Over 18 research institutes are located in Mianyang, including the China Academy of Engineering Physics and the China Aerodynamics Research Institute.

FORBES: China's Best Kept Secrets: Mianyang And Other Tier 3 Cities

The foreign ministry also stressed that China's arms exports abide by legal norms and pose no threat to global peace and stability in response to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on China replacing Britain as the world's fifth-largest arms exporter, says Beijing Times.

BBC: China media: Japan radar lock

The main complaint was not the U.S. and European economies, but about taxes and fees charged by local governments, regional protectionism and tight credit, said Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation, which compiled the data.

FORBES: China Inc. Blames Govt. For Worsening Market

He was asked to make a speech at the inauguration of a research institute in north-eastern China.

BBC: Faking it as a foreign executive in China

According to a 36-page academic research report by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, China has moved closer to its long-term goal for its currency, the renminbi (RMB), to become a global reserve currency.

FORBES: China Taking Asia Further From Dollar, Even Further From Euro

There are between 8m and 12m Catholics in China, according to Anthony Lam of the Holy Spirit Study Centre, a research institute in Hong Kong.

ECONOMIST: The Catholic church

"If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.

NPR: Eyeing Rich Bounty, China In Line For Afghan Role

"Hopewell misjudged the speed of major civil engineering construction in China, the complexities of land acquisition and budgeting, " says Michael Green of Nomura Research Institute.

CNN: HANGING ON AT HOPEWELL