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Incredible "Dancing Beijing" stone: People are viewing a rare stone amazingly resembling "Dancing Beijing", the emblem for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, on September 7. The pattern and the length-width ratio of stone, 40cm in height, 28cm in width and 8cm in thickness, are almost the same as the Olympic "China Seal". The stone belongs to a collector in Beijing.

China's rural poverty declines, urban poverty rises: The past decade saw a sharp decline in number of rural poverty in China, but its urban poverty became a matter of concern, said the China Population and Development Country Report. The report said the number of those living in rural poverty fell from 80 million people by the end of 1993 to 29 million in 2003, which represented a decrease from 8.7 percent of rural population to 3.1 percent.

China's Three Gorges dam on alert: China's enormous Three Gorges dam remains on high alert as waters from the flooded Yangtze river continue to pour into the reservoir behind it.

Shanghai eases up family planning policy: Though still insisting on the one-child policy, Shanghai has stopped awarding couples who wish to remain childless, giving a hint that the city encourages them to contribute to increasing its population.