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rs every day. Now I feel relaxed and happier. The most important of all, I?ve learned what can not be learned from our textbooks. As everybody knows, giant pandas are rare animals and they are our national treasures. Now fewer pandas exist in China with their living environment changing. Pandas are such lovely animals that all of us like them and so do people in Taiwan, who share the same root as the people on the mainland. The names “Tuan Tuan” and “Yuan Yuan” stand for peace and unification. We hope that Taiwan and the mainland will bee one family some day in the near future. Dear peter, Glad to have read your letter. To meet your request, I will tell you something about the present public transport of Beijing. As you said in the letter, public transport of Beijing in 19995 wasn?t really good enough. But things have greatly changed in the past ten years. Now there are 24,000 buses, running on 750 bus routes, which are 3 times as many as those in 1995. you can get to nearly every corner of the city easily by bus, which costs not much. By the year 2020, 32,000 buses will have covered 820 routes throughout the city. As for highways, now the total length of highways in Beijing is over 18,000km. Believe it or not, in 1995 the number was only 8,000km. In addition, underground railways and city rails are available, fast and safe. The