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(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-04 07:41 June 4, 1983 Bao'an county restored in Shenzhen city Abolished in 1979, Bao'an County in Guangdong province has been restored as a part of Shenzhen city, according to the decision of State Council. Li Guangzhen, the head of Bao'an county, said the purpose of the restoration is to promote the agricultural potential and effective management of the areas around Shenzhen special economic zone.
The new county will also follow the current open policy to utilize international investments, Li said. Taiwan veterans long for family reunion A letter from a group of veterans of World War II was published on Warm Current, a Taiwan journal, expressing their desire of reunion with their family members on mainland, Xinhua reported. In the past three decades, the Taiwan authorities had forbidden them to communicate with their families or return to mainland. All of these veterans are in their 60s. They didn't get good treatment after the war and have little for their pensions. New relics-dating method found Archaeologists in Shanghai Museum have found a new way to judge the age and value of relics by thermoluminescence, a phenomenon by which radioactive elements give out light while heating. This technology is most effective for telling the age of pottery. A new unearthed pottery camel of Tang Dynasty (618-907), which experts suspected might be fake, has been examined by thermoluminescence and shows the age to be at least 1,000 years. The previous carbon-14 method for determining date can be used for relics no more than 40,000 years, while the new method can track back to 100,000 years. (China Daily 07/04/2008 page9) |
