Officials: Prudent with Air Quality Improvement Measures 
Guangzhou is trying to improve the city's transportation and road network ahead of the Asian Games. With new expressways, longer and more extensive metro lines, new bus and train stations and better planned road, the government however have promised to be prudent when implementing special measures such as temporarily limiting the number of cars on the road. Our journalist Luo Su has been talking to the Vice director of the Guangdong Public Security Department, He Guangping:
Mr He Guangping said the details of new and temporary traffic regulations have not been finalized:
" we are still studying how to implement special traffic regulations during the Games. We have not yet decided whether to control vehicles based on their license plates. "

US team to play against Lang's squad
The United States women's volleyball team is in Guangzhou for a challenge match with Evergrande Guangdong which shall take place tomorrow (February 2) at the Guangzhou Gymnasium. Led by the former coach of the US men's volleyball team, the 2008 Olympic champions will exchange cross-net fire with Evergrande, who are coached by the Chinese volleyball legend Lang Ping. For her, playing against the US national team will be something special, as she coached the team from 2005-2008, helping it win silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

China pledges new efforts to boost rural development
China this year pledges to increase investment, subsidies, and fiscal policies to supports rural areas and to better coordinate urban and rural development.
What's more, the document issued by the central government said, expanding rural demand should be the key measure in boosting domestic demand, whilst developing modern agriculture should be considered as a major task in transforming China's economic growth pattern.