Top Scientists Awarded
Chinese scientists Wang Zhenyi and Chen Zhu are granted the Seventh Szent Gyorgyi Prize, a top U.S. award established by the U.S. National Foundation for Cancer Research for their innovative research that led to a new therapeutic approach to acute promyelocytic leukemia
AIDS Plan
China aims to reduce AIDS fatalities and the number of new HIV/AIDS cases by 30 percent and 25 percent, respectively, in 2015
Earth Monitoring
China completes a system designed to monitor the movement of Earth's crust and predict earthquakes
Aging Population
China's population of people aged 60 or above has hit 185 million by the end of 2011, or 13.7 percent of the nation's total population
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"Talking about China's lowered growth rate, I think we are not talking about a temporary adjustment. We are talking about more long-term development issues."

Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank's chief economist and Senior Vice President, speaking to the press as he launched his new book in the Washington, D.C.-based global institution, on March 6

"China develops nuclear energy under a safe precondition."

Huang Wei, Chinese deputy envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addressing the IAEA Board of Governors meeting which reviewed the development of nuclear technology last year on March 6

"Syrian affairs have to be determined by the Syrian people themselves, and foreign states should not intervene in the internal affairs of Syria by force, or push through 'regime change' in the Middle East country. Sanctions or the threat of sanctions are not conducive to a proper settlement of the Syrian problem."

Li Baodong, Chinese Permanent Representative to the UN, speaking to Xinhua News Agency on March 6

"If they (the West) seek to continue with their previous course of action and try to force concessions under pressure, negotiations will yield no results."

Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani, speaking to the press on March 7
SIMULATED DRILL
A girl learns how to use a safety belt at the newly opened first emergency education center in Shanghai on March 2 (CHEN FEI)
REVIVAL OF THE PAST
Models present creations from Shiatzy Chen's Autumn/Winter 2012 women's ready-to-wear collection, a brand from China's Taiwan, at the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on March 6. The creations feature traditional patterns of the Miao ethnic group of southwest China (GAO JING)
HOME AT HAND
Tenants register themselves before moving into Nanhu Xincheng, a new public rental community in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on March 5. The city has assigned its first 900 public rental apartments to residents in need (XIAO YIJIU)
EINSTEIN SHOW
An exhibition celebrating late theoretical physicist Albert Einstein opens in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on March 2. More than 200 exhibits related to Einstein, including videos and replicas, are displayed at the three-month exhibition (XIAO YIJIU)
 
SAFETY FIRST An assembly line of school buses of Yutong Bus Co. Ltd. in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province (ZHU XIANG)
TECH MANIA A visitor looks at the latest router products of TP-LINK, a Chinese manufacturer of network products, at the 2012 International Information and Communication Technology Fair held in Hanover, Germany on March 6-10 (MA NING)
Devoted Village Teacher
The story of Zeng Zhaofu, who has been a teacher in a mountainous area for 33 years, touches many Chinese.

Zeng, 51, gave up the chance of being a village head after graduating from senior high school in 1978 and has been a teacher at a primary school in a village of central China's Jiangxi Province since then
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology releases a plan on March 2 to recycle 7 billion tons of industrial solid waste during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15)
Boom to Gloom
Passenger vehicle sales in China totales 2.26 million units in the first two months of 2011, a decline of 1.4 percent from a year ago
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Shipbuilders' Woes
Shipbuilding industries around the world are facing some chilly headwinds, and China is no exception
Online Shopping Spree
Chinese consumers spend more than 784.93 billion yuan on online purchases in 2011, skyrocketing 66 percent from a year ago. The consumption boom is supported by a vibrant economy and solid wage growth in the country
Tudou Recovers
China's second largest online video site Tudou reports a net loss of 148.9 million yuan in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with a painful loss of 263.7 million yuan a year ago
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  • THE UNITED STATES
    Protesters hold banners outside the White House on March 5, urging the United States not to support a potential Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington, D.C. (WANG YIOU)
  • REPUBLIC OF CONGO
    Brazzaville residents salvage their belongings from the debris on March 5, a day after a catastrophic ammunition explosion struck the capital city, killing at least 300 people and injuring more than 1,000 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • GERMANY
    A robot cook takes stock of groceries at one of the world's biggest hi-tech fairs, the CeBIT, on March 6 in Hanover, central Germany (XINHUA/AFP)
  • FRANCE
    Women standing on the doorstep of their houses look at the water level of a street in Steenwerck on March 6. Floods following heavy rain and snow interrupted power supply and traffic in north France (XINHUA)
  • SOUTH KOREA
    Police officers take part in an antiterror drill in Seoul on March 6, which was held as part of the preparations for the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit scheduled for March 26-27 (YAO QILIN)
  • AFGHANISTAN
    A policeman stands guard as illegal narcotics are burned in Lashkar Gah in south Afghanistan on March 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
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