Basketball Hero
Stephon Marbury, a former NBA guard, leads the Beijing Jinyu Ducks, a basketball team based in Beijing, to their first-ever championship of the Chinese Basketball Association league
Aid for the Disabled
About 2.12 million impoverished handicapped people are covered by various poverty relief programs in 2011
Highways in Tibet
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region will invest heavily in constructing rural highways to provide road transportation to remote villages
Gender Ratio
Census data indicates that the gap between the number of boys and girls born in China has reduced for three consecutive years. China's imbalanced gender ratio is a major demographic problem
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"China encourages capital flow, especially through the going-out policy. So enterprises and other businesses now have more overseas investment. There may be further deregulation to allow Chinese enterprises and residents to invest overseas more easily."

Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China, saying China might further loosen its controls on overseas investment in the future to facilitate Chinese enterprises and residents to invest overseas, on the sideline of the Boao Forum for Asia on April 3

"Any hasty move about the Syrian issue creating a power vacuum in Syria could have serious detrimental consequences for the region. We are hopeful about Annan's mission in Syria and we think the support of Turkey, Arab states and the United Nations to his mission can help settle the Syrian issue."

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, in a media interview on April 4

"Britain's economy is still facing huge challenges and the recovery is much too slow. Britain has the potential to recover, but to achieve that the government has to set businesses free to grow."

John Longworth, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, on April 3

"Exports are better than expected, suggesting the United States and EU economies are recovering."

Cai Jin, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, commenting on the continuous increase of China's Purchasing Managers Index, which jumped to 53.1 percent in March, 2.1 percentage points higher than a month earlier

NEW INITIATIVE
Chinese Ambassador to South Africa Tian Xuejun, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China Hua Jianmin, First Minister for the Presidency of South Africa Collins Chabane and President of the China International Publishing Group Zhou Mingwei (clockwise from left) launch the ChinAfrica Media and Publishing Ltd. in Pretoria on March 30 (LI YAFANG)
COLORFUL WORLD
An exhibition of paintings created by autistic children is held in a gallery in Sanlitun, Beijing, on April 2, World Autism Awareness Day (LIU BIN)
MEETING BIRDS
Workers dressed as mascots for the First Shahu International Bird Watching Festival welcome birdwatchers in the Shahu Lake Scenic Area in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on March 30 (PENG ZHAOZHI)
CEREMONY FOR WATER
A man fastens a bamboo-made rope to a tree during a ceremony to offer sacrifices to water at the Dujiang Dam, a 2,300-year-old irrigation project in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on April 4 (CHEN DUO)
 
NEW CONNECTION The expressway linking Guangyuan and Nanchong of southwest China's Sichuan Province opens. The 201-km expressway halves the travel time between the two cities to two hours (LI XIANGYU)
HOT SPOT Visitors swarm into Jinli Street in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Tomb-Sweeping Day on April 4, an annual public holiday (LI QIAOQIAO)
Philanthropist Honored
Wing-Kun Tam, International President of Lions Clubs International, is given the You Bring Charm to the World award at Peking University. The award is established to recognize Chinese people's accomplishments around the world
Boosting Imports
China will cut import duties on some energy products, raw materials, consumer goods closely related to people's daily lives
Quota Expanded
China Securities Regulatory Commission has expanded its Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor pilot program by increasing the investment quota by 50 billion yuan
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Financing Rural China
China's financial sector is picking up momentum, but weak rural financing is still stretching the nerves of policymakers
Bolstering Bargaining Power
China makes progress in strengthening its new spot iron ore trading platform by signing up the mining giant Rio Tinto, Australia's largest iron ore producer, as one of its members
COSCO Falters
The China COSCO Holdings Co. Ltd. suffered 10.45 billion yuan in net losses last year, compared with a net profit of 6.77 billion yuan the year before, as the shipping giant received a heavy blow from waning demand and acute costs inflation
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  • THE UNITED STATES
    Police officers prepare to move victims' bodies after at least seven people were killed in multiple shootings at a private religious college in Oakland, California, on April 2 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • JAPAN
    Pedestrians struggle against the wind in Tokyo on April 3. A typhoon-like spring storm brought strong gusts and heavy rains to Japan, causing traffic chaos (XINHUA/AFP)
  • CAMBODIA
    Southeast Asian leaders join hands for a group photo at the opening ceremony of the 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Phnom Penh on April 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • MALI
    Junta leader Amadou Sanogo (center) announces the restoration of the Constitution and state institutions in Bamako on April 1. The junta overthrew President Amadou Toumani Toure's government in a coup on March 22 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • GERMANY
    A polar bear holds a strawberry ice cake at a Hannover zoo on March 29 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SINGAPORE
    Visitors stand in front a poster at the entrance to a Titanic artifact exhibition at the Marina Bay Sands ArtScience Museum on April 2. The passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage 100 years ago on April 15, 1912 (XINHUA/AFP)
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