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The First Session of the Eighth National Congress was held from March 15 to 31 in Beijing, at which Jiang Zemin was elected president of the People's Republic of China, Qiao Shi, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress, and Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission. Li Peng was chosen as prime minister of the State Council.From April 27 to 29 Wang Daohan, chairman the China Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Koo Chen-fu, chairman of the Taiwan's Foundation for Exchange Across the Taiwan Straits, held talks in Singapore.

November

On November 20 President Jiang Zemin attended the informal meeting of the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation held in Seattle.

The Tenth Panchen Erdeni Qoigyi Gyaincain, an outstanding leader of the Tibet Buddhism, passed away on January 28, 1989 in Tibet. The inauguration ceremony for the Sasum Namgyal Memorial Hall for the stupa of the Tenth Panchen was held on September 4, 1993. The remains of the Tenth Panchen Lama are being welcomed to the hall.

The Sasum Namgyal Memorial Hall for the stupa of the Tenth Panchen covers an area of 1,933 square meters. The gold stupa pagoda in the hall is 11.55 meters high, inlaid with 868 precious stones, ranking first in the stupa pagodas of the past Panchen Lamas.

The Yangpu Bridge of Shanghai was opened to traffic. The bridge across the Huangpu River is 7,658 meters long, and the main span is 602 meters, greatly exceeding the original world bridge records, becoming the ``No.1 stayed-cable bridge in the world.''

After 1988, Professor Zhang Lizhu of the First Hospital attached to the Beijing Medical College and his assistants cultivated healthy test tube babies for many sterile couples. Two years later, thanks to their efforts, the first freeze-thaw embryonic test tube baby was born on the mainland. Newly born twin test tube babies.

The economic structural reform and the measures of complementing and promoting agriculture with industry made Huaxi Village in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, become better-off in a short period of time. A village with a population of over 1,000 villagers has 250 cars.