Wen Jiabao - Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister of China, speaks at the Millennium Development Goals meeting during the 63rd session of the General Assembly at the UN on September 25, 2008 in New York City. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister of China, speaks at the Millennium Development Goals meeting during the 63rd session of the General Assembly at the UN on September 25, 2008 in New York City.
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Premier Wen Jiabao took his government's message to China's Muslim regions, urging locals to work harder to boost industrial and agricultural development.
BEIJING, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush and Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao met Sunday in Beijing, discussing bilateral relations, Taiwan and the Olympics, officials said.
BEIJING, July 2 (UPI) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a meeting Wednesday with U.S. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said that China will support the United Nations.
BEIJING, June 10 (UPI) -- China's quake-created Tangjiashan lake was draining faster than it had been but engineers remained alert to the threat landslides might destabilize the lake.
BEIJING, June 4 (UPI) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for resumption of production in the earthquake-hit regions as reconstruction efforts get under way.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Thirty or so years ago, the phrase "China Syndrome" was the battle cry of the more radical elements opposing nuclear power. Today, the disastrous earthquake in China's Sichuan province yields a newer meaning to that phrase.
BEIJING, May 29 (UPI) -- Engineers were working nonstop under heavy odds to drain a huge quake-created lake in China that threatens to burst, but officials say it will take days.
BEIJING, May 28 (UPI) -- Chinese rescue teams Wednesday faced the prospect of having to evacuate up to 1 million people in the path of an earthquake-formed lake that could burst.
BEIJING, May 22 (UPI) -- The vice governor of China's quake-hit Sichuan province said Friday the death toll in his province had risen to 55,239 as of 7 p.m. the previous day.
BEIJING, May 22 (UPI) -- The soaring death toll from southwestern China's devastating earthquake jumped nearly 10,000 to 51,151 Thursday, government officials reported.