Chinese rescuers observe a moment of silence to pay last respects to a dead Chinese colleague in quake-hit Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 16, 2010. Chinese rescue team found one dead Chinese body from the rubbles Saturday.(Xinhua/Yuan Man)

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    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — A Chinese body had been found among the rubble of a building here destroyed by Haiti’s massive earthquake, Chinese rescue team leader Huang Jianfa said here early Saturday morning.

    The body was found at 03:30 a.m. local time (0830 GMT) among the ruins of the collapsed building of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

    They also found a camera and a video camera, which belonged to the Chinese peace-keeping police in Haiti, as well as a shoe marked “Made in China,” added Huang.

    The Chinese rescue team members and the Chinese peacekeepers held a mourning ceremony on the site, standing in five lines and making three bows to the body.

    The rescue team is doing everything possible to speed up the search for another seven policemen still missing.

    Eight Chinese police officers were meeting UN officials in the building when the 7.3-magnitude quake hit Haiti on Tuesday.

    There were 142 Chinese peace-keeping police officers in Haiti. The others are accounted for.

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    URUMQI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — China Huaneng Group, China’s biggest power producer, will build two 600MW power units in the far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an executive at its Xinjiang subsidiary said Saturday.

    Liu Xinmin, general manager of the Huaneng Xinjiang Energy Development Company, said the regional development and reform commission, the local economic planner, gave the green light to the initial phase of its Turpan power plant Saturday.

    The plant will help to meet rising power demand in Turpan and southern Xinjiang and also is a major power source for the country’s west-east electricity transmission project, Liu said.

    Huaneng planned to start construction this April. The units, which cost about 4.8 billion yuan (703 million U.S. dollars), are expected to be put into operation at the end of 2012, he said.

    Huaneng also planned to add another two 600MW power units to the Turpan power plant before 2015 to take advantage of the rich coal resources and the region’s position as a power-grid hub, the executive said.

    The power grid in Turpan will be connected this year to a national one that helps transmit power from the west to the east.

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    TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechion Saturday extended condolences and deep sympathy to families of the victims in quake-hit Haiti.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, is interviewed by Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television (CCTV) in Tokyo, capital of Japan, Jan. 16, 2010. Yang is in Japan for the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC). (Xinhua/Ren Zhenglai)

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    ”We feel great regret over the heavy casualties and enormous damage to properties caused by the major earthquakes in Haiti,” said Yang in an interview with Xinhua and China Central Television(CCTV).

    ”On behalf of the Chinese government, I express sincere condolences and deep sympathy to people in Haiti,” said Yang, who arrived late Friday to attend the 4th foreign ministers’ meeting of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC).

    ”The Chinese government has decided to send emergency humanitarian aid package worth 30 million yuan (4.41 million U.S. dollars) to Haiti, and China’s Red Cross Society has pledged 1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid,” he said, adding that a Chinese emergency rescue team, including medical workers, has arrived in Haiti to help with the rescue operations.

    Yang said that China’s humanitarian attempts were greatly appreciated among the foreign ministers at the meeting.

    On the eight Chinese peace-keeping police officers trapped under rubble in Port-au-Prince, Yang said that the Chinese people are deeply concerned for their survival.

    And the Chinese foreign ministry will work with the departments concerned to do everything possible to speed up the search for the officers.

    The two-day FEALAC foreign ministers’ meeting opened Saturday to discuss various issues facing the international community and both regions. 

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    BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Senior legislators from the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, left here Saturday afternoon for visits to Singapore and Samoa.

    The delegation, led by Chen Changzhi, vice-chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, will attend the 18th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum held in Singapore, as invited by the Singaporean parliament.

    They will also pay a good-will visit to Samoa at the invitation of the legislative assembly of Samoa.

    BEIJING, Jan. 16 – A pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 will become China’s first public building to have zero-carbon emissions, China National Radio reported Saturday.

An artist’s rendition of the zero-carbon emission building complex (Xinhua Photo)

    The building complex will be powered by solar, wind and water energy. Food scraps also will be used to produce electricity through decomposition.

    The complex, built by environmentally friendly materials, will house a lecture hall, a restaurant, an exhibition hall and six model rooms.

    Chen Shuo, general coordinator of the project, told reporters that the building mainly demonstrates a way of dealing with climate change.

    ”After the Expo is over, it will become China’s first zero-carbon museum,” Chen said.

    (Source: Chinadaily.com.cn)

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