China's first exhibition of technology used to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) opened Tuesday in Changchun city, in northeast China's Jilin Province.
Initiated by local science and technology departments and the Jilin Provincial Institute of Science and Technology, the 15-day exhibition will feature more than 1,500 items contributed by anti-SARS hospitals across China ranging from medical apparatuses and appliances, photographs and television documentaries.
Seven science fiction movies focusing on humankind's wars on diseases are also open to visitors for free.
Institute director Li Yunbiao said the exhibition was designed to acknowledge the achievements China had made in battling the SARS and to promote science and technology.
(Eastday.com July 2, 2003)
