Famed Mathematician Passes Away
The renowned Chinese mathematician Gu Chaohao passed away in Shanghai. He won the nation's top science and technology award in 2009
Corruption Assets
China will strengthen the measures it uses to recover corrupt officials' illicit assets transferred abroad
Safe Drinking Water
The number of rural Chinese residents who lack access to safe drinking water is reduced by 221 million from 2004 to 2010
Healthcare Reform
Missions set in a three-year plan for China's healthcare reform program in the 2009-11 period have been completed on schedule
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"China will tighten management of local government debt and strictly regulate new borrowing to guard against fiscal risks. The nation will continue to clean up and regulate local government financing vehicles and bar them from incurring new debt."

Xie Xuren, Chinese Minister of Finance, in a report on the implementation of the 2011 budget to a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing on June 27

"Production methods are evolving all the time, which makes crackdowns more difficult."

Liu Yuejin, Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, saying that despite consistent efforts China still faces a grim drug-control situation, on June 26, International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

"The Turkish nation has no intention of attacking. We are just making provisions to stave off all threats to our unity and integrity, for our defense. We have never had an eye on the soil of any country."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, emphasizing that his country will not attack Syria after a Turkish fighter jet was shot down by a Syrian missile, at a ceremony to introduce Turkey's first domestically produced training jet HURKUS in Istanbul on June 27

"It is imperative that we don't promise things that we cannot deliver and that we implement what we have agreed. Joint liability can only happen when sufficient controls are in place. I don't see total debt liability as long as I live."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, opposing quick solutions like Eurobonds or the use of European Union funds to reduce Italian and Spanish debt, at the German Bundestag in Berlin on June 26

HIGH HARVEST
Tibetan women pick tea leaves at the Yi'ong Tea Plantation in Bomi County in Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the highest tea plantation in China (XINHUA)
FASHION AND FUN
A model poses in a fashion show at the opening ceremony of the 2012 International Tourism Festival at the Imperial Palace in Beijing on June 26 (XINHUA)
DEEPSEA FINDING
An organism sample captured from the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean by China's manned submersible Jiaolong. The Jiaolong set a new national diving record on June 27 after reaching 7,062 meters below sea level. It collected three water samples, two sediment samples and one organism sample, placed a marker, and made several experiments during the dive (LUO SHA)
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
A Hongkong Post worker shows special stamps and first day covers published for celebrating the 15th anniversary of the establishment of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that fell on July 1 (LUI SIU-WAI)
 
NEW AIRPORT The Kunming Changshui International Airport in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, goes into operation on June 28 (QIN QING)
WOODCARVING CITY An artisan works on a woodcarving artwork in Guangfeng of central China's Jiangxi Province on June 26. Guangfeng has more than 108 woodcarving factories and has vowed to build itself into the country's top woodcarving base (ZHOU KE)
Expelled Governor
Huang Sheng, former Vice Governor of east China's Shandong Province, is expelled from the Communist Party of China for severe disciplinary and legal violations
Shale Gas Exploration
A senior official calls for the country to speed up mass production of shale gas with its own technologies to ensure adequate energy supply
ODI Surge
China's outbound direct investment in non-financial sectors grows 40.2 percent year on year to $28.52 billion
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Hedging Debts
The first plenary meeting of the 27th session of the 11th NPC Standing Committee  discusses the draft amendments to the Budget Law
Logistics Slows
Chinese demand for logistics services is slowing as the industry's costs have continued to increase, according to the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing
Awaiting a Quota
Qatar is waiting for a qualified foreign institutional investor quota to inject money into the Chinese A-share market, eyeing the development potential and long-term growth of the world's second largest economy
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  • BRITAIN
    The Olympic rings hang on the Tower Bridge as organizers marked the one-month countdown of the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games on June 27. The London Olympics will last from July 27 to August 12 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • ISRAEL
    Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence on June 25 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    Reporters rush out of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on June 28 immediately after the court decided to uphold the controversial individual mandate of President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul (ZHANG JUN)
  • GERMANY
    Visitors walk across a bridge situated 12 meters above the ground at Zoo Leipzig's Gondwanaland park in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on June 24. Gondwanaland, the largest tropical site in Europe, features about 300 animals and 17,000 tropical plants (XINHUA/AFP)
  • JAPAN
    Activists hold banners during a demonstration in Tokyo on June 23. Some 500 people took to the streets against the Japanese Government's decision to restart two nuclear reactors, ending a brief period without any atomic power generation (XINHUA/AFP)
  • EGYPT
    Egypt's President-elect Mohamed Morsi (center) sits in the state television studio in Cairo on June 24 after recording a speech to the nation. The Muslim Brotherhood leader was declared the winner of the Egyptian presidential election that day (XINHUA/AFP)
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