Local residents in Urumchi city looking at a model of Fengyun-1 weather satellite on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day on March 23, 2008. The weather bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held a scientific exhibition at the People's Square of Urumchi city. The theme of the World Meteorological Day this year is Observing Our Planet for a Better Future. It calls for an international cooperative observation that will provide alarms for weather disasters, to prevent possible loss from extreme weather conditions. [Photo Xinhua]
Local residents in Urumchi city visited the exhibition on environment of the Taklamakan Desert in western China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
The Shenyang Meteorological Exhibition was free for visitors on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
Forty young reporters in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region visited the weather exhibition on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
Students took note of their discoveries during their visit to a weather exhibition in Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Sunday, the World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
