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Beijing, Mar. 13 : The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has expressed strong desire to go to Taiwan for a visit, saying that he would willingly crawl to the island if he could not walk in his old age.

"Although I am 67 years old, if it is possible, I would like to go to Taiwan," Xinhua quoted Jiabao, as saying.

"Even if I can no longer walk, I will crawl to Taiwan," he told a press conference after the closing meeting of the national legislature''s annual session.

Beijing, Mar. 13 : At least one in five Chinese athletes have lied about their age to participate in sports competitions, scientific screening has revealed.

An x-ray analysis of the bones of competitors at the Youth Games in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong discovered that 3,000 of the 15,000 athletes, or 20 per cent, had misrepresented their age.

Two thousand offenders were too old to be eligible for youth competitions, while one of them was seven years older than he claimed.

Age-faking caused embarrassment to China during last year''s Olympic Games in Beijing, when gold medallist gymnast He Kexin was accused of being just 14 years old and ineligible. She was eventually cleared by the International Olympic Committee.

Beijing  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday urged leaders of the world's 20 major economies to prioritise help for developing nations at the G20 summit next month in London.

"Developing countries are the worst hit in the financial crisis, however their difficulties tend to be easily neglected," Wen told reporters.

Beijing  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday urged North Korea and other nations involved in talks on its nuclear weapons programme to exercise restraint and "refrain from taking actions that may escalate tensions."

"We hope that parties involved in the six-party talks will further build consensus," Wen said ahead of planned talks next week with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Il.

Taipei  - Taiwan on Friday welcomed the prospect of a visit to the island by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao after Wen expressed his wish to see Taiwan and meet its people.

"We welcome Chinese leaders at all levels if they want to visit Taiwan, but we need to make careful planning," Premier Liu Chao-shiuan told parliament. "The higher their status is, the more careful the planning must be."

Wen made peace overtures to Taiwan Friday morning at a news conference in Beijing at the end of the annual session of China's nominal parliament, the National People's Congress.