| "Relations between China and Africa are based on a balance of interests and providing the needs and demands of developing countries and establishing special relations with them."
Dr. Hani Raslan, head of the African studies unit of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies based in Cairo
"China's own success in addressing malnutrition and bolstering food security stands as an example to the world that hunger can be beaten in a generation, especially when small farmers are given access to credit and markets."
Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Program
"During the fight against the financial crisis, some serious corruption cases have surfaced, posing a great challenge to the global fight against corruption."
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao, calling for enhanced cooperation in fighting corruption at the third session of the Conference of the State Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption on November 9
"There has scarcely been a historical watershed as radical and as immediately visible as November 9, 1989."
German daily Koelnische Rundschau, in an editorial marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
"These unequal power relations translate into unequal access to health care and unequal control over health resources."
Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization. The UN health agency said in its first-ever cradle-to-grave report on "Women and Health" that women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of adolescence and old age due to social inequalities and neglect in male-dominated decision making
"We are not out of the woods yet."
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, speaking at a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers on November 7
"It shows nature's ability to thrive in the face of adversity."
Lloyd Peck, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, on a new study that shows Antarctica's ice loss helps offset global warming through the phenomenon known as carbon sink | 
