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[Metro & Sports]

• For Zhou Wenzhong, who has spent almost three decades as a career diplomat focused on Sino-US relations, the two countries have never before shared so many common interests.
• China's automotive industry has sustained robust growth despite the global economic slowdown, making the world's major automakers pay increasing attention to investing in the Chinese market. Software companies are paying attention, too.
• Eight million people had been vaccinated for the A(H1N1) flu virus as of noon Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced on its website.
• For those of us in Beijing it's time to schedule that friendly snowball fight in your local neighborhood.
• Golf's World No. 2 Phil Mickelson has held his nerve at the final hole to end a difficult year on a high with a one-shot victory at the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.
• Novak Djokovic upset Roger Federer in the final of the Swiss Indoors tournament yesterday to end the world No. 1's bid for a fourth successive title at his home event.

[China's Champion]  Su Jianhua

Senior officials from China and Africa are meeting in Egypt to lay out the plans for further cooperation at the China-Africa forum meeting. For years, many ordinary Africans have also been committing themselves to bringing China and Africa closer. Su Jianhua from Sudan is one of them.

[Cultural Voyage] Climate Change and China

Tackling climate change will require strong leadership. Not just in government, but areas such as science, business and law. U.K.-based LEAD International brings together promising young leaders in environmental and sustainable development. Thomas Rippe spoke with LEAD CEO Simon Lyster and professor Lu Zhi, who is the academic director of LEAD China, about China's changing approach to climate leadership. Mr. Lyster says China has become a vital player in the global fight against climate change.

[Showbiz News]

• New photos from the upcoming Chinese gangster movie "Let the Bullets Fly" have shed light on lead actor Ge You's character as a 1920s hippie and Carina Lau as his fashionable wife.
• "A Christmas Carol," Walt Disney Studios' latest animated tribute to Christmas has risen atop the North America box office over the weekend.
• Robert Pattinson may be a global heartthrob, but when it comes to his own romantic exploits, the Twilight star admits he can be a bit wimpy. "I can't think of a single romantic thing that I've ever done," Pattinson said while promoting the latest installment of the vampire series, New Moon, in Los Angeles over the weekend.
• Susan Boyle is set to dazzle the Dancing with the Stars crowd �C with her singing, not her dancing feet.
  

[Strange News]

• The newlyweds walked a red carpet amid tearful hugs and kisses as bridesmaids tossed rose petals into the air.
• A neighborhood residents committee in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province is working to broaden musical tastes and reduce the volume of an unidentified woman who has reportedly been playing the same song repeatedly for two years.
• Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.
• A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 US dollars a year by selling advertising space on his torso. The average US wage is about $32,000 a year.
  

[Real China] Africa in China trade, and China in Africa trade

With its recent history of tremendous economic growth, China has a few lessons to teach Africans.China over the last decade has become the key development partner to many nations in Africa and is having a visible impact upon economic growth across the continent. This has seen some Chinese people cross borders to invest in Africa as well as Africans establishing their enterprises in China.