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The 100-plus pandas in China’s largest giant panda reserve in Gansu Province, which were reported to be missing after the May 12 earthquake, are considered to be safe and well, local forestry officials said on Thursday.

“All the pandas in the reserve are safe, according to our experience,” Li Shiren, an official of the Baishuijiang Nature Reserve Administration told the Beijing Morning Post.

The researchers traced fresh excrements of pandas and heard their sounds for many times. And the 64 forest rangers, who live in the reserve all year long, didn’t find any abnormal behaviors of the pandas.

“Giant panda is a very sensitive animal. It will stay in its cave if anything unusual happens. Besides, pandas in the reserve will go down the hill everyday to drink water, which makes it easy for our workers to spot anything out of the way,” Li added.

Li also confirmed the bamboos in the reserve, which is a major source of food for the pandas, remain sufficient in amount.

The latest national census of giant pandas, which lasted from 1999 to 2001, counted 103 of the animals in Baishuijiang, the largest of China’s 55 giant panda reserves. The area is within 100 kilometers of the hardest-hit counties of Sichuan.

“Our reserve was seriously affected by the quake,” Li Shiren added.

The administration’s seven work stations in the reserve were damaged to different extents, and the mountain roads were all blocked. 50 forestry workers in the mountain lost contacts with the administration for about one day after the quake hit, but were confirmed safe later, according to Li.

After the quake, the administration sent two teams, about 90 researchers altogether, into the reserve to check out the pandas’ safety, and the second team has just returned on Wednesday.

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During the three day of mouring for quake victims, the website mourn the victims in their own way. They send the message about the earthquake, they call upon all the people to provide help. If you log on to some website form China, you will find that there are some differents as before. The mail color of the websites are grey or dark now. And some of websites stop running during the three days.

Look at some main websites for example:

  BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) — The death toll from China’s devastating earthquake rose by 1,278 to 41,353 as of noon on Wednesday, according to the Information Office of the State Council.

    Another 274,683 people were injured and there were still 32,666missing in the aftermath of the 8.0-magnitude quake that hit southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12.

    With the increasing number of deaths and the coming summer, the quake disaster regions are facing mounting pressure to prevent epidemics though no epidemic outbreak or serious mass health accident had been reported yet.

    Thousands of medical workers are on the scene. Medical teams with about 45,000 members were working in all quake-hit counties and townships in Sichuan as of Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

On  May19th,2008, the whole Country of China mourn for the victims during the Sichuan earthquake. Across the country, sirens and horns wailed; people fell silent. China Central Television darkened its screen. In the headquarters of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, more than 200 employees gathered in front of their office building, facing southwest, towards Sichuan, in a silent tribute.

After the three minutes mourn in  Tian’anmen square, thousands of people shouted “Go, Go, China!” “Brave and strong, China!” and “Brave and Strong, Wenchuan!” “Hang on, Sichuan!”

In order to mourn to the victims during the Sichuan earthquack, the State council, the Cabinet ordered a national respect for the dead. The public are asked to stand in silence for three minutes from 2:28 p.m. Monday, while automobiles, trains, and ships will sound their air sirens.

Flags are to be kept at half-mast and all public amusements will be suspended for three days from Monday as China begins an official mourning period for victims of the May 12 earthquake.

China’s diplomatic missions abroad were also ordered to observe the mourning order, and condolence books are to be opened in the Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies and consulates around the world.

That is the first time of such an activety which is for the ordianry other than the national leaders.

Now the whole China is all concern about the earhquck. Not just China, all the people from the world care about China.

Accordin to the report from the the China Seismological Bureau (CSB) on Sunday that the loss of the earthquack of southwest China earthquake from 7.8 to 8.0 on the Richter scale. The death toll from the powerful earthquake that jolted southwest China’s Sichuan Province had risen to 32,477 nationwide as of 2 p.m. Sunday, while the number of injured reached 220,109, according to the emergency response office under the State Council.

Many many people are trying to rescue more people, many many people are trying their best to suppot the people from the earthquack.

There are many foreign volunteers in the rescue work of the earthquack. Thank you,our friends!

As we know that lots of people in China are learning English. I am also one of them.

In China, most of the time, the parents and the teachers encouraged the children to speak to the foreigners to practice their English. I admit that it is a good way to learn the language by communicating with the local people. For example, practice in the English corner or making friends with foreign people.

But some times, the teacher and the parents will tell the children to speak to the foreign people whenever they meet the foreign people. I don’t think this is the best way to encourage the children to learn the foreign language. I think we should consider other people, especially the forign people. Maybe sometimes they don’t want to be disturbed or maybe they want to have their own space.

So i think we should choose the right time or people to practice our foreign language.