1999 in China

May 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

first launch of the Shenzhou spacecraft

alt= |thumb |The "Archaeoraptor" fossil in the Paleozoological Museum of China "Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in National Geographic magazine in 1999. The magazine claimed that the fossil was a "missing link" between birds and terrestrial theropod dinosaurs. Even before this publication, there had been severe doubts about the fossil's authenticity. Further scientific study showed it to be a forgery constructed from rearranged pieces of real fossils from different species. Zhou et al. found that the head and upper body belong

Chinese launch vehicle

transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China

international garden festival in Kunming, Yunnan, China

forestation project in China