has invested over 3 million yuan in the renovation and protection of the old buildings and disassembling of non-cultural-relics buildings. Exhibitions including those on the history and artifacts of Qing Dynasty and performances of Qing style are held regularly. Many efforts are made on the moral and vocational education to improve the quality of the service people.
	China International Chorus Festival Held In Beijing *About 3,000 singers of 53 choruses from home and abroad attended the opening ceremony of the event named "'98 For Tomorrow, Peace and Friendship - The 4th China International Chorus Festival" on the evening of July 25. The festival was co-sponsored by the External Liaison Department of the Ministry of Culture and China Culture International Travel Service.
	An On-the-Spot Enrollment An open enrollment for secondary technical schools was held in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province on July 23. Over 1,000 examinees and parents on the spot were quite satisfied with this move.
	The Ministry of Land and Resources has sent eight groups of experts to give help and advice to the flood-control and anti-disaster work in the provinces along the Yangtze River, where earthquake frequently happens.
	Flood-Control in the Yangtze River Has Entered the Critical Stage The 300km-long sections from Shishou to Luoshan and from Wuxue to Jiujiang, and Dongting and Poyang lakes as well, have seen water levels exceeding the record high.
	Over 27,000 victims in Lixian County, Hunan Province, have been promptly evacuated and properly arranged.
	Navigation in the section between Wuhan and Xiaochikou is closed.
	An extra-large flood hit the Chuo'er River in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.

	Bohai Sea Can No Longer Stand Up to Pollution This is the call issued by environmental experts at the meeting on "Bohai Sea Pollution Control".
	An Expert on Frozen Soil, Iceberg and Oceanography --Notes on Academician Ding Dewen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
	Five-day-long national working forum on solicitude for the next generation takes place in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province. All Party members, especially the aged, are called on to show concern for the healthy growth of the next generation and train them to become qualified successors with "lofty ideals, moral integrity, education and a sense of discipline (four-haves)".
	Sharing Weal and Woe with Laid-offs Shanxi Daily sent a group of reporters to cover news in the countryside during which they ate, lived and worked together with the Machine Harvesting Team composed of laid-off workers in order to get first-hand materials.
	Sample survey findings show that almost half of the computers (including software and hardware) used in China's industrial control system face the problem regarding a new century beginning from the Year 2000.

	Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan meets the Foreign Ministers from Japan, Singapore, Viet Nam, Myanmar and New Zealand respectively at the ASEAN Regional Forum and Post-Ministerial Meeting. In his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, Tang says President Jiang Zemin's planned trip to Japan this year will be of great and far-reaching significance for Sino-Japanese ties and will draw extensive attention from the international community. Jiang's visit is mainly aimed at exploring with Japan the building of a framework for Sino-Japanese friendship in the next century.
	Chinese Ambassador Zhou Gang to India points out that China will not pose a threat to India. Ambassador Zhou stresses that the current abnormal situation between China and India is what the Chinese government does not want to see. China's refutation of the gratuitous attacks and charges made by some persons against China is completely for maintenance of the overall situation regarding the Sino-Indian friendship. Zhou makes the remarks as he gives a lecture at the invitation of India International Center.
	The General Election of Cambodia proceeds smoothly. Cambodia's general election was held yesterday, which was the first one presided over by the Cambodian people themselves in the past 30 years, and the voters cast their ballots enthusiastically and in an orderly manner. Hun Sen, the Second Prime Minister and the vice-chairman of the Cambodian People's Party, says that King Norodom Sihanouk plays a great, irreplaceable role in the national reconciliation of Cambodia. Photo: The Cambodian voters are awaiting to cast.
	The situation in Angola sharply worsens and the leaders from 14 southern Africa countries discuss the policy to solve this crisis urgently.
	Photo: Several tourists outside the Capitol Hill are mourning the two policemen died in the attack of July 24.
	Some armed conflicts occurred continuously in Kosovo. A senior NATO official stresses the need to solve the Kosovo crisis politically.
	Photo: US Vice-President Albert Gore and Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko are holding a news briefing in Moscow. While answering the question about points he is in common with Gore, Kiriyenko says, "Our kids are all 15-year-old and computer-fans. We all knew our wives when we studied in high school."

	The Fire Warns Human Race The big forest fires in some countries are the warnings that cannot be neglected. If the humans do not try to change the blind practices such as destroying the forest, something more terrible will happen some day in the future.
	Photo: An armor-vehicle repairing factory in Belarus is now being used to disassemble the vehicles that have retired from the military service so as to recover the useful parts.
	All the Arts Museums in Britain will Open to the Public Free in the Next Century.
	Photo: Everyone who buys the Japanese Edition of Windows 98 at a shop in Tokyo can have a photo taken with the sale-miss.

	News of Victory From the Goodwill Games: Chinese diving team won three gold medals in men's and women's springboard and platform diving.
	Chinese contestants won the team shooting gold medal and broke the world record with total 1754 rings at the World Shooting Championships.
	Chinese baseball team lost to its Panama counterpart by 0-7 at the 33rd World Baseball Championships held in Firenze, Italy.
	Seriously injured Chinese gymnast Sang Lan took a surgical operation in Nassau Medical Center. The operation lasted for seven hours from eight o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon on July 25. Sang Lan's parents arrived in New York and visited their daughter at hospital. They expressed their gratitude to the Nassau's doctors. Former American football player Bird, who recovered from spinal cord hurt years ago, visited Sang Lan, told her of his own experience and encouraged her to be confident of regaining her health.
	Chinese Women's Soccer Team beats Norwegians by penalty kicks at the Goodwill Games. Pictured here are two players rushing for the ball.
	Chinese Football Association Division A League Restarts * Shenzhen Ping'an guided by its new coach Cha Bum from South Korea is crushingly defeated 5-0 by Beijing Guo'an; *Dalian Wanda is still in the absolutely superior position.
	Standing of Marlboro Chinese Football Association Division A League (by the 14th round on July 26)
	North Region Games of Chinese College Basketball League Start
	Chinese female contestant Zhang Xiaoying took the third place in World Youth Shooting Championships.

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