BEIJING, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese media, newspapers and websites have been filing special reports on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, mostly focusing on changes to everyday life since the tragedy.
The Global Times, a newspaper affiliated to the People's Daily specializing in international news, devoted several pages to recording the feelings of women who lost their husbands on Sept. 11 and the subsequent changes to their lives.
Widows said the compensation could not assuage the loss of their husbands. Some had moved home and started new lives.
The English-language China Daily had a front page story about a daughter's recollection of her parents who died on board American Airlines flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.
The report described the feelings of Zhang Rui who went to the United States for a post-doctoral degree. "Unlike Western parents, my parents didn't say 'I love you', but their love was reflected in their everyday lives.
"I still miss their witty jokes and my mum's cooking," she recalled.
The Beijing Youth Daily covered stories on several Chinese Americans who experienced the attack.
Chen Sijin, a company employee working on the 80th floor of the World Trade Center, detailed his evacuation from the building - which collapsed minutes after he left - as well as his changed attitudes since the attack.
The Beijing News ran an interview with Wu Jianmin, president ofthe Foreign Affairs College and former Chinese Ambassador to France, on China's role in fighting terrorism and young people's attitudes to terrorism.
China's major news websites, such as www.xinhuanet.com, www.sina.com.cn and www.China.com.cn, all made the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack their top story.
The websites carried photos of U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife laying a wreath at a reflecting pool at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, as well as photos of the horrible Sept. attack, reminding people not to forget "the black day for humanity." Some websites also carried articles by experts looking at international cooperation in the fight against terrorism over the past five years. Enditem