Football Head
Zhang Jilong, Director of the International Exchange Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, has been appointed acting president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on May 31
CWA Member
Liang Fengyi, Hong Kong's famous writer and entrepreneur, has been included in the list of this year's 349 new members of the Chinese Writers' Association
Talented Conductor
Li Xincao, 40, Resident Conductor of the China National Symphony Orchestra, conducted the classical opera The Bat by Johann Strauss in Beijing on June 3

"We are ready to further expand imports from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and encourage Chinese enterprises to invest there. We will offer SADC countries all the help we can to enhance their capability for independent development."

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, addressing the opening ceremony of the China-SADC Business Forum in Beijing on June 4

"Heavy metal pollution is a serious threat to health and social stability. Severe measures will be imposed on industries where heavy metals are frequently used, in order to prevent pollution from heavy metals."

Li Ganjie, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection of China, at a press conference on June 3, disclosing the State Council has approved a plan for treatment and reduction of heavy metal pollution in the next five years

"Over the past decade, China's foreign direct investment reached $653.14 billion at an annual growth rate of 9.5 percent."

Yao Jingyuan, chief economist with the National Bureau of Statistics of China, at the Fourth China Opening-up Forum in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on June 4

"The response from Asian countries is very, very positive. There is unanimous endorsement of his bid for reelection. Countries believe he has demonstrated strong leadership and he has a vision and also is a person who really cares about development, cares about gender issues and also has an agenda for the next five years."

Li Baodong, Chinese Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on June 6 saying China supports UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's bid for a second five-year term as UN chief

"We believe that they are moving toward a ground operation. Deliberately or not, it will be lamentable."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Odessa, Ukraine, on June 4 on NATO's action in Libya

"We don't want to rush to the exits."

U.S. Secretary for Defense Robert Gates, at a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 4, saying the United States is committed to continuing to support Afghan national security forces when U.S.- and NATO-led forces begin withdrawal from the country in July
 
BLOCKED People stand beside a road blocked after an earthquake in Toksun County, Turpan Prefecture, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on June 8, 2011. The earthquake measured 5.3 degrees on the Richter Scale (YAO TONG)
Help for Disabled
The government plans to offer the country's 83 million disabled citizens 12 years of compulsory education over the next five years and offer more benefits to improve their quality of life
Protection for Pandas
A research center was launched on June 7 in southwest China's Sichuan Province to improve research efforts directed at the protection of giant pandas and other endangered species
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HARVEST
A farmer in Heze, east China's Shandong Province, loads wheat on June 7. The province entered this year's wheat harvest season recently (FAN CHANGGUO)
LIVE ART
Tian Dianliang, a Weixian County paper cutter, works at an exhibition of Chinese classics and intangible culture heritage in the National Library of China in Beijing on June 8 (ZHAO BING)
MOVING DAY
A project to move the 128-year-old St. Jacob's Church in Wuhu City of Anhui Province 10 meters east of its current location begins on June 9 (XINHUA)
MAKING IT
A mother congratulates her daughter who just completed the college entrance exam in Shandong Province on June 9. Some 9.33 million Chinese students took the exam this year (ZHU ZHENG)
 
GREEN TECH An exhibitor introduces anaerobic technology for urban solid waste and kitchen waste disposal to visitors at the 12th China International Environmental Protection Exhibition and Conference in Beijing on June 7 (ZHAO BING)
Better Lending
The China Banking Regulatory Commission on June 7 announced measures to provide better access to financing for small firms
Port Alliance
Aiming to build a shipping and logistics center in northeast Asia, the alliance comprises Shandong's Qingdao Port, Yantai Port, Rizhao Port, Weihai Port and South Korea's Busan
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Debt Worries
Commercial banks had disbursed 14.376 trillion yuan ($2.2 trillion) to the financing vehicles of local governments by the end of 2010, said the People's Bank of China
Property Reshuffle
Chinese real estate giants are pushing ahead with mergers and acquisitions (M&As), taking advantage of the financial woes of their smaller rivals
Banking Euphoria
China is expected to replace the United States as the world's largest banking market by 2023, raising pressure on Western banks to brush off the effect of the credit crisis
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  • CHILE
    A cloud of ash billows from the Puyehue Volcano in southern Chile on June 5. Thousands of local residents were evacuated (XINHUA/AFP)
  • NORTH KOREA
    A construction site in Pyongyang's Mansudae area on June 8. North Korea has launched a project to give the city a facelift in the run-up to the centenary of late leader Kim Il Sung's birth next year (XINHUA/KCNA)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iCloud file-sharing service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6 (QI HENG)
  • IRELAND
    Irish President Mary McAleese (second right) visits a classic Suzhou garden, built in China and brought to Dublin for the Bloom 2011 garden festival, on June 6 (XIONG SIHAO)
  • CUBA
    Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping talks to doctors at a Havana clinic on June 6 during an official visit to Cuba (JU PENG)
  • FRANCE
    U.S. veterans take part in a ceremony in Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 67th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied troops landed on Normandy beaches during World War II (XINHUA/AFP)
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