The influential people in 2012 (18)

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

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives at the voting station and prepares to vote in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 7, 2012. Chavez has won the election with 54 percent of the votes. (Xinhua/AFP)

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.