The Summit 2009

World leaders from about 20 countries met at the London Summit（峰會(huì)）2009 on April 2nd．Thursday and reached an agreement of $1,100,000 million to fight against the worst economic crisis（經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)）．They said they would take more tight control of the financial rules（金融管制）to stop it happening again．

Chairman Hu Jintao on behalf of（代表）the Chinese government attended the summit and played an important role in it．

The Shanghai Tower

The Shanghai Tower has some famous neighbors．It's next to the 1615-foot-tall Shanghai World Financial Center that is the second tallest completed skyscraper（摩天大樓）in the world．So far，the first is Taiwan's 1670-foot-tall Taipei 101．The Tower is also next to the Jin Mao Building，which is the fifth tallest in the world at 1381 feet high．At 2073 feet，the Shanghai Tower will top（超過）all the three．The design work began in l993 and it will be finished in 2013．

The Grand Hotel Beijing

The Grand Hotel Beijing is a five-star hotel．It is within the red wall to the east of the Forbidden City and is near Tian'anmen Square and Wangfujing shopping street．All of the guest rooms are made in the traditional Chinese imperial style（中國傳統(tǒng)的皇室風(fēng)格）．It’s the right place where you can experience Royalty（王族）aim enjoy the honor that few people can do．

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Chinese delay US tour plans

Chinese tourists delayed（推遲）trips to the United States yesterday as the government warned on traveling to countries hit by H1N1 flu．

Zhang Wei，manager of the China International Travel Service’s tourism office，said the agency（旅行社）had been full of fears of being infected（被傳染）by such a flu．

The flu may have killed at least 83 people in Mexico．Confirmed or suspected cases have been reported first in the US，Brazil，Canada，Spain and New Zealand，then in Japan and several provinces（省份）in China．