New CEO
Jonathan Lu, Executive Vice President of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will become the company's CEO, replacing Jack Ma, according to a company announcement
Youngest Champion
Fan Tingyu, a 17-year-old Chinese weiqi player, defeats Park Junghwan to win the seventh Ing Cup, becoming China's youngest champion in the 2,500-year-old Chinese game, known internationally as Go

"Whether I'm minister of railways or not does not matter. What is important is the development of the country's railway industry."

Sheng Guangzu, Minister of Railways, responding to the plan to dismantle the ministry into administrative and commercial arms

"If anybody knows where I can get a decent window squeegee, let me know."

Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce, at a press conference on March 8 after recounting two unpleasant experiences of purchasing low-quality squeegees online

"China's food monitoring system should be streamlined as the system is fractured and has many loopholes."

Zhu Lieyu, a lawyer from south China's Guangdong Province and a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress, urging the government to restructure the country's food supervisory system to restore customer confidence

"Marital problems are just like health problems. When arise, couples need to see 'doctors' to regain marital health. "

Chen Yiyun, a marriage researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Family Harmony Project launched in Shanghai on March 6. The project is aimed at cultivating more professional counselors and psychologists to improve marriages

Transforming Agriculture

China Newsweek
March 11

The Central Government encouraged the development of family farms and investment in rural areas in a document issued at the beginning of this year.

With Chinese agriculture's greatly improved productivity and the flow of rural labor into cities, the country's agriculture is going through a fundamental change from traditional to modern.

Adjusting Population Policy

YNET.com
March 9

Premier Wen Jiabao said in the government work report delivered at the First Session of the 12th National People's Congress that China will stick to its family planning policy and in the meantime work to improve its overall stance to suit the change in demographic structure and promote long-term and balanced development.
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On Duty China’s marine surveillance ship Haijian 83 arrives at the Yongxing Island, part of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, for regular patrols (WEI HUA)
Tribute to Revolutionary People pay respects to a statue at Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, in commemoration of the 88th anniversary of Sun’s passing (HAN YUQING)
Integrated Mapping
China will build up an integrated mapping system to cover the ground, underground, sea, air and outer space by 2020
Rating Web Games
Chinese parents are in grave need of an age-rating system for online games to protect their children, according to a study report
Cyber Threat
China's Internet security watchdog says that a growing number of Chinese public institutions and companies have been threatened by cyberattacks from other countries or regions
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Spring Tea Picking up Wang Zhiying, a 37-year-old tea farmer, picks white tea in Zixi County, central China’s Jiangxi Province. The county is now harvesting its 32,000 mu of white tea, which has been an economic boon to the poverty-stricken area
Open Kitchen Chefs work in a transparent kitchen of the Green Grassland Restaurant in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. The restaurant opened up the kitchen for public observation to help satisfy food safety concerns (LI GA)
Consumer Prices Up
Due to rising food prices during the Spring Festival holiday, China's annual consumer inflation rate rebounded to a 10-month high of 3.2 percent in February
Helping Small Firms
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology unveils a detailed plan to support the country's small and micro-sized enterprises
Coalbed Gas Boost
China will earmark more funds to further exploit its coalbed methane reserves amid increased efforts to step up new energy exploration
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Expecting Change, But Not Too Much
China's gross domestic product is expected to increase by 7.5 percent
Sales Surge
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's largest mobile phone and television maker, says that its sales volume in China hit $14.3 billion in 2012, a jump of more than 50 percent
Dealership Expansion
German car producer Audi AG plans to open one new Audi dealership each week on average in China in 2013, Audi's official says
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  • CHILE
    Radio telescope antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) project stand in north Chile’s Atacama Desert on March 12. The ALMA, which went online the next day, is the largest astronomical project in the world (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE NETHERLANDS
    Former Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (center) attends the launching ceremony of KLM airline's first transatlantic flight to run on biofuel derived from used cooking oil at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on March 8 (XINHUA)
  • BRITAIN
    A handler wearing a kilt shows his Irish wolf hound during the annual Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, central England, on March 7 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • GERMANY
    A girl jumps rope in a snowy schoolyard in Essen, western Germany, on March 12. Winter returned to wide parts of the country, bringing snow and cold temperatures that caused traffic chaos (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BRAZIL
    U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps (left) is greeted by children from the Rocinha slums by the pool at the favela's sports complex in Rio de Janeiro on March 11 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • JAPAN
    Workers demonstrate emergency medical procedures during a drill in Tokyo on March 11 to mark the two-year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that left about 19,000 people dead or missing (XINHUA)
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