World congress

　　OVER 1,000 health officials and medical experts from throughout the world attended the Second World Integrative Medicine Congress in Beijing Sunday.

　　Academic exchanges on 18 special subjects were expected to be held between yesterday and today in six branch conference halls together with six satellite conferences, during which over 1,000 theses will be under discussion, according to the China Daily.

　　Casual dress market

　　JAPANESE clothing giant Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., has announced plans to establish two franchise stores in Shanghai at the end of this month.

　　Waterway

　　THE first-phase of China’s largest waterway-dredging project since 1949 passed an official appraisal Sunday.

　　The project aims to improve the efficiency of Yangtze navigation started in January 1998 by clearing the deep-water route at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

　　Ancient stoneware

　　CHINESE archaeologists have discovered a site which is believed to be an ancient stoneware processing plant in Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China.