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Wang Xiaolong (L), Deputy Director General of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sits with other officials while attending the opening ceremony of the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza, at a hotel ballroom in Beijing, Tuesday 17 January 2006. The conference jointly being held by the European Commission (EC), World Bank and Chinese government will issue the Beijing Declaration for the purpose of uniting political determination in fighting pandemic influenza. China has had no human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country's eight known cases with five verified deaths, while it is estimated that several hundred people die in China each day as a result of traffic fatalities. Others in the picture (from L to R); Herve Jouanjean - Directorate for External Relations of the EC, Qiao Zonghuai - Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, James Adams - World Bank Vice President. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL