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The Long March-2F rocket carrying China's manned Shenzhou-10 spacecraft blasts off from launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 11, 2013 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China.
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, smoke rises from a poultry farm at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi township of Dehui City, northeast China's Jilin Province June 3, 2013
US Navy Specialist 1st Class Michael D. Cole
USS Nimitz and USS Preble, top, in the East China Sea, May 15. News blackout demanded by South Korea kept Japanese warships out of the photo, if not the picture.
In this Sept. 28, 2010 photo, Liu Xia, wife of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, speaks during an interview in Beijing, China. (Photo: Andy Wong / AP)
In this Sept. 28, 2010 photo, Liu Xia, wife of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, speaks during an interview in Beijing, China. (Photo: Andy Wong / AP)
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China, Shenzhen, 2013. One of the main Huawei buildings on their compound in Shenzhen.
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A Japan Coast Guard vessel, right, and and a Chinese surveillance ship, top, follow a Japanese fishing boat near disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China in the East China Sea Tuesday, April 23, 2013. A group of Japanese ultra-nationalists planned Tuesday to approach the islands on several fishing vessels and pleasure boats. The visit adds to risks of confrontation, however, with Chinese vessels circulating in the area.
Xinhua / Sipa USA
Lights are still on in the temporary tents of the Red Cross Society of China despite late at night in Lushan County of Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 21, 2013.
Associated Press
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks past an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China. Apple apologized to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, a giant rock blocks the road, about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the county seat of Lushan in Ya'an city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2013.
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This picture taken on October 3, 2012 shows visitors gathered on the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. Hundreds of millions of tourists crowded into scenery spots, resorts and other tourism destinations scattered across the country while millions of visitors arrived in the capital city over the National Day "Golden Week" holidays.
CHINA DAILY / REUTERS
An employee dressed in a panda costume poses for a photo during the soft opening of a panda-themed hotel at the foot of Emei Mountain, Southwest China's Sichuan province, February 25, 2013. According to local media, the hotel is the first panda-themed hotel in the world and will officially open in May with room rates from 300 to 500 yuan ($48 to $80) per night.
LCDR Denver Applehans, US Navy
Japan Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JS Yudachi sails in formation with the USS George Washington, foreground, during exercises in the East China Sea last year. Japan says a Chinese warship locked targeting radar onto the Yudachi in the same region last month.
Xinhua/Jiao Hongtao/AP
A bullet train passes over Yongdinghe Bridge in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 26, 2012. The world's longest high-speed rail route linking Beijing and Guangzhou started operation on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012.
Xinhua photo
An undated handout photo shows the carrier-borne J-15 fighter jet taking off from China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. On Sunday, the Chinese navy said the plane also had landed, successfully, on the carrier.
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. Above, left: The caption from LIFE: "Buddhists carry lotus blossoms in Peking parade celebrating ninth anniversary of establishment of Communist China." (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. Above, top left: Caption from LIFE: "Russian adviser to Chinese, who wears the pajamas that Soviets favor for travel and lounging, arouses avid curiosity in Central China." (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
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China's Premier Wen Jiabao (shown on screen) speaks as delegates listen during the opening ceremony of National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 5, 2013.
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This picture taken on October 3, 2012 shows visitors gathered on the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. Hundreds of millions of tourists crowded into scenery spots, resorts and other tourism destinations scattered across the country while millions of visitors arrived in the capital city over the National Day 'Golden Week' holidays
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Children sit near a water display at the South China Mall, in Dongguan, China, on Wednesday, April 11, 2007.
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This picture taken on July 25, 2012 shows the Chinese government house in Sansha, China's newest city, anchored on a remote tropical island. The so-called "city" is on Yongxing, one of many small islands, reefs and shoals that make up the disputed Paracel Islands spreading over the northern part of the sea
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A Chinese parent transports her daughter for the first day of school in Macheng, central China's Hubei province. More than 3000 other students have to bring their own desks to school.
Xinhua News / Reuters
China's Vice President Xi Jinping has lunch with soldiers during his inspection of the Guangzhou Military Region in South China, Dec. 23, 2012.
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
The article "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as it appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson—LIFE Magazine
Pages from "Red China Bid for a Future," featuring photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as the article appeared in the January 5, 1959, issue of LIFE. Massive festival that marked completion of Ming Tombs Dam ... Cartier-Bresson took picture from the top of the dam itself. Blue Russian-made "Pobeda" sedan (center) was special attraction to Chinese. They make a few cars but ordinary Chinese are not allowed to own them." (NOTE: This gallery is best viewed in "full screen" mode. See button at right.)
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Protestors demonstrate to free Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, near the China Liason Office in Hong Kong on October 8, 2010. Despite a warning to the Nobel committee and months of behind-the-scenes pressure, China failed to avert a harsh slap in the face — the awarding of the Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. Beijing predictably slammed the win for the 54-year-old Liu — the co-author of a bold manifesto calling for political reform who was jailed in December for 11 years for subversion, a sentence that won global condemnation.
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In one of the photos that ultimately ran in LIFE (Olson went back to Palo Alto for a re-shoot), new mom Grace dangles her daughter China by the feet in 1971. Setting up each shot of the stars with their folks "was really a matter of wanting to, whenever possible, show the contrast between how they were raised and who they were now," Olson says. Virginia Wing, wrote LIFE, was a "soft-spoken suburban matron" --pretty much the opposite of her wild child. "Grace and I have different sets of moral values," Mrs. Wing told LIFE, "but she's her own person, and we understand each other."
Zhang Jiansong / Xin Hua / Reuters
Crew members of China's surveillance ship Haijian 50 take pictures as they sail on waters near the disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012.
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China's Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai attends the third plenary meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) in this file photo from March 9, 2012 in Beijing, China. Bo Xilai is to be expelled from the Communist Party and will face prosecution, state media reported 28 Sept. 2012.
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China's premier Wen Jiabao speaks during a news conference following the close of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at The Great Hall of The People on March 14, 2012 in Beijing.
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The silhouette of a demonstrator is seen behind a flag of the People's Republic of China during a protest over disputed islands in the East China Sea at the Japanese Embassy in Budapest, Sept. 24, 2012.
Reuters
China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai (R) and his wife Gu Kailai stand at a mourning held for his father Bo Yibo, former vice-chairman of the Central Advisory Commission of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing in this January 17, 2007 file photo.
Reuters
A China Marine Surveillance ship, foreground, is shadowed by a Japan Coast Guard vessel in territorial waters off the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the South China Sea Friday.
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A migrant worker's child sits in a classroom on August 18, 2011 in Beijing, China. In recent times many of these schools have had to close, leaving them without an education.
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Zong Qinghou, China's richest person, arrives at The Great Hall Of The People before the third plenary meeting of the National People's Congress on March 9, 2012 in Beijing, China.
David Gray / Reuters
Qiangba Puncog (center), chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, prepares to speak to members of the Tibetan provincial delegation and representatives from the National People's Congress (NPC) during their meeting at the Tibet Room inside the Great Hall of the People, at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2012.
Reuters
China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai, right, and his son Bo Guagua in Beijing in 2007
AP
Vietnamese protesters carry a banner with a Vietnamese slogan reading, "China must respect and execute the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea," during a protest demanding China to stay out of their waters following China's increased activities around the Spratly Islands and other disputed areas, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Sunday June 12, 2011.
AP
Lei Zhengfu, Secretary of the Beibei District Committee of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing, speaks during an inspection in Chongqing, China, Feb. 11 2010.
AFP PHOTO / FILESSTR/AFP/GettyImages
This file photo taken on September 24, 2012 shows China's first aircraft carrier, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, docked after its handover to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province.
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China's Great Wall: an ancient AirSea Battle plan
Lee Jin-man / AP
China's Liu Xiang, left, fails to clear a hurdle in a men's 110-meter hurdles heat as he competes alongside Hungary's Balazs Baji during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Aug. 7, 2012.
OLIVIER MORIN / AFP / Getty Images
China's Liu Xiang kisses a hurdle after falling while competing in the men's 110m hurdles heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 7, 2012 in London.
ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP / Getty Images
China's Liu Xiang competes in the men's 110-m hurdles at the Diamond League athletics meet at Crystal Palace in London on July 13, 2012
Zheng Chongbin
China ink The new style of ink painting stems directly from China's relentless modernization
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Anti China protestor and former Philippine policeman Abner Afuang burns a Chinese flag in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs on July 27, 2012 in Manila, Philippines
Ng Han Guan/AP
A Chinese man holds up a Chinese passport with details on a page that shows dashes which include the South China Sea as part of the Chinese territory outside a passport office in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012.
ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images
People visit France exhibition area during the Top Wine China 2011 fair at China World Trade Center on May 25, 2011 in Beijing, China.
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China's Premier Wen Jiabao expresses his condolences to survivors after a deadly flood-triggered landslide hit the area of Zhouqu, in northwest China's Gansu province.
Gong Zhiyong, Xinhua / AP
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, buildings, vehicles and roads are hit by mudslides in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday Aug. 8, 2010. Rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China on Sunday, smashing buildings, overturning cars and killing at least 127 people.
YOMIURI SHIMBUN / AFP / GettyImages
In a photograph taken on August 15, 2012, pro-China activists carrying Chinese and Taiwanese national flags walk on the disputed island known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China after arriving on their boat, west of Japan's sourthern island of Okinawa
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (R) looks on as U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke (L) talks on the phone May 2, 2012 in Beijing, China.
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People sharing a scooter ride past oil rigs in Cangzhou in northern China's Hebei Province, northeast China, where PetroChina and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) drill for oil.
Xinhua, Miao Qiunao / AP
In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, flood water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir in Jiyuan, central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
XINHUA, ZHOU XUEJUN / AP
In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, a resident rides a bike in a street submerged by flood in Wenling, a city of east China's Zhejiang Province, Monday, July 26, 2010.
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Sky-high China is trying to cool its too-hot property market
Xinhua / Zuma
President Obama's trip to China stressed the U.S. and China's economic ties.
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A poster of Stalin hangs in a shop window in Mukden, China, in 1946.
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China's President, Hu Jintao, and U.S. President Barack Obama stand together during a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Jan. 19, 2011
Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown for TIME
"China's computer generation" An Internet cafe in Beijing
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A poster of Joseph Stalin hangs in a shop window in Mukden, China, in 1946.
Liu Guangming / XinHua / Corbis
Workers produce a giant tire at the China National Tire & Rubber Guilin Corp. LTD in Guilin, in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on May 24, 2009
Ng Han Guan / AP
A Chinese cyclist passes by the iconic China Central Television building in Beijing, China on June 18, 2009
Zhao Zhongzhi / Xinhua / AP
In this Thursday June 24, 2010 photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, local residents transfer their belongings on a boat in Xiangtan county, in central China's Hunan province.
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Poverty in China
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Pedestrians walk past an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Ltd. branch in Beijing, China, on July 19, 2008
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China has spent $50 million building a stadium at this site in Conakry, Guinea
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The number of China's Internet users reached 137 million at the end of last year
Bullit Marquez / AP
China's Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai
Gerard Cerles / Pool / Reuters
Business ties with China are likely to suffer if the French President goes ahead with his plan to meet the Dalai Lama.
Ng Han Guan / AP
A Chinese woman walks past the Google logo at the Google China headquarters in Beijing, China, Monday, March 22, 2010
Daniel Traub for Time
China's schools are adding more creative and practical topics to their notoriously rigid curriculum.
Daniel Traub for Time
China is experimenting with eco-friendly technologies, from electric cars to urban wind turbines like this one in southeastern Shanghai.
Dar Yasin / AP
China's chief climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, right, shakes hands with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh after signing an agreement during a joint workshop on national action plan on climate change in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
China Photos / Getty Images
People in Hubei province, China, line up to have their babies who drank tainted milk powder examined in a hospital on Sept. 17, 2008
David Hancock / Rio Tinto / Reuters
China buying into Rio Tinto mining company has fueled speculation that it wants to secure access to minerals.
AP
China's GDP figures show clearly that, without better
export numbers, its economy cannot recover.
Lan Hongguang / AP, Xinhua
In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Friday May 7, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China
Xinhua / Landov
"Powered up"Baidu has more users than any other search engine in China, and China more Internet users than any other country
Adrian Bradshaw / EPA / Corbis
Pedestrians passes by the headquarters of Bank of China
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Builders work at the construction site of the China Pavilion for the World Expo Shanghai 2010 on December 31, 2008, in Shanghai
Alexander F. Yuan / AP
Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google China, speaks at a ceremony to launch Google's free music download service for China in Beijing, China, Monday, March 30, 2009.
Chen Zhigang / ChinaFotoPress
Toys for export in a workshop in Hainan, China
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"Unemployment line:" Laid-off workers in southern China queue for their back pay
Reuters
A resident rides a bicycle past a chemical factory in China's Hubei province on Feb. 25, 2009
Jason Lee / Reuters
The new Chery Wuwa series are unveiled at the Auto China 2008 show in Beijing in April 2008
Ian Teh / Panos
Migrant construction workers like these Beijing commuters are becoming casualties of China's economic slowdown
Sheena Sippy / Warner Bros.
Akshay Kumar as Sidhu and Deepika Padukone as Sakhi in Chandni Chowk to China
WU HONG / EPA
A line of cars at a Chery dealership in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, on Dec. 10, 2008
Chen Qing / Imaginechina / AP
Local residents and police surround taxies parked along a street in Chongqing, China, on Nov. 4, 2008, a day after taxi drivers staged a large protest over increased operating costs, gas shortages, and high traffic fines
EPA
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is seen during a meeting in Shanghai, China.
Reuters
Workers walk amid vast numbers of containers at a port in Yingkou, in China's Liaoning province
China Daily / Reuters
"A bright picture:" Consumers of 1981, at the dawn of China's economic reform
Elizabeth Dalziel / AP
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at a closing press conference at the U.S. China Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 5, 2008
Gong Haitao and his wife Wang Yanfeng, a young middle-class couple from Tianjin, China
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