Employees of a shopping center present carnation flowers to an elder in Beijing on May, 13, 2006. Many shops across the country offer special services for Mother's Day greetings as Chinese attach more and more attention to the festival nowadays, which falls on May 14 this year.

Employees of a shopping center decorate a car, which is exclusively used to deliver the goods bought for mothers as gifts, with carnation flowers in Beijing on May 13, 2006.

Chen Liyun (L), a team leader of the women electric welding crew, listens while her daughter Zhou Yuwei reads a mother's day school assignment prose praising the significance of motherhood in Yichang, the construction site of the Three Gorges Project in central China's Hubei Province May 13, 2006. Tens of thousands of women work for the construction of the Three Gorges Project.

Little kids write down their best wishes for their mothers on a banner in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 13, 2006. More than 100 college students from a local university launched this signatuer campaign to celebrate the Mother's Day.

A mother watches her new-born baby in a hospital in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province on May, 13, 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency May 14, 2006)