A COUNTY'S REBIRTH Construction of a new county seat in Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan Province is completed on September 25, almost two and a half years after the old seat was leveled in a devastating earthquake in 2008 (JIANG HONGJING)
Quick Response
Earthquakes in recent years have prompted the Chinese Government to draw up a series of goals for rapid response and more efficient monitoring work, a government document indicated on September 25
Going Digital
China has rolled out a blueprint to boost the nation's digital publication industry. The blueprint, issued by the General Administration of Press and Publication, sets out the goal for all publishers to offer digital publications to the market by 2020
NATURAL WONDER
Tourists watch the tidal bore of the Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang Province, on September 25. Scientists say the tide of the Qiantang River is only rivaled by the Amazon River’s surging tide (HUANG ZONGZHI)
SKY SUPPLIES
Flood-stricken residents collect food supplies air-dropped from a military helicopter in Xinyi, south China’s Guangdong Province, on September 25. Torrential rainstorms brought by Typhoon Fanapi hit this region on September 21 (LIANG XU)
UNDER FIRE
Frequent extensive repairs of the Baishazhou Bridge over the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei Province, stirs heated debate about enhancing the supervision and accountability system for public projects (XINHUA)
   
Closer Banking
Bank of Communications (BOCOM), China's fifth largest lender by assets, announced on September 24 that it had established a representative office in Taiwan, the first such office set up by a bank from the Chinese mainland.

A BOCOM spokesperson said the move will help strengthen information exchanges between financial institutions and consumers across the Taiwan Straits, pushing forward economic and financial cooperation
Additives Dumping
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced on September 21 that it will impose five-year anti-dumping measures on food additives imported from Indonesia and Thailand.

Investigations found companies in Indonesia and Thailand had been dumping food additives on the Chinese market, causing substantial damage to Chinese manufacturers, said a statement on the website of the MOC
  • BACK HOME
    Chinese skipper Zhan Qixiong (right, front) is welcomed by family members after arriving in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, on September 25 aboard a chartered plane. Zhan had been illegally detained by Japan since September 8 after his trawler and two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships collided in waters off China's Diaoyu Islands the preceding day. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement the Chinese Government expressed "strong protest" against Japan, whose detention, investigation or any form of judicial measures taken against the trawler and fishermen were unlawful and invalid. China has asked Japan to apologize and make compensation for the incident. The ministry said the two sides should resolve the problems in the Sino-Japanese relationship through dialogue and consultation (JIANG KEHONG)
  • IRAN
    Soldiers march during a military parade in Tehran on September 22, marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) (XINHUA/AFP)
  • FRANCE
    People take part in a demonstration in Marseille on September 23, as part of a one-day national protest against the government’s plan to hike the retirement age to 62 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (left), alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, during a press briefing at the Pentagon on September 23. Gates said the United States would not make major adjustments to its current Afghanistan strategy (LI XIANG)
  • PAKISTAN
    A Chinese helicopter flies over a flood-affected area in southern Pakistan on a rescue mission on September 25 (LI XIANG)
  • KAZAKHSTAN
    U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson (left) and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (center) and Mikhail Korniyenko pose for a photo after landing near Kazakhstan’s central city of Arkalyk on September 25 in a Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft (XINHUA/AFP)
  • INDIA
    Residents use inner tubes to navigate flooded streets in Moradabad on September 21. Days of heavy rains in northwest India triggered floods and landslides, killing at least 45 (XINHUA/AFP)
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