UN Envoys
Li Baodong, China's new permanent representative to the UN, presented his credentials to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on March 4. The day before, He Yafei succeeded Li as permanent representative of China to the UN Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland
Panchen's New Role
The 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, made his debut in China's political arena as a political advisor at the annual full session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Recruiter in Need
As founder of China's first and now largest agency for migrant workers, Zhang Quanshou, a national lawmaker from Henan Province, suggested higher salaries and more pro-worker policies to ease ongoing labor shortages in the Pearl River Delta area

"Tibet has nothing to conceal."

Qiangba Puncog, Chairman of the Standing Committee of Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, on the sidelines of the full session of the National People's Congress, the top legislature, on March 7

"An aircraft carrier is just one kind of military equipment and nothing for speculation. It is like someone needing a long-barreled gun and others just wanting a short one. Demands of different countries are different."

Rear Admiral Cao Dongshen, also deputy to the National People's Congress

"China's investment in U.S. treasury bonds is a market behavior, and should not be politicized."

Yi Gang, Director of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, on March 9

"Any other discussion is a sideshow which will distract from the necessary [fiscal] consolidation."

German central bank chief Axel Weber, opposing the proposal of a European version of the International Monetary Fund to rescue errant EU states

"But they (Icelanders) are not ready to pay a very high interest rate so that the British and Dutch governments would make a huge profit off this whole exercise."

Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, after Icelanders overwhelmingly rejected a plan to pay Britain and the Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse

"The real solution is to deliver services ... rather than turn Haiti into a military state."

Ted Constan, chief program officer for relief organization Partners in Health, upon the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Haiti where they were stationed after the January 12 earthquake

 
 
TAKING ON A NEW LOOK Drepung Temple, located in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region, is under renovation on March 10. The renovation work started in June 2009 (JUE GUO)
Built in China
The maiden flight of the AC313, China's first independently developed civilian helicopter, is scheduled for mid-March in the eastern province of Jiangxi
A Historic Park
China's northeast Heilongjiang Province will build a park in 2010 to mark the Japanese Unit 731's notorious experiments during its aggression of China from 1937 to 1945
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NEW FAVORITE
A visitor shows his fancy to Ego of China's Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. during the Belgrade Auto Fair in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, on March 9. China-made Chery cars get welcomed by visitors ob the Fair (DAI ZHENHUA)
AIRING TO BOMB
Chinese air force planes fly over the floating ice that jams a section of the Yellow River, the second longest in China, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on March 9. Six air force planes dropped 48 bombs during a firing trial to blast apart ice flow (XINHUA)
WEDDING SHOW
Models show wedding dresses at a wedding expo in Shanghai on March 5. The expo showcased 100,000 wedding-related products (ZHANG MING)
TENDER ARTS
A citizen appreciates painting works in an art gallery in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on March 7. A women-themed art exhibition opened that day to celebrate the International Women's Day on March 8 (JIANG WENYAO)
 
LOW-CARBON EXPO Workers pass by the solar powered roof of a themed pavilion covering more than 30,000 square meters at the Shanghai Expo. The roof is capable of generating 2.8 million kwh of electricity a year (PEI XIN)
Rural Insurance
PICC Group will continue to expand into the rural market in 2010, drawing on government policies for rural development
Mobile Phone-Bank Deal
China's largest mobile phone service provider became a strategic investor in a mid-sized bank based in Shanghai after a multi-billion dollar stock purchasing deal announced on March 10
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Auto Market Cooled
The auto purchasing spree on the mainland cooled down in February compared with January this year, as reflected in the month-on-month 27.2-percent dip in sales
Inland Duty-Free Zone
The State Council approved to set up the first inland duty-free zone in Chongqing Municipality. In Chongqing's duty-free zone, foreign merchandise can be brought in without import duties for further processing or re-exporting
Airlines Under Pressure
The fast development of the nation's high-speed railway network is expected to devour 60 percent of the airline market
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  • BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE
    The Pavilion of the Future, one of the five themed pavilions of the Shanghai Expo 2010, stands on the western bank of the Huangpu River. The pavilion was converted from an old industrial building.

    March 11 marked the 50-day countdown to the Shanghai Expo--the first World Expo with a low-carbon theme in the event's 160-year history.

    The 5.8-square km exposition site will become the venue for China's largest ever solar energy application project, when 4.5-megawatt solar power generators are put into operation. In four landmark pavilions along the Central Axis of the Expo site, LED lamps will account for more than 80 percent of lighting systems (PEI XIN)
  • BELGIUM
    Leo Delcroix, Belgium's Commissioner General for the Shanghai World Expo, introduces Smurfs, representations of the comic book character that will serve as the mascot of the Belgium and EU Pavilion, to the media in Brussels on March 10 (WANG YIFAN)
  • IRAN
    A surface-to-surface missile is test-fired off Iran's first domestically made destroyer, Jamaran, in its southern waters on March 9 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • AFGHANISTAN
    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (third left) greets a soldier while inspecting a military base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on March 6 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BRAZIL
    Waves crash against a building near a beach in Rio Grande do Sul on March 9. Strong winds with a speed of up to 70 km/h swept across parts of southern Brazil (XINHUA)
  • NORTH KOREA
    North Korean officials announce the establishment of their country's State Development Bank in Pyongyang on March 10. The bank will make investments in major projects in accordance with government policies, while functioning as a commercial bank (XINHUA)
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