Determined President
Xu Xianming, President of Shandong University, gained public attention when he withdrew from the academic committee of the university
Influential Business Leader
Ren Zhengfei, President of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., ranks first on the latest list of China's Most Influential Business Leaders released by the Chinese version of Fortune magazine
GAC's New Chief
Yu Guangzhou, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Fujian Provincial Committee, was appointed new chief of the General Administration of Customs by the State Council on April 5

"Chinese residing in Australia have also contributed much to China's reform and opening-up efforts and modernization drive as they are actively engaged in investment in China and supporting Chinese construction and development."

Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, during a luncheon held by Chinese communities in Sydney, Australia, on April 10

"The United States should reflect more on its own human rights issues rather than acting as a 'preacher of human rights' and stop interfering in other country's internal affairs by issuing its human rights report."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, commenting after the U.S. State Department released its annual report on China's human rights status

"The pace of Chinese currency's appreciation depends on the country's inflation situation, which will inevitably influence the government's decision."

World Bank chief economist Justin Lin, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on April 8

"Japanese tourism is facing an unprecedented crisis, but the smile of Chinese tourists will encourage the Japanese people."

Hiroshi Mizohata, Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency, emphasizing China is important for Japan to recover its tourism industry at a press conference in Beijing on April 10

"In 2010, the combined contribution of the emerging economies and other developing countries to the global economic growth was close to 60 percent, and their contribution has outnumbered the developed countries."

Hong Pingfan, chief for Global Economic Monitoring of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in a recent interview with Xinhua News Agency

 
GROUNDBREAKING FLIGHT Yangtze River Express Airlines Co. Ltd., the first airline jointly invested by China's mainland and Taiwan, completes its inaugural cross-Taiwan Straits freight flight from Chongqing to Taipei on April 12 (XINHUA)
Helping the Children
The Ministry of Public Security said on April 12 it was carrying out a six-month campaign to identify unattended children found by authorities
Curbing Antibiotics
China will curb the misuse of antibiotics, mainly at large hospitals, to deal with rising drug resistance, said the Ministry of Health on April 11
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EDUCATIONAL BOND
Tsui Lap Chee, Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, exchanges gifts with Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at a university leaders’ forum in Hong Kong on April 12 (DU HAI)
BROKEN BRIDGE
A 13-year-old bridge on the Peacock River in Korla, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, collapsed on April 12 due to poor maintenance. No one was injured or killed in the incident (XINHUA)
CHINA MASTERPIECES
Porcelain experts assess Kraak Porcelain ware, which originated in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, and was primarily exported to Europe about 400 years ago (WEI PEIQUAN)
FIRE EMERGENCY
A volunteer firefighter fights a wildfire in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, on April 13. The blaze affected more than 460 hectares of forest (YANG SHIYAO)
 
MODEL MARVEL Visitors take photos of an ancient Chinese ship model presented at the 2011 China International Marine, Port & Shipbuilding Fair held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on April 12-14 (SUN CAN)
Monetary Policy
China has vowed to implement its prudent monetary policy in a bid to set the domestic economy on the right track as uncertainties abound both at home and abroad
Banking in the U.S.
China's Bank of Communications, the fifth largest commercial bank in China by assets, will broaden its wholesale services in the United States to include deposits, lending and trade finance
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IMF Optimistic
After growing by 10.3 percent in 2010, China's economic growth is expected to remain robust at 9.6 percent this year, with the drivers of growth shifting from public to private demand
Auto Gloom
After a year of breakneck growth, China's auto market is losing steam. Auto sales across the nation totaled 1.828 million units in March, up 5.36 percent year on year
Financially Starved
The operating net cash flow of the 84 listed Chinese property developers had stood at -70.59 billion yuan by the end of 2010
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  • LUXEMBOURG
    The EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton talks with Libyan rebel representative Mahmoud Jibril during an EU foreign ministers' meeting on April 12 (XINHUA)
  • JAPAN
    Engineers work at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on April 12. On that day, Japan raised the severity level of the radiation leak accident at the plant to seven, the worst on the international scale (XINHUA)
  • ITALY
    A man tries out a hanging chair at the 50th Milan International Furniture Fair on April 12 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • ROMANIA
    A basket filled with Easter eggs at an exhibition of the treats in a Bucharest museum on April 11 (XINHUA)
  • ARMENIA
    Li Changchun (left), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of Prosperous Armenia, in Yerevan on April 12 (LU JINBO)
  • BELARUS
    Minsk's Oktyabrskaya Subway Station after a bomb blast on April 11. The rush-hour explosion killed 12 and injured about 200 others (CFP)
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