Supporters of Southern Weekly newspaper in a wheelchair stages a protest outside the headquarters of the newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Communist Party-backed management and rebellious editors at the influential weekly newspaper have defused a high-profile standoff over censorship that turned into a test of the new Chinese leadership's tolerance for political reform. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

A police officer stands guard outside the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Communist Party-backed management and rebellious editors at the influential weekly newspaper have defused a high-profile standoff over censorship that turned into a test of the new Chinese leadership's tolerance for political reform. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Leftists carrying portraits of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong demonstrate outside the office of the liberal Southern Weekly newspaper in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou January 9, 2013, denouncing the newspaper as "a traitor newspaper" for defying the party. The Communist Party chief of Guangdong province stepped in to mediate a standoff over censorship at a Chinese newspaper on Tuesday, a source said, in a potentially encouraging sign for press freedoms in China. *******/Bobby Yip

Security guards stand near protest banners and flowers are laid outside the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. A dispute over censorship at the Chinese newspaper known for edgy reporting evolved Monday into a political challenge for China's new leadership as prominent scholars demanded a censor's dismissal and hundreds of protesters called for democratic reforms.

Demonstrators hold banners, portraits of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, and Chinese national flags next to policemen outside the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 8, 2013. Chinese police broke up scuffles outside the gates of a prominent newspaper in southern Guangzhou on Tuesday, as Communist Party authorities showed signs of a taking a harder line against journalists defying official censorship.

The Chinese Characters on the right banner said "Support China's Communist Party chief Xi Jinping, ardently love China's Communist Party, develop in the way of common prosperity." The Chinese Characters on the banners (front, L to R) read "Is there still 'weekends' in Southern China?", "Chinese dream, dream of constitutionalism; dream of constitutionalism, my dream", "Readers from Hunan province voluntarily support Southern Weekly". The Chinese characters on the mask read "I want to speak." *******/James Pomfret(

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a farm produce wholesale market in Shanghai, January 6, 2013. At least six people were confirmed dead and more than ten others injured in the fire in Shanghai, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken January 6, 2013. *******/China Daily

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a shopping mall in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, January 7, 2013. According to Xinhua News Agency, a fire that broke out on Monday morning at a shopping mall in northeast China's city of Harbin has been contained, with firefighters helping to evacuate shoppers from the five-story building. It added that the fire consumed an area of 9,400 square meters over the course of three and a half hours before being put out. *******/China Daily

Travellers and working staff clash as heavy fog continues to shroud an airport in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 4, 2013. The heave fog delays flights and stranding thousands of travelers on Friday. [Photo/CFP]