Beijing this month said it would streamline the food-regulation regime, in part to address safety concerns.
Huang and his colleagues say to look for three steps to be taken by Beijing this month: First, the government will speed up disbursements to priority projects.
He later told reporters that the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, would visit Beijing later this month accompanied by intelligence officials.
Without fanfare (or media coverage) in the West, Beijing earlier this month dramatically cut the tax rebates that exporters get on more than 2, 200 products, including soap, plastics and glassware.
Taiwan and Beijing have restored direct flights and increased tourism, and Mr Ma is also expected to sign a landmark - though controversial - bilateral free trade agreement with Beijing later this month.
For in the end, no matter what China's leaders tell Mr Obama when he visits Beijing later this month, economic and political liberty are linked not as tightly as people hoped 20 years ago, but still linked.
However, it was a measure of revenge for the second-ranked Russian, who lost to Azarenka in January's Australian Open final, the U.S. Open semifinals and in two other tournament title matches -- the most recent in Beijing earlier this month.
Minister of Railways Sheng Guangzu said earlier this month that Beijing will increase investment in the sector this year to 650 billion yuan, up from last year's actual investment of 631 billion yuan.
The launch of high-speed service between Beijing and Shanghai earlier this month was plagued by electrical outages and other malfunctions that caused delays and left passengers stranded, problems that hit other parts of the network in recent weeks.
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HSBC, Credit Suisse, and Citigroup, among others, have turned optimistic after Beijing hiked interest rates earlier this month.
Earlier this month, Beijing said that it would raise the cap on the total amount of money foreign investors can bring into the country.
Beijing, meanwhile, said earlier this month that it planned to formally survey the islands.
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Earlier this month, Beijing called on its nation's tourists to improve their behavior, with Vice Premier Wang Yang stating it was important to project a good image of Chinese tourists.
Beijing, as of the 13th of this month, maintained that oil was still coming out of the wells.
But Beijing is unlikely to see much bohemian revelry this month.
Now 72 and a resident of Beijing, he's in New York this month to receive the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize for "Tombstone, " his painstakingly researched, definitive history of the famine.
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Beijing supplied the centrifuge technology that so impressed Hecker this month.
He looked to be on course for a place in Beijing when he trained with the rest of the squad earlier this month.
This month he sent the finance and trade ministers to Beijing in an apparent effort to mend the breach.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to China earlier this month, made little headway in trying to persuade Beijing to publicly rebuke North Korea after it threatened to attack U.S. and allied targets in North Asia and the Pacific.
He says he was detained by police for more than an hour this month when he tried to visit the American embassy in Beijing.
The issue also drew attention when the Procuratorial Daily, the official newspaper of the country's highest agency for criminal investigation and prosecution, earlier this month published the results of a study by researchers at Beijing's Renmin University that estimated that 95% of officials investigated for corruption had extramarital affairs, with 60% or more keeping full-time mistresses.
Earlier this month, U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake visited Beijing, where he is believed to have laid the groundwork for a summit meeting after the U.S. presidential election in November.
The International Ice Hockey Federation has cancelled this month's women's world championship, due to be held in Beijing.
Later this month, an American assistant secretary of defence, Peter Rodman, will visit Beijing for talks on ways to revitalise military-to-military contacts.
Earlier this month, during a trip to China by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Beijing confirmed that it had tested a prototype J-20 stealth fighter, invisible to radar.
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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright raised the issue during her recent visit in Beijing while sources say Vice President Al Gore is also expected to do the same when he visits China later this month.
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This month a senior official from the government's complaints and petitions bureau visited Mr Chen in his Beijing hospital room, promising an investigation.
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