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2012年CCTV中国经济年度人物 The CCTV Economic Person of the Year honor has been awarded since the year 2000 to those deemed the most professional and influential in China's economic development. It is not just China's

This year, candidates are mainly from five main industries, namely, information

technology, home life and travel, industrial production, daily commodities and financial investment.

The number of winners in the information technology industry is on the decrease, while those in the home life and travel industry and daily commodities industry remain unchanged, and the number of winners in industrial production and financial investment are on the rise. Shi Shusi, Director of Workers Daily Weekly, says this indicates the growth highlights of China's economy.

The award winners in the past 12 years have included more than 20 industries. Among them, professionals from the automobile, electronic home appliances, IT manufacturing and finance have accounted for the most winners.

Three of the four industries involved manufacturing—an indication of China's position as a manufacturing giant.

But do changes in the industries of winners mean the fall of some pillar industries? Liu Xiaoqing, Director of China News Weekly, doesn't believe so.

After collecting and screening the nominees for the awards, the selecting committee drew up a list of 139 recommended candidates and sent it out to more than 200 organizations and judges.

The final winner will be announced tomorrow.

U.S. student arrested over shooting threat A student was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening to shoot inside a school in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, local media reported. Police arrested Sammy Chavez, 18, in the early morning at a residence in west Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on an arrest warrant for threats to kill, according to local TV channel FOX23. Bartlesville police said officials from Bartlesville High School reported that a student talked about

Officers began an immediate search for the suspect, who was not at school on Thursday, and located him at a residence in Bartlesville early Friday morning, according to the report.

According to court documents, the suspect tried to recruit other students to assist him in a plot to lure other students into the school auditorium, shut the doors and shoot them. Student witnesses also reported that the teenager claimed he would place bombs by the school doors.

Police believed he was trying to obtain a map or blueprint of the school. He reportedly told a teacher that he had recently purchased a gun and would use it to shoot over the weekend.

Bartlesville police said the incident is still under investigation and they currently have no further details. The arrest came on the same day when an elementary school shooting left 20 children and 8 adults dead in the U.S. state of Connecticut, the second deadliest in U.S. history only next to the Virginia Tech Massacre in April 2007, which claimed 33 lives.

声音低沉的女性竞选更有优势

You vote for politicians based on their views, right? That's how it works in theory. But other factors can sway your vote. Like a politician's voice. Because studies show that the deeper the voice, the more electable the candidate. And not just for men. Deeper voiced women have an advantage over other women, even when they're running for positions traditionally held by women, like the school board or PTA president. So says a study in the journal PLoS ONE. [Rindy C. Anderson and Casey A. Klofstad, Preference for Leaders with Masculine Voices Holds in the Case of Feminine Leadership Roles]

Researchers played undergrads recordings like this. [Women’s voices.] Then they asked the students to vote for one of them for the school board or the PTA. In each mock election, the deeper voiced woman snagged about 70 percent of the votes.

Women's voices naturally deepen with age, so the researchers say we might be biased to select older women as leaders. And previous studies have shown that women with deeper voices are seen as more competent, trustworthy and strong. Margaret Thatcher used that to her advantage—she was famously coached to deepen her voice. Other politicians might do well to follow her lead, when they make their pitch to voters.

Putin gazes east for future development MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia's priority of future development would be in the east, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday in a state-of-the-nation address to the legislature.

Russia, the world's largest country, has more than 70 percent of its land located in Asia. Thus, the Asia-Pacific region is of great strategic significance to Russia. Eager to promote industry modernization and innovative growth, Russia needs Asian countries for their technologies, human capital and energy markets.

Calling the Asia-Pacific

This is Putin's first address of its kind after he returned to the Kremlin following a four-year interval, during which he served as prime minister.

朝鲜誓言要发射更多卫星

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to send more satellites to space, just days after the country's successful long-range rocket launch provoked international condemnation.

The official Korean Central News Agency said that Mr. Kim

The United Nations Security Council condemned Wednesday's launch as a

But in North Korea hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers gathered Friday to celebrate the success of the mission.

朝鲜领导人金正恩誓言要将更多卫星送入太空。几天前，朝鲜刚刚成功试射远程火箭，引发国际谴责。

官方朝中社说，金正恩强调了继续发射卫星以“发展朝鲜的科学、技术和经济”的必要性。 联合国安理会谴责朝鲜星期三的发射是“明显违反”禁止平壤进行导弹或核试验的制裁。 朝鲜数以十万计的朝鲜民众和军人星期五举行集会，庆祝朝鲜成功发射卫星。