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In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers the government work report during the opening meeting of the first session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lan Hongguang)

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Officers of the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau fetch coal sample for test at the coal dock of Rizhao Harbor in Rizhao in China's Shandong province on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. China, the largest producer of coal in the world, became a net coal importer in 2009 as the country imported 130 million tons of coal last year, almost twice the volume for 2008. Its coal output reached 2.96 billion tons in 2009, up 12.7 percent year-on-year.(Photo By Chen Weifeng/Color China Photo/AP Images)

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China's evolving image: Designer gowns and dramatic runways from the nation's 2013 Fashion Week in Beijing. (image from Beijing Screenwriting Competition/ Xinhua)

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China’s surveillance ship Haijian 15 plies the waters of the East China Sea near islands that are the center of a dispute between China and Japan. (Xinhua news AGENCY via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A worker sweeps outside the College of Computer Science & Technology on the Yuquan campus of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army, which has been recruiting computer experts from the school for at least a decade, is alleged to be one of several hacking operations run by China's military. (AP Photo)

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Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says a Chinese missile frigate locked its fire-control radar on a Japanese helicopter and destroyer in January in the East China Sea. China denies the claims. (Japanese Defense Ministry via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** China is now the world’s biggest and fastest-growing source of air-polluting greenhouse gases as it relies increasingly on coal to generate electricity. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The al-Waha Oil Co. in southern Iraq is an affiliate of China’s state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. Most of Iraq’s oil production is expected to be funneled to China and other expanding Asian markets rather than the U.S. and Europe. (Associated Press)