The year 2009 will be placed under the sign of beef in China, and the Chinese jewelry multiply the objects drifted like every year to take advantage of the financial manna that the feast of the spring represents (Chinese New year).

After beef achieved with 130 000 real pearls of Suzhou, and the ingots of gold and money to the effigy of beef, some jewelry of the country simply sells gold figurines to the picture of the bovine.

The gold ornaments representing beef become more and more popular with the approach of the Chinese New year who will fall January 26, 2009.

Peking is going to doublehits investments next year in the works of renovation of the former buildings of the downtown with a budget of between 1.5 trillion yuan (220.6 millions of dollars) and 2 billions of yuan.

About 20 000 families in the precincts of Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen and Xuanwus, will benefit this project, that will concentrate on the old houses in dangerous condition, declared Wednesday the vice-mayor Chen Gang.

According to the plan, a third of these 20 000 families will move downtown districts of the next year to attenuate the demographic pressure there.

The Siheyuan or houses to square court are current in the hutongs (alleys) of Peking.

Their residents complain about water flights by the summer the roofing, of the risks of fire and the dangerous electric cables. They must also share the arrivals of water, electricity and the toilets with their neighbors, what sometimes leads to disputes.

The authorities of the city will forbid the involvement of the real estate promoters in the project of restoration, to avoid the demolition and rebuilding the massive, and protect the rights of the residents, indicated Chen.

The government will take to its load the costs of the renovation of public buildings and the half of the costs of the private buildings, it has added.

Peking threw an enormous project of renovation in October of last year with an investment of one billion of yuan, the biggest of the kind since the foundation of People's Republic of China in 1949. About 10 576 families in 1 954 Siheyuan in 44 hutongs benefitted the project, that allowed every family to have its own toilets and arrivals of water.

The government said that it had taken care to avoid damage to the traditional aspect of the hutongs in order to preserve their historic and cultural significance.

Peking counts again about two million squared meters of old houses in the downtown, indicated Sui Zhenjiang, chief of the Municipal Commission of the construction.

The entry to this yearly lounge, that started in 2003, was free during his first three editions. The promoters began to make pay for 10 yuan in 2006, mainly to control the number of the visitors and not to make the children enter, declared Zhu Jiaming, director attaches the provincial Society of Sexology of the Guangdong.

This year, the Lounge offers some discussions on the control of the births, the condoms and the sexual toys, one exhibitions of photos on the sexual health and the eugenics, of the forums on the sexology and quiz, etc..

In preliminary to the festival, some sex therapists gave a set of course to the schoolboys and students, as well as to the migrating workers to improve their knowledge and the conscience of him 'safe sex', declared Zhang Feng, director of the provincial Commission of the People and the Control of the birth of the Guangdong.

The Guangdong is the province that has benefitted from the more the politics of reform and opening. She shelters the most important population of migrating workers in China. Their number is estimated to 30 million.

The exhibition will end Tuesday.

"The illegal taxi drivers will be condemned to a fine varying enters 30 000 and 100 000 yuan (enters 4 411 and 14 705 dollars). Their illegal income will be confiscated," declared a spokesman of the service of the backing of the regulations of the circulation of Chongqing.

The vehicles close to the airport, of the landing stage and jetties, of the road and railroad stations will be controlled especially during this country, the spokesman underlined.

He / it admitted the difficulties of the staff charged of the repression of the illegal taxicab because these are the most particular cars not carrying a distinctive sign.

"But we will endeavor to arrive to a good result in three or five months", he has added.

The taxi drivers of Chongqing strike made last Monday and Tuesday to protest against several problems, of which the insufficiency of the provision of the service stations in compressed natural gas, carburating Taxicab most of the city, the competition of the illicit Taxicab and the amount of the fines that they judge exaggerated.

The document on "Dali's Initiative" has been adopted to Dali, the picturesque city of Yunnan, at the end of an international conference of two days.

At the time of this conference, the participants bent among others on the issues relating to the tourism, to the education, to the culture, to the trade and to the transportation.

The autonomous Region of Tibet of China shares a common border with India.