中国发射“中国遥感卫星六号”

China says it has exerted great effort to comprehensively improve natural disaster risk management and disaster reduction ability, always adhering to the policy of putting people first and putting life above everything

Vice premier Hui Liangyu made the remark in Beijing Wednesday when meeting with John Holmes, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.

Hui Liangyu said China's remarkable progress in enhancing its risk management and disaster reduction capabilities is a great contribution to the global humanitarian cause.

He said China is willing to cement cooperation with that the UN to strengthen the timeliness and usefulness of international humanitarian activities.

UN hopes for larger Chinese role in multilateral humanitarian efforts

The United Nations says it hopes China would get more involved in humanitarian efforts by multilateral and multinational institutions.

John Holmes, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator told Xinhua that there was "a great response internationally to the Wenchuan earthquake" in southwest China last year and "in the same way, China can help other countries when they are also suffering from problems," .

He said the Chinese government has done an extremely effective and efficient job both in immediate relief operations and in the recovery and reconstruction.

China launches remote sensing satellite

China has launched a remote-sensing satellite.

It was launched, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, in north Shanxi Province.

The Yaogan 6 satellite will perform several functions.

This includes surveying land resources, environmental surveillance and disaster prevention and reduction.

China's central bank to stick to moderately easy money policy

China's central bank says it will continue toimplement the moderately easy monetary policy to promote steady and fast economic growth.

Yi Gang, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, has told Xinhua that

Economic signs in China are "better than expected" because of the country's proactive fiscal policy, moderately easy monetary policy and stimulus plans.

He says the Chinese financial market is stable and sound and industrial output is increasing.