english news 英语新闻-In Pictures: Wen Jiabao's past decade as Premier

Then-newly elected Premier Wen Jiabao meets the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 18, 2003. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao visits low-income families on Chinese New Year's eve in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province on January 20, 2004. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao greets children with the Young Pioneer's salute ahead of Children's Day on May 29, 2004. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao comforts a boy whose father died in a mine accident in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on January 2, 2005.(Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao visits students who are learning Chinese at a middle school in the Republic of the Congo on June 20, 2006. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao holds a baby at an orphanage in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on August 11, 2006. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao shakes hands with flood victims in Wangjiaba, east China's Anhui Province on July 13, 2007.(Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao holds the hand of an injured boy in Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 13, 2008 after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit the area a day earlier.(Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao plays basketball at the Wukesong Basketball Arena in Beijing ahead of the Beijing Olympics on August 3, 2008.(Xinhua File Photo)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) cooks at a kitchen shared by several families at the prefabs in Yingxiu Township of Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 25, 2009. Wen Jiabao came to the quake-hit counties of Beichuan, Deyang and Wenchuan in Sichuan Province on Jan. 24 and 25, celebrating the Spring Festival with local residents.(Xinhua File Photo/Yao Dawei)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao prepares to chat with Internet surfers on two state news portals in Beijing, China, Feb. 28, 2009. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao works in a corn field on a tractor in Xuchang County, central China's Henan Province on June 10, 2010. (Xinhua File Photo)

Wen Jiabao presents flowers and bows to mourn for victims in the train crash in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province on July 28, 2011. (Xinhua File Photo)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao greets the journalists when arriving at a press conference after the closing meeting of the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 14, 2012. (Xinhua File Photo/Huang Jingwen)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) talks to student Song Xinyi in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 14, 2012. (Xinhua File Photo/Yao Dawei)