An international photo exhibition featuring the life of ordinary
Chinese people opened in Vienna on Monday.
More than 100 photographers from China and other countries
contributed their works and the 150 photos on show were selected
from a pool of thousands.
They reflected the social and economic development of China and
the life, work, leisure and entertainment of ordinary people in
addition to highlighting the 5,000-year Chinese civilization and
the harmony among ethnic groups in China.
Li Yanfeng, vice director general of the State Council
Information Office of China, said that with the world's focus on
the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the
exhibition recorded the changes that were taking place in Chinese
urban and rural life.
Franz Baumann, acting director general of the United Nations
Office in Vienna, who visited the exhibition, said the photos
reflected the diversity of Chinese history and culture.
The one-week exhibition is jointly sponsored by the State
Council Information Office of China, the Chinese delegation and
Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations and other
International Organizations in Vienna, as well as the United
Nations Office in Vienna.
Tang Guoqiang, China's Permanent Representative to the United
Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna, UN
officials and diplomats in Vienna attended the opening
ceremony.
(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2007)
