People sit on a street as they participate in a protest against a battery factory in Songjiang district, on the outskirts of Shanghai May 11, 2013. At least two earlier protests against the planned factory have occurred in recent weeks, according to official media. In response, Songjiang district officials said late last month that the planned factory would only produce lithium cells and conduct final assembly of the batteries, but would not be permitted to produce anode and cathode, the official Global Times reported at the time.
People participate in a protest against a battery factory on a street of Songjiang district, on the outskirts of Shanghai May 11, 2013. At least two earlier protests against the planned factory have occurred in recent weeks, according to official media. In response, Songjiang district officials said late last month that the planned factory would only produce lithium cells and conduct final assembly of the batteries, but would not be permitted to produce anode and cathode, the official Global Times reported at the time. The sign reads: "We need clean water. Love Shanghai! Love Songjiang! Guoxuan battery factory, get out of Songjiang."
GUIYANG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: Jiang Hao (Center), Vice-president of Guiyang Intermediate People's Court attends a press conference on former Chinese leader Bo Xilai's case on January 28, 2013 in Guiyang, China.'It is fake information. The trial of Bo Xilai will not open in Guiyang today', Jiang Hao said. The trial of Bo Xilai is expected to open after the 'two sessions' in March, China's official newspaper Global Times reports on Monday.
A stack of Southern Weekly (L) are left on display next to a stack of the Global Times at a newsstand in Beijing, January 10, 2013. The latest issue of a Chinese newspaper at the centre of anti-censorship protests appeared on newsstands in Beijing and Shanghai on Thursday as usual, but not its home city Guangzhou.
This file picture taken on September 5, 2012, shows China's first aircraft carrier berthed at Dalian port, in northeast China's Liaoning province, with the newly painted number '16' on its sides. China's first aircraft carrier was handed over on September 23, 2012 to the navy of the People's Liberation Army, state press said, amid rising tensions over disputed waters in the East and South China Seas. The handover ceremony of the 300-metre (990-foot) ship, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, took place in northeast China's port of Dalian after a lengthy refitting by a Chinese shipbuilder, the Global Times reported.
