"The site of the Potsdam meeting is a place of historic significance. The Potsdam Proclamation clearly states that Japan must return China's territories of Northeast China, Taiwan and other islands after surrendering."

Li Keqiang, China's premier, said during his visit to Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, where Soviet, US and British leaders met at the end of World War II for discussions that culminated in the Potsdam Proclamation. Li urged Japan to respect China's territorial sovereignty and the order created after World War II, while offering to work with Germany to achieve more global peace.

"China has made enormous progress in dealing with hunger and its experiences can be learned by the whole world."

Ertharin Cousin

, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, commenting on the advances made by China during her first visit to the country after assuming office. WFP statistics show that one in three Chinese people experienced hunger in 1979, while the ratio of the under-nourished today is less than one in 10.

"I am very sorry for this. And the best way to express apologies is to protect the environment."

Su Zhongjie, director of the environment protection department in Cangnan county, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, apologized to a policeman who was hospitalized for pneumonia after saving a drowning teenager from a polluted river. Su said he would visit the policeman in the hospital and ensure that the polluted area is cleaned up.

(China Daily European Weekly 05/31/2013 page3)