"The (Chinese) government supports domestic airlines' joining global air carrier alliances and foreign airlines are welcome to open new routes to China."

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, in a meeting with Leo van Wijk, Chairman of the Governing Board of SkyTeam, one of the world's biggest air carrier alliances, on June 21 when China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd. joined SkyTeam

"It is an important and urgent mission to draw lessons from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and strengthen international cooperation to jointly promote safe development of nuclear energy."

Wang Yiren, Secretary General of China Atomic Energy Authority, calling on the international community to take urgent measures to address nuclear safety at a ministerial conference hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on June 20

"Long-term climate funding will be another focus in Durban. Until now, there is no concrete financial aid promise from developed countries beyond 2013. The political will of those countries for long-term funding is not enough."

Su Wei, head of the Chinese delegation in the second round of UN climate talk, in Bonn, Germany, on June 18

"Vladimir Putin and myself—and Putin is my colleague and an old friend—represent, to a large extent, one and the same political force. And therefore competition between us may be detrimental to our tasks and goals."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in an interview with the Financial Times on June 20

"I don't think the development [of China] can be seen as a threat, and we see China as a friend and a responsible player in the world."

Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on June 20 in Beijing during a visit to China