SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, gives a speech during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 weeks ago

SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, gives a speech during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.

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  3. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, gives a speech during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.
  4. A migrant construction worker walks to carry sand bags into a restaurant under renovation in central Shanghai October 23, 2009. China's corporate goods price index in September dropped 5.9 percent from a year earlier, compared with August's fall of 7.1 percent, the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.
  5. A paramilitary policeman carries a boy back from school on his bicycle in central Shanghai October 23, 2009. China's corporate goods price index in September dropped 5.9 percent from a year earlier, compared with August's fall of 7.1 percent, the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.
  6. Workers paint on a wall in central Shanghai October 23, 2009. China's corporate goods price index in September dropped 5.9 percent from a year earlier, compared with August's fall of 7.1 percent, the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.
  7. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, left, and Chinese Central Banker Zhou Xiaochuan share a joke as they arrive for the evening dinner at an hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland as part of the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting, Friday Nov. 6, 2009.
  8. China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan attends the signing of a memorandum in Hong Kong June 29, 2009. Obama, who will visit Shanghai and Beijing for the first time on Nov. 15-18, spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, five time zones away from Washington, D.C.; and beginning in 1967, when he was six years old, he lived in Jakarta for four years. Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up. Picture taken June 29, 2009. To match Special Report CHINA/USA.
  9. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, gives a speech during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.
  10. Workers install a new sign for a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in downtown Shanghai September 23, 2009. China's growing economic influence in the developing world merits a louder voice for Beijing in the international financial system, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said in comments published on Wednesday. Zhou's remarks feed into a debate about how to redistribute voting power in institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to better reflect the fast growth of big emerging economies including China.
  11. Construction workers erect scaffolding on a building site located on the outskirts of Beijing September 23, 2009. China's growing economic influence in the developing world merits a louder voice for Beijing in the international financial system, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said in comments published on Wednesday. Zhou's remarks feed into a debate about how to redistribute voting power in institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to better reflect the fast growth of big emerging economies including China.
  12. LONDON - SEPTEMBER 5: (L-R front) Elena Salgado, Spain's finance minister, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's central bank, Mehmet Simsek, Turkey's finance minister, Martin Redrado, governor of the Central Bank of Argentina, Agustin Carstens, Mexico's minister of finance, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's finance minister, Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, Alistair Darling, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, India's finance minister, Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, Mario Draghi, governor of the bank of Italy, Axel Weber, president of Deutsche Bundesbank, Ibrahim al-Assaf, finance minister of Saudi Arabia, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's finance minister, pose for a group picture during the G20 finance Minister's summit, at the Treasury in Westminster on September 5, 2009 in London, England. British PM Gordon Brown has warned against withdrawing support for the global economy too soon, stating it could undermine tentative recovery signs, during a G20 meeting. Finance ministers are in London for a two-day meeting to map out rules to prevent a repeat of the crisis that brought the financial system to the brink of collapse.
  13. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Delegates of the first batch of 28 selected firms for China's ChiNext pose for photos during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.
  14. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Delegates of the first batch of 28 selected firms for China's ChiNext pose for photos during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.
  15. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Delegates of the first batch of 28 selected firms for China's ChiNext pose for photos during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.
  16. SHENZHEN, CHINA - OCTOBER 30: Delegates of the first batch of 28 selected firms for China's ChiNext pose for photos during the listing ceremony on October 30, 2009 in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. China's Nasdaq-style market, ChiNext, made their debut Friday on the Shenzhen-based exchange.

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