Neurosurgeon Honored
Wang Zhongcheng, China's distinguished neurosurgery expert, has been selected as one of the 50 outstanding members of the Communist Party of China
Football Sponsor
Wang Jianlin, Board Chairman and President of Dalian Wanda Group Corp. Ltd., has signed a contract with the Chinese Football Association, promising sponsorship of at least 500 million yuan ($76 million) in three years to revitalize China's football industry
Goodwill Ambassador
Peng Liyuan, a famous Chinese soprano, has been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS of the World Health Organization

"Big lenders should develop financial products and increase support for small businesses, while city commercial banks, rural banks, rural credit cooperatives and small-loan firms should try to focus their efforts on serving small businesses, rather than focusing on expansion."

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, at a symposium on financial services to small businesses during an inspection tour in Shijiazhuang, capital city of north China's Hebei Province, on July 1-2

"The social insurance system is a crucial part of the country's social security net, and the Social Insurance Law has established a social insurance system which encompasses the old-age pension, basic medical care insurance, work-related injury insurance and unemployment insurance as well as maternity allowances."

Hua Jianmin, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, speaking at the launching ceremony of a week-long national campaign to promote the new law in Beijing on July 4

"Anti-corruption is not simply the internal affair of a single country, but an issue that requires the attention and active response of all countries and their anti-corruption agencies."

Chen Lianfu, Director of the General Bureau of Anti-Embezzlement and Bribery with China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, calling on the international community to actively push forward bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the prevention and fight against transborder corruption during an interview with Xinhua News Agency on July 5

"China has been both more pragmatic and balanced. Given China's increasing role in the global economy, it's time for China's voice to be more strongly heard."

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economic sciences and a professor at Columbia University, in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on July 5 when attending the 16th World Congress of the International Economic Association held at Tsinghua University in Beijing

 
CULTURAL EXCHANGES He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing inaugurate the Chinese Language Year in France in Paris on July 4 (GAO JING)
Oil Spill
China's State Oceanic Administration said U.S. energy giant ConocoPhillips was responsible for an oil spill in the country's northern sea area
Opening-up Pledge
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has pledged to accelerate its development by further opening up
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GREAT MOMENT
International students at Tianjin Medical University celebrate at their graduation ceremony on July 4 (XINHUA)
INTO SPACE
China's SJ-11-03 experimental orbiter, boosted by a Long March 2C rocket carrier, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province on July 6 (LI WEN)
DUSTY FIGHT
A car competes in the 2011 China Rally Championships in Zhangye, Gansu Province, on July 2 (GAO JIANJUN)
FEELING HANDS
A man with visual loss touches a statue of Socrates in the newly opened Chinese National Library for the Blind in Beijing on June 30 (XINHUA)
 
BONDED WAREHOUSE Construction of the bonded oil warehouse of Sinopec (Hong Kong) began on July 6 in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone of Hainan, China's southern island province (WANG HUIYU)
WTO Report Response
China's reinforced administration of certain resources products is in line with the objective of the WTO
Upgrading Water Facilities
Investment in water facilities in Chinese cities from 2011 to 2015 is estimated to be no less than 500 billion to 600 billion yuan
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Growing Interest Rates
The People's Bank of China on July 6 announced a rise in interest rates for the third time this year in a bid to curb inflation and tame climbing property prices
Steelmakers' Pains
China's steelmakers are struggling to make ends meet as acute costs inflation squeezes their profits
Shoring Up Micro-firms
China has subdivided small and medium-sized enterprises by adding a category of micro-sized enterprises
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  • THAILAND
    Yingluck Shinawatra, the soon-to-be first female Prime Minister of Thailand, attends a press conference in Bangkok on July 4 (LU XIAOWEI)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    Fireworks light up the sky over the Hudson River in New York City in celebration of the U.S. Independence Day on July 4 (SHEN HONG)
  • SPAIN
    Uyunqimg, Vice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, speaks at the Sixth China-Spain Forum in Barcelona on July 5 (CHEN HAITONG)
  • KENYA
    Refugees wait in line to receive aid at the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya on July 5. Continuous drought has caused food and water shortages in the region (XINHUA/AFP)
  • VENEZUELA
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures to supporters at the presidential palace in Caracas on July 4 after returning from Cuba, where he had a cancerous tumor removed (XINHUA/AFP)
  • POLAND
    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (left) greets his visiting Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Warsaw on July 1. That day, Poland took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU from Hungary (XINHUA/AFP)
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