Voices
- TAIWAN
- ... sooner or later mainland China will move toward greater freedom and democrac...
- Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan
- Der Spiegel | 2011-05-06
- DIPLOMACY
- I don't see China reaching out in a systematic way to solve various long-term pr...
- Thomas Christensen, professor of politics at Princeton
- The Stanford Daily | 2011-05-06
- CURRENCY
- It would be inappropriate for China to let its currency float freely at present
- Chen Daofu, policy research chief at the Financial Research Institute of the State Council's Development Research Center
- People's Daily | 2011-05-05
- CURRENCY
- We can have a conditional free float; let the exchange rate be set by the market
- Huang Yiping, an economist at Peking University's China Macroeconomic Research Center
- WSJ | 2011-05-05
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Not until Norway apologizes, will negotiations on Sino-Norwegian economic cooper...
- Tang Guoqiang, China's ambassador to Norway
- Lianhe Zaobao | 2011-05-05
- INVESTMENT
- ... China has also pursued policies that make investment by foreign companies es...
- Gary Locke, U.S. Commerce Secretary and future U.S. ambassador to China
- Reuters | 2011-05-04
- AGRICULTURE
- In some regions, we have seen encouraging signs that farmers' incomes are rising...
- Su Hainan, Deputy head of the China Association for Labour Studies
- Reuters | 2011-05-04
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- Source:Xinhua News Agency

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