The newspaper features a photo of retired basketball player Yao Ming, who will attend the two sessions next week, frowning at the sky outside his hotel in Beijing.
Relations between Korea and China have been soured by the murder of a Ming envoy to Korea and a group of exiled Koreans hope to restore ties between the two countries by returning to her native land a Chinese princess they have rescued in the desert.
Though Mr. Gi disappeared above him, Mr. Majcen, his knees pumping and arms reaching for the railing to pull himself up the stairs two at a time, managed to quickly build a lead over 30-year-old Lam Ka-ming.