Joachiam Holtz, a TV journalist from Germany, shows his press card at the media center for the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) set up in Media Hotel of Beijing, Nov. 4, 2002. Foreign journalists can check in from the day at the center. A total of 536 foreign journalists representing 241 press institutions from 37 countries have applied to cover the congress which will open on Nov. 8, 2002. Xinhua photo