The influential people in 2012 (10)

（People's Daily Online） 08:20, January 06, 2013

Jim Yong, the 12th President of the World Bank, attends the news conference in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 11, 2012. The Korean-American physician and anthropologist has been elected as the President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012 to replace Robert Zoellick. (Xinhua/AP)

Edited and translated by Li Xiang, People's Daily Online

2012 has just gone. In this year, there are certain people whose laughers and tears affect people all over the world. They come and go on the global economic and political stages; they research in every field of human scientific technology; they emerge in the global entertainment trend; they live their lives with happiness or wait for another breakthrough in silence, or accept helplessly whatever life gives them. They make the whole world remember them in their own way.