Billionaire Fan

(XINHUA)

Xu Jiayin, Chairman of Evergrande Group based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, hit the headlines in the press recently after Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club lifted the Asian Champions League trophy on November 9.

Evergrande purchased the team in early 2010. It has reportedly invested around 2 billion yuan ($328 million) in the squad, allowing it to lure top players and a world-renowned coach.

Xu was 13th on this year's Forbes China Rich List, with personal assets of 32.9 billion yuan ($5.4 billion), up from 30.9 billion yuan ($5.1 billion) last year.

Tough Girl

(CFP)

Lu Yuting, a 16-year-old high school girl from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, touched the hearts of thousands when she received an award for filial piety at a ceremony broadcast by China Central Television on November 8.

When her mother was hospitalized due to worsening kidney disease in November 2011, Lu suspended studies for one year to take care of her mother and her 70-year-old grandmother, who suffers from leg problems. Lu is the only daughter and her father abandoned the family many years ago.

To pay for her mother's medical bills, Lu also began delivering air tickets by bicycle.

"While around 86.8 percent of elderly people in cities receive a monthly pension, in rural areas only 18.7 percent do. Seniors in the countryside mainly live on support from their families or proceeds from renting out farmland."

Ma Li, former Director of the China Population and Development Research Center, at a recent forum on an aging society in Beijing

"We hope people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits, especially the young generation, will better understand each other and strengthen their common national identity and sense of belonging."

Fan Liqing, spokeswoman of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, at a regular press conference in Beijing on November 13

"Undoubtedly, the establishment of a state security committee has made terrorists, separatists, and extremists nervous."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Qin Gang, at a press meeting in Beijing on November 13

"An eased policy would not compromise the nation's long-term goal of achieving low population growth."

Yuan Xin, a professor of population studies at Nankai University in Tianjin, on the news that the Central Government may fine-tune its family planning policy