Fighter Jet Executive Dies
Luo Yang, Chairman and General Manager of the Shenyang Aircraft Corp., which develops and manufactures the J-15 fighter jet, died of a heart attack in Dalian
Poverty Rate
The poverty rate in regions populated by ethnic minorities is 13.8 percentage points higher than China's national average
More Affordable Housing
China should increase affordable housing and expand property tax reforms, says to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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GREAT SUCCESS
A carrier-borne J-15 fighter jet landing on China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which entered service in September (ZHA CHUNMING)
NOVEL PROMOTION
A shopper walks past a robot-shaped stand in a supermarket in Hangzhou. The store's staff has launched a competition for creative market displays (SHI JIANXUE)
STAGE ROBOTICS
A robot performs shadow puppetry during a robot show on November 25 at Qingdao University in east China's Shandong Province (LI ZIHENG)
EXPERT EMBROIDERER
A girl shows her crafts at the Fifth China Embroidery Culture and Arts Festival, which kicked off in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, on November 28 (ZHU GUIGEN)
 
NEW PLANTATION Farmers from Jimo of east China's Shandong Province harness vertical farming technology to grow vegetable in a photovoltaic greenhouse on November 27 (NING YOUPENG)
GREEN DEVELOPMENT Visitors look around in the display area of solar-powered cars at the Eighth High-level Forum on Pan- PRD Regional Cooperation and Development in Haikou, Hainan Province, on November 29 (ZHAO YINGQUAN)
Boxing Champ
Chinese boxer Xiong Chaozhong captures the World Boxing Council Minimumweight World Title in Kunming, becoming the first Chinese professional boxing world champion in history
A High-Speed Era
China's high-speed rail network totales 7,735 km at the end of October, ranking first in the world
Further Tax Cuts
China's new round of structural tax cuts is likely to benefit more than 900,000 enterprises nationwide
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More Flexible Yuan
The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar hits 6.292
Seeking a Listing
China Machinery Engineering Corp., the state-owned contractor with projects in Nigeria, Serbia and Ivory Coast, plans to raise roughly $300 million in an initial public offering in Hong Kong
Insurance Cooperation
Acorn International Inc., a media and branding company listed in the New York Stock Exchange, has entered into an insurance business cooperation agreement with Sino-U.S. United MetLife Insurance Co. Ltd
  • EGYPT
    Protesters gather at Tahrir Square in Cairo on November 27 in a rally against the new constitutional declaration granting the president absolute power (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BELGIUM
    Police officers use shields to guard against milk being sprayed by dairy farmers during a protest in Brussels on November 26. Farmers called on political leaders to act on falling milk prices caused by overproduction in Europe (XINHUA/AFP)
  • ITALY
    On November 25— the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women—a woman walks past a wall in Rome displaying 107 figures with the names of women who were killed by men in Italy during the year (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BANGLADESH
    Workers bury a body from a garment factory fire at a graveyard in Dhaka on November 27. More than 100 people were killed in the accident (XINHUA)
  • SINGAPORE
    A model presents a creation by Chinese designer Guo Pei during the Asian Couture 2012 fashion show in Singapore on November 27 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SOUTH SUDAN
    British traveler Graham Hughes, who claims to be the first person to have visited every sovereign nation on the globe without flying, poses for a photograph in Juba on November 26. South Sudan was the last country on his list because it was not an independent country when he started his trip four years ago (XINHUA/AFP)
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