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Updated: 2013-03-15 07:21

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More than 10,000 passers-by painted "green buds" by stepping in green paint and walking on a canvas displaying a withered tree trunk in Xi'an, in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, to raise awareness of National Tree Planting Day on March 12. The afforestation area nationwide was 6.01 million hectares last year. Liang Meng / for China Daily

Policy

Central bank focuses on inflation

The priority for China's central bank is to guard against inflation, said Zhou Xiaochuan, the country's longest-serving central bank governor.

"We hope to stabilize prices and inflation by means of monetary policy and other measures," Zhou said in a news conference on March 12. He also reiterated his commitment to further reform of the capital markets.

The bank's 2013 growth target in money supply, set at 13 percent from last year, was an act of prudence, or a "neutral" stance, rather than the relatively loose monetary policy following the 2008-09 global financial crisis, Zhou said.

Security

US main source of cyberattacks

China was subject to an increasing number of cyberattacks in the first two months of this year, with more than half launched from the United States, China's Internet security watchdog said.

In the past two months, 6,747 overseas servers were found to use Trojans or botnets to control nearly 1.9 million mainframes in China. Among them, 2,194 servers located in the US had controlled 1.287 million mainframes, making it the largest point of origin for cyberattacks against China, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center said.

More than 11,000 Chinese websites were hacked by 5,324 overseas mainframe computers in January and February using the backdoor method, with more than 3,500 websites hacked by 1,959 mainframe computers in the US. Ninety-six percent of phishing sites targeting Chinese e-commerce users were running on foreign servers, with US-based servers hosting 73.1 percent.

Science

Spacecraft tests for lunar mission

An experimental spacecraft will be launched before 2015 to conduct crucial re-entry tests on the capsule to be used in the Chang'e-5 lunar-sample mission, said Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of China's lunar exploration program.

Chang'e-5 is expected to be China's first lunar explorer to return to Earth. The mission will be carried out before 2020. The experimental spacecraft will consist of the Chang'e-2 lunar orbiter base structure, as well as the return capsule that will be used by the Chang'e-5, Hu says.

China has launched two lunar probes, Chang'e-1 and 2. Chang'e-3 will blast off in the second half of this year to become the country's first lunar explorer to soft land on the moon.

Media

Search for logo that says it all

Asia News Network has launched a logo contest with the theme "Emerging Asia" to reflect the region's expanding role on the global stage.

The logo contest is the first of its kind undertaken by the world's largest newspaper network and will net the major winner $3,000.

The first round of the contest will involve online voting in which 20 finalists will be chosen. Editors and art directors from ANN will comprise the judges for the final round, to be held at the annual board meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, late next month. The winner will be announced on April 30.

For more details on the contest, visit www.asianewsnet.net/logocontest. The deadline for submissions is March 31.

ANN, an alliance of 22 newspapers in the region, was launched in 1999.

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