Youngest Go Champion
Jiang Weijie, born in 1991, a Chinese Go player, became champion by defeating Lee Changho of South Korea at the 16th LG Cup Championship
Female Role Model
Yi Jiefang, head of NPO-greenlife, an environmentally oriented nonprofit organization, won the 2011 Annual Female Model prize
Genetic Engineering Ban
The freedom of grain producers in China to genetically engineer produce will be limited under a draft law
Health Benefits
China will raise government subsidies for health insurance offered to farmers and non-working urbanites to over 360 yuan per person per year by 2015
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"The Nanjing Massacre is a proven atrocity recognized by the international community. The Japanese side should abide by the principles of the historic agreements made between the two countries and work to advance bilateral relations in a healthy and stable way. This is in the basic interests of both countries and their peoples."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, expressing the attitude of the Chinese Government over Nagoya mayor's denial of the Nanjing Massacre, at a press conference in Beijing on February 22

"China will continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy this year amid complicated economic environments both at home and abroad."

Chinese Minister of Finance Xie Xuren, in an article published on the ministry's website, on February 22

"We avoided a nightmare scenario, for Greece, the euro zone, Europe and the global economy."

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, at a press conference in Athens on February 21, after Greece was granted a fresh 130-billion- euro ($173-billion) rescue loans package

"Topol-M and Yars are new-generation missiles. One can say we are a bit ahead of our American partners in this area."

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, accusing the United States of attempting to destroy the global strategic balance with its antimissile system, at a meeting with top-ranking military officers in Moscow on February 22
SEA GUARDIAN
A Chinese maritime law enforcement boat on patrol in China's territorial waters on February 19. Routine patrols by China Marine Surveillance officers discovered two Japan Coast Guard survey boats in the East China Sea late that day. The survey boats left the waters after receiving a warning from the Chinese patrols (XINHUA)
WATER SCARCITY
A woman fetches water from a water cellar in Yugu Village in Luliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on February 20. A severe drought has been lingering in Yunnan for three consecutive years, disrupting the lives of 6.3 million people in the province this year (LIN YIGUANG)
SWEET FRUIT
A mother and son visit a strawberry greenhouse in Changping District in Beijing's northern suburbs on February 18, as 1,000 agricultural scientists from around the world met at the seventh International Strawberry Symposium in the district (LI XIN)
TRUE LIES
Twins Wan Yiju (right) and Wan Yiheng and their 148-meter-long 3D painting in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, which was recognized by the Guinness World Records Corporate as the world's longest 3D street painting (CFP)
 
INNOVATIVE PLAYER A towering machine independently developed by Zoomlion, a Chinese heavy machine producer based in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province (LONG HONGTAO)
POWERING UP Engineers work to maintain rural electricity equipment in Julu County, north China's Hebei Province, so as to ensure power supplies for irrigation and sowing  (YANG SHIYAO)
New Tsinghua President
Chen Jining is appointed president of Tsinghua University, one of China's leading universities, taking over from Gu Binglin. Chen, 48, has bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University
Loosening Liquidity
The People's Bank of China, the central bank, lowers the ratio of deposits that banks must set aside in reserves by 0.5 percentage points
Property Gloom
Forty eight cities out of the 70 monitored major cities reported month-on-month decreases in prices of new commercial residences
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Appliance Chain Effect
Costs inflation and withdrawal of policy incentives are casting an ominous shadow over China's home appliance market
Baidu Fares Well
China's largest search engine Baidu's profit in the fourth quarter of last year surges 77 percent year on year to 2.05 billion yuan as advertisers increases spending on online marketing
Mining Acquisition
The China Minmetals Corp. has completed its acquisition of Anvil Mining Ltd., a Canadian copper producer with assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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  • YEMEN
    Yemeni men show their identity cards as they line up outside a polling station in Sanaa on February 21. Yemenis took part in a one-candidate presidential election to vote for a successor to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh (XINHUA/AFP)
  • MEXICO
    Guns are crushed in north Mexico's Ciudad Juarez on February 16. The Mexican Army destroyed at least 6,000 rifles and pistols seized from drug cartels (XINHUA/AFP)
  • IRAN
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right front) listens to an expert during a tour of Tehran's research reactor on February 15. Iran's first domestically produced 20-percent enriched nuclear fuel was used for the research reactor that day (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE CZECH REPUBLIC
    German acrobats perform during the International Festival of Circus Art in Prague on February 15 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • AFGHANISTAN
    Demonstrators shout slogans outside the U.S.-run Bagram Airfield north of Kabul during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21. NATO soldiers have been accused of burning copies of the Muslim holy book (XINHUA/AFP)
  • JAPAN
    A northern red fox chases a red-crowned crane at a birds' sanctuary in Tsurui on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on February 18. Some 400 red-crowned cranes, migrating from eastern Russia, northeast China and eastern Mongolia, have been observed in the village over the winter (XINHUA/AFP)
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