Saturday, July 19, 2003

News

TempleAncient temple reopens on new site: The Zhang Fei Temple was too valuable to let it disappear from the map. To save it from going down with the rising water [caused by the Three Gorges Dam], national experts on conservation and the relocation of ancient architecture helped work out a remarkable programme to relocate the temple.

Summer scorcher set to continue in Southern, Eastern china: Southern and eastern areas of China have been blighted by heatwaves and severe drought as floods in the Huaihe River basin subside. . . . Under the influence of a subtropical high pressure system, the province has experienced temperatures of over 35 C [95 F] since June 29. Fuzhou, the capital city, sweltered through a record high of 41.1 C [106 F] on Tuesday.

Ruins of 3,000-year-old Village Unearthed in Central China: Chinese archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a complete ancient village on the western edge of Yinxu, an important archaeological excavation site dating back more than 3,000 years, in central China's Henan province.

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