Scientists are looking to outer space for help in their attempt to prevent new outbreaks of the tropical disease schistosomiasis in southern China.

China's largest freshwater lake to get research center NANCHANG, Oct.24 (Xinhua) -- Construction has begun on a centerto facilitate academic research on Poyang Lake, China's largest fresh- water lake and an internationally important wetland, in Jiangxi Province.

Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Asia-Pacific service Beijing, 1 November: Of late, Shandong, Hebei and Jiangxi provinces have introduced measures to step up the monitoring of the bird flu epidemic.