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Hard work is path to
happiness, Xi says
President writes letter before International Workers’ Day
By AN BAIJIE
anbaijie@chinadaily.com.cn
Where does happiness
come from? The answer given
by President Xi Jinping must
be encouraging to those who
work hard.
“I feel the millions of ordi-
nary Chinese are the greatest,
and I also feel that happiness
is achieved through hard
work,” Xi, also general secre-
tary of the Communist Party
of China Central Committee,
said.
Xi’s words, from his New
Year’s address delivered on
Dec 31, quickly gained popu-
larity nationwide, and “happi-
ness is achieved through hard
work” has been a buzzword
among the Chinese people
ever since.
During the International
Workers’ Day holiday, which
ended on Wednesday, those
who did not take a break
could turn to the president’s
words for encouragement.
Xi has greeted the country’s
workers ahead of Internation-
al Workers’ Day every year
since he became general sec-
retary of the CPC Central
Committee in late 2012.
In a recent letter to national
model workers who are study-
ing at China University of
Labor Relations, Xi said that
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din dropped
Soldiers of the Republic of
Korea dismantle loudspeakers
that were set up for propaganda
broadcasts in Paju, ROK, on
Tuesday near the Demilitarized
Zone separating the country
from the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea.
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Rules set to tighten
asset management
By CHEN JIA
chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s campaign to tighten
regulations on asset manage-
ment products and services
will reshape the inflated finan-
cial sector by stifling the
growth of leverage and con-
straining the conduit for shad-
ow credit, experts said.
After a transition period
through the end of 2020, a
guideline jointly issued by top
financial regulators will take
effect and completely halt the
issuance of high-leverage and
risky investment products
with guaranteed principal and
fixed-yield returns. The guide-
line was issued on Friday.
The new regulation will
reform the entire asset man-
agement sector, covering dif-
ferent types of financial
institutions including banks,
trusts, fund management,
securities and insurance
companies.
It will ensure financial sta-
bility and high-quality sus-
tainable growth in the long
run, said Gao Chong, deputy
general manager of the asset
management department of
Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China.
Hall of Famer Wilkins appears at
new Tianjin facility SPORTS, PAGE 24


The new era
belongs to those
who work hard.”
President Xi Jinping,
in a February speech just
ahead of Spring Festival
socialism is built through
hard work, and hard work is
also the key to the new era.
Working hard is the most
honorable, noblest, greatest
and most beautiful virtue, Xi
said in the letter, which was
released on Monday.
Great achievements
At the closing meeting of
the first session of the 13th
National People’s Congress in
March, Xi said, “Happiness
can only be achieved through
great endeavor.”
“The Chinese people have
been aware since ancient
times that we cannot sit idle
and enjoy the fruits of others’
work,” Xi said. He was re-elect-
ed president at the session.
Xi attributed China’s great
achievements in the past dec-
ades to the Chinese people’s
“Market vulnerability can
be avoided, although the
financing vehicles may
shrink during a short phase
of adjustment, and the final
version of the new rules is
within expectation,” said Gao.
Financial institutions,
especially in the 250 trillion
yuan ($39.4 trillion) banking
sector, usually use asset man-
agement products as invest-
ment vehicles that guarantee
to meet certain returns when
holders’ short-term liabilities
mature. This attracts assets
to finance illiquid, long-term
and highly leveraged invest-
ment projects.
Breaking the implicit guar-
antees is expected to shift
risk-averse investments into
safer instruments and reduce
the demand for illiquid cor-
porate bonds, which may
slow down the overall growth
of credit, said Li Qilin, chief
macroeconomic researcher
at Lianxun Securities.
By the end of 2017, out-
standing off-balance-sheet
wealth management prod-
ucts held by all types of Chi-
nese financial institutions
reached nearly 100 trillion
yuan, about 120 percent of
the country’s GDP, according
Perilous beauty
makers fear
ingenuity and expertise, hard
work and enormous sacrifi-
ces.
At a gathering ahead of
Spring Festival in February, Xi
further discussed the relation-
ship between happiness and
hard work.
Those who bring happiness
to the majority are the happi-
est, Xi quoted Karl Marx as
saying, adding that the CPC
will continue in its goal of
bringing happiness to all Chi-
nese people.
In his speech, Xi called for
diligence and hard work by
people across the country to
achieve national rejuvena-
tion. “The new era belongs to
those who work hard,” Xi said.
While addressing the open-
ing ceremony of the Boao
Forum for Asia on April 10, Xi
also highlighted the impor-
tance of hard work for nation-
al rejuvenation.
“As a Chinese saying goes, ‘A
mountain is formed by accu-
mulation of earth and an
ocean is formed by accumula-
tion of water.’ Happiness and a
bright future will not appear
automatically,” Xi said.
Xi’s appreciation of hard
work and his deep connection
to the people was formed ear-
ly in his life.
See Workers, page 3
to the central bank, the Peo-
ple’s Bank of China.
It includes 22.2 trillion
from the banking sector, 21.9
trillion from the trust compa-
nies and 11.6 trillion in public
funds, and has become a
large contributor to the
“shadow banking” system
that is difficult for regulators
and investors to monitor.
Other businesses, especial-
ly in portfolio investments
relying on pooling off-bal-
ance-sheet assets and cross-
holding of products among
different financial institu-
tions, will be gradually con-
strained by 2020, pushing
financial services to change
the model toward more
transparent and cost-effi-
cient management methods,
according to Wei Xing,
director of the asset manage-
ment department at CITIC
Securities.
“The influence on the stock
market is expected to be lim-
ited, as most of the invest-
ments in equity assets follow
the rules for mutual funds,
which are less impacted by
the new regulation,” Wei said.
An 18-month expansion of
the transaction period, com-
pared with the previously
released proposal, is a result
based on solid statistics, and
after collecting advice from
financial institutions to ensure
sufficient preparation and
avoid market fluctuations, he
said.
trade war
BUSINESS, PAGE 13
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado seal the deal they just
signed on Tuesday on diplomatic relations at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
China and the Dominican Republic
establish diplomatic relationship
By ZHOU JIN
and ZHANG YUNBI
China and the Dominican
Republic established diplo-
matic relations on Tuesday aft-
er the Caribbean country
officially announced its sever-
ance of “diplomatic ties” with
Taiwan.
State Councilor and Foreign
Minister Wang Yi and Domini-
can Republic Foreign Minister
Miguel Vargas Maldonado
signed the joint communique
on ties on Tuesday morning in
Beijing.
The Dominican Republic is
the Caribbean country with
the largest GDP, according to
the International Monetary
Fund, and it plays a big role in
regional affairs.
The two countries have
agreed to exchange ambassa-
dors as soon as practicable
and to offer assistance with
the functions of diplomatic
missions in their capitals.
The Dominican Republic
said it recognizes that there is
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Premier Li
to visit
Indonesia
and Japan
Premier Li Keqiang will pay
official visits to Indonesia
and Japan and attend the 7th
China-Japan-ROK leaders’
meeting from Sunday to May
11, Foreign Ministry spokes-
woman Hua Chunying said
on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.
Li will make the visits at
the invitation of Indonesian
President Joko Widodo and
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, Hua said.
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but one China and that Taiwan
is an inalienable part of Chi-
na’s territory. It will no longer
establish any official relations
or official contact with Tai-
wan, according to the commu-
nique.
Wang said at a joint news
conference that China speaks
highly of the Dominican
Republic’s honoring and
pledging commitment to the
one-China principle and its
attaching no precondition to
diplomatic ties with China.
The establishment of bilat-
eral diplomatic ties marks a
new historical chapter, brings
huge opportunities for the
development of the Caribbean
country, leads to potential
unleashed in bilateral cooper-
ation and thus tangibly bene-
fits its population of over 10
million, Wang said.
Vargas said that his country
is ready to enhance political
trust and exchanges at all lev-
els with China, cooperate
with the country in areas like
trade, investment, tourism
MEGACITIES ENTICE TALENT,
BUT WILL IT BE ENOUGH?
Second-tier locations drawing away some of best and brightest
By HOU LIQIANG
and DU JUAN
H
ao Zhongxiu and his
wife, both informa-
tion technology engi-
neers in Beijing, are used to
the lengthy workplace discus-
sions that inevitably follow
any change to the capital’s
household registration policy.
The participants may
change, as people come and
go, but for those from other
parts of China, the central
question remains the same:
Does this mean I can now get
permanent residency in Bei-
jing?
Household registration cer-
tificates, known as hukou, give
nonnative residents access to
the same social benefits as
locals, including health insur-
ance, and enable their chil-
dren to attend local public
schools. In effect, they radical-
ly reduce the cost of living in
the capital.
Hao, who works for social
network Sina Weibo, said the
volcano could paralyze Tokyo
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and education and deepen
multilateral coordination.
Vice-President Wang Qi-
shan met with Vargas later on
Tuesday, and they conveyed
greetings between President
Xi Jinping and Dominican
Republic President Danilo
Medina.
The establishment of diplo-
matic ties is in line with the
trend of the era and serves the
fundamental interests of both
countries and their people,
and China will further boost
bilateral mutual trust,
exchanges and cooperation,
the vice-president said.
An Fengshan, spokesman
for the Taiwan Affairs Office of
the State Council, said uphold-
ing the one-China principle is
a widely accepted consensus
in the world, and the establish-
ment of the ties lives up to
X
Recruiters hand information to a job hunter during a job fair in
Beijing on April 25. ZHANG YUE / XINHUA
discussions among his col-
leagues about residency are
more frequent than ever since
the release of three documents
related to Beijing’s hukou poli-
cy in the past two months as
the city steps up efforts to
attract and retain high-end
talent.
“The government’s restric-
tions on hukou applications
have been kind of loosened as
the competition for talent
escalates nationwide. It’s a

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both the common aspiration
and the trend in the big pic-
ture.
China has become the coun-
try’s second-largest source of
imports, and according to Chi-
na’s customs data, annual
bilateral trade reached $1.87
billion last year.
He Shuangrong, a research-
er in Latin American studies
at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, said China
and the Dominican Republic
are highly complementary in
economy, and there is
remarkable potential for
bilateral cooperation that will
bring economic benefits to
the two peoples.
“The establishment of a dip-
lomatic relationship and the
good momentum of its coop-
eration represents the general
trend and will set an example
for other Latin America coun-
tries that maintain ‘official’
ties with Taiwan,” she added.
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good sign,” said the 28-year-
old, who moved to the capital
in 2012 after graduating from
a university in his native Inner
Mongolia autonomous region.
However, despite Hao’s opti-
mism, recruitment industry
insiders say the recent moves
by Beijing and Shanghai to
respond to the growing
demand for well-educated,
highly skilled employees —
See Competition, page 5
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Looking ahead
Candid camera: Two-faced
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

State councilor scheduled Media briefing to highlight

to visit DPRK
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang
Yi will visit the Democratic People’s Repub-
lic of Korea on Wednesday and Thursday at
the invitation of the DPRK’s Foreign Minis-
ter Ri Yong-ho, according to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Companies to participate in
Ethiopia trade week
About 50 Chinese companies are expected
to participate in the China Trade Week in
Ethiopia from Thursday to Saturday. The
event is supported by the Chinese Chamber
of Commerce and the China Council for the
Promotion of International Trade. China is
Ethiopia’s biggest trading partner, with
Ethiopia exporting $144.5 million worth of
goods to China in the first six months of the
current fiscal year 2017/18.
tax-reduction policies
The State Council Information Office will
hold a media briefing in Beijing on Wednes-
day. Officials from the Ministry of Finance,
the State Administration of Taxation and
the newly merged banking and insurance
regulatory commission will introduce the
latest developments in tax-reduction poli-
cies targeting small businesses.
Here comes the sun as
summer finally starts
Saturday marks lixia, which means the
beginning of summer, according to the tradi-
tional Chinese lunar calendar, which divides
the year into 24 solar terms. On this day, the
sun’s rays reach an angle of 45 degrees to the
Earth. The temperature will rise quickly over
the next few days, yet in northern China the
weather will remain mild.

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Society: Guizhou woman has March. Climbers can pay for products
through mobile apps or cash. To avoid any Models wait backstage before designer Lino Villaventura presents her collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil on April 25.
embroidered a new career damage to the rock, the store has been con- PAULO WHITAKER / REUTERS
Song Zhen-
structed with light materials.
ping, who
worked for
a bank in Society: Snacks for sale by QR
Guiyang,
Guizhou
province,
code in selected Nanjing taxis
Passengers can now buy snacks and drinks
by scanning QR codes in more than 400
Connecting nature, food, life in mountains
made a taxis across Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The Years ago, during the just a benefit of being there. fried with fragrant ginger, gar- to forget that we all depend
career pilot program also helps to increase drivers’ Labor Day holiday, when my After all, our eyes were lic and green peppers. Once I on the environment to sus-
change due incomes as they receive 15 percent for every mother-in-law asked me to mostly fixed on the ground had actually purchased fiddle- tain us — that the green
to a passion for traditional handicraft. After item sold. The taxis participating are climb a mountain in her instead, in search of the real heads at a specialty market in mountains and blue rivers
her resignation from the bank 13 years ago, equipped with a storage sack loaded with rural Hangzhou village in purpose for our journey — the United States, at a premi- matter as much to our sur-
she started a business making tiger embroi- various kinds of snacks, drinks and bottled Zhejiang province, it wasn’t the wild edible plants that um. Yet there we were, pluck- vival as supermarkets and
dery. She updated the traditional skill and water behind the passenger seat. Items are sightseeing she had in mind. thrived on the mountainside. ing this prized vegetable on shops. But my mother-in-law
set up a standard process for employees to similarly priced as those in supermarkets. Granted, it felt like an We first came upon wild our own, with only our labor tends her own garden and
stitch embroidery. According to Song, cloth adventure as mountain bamboo, a smaller as the cost. sustainably forages the sur-
tigers are popular with tourists and their Food: Eat your heart out with we ascended variety of bamboo with clus- What we had collected that rounding area for wild edible
price ranges from dozens of yuan to hun-
dreds. Her annual output reaches 10 million
personalized lollipop through tall, ters of slender shoots that afternoon looked the same as plants, a natural lifestyle that
Sweet-toothed weedy patch- grew shorter than my own any other wild mountain many people like her have
yuan ($1.6 million). es of grasses knee. This tender plant was bamboo shoots and fiddle- kept for generations. Those
narcissists
have finally and vines, the main ingredient in my head ferns I had glimpsed mountains and rivers sup-
Rankings: Wealthiest cities been given an pulling our- mother-in-law’s salted bam- before in my mother-in-law’s porting her life weren’t some
Jocelyn
highlight China’s prosperity opportunity Eikenburg
selves up boo shoots that, once pre- kitchen. And yet, they felt dif- abstract concept. They were
Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are to eat their with the help served, could be used all year ferent to me because I had right there, outside her door
Second
among the 10 wealthiest cities in the world, image — in of shaggy long in stir-fries and stews. used my own hands to help and within her rural village.
Thoughts
according to New World Wealth. Beijing, the form of a China firs, Up to that moment, when I pick them and carry them And once I saw them
with a total private wealth of $2.2 trillion, giant lollipop. smooth bam- was helping my mother-in- back down the mountain. through her perspective that
grabbed fifth spot on the list, following New Selfie-ob- boo trees and weathered law harvest the shoots, I had Spending time and energy to afternoon, I realized they
York, London, Tokyo and the San Francisco sessed lolly- gray rocks scattered along a never realized that preparing gather these wild plants had were closer to me than I ever
Bay area. Shanghai, with a total private lovers can trail only visible to a veteran this important kitchen staple given me a deeper apprecia- imagined.
wealth of $2 trillion, and Hong Kong, with a submit a photo and immortalize themselves hiker. The view we were actually required an annual tion for the food that ends up
private wealth of $1.3 trillion, grabbed sixth in candy form. A team of chefs takes less rewarded with halfway up trek to the woods. on the dinner table. Contact the writer at
and eighth place respectively. Singapore than a week to handcraft the tutti-frutti fla- the mountain, gazing upon But along the way, we also It also made me more jocelyn@chinadaily.com.cn
and Sydney are tied, with an equal score in vor “Face Licker”, which costs about 350 the colorful patchwork of encountered another precious aware of the powerful con-
the ranking. yuan ($55) at online retailer Firebox. fields and whitewashed wild food — fiddlehead ferns. nection among the natural Online
homes set against the ver- Those delicate, curled fronds world, food and life, symbol- Scan the code
Photos: Store 100 meters up People: Rural entrepreneur dant hills and a sky so blue it had often appeared on my ized by my mother-in-law. to hear an audio
looked digitally altered, was mother-in-law’s table, stir- Living in the city, it’s so easy version.
is the height of ambition has a hot taste for success
A convenience Born in a remote village in Jiangxi province
store jutting out in 1953, Zou Daying was a community This Day, That Year
of a cliff face worker before retirement in 2013. Her chili
gives climbers a sauce was a hit with neighbors and in 2013,
chance to refresh Zou, 60, started up a business to produce from the Ministry of Ecology in Beijing as seen in
in a most unusu- condiments, including her famous chili and Environment, the coun- the item from China
al setting. The sauce, following her years try imported 49.6 million Daily (right).
store, at the retirement. Due to its on metric tons of solid waste, Since then, national
Shiniuzhai unique taste and quality, with scrap paper, plastics, and local custom offi-
National Geolog- her product has become Editor’s Note: This year and metal taking up the larg- cials have strength-
ical Park in Ping- increasingly popular. marks the 40th anniversary est share in 2014. ened efforts to
jiang county in Over 1 million bottles of of China’s reform and open- In 1996, May 2, Beijing crackdown on illegal
Hunan province, condiments were sold ing-up policy. detected illegally imported imported waste. hibits 24 types of waste.
opened last week. Perched 130 meters above last year. Zou employs waste, and the issue came Starting from Jan 1, China The large amount of gar-
ground, it provides snacks and water for villagers in her company Scan it! Due to the lack of resour- under the spotlight. has officially banned its four- bage and the process of recy-
those with a head for heights. “We offer and also set up a chili Read ces in the 1980s, China Nearly 640 metric tons of decade-long practice of cling have led to severe
price-friendly products for rock climbers,” growing cooperative to more on decided to accept foreign harmful solid waste import- importing foreign garbage, a environmental damage and
Wang Qiwei, a staff member of the park help them boost their chinadaily. waste and it soon became ed from the United States move experts believe will health threats, as well as
said. Construction on the store began in income. com.cn the world’s largest importer was found in a village in the promote more sustainable becoming a hotbed for the
of garbage. capital’s Pinggu district in ways to dispose of and recy- underground garbage smug-
According to statistics the first such case uncovered cle waste worldwide. It pro- gling industry.

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TOP NEWS
Automated railways being tested
Plan is to have trains running in
time for 2022 Winter Olympics
By ZHONG NAN
zhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s high-speed rail ser-
vice will enter the era of auto-
mated driving once the core
technologies and products are
all domestically made, one of
its designers said on Tuesday.
Zhou Zhiliang, chairman of
China Railway Signal and Com-
munication Co, the country’s
railway control systems provid-
er, said the group has built in
Beijing the world’s largest sim-
ulation laboratory for automat-
ed railway control systems,
shrugging off a reliance on for-
eign products and technologies
that come at higher costs.
The laboratory can carry out
comprehensive simulation
Chinese,
Polish
relations
improving
Polish President Andrzej
Duda met on Monday with
visiting Chinese senior offi-
cial Guo Shengkun and dis-
cussed practical cooperation
in law enforcement.
During the meeting,
Guo, the special envoy of
President Xi Jinping, con-
veyed Xi’s greetings to
Duda and said the presi-
dent attached great impor-
tance to the development
of Chinese-Polish relations.
Guo also passed a letter
from Xi to Duda that
included proposals for fur-
ther in-depth development
of Chinese-Polish relations.
Guo, who is also a mem-
ber of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of
China and head of the
Commission for Political
and Legal Affairs of CPC
Central Committee, briefed
Duda on the 19th CPC
National Congress held in
October.
He said Xi’s proposal to
build a new type of interna-
tional relations and a com-
munity with a shared
future for mankind has
provided broad space for
deepening Chinese-Polish
relations.
Guo said Poland is an
important partner and a
link for cooperation
between China and Central
and Eastern European
countries.
Cooperation between
China and Poland within
the Belt and Road Initiative
already has yielded fruitful
results, he said.
The purpose of the visit,
according to Guo, is to fur-
ther implement the con-
sensus reached by the two
heads of state, extend
friendship between China
and Poland, deepen mutual
trust, strengthen practical
cooperation in law enforce-
ment and security and
enhance the comprehen-
sive strategic partnership
between the two countries.
Duda asked Guo to con-
vey his greetings to Xi. He
said Polish-Chinese politi-
cal and economic relations
maintain a good momen-
tum of development and
the pragmatic cooperation
between the two countries
in various fields has
become closer.
Poland supports the Belt
and Road Initiative and is
willing to communicate
and coordinate with China
to improve the level of law
enforcement and security
cooperation and promote
the development of bilater-
al relations, Duda said.
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tests for 2,000 kilometers of
high-speed railways, 1,000
kilometers of intercity rail-
ways, 100 kilometers of sub-
ways and five large-scale
freight marshaling yards at
the same time.
It has implemented next-
generation train control sys-
tems and intelligent integrated
transportation systems based
on China’s Beidou Navigation
Satellite System.
Supported by domestically
developed technologies, Zhou
said, China’s intercity rail-
ways, subways, low- and medi-
um-speed magnetic levitation
lines and freight trains will all
be able to be equipped with
automated driving systems in
the future.
Dyeing to make good wishes
Visitors join with locals at a cultural carnival in Cangyuan Va autonomous county, Yunnan province, where people pour dyes made of natu-
ral ingredients over one another on Monday as a way to make wishes of safety and health. There were 147 million travelers during the May
Day holiday in China, spending 87 billion yuan ($13.7 billion), up 10 percent year-on-year. HU CHAO / XINHUA
Workers: Xi says he never forgot lessons
from his years of labor alongside farmers
From page 1
The son of a revolutionary
leader, Xi, at age 15, joined
numerous “educated youth”
who bade farewell to urban life
and headed to the countryside
to work and learn from farmers
in 1969.
Xi was sent to Liangjiahe, a
small, isolated village in
Shaanxi province, and stayed
for seven years, where he lived
in yaodong, or cave houses,
and worked alongside farm-
ers.
In an interview with China
Central Television in 2003, Xi
recalled his early life at Liang-
jiahe, saying that he had done
all kinds of farm work there,
including herding sheep.
“At that time I could carry
200 jin (100 kilograms) of
wheat on my shoulder, and I
could do it for 10 li (5 kilome-
ters) on a mountainous road
without switching it between
shoulders,” he told CCTV.
Those years boosted his
connection with the grass-
roots people and formed his
attitude toward hard work.
“I have never forgotten the
memorable seven years I
spent at Liangjiahe, never for-
gotten the land where I used to
work and live, and never for-
gotten the folks that I got
along with day and night,” Xi
said in a letter written to the
villagers at Liangjiahe in
August 2007.
Liu Jinlian, a Liangjiahe vil-
lager who had provided a cave
house to Xi, recalled in a book
published last year that no
In the field of developing
intercity railway service, Zhou
said CRSC and its infrastruc-
ture construction partners are
building the world’s first self-
guided railroad, between
Dongguan and Huizhou in
Guangdong province. The rail-
road will be completed by the
end of this year.
The Beijing-headquartered
group will field-test the
world’s first automated drive
high-speed system, with a
designed speed up to 350 kilo-
meters per hour, on the rail-
way line that will link Beijing
and Zhangjiakou, host cities of
the 2022 Winter Olympics. It
has already completed all the
tests at the simulation labora-
tory.
“It will become China’s first
smart railroad,” said Zhou. “All
prototype vehicles will be built
by the end of this year, and
CRSC will conduct debugging
matter how tired Xi was, he
would never rest if the farm
work was not done.
“My husband admires him
(Xi) and said to me, ‘Jinping
comes from a big city, but he
works as hard as us villagers.
He has knowledge, loves
studying and withstands diffi-
culties. He is amazing’,” she
was quoted as saying in the
book, Xi Jinping’s Seven Years
as an Educated Youth.
Workers respected
Xi’s actions have shown his
continuous efforts to respect
and honor the workers, pro-
tect the workers’ interests and
build an atmosphere of dili-
gent work.
In his report to the CPC’s
19th National Congress, Xi
pledged to build an educat-
ed, skilled and innovative
workforce, foster respect for
model workers and promote
quality workmanship.
“The whole of society
should protect the rights and
interests of workers and
ensure social justice so that all
workers can live a dignified
life and develop themselves,”
Xi said in the report, which
drew the blueprint for the
country’s development in
coming decades.
Xi also vowed to remove
institutional barriers that
block the social mobility of
labor and talent and ensure
that “every one of our people
has the chance to pursue a
career through hard work”.
To show his great respect for
those who work hard, Xi has
25,000
kilometers
of high-speed rail lines are
operated in China,
accounting for 60 percent
of the world’s total.
and test verification works in
the first half of 2019.”
Under the government plan,
there will be 10 stations along
the line, each of them will be
equipped with service robots
to offer information services
to the guests and carry their
luggage.
“When compared with man-
ual driving mode, the automat-
ed driving system is backed by
a powerful operational control
system to increase operation
efficiency and avoid conges-
tion, delays and accidents,”
Empty talk will lead
the country astray,
and hard work can
rejuvenate the
nation. We need to
be down to earth
and work hard.”
President Xi Jinping
interacted with model work-
ers in different ways ahead of
International Workers’ Day in
recent years.
In April 2013, Xi talked with
national model workers at the
All-China Federation of Trade
Unions. “Happiness does not
fall out of the blue, and the
dream will not come true by
itself,” he said.
“Empty talk will lead the
country astray, and hard work
can rejuvenate the nation. We
need to be down to earth and
work hard,” Xi told the work-
ers.
While visiting the Xinji-
ang Uygur autonomous
region in April 2014, Xi met
and talked with model
workers and greeted all Chi-
nese workers.
Xi told them not only to
fulfill their own duties but
also to spread the habit of
completing tasks, behaving
said Feng Hao, a researcher at
the Institute of Comprehensive
Transportation at the National
Development and Reform
Commission.
“It also involves the integra-
tion of China’s satellite posi-
tioning, power transmission
and telecommunication tech-
nologies,” Feng said.
According to a report by the
institute, China’s fixed-point
automatic parking at the sta-
tion came within 35 cm for
high-speed trains in 2017.
China currently operates
more than 25,000 kilometers
of high-speed rail lines,
accounting for 60 percent of
the world’s total, it has become
a strong competitor to airline
flights of less than 1,500 kilo-
meters, said Zhao Ying, a
researcher at the Institute of
Industrial Economics at the
Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences in Beijing.
oneself and creating for-
tunes through diligence.
“Hard work is a way for CPC
members to maintain their
political beliefs and integrity
as well as a force to pull them
away from decadent behav-
iors,” Xi said.
In April 2015, Xi attended
the awards ceremony of
national model workers in
Beijing and delivered a speech.
All of society should be proud
of working hard and be
ashamed of idleness, he said.
“No one at any time should
look down on ordinary work-
ers and seek a life of reaping
without sowing,” Xi said.
The authorities should also
earnestly protect workers’
lawful rights and interests and
help them solve problems to
establish harmonious labor
relations, Xi said while meet-
ing with model workers in
Hefei, capital of Anhui prov-
ince, in April 2016.
In his meeting with intel-
lectuals and working people
in April 2017, Xi called for
joint efforts to fulfill the Chi-
nese dream of national reju-
venation.
Jin Weiran, general man-
ager of Yuli Vegetable Co in
Rizhao, Shandong province,
who was named a national
model worker in 2016, said he
was encouraged by Xi’s great
respect for workers.
“The president said, ‘We will
encourage people to make
their money through hard
work and legal means’, and
these words have become a
motto for me,” he said.
Film scandal hits
box office sales,
ticket platform
By WANG KAIHAO
wangkaihao@
chinadaily.com.cn
A recent film with a
“remarkable” box office per-
formance became the focus of
a scandal involving the fixing
of ticket sales figures.
Us and Them, directed by
Taiwan singer, actress and
writer Rene Liu, premiered
on Saturday across the Chi-
nese mainland. This nostal-
gic romance about Beijing
white collar workers was
expected to be hugely wel-
comed by fans before its
release.
It earned 280 million yuan
($44.2 million) on its opening
day. Even before its first
screening, its pre-sale ticket
revenue reached 122 million
yuan, each setting a record
for a romance film in Chinese
cinemas.
However, now there are
allegations the sales figures
were manipulated.
Tickets worth at least 13
million yuan that were pur-
chased through online film
ticket sales platform Maoyan
were reported to be refunded
on Saturday night in thou-
sands of cinemas nation-
wide.
Cinema managers were
angered by the refunds, sus-
pecting that most of the pre-
sale tickets were bought by
production companies to
create an illusion of its over-
whelming popularity.
Maoyan also is an investor
and distributor for Us and
Them.
More than 40 percent of
the screening plans in Chi-
nese cinemas on Saturday
were arranged for Us and
Them. The number was even
around 50 percent from Sun-
day to Tuesday.
“Cinemas always put prof-
its as the priority,” said Yang
Jinsong, an independent
film industry analyst and a
freelancer with Hong Kong-
based newspaper Takung-
pao.
“They were encouraged to
arrange many resources for
this film by the outstanding
pre-sale performance.
“However, box office reve-
nue of Us and Them began to
fall on the second day after
being released,” he said. “It
would be strange for a film, if
it was really popular among
fans.”
Maoyan defended itself on
Sunday, saying that “54 per-
cent of refunds were to regu-
lar consumers” after its own
investigation, and “part of the
remaining 46 percent went to
scalpers”.
But the vague explanation
has not deflected suspicion.
China Film Bureau, the
country’s watchdog of cine-
matic businesses, said on
Monday that the refunding
for the film is “abnormal” and
further investigation is
planned, according to a
report by China Film News.
“Any behavior creating
chaos in the film market and
harming the collective inter-
Tackling US football
Sonics player Wu Jiahao, number 15, is taken down during a
game of the 2018 spring league of the Skyway American Foot-
ball Academy in Shanghai on Monday. The Sonics won the
game, 44 to 38. FANG ZHE / XINHUA
3
ests of the industry is strictly
forbidden,” a statement
released by the bureau said.
Director Liu’s office said on
Monday she would cooperate
with producers and distribu-
tors of Us and Them to look
with sincerity for the truth.
“It aims to bring the discus-
sion of Liu’s work to the film
per se,” a statement from her
office said.
However, some experts
said the incident could
arouse the public’s anger over
the manipulation of box
office sales, as has been the
case in recent years.
Any behavior cre-
ating chaos in the
film market ... is
strictly forbid-
den.”
China Film Bureau,
the national watchdog
of the film industry
For example, Ip Man 3, a
2016 martial arts film star-
ring Hong Kong actor Donnie
Yen and US boxer Mike
Tyson, was heavily rebuked
because the production team
spent huge sums of money to
buy its own tickets.
But what is suspected in Us
and Them is different.
“Such refunding is unprec-
edented,” Yang said. “It can
easily gain the market with
the lowest cost.”
Nevertheless, he also said
the incident will act as a les-
son for Chinese cinema man-
agers who overwhelmingly
believe in online big data
analysis.
“It will urge the industry to
fix the leaks in the current
system,” he said.
China passed its national
film industry promotion law
in 2017, but more follow-up
rules are still called for by
professionals to better regu-
late the market.
Rao Shuguang, secretary-
general of the China Film
Association, said, China’s film
market has “overtaken the
leading position” in some are-
as, and met some problems,
which have never been
encountered in Hollywood.
For instance, over 80 percent
of film tickets in China are
now bought online.
“With the fast growth, this
online industry is still reshuf-
fling,” Rao said. “Some opera-
tors will choose some
inappropriate approaches to
win more markets.”
He also warned the danger
of having a monopoly, which
applies to the Maoyan case.
“Only when we have a
more complete legal system
can the Chinese film industry
continue to boom in a healthy
way,” he said.
Xu Fan contributed to this
story.
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CHINA
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
Briefly
Heavy rain coming
to south, east
Heavy rain will sweep
through parts of southern
and eastern China in the
next three days, the
National Meteorological
Center said on Tuesday. As
it moves southward, a rain
belt will affect most of the
country’s southern and
eastern regions, including
Guizhou, Yunnan, Guang-
dong and Fujian provinces
starting on Tuesday. Pre-
cipitation of up to 130 mil-
limeters is expected. Some
places will see thunder-
storms and high winds.
Moderate to heavy rainfall
is also expected in the Xin-
jiang Uygur and Tibet
autonomous regions and
some areas of Northeast
China. The center warned
of an impact on holiday
travel in those regions,
and many local meteoro-
logical authorities have
issued alerts.
38 nuclear power
units are running
The Chinese mainland
now has 38 nuclear power
units in operation, with a
total capacity of 36.93 mil-
lion kilowatts, according to
the China Nuclear Energy
Association. Most of the
units are located in south-
eastern China’s coastal
provinces, where nuclear
power makes up about 15
to 25 percent of total elec-
trical generation, accord-
ing to the association.
Thanks to improved man-
ufacturing capabilities,
China now can produce
eight to 10 core parts for
pressurized water reactors
annually.
Law groups serve
at county level
China has 2,547 local law
societies at the county lev-
el, covering more than 90
percent of the country’s
county-level areas, accord-
ing to the China Law Socie-
ty. The society said in a
statement that a system
consisting of law societies
at the provincial, city and
county levels has been
established in China. The
main functions of law soci-
eties in China are to pro-
viding legal services for
people at the grassroots,
solve disputes as a third
party and promote aware-
ness of legal knowledge
and rule of law.
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2 nuclear scientists suspended
for failing to stop Taoist ritual
By ZHANG ZHIHAO
and ZHANG YANGFEI
The Chinese Academy of
Sciences announced on Mon-
day that it had suspended two
scientists who were present
during a Taoist ritual — meant
to convey blessings of safety
and success — at the ground-
breaking ceremony for its
advanced nuclear facility in
Gansu province on Thursday.
The academy sees such
blessings as pseudoscience.
The two scientists, He
Zhanjun and Cao Yuxiang,
were staff members of the
academy’s Shanghai Institute
of Applied Physics, the insti-
tute said in a statement on
Monday. It said it will increase
supervision to prevent similar
incidents in the future.
The institute issued an apol-
ogy on Saturday after pictures
of the ritual went viral online.
They featured a priest in Tao-
ist robes holding various items
that are part of such blessings.
The local government also
Tai chi in a terminal
A dance show featuring tai chi elements takes place in Terminal 2 of Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Tuesday, the last day of
the three-day May Day holiday. The airport arranged a number of shows to greet passengers and promote traditional Chinese culture
during the holiday. YIN LIQIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Latest HPV vaccine OK
for import to mainland
People will no longer need to go
to HK or elsewhere for treatment
By LI LEI
lilei@chinadaily.com.cn
Residents of the Chinese
mainland now have access to
a nine-way HPV vaccine —
which works against up to
nine types of HPV — after the
medication was given the nod
by China’s top drug adminis-
tration on Saturday.
It is the third HPV vaccine
approved for the mainland
market since the middle of
last year. Such vaccines have
proved effective against cervi-
cal cancer, the second-most
common cancer among Chi-
nese women aged 15 to 44,
after breast cancer.
Experts say China has
around 130,000 new cases of
cervical cancer each year,
accounting for more than 28
percent of the world total.
Although HPV vaccines
were approved in foreign
markets a decade ago, China
did not introduce the vaccine
began investigating seven oth-
er officials.
An investigation by the
academy found that the ritual
was organized by the con-
struction team for the insti-
tute’s Thorium-based Molten
Salt Reactor, the academy
said on Monday.
Although the two scientists
did not know about the
planned ritual and didn’t par-
ticipate in it, they did nothing
to stop it, the academy said.
“The academy’s institu-
tions should uphold the cru-
cial duty of promoting the
scientific spirit and develop-
ment, but it failed to effective-
ly supervise the building
process of its related scientif-
ic projects,” it said.
“This created an incident
that went against the spirit of
science, and we sincerely
apologize to the public.”
The new reactor, which
uses thorium as an alternative
to uranium as an energy
source, can provide cleaner
and safer nuclear energy with
until July, when a two-way
HPV vaccine was approved
for the mainland market. A
more powerful four-way vac-
cine followed in March.
HPV, or human papilloma-
virus, is common, but most
people with the virus never
develop symptoms or health
problems. Most HPV infec-
tions go away by themselves
within two years, according
to experts. But sometimes
infections last longer and can
cause certain cancers and
other diseases.
In most cases, HPV spreads
via unprotected sex while
timely treatment enabled by
regular HPV screening works
to clear the infection and
helps avoid development of
cervical cancer.
Before the availability of
vaccines on the mainland,
people had to travel to other
countries or to Hong Kong
to get the vaccine, which is
injected in three separate
greater sustainability and effi-
ciency at lower cost, accord-
ing to the World Nuclear
Association.
Despite its potential, only a
handful of countries in the
world, including the United
States, Russia, France, India
and the Netherlands, are
actively pursing the technolo-
gy because of the extreme engi-
neering difficulties involved
and the political and social
debate over nuclear energy.
Jin Yong, deputy director of
the School of Foreign Studies
at Communication University
of China, said religious rituals
to convey blessings of safety
and success have been a com-
mon practice in China and
will be hard to do away with.
Such rituals are closely
linked with Taoism, which
claims to use the concept of
feng shui, or geomancy, to har-
monize an object’s energy
force with its surrounding
environment. The earliest
techniques for these rituals
are more than 3,500 years,
130,000
New cases of cervical
cancer in China each year,
more than 28 percent of the
total worldwide
doses over a span of six
months.
During an inspection in
Shanghai in April, Premier Li
Keqiang urged drug authori-
ties to speed up approval of
HPV vaccines after learning
that large numbers of main-
land residents travel to Hong
Kong for them.
The nine-way version was
approved for clinical trials
late last year.
On Saturday, the China Drug
Administration — part of the
newly created State Adminis-
tration for Market Regulation
— approved it for market.
“The move helps meet the
public need for such vaccines
and provides a new and effec-
tive means of preventing cervi-
cal cancer,” the administration
said in a statement.
The existence
of such activities
shows that our
social norms and
ethics need to be
improved.”
Jin Yong, deputy director of
the School of Foreign Studies
at Communication University
of China
according to Chinese encyclo-
pedias on cosmology and cul-
ture.
“The existence of such
activities shows that our
social norms and ethics need
to be improved,” Jin said.
“It makes us think how we
can rationally and legally pro-
vide guidance to those
unhealthy and unscientific
behaviors in society.”
Contact the writers
at zhangzhihao@
chinadaily.com.cn
that can enter space rapidly.”
Long Lehao, chief designer of carrier rockets at the China Academy
of Launch Vehicle Technology
The latest vaccine helps
females between 16 and 26
prevent HPV-related diseas-
es, including cervical, vulval
and vaginal cancers, the
administration said.
HPV vaccines are most
effective in people who have
not been exposed to the virus,
whether through sexual
behavior or other means. The
recommended age range for
vaccination in the US is 9 to 26.
In China, the two-way vac-
cine is recommended for
women between 9 and 25. Its
four-way counterpart is rec-
ommended for women 20 to
45.
Australia — the first coun-
try to offer free HPV vaccina-
tions for 12- and 13-year-old
girls, and catch-up programs
for girls and women under 26
— has seen a sharp decline in
HPV infections since the
introduction of a national
school-based vaccination
program in 2007.
Within a decade, the pro-
portion of 18- to 24-year-old
women with HPV in the
country has fallen from 22.7
percent to 1.5 percent.
Reusable rocket in development
Chinese rocket engineers
want to be able to recover the
first stage of the Long March 8
carrier rocket after use.
The rocket is still in develop-
ment and is expected to make
its maiden flight around 2021.
The Long March 8 is part of
China’s effort to develop reusa-
ble space vehicles, Long Lehao,
chief designer of carrier rockets
at the China Academy of
Launch Vehicle Technology,
said at a space conference in
Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
The Long March 8 will have
two stages and two boosters:
The first stage and boosters
are expected to be retrieved
through vertical landing, said
Long, who is also an academi-
cian of the Chinese Academy
of Engineering. If successful,
the new rocket will provide
commercial launch services to
customers around the globe,
he said.
“China’s aerospace industry
is making efforts to develop
low-cost vehicles that can
enter space rapidly to support
future large-scale space explo-
ration and promote a commer-
cial space industry,” he said.
China’s aerospace industry is making
efforts to develop low-cost vehicles
Want a baby boy?
It’s random chance,
not linked to food
By WANG XIAODONG
wangxiaodong@
chinadaily.com.cn
In the wake of public criti-
cism of an advertisement on
Taobao that was said to tout
sex selection, experts dis-
missed the idea that alkaline
foods or supplements can help
women give birth to boys.
The ad on the e-commerce
platform read: “What should
you do if you have given birth
to a girl? Use Jianyunbao
while preparing to have a sec-
ond child.”
Critics said the ad for Jian-
yunbao, a food supplement
that claims to boost alkalinity
in the body, discriminated
against girls and suggested a
preference for boys.
Alibaba, which operates the
platform, apologized on Fri-
day and said it had failed to
inspect properly to prevent
the ad from appearing and
admitted the ad had elements
of sex discrimination.
The company said it had
removed the ad and punished
the owner of the store.
The ad angered many neti-
zens, who said it promoted the
outdated preference for male
babies.
Ruan Guangfeng, director
for science and technology at
the China Food Information
Center, a nonprofit organiza-
tion, said eating acidic or alka-
line food will not affect the
body fluids of a healthy person,
because the human body has
the ability to regulate itself.
Foods that contain more
Time for a rest
Fishing boats are berthed in a port in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province,
on Tuesday, which was the beginning of a fishing ban that will run
through Aug 16. Since 1995, China has enforced annual fishing bans
to protect the ocean’s ecosystem and biodiversity by preventing
overfishing. YAO FENG / FOR CHINA DAILY
36 launches
of the Long March series
of carrier rockets are
planned this year.
Bao Weimin, director of the
Science and Technology Com-
mission of the China Aero-
space Science and Technology
Corporation and an academi-
cian of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences, said China’s reusa-
ble carrier vehicle will use
technologies different from
those of the US commercial
space company SpaceX.
“As the current Long March
2, 3 and 4 series rockets are
fueled by toxic propellants,
they cannot be recycled. But
we are developing technolo-
gies to precisely control the
fall of the rocket remains to
ensure safety,” Long said.
That effort is important, as
residents in possible landing
areas must be evacuated for
every launch. As China’s aero-
space activities become more
There is no evidence
to prove that the sex
of baby is linked
to the foods eaten
during pregnancy.”
Ruan Guangfeng, director for
science and technology at the
China Food Information Center
protein or starch, such as
meat, eggs, rice and flour, are
acidic, while most vegetables
and fruits are alkaline, he said.
“There is no evidence to
prove that the sex of baby is
linked to the foods eaten dur-
ing pregnancy. Even though
it’s a popular notion, eating
alkaline food will not help a
pregnant woman give birth to
a boy,” he said.
The sex of a baby is deter-
mined by a random combina-
tion of sperm and egg, he said.
Pregnant women should
have a balanced diet, rather
than eating too much of a cer-
tain foods, such as the alkaline
type, to avoid malnutrition
and damage to a baby’s health,
Ruan said.
Peng Cheng, a gynecologist
at Anhui Provincial Hospital
in Hefei, Anhui province, said
there is no evidence proving a
relationship between body
temperature or food intake
with the sex of a child.
frequent, with 36 launches
planned this year, precise con-
trol of falling rocket remains
could save a lot of trouble.
Long also presented the
development road map for
China’s space transportation
system.
Around 2025, reusable sub-
orbital carriers will be success-
fully developed, and
suborbital space travel will be
realized. Around 2030, rockets
with two reusable stages will
be developed. Around 2035,
carrier rockets will be com-
pletely reusable, which could
lead to the realization of the
dream of space travel for ordi-
nary people.
A future generation of carri-
er rockets will be put into use
around 2040 and hybrid-pow-
er reusable carriers will be
developed. Space vehicles will
be more diverse, intelligent,
reliable, low-cost, efficient and
convenient, Long said.
“Those targets are not easy
to achieve, and lots of techno-
logical difficulties must be
overcome,” he said.
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 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Party system
led by CPC
celebrated
May 1 Slogans remembered as a
seminal moment in Chinese history
Chinese political leaders
have been commemorating a
landmark event that preced-
ed China’s party system 70
years ago.
Monday marks the 70th
anniversary of the May 1 Slo-
gans, a call made by the Com-
munist Party of China
Central Committee on April
30, 1948 — as the country
was in the midst of internal
war — for noncommunist
parties and people without
party affiliation to convene a
political consultative confer-
ence and found a democratic
coalition government.
A meeting was held on Sat-
urday in Beijing to mark the
historic occasion, with an
address by Wang Yang, a
member of the Standing
Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee and chairman of
the National Committee of
the Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference.
Leaders of the noncom-
munist parties and senior
figures without party affilia-
tion recently visited revolu-
tionary sites in Hebei
province to commemorate
the May 1 Slogans.
The call made by the CPC
Central Committee was an
important event in the histo-
ry of CPC-led multiparty
cooperation and political
consultation system, said
Zhu Jidong, research fellow
with the Academy of Marx-
ism of the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences.
Seven decades ago, the
May 1 Slogans received an
ardent, positive response
from leaders of noncommu-
nist parties through public
statements, phone calls and
meetings with CPC leaders,
Zhu said.
“It indicated that noncom-
munist parties and people
without party affiliation
began to openly and willing-
ly follow the CPC’s leader-
ship and embrace new
democracy and socialism,”
Zhu said.
In September 1949, the
first plenary meeting of the
CPPCC was held in Beijing,
marking the establishment
of the CPC-led multiparty
cooperation and political
consultation system.
At a joint panel discussion
with political advisers in
March, Xi Jinping, general
secretary of the CPC Central
Committee, called the sys-
tem “a new type of party sys-
tem growing from China’s
soil” and “a great contribu-
tion to the political civiliza-
tion of humanity”.
Under the system, the CPC
and noncommunist parties
share fundamental interests
Art for holiday
A young visitor glances at a statue during the Art Beijing 2018
exhibition at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center on
Tuesday. The four-day event, featuring works by artists from 20
countries and regions, provided a treat for modern art lovers
during the May Day holiday. ZOU HONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Both the CPC and
noncommunist
parties should not
forget the original
aspiration that
drove leaders of
older generations
to forge this
system.”
Zhu Jidong, researcher at the
Academy of Marxism, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences
and work together effective-
ly, Zhu said, stressing that
noncommunist parties are
not an opposition group but
consultants, aides and
co-workers.
China’s party system
unites all political parties
and people without party
affiliation toward a common
goal, effectively preventing
both the flaws of the absence
of oversight in one-party rule
and power rotation and nas-
ty competition among multi-
ple political parties, he said.
It pools ideas and sugges-
tions through institutional,
procedural and standardized
arrangements, and develops
a scientific and democratic
decision-making mecha-
nism, avoiding another
weakness of the old-fash-
ioned party system in which
decision-making and gov-
ernance, confined by inter-
ests of different political
parties, classes, regions and
groups, tear society apart, he
said.
The 70-year history of Chi-
na’s party system has dem-
onstrated that it fits China’s
reality and traditional cul-
ture, he said.
In his speech on Saturday,
Wang Yang said it is necessa-
ry to unwaveringly uphold
Party leadership and uphold
Xi’s core status, as well as
uphold the authority and
centralized, unified leader-
ship of the CPC Central Com-
mittee. He called on
noncommunist parties to
enhance their capabilities to
perform their duties.
Zhu, the researcher, said:
“Both the CPC and noncom-
munist parties should not
forget the original aspiration
that drove leaders of older
generations to forge this sys-
tem.”
XINHUA
Competition: Many cities pursue graduates
From page 1
fueled by China’s move toward
an innovation-driven econo-
my — may have come too late.
The country’s best and
brightest are already consider-
ing other regions, insiders say,
largely due to the high thresh-
old for applying for hukou in
megacities and the incentives
being offered by smaller cities.
Domino effect
In March, Beijing launched
a pilot program to offer hukou
to the talent the capital needs,
such as people in senior posi-
tions at high-tech or innova-
tive enterprises. The capital
also launched a point-based
application system on April 16,
with candidates graded on fac-
tors including education and
entrepreneurial ability.
Meanwhile, Shanghai pub-
lished a document in late
March targeting top talent in
13 sectors, including artificial
intelligence and quantum sci-
ence.
Wang Huiyao, founder and
president of the Center for
China and Globalization, an
independent Chinese think
tank, said the two cities draft-
ed the policies to address the
fact more top-level workers
are heading to second-tier cit-
ies, which have also intro-
duced preferential policies
like removing hukou applica-
tion thresholds or providing
accommodation subsidies.
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei
province, announced a plan in
February last year to attract 1
million graduates over the
next five years. This resulted in
a domino effect, with dozens
of cities following suit with
enticing policies.
“Previously, many talented
people chose to work in Bei-
jing and Shanghai because
they wouldn’t be able to get
hukou in a second-tier city
either. But with the fast devel-
opment of second-tier cities
and their lifting of hukou
restrictions, we’ve seen talent
flowing out of first-tier cities,”
Wang said.
Last year, the number of
In Shanghai, generous benefits lure foreign scientists
By ZHOU WENTING
in Shanghai
zhouwenting@chinadaily.com.cn
After several job interviews,
including one at Pennsylvania
State University in the United
States, Canadian researcher
Jeremy Murray chose to join a
center at the Shanghai Insti-
tute of Plant Physiology and
Ecology early last year.
“From the perspective of the
strength and atmosphere of
scientific research, I believed
the Shanghai institute was a
perfect fit for me,” said Mur-
ray, who is principal investiga-
tor at the Center of Excellence
for Plant and Microbial Sci-
ence, a joint venture of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
and the Britain-based John
Innes Center.
He previously spent seven
years in plant science research
at the British center.
people who left Beijing sur-
passed those arriving, and
many of those who left had the
kind of talent the capital
needs, he said.
With China shifting to an
innovation-driven economic
mode, “local governments
have realized the importance
of talent,” Wang added.
Chen Yu, vice-president of
the China Association of
Employment Promotion, said
the country has lost its demo-
graphic dividend due to an
aging population, while many
workers with repetitive tasks
have been replaced by
machines. The competition for
talent is inevitable as the coun-
try turns to the “talent divi-
dend” for development, he
said.
Welcome move
Chinese search engine
Sogou, which is headquar-
tered in Beijing, has welcomed
the capital’s talent drive.
“As a science and technology
enterprise, we are encour-
aged,” the company said in a
statement, adding that the
hukou system has long been a
restrictive factor that has left
science and technology com-
panies at a disadvantage when
hiring technical personnel.
“Some companies have had
no choice but to base research
institutes in other cities to
attract talent,” according to the
statement, which praised Bei-
jing’s efforts to lower the thresh-
old as timely and necessary.
Zhao Rui, a senior consult-
ant at Leadership Consulting,
said the capital’s policy change
is good news for her company,
too, as it mainly serves enter-
prises in the high-tech sector.
Many high-end Chinese
workers want to know upfront
whether a prospective
employer can help them get
work and residency permits
before taking an offer, so a
good hukou policy is crucial,
she said. “Beijing and Shang-
hai will continue to attract
highly sophisticated technical
personnel,” she added, “while
second-tier cities will attract
well-educated hardworking
“This was an opportunity to
be part of an exciting new joint
venture between China and
the UK,” he said. “Moreover,
the support we receive in
Shanghai in both research
work and living is quite
strong.”
He said he has an independ-
ent lab and receives extra
funding at the institute, which
might be luxurious elsewhere.
He also receives a “generous”
monthly housing allowance
available to expats.
“This is important because
housing prices in Shanghai
are obviously very high. Oth-
erwise, it would be hard to
move to Shanghai,” Murray
said.
Two weeks ago, Murray
received significant funding
from the State Administration
of Foreign Experts Affairs. The
money can be used by the
institute to support his salary
Lu Chaoyang (center), a professor at the University of Science and
Technology of China who returned from Cambridge University in Britain,
checks the operation of the world’s first photon quantum computer at a
lab in Shanghai last year along with his students. JIN LIWANG / XINHUA
First-tier cities used
to have an edge
because of their
access to informa-
tion. But with the
development of
transportation and
communication,
information has
become increasing-
ly transparent.”
Hu Xin, founder of Soft-Power
Headhunting based in Beijing
young people in the internet
and e-commerce sectors.”
However, some headhunt-
ers have said they doubt the
policies of Beijing and Shang-
hai will be effective in attract-
ing high-end talent because
they still set high thresholds.
According to Beijing’s docu-
ment in March, those with
important positions at high-
and visits by foreign scientists,
which will help inject new
ideas into his research, he said.
“Scientific research is by its
nature a very international
endeavor, so this program
increases China’s competitive-
ness in hiring foreign scien-
tists and strengthens the
research being done by labs
like mine,” Murray said.
He Tianhou, director of
human resources at the
Shanghai Institute of Ceram-
ics, a branch of the CAS, said
high-level professionals may
not regard such privileges as
the most important element
in selecting a career path, but
it is a way for the institute and
the local government to show
their sincerity toward the
researchers.
“When we recruit talented
people from abroad, we offer a
package and a team that is bet-
ter than what he or she
tech enterprises as well as
those working at the head-
quarters of innovative enter-
prises and at new-type
research and development
institutions in Beijing are now
eligible to apply for hukou. So,
too, are those with an annual
taxed salary at least six times
of the average in the capital.
Yet many who fall into these
groups are probably in a posi-
tion to have green cards in
developed countries and have
little interest in obtaining Bei-
jing hukou, said Guo Tao, CEO
of Connected-R International,
a Shanghai-based headhunt-
ing company. Meanwhile, he
added, people in the middle-
income range — many of
whom desire hukou to send
their children to public
schools — do not qualify.
“A big proportion of the tal-
ent in the IT sector prefer
Hangzhou over Beijing based
on our experience,” Guo said in
an earlier interview. “Beijing
has been making efforts to
introduce talent from the Unit-
ed States and Europe, but I
believe it’s neglected the
domestic talent a bit compared
with other Chinese cities.”
Hu Xin, founder of Soft-
Power Headhunting, based in
Beijing, said a relatively small
number of midlevel talent are
leaving first-tier cities in
expects. We want to give them
adequate support during their
initial stage after relocating to
Shanghai,” He said.
Before a scientist arrives, the
institute will prepare his or her
lab, complete the recruitment
of a team of young colleagues
and get their temporary hous-
ing ready, he said.
The night that Michigan
State University postdoctoral
graduate Xin Xiufang arrived
in Shanghai, she moved into
the housing. In August, she
joined the center that Murray
works for as a principal inves-
tigator.
“The apartment was kindly
furnished before I arrived, and
it was really convenient that I
could move in directly after
landing in Shanghai,” said Xin,
adding that the apartment is
within walking distance of the
institute and she can stay for
up to two years.
CHINA 5
Blissful
beginnings
Newlyweds create lasting
memories during a group
wedding beside the Yangtze
River in Wuhan, Hubei province,
on Tuesday. Twenty couples
from cities along the river
exchanged vows and hung love
locks on a wall by the river.
YANG TAO / FOR CHINA DAILY
favor of smaller cities where
they see better development
opportunities, perhaps closer
to their hometowns. Like
Guo, she cited Hangzhou as a
draw for those working in
e-commerce.
“First-tier cities used to have
an edge because of their access
to information. But with the
development of transportation
and communication, informa-
tion has become increasingly
transparent. The gap between
first- and second-tier cities in
information access has nar-
rowed,” she said, adding that
talent can now be successful in
smaller cities using the same
business modes as in the major
metropolises.
Zhao Meng, who works in
Beijing for British recruitment
firm Michael Page, said the
capital’s new initiatives may
be more beneficial for interna-
tional companies than domes-
tic private enterprises.
China’s private companies
often avoid tax by not accu-
rately declaring their employ-
ees’ salaries, therefore
workers who actually make
the grade in terms of salary
may not be eligible for hukou
because their company’s
records do not reflect their
real situation, according to
Zhao, who added that this is
not the case with internation-
al companies.
Hao at Sina Weibo said he
has seen many of his friends,
mostly IT engineers, leave the
capital, primarily due to the
pressure that mounts after
having children, as they seek
access to public schools with-
out a local hukou. However, he
and his wife plan to stay.
“As people from northern
China, we want to stay in the
north, and Beijing is one of the
best options,” said Hao. “And,
one day, it’s possible the policy
may be loosened even further
so that we may be lucky
enough to be beneficiaries.”
Zhang Yi contributed to this
story.
Contact the writers at houli-
qiang@chinadaily.com.cn
The support she received for
her research project was also
generous, she said.
“I have enough startup
funding and five student fel-
lows for the first three years.
The industry standard is one
student fellow per year as the
general rule,” Xin said. “More-
over, I was provided with a
spacious lab. At some univer-
sities researchers have limited
lab space,” Xin said, noting
that she also received job
offers from other top domestic
institutions.
Apart from generous sup-
port, the key competitiveness
of CAS institutes lies in their
strong teamwork, He said.
“Influential research in
recent years requires cross-
discipline collaboration, and
scientists here have opportu-
nities to cooperate with differ-
ent institutes affiliated with
CAS,” He said.
6 CHINA Wednesday, May 2, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

Fertility

Women face legal dilemma

over egg-freezing procedure
A growing number of younger females are
I
n February, when Zhan Ying-
ying turned 30, she wrote to
the Committee of the Jilin Pro-
vincial People’s Congress and
pushing to extend their period of fertility,
asked it to guarantee her right to
have her eggs frozen so she could be
as Xin Wen reports.
sure of starting a family at a later
date.
The psychology graduate contact-
ed the Jilin authorities because in
2002, deputies in the province
passed a law granting unmarried
women access to assisted reproduc-
tive technology, making the north-
eastern province the only place in
China to offer the procedure for sin-
gle women.
The regulation stated that it is
legal for females who are 20, the
legal age of marriage in China, but
who decide to remain single, to use
medical assisted reproductive tech-
nology to have a baby.
During the procedure, unferti-
lized eggs are harvested from the
ovaries, then frozen and stored for
later use, when they are thawed, fer-
tilized by sperm in a lab and
implanted in the uterus via in vitro
fertilization techniques.
From a medical perspective,
prime fertility occurs between ages
20 and 35. After 35, the quality of the
eggs deteriorates, and it also
becomes harder to extract them.
However, despite the legality of
the process in Jilin, the provincial
authorities have been reluctant to
allow single women to use the ser-
vice because the procedure is illegal
under national law.
“I felt very excited and thrilled
when I learned that single women
can extend their period of fertility by
using modern technology,” Zhan,
from Guangzhou, Guangdong prov- LIANG LUWEN / FOR CHINA DAILY
ince, wrote in her letter. “However,
when I learned that unmarried
women nationwide are prohibited in a “traditional” family setting assisted reproductive clinics in Cali- defects if the eggs are harvested
from using assisted reproduction with both a father and mother. fornia providing customized servi- from women ages 36 and older.”
technology, I felt saddened and Lu Jiehua, professor of sociology ces for Chinese patients, including
depressed.” at Peking University, said the Jilin Chinese-speaking staff members Social concerns
regulation was passed as a symbol along with documents and websites On December 27, in response to
Growing interest of social transformation and “They want to strike a balance between in Mandarin. calls from Dai Hairong, a deputy with
Few women in China were aware progress. the National People’s Congress, to lift
of egg freezing, and had little under- “Having children is a function of their family life and their careers, so if Potential risks the restrictions on access to reproduc-
standing of the regulations governing the family, but as society develops, In addition to the legal dilemma tive technology, the National Health
the practice until 2015. That was family functions gradually weaken,”
a conflict arises, they postpone their plans to in China, some experts have and Family Planning Commission
when Xu Jinglei, a well-known
actress, used her micro blog to relate
he said. “Allowing single women the
right to choose when they will be
have a baby.” warned about potential health
risks related to egg extraction,
said the reproductive rights of single
women did not accord with tradition-
her experience of the procedure in fertile is a personal issue, which will Lin Haifan, stem cell expert and professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology freezing and storage, and poten- al rights and morals.
the United States two years before, require legal changes as society and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University tially harmful side effects. However, the commission, which
when she was 38. becomes more tolerant.” Yu Qi, who has worked in the field was disbanded in March, pledged
“It was the only way I could Zhan said the regulation has giv- for 30 years, said he will only perform that its successor, the National
ensure that I would be able to have a en her hope that the law can be the procedure if it is medically neces- Health Commission, would main-
baby later in life,” she said. amended in favor of single women, en are heading overseas to have fielded 1,000 inquiries last year, and sary, because the limited number of tain research into technology relat-
Xu’s posts sparked a nationwide and has emphasized the conflict their eggs frozen. arranged for 500 women to undergo eggs produced during each ovulation ed to egg freezing and would
debate about access to egg preserva- between laws passed by central gov- Data from the Society for Assist- the procedure. cycle can potentially be harmful. conduct feasibility studies into its
tion and reproductive rights, and a ernment and provincial bodies. ed Reproductive Technology shows Gu said most of her customers “We retrieve the eggs when the clinical use.
growing number of women, both “Whether local hospitals in Jilin that the number who have the pro- work in the financial and invest- patients’ estrogen levels are quite Lu, the Peking University professor,
married and single, began inquiring perform the procedure or not, it is cedure overseas rose from 475 to ment sectors, so they can easily high, usually the day before peak argued that traditional Chinese cul-
about undergoing the procedure in not illegal in the province, but it is in 8,000 between 2009 and 2015. afford the cost. ovulation. However, those high ture does not accept single mothers or
the US and its success rate, along with terms of national law. It’s a gray area In April last year, Ctrip, the coun- Lin Haifan, a stem cell expert and estrogen levels may raise the perme- babies born outside of marriage.
the cost, which ranges from $8,000 for hospitals in the province,” she try’s largest online travel agency, professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology ability of blood vessels, which could “Supervision could be difficult
yuan to $15,000 yuan for each ses- said. began offering a seven-day egg- and Reproductive Sciences at Yale cause the blood to coagulate, and, in when related to ethical issues,” he
sion. “I think the essence of the nation- freezing trip to the United States. University, said, “The attitude of the worst-case scenario, produce said. “Unregulated freezing might
The rise in interest comes as al law is to preserve the traditional The package, which cost 218,888 women in the US towards egg freez- dangerous blood clots,” he said. lead to egg trading and surrogacy.”
more women look to postpone hav- family unit of ‘one husband, one yuan ($34,617), included blood tests, ing is very similar. Moreover, usually only 50 per- Zhai Xiaomei, a professor of life
ing a family until they have secured wife’. The problem is one of a lack of ultrasound examinations, extrac- “They want to strike a balance cent of the eggs that are extracted ethics at Peking Union Medical Col-
their careers, and as the age for trust — single women are not trust- tion and a year of storage and pres- between their family life and their and frozen can be used after thaw- lege, focused on the child’s birth and
marriage rises as Western ideas ed with the responsibility of raising ervation at a medical facility. careers, so if a conflict arises, they ing, and they are difficult to fertil- development. She said the use of
gain greater sway. children on their own. Of course, Agencies that introduce single postpone their plans to have a baby. ize, he added. assisted reproductive technology
Yu Qi, director of the assisted marriage is one way of having a fam- women and couples to fertility cen- Meanwhile they are concerned that Yu stressed that the eggs have a will result in parents being able to
reproductive center at Peking ily, but it doesn’t always have to be ters in the US have reported a grow- if they wait too long they won’t be limited active period, and strongly choose when their children are
Union Medical College Hospital in that way.” ing interest in the procedure. able to have a baby, so they choose to advised women 35 and older not to born, thus overturning traditional
Beijing, said that in the past five “Demand for egg freezing has ris- freeze their eggs while they are still undergo the procedure. “The quality ideas of natural childbirth.
years he has seen a growing Looking overseas en substantially in recent years,” relatively young.” of the eggs obtained from women “Women can choose to have
demand for consultations related to In response to the impasse in said Gu Siliang, co-founder of Joyba- US clinics are gearing up for the older than 40 is pretty bad, and their eggs frozen, but is that in the
egg extraction, freezing and stor- China, a growing number of wom- by, an agency in Shanghai, which rise in demand, with 33 of the 51 there is a high probability of birth child’s best interests, and is it fair
age, and every day, at least one to allow children to grow up in
woman age 35 or older requests one-parent families, when that
advice about the procedure. sort of background is not normal in
FIRST PERSON China?” she said.
Supplementary measure She was also concerned about the
The problem for Zhan is that egg
freezing is classified as a supple-
mentary IVF measure in China, and
is only available to married women
I want to experience being a mother growth of social inequality if the use
of the technology became common-
place and only wealthy people could
afford the procedure.
who have had treatment for infertil- In December, Pan Run (not her real work for myself, entertaining cus- procedure, I began injecting I knew the technology was a way “After all, it is different from the
ity or those undergoing chemother- name), a company owner in Shang- tomers and managing my staff myself with a chemical that pro- of allowing me to live boldly and process of natural fertility,” she said.
apy for cancer and who are unlikely hai, traveled to Los Angeles to have every day. I have many hobbies and motes ovulation five days before I ensure a choice for myself. Zhan said she fully understands
to conceive naturally. 12 eggs extracted and stored. enjoy traveling, which fills my life left for the US. Now, even without a baby, I the potential risks that egg-freezing
Freezing eggs solely for the purpose with color. I am rarely bored. I remember the first time I tried have my own career and enjoy technology may bring, but is deter-
of preserving or extending a single I am 35 this year, but I have However, a year ago, I suddenly to inject myself in the belly. I was spending time with my friends. mined to continue her fight to guar-
woman’s period of fertility is illegal, never thought that I might not realized that even though I couldn’t so nervous I couldn’t find the This year, I will return to Los antee access to the procedure.
according to the 2001 Assisted Repro- have the chance to become a see a future in my marriage I need- right spot and broke the needle Angeles for a second bout of egg “I have five years to promote and
ductive Technology Regulation. mother. ed to experience life as it should be. into pieces all over the floor. I extraction. I plan to have 10 protect the legalization of the rights
Essentially, fertility rights are Last year, I made the decision to A friend recommended the spent nearly two hours getting the more eggs stored for five years. of single women to have their eggs
protected based on marital status freeze my eggs to protect my fer- egg-freezing service, so I decided first shot right. I am not sure what will happen frozen for later use. Even though I
under Chinese law, and even tility rights and provide some to give it a try. With three injections every day, with my marriage in the future, can’t guarantee success within that
though the regulation passed in Ji- insurance for myself. I don’t expect my child to care the process took about 10 days but I know that when the right time scale, I remain hopeful and will
lin allows single women access to I have been married for eight for me when I am old, but I until I arrived at the assisted fer- time comes, I will have my own continue to strive for the rights laid
treatment, it is never enacted years, but I can’t see any hope of would like to experience being a tility center in Los Angeles. “insurance”. down by the law in Jilin,” she said.
because it conflicts with age-old having a baby with my husband. mother. I couldn’t imagine the worst-
beliefs and values under which My life is pretty busy because I To shorten the egg extraction case scenario for egg freezing, but Pan Run spoke with Xin Wen. Contact the writer at
children are expected to be raised xinwen@chinadaily.com.cn
 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 2, 2018 POLICY REVIEW 7

Policy Digest

Government tasks
for 2018 disclosed
Further details on governmen-
tal work will be released to the
public in 2018 in response to
public concern, to improve gov-
ernment services, construct
information publicizing plat-
forms and standardize informa-
tion access, according to a State
Council statement on April 24.
Regulations and policies, unless
legally subject to confidentiality,
should be open to the public, to
further facilitate law-based
administration and protect peo-
ple’s right-to-know, the state-
ment said. Some key sectors will
be granted more autonomy in
information disclosure, such as
fiscal budgets and final
accounts, approval and imple-
mentation of key projects and
the distribution of public
resources and assets.
Policies on market expectations
will be mapped out in further
detail, highlighting interpreta-
tion of policies regarding pre-
caution against major risks,
targeted poverty alleviation and
pollution prevention.
The statement also called for
enhanced efforts for more
active and effective reaction to
public opinion in areas of major
public concern. It also called for
further improving online gov-
ernmental services, with an
increasing number of service
items available on the internet,
bringing more convenience to
the public.

Further tax cuts to

boost SME growth

Firms to see costs drop as real

The State Council’s executive
meeting on April 25, chaired by
Premier Li Keqiang, decided to
roll out seven more measures to
boost tax cuts, aiming to relieve
over 60 billion yuan ($9.4 bil-

economy gets inclusive finance spur

Business loans will become cheaper in
move to help low-income earners
By HU YONGQI
huyongqi@chinadaily.com.cn
By the end of the third quarter
this year, financing costs for micro-
businesses will be substantially
reduced as the State Council, Chi-
na’s Cabinet, promotes inclusive
finance to advance the real economy
and poverty relief.
The decision was made at a State
Council executive meeting, which
was presided over by Premier Li
Keqiang on April 25. Experts said
the push for inclusive finance will be
beneficial to small and micro-sized
enterprises with possibly lower
costs when they apply for and get
loans.
Inclusive finance covers services
offered by financial institutions spe-
cifically to micro-businesses, farm-
ers, those on a low-income in urban
areas, the poor, people with disabili-
ties and the elderly.
POLICY RESPONSE
Figures showed that medium and
large-sized commercial banks
around the country have set up
inclusive finance departments and
had granted loans of more than 3.4
trillion yuan ($536 billion) by the
end of last year.
In the next step, assessment stan-
dards will be made for banks based
on their operations in inclusive
finance, with efforts to accelerate
building systems for supportive ser-
vices and credit information, said a
statement released after the meet-
ing.
Banks will be supported in mak-
ing specific plans on inclusive-fi-
nance loans and setting up incentive
funds, the statement said. Innova-
tion will be encouraged for opera-
tions such as mid and long-term
fixed asset loans for small and
micro-businesses, mortgages for
new agricultural businesses and
financing for poverty relief, it said.
Over the past few years, small
businesses were confronted with
the difficulty of getting financing as
well as higher costs than those for
large or State-owned enterprises. To
boost economic growth and
employment, more financial sup-
port should be given to these enti-
ties.
The meeting was also the latest
move adopted by the central govern-
ment to promote this form of
finance.
In his Government Work Report
on March 5, the premier said China’s
financial service system will be
reformed and the government will
support financial institutions to
expand inclusive finance.
The premier said at the meeting
that incentive mechanisms should
be established and improved to
stimulate enthusiasm inside banks
for inclusive finance, and supervi-
sion and audits should be strength-
ened as well.
For commercial banks, inclusive
finance may see lower profits, high-
er risks and costs, compared with
other loans, said Zeng Gang, direct-
or of the banking research depart-
ment at the Institute of Finance and
Banking at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences. Therefore, their
participation should be boosted
with supportive policies, including
assessments and incentives, he said.
By 2020, banking and insurance
services will be set up in rural are-
as, with 95 percent of farming
households taking part in agricul-
tural insurance, according to a five-
year plan on inclusive finance
released by the State Council in
May last year.
Apart from small and micro-busi-
nesses, agriculture and rural resi-
dents are also key targets for
inclusive finance, said Wang Shu-
guang, a professor at the School of
Economics at Peking University.
Many counties don’t have a struc-
tured financial system and innova-
tion should be encouraged to
coordinate all financial resources to
lead more private capital to rural
areas as a way to promote inclusive
finance, he said.
Dong Ximiao, a visiting research-
er at Chongyang Institute for Finan-
cial Studies at Renmin University of
China, said the policies are expected
to help financial institutions better
serve the real economy with more
support offered to small and medi-
um-sized enterprises and the agri-
cultural sector.
In addition to policies released
after the meeting, certain taxes
should be reduced to endorse inclu-
sive finance and a government-led
microcredit guarantee should be
established to reduce risks for finan-
cial institutions, Dong said.
Meanwhile, rural areas should
build a credit system to suit a higher
level of loans and repayments, he
said. By these means, more capital
will possibly enter the inclusive
finance sector, he said.
Multiple measures should be tak-
en to promote the development of
inclusive finance, and related gov-
ernmental departments should cul-
tivate an inviting environment for
financial institutions to reduce the
financing costs for micro-business-
es, Li said at the meeting.
Third-party evaluations should be
conducted to check the implemen-
tation of these policies, and the key
is to make micro-businesses feel the
difference, the premier added.
lion) in tax burdens from small
businesses.
The premier stressed at the
meeting that the move focuses
on small and micro-companies,
but will also give the whole
economy a shot in the arm.
Tax deduction has been a priori-
ty of the State Council since
2013, with the annual taxable
income threshold of small and
micro-businesses eligible for
halved income tax being con-
stantly raised. It will be raised
again from 500,000 to 1 million
yuan.
It was also decided at the meet-
ing to abolish the preclusion of
the expenses of commissioned
overseas R&D from additional
tax deduction. The time limit
for the capital loss carryover of
high-tech firms and tech-based
SMEs will be extended from five
to 10 years. All enterprises will
see the tax deduction for their
employee training costs raised
to 8 percent, the same rate as
high-tech companies enjoy,
from the current 2.5 percent.
These three measures became
effective on Jan 1.
In other business, measures of
stamp duty relief for books of
account were adopted, begin-
ning on Tuesday.
Internet integrates
with healthcare

Jobs, medicine, tourism and pollution among key issues

Over the past week, the Ministry
of Human Resources and Social
Security, the National Health Com-
mission and the Ministry of Finance
have answered a number of ques-
tions regarding public concern in
areas such as employment, reducing
the price for anti-cancer drugs as
well as public-private partnership
projects.
Employment data sees good
start for first quarter
China’s employment situation pro-
gressed steadily in the first quarter of
2018, a senior official said.
Lu Aihong, spokesperson for the
Ministry of Human Resources and
Social Security, told a news briefing
on the country’s first quarter eco-
nomic performance on April 27 that
more than 3.3 million new jobs were
created in urban areas during the
first three months of the year.
“The ratio of job seekers to job
demand has reached 1.23, showing a
strong market demand for workers,”
he added.
Sound macroeconomic develop-
ment contributed to the good per-
formance in the first quarter, he said.
Yet the employment situation this
year is still challenging and complex,
he said.
The employment priority strategy
and pro-active employment policy
will be continuously implemented,
he added.
Prices for cancer-fighting
drugs cut to help patients
China is working to reduce the pri-
ces of anti-cancer drugs and the
financial burden facing patients,
health officials said on April 28.
Zeng Yixin, vice-director of the
National Health Commission, told a
news conference that drug prices will
be reduced through centralized
negotiations and procurement.
Chen Jinfu, head of the medical
insurance department of the Minis-
try of Human Resources and Social
Security, said that last year the gov-
ernment reached agreements with
pharmaceutical enterprises on the
prices of 36 cancer medicines on the
medical insurance list. He said the
prices of these drugs have been
marked down by 44 percent on aver-
age.
The government will work to
include more anti-neoplastic drugs
into the country’s catalog of medical
insurance reimbursement, which
already incorporates most of the rele-
vant drugs.
The average approval time for
imported drugs has been significant-
ly shortened, and the customs clear-
ance procedures streamlined, said Li
Jinju, an official with China Food and
Drug Administration.
The Ministry of Finance
announced on April 23 that China
will exempt 28 drugs from import
tariffs, including all cancer-treating
drugs beginning on Tuesday, as part
of a wider opening of the market.
Partnerships to give tourism
sector more support
China will improve services for
tourists through public-private part-
nerships (PPP), the Ministry of Cul-
ture and Tourism and the Ministry
of Finance said as they issued a
guideline on April 25.
The PPPs, collaborative projects
between government and private
companies, will give priority to sup-
port national tourism projects and
poverty-alleviation through tourism.
In February, the Ministry of Cul-
ture and Tourism published details
of PPP projects with a total invest-
ment of 760 billion yuan ($125 bil-
lion), the fourth round of such
investment since 2014.
Social media to help ensure
regular pollution monitoring
The Ministry of Ecology and Envi-
ronment will carry out regular com-
pliance inspections to ensure the
second national census on sources of
pollution will be properly carried
out, MEE officials announced during
a teleconference on April 25.
WeChat groups will be created
both at national and provincial levels
to facilitate work. Pilot surveys need
to be concluded by the end of June,
while the first round of census will be
conducted from August to Novem-
ber. Results will be released in 2019.
The census aiming to map out sour-
ces of pollution is essential to eco-
nomic and environmental policy-
making, the central government said
previously.
About 9 million pollution sources
around the country are expected to
be surveyed, the ministry
announced. The last major survey
was done 10 years ago.
According to the reshuffled Minis-
try of Ecology and Environment, its
budget rose by more than 70 percent
over its predecessor in the last year,
reaching almost 12.2 billion yuan
($1.9 billion).
The budget for pollution control
has more than doubled to 500 mil-
lion yuan, and more than 70 percent
will be used for the latest national
census, the ministry said.
ZHANG YUE
The State Council issued a
guideline on April 28 to pro-
mote health services through
internet technologies.
The guideline, regarding
“Internet Plus healthcare”, said
that the technologies should
be used to offer medical and
public health services, pro-
mote family doctor practices,
improve drug supplies and
medical bill settlement, carry
out medical education, and
provide artificial intelligence
services.
The guideline encouraged bet-
ter sharing of health informa-
tion, improved hospital
management and services and
strengthened oversight of
medical services and data
safety.
It highlighted internet technol-
ogies raising the levels of
healthcare in poor and border
regions.
ZHANG YUE
8 Wednesday, May 2, 2018
COMMENT
Efficient use of housing
stock is urgently needed
As price indicators hit fresh highs, Ho Lok-sang urges overhaul on
rules for HOS units to ensure those who need homes have them
L
ast week, a key indicator of
Hong Kong’s housing pric-
es hit new high again. The
Centa-City Leading Index
CCL rose to 180, arousing
increasing concern over
the relentless surge of
Hong Kong’s housing prices. It is apparent
that the ongoing effort to seek more land
for housing development is unlikely to
stem the further rise of housing prices, as
panic purchase takes over potential buyers.
News like this has been recurring over
and over again in the past year. It has ignit-
ed wild suggestions of all kinds. A caller to
an RTHK phone-in program asked: Why
not just mandate that housing prices must
not rise beyond the current level? Others
suggest rent control; still others suggest
selling HOS and public housing at replace-
ment cost.
The problem is: None of these proposals
will work.
If supply lags behind demand, fixing an
artificially low price will require selecting
who will be allotted the precious right to
purchase at the low price. The low price
will attract even more buyers who want to
test their luck. It will certainly boil down to
a lottery, and will certainly fail to help the
most needy.
The government has rejected rent
control for a good reason. Artificially
depressed rents will lead to inefficient use
of the existing resources and will suppress
supply of rentable apartments. Lucky ones
will certainly enjoy the benefit of lower
housing cost, at the expense of the unlucky
ones who will have a harder time finding
a place to stay. Rent control will certainly
aggravate the homeless problem, as some
tenants will lose the incentive to share the
apartment and the cost. There will be not
only queues for public housing, but also
long queues for a private apartment.
I applaud the government’s effort in
Careful what you wish for
when stalling on Article 23
I
n light of the recent call in the public
about national security legislation in
Hong Kong, some dissident academ-
ics, notably Benny Tai Yiu-ting and
his former boss Johannes Chan Man-mun,
wondered aloud about its necessity. “It is
all there in the existing laws,” they sang in
unison.
Without going into the technicalities of
these so-called existing legislations, one
thing clearly stands out. The applicability
of these prevalent laws and the contents of
the draft legislation under Article 23 back
in 2003 are now outdated. The original
thinking embodied in the draft covers only
seven areas like subversion, sedition, etc.
The new National Security Law on the
mainland takes the idea of national secu-
rity up to its current international standard
and it covers 19 very different areas such
as financial security, information security,
food security, etc.
National security now means entirely
different things since 1990 when the Basic
Law was enacted. That is why it requires
a new legislation on the mainland and
we certainly need something totally new
these days. Some eggheads do not get their
knowledge and idea updated and they
don’t deserve to teach our children in the
universities.
Looking at the national security legisla-
tion in Hong Kong from this angle, one
obvious problem emerges right away: Who
is to enforce the law? Let me just cite one
example: Our policemen are now trained to
fight cybercrimes in a commercial context,
they are not equipped to fight cyberwar
against political entities. It is like asking the
New York Police Department to do the job
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After all, we no longer have a Special
Branch as under the British administration
Ho Lok-sang
The author is dean of business at Chu Hai
College of Higher Education.
seeking more developable land, and want
to register my plea for the public to sup-
port these efforts. As Stanley Wong Yuen-
fai, the chairman of the Task Force on Land
Supply, observed, each of the options on his
list will be painful because there is a cost to
every choice we make in a world of scarcity.
It is just basic economics that land has
alternative uses. If we use a plot for hous-
ing, it will no longer be available for other
purposes. We need to make up our minds
about our priorities, always thinking about
what constitutes the best social good.
However, I would argue that there is
actually still room to improve the effi-
ciency of the usage of our existing housing
stock. The special administrative region
government is moving in this direction in
proposing that Home Ownership Scheme
housing can be made available for rental at
lower-than-market rent without repayment
of the owed land premium. This makes
sense. We can consider the HOS apartment
as co-owned with the government because
the land premium has not been repaid
in full. We can imagine the apartment to
be rented at market rent but the govern-
ment as co-owner is entitled to part of that
market rent. This rent, instead of being col-
lected by the government, is just repaid to
the tenant who meets the criteria for sub-
sidized housing. In this way, people in the
queue for public housing can have access
to subsidized housing through renting
HOS apartments. This arrangement should
before the handover and I don’t think the
central government would like the special
administrative region government to cre-
ate one. The logical way out is to have the
Chinese equivalent of Central Intelligence
Agency and FBI to do the job. Problem is,
would our dissidents agree to such a solu-
tion? The answer is obviously no, because
it is like asking thieves whether they would
welcome legislation designed specifically
against theft.
This seems like a farce but pathetically
this is our political reality. After 2003 no
chief executive would commit to a timetable
for mandatory national security legislation
under Article 23 of the Basic Law. When
pressed, current Chief Executive Carrie
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor first said she wants
to wait for a suitable environment to do so,
and now has promised to foster such an
environment. But it is still all words and no
action, because nobody knows exactly what
a “suitable environment” looks like, not to
mention how to create and nurture it.
Generally people tend to think that when
the pro-establishment lawmakers hold a
majority in the Legislative Council to make
sure that the national security law would
get passed, this would be the “suitable
environment”. Little do they know that this
piece of legislation only require a simple
majority to get through, and we have had
this “suitable environment” ever since July
1, 1997!
Some people think that being kind to
the dissidents, we might manage to win
them over, and a more congenial legislature
would constitute a “suitable environment”.
This seems like what Lam now sets out to
do. But we are asking them to do some-
thing like putting handcuffs on themselves
— would they be so easily won over with a
smile and some candies? This is downright
be allowed for all existing HOS apartments
that have been sold.
I would further propose that the terms of
sale for all new HOS housing that has not
yet been sold be revised, to the effect that
buyers must firstly actually live in the apart-
ment; secondly not own any property in
Hong Kong or anywhere; thirdly on resale
sell the apartment only to households who
meet the criteria for buying an HOS apart-
ment and not in the open market. Instead
of restricting the time of resale to 10 years
after moving into the apartment, the buyer
can resell the unit at any time, as long as
resale is to those who are qualified to buy
an HOS apartment. I would propose that
buyers under the Green Form Subsidized
Home Ownership Scheme should be sub-
ject to these restrictions too. An HOS apart-
ment owner can sell his apartment and buy
another HOS apartment if this intention
is registered with the Housing Authority.
If this intention is not registered with the
HA, then application for an HOS apartment
must be conditional on meeting the stated
criteria for application.
The proposed arrangement will enhance
the efficiency of the use of the new HOS
housing stock. First, those buyers who are
actually financially capable of buying in the
private market but are looking for a “good
investment” because the purchase price is
below market will likely opt out, because
the HOS purchase will make investing in
the housing market impossible. Second,
because resale is allowed without a time
restriction, owners will not “sit on their
units” until the term of the embargo is
over. “Sitting on their units” may be highly
inefficient, especially if they do not want
to take the risk of renting them out, given
that some tenants may not be very good at
keeping the apartments tidy and in shape.
Third, any apartment resold then trans-
lates to a qualified household buying an
apartment.
Lau Nai-keung
The author is a veteran current affairs
commentator.
The very last remaining
option which relates very
much to a “suitable envi-
ronment” is when some-
thing really bad happens.
The central government
will then have no choice
but to take charge.
wishful thinking.
The most common option many people
suggest is to pass a law or a series of laws
without any real sanction power and thus
no controversy just to fulfill the constitu-
tional duty under the Basic Law and get
it over with. This is utterly irresponsible
and I don’t think the central government
would even pretend to be satisfied because
our leaders in Beijing know very well how
important national security is to the coun-
try as well as to Hong Kong.
So the very last remaining option which
relates very much to a “suitable environ-
ment” is when something really bad hap-
pens. The central government will then
have no choice but to take charge. It will
either impose some laws on the SAR which
we have neither the power nor the reason
to resist, or demand us to immediately
legislate according to some very specific
guidelines.
Storms are gathering now and maybe
very soon we will enjoy a perfect environ-
ment for national security legislation. We
are asking for it.
Metallic tangle
A set of cameras looms over a jumble of television aerials viewed through a chain-link fence in
Kwun Tong, creating a dystopian foreground for the densely populated district’s sun-bathed
apartment blocks. @BRIANLHY_ / INSTAGRAM
Weak HK dollar could flag
hard landing for property
F
rom April 12 to 19, the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority intervened
in the foreign-exchange market
13 times as the Hong Kong dollar
hit the HK$7.85 per US unit level, buying
HK$51.3 billion. This was the first such
intervention by the HKMA since estab-
lishment of the Weak-side Convertibility
Undertaking for HKD at 7.85 in 1998.
Compared with the serious challenge
posed to the US dollar peg by the Asian
financial crisis between mid-1997 and
mid-1998, the capital outflow and weak-
ening of the HKD this time was nothing.
Yet, viewed in the context of the sweeping
changes in today’s global economic, finan-
cial and political landscape, the outflow
and weakening is a grim warning that
must not be overlooked.
First of all, the outflow and weakening
of HKD this time is not simply the result of
the widening interest-rate gap caused by
United States credit-cost increases.
Since 2005, the interest rate of the
HKD has become increasingly influenced
by that of the yuan and by the exchange
rate between the yuan and US dollar. The
Hong Kong banking sector’s refusal to let
the city’s interest rates follow rate rises in
the US has become a norm. Over the past
decade, the widening interest-rate differ-
ence between the HKD and USD has not
triggered any HKD outflow or weakening
against the USD. There are reasons why
movements are out of the ordinary this
time.
Currently the US is adjusting its global
strategies, openly announcing that China
and Russia are its opponents. Not only has
it waged a trade war on China, but it has
also started restricting Chinese enterprises’
investments and operations in the US. It
is true that Hong Kong is an independent
customs area under “one country, two sys-
tems” but, as part of China, it cannot stay
out of the worsening Sino-US dispute. In
the foreseeable future, Sino-US tension will
remain, the SAR’s financial market will be
shaken from time to time and HKD will
weaken periodically when the US dollar
peg is challenged by capital outflows.
Second, the Hong Kong banking sector’s
operating environment will become more
complicated and difficult.
Some people think outflow and weak-
ening of the HKD will boost and hence
“normalize” the city’s interest rates.
Frankly speaking, such a view is wrong.
Since 2005, other than HKMA’s basic rate
— which continuously follows the interest-
rate policy of the Federal Open Market
Committee under the US Federal Reserve
Board of Governors — Hong Kong’s inter-
est rate also depends on two other factors:
the Hong Kong dollar and yuan positions
of the local banking system. Therefore,
whether Hong Kong’s interest rate is nor-
mal or not is no longer decided only by
whether it is following the US rate.
The yuan position, to some extent, puts
Hong Kong interest rates under the influ-
ence of yuan credit costs, whereas the HKD
position reflects the situation of the local
economy. Failing to transform its economy
in time, Hong Kong now lacks new indus-
tries or occupations. Hong Kong banks are
suffering from the problem of having much
more deposits than loans and having to vie
C H I N A DA I LY H O N G KO N G E D I T I O N
Zhou Bajun
The author is a senior research fellow of
China Everbright Holdings.
for property mortgages. Hence Hong Kong
banks have to keep their interest rates low.
Before, local banks have adapted to a low
and stable interest-rate environment and,
though with difficulty, they have learned
how to manage. Now, with the global eco-
nomic, financial and political landscape
undergoing transformation on an unprec-
edented scale and Sino-US tension continu-
ing, Hong Kong banks will suffer from
volatility in interbank rates and further
difficulties in their operations.
Third, the authorities concerned in Hong
Kong should formulate a plan for adjusting
the dollar peg at an appropriate time.
This year is the 35th anniversary of the
implementation of the dollar peg system.
During that time Hong Kong’s external
trade relations have undergone a sea
change. The Chinese mainland has already
replaced the US as the city’s biggest trading
partner; Hong Kong’s securities market
has been connected with the mainland’s;
the SAR has become the world’s largest off-
shore yuan center while the realization of
yuan’s convertibility and becoming a major
international reserve currency will not be
far away. And from this year onward, Hong
Kong becomes a member of the Guang-
dong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area,
integrating into the country’s overall devel-
opment strategy. All these have already
required adjustments in the US dollar peg,
which will, from now on, face grave chal-
lenges from unprecedented transformation
in global financial landscape and worsen-
ing Sino-US ties. Hong Kong authorities
must therefore put the issue of peg adjust-
ment on their agenda.
Last but not the least important, the SAR
government should step up efforts to regu-
late the real-estate market and advance the
transformation of Hong Kong’s economy.
The city’s property market bubble is
growing every day. When the exchange
rate “peg” of Hong Kong dollar to the US
unit was heavily affected by panic dump-
ing of Hong Kong dollar assets on April
12-19, forcing local interbank borrowing
rates to skyrocket, the real-estate market
also reached a new high despite weak local
currency.
The Centa-City Leading Index, which
indicates second-hand property market
trends, hit 179.9 in the week before April
20, an increase of 1.4 percent and new high
on record. It also marked an aggregate 9
percent second-hand property price rise
since the beginning of the year and almost
two-thirds of the 13 percent rise seen last
year. If the outward flow of capital contin-
ues in the near future and pushes inter-
bank borrowing rates higher, Hong Kong
might find itself faced with a hard landing
of its real-estate market similar to the one
that sent its economy into recession after
the Asian financial storm of 1997-98.

COMMENT
EDITORIALS
Shrinking space for
secessionists’ tricks
T
he establishment of diplomatic relations between
the Dominican Republic and the People’s Repub-
lic of China was only a matter of time.
Trade between the two countries has been
growing year by year, and according to the gov-
ernment of the Dominican Republic, the Carib-
bean island’s trade with the PRC has reached
$2 billion a year. The PRC is the Dominican Republic’s second-
biggest supplier of imports, and the island is the second-larg-
est trading partner for the PRC among all the Caribbean and
Central American nations.
And now that diplomatic relations have been established, the
two countries will undoubtedly boost their trade further and
expand their cooperation into other areas such as tourism.
The Dominican Republic’s recognition that the government of
the People’s Republic of China is the sole legitimate government
of the whole of China was marked at a ceremony held in Beijing
on Tuesday.
Behind the Caribbean country’s severing of “diplomatic ties”
with Taiwan is the reality that the one-China principle and the
acknowledgment that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China is the
consensus of nearly all the international community. It shows that
no matter how hard the Taiwan authorities try to maintain the
island’s “international space”, their efforts to secure recognition of
the island as an “independent country” are doomed to failure.
The establishing of diplomatic relations between the PRC and
the Dominican Republic will not only inject fresh vigor into their
trade relations and facilitate China’s investment in the island, it
will also help promote China’s economic ties with other countries
in the Caribbean and beyond.
In this increasingly globalized world, China’s Belt and Road Ini-
tiative is meant to develop economic cooperation with countries
on an equal footing, so that both China and the countries it is
cooperating with benefit. It has been welcomed in many coun-
tries as a way to develop economic connectivity and cooperation
with the world’s second-largest economy.
The Dominican Republic’s forging of diplomatic ties with the
PRC serves as a harbinger for the 21st Century Maritime Silk
Road to extend across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean and
Latin America.
Some give as well as take
needed for talks trade-off
‘W
e’re going to have very frank discussions”, US Trea-
sury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a TV inter-
view broadcast on Monday. Which is all well and
good. But whether there will be any positive out-
comes from the discussions in Beijing on Thursday and Friday
will depend on whether the delegation he is heading comes to try
and lay down the law to China or amicably find ways to resolve
the trade feud that has erupted.
Certainly, Mnuchin and the other members of the US trade del-
egation, which will reportedly include Trade Representative Rob-
ert Lighthizer, trade adviser Peter Navarro and economic adviser
Larry Kudlow, should not attribute China’s lowering of its tariffs
on some imports, such as automobiles and medicines, to the Unit-
ed States’ targeting of its imports and investments. Such a mis-
reading of China’s actions would be detrimental to having heart-
to-heart conversations to clear the air.
The time when China could be forced to open its doors is long
past, and Beijing is not opening them wider now simply to
appease others.
As President Xi Jinping highlighted at the Boao Forum for Asia
in Hainan last month, further opening-up is necessary at this
stage of China’s development. Broadening market entry, strength-
ening intellectual property rights protection and lowering tariffs
on cars are not moves intended to reduce the surplus with certain
trade partners; if that is the case it is merely an added bonus.
Instead, they are long-signaled moves to benefit the country and
meet people’s demands for greater choice.
Data from the World Trade Organization show that China’s
imports have grown at a faster rate than not only the world aver-
age, but also that of the US, Germany and Japan. In the coming
five years, it is estimated China will import goods and services
worth more than $10 trillion.
That will be a big boost for those countries exporting to China,
and to world trade as a whole given the global supply chains.
It is not unreasonable for China to seek quid pro quo, to want
protection for China’s intellectual property rights and for devel-
oped countries to remove their restrictions on ordinary high-tech
exports to China.
If the US delegation comes to China believing Beijing’s resolve
to open wider to the outside world is a matter of expediency
under pressure from Washington, it will likely mean a lot of time
is wasted setting the record straight.
Time that would be better spent putting an end to the current
quarrel and exploring ways to put bilateral trade ties on a sound
footing for the future.
C O N TA C T U S
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Song Chen
OPINION LINE
Allowing indoor smoking areas is
pragmatic tobacco control measure
HANGZHOU, capital of East China’s Zhejiang province, has given a green light to setting up
indoor smoking areas in public places in a draft of its newly revised smoking control regulation. Bei-
jing News comments:
China has about 350 million smokers, 30 per-
cent of the world’s total, and 740 million second-
hand smokers. It is therefore necessary for the
government to take seriously its duty to control
the use of tobacco, especially because the tobacco
industry and sales of tobacco products are State-
owned in China.
Tobacco use has led to more than 1 million
deaths each year in the country, and it is estimat-
ed the economic losses caused by tobacco greatly
exceed the added value created by the industry.
The former version of the Hangzhou regula-
tion, which calls for a total ban on public smok-
ing, was warmly welcomed as a sign of the local
government changing its mindset toward smok-
ing control when it was unveiled in 2010.
Critics say that if the revised smoking control
regulation is adopted, it will be a step backward.
But the fact is many cities have followed
Hangzhou’s example in carrying out a total ban
on public smoking, but the zero tolerance has
Baidu should stop using paid listings
SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION about illnesses on Baidu, the most popular Chinese online
search engine, you are unlikely to find any useful information on the diseases on the first one or two
pages as they are full of advertisements for healthcare products. Beijing News comments:
Baidu’s paid listing mechanism has come in for
heavy criticism, particularly in regard to health.
Two years ago, a 22-year-old man surnamed Wei
from Xianyang, Shaanxi province, died at home
of synovial sarcomain, a rare type of cancer, after
exhausting all his families’ savings in futile treat-
ment at a “prestigious” hospital in Beijing his
father had found through an advertisement on
Baidu.
It turns out the hospital had rented its rooms
to some private clinics, a common practice then,
which the Baidu advertisement did not men-
tion.
Wei’s death put pressure on Baidu to reform its
paid listing system. Regretfully, medical adver-
tisements are a reliable source of revenue for Bai-
du. And although there is a sign telling the
HOT WORDS
New forms of employment
新形态就业
(xīnxíngtài jiùyè)
New forms of employment are those jobs
that have appeared due to the development
of internet technology and consumption
upgrading.
The internet directly links supply and
demand, leading to new forms of employ-
ment such as car-hailing drivers and self-em-
ployed online retailers.
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existed in name only. Because of the lack of
enforcement, smoking in public has not been
curbed and the total smoking ban has become a
laughingstock.
Hangzhou’s proposed revision of its regulation
is a move aimed at minimizing the harm done to
nonsmokers. It should not be interpreted as
acquiescence to public smoking.
The draft regulation of Hangzhou is more prac-
tical than the former version. What the govern-
ment needs to do next is to make a national
standard for the indoor smoking areas, which, in
many places, are only areas equipped with ash-
trays in hallways.
The World Health Organization’s report points
out even ventilation systems cannot eliminate the
harmful particles contained in the smoke exhaled
by smokers. Many countries have stipulated that
smoking areas must be meters away from public
areas, so as to minimize the threat to public
health of secondhand smoking.
internet users at the top of the page that the
results are advertisements, the sign is invariably
small and can easily escape people’s notice.
In fact, Baidu’s returning to its old tricks is
inevitable, because it received no punishment aft-
er Wei’s death, despite it prompting the health
authorities to ban public hospitals from renting
rooms to private practitioners. And there is still
no law preventing search engines from listing
search results according to how much they have
been paid for the privilege.
It is high time the law outlawed the practice
that poses direct threats to public health. The
internet, commerce and public health authorities
should take joint actions to put an end to paid lis-
tings in searches for medical information as soon
as possible.
The development of e-commerce and
new retail has not only created new job
opportunities but also changed the
employment pattern. Different from the
traditional employment pattern, in the
internet era, many people are self-em-
ployed or do part time jobs based on inter-
net-enabled services.
The new forms of employment created by
the internet are creating many new jobs. One
domestic e-commerce platform created more
than 36 million job opportunities in 2017. As
Premier Li Keqiang noted in this year’s Gov-
ernment Work Report, we should take advan-
tage of the government’s Internet Plus
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9
China Daily Hong Kong Edition
Encouragement
alone will not make
packaging greener
A PROVISIONAL REGULATION on
express deliveries came into effect on Tuesday,
which requires express delivery enterprises
and customers to use biodegradable or com-
postable materials for packaging purposes.
Beijing News comments:
The provisional regulation also encourages
express delivery enterprises and customers to
recycle packaging materials, as well as avoid
over-packaging, so as to minimize the harm
done to the environment.
Packaging materials used for express deliv-
ery packages have already done much harm
to the environment and it is no longer possi-
ble to turn a blind eye to the problem. Statis-
tics show that in 2015 alone, 16.9 billion
meters of adhesive tape, 425 times the length
of the equator, were used for fast deliveries in
China.
However, the cooperation of all sides is
needed to support the new regulation.
According to the China Express Association,
there are still several major challenges to be
overcome. For example, there is hardly any
detailed standards on what constitutes “over-
packaging”, while the supervision responsibil-
ities of governmental departments is unclear.
Besides, the cost of reusable materials is
much higher than the current packaging
materials. As a result, if any enterprise uses
them it might have to raise service prices and
thus lose out in the competition. The only
solution is to make it mandatory for express
delivery companies and their customers to
use environmentally friendly packaging mate-
rials, but the regulation only encourages them
to do so, which is likely to prove ineffective.
The lack of environmental awareness
among residents is part of the problem. Many
residents simply throw away the packaging
after receiving the delivered goods, instead of
reusing them.
Therefore, it is fair to say that more
detailed and mandatory measures are need-
ed to effectively popularize reusable materi-
als for packaging. Only when all sides
involved are forced to do so will the harmful
effects of packaging materials on the environ-
ment be minimized.
strategy for smart industry to develop new
forms of employment.
New training that matches the needs of
new technologies and
suits new form of
industry is required
under the new circum-
stances. Meanwhile,
new laws, regulations
and social security are
also required, in order
to better serve the new
employment forms Online
such as those created Scan it for
by online retail. more hot words.
10 WORLD
Testing time ahead
for UK’s new royal
Markle faces ‘baffling’ entrance
exam in quest for citizenship
LONDON — US actress
Meghan Markle will join Brit-
ain’s royal family when she
marries Prince Harry this
month, but before she can
become a British citizen, it will
help her to know how big the
Lake District is and the age of
“Big Ben”.
Markle plans to take the
nationality of her new hus-
band after their wedding on
May 19 but, like tens of thou-
sands of others wanting to
become British every year, she
will first have to demonstrate
knowledge of some historical
facts and obscure trivia that
many Britons are oblivious to.
All would-be citizens must
pass the “Life in the UK” test
by successfully answering 18
out of 24 questions selected
from some 3,000 facts, such as
knowing the height of the Lon-
don Eye ferris wheel and how
Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle attend a
Service of Thanksgiving and Commemoration on ANZAC Day at
Westminster Abbey in London on April 25.
EDDIE MULHOLLAND / REUTERS
Mount Fuji eruption could
paralyze Tokyo, says report
TOKYO — Japan’s iconic
Mount Fuji could paralyze
Tokyo with ash if it erupted,
choking roads and halting
water supplies, according to a
government disaster planning
study, a news report said on
Tuesday.
The snow-capped peak of
the country’s highest moun-
tain 100 kilometers west of the
capital Tokyo is a symbol of
Japan — and is also an active
volcano.
It last erupted in 1707, but
while it has not shown any
signs of life in recent decades a
potential eruption now could
shower more than 10 centime-
ters of ash on central Tokyo,
according to a government
study seen by the Kyodo News
agency.
The ash would paralyze the
capital, rendering roads
impassable and stopping the
Remains of US Marine coming home after 6 decades
CONCORD, New Hamp-
shire — For nearly six decades,
a United States Marine Corps
sergeant’s family lived under
the misconception that his
body was lost at sea during
World War II.
Killed in what has been
called the bloody Battle of Tar-
awa, David Quinn’s remains
have been identified and are
on their way home to the US
state of New Hampshire.
Funeral services with full
military honors will be held
for the 24-year-old on May 5 at
the Congregational Church of
Temple.
Quinn died on Nov 20, 1943,
the first day of the three-day
Battle of Tarawa, as Marines
landed against strong Japa-
nese resistance on the tiny,
coral reef-ringed island of
many lawmakers sit in the
Scottish Parliament.
Even many Britons find the
questions baffling. In a survey,
only 23 out of 41 Britons
quizzed could correctly
answer questions put to them,
and many of those admitted
they were guessing.
“I did history at school but
some of them are just abso-
lutely stupid,” said chef Tom
Poston, 46, after failing a sam-
ple test.
“I would have been kicked
out, amazing. I think she’s
(Markle) going to have to do a
lot of studying because I’m
shocked.”
Britain has made the proc-
ess of becoming a citizen more
difficult in recent years as it
struggles to cut annual net
immigration to less than
100,000. Underlining the sen-
sitivity of that issue, Amber
flow of goods and people.
The study found that just
0.5 cm of ash could cause
mechanical problems for cars
and more than 1 cm could
cause widespread power outa-
ges and the failure of water fil-
tration systems, Kyodo
reported.
Noriko Urata, an official in
charge of disaster research,
confirmed the government is
assessing the possible impact
of an eruption and preparing
measures to deal with the
scenario.
“But we are not in a position
to unveil details,” he said.
In the past, the government
has estimated that an eruption
could result in damage and
losses worth over 2.5 trillion
yen ($23 billion).
“But if we include the
impact on aviation and other
transportation as well as sec-
Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the
Gilbert Islands. Approximate-
ly 1,000 Marines and sailors
were killed and more than
2,000 were wounded.
His parents and siblings all
died before the family discov-
ered a letter to his widow from
a Marine veteran disproving
the claim that his body was
lost at sea.
In the early 2000s, they
were contacted by military sci-
entists that said DNA was
available to identify Quinn.
It would be about a decade,
in 2012, until a DNA kit was
sent to two of his nieces to
match the mitochondrial DNA
that was collected from the
remains. Five years later, in
November of last year, they
received notice that the
remains were accounted for.
Rudd quit as Home Secretary
(interior minister) on Sunday
over an immigration scandal.
Becoming a citizen requires
a person to have lived in Brit-
ain for three years, to have
good knowledge of English, to
be of sound mind — and to
pass the 50 pound ($69) test.
However, the additional
requirement of earning a com-
bined income of at least 18,600
pounds should not prove to be
too burdensome for a prince of
the realm and his new wife.
Stumbling block
For many applicants,
though, the citizenship test is a
major stumbling block. The
most recent official figures
showed that 133,490 tests
were taken in 2016 with 47,312
failures.
“It’s very divorced from
what the normal experience is
for people,” said Thom Brooks,
an academic originally from
the US, who sat the quiz him-
self in 2009 before becoming a
UK citizen two years later. “It’s
the British citizenship test that
very few British citizens can
pass.”
Last month, a report by Brit-
ain’s House of Lords commit-
tee on citizenship agreed with
Brooks and called for a review.
Among the possible ques-
tions are who opened Britain’s
first Indian restaurant (Sake
Dean Mahomed), the size of
the Lake District natural park
in northern England (885
square miles or 2,292 km), and
the age of the famous “Big
Ben” bell in parliament’s clock
tower (it came into operation
in 1859).
Some thought Markle might
fare better than they had.
“I did terribly,” said retired
engineer David Armstrong,
58. “She’s a bright girl, she
might get half.”
REUTERS
0.5 cm
of ash could cause
mechanical problems for
cars, while 1 cm could hit
water and power systems
ondary infrastructure, the cost
could be far more than two
trillion yen,” said Toshiyasu
Nagao, head of Tokai Universi-
ty’s Earthquake Prediction
Research Centre.
‘No surprise’
“Mount Fuji is categorized a
young volcano,” Nagao added.
“It would be no surprise if
Mount Fuji erupts any time in
the near future.”
Japan, with more than 110
active volcanoes, sits on the
It’s a shame that
family who knew
him never got that
closure, but it’s an
amazing feeling
knowing that this
long journey is
finally coming to
an end.”
Paul Quinn, nephew of US
Marine David Quinn
On parade for May Day
A man wearing a navy uniform performs before a May Day rally in central Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday.
Ghana company constructs
novel solution for plastic waste
ACCRA — Ghana generates
around 22,000 tons of plastic
waste per year but it recycles
only about 2 percent.
The rest find their way into
landfill sites, drains, water
bodies and other open places,
causing hazards to the envi-
ronment.
Seeking to lessen the dam-
age, a Ghanaian company has
come up with an innovative
way of using plastic waste to
produce pavement blocks
and other building materials.
Nelplast Ghana Limited
said its products are made up
of 60 percent plastic and 40
percent sand without any
cement, and are said to be
stronger than the ordinary
pavement blocks.
Nelson Boateng, who is
A snow-covered Mount Fuji reflects bright red lights of the sunset
and drops a shadow on the sea of clouds in this photo taken from a
helicopter on Oct 25, 2006. YOSHIHIRO YASUTOMI / ASSOCIATED PRESS
so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”
where a large proportion of
the world’s earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions are record-
ed.
In January, a Japanese sol-
dier was killed and several
other people injured after an
eruption near a popular ski
resort northwest of Tokyo.
On Sept 27, 2014, Japan suf-
fered its deadliest eruption in
“It’s a shame that family
who knew him never got that
closure, but it’s an amazing
feeling knowing that this long
journey is finally coming to an
end,” said Paul Quinn, his
nephew, who found the letter
during his research and spear-
headed the efforts to identify
his uncle’s remains.
Paul Quinn said that his
uncle died six years before he
was born, and there were few
stories passed along to the
younger generation about
him. But his immediate family
remembered him fondly and
were filled with regret that
they never knew what hap-
pened to him. He married his
widow, who he met in New
Zealand, four months before
he left for Tarawa.
“When I first got in touch
behind the innovation, said
the company makes use of all
forms of poly waste products
except PVC pipes, and mixed
with river sand to produce
solid pavement blocks.
“The product that comes
out is like a paste. We put it in
a mold, we press it under
hydraulic press then we get
the shape and design of the
block that we want,” he said.
According to Boateng, the
initiative was conceived after
the Ghanaian government’s
threat to ban the use of plastic
bags.
The company’s blocks are
sold at $1, which is cheaper
than the average price of
$1.50 for concrete block.
Currently, the blocks have
been used to rebuild a pot-
almost 90 years when Mount
Ontake, in central Nagano
prefecture, burst unexpected-
ly to life.
An estimated 63 people
were killed in the shock erup-
tion which occurred as the
peak was packed with hikers
out to see the region’s spectac-
ular autumn colors.
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with her, she told me that they
had more joy in those four
months than most people find
in a lifetime,” Quinn said.
Paul Quinn said he often
doubted his uncle would be
identified, especially after
years of accepting the story
that he was lost at sea.
The Pentagon’s POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says
Quinn’s remains will be trans-
ferred at Logan Airport in Bos-
ton on May 4.
“We never thought we’d be
bringing him home. It’s pure
joy,” Quinn said.
There are currently 72,934
service members from World
War II still unaccounted for.
More than 400,000 died dur-
ing the war.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS
holed stretch of road in
Ashaiman, a cosmopolitan
and heavily-populated com-
munity where Nelson grew
up.
“For now we are just trying
to help the community. May-
be, places with potholes that
are damaging cars when they
are driving. So we are now
doing it for free,” Nelson said.
According to him, people
do come with orders but as
the firm is not producing on a
large scale, it cannot commit
itself.
“We are just taking orders
from small households
because a day we are doing
only 200 blocks which is very
small. We cannot compete
with the concrete producers
outside.”
Nobel scandals
leave prospect of
awards in doubt
COPENHAGEN — For the
first time since 1943, there’s a
notable risk that no Nobel
Prize in literature will be
awarded this year.
And that’s not because the
world’s authors, poets, essay-
ists and other writers have
been found wanting.
The painful, though not
unprecedented possibility
arises from sex abuse and
financial crimes scandals
involving the Swedish Acad-
emy, the body that chooses
the Nobel literature winner.
The august academy has
admitted that “unacceptable
behavior in the form of
unwanted intimacy” took
place within its ranks, but its
handling of unseemly allega-
tions has shredded the
body’s credibility, called into
question its judgment and
forced its first female leader
to resign.
A debate over how to face
up to its flaws also divided its
18 members — who are
appointed for life — into hos-
tile camps and prompted
seven members to leave or
dissociate themselves from
the secretive group.
The latest defection,
announced on Saturday, has
left the prestigious institu-
tion with only 11 people to
consider who should win the
2018 Nobel Prize in litera-
ture.
At its upcoming weekly
meeting in Stockholm on
Thursday, the Swedish Acad-
emy could decide to post-
pone or cancel awarding the
prize this year — because it’s
in no shape to pick a winner.
Anders Olsson, the perma-
nent secretary of the acade-
my, hinted at that scenario
in remarks to the Swedish
Due to operational challen-
ges, Nelson’s company can
only recycle 2,000 kilograms
of plastic waste each day.
But with government sup-
port and the acquisition of
modern equipment, the com-
pany plans to scale up its pro-
duction.
“We believe with this inno-
vation, it is going to do more
than the 2 percent that the
country generates because
this time around we are going
to use all kinds of plastics.
“Even the ones in the gut-
ters, we will collect them and
it will be used for these blocks
that can last for a lifetime. It
is cheaper and durable,” he
said.
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public broadcaster SR last
week.
If the academy does go
ahead and choose a winner
for 2018, some experts say
the laureate’s accomplish-
ments could be tainted or
overshadowed by a mess
they had no hand in creat-
ing.
“It really depends on who
gets it. That person needs
to know what the academy
has gone through and maybe
respond to the crisis,” said
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,
a literature professor with
Denmark’s Aarhus Universi-
ty.
The world’s most prestig-
ious prizes in science, medi-
cine, literature and
peacemaking have been
withheld 49 times in all since
the honors based on the will
of Swedish inventor Alfred
Nobel began in 1901.
No Nobel Prizes at all were
awarded during the World
War II years of 1940-42. The
Nobel literature prize was
not given out on seven occa-
sions so far: 1914, 1918, 1935
and 1940-43.
In 1935, no literature can-
didate was deemed worthy
of a Nobel, but winners were
chosen in the other fields.
Rosendahl Thomsen said
“it could be sensible” for the
academy to postpone the
2018 literature prize until
the internal issues are
resolved.
“Generally speaking, the
academy is an institution
that thrives on tradition and
opacity,” he said. “It must be
modern, but keep some mys-
tique around it at the same
time.”
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A rescue boat evacuates villagers from their homes, which have been submerged by floods following prolonged heavy rains in Tana Delta,
Kenya. At least 100 people have died in the flooding and thousands have been displaced. ANDREW KASUKU / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenya’s floods escalate as relief
agencies urge interventions
NAIROBI — Raging floods
that have hit Kenya’s low-lying
plains since the onset of the
long rains season in mid-March
could snowball into a humani-
tarian crisis unless robust
interventions are put in place,
relief agencies have warned.
Kenya has been experienc-
ing major flooding in recent
days as torrential rains pound
the country shortly after it had
come out of a severe drought
season marked by hunger and
water scarcity.
Data compiled by Kenya
Red Cross indicated that as of
Sunday an estimated 100 peo-
ple had died, while thousands
of households had been dis-
placed due to flooding in
New scan of ocean
floor hasn’t found
any sign of MH370
SYDNEY — The new scan of
the Indian Ocean floor for
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
has searched nearly 80,000
square kilometers since Janu-
ary without finding any sign of
the wreckage.
But the company looking
for the plane missing for more
than four years said it is still
determined.
This comes despite earlier
hopes that a 25,000 sq km area
most likely to contain the
missing aircraft had been
identified.
Ocean Infinity, the US tech-
nology company conducting
the latest search, said in an
update on Monday it had
scanned up to 1,300 sq km per
day since launching its mis-
sion far off the west coast of
Australia in late January. It
had searched both inside and
outside an area identified by
Australian authorities.
“Whilst it’s disappointing
there has been no sign of
MH370 in the Australian
Transport Safety Bureau
search area and further north,
there is still some search time
remaining,” Ocean Infinity
chief executive officer Oliver
Plunkett said in a statement.
“Everyone at Ocean Infinity
Scotland leads the world with start of minimum alcohol pricing
EDINBURGH — Scotland
on Tuesday became the first
country to introduce mini-
mum pricing for alcohol, in
what its government expects
will be a trailblazing move fol-
lowing years of legal battles.
“I think we will see coun-
tries across Europe and fur-
ther afield look to replicate
western, northeastern and
coastal regions.
Abbas Gullet, secretary-gen-
eral of Kenya Red Cross Socie-
ty, said in a television
interview over the weekend
that a humanitarian crisis is
looming unless solid interven-
tions are rolled out.
“It is undeniable we are star-
ing at another humanitarian
crisis as floods wreak havoc in
many parts of the country. The
toll of deaths is rising while
destroyed crops could worsen
food insecurity in the semiarid
regions,” said Gullet.
Kenya Red Cross has part-
nered with state agencies to
provide emergency assistance
to flood victims in the worst
Whilst it’s disap-
pointing there has
been no sign of
MH370 in the ...
search area and
further north,
there is still some
search time
remaining”
Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity
chief executive officer
remains absolutely deter-
mined for the remainder of
the search.”
Flight MH370 disappeared
on March 8, 2014, while en
route from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing with 239 people
aboard. No transmissions
were received from the air-
craft after its first 38 minutes
of flight, but it is believed to
have crashed in the far south-
what has been done here in
Scotland,” said Scottish First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The policy, designed to cut
alcohol-related harm, will set
a minimum price of 50 pence
(70 cents) per unit of alcohol.
It has been welcomed by the
medical profession and health
campaigners as the biggest
affected counties in the coast
region.
Gullet said that the number
of people displaced by floods
in the coastal counties of Kilifi,
Lamu and Tana River is rising,
straining ongoing humanitar-
ian interventions.
“So many families in the
coast region lack shelter, food
and clean water after their
homes were destroyed by
floods. There is a humanitarian
crisis already unfolding in this
region and the ongoing rains
could worsen it,” Gullet said.
Cabinet Secretary for Devo-
lution Eugene Wamalwa has
been spearheading efforts to
provide emergency aid to
flood victims countrywide.
ern Indian Ocean based on the
drift patterns of crash debris
that washed ashore on distant
beaches.
The governments of Malay-
sia, China and Australia called
off the nearly three-year offi-
cial search in January 2017.
The Australian Transport Safe-
ty Bureau’s final report on the
search conceded authorities
were no closer to knowing the
reasons for the plane’s disap-
pearance or its exact location.
In January, the Malaysian
government pledged to pay
Texas-based Ocean Infinity up
to $70 million if it could find
the wreckage or black boxes of
the aircraft within 90 days.
Ocean Infinity uses up to eight
autonomous vehicles capable
of operating in depths up to
6,000 meters, and Plunkett
had launched the search say-
ing his company had “a realis-
tic prospect” of finding the
aircraft.
He said on Monday its tech-
nology had performed “excep-
tionally well,” with “significant
amounts of high quality data”
collected.
The company’s Seabed Con-
structor research vessel is
stopping in the West Austra-
lian port of Fremantle, for
resupply and crew rotation
before returning to the search
until it’s forced to quit in the
southern hemisphere’s winter.
Plunkett’s statement indi-
cated Ocean Infinity’s search
could be halted before mid-
June, due to weather condi-
tions at sea.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
breakthrough in public health
since the ban on smoking in
public.
“This legislation will be life-
saving,” said Alison Douglas,
chief executive of the Alcohol
Focus Scotland charity, who
predicted it would save 58
lives in the first year.
“But the effect builds over
Besides overseeing distribu-
tion of food rations, clean
water and medicine, the cabi-
net secretary has also mobi-
lized rescue teams from the
army to help erect temporary
shelters for victims of floods.
It is feared that an epidemic
could erupt in big cities like Nai-
robi and Mombasa due to con-
tamination of drinking water.
As Kenyans prepare to mark
Labor Day on Tuesday, it
appears unlikely that the
floods will subside. Earlier
forecasts by the meteorological
department said heavy rains
will continue pounding the
country until the end of May.
XINHUA
Korean Air heiress apologizes before
questioning in abuse of power case
SEOUL — A Korean Air
heiress apologized on Tues-
day for causing trouble in her
first public appearance as a
suspect in an abuse of power
case after she allegedly threw
a drink at someone during a
business meeting.
The police questioning of
Cho Hyun-min, a former sen-
ior president at Korean Air,
comes amid mounting pres-
sure for elite families to scale
back their influence over the
companies founded by their
relatives decades ago.
“I’m sorry for causing
troubles,” Cho said, seemingly
fighting back tears and then
bowing her head while speak-
ing with reporters outside
police offices in an appear-
ance that TV networks broad-
cast live.
She repeated the phrase
when a reporter asked for her
thoughts about calls for her
family to relinquish their
influence over the group of
companies they control.
Cho, 35, oversaw market-
ing and advertising at the
South Korean flag carrier, a
company founded by her
grandfather.
Korean Air Chairman Cho
Yang-ho, her father, sought to
appease critics by announc-
ing the resignation of his two
daughters from their execu-
time and by year 20 — which is
full effect — it will save 121
lives here in Scotland.”
Retailers said they expected
minimal hits on some stock
but had long been anticipating
the scheme.
Linda Williams, proprietor
of a store in Edinburgh, said it
could “even out the playing
Iran denounces
Israeli allegations
as ‘worthless show’
Netanyahu’s
evidence dates
to period before
deal was signed
By CHINA DAILY
The Iranian Foreign Minis-
try on Tuesday denounced
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu’s nuclear
allegations against Iran as a
“worthless show”.
In an elaborate televised
presentation that included
props, video and slides, Net-
anyahu accused Iran on Mon-
day of lying about its nuclear
ambitions, but he did not pro-
vide evidence that Iran had
actively worked to obtain an
atomic weapon since the 2015
agreement between Teheran
and six world powers, Agence
France-Presse reported.
Iran has always denied it
sought a nuclear weapon,
insisting its atomic program
was for civilian purposes.
Baharm Qasemi, the for-
eign ministry spokesman of
Iran, said in a statement that
the “ridiculous propagandist
presentations” of Netanyahu
are “one of the latest shameful
and worthless shows about
Iran’s nuclear program,” Xin-
hua News Agency reported.
The Iranian nuclear deal,
known as the Joint Compre-
hensive Plan of Action, signed
between Iran and six world
powers — Britain, China,
France, Germany, Russia and
the United States — in 2015,
was designed to limit Iran’s
nuclear program in exchange
for the removal of sanctions.
Cho Hyun-min arrives at a police station in Seoul, South Korea,
on Tuesday. KIM HONG-JI / REUTERS
tive positions last month.
The scandal over her
behavior was not the first.
Cho’s elder sister gained
worldwide notoriety for
pitching a tantrum on board
a Korean Air flight that forced
the aircraft to return to an air-
port gate in 2014.
Cho Hyun-ah, 44, who at
the time was in charge of the
airline’s cabin service, grew
angry when a first-class flight
attendant served her nuts in a
bag instead of on a dish. The
plane was forced to return
to the gate at New York’s
field between supermarkets
and local shops”.
“There will be no more
heavy discounting on spirits
and on big packs of beer,
which really have caused all
the problems in the first place
with alcohol.”
The plan finally came into
force this week after years of
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Iran continued to preserve
and expand its nuclear weap-
ons know-how for future use at the
Fordow nuclear testing site.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister
“Even after the deal, Iran
continued to preserve and
expand its nuclear weapons
know-how for future use” at
the Fordow nuclear testing
site, said Netanyahu.
However, Qasemi said the
allegations were “merely
aimed at spreading lies and
deception”.
The United Nations atomic
watchdog declined on Tues-
day to directly address Net-
anyahu’s accusations.
However, it repeated it had
“no credible indications of
activities in Iran relevant to
the development of a nuclear
explosive device after 2009”,
citing assessments from 2015.
A spokesman for the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agen-
cy said in a statement that its
board had “declared that its
consideration of this issue was
John F. Kennedy Airport.
She was released from jail
after South Korea’s appeals
court suspended her prison
term for coercion and
obstruction of business and
briefly returned to manage-
ment at a Korean Air affiliate
before resigning last month.
The latest problems snow-
balled to engulf the Cho fami-
ly as Korean Air employees
accused the family of other
alleged wrongdoing.
Whistleblowers have
alleged that the Chos, who
hold a minority stake in the
court wrangling delayed its
introduction.
Britain’s Supreme Court last
year backed the Scottish move,
declining an appeal by the
Scotch Whisky Association
and other industry represent-
atives to strike it down.
Seven judges in London
unanimously ruled that such
closed” after it was presented
with a report in 2015.
Most of the purported evi-
dence Netanyahu presented
dated to the period before the
2015 accord was signed,
although he said Iran had
continued adding to its
“nuclear weapons knowledge”.
Asked whether the infor-
mation indicated a violation
of the Iran nuclear agreement,
US Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo said: “I’ll leave that to
lawyers. The president will
ultimately have to make a
determination about that too.”
After Netanyahu spoke,
Trump repeated his criticism
of the deal, suggesting he
backed the Israeli leader’s
remarks.
Xinhua, AFP and Reuters
contributed to this story.
publicly listed airline, have
assaulted workers who
angered the family.
The Korea Customs Service
is investigating allegations of
smuggling and tariff evasion
following claims that the fam-
ily bought luxury goods
abroad and avoided paying
duties on them by portraying
the imported items as sup-
plies for Korean Air aircraft.
The allegations have
incensed the public as local
media reported leaked voice
recordings and videos pur-
porting to show Cho family
members mistreating Korean
Air employees.
When he took office in 2017,
South Korean President
Moon Jae-in promised to
work to curb the influence of
founding families of the
country’s big chaebol, or huge
conglomerates like Samsung,
Hyundai and Korean Air that
dominate the South Korean
economy.
South Koreans revere the
entrepreneurs like Cho’s
grandfather who helped
build the country’s economy
from the ashes of the 1959-53
Korean War. But they tend to
take a dim view of outlandish
and illegal behavior by their
heirs.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
pricing is “a proportionate
means of achieving a legiti-
mate aim” and does not
breach European Union law.
That ended a half-decade
legal battle which had gone all
the way to the European Court
of Justice in 2015.
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WORLD
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
Moon calls on UN
to oversee shutdown
Trump suggests Panmunjom village as
possible venue for summit with Kim
By PAN MENGQI in Beijing
and ZHAO HUANXIN
in Washington
panmengqi@chinadaily.com.cn
The Republic of Korean
President Moon Jae-in has
asked the United Nations to
observe the Democratic Peo-
ple’s Republic of Korea’s
planned shutdown of its
nuclear test site, the ROK’s
Blue House said on Tuesday.
Moon told United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres that top DPRK leader
Kim Jong-un promised to
transparently make open the
closedown of the Punggye-ri
nuclear test site to the ROK
and the United States as well
as to the international society.
The ROK president asked
the UN chief to allow officials
to participate in the shutdown
to observe and confirm it.
During the April 27 summit
with Moon at the border vil-
lage of Panmunjom, Kim said
his country will close the
Punggye-ri nuclear test site in
northeast of the DPRK, where
all of six nuclear tests were
conducted, by the end of May.
After the summit, Moon and
Kim signed and announced
the Panmunjom Declaration
in which the two sides agreed
to the complete denucleariza-
tion and the change of the cur-
rent armistice agreement into
a peace treaty.
The two leaders also agreed
to stop all hostile acts, includ-
ing the propaganda broadcast
and the distribution of leaflets,
Lords vote throws Brexit curveball
By EARLE GAYLE in London
earle@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Members of the United
Kingdom’s House of Lords
went head-to-head with Prime
Minister Theresa May’s gov-
ernment on Monday evening
when they voted to give Parlia-
ment a bigger role in Brexit.
Their amendment to the EU
Withdrawal Bill would let MPs
stop the UK from leaving the
European Union if no accepta-
ble agreement is reached.
Liam Fox, Britain’s interna-
tional trade secretary, told the
BBC the unelected Lords’ deci-
sion, reached by 335 votes to
244, could see the UK stay in
the EU “indefinitely”.
He said members of Britain’s
Briefly
SWITZERLAND
Death toll up to 6
after Alps storm
A sixth person has died after
a group of 14 skiers were
caught up in a storm, police
said on Tuesday, after the
bodies of two climbers were
also found elsewhere in the
Swiss Alps. Police said efforts
were under way to formally
identify the victims. All the
families had been informed,
police added.
in areas near the military
demarcation line dividing the
DPRK and the ROK since the
end of the 1950-53 Korean War
under the declaration.
Local media on Tuesday
reported that the DPRK was
removing propaganda loud-
speakers from the border area,
in a bid to enforce the Panmun-
jom Declaration, and the ROK
had also stopped its propagan-
da broadcasting days ahead of
the Kim-Moon summit.
Guterres said he was willing
to cooperate in the process in
response, noting that though
Moon’s calls require the
approval from UN Security
Council, he will make efforts to
help settle peace on the Korean
Peninsula. Guterres added that
he will appoint a UN official in
charge of arms reduction to
cooperate with the ROK.
Moon also asked Guterres to
issue a statement welcoming
and supporting the Panmun-
jom Declaration by the UN
General Assembly or the UN
Security Council, saying UN
support will be a great help to
improved inter-Korean rela-
tions and the success of the
upcoming DPRK-US summit.
The meeting between the
DPRK and the ROK reflected
the beginning of the improve-
ment of relations. However, in
order to achieve true peace on
the peninsula, the DPRK and
the US must have direct dia-
logues and reach a consensus
on specific plan on denucleari-
zation, said Sun Xingjie, depu-
ty dean of the School of
second chamber were trying to
“thwart the will of the British
people” by finding a back door
way to block Britain’s pending
withdrawal following the June
2016 referendum.
“The public voted in the ref-
erendum,” he told BBC Radio
4’s Today program. “They
voted to leave the European
Union, the House of Commons
passed the legislation to allow
that to happen. It is not accept-
able for an unelected house to
try to block the democratic
will of the British people.”
But the Labour Party said
the vote marked a “hugely sig-
nificant moment” in efforts to
ensure Parliament has a “prop-
er role” in Brexit negotiations.
Following the House of
BRAZIL
Fresh charges for
ex-president Lula
Brazil’s chief prosecutor on
Monday recommended fresh
corruption charges against
former president Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva. It also accused his
finance minister Antonio Paloc-
ci and planning minister Paulo
Bernardo, and Senator Gleisi
Hoffmann in the case, which
revolves around payments
from Odebrecht company.
International and Public
Affairs at Jilin University.
US President Donald Trump
on Monday said he has consid-
ered the Demilitarized Zone
separating the DPRK and the
ROK as a possible site for his
meeting with Kim, expected in
either May or early June.
“Numerous countries are
being considered for the
MEETING,” Trump tweeted
on Monday morning, “but
would Peace House/Freedom
House, on the Border of North
& South Korea, be a more Rep-
resentative, Important and
Lasting site than a third-party
country? Just asking!”
Only the beginning
Sun said the summit
between Kim and Trump is
expected as a step forward for
the denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula following
the historic Kim-Moon sum-
mit, adding that the imple-
mentation of denuclearization
will be a long process, and the
choice of meeting locations is
only the beginning.
As Washington and Pyong-
yang prepare for the summit,
location has been one of the
biggest logistical problems.
Asked late on Monday by
CBS News if the DMZ could be
a possible option to host the
US-DPRK talks, Trump said it
was a location he thought was
“intriguing” as it could hold
bigger significance than hav-
ing talks in a third country.
Trump also said the summit
might not happen.
“Personally, I think it’s going
to be a success,” he said. “If it’s
not a success, I will respectful-
ly leave.”
Sledge ride
for leader
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna
Solberg rides on a deer sledge
during her visit to Alta, Norway,
on Sunday.
ALF OVE HANSEN VIA REUTERS
Lords vote, MPs could send
May and her negotiators back
to Brussels to look for a deal
everyone can live with.
But, despite the Lords’
stance, MPs do not have to
accept the amendments. The
amendments will now return
to the Houses of Parliament
where MPs could defeat them.
The Independent newspa-
per said on Tuesday that, if
MPs do not defeat the amend-
ment, the door will be opened
to the possibility of a fresh
Brexit referendum.
The UK plans to leave the
EU on March 29, 2019 and
enter a transitional phase
until Dec 31, 2020, after which
the new permanent relation-
ship will follow.
UNITED STATES
WhatsApp founder
to quit over privacy
The co-founder of WhatsApp, a
messaging service owned by
Facebook Inc with more than 1
billion daily users, said on Mon-
day he was leaving the compa-
ny after clashing with the
parent company over attempts
to weaken its encryption, the
Washington Post reported.
AFP—XINHUA—REUTERS
Central American migrants traveling in the migrant “caravan” say goodbye to their relatives before entering the El Chaparral border
crossing in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 29. GUILLERMO ARIAS / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
First ‘caravan’ migrants start asylum process
TIJUANA, Mexico — Eight
women and children from a
Central American caravan
entered United States territo-
ry to seek asylum on Monday,
after a monthlong journey
through Mexico that drew
President Donald Trump’s
wrath.
Carrying scant possessions
with them, the asylum-seek-
ers walked through a door
into the San Ysidro port of
entry on the bidding of a Cus-
toms and Border Patrol offi-
cer, a witness said, hours after
Vice President Mike Pence
promised they would be proc-
Delays to tariffs on Canada, EU, Mexico
WASHINGTON — The
White House on Monday
announced that the steel and
aluminum tariff exemptions
for European Union member
countries, Canada and Mexico
will be extended until June 1 in
order to give “a final 30 days”
for them to reach agreements
over trade negotiations.
The decisions came just
hours before temporary
exemptions from the tariffs
on these countries were set to
expire at 12:01 am on Tuesday.
In a statement, the White
House said the details of the
deals with Brazil, Argentina
and Australia would be final-
ized shortly, and it did not dis-
close terms.
“The administration is also
extending negotiations with
Canada, Mexico, and the
European Union for a final 30
Trump pledges support
in Nigeria’s fight against
Boko Haram extremists
By CHINA DAILY
US President Donald Trump
pledged stronger support on
Monday for Nigeria’s fight
against Boko Haram jihadists.
After a meeting with Nigeri-
an President Muhammadu
Buhari, the first leader from
sub-Saharan Africa invited by
Trump to the White House,
Trump said he was prepared to
sell helicopters to the oil-rich
country in addition to fighter
aircraft already agreed, Agence
France-Presse reported.
“These new aircraft will
improve Nigeria’s ability to
target terrorists and protect
civilians,” Trump said during
a joint news conference in the
White House’s Rose Garden.
Asked when the first deliv-
eries of equipment — includ-
essed in line with US law.
About 140 others were still
waiting in Mexico at the bor-
der crossing, the nation’s bus-
iest, said Alex Mensing,
project organizer for Pueblo
Sin Fronteras, which is lead-
ing the caravan.
“The spirits are high, there
was good news for every-
body,” Mensing said on the
Mexican side of the crossing,
moments after learning that
some were allowed in.
The first to enter were part
of a small group from the car-
avan who Mexican officials let
walk over a pedestrian bridge
days. In all of these negotia-
tions, the administration is
focused on quotas that will
restrain imports, prevent
transshipment, and protect
the national security,” the
White House added.
A source familiar with the
decision said there would be
no further extensions beyond
June 1 to stave off tariffs.
US President Donald
Trump on March 23 imposed
a 25 percent tariff on steel
imports and a 10 percent tar-
iff on aluminum, but granted
temporary exemptions to
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the
EU, Australia and Argentina.
As the Republic of Korea
has agreed to follow a quota
for its steel exports to the US
as well as other measures to
reduce excessive steel capaci-
ty, it will be exempt from the
ing a dozen A-29 Super
Tucano light fighter aircraft
and unspecified helicopters
— would take place, Trump
replied: “Very soon.”
“We’re getting them
approved. Part of the problem
is you weren’t allowed to buy
helicopters in our country
and now you are. I worked
that out,” he added.
Buhari, visiting the United
States on a mission to drum
up more counterterrorism
support and US business
investment, thanked Trump
for Washington’s support to
help rebuild the country’s
northeast, which has been
under assault for nine years
from Boko Haram.
And Buhari diplomatically
brushed off the controversy
over Trump’s alleged brand-
on Sunday and who have been
camped at the San Ysidro gate
ever since, when the CBP said
the facility between Tijuana
and San Diego was saturated.
Fleeing what they say are
death threats, extortion and
violence in neighborhoods
controlled by the powerful
Mara street gangs, once in the
US the migrants must con-
vince officials they have rea-
son to fear returning home.
The majority of claims by
Central American asylum-
seekers are ultimately unsuc-
cessful, resulting in detention
and deportation. The Trump
30 days
The extension that has been
given to Canada, the EU and
Mexico for further
negotiations with the US.
steel tariff but will face addi-
tional tariffs on aluminum
exports to the US, which took
effect on Tuesday.
Trump has invoked a 1962
trade law to erect protections
for US steel and aluminum
producers on national securi-
ty grounds.
The tariffs, which have
increased frictions with US
trading partners worldwide
and have prompted challenges
before the World Trade Orga-
US President Donald Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu
Buhari arrive for a news conference at the White House. AFP
ing of Nigeria and other Afri-
can nations as “shithole
countries” in a January rant
over immigration.
“I’m very careful with what
the press says, other than about
myself,” Buhari told reporters.
“I’m not sure about the validity
or whether that allegation
against the president was true
or not. So the best thing for me
is to keep quiet.”
Trump did not deny having
used the vulgar term. He also
administration says many
asylum claims are fake, aided
by loopholes in the law.
The caravan has been in the
spotlight ever since it began a
more than 3,200 kilometer
journey from southern Mexi-
co, gathering 1,500 people at
one point, to the fury of
Trump, who demanded that
officials do not let such
groups into the country.
His administration’s hands
are tied, however, by interna-
tional rules obliging the US to
accept asylum applications.
REUTERS—AP
nization, are aimed at allowing
the two US metals industries
to increase their capacity utili-
zation rates above 80 percent
for the first time in years.
The White House said the
agreements reflect administra-
tion efforts “to reach fair out-
comes with allies to protect our
national security and address
global challenges to the steel
and aluminum industries”.
But Canada, Mexico and the
European Union have all
insisted they will not accept
quotas to gain permanent
exemptions from the US tariffs.
“The EU should be fully
and permanently exempted
from these measures, as they
cannot be justified on the
grounds of national security,”
it said in a statement.
XINHUA—REUTERS
did not apologize for the com-
ment.
In fact, Trump seemed to
double down on his view, tell-
ing Buhari that Africa has
“some countries that are very
tough places to live in. But we
didn’t discuss it because the
president knows me, and he
knows where I’m coming
from. And I appreciate that.”
AFP and AP contributed to
this story.
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BUSINESS
WIDER REMIT
CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 2, 2018
SINO-US TRADE
Whiskey makers fear trade war consequences
By ZHANG RUINAN
in New York
ruinanzhang@
chinadailyusa.com
US whiskey makers say
they see great demand and
rapid growth in China, but
right now, they also see both
being hurt if China imposes a
25 percent tariff
“All US whiskey makers are
looking to China,’’ said Paul
Hletko, founder of Few Spirits,
a craft distillery based in Evan-
ston, Illinois. “If the tariffs take
... effect, it will have a negative
impact on US whiskey exports,
it will slow down the growth of
this market with great poten-
tial if not eliminate it. I’m talk-
ing with my Chinese
distributors and we are moni-
toring the situation closely.”
“We’ve been exporting to
China for about two years,
and about 50 percent of our
business is in Shanghai,” Hlet-
ko said, adding most of the
exported products are bour-
bon and rye.
Last month, the Chinese
Ministry of Commerce said it
plans to impose the 25 per-
cent tariff on $50 billion
worth of US exports. The
action is a direct response to
the Trump administration’s
list of about 1,300 Chinese
exports — also worth about
$50 billion annually — that it
intends to target with 25 per-
cent tariffs.
Total imports of US spirits
by China in 2017 were valued
at $12.8 million; of this, $8.9
million was whiskey, said
Frank Coleman, senior vice-
president of the US Distilled
Spirits Council, in an email to
China Daily. “American spirits
Apple farmers in the United States feel tariff bite
By LIA ZHU in San Francisco
liazhu@chinadailyusa.com
The apple industry in Cali-
fornia, the fifth-largest pro-
ducer of apples in the United
States, is concerned about the
indirect impact from China’s
new tariffs, which may create
domestic oversupply.
The states most impacted
by the 15 percent retaliatory
tariff on US apples, which
went into effect on April 2, are
Washington, California and
Michigan.
Wanda
premieres
Qingdao
film hub
By CHENG YU
chengyu@chinadaily.com.cn
Qingdao Movie Metropolis,
a mega movie industry center
with an investment of 50 bil-
lion yuan ($7.9 billion),
opened in Qingdao, Shandong
province during the May Day
holiday, giving a major boost
to the domestic film industry
as “China’s Hollywood”.
Wang Jianlin, the project’s
major initiator and chairman of
Chinese conglomerate Dalian
Wanda Group, said that it aims
to build the movie metropolis
into a “new global hub for films”.
“The establishment of the
movie metropolis is a mile-
stone for the industrialization
of the Chinese film industry. It
will help promote Chinese
films to go to the world stage,”
said Wang.
Wanda Group, as a commer-
cial giant covering a wide
range of areas including cul-
Publisher looks to Chinese authors for insight p14
Iron ore futures trade to widen p16
A man fills and seals barrels of Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey at the company’s distillery in Versailles, Kentucky.
exports to China have grown
by almost 1,200 percent from
$959,000 in 2001.”
China’s overall market was
worth $611.5 million in 2016,
according to the latest data
from wine and spirits analytics
firm IWSR, with Scottish whis-
ky imports taking up virtually
all of the market. US whiskey
imports are in second place
but growing rapidly.
“The US exports about $1.5
billion worth of spirits
abroad, and many producers
in America are pinning their
California doesn’t directly
ship apples to the Chinese
mainland, but reduced export
rates of other apple producing
states could potentially put
pressure on the domestic
market and push down prices
as a result, said Alexander Ott,
executive director of the Fres-
no-based California Apple
Commission.
Besides the potential of
lowered prices to producers,
Ott is also concerned about
the potential for other coun-
tries to “get the idea that they
The color processing section in the newly launched Qingdao Movie Metropolis.
MENG DA / FOR CHINA DAILY
ture, real estate and finance,
also controls AMC Entertain-
ment Holdings Inc and US stu-
dio Legendary Entertainment.
The metropolis covers an
area equivalent to more than
200 football fields. In addition
to world-leading film-related
infrastructure, it also includes a
theme park, a yachting club,
hotels and hospitals.
The movie complex will also
establish exclusive subsidiaries
to attract high-quality film and
TV products from both home
and abroad to the metropolis.
future growth to exports,”
Reid Mitenbuler, author of
The Bourbon Empire: The
Past and Future of America’s
Whiskey, told CNBC. “From
my conversation with spirits
companies, China represents
a huge potential market,”
Mitenbuler said.
The US-based liquor con-
glomerate Brown-Forman,
which owns the Jack Daniel’s
brand as well as Old Forester
and Woodford Reserve, names
the US as “the most important
market”, and it describes China
too can do the same” and have
a direct impact on the state’s
apple industry.
Though 75 percent of the
apples produced in California
are shipped domestically, the
California Apple Commission
said in its 2017 annual report
that China’s imports of decid-
uous fruit will continue to
increase on strong demand
for high quality fruit and off-
season supplies.
“Fruit exports will continue
to rebound if we continue to
have increasing but low-
“The launching of the movie
metropolis will promote the
industrialization of the coun-
try’s content production in the
film segment,” said Xiao Yanyan,
senior analyst of media and
internet at CITIC Securities.
“The move will also drive
the improvement of China’s
box-office performance from
the source as high-quality con-
tent is the main growth engine
of the Chinese box office.”
Xiao said that the country
has a lot to do in film com-
pared with the US, where the
as an “emerging market.”
The US Distilled Spirits
Council said in a statement
that “we strongly supported
China’s entry into the World
Trade Organization in 2001.
This resulted in a dramatic
reduction in China’s tariffs on
US spirits, from 65 percent to
10 percent ad valorem. In addi-
tion, China last year further
lowered its tariffs on whiskeys
and brandies to 5 percent ...”
“Chinese consumers, like
others around the globe, are
clearly finding favor with the
priced foreign supply” in the
Chinese market, it said.
US apples gained access to
China in 2015, and exports have
grown to 2.5 million boxes per
year, Jeff Colombini, president
of Lodi Farming Inc, told West-
ern Farm Press on Friday.
Colombini’s company farms
apples, cherries, walnuts and
olives in Lodi, California. Sev-
eral of his commodities are
affected by the tariffs.
“This is significant and of
concern because China is an
emerging market,” he said.
film industry is very mature
and highly-developed.
“However, in the mid and
long-term, Chinese films still
have great potential. The recent
surge at the box office showed
that more superior domestic
films are being offered and that
the production cycle has been
improved,” he added.
China’s box office rose again
after years of breakneck
growth. In 2017, a total of 798
domestic films, 32 animated
films and 44 documentaries
were produced.
BLOOMBERG
flavor, heritage and mixability
of American whiskey. It
would be a shame to punish
consumers, along with the
Chinese hospitality sector, as
an unintended consequence
of this trade dispute,” accord-
ing to the statement. “We
hope the US and China can
soon resolve their differences
without subjecting US whis-
key exports to China to a 25
percent tariff, which will
harm Chinese consumers, its
hospitality sector and US
whiskey exporters.”
The potential additional
duties on US apples are esti-
mated at $8 million, accord-
ing to a new report from
Farmers for Free Trade. Last
year, the US exported $56 mil-
lion worth of apples to China.
The retaliatory tariffs “sub-
stantially weaken the com-
petitiveness of American
agriculture” and also incen-
tivize Chinese importers to
look to other markets, said
the report titled Farmers Pay
the Price: Steel & Aluminum
Retaliation.
Atlantis resort debuts in Hainan
By SHI JING in Shanghai
shijing@chinadaily.com.cn
Two weeks after the central
authorities unveiled plans to
develop South China’s Hain-
an, the island saw the open-
ing of its first seven-star hotel
Atlantis in Sanya, taking a
further step toward the goal
of growing into an interna-
tional tourism destination.
Shanghai-based conglom-
erate Fosun International
Ltd has invested around $1.74
billion in Atlantis Sanya,
which held its opening cere-
mony on Saturday. Dubai-
based Kerzner International
is responsible for the man-
agement of the resort.
The 540,000-square-meter
luxury resort has a total of
1,314 rooms and features an
aquarium, ocean-themed
activity facilities and under-
water suites. Families are its
major target market. Cirque
du Soleil, in which Fosun
acquired a major stake in
2015, will stage performances
in the resort.
Atlantis Sanya is the third
in a series, with the first two
in Dubai and the Bahamas.
The Palm in Dubai generates
about $600 million annually.
LIGHTER
LOAD
Fujian beefs up
efforts to relieve
biz burden
p15
US exports
to China hit
record $128b
Report comes just days ahead of visit
of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
By CHEN WEIHUA
in Washington
chenweihua@
chinadailyusa.com
Exports from the United
States to China grew faster
than US export growth to the
rest of the world, according to
a report from the US-China
Business Council released on
Monday.
The US exported nearly
$128 billion of goods to China
in 2017, more than ever before
and making China the third-
largest US goods export mar-
ket, trailing Canada and
Mexico, according to the
USCBC’s 2018 annual report
on state exports. US goods
exports to China declined
slightly in 2015 and 2016.
For US services exports, Chi-
na has become a major market
and is virtually tied with Cana-
da as the second-largest mar-
ket, at close to $53 billion.
“Despite trade barriers that
frustrate full market access,
US exports to China continue
to contribute to US economic
growth,” said John Frisbie,
president of the USCBC, which
represents more than 200 US
companies doing business in
China.
“Exports to China support 1
million American jobs annual-
ly across a wide range of
industries,” Frisbie said.
Forty-nine US states have
expanded their goods exports
to China over the past decade,
with 17 states experiencing tri-
ple-digit growth. Every US
state has had triple-digit servi-
ces export growth to China
over the past decade, with 31
states experiencing services
export growth of more than
300 percent, according to the
report.
The report shows that US
goods exports to China grew
$1.74
billion
Fosun’s investment in
Atlantis Sanya
Guo Guangchang, chair-
man of Fosun, said Atlantis
Sanya will help to redefine
vacationing and propel Hain-
an into “a new era of world-
class hospitality and
tourism”.
Qian Jiannong, senior vice-
president of Fosun, said the
luxury resort will help to
attract more overseas tour-
ists to the city as Sanya is still
less well heard of globally
compared to Bali or Thai-
land.
“The globalization of tour-
ists will help to offset the sea-
sonal sales differences.
Chinese tourists prefer to
travel to Sanya during winter,
especially during the Spring
Festival holiday. But overseas
visitors usually come in sum-
mer, when they take their
annual leave,” he added.
Fosun acquired a majority
98 percent stake in French
by 86 percent over the last dec-
ade, compared with only 21
percent to the rest of the
world.
Between 2007 and 2016, US
services exports to China grew
12 percent, compared with a
decline of 0.6 percent to the
rest of the world.
China is among the top five
goods and services export
markets for most US states.
China was the top goods
export market for five states
in 2017, and among the top
five markets for 46 states. In
services exports, China was
the top market for 18 states in
2016, and a top five market for
all 50 states, according to the
report.
In 2017, 30 US states export-
ed more than $1 billion in
goods to China, and 15 states
exported more than $1 billion
in services to China in 2016. In
2008, only 21 states exported
more than $1 billion of goods
to China and in 2007 only
three states exported more
than $1 billion in services to
China.
The report comes just days
before US Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin will lead a
delegation to China for trade
talks to ease the escalating ten-
sions triggered by US unilater-
al tariff measures. The US has
announced and threatened
tariffs on $150 billion worth of
imports from China following
a Section 301 investigation
into China’s intellectual prop-
erty policies and practices.
China has proposed retaliato-
ry tariffs and vowed to fight to
the end.
Many in China, the US and
other parts of the world are
worried about the devastating
consequences of a possible
trade war or major tit-for-tat
retaliations between the
world’s two largest economies.
resort group Club Med in
2015. Its Club Med Sanya,
which was renovated and
started operation two years
ago, now sees about 30 per-
cent of its guests coming
from overseas, Qian said.
Starting from May 1, Hain-
an will adopt visa-free entry
policies for overseas visitors
coming from 59 countries
and regions including the
United States, the United
Kingdom and Japan. Qian
said Fosun will help Thomas
Cook — the British travel
agency it holds a majority
stake in — to study the possi-
ble itineraries from Europe
to Hainan, given the fact that
there might be direct routes
from Hainan to Europe start-
ing operation by the end of
this year.
Meanwhile, Fosun is likely
to carry out tourism projects
combined with medical facil-
ities and services in Hainan,
since the group has abundant
medical resources in its busi-
ness portfolio, Qian said. As
the development plan also
touched upon the sports sec-
tor, Fosun is looking at the
possibility of establishing
some equestrian projects in
Hainan.
14 BUSINESS
What’s news
GOVT AND POLICIES
Pension funds to
invest $75 billion
China’s local governments
have entrusted more of their
basic pension funds for invest-
ment, as the nation moves to
tackle the challenge of an
aging society. By the end of
March, 12 provincial-level
regions including Beijing and
Shanghai had signed contracts
to entrust a total of 475 billion
yuan ($75 billion) in pension
funds to the National Council
for Social Security Fund,
according to the Ministry of
Human Resources and Social
Security. Of the total, 306.65
billion yuan is in place and has
started to be invested, the min-
istry said. Pensions in China
were traditionally held by
banks or used to purchase
treasury bills with annual
yields far below the market
average.
New rules to widen
securities sector
China has released new man-
agement rules on foreign
investment in the securities
sector as the government takes
steady steps to open its finan-
cial sector wider. The revised
rules released by the China
Securities Regulatory Commis-
sion allow foreign investors to
take a controlling stake in
joint-venture securities firms,
and promise to gradually
expand the business scope of
such firms. China will equalize
foreign investors’ equity shares
in listed and unlisted securities
companies, according to the
rules, which also set qualifica-
tion requirements for overseas
shareholders. Following the
release of the new rules, the
CSRC said it will update relat-
ed administrative approvals to
help eligible foreign investors
apply for setting up compa-
nies.
China’s stockpile
of crude falls 2.4%
China’s commercial crude oil
stocks fell 2.39 percent by the
end of March, compared with a
month earlier, while stocks of
refined oil products edged
down 0.55 percent. The drop
was a result of increasing proc-
essing volume, despite rises in
imports and output, according
to data compiled by Xinhua
News Agency. Gasoline stocks
went up during the period as
fuel demand retreated after
the Spring Festival Holiday. In
March, China’s exports of gaso-
line jumped 104.5 percent from
the previous month. Demand
for diesel picked up as con-
struction activities accelerated
after winter ended. During the
period, exports of diesel surged
150.7 percent.
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
OTC trade show
starts in Houston
The world’s largest oil and gas
trade show, the Offshore Tech-
nology Conference, kicked off
in the US energy capital of
Houston on Monday with a
heavy presence from Chinese
companies. Leading Chinese
companies such as China
National Offshore Oil Corp,
China National Petroleum
Corp and some local compa-
nies are participating in the
event. This year marks the
50th anniversary of the OTC.
Alibaba’s Ma on
Israel business trip
Jack Ma, founder and chair-
man of China’s e-commerce
giant Alibaba Group, landed in
Israel on Monday. Ma is
Transforming sales the vroom-zoom way
Ten models dress up in Transformer costumes to promote sales of oversized vehicles at an auto show in Yuncheng, Shanxi
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expected to meet Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Minister of Economy and
Industry Eli Cohen during his
visit. The Chinese entrepre-
neur is also slated to receive an
honorary doctorate from Tel
Aviv University on Thursday
evening, after meeting its stu-
dents and graduates in a ques-
tion and answer session.
Alibaba completed a deal to
acquire Israel-based QR code
startup Visualead in late 2017,
as part of its efforts to establish
R&D centers in Israel’s tech
hub Tel Aviv.
UK supermarket
chains plan merger
Two of Britain’s biggest super-
market chains — Sainsbury’s
and Asda — announced a
$10-billion-merger on Monday
that will create the country’s
biggest high street retail giant.
The planned combination of J
Sainsbury plc and US-owned
Asda Group Ltd was
announced by the two compa-
nies in an official statement on
Monday. Britain’s Competition
and Markets Authority said it
will carry out a review of the
merger that will create Brit-
ain’s biggest retail store group,
accounting for a 30-percent
share of the market and knock-
ing Tesco off the top perch.
UAE oil giant grants
OMV 20% stake
The government-controlled
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co
said that it signed an agree-
ment awarding Austria’s ener-
gy giant OMV a 20 percent
share in the SARB and Umm
Lulu offshore concession over
the weekend. OMV is an Aus-
trian integrated oil and gas
company partly owned (24.9
percent) by a subsidiary of Abu
Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment
Co. The deal strengthens
ADNOC’s strategy to maximize
returns from its resources,
expand its downstream busi-
ness, and retain value for the
UAE, said ADNOC.
AROUND THE WORLD
Australia keeps
cash rate at 1.5%
The Reserve Bank of Australia
has decided to keep the coun-
try’s interest rate on hold at 1.5
percent on Tuesday, extending
the period of no change to a
record 19th straight month.
The central bank cited a slow
down in employment growth,
low inflation and high house-
hold debt as the reason for the
decision. “The low level of
interest rates is continuing to
support the Australian econo-
my,” RBA governor Philip Lowe
said. “Further progress in
reducing unemployment and
having inflation return to tar-
get is expected, although this
progress is likely to be gradual.”
UK publisher looks to Chinese
authors for strong local insight
LONDON — When Paul
Goulding began his career in
international publishing in
the early 1980s, he never
imagined that one day he
would only publish books
about China.
During the London Book
Fair this year, ahead of the
World Book and Copyright
Day, Goulding signed a deal
with China’s Economic Sci-
ence Press, buying the copy-
right of 10 books of China’s
Road series. His company,
Paths International Ltd,
plans to introduce English
versions of the books to
Western readers on topics
covering China’s urban
development, economic glo-
balization, pension security
and military system.
“We feel the books link
closely with the Belt and Road
Initiative. We publish journals
on the B&R. It’s a part of the
theme of development and
growth and future of China.
We think it is unique,” Gould-
ing told Xinhua News Agency.
Goulding established Paths
in the UK in 2002 for the pur-
pose of bringing high quality
academic and professional
content written and devel-
oped in Asia to Europe and
North America. With the
recent emergence of China as
a major international publish-
ing center and the arrival of
e-books and print-on-demand
technology, the company now
has only one goal: to provide
“books about China from China
in English and in Chinese”.
“Over the past eight years,
we have only published books
about China, from China,”
Goulding said.
“In the past, most books
about China were written by
journalists or commentators
in the West. So if you wanted
to understand China, you had
to read Western experts, West-
ern newspapers and maga-
zines. That seems strange now.
Because with the opening up
of China, China has been pub-
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
German vacancies
reach record high
The number of jobs vacancies
in Germany reached a record
high during the first quarter
of 2018, a regular survey pub-
lished on Monday by the Insti-
tute for Employment
Research finds. According to
IAB, there were 1.190 million
openings in the first quarter of
this year, marking an annual
increase of 126,000 available
positions in the German labor
market. On a quarterly basis,
the number of jobs vacancies
increased by around 7,000.
The study highlighted that
companies in Germany were
increasingly struggling to fill
openings with appropriately-
trained staff.
Portugal reports
decline in jobless
Portuguese unemployment
has been estimated at 7.4 per-
cent for March, the lowest lev-
el since April 2004, the
... now Chinese
publishers get sup-
port from different
organizations and
the government to
publish books for
England, for the
whole world.”
Paul Goulding, British publisher,
owner of Paths International Ltd
lishing more material in
English. And we feel the books
from China offer the best
insight into China, because
the research, study, legacy and
language of Chinese scholars
are valuable, so that’s why we
only publish Chinese scholars’
books,” he told Xinhua.
The British publisher
began making regular visits
to India and China in the early
1980s. He was based in Singa-
pore for more than 13 years
where he worked for several
world-famous publishers,
including Times Mirror Inter-
national Publishers and Addi-
son-Wesley.
The businessman saw huge
potential in China’s publish-
ing market.
“China has potential. It is
exciting, it’s interesting. It’s a
nice place to do business. The
people are very committed. It
offers rich opportunities, espe-
cially now Chinese publishers
get support from different
organizations and the govern-
ment to publish books for
England, for the whole world,”
he said.
His company has so far
worked with 15 Chinese pub-
lishers and published some
170 books, all about China.
National Statistics Institute
announced on Monday. The
INE also revised down the
reading for February to 7.6 per-
cent. This is 0.2 percentage
point lower than the estimated
figure and 0.3 percentage
point lower than January’s
total. In year-on-year terms,
February’s score is an impress-
ive 2.3 percentage points lower
than February 2017 and 4.5
percentage points lower than
February 2016.
Vietnam’s FDI
attraction falls
Vietnam has so far this year
licensed 883 new foreign direct
investment projects with total
registered capital of nearly
$3.6 billion, posting a year-on-
year decline of 34 percent.
Meanwhile, Vietnam has seen
303 operational FDI projects
raise their capital by roughly
$2.2 billion in total, down 49.5
percent year-on-year, its For-
eign Investment Agency under
the Ministry of Planning and
Investment said. Between Jan-
uary and late April, nearly $5.1
billion worth of FDI was dis-
bursed, increasing 6.3 percent
year-on-year.
Iranian banks to open
branches in Germany
Three Iranian private banks
are planning to open branches
in Germany to increase and
facilitate trade transactions, an
Iran daily reported. Middle
East Bank, Saman Bank and
Sina Bank are planning to
open branches in German cit-
ies to increase Iran’s trade rela-
tions with Europe, according
to the Iranian ambassador to
Germany. Middle East Bank
will open a branch in Ham-
burg and Saman Bank has tar-
geted Frankfurt, however, Sina
Bank has not made a final deci-
sion on the location of its
branch, Ali Majedi said at the
sixth Iran-Europe Banking and
Business Forum in Teheran on
Sunday.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
“We are now making books
written by Chinese authors
from some of the most prestig-
ious universities and institu-
tions in the country available
to the international communi-
ty. It offers a view of China
from experts in China. Change
in China is not a single event,
it is a process and many of
these books bring clarity to the
seeming blur of recent and
ongoing change in China,” the
publisher said.
His small company has also
witnessed increasing interest
in Chinese books during the
past eight years. “When West-
ern people see more Chinese
people, more Chinese interac-
tion and more contact
between China and the West,
there is a cultural and social
link for academic content.”
“The scholars at universities
are keen to get information on
China, to read the latest
research. I think all the aca-
demics now are probably
doing something related to
China in their works. They
teach students in the universi-
ties learning about China,
studying history, economics or
business. China is a pervasive
and important source of aca-
demic content in universities
in the West,” he added.
Paths prints books in the
UK, and its distributors in
North America print them in
the United States. Goulding
admitted that publishing aca-
demic books is not easy,
“because readers get used to
books by British authors and
Western universities.”
Although it is taking time to
develop, Goulding has no
doubt that his company is on
the right road.
“Chinese business, econom-
ics and finance are of vital
importance to the world out-
side China. We attempt to
frame a broad canvas on
which to present information
about China,” he said.
XINHUA
 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Quality and quarantine inspectors check products at Fujian Tianchen Yaolong New Material Co Ltd in Fuqing, Fujian province. The local
government has streamlined quality and quarantine inspection procedures to improve efficiency. XINHUA
Fujian beefs up efforts to
relieve corporate burden
Move aims to
boost innovation
and invigorate
real economy
By CHENG YU in Beijing
and HU MEIDONG in Fuzhou
Fujian province has beefed
up efforts to cut excessive tax-
es and charges on local com-
panies, as part of the country’s
broader goal of lightening cor-
porate burdens to boost inno-
vation and invigorate
economic development.
Statistics from Fujian Pro-
vincial Price Bureau showed
that the bureau has helped
local companies to reduce
costs, with the total reduction
exceeding 27 billion yuan
($4.3 billion) since January
2017.
The move came as China
has accelerated steps to lower
corporate costs and has
Firms
benefit
from less
fees, tax
By REN XIAOJIN
renxiaojin@chinadaily.com.cn
Businesses in Guangdong
province have reaped numer-
ous benefits since the govern-
ment reduced fees and
switched from a business tax
system to the value-added tax.
A report from the Guang-
dong Provincial Development
and Reform Commission
shows the government reduced
financial burdens on local
businesses by 260 billion yuan
($41 billion) in 2017 through
the beneficiary tax system and
reduction of fees, some 60 bil-
lion yuan more than the reduc-
tions seen in 2016.
Bai Yu, an official of the
commission in charge of pric-
ing and cost management,
said Guangdong has eliminat-
ed the provincial administra-
tion charges on enterprises,
further regulated the list of
fees the government charges
from enterprises, and given
the market a greater role in
determining prices.
Guangzhou Automobile
Group Co is among the busi-
nesses benefiting from such
measures. According to the
company’s report, from 2016
to 2017, the company saved up
to 833 million yuan under the
favorable policies including
launched a series of measures
to cut some excessive taxes
and charges in the past few
years.
“We have scrambled to
lighten corporate burdens by
cutting their operating, elec-
tricity and gas costs, with
some reduction amounts
higher than the average level
across the nation,” said Liu Jia-
cheng, deputy director of Fuji-
an Provincial Price Bureau.
Liu said that the bureau has
also canceled 40 chargeable
items on administrative fees
and has lowered fees of 17
chargeable items, which is
expected to result in decreased
costs of more than 1 billion
yuan per year.
“In addition, we also estab-
lished five supervision sys-
tems to prevent illegal charges
and ensure that these policies
indeed work out effectively,”
Liu added.
Fujian province, nestled in
the southeast coast of China,
has long been known for its
Employees work on an assembly line at Guangzhou Automobile
Group Co in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.
PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
The measures ...
have lowered the
company’s burden
in many ways such
as water, electricity
and gas costs.”
Wang Jingdong, vice-president
of Gree Electric Appliances Inc
less tax, cost reduction of elec-
tricity and social welfare and
transportation and adminis-
tration fee elimination.
On taxation alone, the group
saved 190 million yuan from
2016 to 2017 since the province
replaced the business tax with
a value-added tax.
In 2017, GAGC produced
and sold around 2 million
cars, up 21.5 percent and 21.3
percent respectively, making
the group the top manufactur-
er and seller among the six
major domestic automobile
$4.3 billion
The total costs reduced
for local companies with
the help of the Fujian
Provincial Price Bureau
since January 2017
open economy. Its imports
and exports, which act as one
of the pillars of its economic
growth, were valued at 1.16
trillion yuan last year, a 12 per-
cent increase year-on-year.
Fujian Rongchang Chemi-
cal Industry Co Ltd, a local
tech leader in the chlor-alkali
industry, has exported its
products to an array of coun-
tries and regions including
Japan, South Korea and India.
“We are a high energy-con-
suming enterprise and we
consume a total of 160 million
kilowatt hours of electricity on
average each year. In the past
year, local authorities have
companies. The group, togeth-
er with its joint venture and
associated companies, gener-
ated revenue of 339.7 billion
yuan in 2017.
The provincial government
also issued funds to support
leading companies in green
technology, digitalization and
intelligentization. GAGC has
been awarded 141 million yuan
for technology and industrial
structure upgrading.
Gree Electric Appliances
Inc, one of the country’s major
household appliance manu-
facturers, has also benefited
largely from the government’s
effort to release financial bur-
dens on companies.
“The measures the govern-
ment adopted in recent years
have lowered the company’s
burden in many ways such as
water, electricity and gas
costs,” said Wang Jingdong,
vice-president of Gree. “For
example, since the price of
industrial electricity dropped,
the company saved 2.8 million
yuan in 2016 and 14 million
yuan in 2017.”
Qiu Quanlin contributed to
the story.
reduced several times the elec-
tricity price, which greatly
reduced our operating costs,”
said Zhou Youfu, general man-
ager of Rongchang.
These policies have helped
the company to reduce elec-
tricity costs by 8.03 million
yuan, which made up 13 per-
cent of the company’s total
profit, Zhou said.
It’s the same good situation
for Fujian Tianchen Yaolong
New Material Co Ltd, as the
company has cut its electricity
costs by more than 5 million
yuan each year.
Tian Yanpu, the company’s
deputy general manager, said
the costs it saved will be used
for the research and develop-
ment of new products and
technologies, and the
improvement of techniques,
as well as upgrading equip-
ment dedicated to safety and
environmental protection.
Contact the writers at
chengyu@chinadaily.com.cn
Jiangsu endeavors to stimulate growth
By CANG WEI in Nanjing
cangwei@chinadaily.com.cn
East China’s Jiangsu prov-
ince has taken measures to
effectively lower overall costs
of the real economy, accord-
ing to provincial officials.
Kong Xiangping, deputy
director of Jiangsu Provincial
Price Bureau, said business
costs have been reduced by a
total of 35 billion yuan ($5.5
billion) in the province over
the past two years.
In fact, business costs total-
ing 25 billion yuan were
reduced in 2017 alone, Kong
said.
“More than 80 administra-
tive charges and 50 service
fees imposed on enterprises
have been canceled or low-
ered since 2016.”
He said that as of now, only
48 categories of administra-
tion charges and 19 catego-
ries of service fees regulated
by the government still exist
in Jiangsu, which is the
country’s second-largest
province in terms of its econ-
omy, with a GDP surpassing
8.5 trillion yuan in 2017.
While many provinces have
lowered their growth targets
this year, Jiangsu, which saw
7.2 percent GDP growth last
year, has once again set its tar-
get at higher than 7 percent
for 2018.
Rui Jincheng, director of
the price bureau’s general
office, said that to promote
real economy development,
the provincial authorities
have introduced many meas-
ures to lighten the burden on
Zhejiang businesses get
a push with reduced costs
By SHI JING in Hangzhou
shijing@chinadaily.com.cn
Privately owned enterpris-
es in Zhejiang province have
been injected with vitality as
the government has adopted
policies to reduce their bur-
den in recent years.
Hangzhou Wahaha Group,
the largest beverage produc-
er in China, has largely bene-
fitted from the government’s
policies to reduce tax and ser-
vice fees, said Zong Qinghou,
the group’s founder and
chairman.
As Wahaha has calculated,
the total fees it paid in Zheji-
ang in 2017 significantly
dropped by 64 percent from a
year earlier to 13 million yuan
($2.1 million). The items of
these fees were also reduced
to 152 from 172 in 2016.
The group has also seen its
costs largely reduced by the
favorable electricity price
offered by the Zhejiang gov-
ernment in recent years.
With the policy, Wahaha
saved 4.9 million yuan of
electricity costs in 2016 and
the figure reached 5.3 million
yuan last year, said Zong.
“The government’s effort
to reduce companies’ burden
has also been shown by its
improved efficiency,” said
Zong.
“While we had to finish
some of the business proce-
dures in city government
departments in the past, we
can do it at the district level
now. If some required docu-
ments have not been submit-
Technicians check the condition of industrial robots at Hangzhou Wahaha Group — the largest
beverage producer in China — in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province. XINHUA
businesses, including reduc-
ing energy, logistics and elec-
tricity costs.
“Energy costs totaling 17.7
billion yuan have been
reduced for enterprises since
2016,” he said.
Nanjing High Accurate
Drive Equipment Manufac-
turing Group, one of the
world’s leading manufactur-
ers of wind power and gear
equipment, saved more
than 6.5 million yuan in
2017 due to electricity cost
reduction.
Hu Hongming, the group’s
director of equipment depart-
ment, said electricity fees
accounted for 1.5 to 1.8 per-
cent of the group’s total costs.
“We used 240 million kwh
The booth of Nanjing Iron & Steel United Co Ltd at an exhibition in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu
province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Focus | BUSINESS 15
We have made all
efforts to release
the burden from
companies so that
they can be better
motivated and
seek the room for
development.”
Han Yaming, deputy director of
Zhejiang Provincial Price Bureau
ted in time, the government
can still handle the case as
long as we submit them later.
Some of the procedures can
even be completed on the
smartphone application
now,” he said.
According to Zong, Zheji-
ang, which has a large num-
ber of privately owned
enterprises, has been dedi-
cated to building it into the
lowest-cost province nation-
wide, in order to provide a
better commercial environ-
ment for companies.
“The company now can
carry on all its strategic
development plans with
much confidence,” he said.
Ningbo Heng Sheng Logis-
tics Co Ltd was listed on the
National Equities Exchange
and Quotations in May 2016.
of electricity in 2017. The
group saved electricity fees of
2.3 million yuan in six months
after the price bureau low-
ered the electricity fees in July
2017,” Hu said. “The bureau
also helped us to purchase
directly from power plants,
which saved us 4.21 million
yuan.”
Kong from the price bureau
said compared with reducing
overall costs, simply clarify-
ing the detailed list of costs
imposed on enterprises is
more important.
“We should let the enter-
prises know what kinds of
fees and taxes they shouldn’t
pay,” Kong said. “We’ll have
further measures to promote
the enterprises’ awareness to
As the company’s Deputy
General Manager Chen Kai
explained, petrol and high-
way tolls make up the majori-
ty — 60 percent — of the
company’s costs.
As Zhejiang lowered the
toll fees for international
standard container vehicles
in March last year, the com-
pany has seen the cost for
such vehicles reduced by 10
percent year-on-year, which
is quite important for a pub-
lic company.
“This is also good news for
companies which purchase
delivery services from us,” he
said. “We will lower the
charge by 8 percent after the
new policy. In this sense,
companies throughout the
value chain will all benefit
from the policy.”
Since 2013, Zhejiang has
abolished, suspended,
exempted or integrated a
total of 134 kinds of adminis-
trative business charges. An
additional 25 such charges
have been lowered. As a
result, the local government
has reduced a total of 48 bil-
lion yuan worth of charges
from companies.
“Zhejiang is not abundant
in natural resources and faces
a number of challenges such
as the rising labor cost and
land prices,” said Han Yam-
ing, deputy director of Zheji-
ang Provincial Price Bureau.
“We have made all efforts to
release the burden from com-
panies so that they can be bet-
ter motivated and seek the
room for development.”
save costs.”
However, Jiang Ting, an
official with the bureau, said
there is not much room to fur-
ther help reduce costs at the
provincial level.
“We had 374 items of
administration charges in
2008 that accounted for 25.5
percent of the total revenue,”
Jiang said. “But in 2017,
there were only 48 such
items, which accounted for
less than 7 percent of the
revenue.”
“Among the 42 items of
administration charges that
remain this year, only 10 are
charged by the province
while the rest are by the
central government,” she
added.
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Iron ore futures trade to widen Air Products sees

Introduction of overseas dealers to help
develop widely accepted benchmark
By ZHANG XIAOMIN
in Dalian, Liaoning
zhangxiaomin@
chinadaily.com.cn
China will introduce over-
seas traders to the domestic
iron ore futures market at the
Dalian Commodity Exchange
from May 4, which is expected
to help develop a widely
accepted price benchmark,
said a top official from the
DCE.
“China, as the
world’s largest
importer and
consumer of
iron ore, has the
obligation to
provide an
DCE chair Li open, transpar-
Zhengqiang ent and fair
price bench-
mark reflecting
the real supply and demand
situation on the global iron
ore market,” said Li Zhengqi-
ang, chairman of the
exchange.
According to China’s Gener-
al Administration of Customs,
the country’s iron ore imports
increased to a record high of
1.075 billion metric tons in
2017, up 5 percent year-on-year.
Li said the introduction of
overseas traders is based on
the years of the mature opera-
tion of domestic iron ore
futures.
DCE has issued rules on
introducing overseas traders
of iron ore futures in March.
It will maintain the existing
contract, fundamental sys-
tem, core technical system
and core clearing and risk
control patterns and adopt
renminbi-denominated set-
tlement.
Overseas traders can par-
ticipate through a domestic
futures company member or
sub-entrustment by an over-
seas broker. Rules related to
the use of overseas funds and
the physical delivery have
been established.
“All these measures will
bring great convenience to
overseas traders,” Li said.
China’s iron ore futures
were listed on the exchange in
October 2013. It is the first iron
ore derivative in the world to
solely adopt physical delivery.
“In the past five years, it has
been operating safely and
smoothly, having withstood
the severe tests of violent
market fluctuations,” Li said.
In 2017, DCE’s iron ore
futures volume reached 329
million lots (32.9 billion tons),
23.44 times the total amount
of iron ore swaps and futures
transactions on the Singapore
Exchange Ltd, the world’s sec-
ond-largest iron ore deriva-
tive market.
Currently, the Platts Iron
Ore Index is the dominant
benchmark assessment of the
spot price for the global iron
ore market.
Imported iron ore is stored at a yard in Nantong, Jiangsu province. XU CONGJUN / CHINA DAILY
That index is based on
inquiry instead of publicly
traded prices in the market.
Therefore, its representative-
ness, transparency and fair-
ness are questioned by
various parties, Li said.
As for DCE’s iron ore
futures market, since the sup-
pliers and overseas customers
cannot directly participate in
it, the resulting prices cannot
fully represent those of the
global market, he added.
“Participation in iron ore
futures by both domestic and
overseas traders will help form
a futures price benchmark
recognized by the internation-
al community and facilitate
the development of global iron
ore trading,” he said.
In recent years, remarkable
changes have occurred in glob-
al iron ore supply and demand.
Overseas mines, trading com-
panies and other entity enter-
prises also need to hedge risks
with futures instruments.
In April, DCE organized the
China Futures Market Moni-
toring Center, futures-compa-
ny members and information
providers and undertook two
full-market tests.
Currently, futures brokers
are actively carrying out vari-
ous market promotion activi-
ties and promoting
preparations for the opening
of accounts for overseas cli-
ents and registration, trading,
delivery and other business
involving overseas brokers.
The internationalization of
iron ore futures is an impor-
tant action in the opening-up
of China’s financial sector.
Li said the listing of crude
oil futures and the interna-
tionalization of the iron ore
futures mean that China’s
commodity futures market
has achieved its transition
from being closed to opened.
He said the exchange will
continue to intensify its front-
line regulation responsibility,
prevent market risks and
guarantee the stable imple-
mentation and smooth opera-
tion of introducing overseas
traders of iron ore futures.
big opportunities
from restructuring
By LIN SHUJUAN in Shanghai
linshujuan@chinadaily.com.cn
Corning Painter, executive
vice-president of industrial
gases at Air Products, said that
China’s ongoing economic
restructuring and upgrading
will be “a big positive” for the
company.
“In China, marketing is very
easy as the government puts
forward a clear guideline for
development,” said Painter
during a recent visit to the
company’s China headquar-
ters in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech
Park in Shanghai. “You just
have to read their work plans
and understand their impacts
on our customers.”
Air Products provides
atmospheric and process gas-
es as well as equipment relat-
ed to manufacturing markets,
including refining and petro-
chemical materials, metals
and electronics. The US-based
company, which has been in
operation for more than 75
years, is also the world’s lead-
ing supplier of liquefied natu-
ral gas processing technology
and equipment.
Some of its milestone
accomplishments after it first
entered China in 1987 include
providing hydrogen fueling
technology for the 2008 Bei-
jing Olympics, supplying heli-
um to fill the large balloons for
the 60th anniversary of the
founding of the People’s
Republic of China, and produc-
50 bln cu m
amount of gas that China’s
National Energy Administra-
tion plans to produce from
coal by 2020
cent from the previous year.
In light of the increasing
standards of healthcare in Chi-
na, Air Products experienced an
increase in sales for liquid heli-
um, which is used in magnetic
resonance imaging scanners to
keep the superconducting mag-
net at -269C.
With China targeting indus-
trial transformation as part of
its growth strategy under the
13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20),
Air Products has identified
great market potential in the
coal gasification industry.
Painter pointed out that
coal gasification, the process
that converts coal into syngas,
carbon monoxide and hydro-
gen for further processing into
higher value chemicals and
transportation fuels, will
hence be “a huge opportunity”
the company can capitalize on
as it would help alleviate pol-
lution.
China’s National Energy
Administration already has
plans to produce 50 billion
cubic meters of gas from coal
by 2020, enough to satisfy
more than 10 percent of Chi-

Pharmaceutical firm to invest $393 million in Ireland plant
By WANG MINGJIE
in London
wangmingjie@
mail.chinadailyuk.com
Chinese pharmaceutical
company WuXi Biologics will
invest 325 million euros ($393
million) in a new manufactur-
ing facility in Dundalk, Ire-
land, the firm announced on
Monday.
The investment will create
400 highly skilled jobs during
the next five years.
Leo Varadkar, the prime
minister of Ireland, said:
“This is the start of something
special. We will see the factory
of the future, right here in
Dundalk. It’s the first sizable
greenfield project from China
in the pharma sector and I am
delighted to see it located here
in Dundalk. It’s also the latest
in a number of investments in
this town, which has become
a hub for a range of sectors,
mainly in the new knowledge-
based and pharmaceutical
sectors.”
Li Ge, chairman of WuXi
Biologics, said: “We have been
engaging with the IDA
(Industrial Development
Authority) and the Ireland
Strategic Investment Fund for
several years before finalizing
today’s exciting investment in
this community.”
The deal is the company’s
second major partnership
in Ireland, following work
of WuXi NextCODE, a tech
firm acquired by WuXi Bio-
logics’ parent firm, WuXi
AppTec, with Genomics
Medicine Ireland.
Li said: “These ventures
showcase how competitive
Ireland is for global enterprise
and investment, and we are
grateful for all the support
local agencies and the talented
people here have provided us.”
Heather Humphreys, min-
ister for business, enterprise
and innovation, welcomed
the announcement, saying:
“This huge 325-million-euro
investment is a great vote of
confidence in Ireland and
reinforces our image as a
global center of excellence in
biologics. This development is
a further example of the suc-
cess of our commitment
under the Regional Action
Plans for Jobs to provide qual-
ity jobs in regional locations.”
ing enriched oxygen for pas-
sengers on the world’s highest
passenger trains running on
the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Since its establishment, Air
Products has expanded from
its first joint venture in Shenz-
hen to around 140 facilities
across the country, which is
the company’s second largest
market in terms of scale, reve-
nue and R&D investment,
Painter said.
And the company is contin-
uing to grow — China account-
ed for 14 percent of the
company’s global turnover of
$8 billion in 2017, up by 12 per-
na’s total gas demand.
Painter added that coal gasi-
fication would allow China to
tap into its stranded coal
deposits scattered thousands
of kilometers away from the
country’s main industrial cen-
ters. In addition, transporting
gas would be significantly
cheaper than transporting
coal.
“Air Products has been
actively supporting China’s coal
gasification market and collab-
orating with leading domestic
companies to produce cleaner
fuels and higher value-added
downstream chemicals.”

Daily Stock Market Performance Gainers

Gainers
and and
Losers
Losers International Stock Markets
Daily YTD Daily Daily Daily YTD % Chg
Index Close % Chg % Chg GAINERS Close % Chg LOSERS Close % Chg Close % Chg –7% 0% +7%
Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index 3082.23 +0.2 –6.8 Hang Seng Index 30,808.45 1.7
Shanghai Stock Exchange
3600 Hang Seng China Ent Index 12,331.39 2.2
HNA Innovation Co Ltd 5.81 10.04 Jiangsu Sopo Chemical 6.53 –10.06
3490 Shanghai Aiyingshi Co 58.76 10.00 Ningbo United Group Co 7.90 –10.02 TAIEX Taiwan Stock Index 10,657.88 1.0
3380 GuangzhouBaiynshnPhCLt 35.23 9.99 Hisense Electric Co 13.38 –10.02 Nikkei 225 22,508.03 0.2
HunanCopote Sci & Tech 18.94 9.99 Pengqi Technology Dev 0.58 –10.02 Sensex 35,160.36 0.5
3270
Tonghua Dongbao Pharma 28.80 9.22 ZhejngRngshngEnvrPrtct 40.30 –10.00 KOSPI 2,515.38 0.9
3160 S&P/ASX 200 6,015.23 0.5
ChongqingDepartmntStre 32.67 8.97 Tibet Rhodiola Pharma 38.69 –10.00
3050 Shanghai Beite Tech 12.92 7.85 InnerMongolia Yili Ind 26.28 –10.00 New Zealand 50 Gross Index 8,435.97 –0.1
Shanghai No 1 Pharmacy 13.26 7.54 Daheng New Epoch Tech 9.36 –10.00 Straits Times Index STI 3,613.93 1.0
Anhui Quanchai Engine 6.38 6.33 Shenzhen Huiding Tech 95.43 –10.00 Bangkok SET Index 1,780.11 0.1
China Coal Xinji Enrgy 3.22 6.27 Hexing Electrical Co 27.03 –9.99 Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index 1,870.37 0.4
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index 10,324.47 +0.3 –6.5
VN-Index 1,050.26 0.5
11,700 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Dow Jones 24,163.15 –0.6
11,200 Beijing Enlight Media 11.58 9.97 Thunder Software Tech 35.77 –9.99
WuxiLeadIntllgntEqpmnt 62.79 6.41 Nationz Technologies 11.37 –9.26
10,700 Shenwu Envir Tech 12.49 5.94 Goldenmax Intl Tech 11.11 –8.63 Commodities
10,200 Guizhou Xinbang Pharma 9.83 5.93 Ningbo Huaxiang Electr 13.47 –7.55 Daily YTD % Chg
Aier Eye Hospital 47.00 5.86 Shandong Chenming Ppr 14.69 –6.97 Close % Chg –25% 0% +25%
9700 FocusedPhotonicsHngzhu 27.85 5.81 Beijing VRV Software 5.19 –6.82 Brent Crude Oil (USD/bbl.) 74.21 –0.6
Zhejiang Semir Garment 11.00 5.77 Unigroup Guoxin Co Ltd 53.15 –6.82 Gold (USD/t oz.) 1319.20 –0.3
Ciwen Media Co Ltd 33.66 5.35 HunanChina Sun Ph Mach 8.60 –6.52 Silver (USD/t oz.) 16.40 –0.6
Vatti Corp Ltd 27.37 5.23 SichuanHaite High-tech 12.02 –6.09 Copper (USD/lb.) 3.07 0.1
Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index 3756.88 0.0 –6.8
BeijingOrintNtCmmSc&Te 16.55 5.15 Huaxun Fangzhou Co Ltd 11.24 –5.94 Aluminum (USD/MT) 2263.50 1.6
4400 Corn (USD/bu.) 4.01 0.6
Hang Seng Wheat (USD/bu.) 5.11 2.4
4000 BOC Hong Kong Holdings 40.85 4.61 China Mengniu Dairy Co 25.50 –3.59 Soybeans (USD/bu.) 10.49 –0.7
Sino Land Co Ltd 13.58 4.14 China Shenhua Energy 19.46 –2.70 Coffee (USD/lb.) 1.22 –0.3
3600 New World Development 11.60 4.13 Want Want China 6.97 –0.99 Sugar #11 (USD/lb.) 0.12 –0.5
Sunny Optical Tech 130.10 3.67 WH Group Ltd 8.19 –0.61 Palm Oil (MYR/MT) 2362.00 –0.8
3200 China Resources Land 29.75 3.48 CNOOC Ltd 13.16 –0.30

Cross Currency Rates ETFS

Shanghai B-Share Stock Price Index 318.89 +0.3 –6.7 Daily %
USD EUR CNY HKD GBP KRW BRL RUB JPY INR CAD EQUITY ETFs Ticker Close Change
365
USD 1.203 0.158 0.127 1.368 0.001 0.285 0.016 0.009 0.015 0.778 China 50 510050 2.64 –0.49
355 China AMC CSI 300 Index 510330 4.06 0.20
EUR 0.831 0.131 0.106 1.137 0.001 0.236 0.013 0.008 0.012 0.646
345 China CSI 500 510500 6.18 0.44
335 CNY 6.332 7.620 0.807 8.662 0.006 1.806 0.100 0.058 0.095 4.923 China SME 159902 3.38 0.75
HKD 7.849 9.444 1.240 10.737 0.007 2.238 0.124 0.072 0.118 6.103 China Universal CSI Consumer Staples Index 159928 2.15 –0.83
325
GBP 0.731 0.880 0.115 0.093 0.001 0.208 0.012 0.007 0.011 0.568 E Fund ChiNext Price Index 159915 1.71 1.55
315 E Fund CSI 300 510310 1.60 0.50
KRW 1069.450 1293.130 168.890 136.257 1465.520 305.573 16.910 9.770 16.152 832.950
E Fund CSI 300 Financials ex Banks Index 512070 1.81 –0.49
BRL 3.506 4.233 0.554 0.447 4.796 0.003 0.055 0.032 0.052 2.727 E Fund Hang Seng China Enterprises Index 510900 1.23 1.65
Shenzhen B-Share Stock Price Index 1077.76 –0.2 –7.4
RUB 63.367 76.241 10.006 8.074 86.689 0.059 18.064 0.578 0.939 49.258 E FUND SZSE100 INDEX FUND 159901 4.58 0.55
1250 Fortune SGAM Xianjin Tianyi Money Market 511990 100.04 0.03
JPY 109.570 131.870 17.303 13.961 149.892 0.102 31.246 1.729 1.636 85.193
Guangfa CSI 500 510510 1.63 0.25
1190 INR 66.661 80.542 10.527 8.495 91.188 0.062 19.226 1.070 0.608 51.830 Guotai Shanghai Stock Exchange 180 Financial Index 510230 5.88 0.51
CAD 1.286 1.548 0.203 0.164 1.759 0.001 0.367 0.020 0.012 0.019 Harvest CSI 300 Index 159919 4.09 0.27
1130 Huatai-Pinebridge CSI 300 510300 3.75 0.21
Shanghai SSE180 510180 3.22 0.03
Data provided by
1070 SSE Pledge Urban Investment Bond 511220 93.98 0.19
M J J A S O N D J F M A Yinhua Traded Money Market Fund 511880 101.50 0.08
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YOUTH
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

READING
LIBRARY
TRENDS
A report examining what books university students borrowed last
year gives an insight into their interests. Liu Xiangrui reports.

A
recent report based on
university libraries’ 2017
lending lists has started
online discussions of such
topics as how much — and what —
young people are reading, around
World Reading Day on April 23.
A growing number of university
libraries are undertaking big data
analyses of their lending records.
The report by the Chinese aca-
demic-resources platform Chinese
and Foreign Academic Information,
includes nearly 20 Chinese universi-
ties, including such top institutions
as Peking, Tsinghua and Zhejiang
universities.
The books and genres vary
according to whether the respective
university emphasizes arts or sci-
ence. But trends still emerge.
Literary books are especially pop-
ular with students and account for
about 30 percent of total lending,
the report shows.
The most frequently checked-out
books are from the mystery and
romance genres. Some best-selling
novels are also popular.
The novel Ordinary World by
contemporary Chinese writer Lu
Yao appeared more often than other
titles on the list. It’s a realistic story
that describes the changes in con-
temporary urban and rural society
over the years through a family’s sto-
ries.
Online fictions like The Grave
Robbers’ Chronicle by Xu Lei, who’s believes that they also need a base in
better known by his pseudonym, certain classical and liberal-educa-
Nanpai Sanshu, and Things in the tion books.
Ming Dynasty, a collection of semi- Hangzhou University of Elec-
historical stories by online writer
Shi Yue, were also prominent on the
tronic Science and Technology’s
library director Chen Lin says the
But for literature
lists. development of internet and majors, it’s
The data also show foreign fiction mobile devices has diversified peo-
is particularly popular among col- ple’s approaches to reading, so necessary to also
lege students. paper books’ lending has conspicu-
Several works by Japanese writer ously decreased in recent years. read more essential
Higashino Keigo, who’s known for There hasn’t been a substantial
such mystery novels as The Devotion drop in overall reading when digi- classics from
of Suspect X, are among the most tal forms are accounted for, she
borrowed books. adds. traditional culture.
Titles by such other foreign Tianjin Foreign Studies Universi-
Zhu Anshun, guest professor of the
authors as Haruki Murakami and ty graduate student Zhang Zhengya
Chinese Culture Academy of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez also enjoy says she and her schoolmates don’t
Chongqing
huge popularity. Top: A library in Zhengzhou University, of Henan province, is fully occupied. frequently visit the library to borrow
The report’s results suggest Chi- Above: Students at Hebei Academy of Fine Arts on World Book Day on April books.
nese students’ habits are different 23. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY The 25-year-old journalism
from US university students, who major, who prefers serious reading, about due dates and can read it
favored The Republic by ancient used to borrow three or four books a whenever we want,” she says.
Greek philosopher Plato and The develop book-selection methods “It’s a positive phenomenon. It’s month as an undergraduate. A recent survey of over 900 uni-
Clash of Civilizations by US political that help readers find good books. quite OK that best-sellers and online “I have less time to read (for pleas- versity students by the China Uni-
scientist Samuel Huntington, Zhu Anshun, a guest professor of novels have become the most popu- ure) as a graduate student. When I versity Media Union finds 31
according to data collected by the the Chinese Culture Academy of lar books among university stu- go to the library now, I just find the percent read less than half an hour a
Open Syllabus Project in 2015. Chongqing and director of the dents,” he says. book I want and leave rather than day; 42 percent read between half
“The readers are the true judges,” Zhonghua Book Co’s classics-educa- “But for literature majors, it’s nec- browse for interesting titles.” an hour and an hour and a half a
Zhejiang’s provincial library’s tion center, says the frequent appear- essary to also read more essential She and most students buy their day; and less than 10 percent read
director Chu Shuqing says. ance of best-sellers, and online and classics from traditional culture, favorite books, including e-books, more than two hours a day.
“They choose books that allow foreign novels on those lists suggest such as The Analects of Confucius.” online rather than borrow from the
them to truly enjoy reading.” young people have more diverse He says it’s good that students library, she explains. Contact the writer at
Libraries should innovate to reading resources today. read novels out of interest but also “Then we don’t have to worry liuxiangrui@chinadaily.com.cn

Foreign writers popular with students

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One
Hundred Years of Solitude is among
the most-lent foreign books.
By LIU XIANGRUI
University libraries’ data indicate
foreign books, especially novels,
have become extremely popular
among Chinese university students
in recent years.
Eight of the 10 books most fre-
quently borrowed from Zhejiang
Gongshang University’s library in
2017, for example, are by overseas
authors.
Writers from abroad also account
for a majority of the 10 most fre-
quently borrowed books from the
library of Zhejiang province’s Jiliang
University.
Japanese author Haruki Muraka-
mi, Colombian novelist Gabriel Gar-
cia Marquez and Afghan-American
writer Khaled Hosseini are among
the foreign authors most frequently
read by Chinese students.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by
Nobel winner Gabriel Garcia Mar-
quez ranked seventh on the prestig-
ious Tsinghua University’s lending
list. Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 best-
selling novel The Kite Runner
ranked ninth.
Some classic foreign novels, such
as The Moon and Sixpence by
English writer William Somerset
Maugham, remain popular among
Chinese students.
Students cite different reasons for
their appetites for foreign novels.
Some enjoy the fast pace, empha-
sis on detail, strong logic and rich
imagination. Many wish to learn
about foreign societies.
Chen Yannan, a senior at South-
west Minzu University in Sichuan
province’s capital, Chengdu, is a fan
of French author Marguerite Duras,
among other foreign writers.
“I love her work because the wom-
en in her novels, although weak and
helpless in the eyes of common peo-
ple, have strong minds and are
charming in their individual ways,”
Chen explains.
She adds that she enjoys Duras’
style of fusing poetry, prose and nar-
rative.
Some science-related books by
foreign authors, such as Stephen Haruki Murakami’s novels,
Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, including Journey Under the
are also high on the university Midnight Sun, are popular at
libraries’ lending lists. campus.
18 YOUTH | Campus
A taste of the real world
A group of young people are taking part in a program where they learn
the skills and gain knowledge for a life in business. Xing Wen reports.
A
total of 22 student
companies from 14
countries gathered
in Beijing at the end
of March, taking to their
booths to showcase their prod-
ucts.
All the student company
programs were selected to rep-
resent their countries in this
year’s Junior Achievement
Asia Pacific Company of the
Year.
The competition is an annu-
al event held by Hong Kong-
based JA Asia Pacific, which is
part of JA Worldwide, a global
nonprofit organization that
has been teaching young peo-
ple the skills and knowledge for
a life in business since its initia-
tion in 1993.
Speaking about the program,
Vivian Lau, the president of JA
Asia Pacific, says it is a coinci-
dence that 70 percent of the
teams are focusing on environ-
mental protection and have
launched related projects.
“It is not JA’s special focus.
But I found that young people
are now so much more aware
of the environment. And they
understand that making mon-
ey is not the only purpose of a
business.
“One reason might be that
the world is more connected
now. And a young person in
the Philippines may know
what is happening in Indone-
sia. So, they want to be a part
of the global community and
provide solutions not only for
their country, but for the
world.”
Zhang Chengkuan, a grade 2
student from Chengdu Shude
High School in Sichuan prov-
ince, says: “Functional, beauti-
ful and easy to use are the three
keywords to describe our prod-
uct.”
His team designed a porta-
ble light made using thermo-
plastic urethane. The light can
be charged in daylight and can
last for up to 13 hours.
Zhang says his parents
encouraged him to participate
in the program, which has
helped him boost his innova-
tion and social skills, and teach
him about earning money.
So far, Zhang and his team
have opened an online shop
on Taobao, China’s biggest
online shopping platform, and
also sell their lights on the
busy streets of Chengdu.
Ma Mengxi, another mem-
ber of the team, says they have
also set up a customer com-
munity and hold meetings to
boost relation.
Prima Facie, a shoe design
company from the Philippi-
nes, was founded by Grade 12
students from Saint Scholasti-
ca’s College Manila Leader-
ship Academy.
Bea Battung, 17, one of the
founders of the company, says
that through the manufactur-
ing process of their shoes, they
can help clean rivers as well as
providing jobs for housewives.
That’s because they use a
unique material — water hya-
cinth — which can clog up the
drainage system to produce their
footwear. And housewives from
around Manila were hired to col-
lect and dry the water hyacinth.
Chinese education journal makes debut in New York
By CAO CHEN in Shanghai
caochen@chinadaily.com.cn
The ECNU Review of Edu-
cation, believed to be the first
international scholarly jour-
nals in China on educational
research, was published in
New York on April 14.
“We hope this journal will
offer scholars and friends
worldwide who care about
Chinese education as a stage
for communication and dis-
cussions. The journal will also
be accepting empirical
research and conceptual
papers, policy research notes
and book reviews by them,”
says Yuan Zhengguo, chief edi-
tor of the journal from East
From top: South Korea’s Cyclo team shows potted plants made by a 3D printer. Students decorate
booths at the Junior Achievement Asia Pacific Company of the Year competition. Participants celebrate
at the award ceremony. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Jose Isabel Rea, CEO of the
company, says: “This experi-
ence has strengthened our
sense of social responsibility,
taken us out of our comfort
zones and maximized our
capabilities and potential.”
The team won second prize
in the competition.
China Normal University and
dean of the faculty of educa-
tion at the university.
According to Yuan, the jour-
nal will embrace work that
theorizes Chinese educational
experiences and timely
reviews of educational policy
and issues.
“In addition, the journal will
adhere to the standards of
reputed international coun-
terparts such as the Harvard
Educational Review and the
Oxford Review of Education,”
he says.
The journal features two
main sections: research
papers on Chinese education
by domestic and foreign schol-
ars, and policy reviews, says
The Cyclo team from South
Korea uses coffee grounds to
make small flowerpots using a
3D printer.
According to Cyclo, there are
800,000 tons of coffee grounds
being discarded around the
world every year, leading to
huge economic and environ-
I believe this is
an auspicious
start for a bold
enterprise that I
feel very
fortunate to be a
part of.”
Williamson McDiarmid,
former principal of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
mental losses.
So, to prevent the coffee
grounds from being thrown
away and polluting the envi-
ronment, they designed these
unique flowerpots.
The team won the FedEx
Access Award and was praised
for their awareness of global
Chen Shuangye, associate edi-
tor and professor of curricu-
lum and instruction at East
China Normal University.
The first section in the inau-
gural issue contains seven
papers related to the changes
and development in Chinese
education, the evolution of the
school curriculum adminis-
tration in China, the future
path of education in the coun-
try and examples of successful
education initiatives. The sec-
ond section provides a review
of the latest higher education
policies.
All the papers in the journal
can be downloaded for free on
its website, which will be pub-
lished quarterly.
connectivity.
Lau from the JA Asia Pacific
says: “We are glad to see that
students are aware of the
social responsibility of entre-
preneurs, which is the idea JA
wants to deliver.”
Teachers involved in the stu-
dent company program are
volunteers from different
industries.
Ye Hong, 54, who used to
work in the finance industry
and has been a volunteer
teacher for eight years, says:
“Anyone can become a volun-
teer and give lessons in the
schools, regardless of their
major or job.”
Meanwhile, volunteers from
different industries give les-
sons to students in the student
company program, with the
aim of inspiring them to
launch startups and help them
resolve various problems.
Ye says: “Students are more
open-minded and have more
creative ideas than we first
realized. And JA provides a
platform for them to break
through the normal class rou-
tines and put their ideas into
practice.”
Ye, supported by her hus-
band and son, left her compa-
ny eight years ago and has
been working as a volunteer
since then.
She says that volunteers
gain as much from the classes
as students do and meeting
people from different indus-
tries helps her to broaden hori-
zons and social circles.
Communicating with students
also makes her feel younger
and more alive, Ye says.
“As long as my students
remain interested in what I
share with them, I will stick to
the volunteer job.” says Ye.
Entrepreneurs who were
once beneficiaries of the pro-
gram have started to pay back
into it by volunteering at the
JA classes.
Contact the writer at
xingwen@chinadaily.com.cn
“As a country where the
economy, society and educa-
tion are growing at such a fast
pace, China has attracted
global scholars from different
fields to examine the role of
education in the whole devel-
opment process,” says Chen.
“However, there has not
been a formal academic publi-
cation in English that presents
a rounded view of the Chinese
educational situation to for-
eign readers.
“The journal will be a plat-
form that corrects half-truths,
mischaracterization and mis-
understandings about Chi-
nese education and help
gather ideas for Chinese edu-
cation through discussion,”
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
Zeynep Kucuk from Turkey gives a Mandarin class.
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Speaking in one
language
By ZHOU WENTING
in Shanghai
zhouwenting@
chinadaily.com.cn
Zeynep Kucuk from Turkey
was giving a Mandarin class to
six international students and
teaching them how to use the
Chinese phrase “yibian ... , yib-
ian ...”, which literally means
“doing one thing while doing
another”.
Kucuk began her class
with a solo dance perform-
ance while she sang Jasmine
Flower, a famous Chinese
folk song, as she explained to
the students that it was “yib-
ian singing, yibian dancing”.
The 23-year-old, a graduate
student majoring in teaching
Chinese to speakers of other
languages at Fudan University,
then asked the students to
make a sentence with the
phrase, and one student
replied with “yibian driving,
yibian making a phone call”.
“But this is obviously for-
bidden and against the law,”
said Kucuk, as the class of
students burst into laughter.
This took place on April 21,
when 18 international stu-
dents at universities in Shang-
hai and neighboring Zhejiang
and Jiangsu provinces show-
cased their talent for teaching
Mandarin in simulated classes
during a contest. They each
had 10 minutes to give a simu-
lated class to teach foreign stu-
dents how to use a specific
Chinese phrase.
Apart from giving simulated
classes, the contestants also
had to answer questions about
Chinese culture, such as what
are “the Four Great Classic
Novels”, “the Four Great Inven-
tions of Ancient China”, the
customs of traditional Chinese
festivals, and the 12 Chinese
signs of the zodiac.
The contest was part of a
national competition orga-
nized by the Hanban, the Con-
fucius Institute headquarters
in Beijing, to further elevate
the standard of education to
help colleges teaching the
major to carry out more
exchanges.
Five of the contestants,
including Tsomejio Atsah
from Cameroon, who came
first in the competition, will
head to Beijing to participate
in a national final in June.
Kucuk, who majored in
Mandarin for her bachelor’s
degree in Turkey and spent her
junior year at Xiamen Univer-
sity in Fujian province, won
third prize.
She describes Turkey as a
combination of Europe and
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journal in China on educational research. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
she says.
“The launch of the new
journal marks a new chapter
in scholarship on Chinese
education,” says Williamson
McDiarmid, former principal
of the University of North
Asia culturally, but she had
been more interested in
Asian culture, especially that
of China, since childhood.
“The Chinese are generally
reserved, and they are
polite,” she says.
Kucuk says she was look-
ing to work in China because
it offered lots of opportuni-
ties because of its rapid
development, but was not
sure about which type of job
or industry to choose as the
country is evolving so quick-
ly, and new industries are
emerging every year.
Another contestant Ben
Elmakias, 26, from the Unit-
ed States says his career plan
was to teach expats Manda-
rin in Chinese cities such as
Chengdu. “I love Chengdu
for its laid-back but modern
style. There will be rising
demand from expats want-
ing to learn Chinese in cities
like these as they become
increasingly international.”
As part of a US-China
friendship project, he
worked as a volunteer
English teacher in a college
on the outskirts of Tianshui
in Gansu province for two
years, before being admitted
to East China Normal Uni-
versity in Shanghai.
“That experience also made
me decide that I wanted to be a
language teacher, since I have a
special affection for Manda-
rin,” says Elmakias, who
majored in Mandarin for his
undergraduate studies at the
University of Wisconsin.
Lu Qinning, deputy dean
of the School of Chinese
Studies and Exchange of
Shanghai International
Studies University, says there
are more than 60 million for-
eigners around the world
who are learning Mandarin.
“The enthusiasm for
learning Mandarin also rais-
es the standards of Manda-
rin teaching. And the level of
foreign students’ language
proficiency in Chinese is ris-
ing,” he says.
Lu says Mandarin gradu-
ates will take up occupations
closely related to China and
will become involved in pro-
moting exchanges between
China and other countries.
He says that one of the stu-
dents returned to her home
country of Thailand after
graduating from SISU last
year and joined Rangsit Uni-
versity, one of the largest pri-
vate universities in the
country.
“And she is already dean of
Chinese at the university,”
says Lu.
Carolina at Chapel Hill in the
US.
“Having read the inaugural
issue, I believe this is an auspi-
cious start for a bold enter-
prise that I feel very fortunate
to be a part of.”
 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, May 2, 2018
NEW WAVE OF NOSTALGIA
series Meteor Garden to appeal to modern mainland audiences. Wang Kaihao reports.
F
or a period of time
during the early
2000s, it was almost
impossible for me to
spend a single day at high
school without hearing about
Meteor Garden, a 20-episode
Taiwan drama series featuring
a cast of young idols.
Its theme song, Meteor
Rain, could be heard on
almost every street corner,
and the drama was an every-
day topic of discussion for my
classmates. I can still readily
recall the names of every
major character in the series
now, even though I didn’t even
follow the program.
It would probably be pretty
difficult to find a person of my
generation who has not heard
of F4, the boy band composed
of Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu, Ken
Chu, and Vic Chou — the four
leading actors from the drama.
Such is the legacy left by
producer Angie Chai for a gen-
eration of people, not only on
both sides of the Taiwan
Straits, but also in more than
20 countries and regions
around Asia — such was the
extent of Meteor Garden’s pop-
ularity.
So it was no surprise to see
that Chinese social networks
are currently riding a wave of
nostalgia after the drama was
recently aired again on inter-
net giant Tencent’s streaming
media platform.
Chai, who is often referred
to as “the mother of youth idol
dramas”, recently appeared in
Beijing to join a cultural crea-
tivity conference hosted by
Tencent.
Even 17 years after the pre-
miere of the phenomenal dra-
ma, 56-year-old Chai still
could not hold back her tears
in front of a packed auditori-
um resounding once again to
the tune of Meteor Rain.
“A young heart is the key to
keep on creating new works
for the young,” Chai says. “It’s
as important as diligence,
devotion and professional-
ism.”
Meteor Garden is a story
that plots the romance
between a poor girl and a
young man attending an elite
school, as well as their entan-
gled relationships with their
classmates and friends. The
success of the series spawned
innumerable Cinderella-story
themed shows, which domi-
nated TV screens over the fol-
lowing years.
For Chai, Meteor Garden
was only the start, however.
In 2007, she produced the
drama series Corner with
Love, followed by the film You
Are the Apple of My Eye in
Making waves on the global stage
By YAN DONGJIE
yandongjie@chinadaily.com.cn
Young Chinese are increas-
ingly making their voices
heard and influencing world
opinion as they take on more
important roles in interna-
tional organizations and glob-
al projects.
At a ceremony in Beijing in
April, singer and actor Wang
Junkai was made the national
goodwill ambassador for the
United Nations Environment
Programme by Eric Solheim, the
organization’s executive director.
“We young people have a
responsibility to protect the
environment and secure our
future, and I am looking for-
ward to learning from and
working with the UN family
on key environmental issues,”
Wang said in his speech after
the appointment.
“The youth are no longer
merely onlookers when it comes
to environmental action, nor
should they be. I will spare no
effort in doing everything I can
to take care of our Earth, and I
invite everyone to join me in gen-
erating a wave of positive action,”
he said.
Wang Junkai, or Karry
Producer Angie Chai is adapting her hit 2001 Taiwan drama
2011, among many other
works.
Stepping into the Chinese
mainland market, she worked
on the production of the hit
film franchise Tiny Times.
Although the four films were
heavily criticized for their por-
trayal of money worship, its
success was undeniable: “Tiny
Times” soon became a buzz-
word among young people,
and the film franchise enjoyed
a die-hard following, just as
Meteor Garden did in the past.
But things have moved on.
And as Chai recalls, while fans
once told her: “I grew up
watching your productions”,
their children now keep telling
her: ‘My mom says she loves
your work’.
“Times are changing, but I
want to stand together with
18-year-old people in different
times,” she smiles. “No matter
what era it is, young people
will still be confused when
confronted with love, friend-
ship and dreams. They lack
confidence, and will keep
searching for their values.”
Consequently, her formula
has always managed to
remain a certain degree of
freshness.
In 2002, she was listed by
US magazine Business Week
as one of the 25 “Stars of Asia”,
as a leader at the forefront of
change in the region. People
Wang, best known for his lead-
ing role in box-office block-
buster Miracles of the Namiya
General Store and the hit sin-
gle Karry On, has often spoken
out on environmental issues,
making him one of the leaders
on environmental protection
and other public welfare topics
among the Chinese youth.
The 18-year old performer is
a superstar of the highest
ranks in Asia, and is widely
regarded as China’s answer to
Canadian singer-songwriter
Justin Bieber.
Known for his leading role
in Namiya General Store and
top roles in various TV series,
as well as his solo music
career, Wang has amassed
more than 40 million follow-
ers on Sina Weibo. And both in
China and around Southeast
Asia, Wang has been one of the
leaders of the online conversa-
tion about the environment.
In 2016, Wang widely shared
the online Wild for Life cam-
paign, which gained 400 million
views. A year later, he publicly
spoke out on the urgent need to
protect endangered wildlife, call-
ing the animals the “superstars
of the planet.”
Wang said that had valued
Angie Chai (third from right) with actors of a new mainland adaptation of Meteor Garden.
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
hailed Chai for changing the
way dramas were made, and
for developing the market. But
Chai says she did not realize
how successful she had
become until she visited a
modern art museum in New
York.
There, she discovered an
artwork painted by American
artist Mark Rothko.
“At first glance, I thought I
might have been able to create
a similar style of painting at
the learning process and the
professionalism of the part-
ners at UNEP, as well as gain-
ing a new understanding of
issues involving environmen-
tal protection.
Beyond drawing attention
to wildlife, he called on his fol-
lowers to pledge to reduce
their electronic waste, using
the hashtag #beatpollution to
highlight the issue. Within 24
hours, his post was retweeted
1.67 million times and more
than 400,000 followers had
pledged to reduce waste.
“Environmental protection is
really a very conceptual thing,
and large enough to encompass
everything in our planet. It not
only includes climate change
and energy use, but also the com-
plex human living environment
and the protection of the ecosys-
tems of wild animals and plants,”
he says, adding that if he had
learned one thing in his two
years of learning about environ-
mental protection, it was that
was by no means an overnight
job. “Only through our continu-
ous efforts will we see progress.”
In his role as goodwill
ambassador, Wang aims to
connect with China’s younger
generation on some of the
A young heart is the key to keep
on creating new works for the
young. It’s as important as diligence,
devotion and professionalism.”
Angie Chai , producer
elementary school,” Chai says.
“But why did it sell for hun-
dreds of millions dollars? It is
a model of abstract expres-
sionism, which contains the
artist’s deepest emotions and
inner voice.
“Something may look sim-
ple in the eyes of future gener-
ations,” she explains. “But if
you’re the first person of your
time to come up with a new
concept and then realize it,
you should be recognized for
most urgent environment
issues of their generation,
such as pollution, air quality,
wildlife protection, ecosys-
tems, and many more.
The first thing he did was to
support Young Champions of
the Earth in China, an online
activity organized by Chinese
social network platform Sina
Weibo in conjunction with the
UNEP.
Young Champions of the
Earth in China looks for tal-
ented people aged 18 to 30
with creative ideas regarding
environmental protection.
The best three ideas will be
selected in late May through
an online poll and by an expert
panel. The winners will
receive seed funding as well as
intensive training and tailored
mentoring to help realize their
ideas.
“Many young people on our
platform are interested in
environmental protection and
are engaged in charity work,
so we hope the new generation
will lead the way in safeguard-
ing our Earth and beautifying
our country,” says Cao Guowei,
CEO and chairman of Sina, the
tech company behind Sina
Weibo.
it. I realized then that this also
applied to me.”
Now, Chai is undertaking a
major new venture that is
challenging her skills as a pro-
ducer.
A new mainland adaptation
of Meteor Garden will be
screened later this year, which
could create another collective
memory for a new generation
of teenagers — with Chai once
again at the helm.
“At first, I thought an adap-
Wang Junkai gifts an embroidered painting depicting a tiger to Erik
Solheim, head of UN Environment. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
“China has never lacked
young environmental protec-
tors,” Wang says, adding that
he hopes to see more young
people join the initiative and
pay attention to safeguarding
the Earth.
According to the UN report
Youth in the Core of Sustaina-
bility in Asia Pacific published
in March 2016, young people’s
participation will help achieve
the sustainable development
goals in the Asia-Pacific region
Vibes | YOUTH 19
tation would just be a mean-
ingless copy,” she admits.
“However, I later decided to
take it on because I wanted to
have a dialogue with my
younger self, a person who had
no real experience back then. I
wanted to figure out the
changes that have happened
to me.”
Nevertheless, Chai says new
themes will be added to the
upcoming production. In the
original series, the gap
between rich and poor was the
main focus of the story, but in
the new version she wanted to
explore the gulf between the
different values and ideas that
young people hold today.
Her role as producer of the
series has also taken Chai in a
new direction. When she
made Meteor Garden in 2001,
each episode cost less than
200,000 yuan ($31,700). Now
the budget for one episode of
the new series has ballooned
to 3 million yuan.
One production company
she contacted suggested that
Chai include a celebrated
actor in the cast, but the actor
only had a window of 100 days
available for shooting. By
Chai’s estimations the role
would require at least 6
months of shooting to com-
plete, and she finally decided
to turn down the offer: “For a
50-episode production, how
set for 2030.
“Our actions will soon be
the leverage to change the
world,” Wang says, calling on
the younger generation in Chi-
na and around the world to
raise their awareness of envi-
ronmental issues.
“It is inspiring to see the
strong and determined voice
of Chinese youth when it
comes to the environment.
When young people set their
minds to change, it is incredi-
could this be long enough for
someone to become familiar
with the lines and grow into
the role?”
While this prompted her to
switch to a cast of new faces,
she soon realized that produc-
ing a TV series in the internet
era presented many new chal-
lenges.
“The times where people
will accept whatever you give
them are long gone,” she says.
“People’s tastes are more
refined and opinions are more
divided. They will immediate-
ly speak out (online) to judge
the storyline or an actors’ per-
formance.”
But she still believes that the
choice of format does not mat-
ter as much as the sentiment.
“No matter which format we
use, we creators still have to
express our inner beauty,” she
says.
Nevertheless, it is becoming
more difficult for a picky audi-
ence to believe in the idealized
characters presented in this
genre of youth-oriented dra-
ma.
In the time of the original
Meteor Garden, many teenag-
ers were quick to identify
with the characters and
believe their lives reflected
their own situation. However,
a common question Chai is
often asked today is: Since
you have created so many
fairy tales, how can you be in
touch with the real world and
all its cruelty?
The moment when Taiwan
actor Kai Ko, a rising star from
You Are the Apple of My Eye
and the Tiny Times franchise,
burst into tears in front of
hundreds of reporters in Bei-
jing in 2014 as he apologized
for his drug use, may have
been one of those moments for
Chai. Standing by his side, she
couldn’t have failed to under-
stand the cruel nature of life in
the real world.
Ko, an idol who had the
potential to become another
superstar like F4, suddenly
saw his career on the Chinese
mainland come crashing to an
end because of the scandal.
Taking to the stage in Bei-
jing once again, Chai says
there is no meaningful life
without regret.
“I hear too many young peo-
ple complain about the reality
of their lives,” she responds.
“But if you open your heart,
take your life seriously and
don’t waste your time, why
does happiness have to be a
fairy tale?”
Contact the writer at
wangkaihao@
chinadaily.com.cn
ble to see the great things that
can be accomplished,” says
Erik Solheim, head of UN
Environment. “We are very
excited to work with Wang
Junkai to create even more
awareness about the environ-
mental problems and solu-
tions for these times.”
As the leading global voice
on the environment, UN
Environment provides lead-
ership and encourages part-
nerships in caring for the
environment by inspiring,
informing and enabling
nations and peoples to
improve their quality of life
without compromising that
of future generations, he says.
Besides Wang, other UNEP
goodwill ambassadors include
actress Li Bingbing, actor Li
Chen, Ellie Goulding, Ber-
trand Piccard and celebrities
from all walks of life both from
China and abroad.
Li Bingbing, the first Asian
star to receive the title,
addressed the Global Climate
Summit in English and called
for the protection of the Tibet-
an antelope during the Wild
for Life campaign. In Septem-
ber 2017, Li Chen was awarded
the title of UNEP goodwill
ambassador in Beijing, where
he committed to build part-
nerships and raise public
awareness about the environ-
ment and health.
20 YOU T H | Bilingual Wednesday, May 2, 2018 C H I N A DA I LY H O N G KO N G E D I T I O N

͚丽ౕ̓⩹̷⮱ౝѺຯ҂喤
ⰸႹ䔆䘕㒻丌㏗ᒂ❴喑ҍч
19 SMALL ᰶ᝭ᕊ㔰
ACTIONS ͚పᬒ្ࣹ䄚᫝䬨

ᰭ䓾喑̭䘕℁䒰ᄼф⮱㒻丌㏗ᒂ❴ᐭ໸᜽ͧ྿Ҁ䃕䃧⮱䄊䷅ÿÿ

THAT WILL Ȩ㒻丌̺㒻ȩ Ugly Delicious)喑Ό䃾ͧȨ̺͚ⰸ⮱㒻丌ȩ喎ȡ
䔆䘕⩞

/FUGMJY ‫ܧ‬৮⮱㒻丌㏗ᒂ❴喑䖭䄤γᒀ㏏⮱䴖㸁㒻ㅺࣕጵ๔࢘eᑍ
喍David Chang喎Გ䃟䔝̭ψ⩌≨͚ᒵ፥㻮⮱丌➖喑 ℁ຯ៘㥕喍Pizza喎 Ƞ

PUT YOU IN ෕㺬਒ࢤ亩喍Taco喎Ƞ◥华喍Fired Chicken喎Ƞ▿亚喍Fired Rice喎ぶȡ

๔࢘হЃ⮱ᄼцѡЙ喑̺ϲፓ᜾Й৮䞡䔆ψĄ̾㔹㒻ঠą⮱丌➖喑
हᬣΌᣏ⾣㒻丌㗹ऻ⮱᪴ࡃȡ఍ͧ⃼̭͗㒻丌喑䘪ज㘪ᰶ̭̺͗ͧ

A BETTER ϧⴒ⮱ᩲθȡ

℁ຯ㒻పϧ䧌❞⮱Ą㒻ᐼ͚丽ą

MOOD 喍Chinese-American food喎喑࣌Გ᭜

⼨ℾ㒻ప⮱ࡻϧ㷘䔘ϻθ⮱⩌䃎ȡ
ຯ᳉ҍ᱌ᒲ⮱ग᭜㒻丌喑䔆䘕㏗ᒂ

INSTANTLY ❴ज㘪ч䃖ҍ๞᱈喑఍ͧႰᰶᒵ็
̺ᆋλ㒻丌⮱↶䛺ȡ
Ⴐᰡ็䔪Ⅿ⮱᭜ϧহϧ͸䬡⮱Ꭰぶ
ᄷ䛺喑᪴ࡃহ᪴ࡃ͸䬡⮱ᐭᩫ࠲ღ
喍openness and inclusivens喎ȡጹ᱈
⩕㒻丌ᥚᐧ̭Ꮤᶒᶮ喑⇌䕇̺ह⮱
᪴ࡃ喑⊵䮑ᒩₑ͸䬡⮱䯁䬯ȡ
By SUSIE MOORE
ᑍ๔࢘⮱❣⃺̷͗̓㏗‫࡮ښ‬ᎡА⼨
It’s wonderful when you get a raise, get engaged or get  У㘪䃖ҍᓰᗲ⿸ᬣ ℾ㒻ప喑䲍㏼㥒丽ࢲ㐡⩌ȡᐭ丽亳᭜
ᒵ䓈㠓⮱ȡЃ⮱❣ϟߗ߈ጒ҉喑ᅞ᭜ 㷘ѻѝ⮱͚丽
your side hustle off the ground, but those things don’t hap-
pen every day. The good news is good things DO happen
daily, and they increase when we pay attention to them.
अສ⮱ᄼθ ጹ᱈Ѓ̺⩕և丽亳⩌ᘼ喑㐀᳉๔࢘
ऻᲒ䔅᭜䊝̷γ丽些䔆᲎䖀䌜ćć
Underestimated Chinese food

Here are some random things that can make you happy, 㮪♣ᒵ็㒻పϧૉ⁏र͚丽喑ѳЃ
⇎ᘠ‫ݝ‬๔࢘⮱݈͇ᒵ᜽ߌ喑ऻᲒ䔽
no matter what else is going on in your world: Йᕨ㻶ᓄ͚丽䯫⮨๔䯲͸യ喑᭜᏶
ߍ㫗Ƞ䃏྇ᝃ‫͇݇ޜ‬ᰶ䊤㞟喑䔆 
ॷ 䃶 ᄦ ᫦ҍ❞ ЃЙććࢠӬ ⌽ࣾᆂ᜽γ丽些䯳ఏ喑ᬄ̸࠲᠙̭
1. Praise someone in public. This can be in person, or on Ф⮱䆎ᒮȡ๔࢘ᅞⰸ̸̺ࣨγȡ
a Facebook post, an Insta comment or in a group email, ψధ♣䃖᜾Йᙌ‫ݝ‬㒻ໆ喑ज̺ч⃼๖ ᭜ҍ⮱⡘喑䄡⮱ᬣՆ 㺮Ⱑ㻳 ᄦ᫦ȡ❞ უㆠ‫ڣ‬᳄ιᭌ丽ࢲȡ❴ऺ⩕⮱Ό᭜ “Why I get upset about how it is per-
highlight something good they did or how they’ve helped 䘪‫ܧ‬⣝ȡ♣㔹ສ⊵ᖜ᭜喑ສθᗲ⶛჋ ᭜᜾Й᝭᠒ᰶ⮱ᰭ჊䉢⮱͉㺬ȡ Ѓ㏼፥ౕ⹫ϑ྿Ҁ喍Instagram喎Ҭ ceived as always somewhat inferior.”
you. They will remember this, and you’ll feel great too! ⃼๖䘪ч‫ܧ‬⣝ ᜾Й䊷᭜⪆ᘼ喑䊷㘪 ⩕⮱ᴴカ喍hashtag喎ȡ ĄϧЙᄦႰ⮱䃑䃳䃖᜾ᒵ䯫䓴喑ѩͻ
2. Put a stash of yummy in your bag. I love throwing ᰶᰡ็ࣾ⣝ȡ 
㐆䃥Ͳ䘪᱗㖁㈨⮱᰸ࣸࣾ͗ 䔆Ѻ͗ᕔ࡮䋠喑〾䊤Გᰶ䙿⿊⮱䴖 Ⴐᕨ᭜ѻϧ̭ぶȡą
candies in my bag (knowing I’ll forget about them and Ԏᖜȡ̭᲎ⴚⴚ⮱Ԏᖜ喑ఋᓳ̭ψ‫ڞ‬ 㸁㒻పϧౕ❴͚䕴㻮㒻丌ѥ᝸ᅞ ᳽丽ࢲ㔮Წ㞫ᓤ㗃ᖖ㤟ᅁᓤΌ䃑
enjoy them when searching for my keys). I also love hav- ᬍ䃧⩌≨͚ࣾ⩌γϭ͵喑̸䲏䔆 हև䓴⮱⏾⽪θ喑ᝃ㔲㏓̭⁎ᰶ䋐⮱ ៀ喑Ό̺ノ☘̺☘喑ᒵᣒౝ⅁喠ⷝ㻮
ing the Wedderspoon honey sachets in my purse to add a ͧ喟ᒵ็͚丽ࣕጵឭ㞧㇫⎈喑जВ
ψᄼθ䘪㘪䃖᜾Йᙌ‫ݝ‬Ꭵ⺼喟 㻮䲏喑䘪㘪䃖ࣹ᫦ᓰᗲᩫᲫȡ ᰶϧᄦ᳽⻺丌➖ᰶռ㻮ᅞ㏏㙥喑Ხ և‫ܧ‬ᒵ็ใᒏ⠙➦喑㔹́ঠ䖀ᒵສ
luxurious touch to my tea wherever I go.
3. Pop on an uplifting podcast. I’m loving Lewis Howes’s, ߈㐡៑χ≟㤉㈨⮱ప䭲ऺฝ喑ᒵऄ ⮱丌➖喑ѳ⇎ᰶᓄ‫ݝ‬Ꮑᰶ⮱䊋㾶ȡ

‫ڙ‬ᐭ䊋㒻‫ݘ‬ϧȡजВᒀ䲏Ƞౕ  ⃼๖㟞‫ܳ܍‬䧌⩕ᬒ䃝‫̸ۆ‬㜗
Melyssa Griffin’s and Julie Solomon’s right now. 㻯ф⮱ૉ⁏ȡ “Joe’s skill is spectacular. He can
4. I always wear black, but on days I need an energetic 㙥ΓࣾፃȠ*OTUB ̷⪆㼭ᝃ㓑ࣾ䗛У喑 ጞजВᐭᆂ⮱‫͇ޜ‬喑᭒๖᭜ᐭ໸㵹ߕ make dumplings that look like ani-
Ȩ㒻丌̺㒻ȩ䃑ⱌౝ䃕䃧γ᪴ࡃ⮱
boost, I wear something a little more dazzling! Pink skirt? ᑧ䄰‫ݘ‬ϧև⮱ສθᝃᰫ㏼㐆ε㜗ጞ⮱ ⮱ສ႐㞯喆 mals. And they all taste delicious.
᩼ᙌᕔ喑᜾ЙजВ䕇䓴丌➖γ㼐Ѓ
Lovely! Yellow coat? Yes please! Red lips? Don’t mind if I ፛ߖȡᄦ᫦ч䨚䃝λᓰ喑᜾Й㜗ጞΌч It doesn’t get the credit it deserves.”

ౕर૊̷ ᩫ㏢̸̭ȡ䚥 ᾆ≫ ϧ喑⩇㜠γ㼐㜗ጞȡ
do! Color is a free, easy way to brighten things up. ᙌ‫ݝ‬ᔘͽ喆 ‫ݺ‬Ȩ㏪㏓ᬣ្ȩ㒻丌䃱䃧უRuth
ࣵᐭ໸≮㵹γ喆仆Ἄ̭Ⱑ᭜̺͗䩆⮱ 䄵̓⩹㒻丌喑㜗♣⻨̺ᐭ͚丽ȡ
䔆䘕㏗ᒂ❴ౕす̰䯳̀䬕䃟γ͚丽喑 Reichl㶕⹧喟
5. Be early for something. A coffee date. A movie. A 
ౕ࠲䛹ᩫ̭ψᄼ䰣丌ȡ᜾ૉ⁏ 䔶᠖ȡࢠҬҍ⠙㜗ౕৃ઎亳ᝃ䙿॔ᒲ “Now there’s a lot of money in China.
phone call. Enjoy the few minutes you have to wait to just ᒭ࠲䛹ខψ㈃喍᜾ⴒ䖀㜗ጞ̺ч䃝ᓄ喑 γ̭ᄼ ᬣ喑Ό 㺮Ϙऄ⃼ ̭ ⻿ 䧌喑̺ ᓲ 喍θ჋̷喑͚丽⮱䏘ᒞᬍัౕ̺喎ȡ
There’s true respect for Chinese food.
breathe, and notice how your body feels. You’ll go from ѳਗ๖ౕ࠲䛹㔨䧒ࡆ⮱ᬣՆ喑ᅞ㘪ᠬ ᙌ‫ݝ‬ᙔ⫇喆 Why would a great Chinese chef
rushed to relaxed in an instant. ጓჄḍ华
General Tso’s chicken come to America, where everybody
‫ܧ‬ᲒϘ⩕喎ȡ᜾䔅ૉ⁏ౕ࠲䛹 ᩫ̷ᄼ

ិᅼᎂԊ៑ᢏ᜽㘪䃖ҍᓛ〾 thinks that Chinese food is supposed
6. Help someone. Assist someone with a stroller down 㶸㷲⮱ 8FEEFSTQPPO 㰯㱉喑䔆ᵤᬍ
⮱ఫ❴ȡ ຯ᳉ҍ䬛̭͗㒻పϧ喑ᰭૉ⁏⮱͚ to be cheap and they don’t really
the stairs, let someone cut in line who looks hurried or 䃧ࣨਗ喑᜾䘪㘪ͧ㡣Ⅱ⌨ߍຏࡻऐᙌȡ respect it?”
even just wait to hold a door open for the person behind 丽᭜ϭ͵喤Ѓчॷ䃶ҍ喑ጓჄḍ华ȡ

䊋㒻‫ݘ‬ϧ喆℁ຯहθ⮱᫝ࣾ ຯ᳉ҍ䬛̭͗㒻పϧ喑ͧϭ͵̺ૉ 䮼Ɑ͚ప㏼≻ࣾᆂ喑͚ప㒻丌ጟ㏼
you ... do it gracefully. 
ᩣख़᣽ᡜ㇫⺋⮱᧚჏ȡ᜾⣝ౕ
7. Sign up to receive regular emails from a fun and ಸ喤‫ݘ‬ϧϷ๖⮱㶐᰺ⰸ䊤Გ̺䩆喤ॷ ⁏͚丽喤Ѓчॷ䃶ҍ喑ᰶঠ㇫ȡ जВᓄ‫ⱌݝ‬ₐ⮱ᄷ䛺ȡ̭͗ສ⮱͚
ૉ⁏ख़݅ᭀ᫜e䆗᫜Ƞᶲͪ㢻eᵩ䛹㟙
inspiring blog or site. In my opinion, nothing beats Seth 䃶ЃЙ喆䔆ᵤࣹ᫦䘪чᙌऄ‫⩞ݝ‬ₑ㔹 㮪♣㒻ప⮱͚丽亳ᒵ็喑℁叓ᒀߠȠ పࣕጵͧϭ͵㺮Გ‫ݝ‬ϧϧ㻶ᓄ͚丽
হᱞ㢶e᝭㒄䬕⮱᧚჏ȡ
Godin’s and Gabby Bernstein’s (and of course my own)! Გ⮱⼜Ხᒞ৺ȡ ⅶൎ⢸Ƞ⍖㦯ⅶൎহ㗜ᓤധߍ䊤Გ ᒵ᏶ФȠ̺թᓄ㷘ᄷ䛺⮱㒻పএ喤
And did I mention Greatist? 
᜾ᕨ᭜⾬叾㞟㶐᰺喑ѳ‫ݝ‬γ䰭 ๔࢘হЃ⮱᰸ࣸЙΌᘼ䃳‫ݝ‬喑ᒵ็
䔅็ȡ
8. Really listen to the people who talk to you. Take your 㺮᣽ࡴ㘪䛼⮱ᬒၽ喑 ᜾ч⾬ᓄᰡ㐇ͪ喆 
ⰸψ㘪፛ߖ᣽ࡴ㜗ጞ⮱͉㺬ȡ ͚丽亳ज㘪ᬍ∂эឬ̸ࣨȡ
There are more Chinese restaurants
paws off your phone! ᒀ♣喑᜾ૉ⁏ⰸȨз㉏ᄀ㼭ȩ喑ϻ͚ᙌ “Because the kids didn’t want to
ᄼㆶ㸆喤ᒵज❞喆叱㞟๔㶐喤⇎䬛䷅喑 in the US than McDonald’s, Burger
9. Tell someone you love them ... even if it’s just your cat. take over. I’m sure their parents
And look them in the eye when you do it. Love is the most ⾬̷喆◵♝㏏਴喤᜾⊯̷̺ϸᘼ॔喆෋ ऄऑ㔮⮱ᮧᚔহᄦϧᕔ᩼䨽⮱≋ᄌ喑 King, Wendy’s and Kentucky Fried
didn’t want them to take it over. You
precious thing we have. ⌨㞟ᒖ㘪◦ϛ⩌≨喑㔹́‫ٺ‬䉦ȠキӬȡ ⃼๖㜠ᄾ䄨̭ヴ喑⩕̺γ͑ܳ䧌喆 Chickens combined.
work hard in the business, you want
10. Text a friend who you haven’t reached out to in a ѳ㐊๔็᪝͚丽亳և⮱䘪᭜ᩦ㞜

๔ฝౝ㶕䓫ᙌ䅏ȡ᭜॓ૉ⁏ your kids to have a better life, you
while. A short text remembering something funny you ͸ऻ⮱Ą㒻ᐼ͚丽ą喑হప‫͚⮱ڲ‬丽
ҍ⃼๖Ϙ⩕⮱ᠬ䧮Ƞ⩉⩉వᝃ⇆៶喤 want them to become a doctor or a
did together or requesting a fun meetup will put you both  ᱙⃢⮱㔨䃾ᰶ຃ᒮ䯳͚
᭜͑⴮θ喍Chinese-American food lawyer or an Indian chief.”
in a lighter mood. ा‫҉ݣ‬䔆ψ⮱ϧ㶕䓫ᙌ䅏喆 versus Chinese-mainland food喎ȡ ̺䓴๔࢘Όा᜾Йᆂ⹧γ͚丽⮱
11. Journal for a few minutes about what your side పใ⮱͚丽亳ᒭᒭ㏼ࢳ䓴ㆨѩ䔆ᵤ
hustle may be. Spring is a beautiful time to start! 
‫ٮ‬䃥㜗ጞևᷓÿÿຯ᳉ҍ䰭 ጹ᱈ȡ℁ຯ็ѓ็̴䩓ጯ⮱̭უ⊤

፛ߖ‫ݘ‬ϧȡ፛ᔆិྡ٬䒓៙̸ ⮱䒙ಸȡᰭᐭ໸ևᓄ͚ᐼ⮱ऐঠ喑ऻ 凉Ꮔ᣽ӈ⮱Ą哆㮫ᆞą喍the lobster
12. Eat or drink something indulgent. Key lime pie is 㺮 ᣕ ̭ ិ ⮱ 䄊喑#VDLFUMJTU
#PNC
back in season! And champagne is always a good idea. ẩᷜ喑䃖ⰸ䊤Გᰶᕒθ⮱ϧ᣿͗䭌喑 Გࣾ⣝͚ప჏ϧᄾ喑䯫Вͧ㐔喑गສ mountain喎「♣䃖䧌❞ㆠ‫ڣ‬᳄̶ᭌ
TIFMMT 㘪᣽ӈͨ㺮喍́჋⩕⮱喆喎᫲㵹
Even if you go to a cafe or bar alone for an hour to partake. ᝃ㔲ग᭜⪆䬕㐆䏘ऻ⮱ϧććх䯲ౝ 䓻वᒀౝऐঠȡ
㒻పϧ☚㶤λ⇦◥ ᫆⤳⮱๔࢘㣤ᓄγ䊲䊷ㆠ‫ڣ‬᳄̶ᭌ
হ⩌≨᫦ᐼᠴᄩ喆
Enjoy every second! No guilt necessary. Ⴙ᜽䔆ψͫ᝸͸ߠ॔ȡ ͸ऻ䚒㘳⮱ऐᙌ喍Westerners tend ⮱ᘶᗓᙌȡ

13. Update your screensaver to something that makes 
ⰸⱭ䪉ၽ䊋㒻㜗ጞȡ㏼፥䛺 to like the crispness of deep-fried 䔆უ丽ࢲ⮱㔮Წ喑̺ϲ⩕㒻丌喑ᰡ
you smile. 
∕ ‫ ̭ ڹ‬ψᰶ䋐হड़ࣾ ϧᓰ⮱ foods喎হ䚥䚥⩉⩉⮱喍sweet and
ฺࣨև喆఍ͧҍ⮱⩌≨ក⤳ᓄ̺䩆ȡ ᭜⩕Ѓ⮱Ԏᔢ喑ᒮ᰺γ๔࢘হЃ⮱
14. Compliment someone! Like your colleague’s new ࢇ჏ᝃ㑾〆喑Ⴧ᱌ᣒऄ䗛Уȡ᜾㻶ᓄ喑 sour喎ঠ䖀ȡλ᭜ᅞࣾᬻγᒵ็ㆨѩ
haircut? Someone’s outfit look nice today? Tell them! The ᰸ࣸЙȡ
ϭ͵䘪℁ ̷̺䊈 ᫜e倅Ⅽ হߍ℁eќ 
ᓛ〾喆ᓛ〾হ઱㞜̭ᵤ䘪᭜ ⮱৮⻺喑℁ຯ䅏㕠ᱢᰭૉ⁏⮱䭵⯛华
boost this gives will impact both of you. ͚丽⮱偲߈䔅᭜䲋፥๔⮱ȡᅞ䔋ᄦ
15. Read something that uplifts you. Currently I’m lov- ᖖ᫜ಓ⮱喍ᒀ♣䔅ᰶ᜾⮱喎喆‫ݘ‬ᔅγ䔅 ‫ٺ‬䉦⮱ȡ㶄̷ᝃౝ䧮䛹䭹⩌ϧ⮱ᓛ〾 喍Orange Chicken喎ȡ 㜗ጞ㒻丌䲋፥侱‫⮱ן‬ᘼ๔‫ݖ‬ϧΌ̺
ing Aesop’s Fables for their age-old wisdom and insights ᰶ (SFBUJTUȡ 㘪᣽䚿ҍ喑 ᜾Й‫ڞ‬ह⩌≨ౕ䔆͗̓⩹喑 В㜠λ⣝ౕᒵ็㺬᫦ϧ䄜ВͧĄ ᓄ̺ឬ䃑喑产ၽສर䓴ЃЙ⮱䚬亲
into human behavior. I read at least one daily. It takes less ᝭В㺮઱ᒲЃϧȡ 㒻ᐼ͚丽ąᅞ᭜ⱌₐ⮱͚丽喍they

䃑ⱌ㕳ख़̻ҍ㕷๖⮱ϧȡិ᝸ ᘼ䲏ȡ
than two minutes! grew up thinking that Chinese food
16. Say thank you. Loudly. Do you just love your latte, 䛹⮱᝸ᱧ‫ٵ‬ᩫ̸喆 ҍ۳ิ‫ٵ‬ևਗ̭᲎এ喤 ᝭В᜾Й㺮ᄦ͚丽ᰶԎᓰȡ
is Chinese-American喎ćć
bagel or salad every day? Tell the person who makes it! ϲ㺮ಇႵ㜗ጞ⮱ԎН喑ᰡ㺮ߗ߈⮱
̺䓴喑䮼Ɑ͚ప䊷ࣾᐭᩫ喑㒻ప䓾Ꭱ
17. Allow yourself to dream, and if you need a little эឬ‫ڠ‬λ㒻丌⮱䃝ᓳহⴒ䃳喑ᅞ‫׼‬
ᲒΌᐭ໸‫ܧ‬⣝ౝ䖀⮱͚丽γȡ
push, the Bucketlist Bombshells provide major (practical!) ❤❤ຣຣិუ፥㤉⮱⼅ჳэᢵ㐆❣
travel and lifestyle inspo! ๔ౕ࢘៶᫜㐡ߍ᫜⮱丽ࢲरႹ͚ప
⃺喑❣⃺‫ں‬эᢵၽຠ̭ᵤćć
18. Look in the mirror and compliment yourself. Repeat ๔䭳ࣕጵև⮱͚丽ऻᙌद喟
㔨䃾倅᝸喟䄤ᄳ▝ᵳᴴ∕‫ڲ‬ღ䃾᜽͚᪴喑ౕ  ᰵ  ᬒ͚ࡵ “This is as good as you can get in
often! Because you are doing a great job at life.
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Crossword Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
A steady pace toward your goal will be your best bet. If someone
veers off in a different direction, don’t feel obligated to tag along. 结伴去逛街
Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)
 



Finish what you start and live up to your word. As long as you
stick to your agenda and are productive, no one will have the Going shopping together
right to complain.

Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20) 这儿的店还真多啊，大多是卖时装和饰品的。

False information will be offered. Rely on your intelligence and
trustworthy people to avoid being led astray. A financial opportu-
nity looks promising.
  


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Negotiate on your own behalf. When faced with obstacles, use clothes and accessories.
your intelligence and quick wit to turn the tables. A little romance
will improve your life.

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speak up and ask questions. Self-deception is apparent.
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Offer help, but don’t let anyone take advantage of you. A problem
I have yet to make up my mind. I’ll just look around.
with someone who tries to take charge and speak on your behalf
will come to a head.
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You’ll be keen to try something new, but make sure you can
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afford the overall expense involved before you sign up. A positive


physical change can be made without overspending.
Look, it’s full of beautiful things here. It’s really worth a
Virgo (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) stroll.
Dealing with domestic matters, home renovations or expenses
will cause stress if you are sharing the costs with someone who
tends to be extravagant. Be clear how much you are willing to 前头有个时装店，去看看吧。
spend.
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scratching 32 Sharpshooter’s 53 1974 hit with 24 Literature Share your feelings and be sensitive to the needs of others. If you There is a fashion store ahead. Let’s go in and have a look.
6 OPEC, e.g. asset Spanish lyrics Nobelist Morri- are willing to compromise, you will find a solution, even if you are
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superior in the 34 Crisis time, for 56 [OMG!] maybe Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)
Civil War some … or a hint 57 Label rarely 28 Oven feature
Keep busy, move about and be willing to listen to reason. If you
15 Indian royal to each of the seen on silk gar- 29 A dance, or a dip are too insistent or take on too much, you will not reach your tar-
16 “Honey wine” circled words ments 30 Tree with trian- get. Keep your life simple.
17 Things that pow- 38 It’s an honour: 60 Prelude to a gular nuts BETTER ENGLISH
er Teslas Abbr. deal 35 Censure publicly Sagittarius (NOV. 23-DEC. 21)
20 Criticism, 40 Camera named 61 Simoleon 36 Dim bulb
for a goddess 62 Typo, e.g. 37 Sierra and Aca- Concentrate on what’s important. Don’t exaggerate or be evasive
informally when asked for facts to back up your claims. If you want to get 国务院印发牵头组织国际大科学计划方案
21 Laudatory piece 41 Year the Korean 63 Crash-probing dia vehicles things done, you’ll have to get along.
22 In one piece War began agcy. 38 Aromatic addi-
23 SEAL’s org. 44 Lakeside furni- 64 Glimpse tive to natural
ture item 65 Gushes gas
国务院日前印发《积极牵头组织国际大科学计划和大
24 Recess game
25 Rudy’s coach in 49 +: Abbr. 39 Splits in half Bridge 科学工程方案》
。《方案》从四个方面提出了牵头组织
50 Cock-a-___ (dog Down 42 Like many Poe 国际大科学计划和大科学工程的重点任务。
Rudy
26 N.L. East city breed) 1 Really angry tales Wallace D. Wattles, an
27 Went bonkers 51 Dorm V.I.P.s 2 Gets in trouble, 43 Stays under the author who died in 1911, China’s State Council has issued a set of guidelines to
in a way radar said, “The calm and bal- encourage the launch of more international “big science”
3 Detox, say 44 So-called miss- anced mind is the strong and projects.
Friday’s solution ing link
4 “Darn it!” great mind; the hurried and
5 Thus far 45 ___-Free (con- agitated mind is the weak
6 Game for dum- tact lens solu- one.” 国务院印发了一系列鼓励组织国际大科学工程的指导
mies? tion) At the bridge table, it helps 方案。
7 Spike, as punch 46 Peanut butter
choice to be calm and have a strong
8 Admit ___ and great mind. But if you
The guidelines, which were distributed to provincial-level
9 Wide-screen 47 Jayhawks’ governments as well as ministries and institutions of the
movie format home: Abbr. have a balanced hand, be a
State Council, called on them to take the lead in launching
10 Words heard in 48 Dogie catchers tad cautious. Unless partner international big science research plans and projects,
24-Across, may- 54 Wooley who has a long suit or two, you using domestic and overseas scientific resources.
be sang The will probably not win as
11 “’Twasn’t me” Purple People many tricks as your com-
and others Eater bined point-count suggests. 该方案要求省级政府以及国务院各部委、
各直属机构
12 Hamlet’s killer 55 Exchange In yesterday’s deal, Loren- diamonds and one club.
56 John Irving title 利用国内外科学资源，
牵头组织国际大科学计划和大
13 1950s autos zini and Quantin from Partner should have eight 科学工程。
with “horse col- hero France bid an excellent losers for a limit raise, which
lar” grilles 58 C.T.A. grand slam with only 24 he does because you deduct
18 Leather often transports 《方案》指出， 国际大科学计划和大科学工程(interna-
59 Fathers and combined high-card points. one loser for a 10-card or bet- tional big science research plans and projects)是人类
treated to look Quantin’s club void was ter fit. Six plus eight from 24
like morocco sons 开拓知识前沿、 探索未知世界和解决重大全球性问题
opposite three low cards, so gives 10. You should win 10 的重要手段， 是一个国家综合实力(comprehensive
they had no duplication, as it tricks. So, do not even think strength)和科技创新竞争力(competitiveness in science
is called. In contrast, look at about a slam! and innovation)的重要体现。
Comics the South hand in today’s At the table, South con-
DILBERT diagram. You open one trol-bid three spades. North 大科学计划以实现重大科学问题的原创性突破(origi-
heart, and partner responds should have signed off in nal breakthroughs in major scientific problems)为目标，
three hearts, a game-invita- four hearts, but he thought it 是基础研究在科学前沿领域的全方位拓展， 对于推动
tional limit raise with at least couldn’t hurt to show his 世界科技创新与进步、 应对人类社会面临的共同挑战
four-card support. What club control. However, South 具有重要支撑作用。
would you rebid? launched into Blackwood
After finding a fit with and bid to six hearts.
partner, I like to apply the Note that even with the 《方案》明确了我国牵头组织国际大科学计划和大科
Losing Trick Count. The club finesse winning, declar- 2035年以及本世纪中叶的“三步
学工程面向2020年、
South hand has six losers: er had to lose a spade and a 走”发展目标：
two spades, one heart, two diamond.
近期目标： 到2020年，培育3-5个项目， 研究遴选并启动
F-MINUS Kakuro 1-2个我国牵头组织的大科学计划， 初步形成牵头组织
大科学计划的机制做法(forming a mechanism for
launching big science projects)，为后续工作探索积累
有益经验。

中期目标： 到2035年，培育6-10个项目，启动培育成熟
项目， 形成我国牵头组织的大科学计划初期布局
(building a preliminary framework for launching big sci-
ence projects)，提升在全球若干科技领域的影响力
(enhancing China's influence in several scientific and
technological fields around the world)。

远期目标： 到本世纪中叶， 培育若干项目，启动培育成

PEANUTS 熟项目， 我国原始科技创新能力显著提高， 在国际科技
创新治理体系中发挥重要作用(playing a significant role
in international scientific innovation and governance)，
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major global scientific and technological issues)。

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22 SPORTS
TENNIS
Game, set and match ... fixing
Independent panel claims lower levels of the sport are dogged by corruption, Agence France-Presse reports.
A report by the Independent Review Panel has concluded that corruption is rampant in professional tennis, particularly in the lower levels of the sport.
L
ower-level tennis has
a “tsunami”-like
problem with match-
fixing, according to a
review body set up to look into
allegations of corruption in
the sport.
The Independent Review
Panel (IRP), which published
its findings recently, says there
is a “very significant” corrup-
tion problem at “lower and
middle levels of the sport”,
especially in the men’s game.
The panel was set up in Jan-
uary 2016 following allega-
tions made by the BBC and
Buzzfeed that leading players,
including Grand Slam win-
ners, were involved in match-
fixing and that evidence had
been suppressed.
The panel — which spoke to
over 100 players and, accord-
ing to the BBC, cost $28 mil-
lion to fund — found no
evidence to support those alle-
gations.
However, it said there was a
“match-fixing season” from
October until the end of the
‘Retired’ Hewitt says his doubles career never ended
STUTTGART, Germany —
He may have played his last
singles match in the 2016 Aus-
tralian Open, but Lleyton
Hewitt says he never really
retired from doubles.
The 37-year-old Aussie
Davis Cup captain, who
reached the last eight with
Sam Groth at the Australian
Open in January, is teaming
with 19-year-old compatriot
Alex De Minaur in the doubles
at this week’s Estoril Open.
Hewitt, who appeared in
Portugal at the Masters Cup
year-end event 18 years ago
when it debuted in Lisbon,
will be reliving his tennis past
when he and De Minaur face
second seeds Raven Klaasen of
SOCCER
Neuer pacing himself in World Cup fitness fight
By XINHUA
BERLIN — Manuel Neuer
recently reminded himself to
slow down and take a break
while training.
Sometimes, the Bayern
Munich goalkeeper says, he
still has to control his impa-
tience. Reminding himself of
his big goal for the season —
making Germany’s World Cup
squad — helps him ease off.
Neuer (pictured) returned
to regular training with Bay-
ern two weeks ago after an
eight-month injury absence
year with “traces of up to two
or three fixed matches per
day” in International Tennis
Federation (ITF) tourna-
ments, which are the lowest
level of men’s events.
However, the highest level
competitions and governing
bodies did not escape criti-
cism.
Investigation of suspicious
incidents at Grand Slam
events was deemed “insuffi-
cient” by the report, while oth-
er inquiries were
“inappropriate or ineffective,
resulting in missed opportuni-
ties”.
The ATP, the governing
body of men’s professional
tennis, was also found to be
guilty of “failing to exhaust
potential leads before ending
investigations”.
The panel claimed tennis
faces a “serious integrity prob-
lem”, particularly at the lower
levels of the sport where play-
ers often struggle to break
even, and especially on the
men’s circuits.
South Africa and New Zealand
partner Michael Venus.
“I don’t know if I ever
retired from doubles,” the two-
time singles Grand Slam
champion said in the run-up
to his team’s Portuguese start.
“I quit singles because of dif-
ferent reasons and situations
at the time. But I played with
Sam Groth.
“I was surprised at how well
I played. Now I have the
chance to play with Alex.
“It will mean a lot to him,
he’s based in Spain and grew
up on clay.
“I’m still competitive on the
court. I don’t know what I’ll
play this year, but I certainly
will be playing some.”
due to a bro-
ken foot.
H o w e v e r,
with the
World Cup
just around
the corner, it is expected he will
skip the German Cup final
against Eintracht Frankfurt on
May 19.
“There are still some things
we have to check. We intend to
do that very carefully,” said
Neuer, who captained his
country in its 2014 World Cup
final win over Argentina.
Germany coach Joachim
Tennis faces a
“serious integ-
rity problem”,
particularly at
the lower levels
of the sport
where players
often struggle
to break even,
and especially
on the men’s
circuits.”
Report by the IRP
Lleyton Hewitt
The former world No 1 has
heaped praise on the young-
ster after giving him a Davis
Cup debut in February.
Loew has confirmed that Neu-
er will be part of his pre-World
Cup training camp in north-
ern Italy from May 23 to June
6, but emphasized that the
32-year-old still has a lot of
catching up to do.
Loew is hopeful that Neuer
will get some game time in
friendlies against Austria and
Saudi Arabia on June 2 and 8.
With the league champion-
ship already wrapped up, Neu-
er also looks set to get some
Bundesliga minutes under his
belt in Bayern’s final two
games, against relegated
The panel made several rec-
ommendations to tackle cor-
ruption because it believes the
current system used by the
TIU (Tennis Integrity Unit)
and international governing
bodies is “inadequate to deal
with the nature and extent of
the problem now faced”.
Bookies bashed
Among its recommenda-
tions was that betting compa-
nies should stop being allowed
to sponsor tournaments — a
move sure to be welcomed by
Britain’s two-time Wimbledon
champion Andy Murray who
in 2016 labeled bookmakers’
sponsorship as hypocritical.
The panel also called for the
TIU to be reorganized and
reformed, even though it
launched a new strategy in its
war on corruption last year.
The panel’s findings that it
had not uncovered any evi-
dence of institutional corrup-
tion were welcomed by the
ITF, ATP and WTA as well as
the four heads of the Grand
“Alex is pretty special, he’s a
good kid. I enjoy working with
him, giving him some knowl-
edge,” he said.
Cologne and/or Stuttgart.
“He will definitely return
before the end of this season,”
Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes
said.
“I have an exact plan of how
things will be done regarding
our last matches of this sea-
son.”
Sven Ulreich has deputized
for Neuer since he sustained
the injury on Sept 16 against
Mainz, with Heynckes glow-
ingly describing the 29-year-
old former Stuttgart stopper
as a ‘godsend’.
Heynckes will stick with
REUTERS
Slam tournaments.
However, they accepted the
need for firm and decisive
action to address the concerns
raised about the lower-level
tours.
“Following an initial review
of the interim report we con-
firm our agreement in princi-
ple with the package of
measures and recommenda-
tions proposed by the IRP,”
read their joint statement.
“These include the removal
of opportunities and incen-
tives for breaches in integrity,
the establishment of a restruc-
tured, more independent TIU,
enhanced education, expand-
ed rules, and greater coopera-
tion and collaboration with
the betting industry and
broader sports community.”
The report received 3,200
survey responses from players
at all levels around the world,
of which 464 said they had
firsthand knowledge of
match-fixing.
Enhanced education was an
area already being addressed
Hewitt said he has few last-
ing memories of the Lisbon
Masters Cup nearly two dec-
ades ago, where he failed to
exit the group stage with loss-
es to Marat Safin and Alex Cor-
retja after upsetting Pete
Sampras.
“It was quite rushed here in
2000, I had a Davis Cup final
in Spain the next week on a
different surface. It was really
hectic and a massive goal to
make the Masters Cup for the
first time,” he said.
“I’ve heard nice reports
about this tournament from
some of the guys, so it’s great
to be back.”
Hewitt said that he feels fit-
ter than he did toward the end
Ulreich for the cup final but it
is not thought Neuer’s place is
under threat next season.
Loew, meanwhile, has plen-
ty of world-class keepers to
choose from should Neuer lose
his fitness race.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen has
been solid between the posts
for newly crowned La Liga
champion Barcelona this sea-
son and, after overcoming a
shaky start to his international
career, helped Germany win
the Confederations Cup last
summer.
Bernd Leno of Bayer Lev-
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
by the TIU.
Phil Suddick, information
manager at the TIU, said last
September that the unit
believed a focus on education
was crucial to combat corrup-
tion within the sport.
Suddick said that in order to
nip such practices in the bud it
was crucial to address junior
players and their parents.
“It is the parents who tend
to be their coaches and the
people who travel with them,
so it is they who must first
notice a sponsorship deal that
isn’t really what it appears to
be,” said Suddick.
“This could be a person who
pays for flights and hotels,
which is the thin end of the
wedge, but the wedge can
grow into something larger
down the line.
“We have to educate the
entourage around the juniors
from the coach, the parents to
the hitting partner and others
involved.”
AGENC FRANCE-PRESSE
of his singles career.
“When you retire, you miss
the big events, playing Grand
Slams is pretty special.
“But to play week-in, week-
out is tough. After six months,
my body actually felt better, I
feel better now than at my last
Australian Open.”
Hewitt, who won the 2001
US Open and 2002 Wimble-
don titles, retired in 2016 but
played doubles this year in
Brisbane and at the Australian
Open, where he made the
quarterfinals with Groth,
before returning to his full-
time occupation of Davis Cup
coach.
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erkusen, Kevin Trapp of Paris
Saint-Germain and Ulreich
are also options.
Loew is also sweating on the
fitness of Bayern defender Jer-
ome Boateng, who sustained a
thigh injury in the Bavarians’
Champions League semifinal
first-leg defeat to Real Madrid.
The World Cup finals kick
off on June 14, with Germany’s
Group F opener a potential
banana skin three days later in
Moscow. What look like easier
matches follow against Swe-
den on June 24 and South
Korea on June 27.
MOTOGP
Rivals
revving
up to reel
in leader
Marquez
Maverick Vinales was a
distant second to Marc Mar-
quez at the Grand Prix of
the Americas. Still, he felt
confident enough to send a
message to his Spanish
compatriot about the rest of
the MotoGP season as the
series heads to its European
heartland.
“We are coming,” the
Movistar Yamaha rider
warned. “We feel quite
strong.”
After races in Qatar,
Argentina and Texas, Mot-
oGP will resume its season
in Jerez, Spain on May 6,
kicking off a summer of
races on European tracks
that should bring Marquez
back to the pack. Or bring
the pack up to him.
And the racing should be
wild: With three winners
after three races, five riders
are within eight points of
the championship lead.
Ducati’s Italian rider,
Andrea Dovizioso, who
battled Marquez for the
2017 championship, leads
with 46 points, one point
ahead of Marquez and his
Repsol Honda.
Vinales is only four
points behind Marquez in
third. Then come the top
independent team riders
in Britain’s Cal Crutchlow
and France’s Johann Zarco.
Crutchlow won in Argen-
tina and was the first Brit-
ish rider to lead MotoGP
until his 19th-place finish
in Texas. He was battling
Zarco for sixth in Texas
until a late-race clash
doomed his chances to pick
up any points.
“I’m not a sixth-place rid-
er this year, so I’m not going
to settle for sixth,” Crutch-
low said. “I was fast enough
to be second.”
Marquez was expected to
dominate in Texas, taking
his sixth straight win on a
circuit where he’s been
invincible.
Europe will be different.
The Circuit of the Ameri-
cas track was built for the
cars of Formula One and it
favors Marquez and his bike
with its hairpin turns and
long straights.
The smaller, narrower
European tracks force rid-
ers into more turns, braking
maneuvers and racing
moves that test their skills
in different ways.
“It’s a combination of him
and the bike” in Texas, Vina-
les said of Marquez. “In the
corners he pulls away ... I
can’t wait to be in Europe.”
The European tracks do
even out the racing field. In
2017, four different riders
won the first five races.
Marquez didn’t get a
European win until the
sixth race on the continent.
But after his win on Sun-
day, he fired his own warn-
ing shot with his usual
beaming smile.
“I feel really sweet with
the bike,” Marquez said.
The wheel-to-wheel rac-
ing will also test Marquez’s
aggressive style that has
seen him cause some crash-
es already this season.
His aggressive moves in
Argentina drew two penal-
ties and a warning for all
riders that MotoGP will
issue tougher sanctions for
dangerous racing. Marquez
felt their sting first when he
was docked three spots on
the starting grid in Texas for
impeding Vinales in quali-
fying.
Not wanting to risk more
trouble, Marquez bolted for
the front and once he got
the lead pushed hard to pull
away.
“I changed my strategy,”
Marquez said. “I didn’t have
the confidence to battle.”
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SOCCER

Kane relishing finals countdown Russia seeks to

silence racists

MOSCOW — Russian soc-

cer’s anti-racism chief wants
Spurs star confident he can shake the World Cup host to start
using Fan ID cards at league
rustiness in time for World Cup matches to combat monkey
chants.
Ape noises have turned
LONDON — Harry Kane Replays were inconclusive into one of the most serious
said it has taken him time to as to whether Kane touched dilemmas facing Russia in
recover his scoring touch after Christian Eriksen’s cross en the run-up to the June 14-Ju-
an injury absence, but he’s route to the Stoke net, but aft- ly 15 showpiece.
confident he will be back to his er adamantly maintaining The incidents have blight-
best for the World Cup. that the ball had flicked off his ed some of the biggest
Kane scored his 38th goal of shoulder, the Premier League games played in Russia and
the season as fourth-place Tot- overturned the initial ruling aired live on national TV.
tenham Hotspur beat Watford and awarded the goal to Kane. The most recent case
2-0 at Wembley on Monday to Spurs Mauricio Pochettino resulted in defending cham-
edge closer to a third consecu- said the mini controversy pions Spartak Moscow
tive season in the Champions might have played a part in receiving a partial stadium
League by opening up a five- Kane’s indifferent form. ban last week over fan abuse
point lead over fifth-place “Of course it is a mix about hurled at an African player in
Chelsea with just three Pre- different things. It wasn’t a a League Cup semifinal.
mier League games left. great period for him the past The football federation
Kane again looked rusty and few weeks, he is human like simultaneously fined Zenit
believes he should have scored everyone else, and was a little Saint Petersburg for “Nazi
more in a labored Spurs per- bit affected,” said Pochettino. slogans” heard during a
formance that was character- However, the Argentine has league match against Anzhi
istic of their dip in recent no concerns over Kane’s men- Makhachkala.
weeks. tal toughness to lead England And world governing body
“Obviously, I would have in Russia. FIFA launched disciplinary
liked to play better over the “He scored. He needs to proceedings against Russia
last few games, but I think the improve his performance still, over monkey chants heard
whole team feel like that,” said but 150 games in the Premier during a friendly against
Kane. League, 105 goals, what we can France in March.
“I feel good, I feel sharp, I say more? He is a fantastic Anti-discrimination
probably could have scored a striker,” he said. inspector Alexei Smertin said
couple more out there today. “He’s a strong guy, physical- Harry Kane (left) is congratulated by Tottenham teammate Dele Alli after scoring his side’s second goal in a 2-0 Premier League victory on Monday the same Fan ID
“I’m looking forward to the ly and mentally. I am sure he’ll over Watford at Wembley Stadium, London on Monday. England striker Kane, who has sniped 27 league goals this term, now trails Liver- cards being used at World
last three games. Hopefully I perform for us in a very good pool rival Mo Salah by four in the race for the Golden Boot, with three matches to play. REUTERS Cup matches should be
can finish strong like I did last way and arrive in good condi- applied to domestic Russian
year going into a big summer.” tion for the World Cup.” games.
Kane was sidelined for just An 11th defeat in their last 12 teed up Alli to tap home his is to win. Of course, maybe, it England international quickly He thought the disappoint- Russia first tried out the
three weeks after suffering away games leaves Watford fourth goal in five games. wasn’t a great performance, picked himself up to slot home ment from that match was still system with FIFA’s approval
ankle ligament damage at still in need of a point to math- Watford had plenty of chan- but Lloris showed fantastic when Kieran Trippier flashed evident in the atmosphere at at lasts year’s Confedera-
Bournemouth last month. ematically secure survival. ces to be at least level at the skills and (showed) why he is the loose ball back across goal. Wembley. tions Cup.
But on top of trying to get The Hornets were left to rue break but was repeatedly one of the best keepers in the Victory was Spurs’ first in “You felt during the game “I am in favor of the Rus-
back into top physical shape, a host of missed chances after denied by Hugo Lloris. world,” added Pochettino. four games in all competitions our fans were disappointed sian championship using the
he has also had to cope with matching the sub-par host for The French goalkeeper had Having escaped unscathed as they bounced back from because of the defeat against Fan ID system, just as we did
public ridicule for claiming a long spells. cost Tottenham with a series of before the break, Spurs dou- their FA Cup semifinal loss to Man Utd,” he said. “The at the Confederations Cup,”
goal in a 2-1 win at Stoke to aid A bright start from Watford errors in recent weeks but bled their lead three minutes Manchester United. atmosphere wasn’t great, but Smertin told Russia’s RT
his chances of beating Liver- was undone on 16 minutes saved well against Andre Grey, after the restart. That defeat ensured Pochet- the most important (thing) is television station.
pool’s Mohamed Salah to the when goalkeeper Orestis Kar- Abdoulaye Doucoure and Jose An inopportune slip pre- tino will still be without a tro- to be in the top four.”
Golden Boot award for the nezis spilled a simple cross Holebas. vented Kane turning home a phy after four seasons in AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
league’s top scorer. from the right and Eriksen “For me the most important Son Heung-min cross, but the charge at Tottenham. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
Digest
TABLE TENNIS
China’s champs
still undefeated
China’s national men’s and
women’s teams, both reigning
world champions, remained
unbeaten after the first three
rounds of the group stage of
the 2018 World Team Table
Tennis Championships in
Halmstad, Sweden on Monday.
The Chinese men swept Bra-
zil in the evening after blank-
ing the Czech Republic 3-0 in
the morning. Meanwhile, the
women’s top-ranked trio of
Wang Manyu, Zhu Yuling and
Liu Shiwen swept Russia 3-0,
giving China its third straight
victory without losing a single
set.
BOXING
Golovkin aiming
to match Hopkins
Undefeated Gennady Golov-
kin is set to defend his three
major world middleweight
titles against fill-in foe Vanes
Martirosyan on Saturday, with
boxing history and a possible
rematch with Canelo Alvarez
on the line.
“Triple G” (33-0-1) will try to
stretch his reign, which began
in 2010, to 20 fights and equal
Bernard Hopkins for the long-
est title run in middleweight
history when he faces Martiro-
syan, an Armenia-born Ameri-
can, in Carson, California.
Golovkin was signed for a
Las Vegas showdown against
Alvarez on the Mexican Cinco
de Mayo holiday, a rematch of
their thrilling draw last Sep-
tember. But the Mexican tested
positive for the banned sub-
stance clenbuterol and
dropped out of the bout four
weeks ago.
Dogbe pounds out
historic victory
Isaac Dogbe defeated Jessie
Magdaleno in Philadelphia on
Saturday to clinch the WBO
super bantamweight title and
become Ghana’s youngest ever
world champion.
Dogbe stopped the previous-
ly undefeated Magdaleno, who
hails from Las Vegas, in the
11th round.
On behalf of President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
Ghana’s Sports Minister Isaac
Kwame Asiamah on Monday
congratulated Dogbe, saying:
“Your victory came as no sur-
prise to us because of your
focus, determination and dedi-
cation to a righteous course.
Your confidence gives you
strength in style.”
ICE HOCKEY
Lamoriello won’t
be back in GM role
Toronto Maple Leafs general
manager Lou Lamoriello will
not return to the role next sea-
son. Leafs president Brendan
Shanahan said on Monday he
was sticking to a plan that
called for the 75-year-old Lam-
oriello to serve as GM for three
years and then transition to
senior adviser for four years.
Shanahan said he doesn’t
have a timeline for filling the
GM position.
“My focus was on Lou and
making a decision, taking a lit-
tle bit of time right after the
season ended to really reflect
on that.”
BASEBALL
Surgery puts end
to Seager’s season
Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star
shortstop Corey Seager will
miss the remainder of the sea-
son after being diagnosed on
Monday with a right ulnar col-
lateral ligament sprain that will
require Tommy John surgery.
The Dodgers placed Seager,
who turned 24 last Friday, on
the 10-day disabled list due to
the ailment and recalled infield-
er Breyvic Valera from Triple-A
Oklahoma City.
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BASKETBALL
China’s hoop hopes have new HQ
‘First-of-kind’ NBA Center will
inspire younger generations
By SHI FUTIAN
shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn
Hall of Famer Dominique
Wilkins hopes the world’s first
NBA Center in Tianjin can
inspire Chinese kids to realize
their hoop dreams.
The center, which claims to
be a one-of-its-kind basketball
facility, opened to much fan-
fare in the Wuqing district of
the eastern port city on Mon-
day.
Featuring NBA-style courts,
a children’s entertainment
area and a retail store, the cen-
ter is the latest example of the
league’s efforts to grow its Chi-
nese market share.
Wilkins, a nine-time All Star
who played most of his 15-year
career with the Atlanta
Hawks, hopes its benefits will
Boston’s young
upstarts make
Philly look silly
BOSTON — Boston’s rising
stars stalled ‘The Process’ and
led the Celtics to victory in
Game 1 of their Eastern Con-
ference semifinal on Monday.
Substitute point guard Ter-
ry Rozier scored 29, and first-
year Celtics forward Jayson
Tatum had a career-high 28
points to outplay starry rook-
ie Ben Simmons on Monday
night and lead Boston to a 117-
101 victory over the Philadel-
phia 76ers.
With much of the attention
focused on 76ers youngsters
Simmons and Joel Embiid,
Boston’s youth movement of
Tatum and Rozier led the way.
Two days after scoring a
career playoff-high 26 points
in Game 7 against Milwaukee,
Rozier topped it, while also
adding eight rebounds and
six assists.
“It’s been a dream come
true. I want to keep going,”
said Rozier, who was wearing
a Drew Bledsoe New England
Patriots jersey to milk one
more chuckle out of his pseu-
do-feud with vanquished
Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe.
“I’m just a guy just living in
the moment.”
Embiid scored 31 points
with 13 rebounds for Philadel-
phia, which lost for just the
ICE HOCKEY
Home sweet home doesn’t hold true in playoffs
PITTSBURGH — Having
home ice is supposed to be an
advantage in the NHL, but so
far in the Stanley Cup play-
offs, the only guarantee to
playing at home is a mono-
chrome backdrop provided
by fans in team-specific
T-shirts.
Consider the following: The
Pittsburgh Penguins finished
with the second-worst road
record among the 16 playoff
teams. Then the two-time
defending champions ripped
off three victories in Philadel-
phia to kickstart their pursuit
of a three-peat and backed it
up with another triumph in
Game 1 of their Eastern Con-
ference semifinal against
Washington.
The Capitals dropped
Games 1 and 2 at home in
overtime against Columbus
in the opening round only to
extend beyond mere financial
considerations.
“I think kids should never
stop living their dreams, even
though they seem so far away
from basketball, even though
it seems impossible,” said
Wilkins. “You have to dream
big.”
The center is comprised of
three sections: NBA Hoops,
regulation-sized courts featur-
ing NBA-standard flooring for
official basketball programs
and tournaments; NBA Play-
zone, a basketball-themed
entertainment and training
center for children, and the
NBA Store.
“Basketball has never been
more popular in China, and
today I’m proud to see the offi-
cial grand opening of the very
first NBA Center in the world,”
second time in 22 games.
Simmons, the likely rookie
of the year, scored 18, with
seven boards and six assists.
With six days of rest since
eliminating Miami, the Sixers
missed 15 of their first 20
shots and hit 5 of 26 from
3-point range to lose for just
the second time since March
13.
“We’re NBA players and we
have to be ready,” Embiid said.
“We weren’t ready tonight.”
Al Horford had 26 points
and seven rebounds for Bos-
ton, which will host Game 2
on Thursday night.
The Celtics are hoping to
have guard Jaylen Brown
back from a hamstring injury
he sustained in the clincher
against the Bucks, leaving
him sidelined along with Kyr-
ie Irving and Gordon Hay-
ward.
Playing in place of Irving,
Rozier picked up where he left
off in the first round by scor-
ing 10 points and six assists in
the first quarter. He was 7 for
9 from 3-point range overall,
combining with Tatum to
overshadow the lottery picks
accumulated by Philadelphia
during The Process.
The first overall pick in the
2016 draft who sat out all of
beat the Blue Jackets three
times in Columbus on their
way to advancing to the
NHL’s final eight for the
fourth straight year.
The Winnipeg Jets posted
an NHL-high 32 wins on
home ice. One of their seven
regulation home losses, how-
ever, was a wild 6-5 setback at
the hands of Nashville in Feb-
ruary that helped the Pred-
ators win the Presidents Tro-
phy and guarantee home ice
through the playoffs.
The Jets, of course, won the
series opener in Nashville to
steal that advantage.
The San Jose Sharks swept
the Anaheim Ducks in their
Western quarterfinal, but on
Monday dropped their first
home game of the semis to the
Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 in
overtime.
Home teams are just 26-26
NBA great Dominique Wilkins poses with kids, parents ... and the
mascot at the new NBA Center in Tianjin. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
said NBA China CEO David Junior NBA World Champion-
Shoemaker. ship in August in the US.
“The 12,000-square-meter “The opening of the NBA
facility is a first of its kind, Center marks another key
allowing fans to experience milestone in the NBA’s effort to
the NBA in a variety of ways.” bring basketball to fans in Chi-
As part of the opening-week na through unique interactive
celebrations, NBA Center is experiences,” said NBA China
hosting the inaugural Junior CFO Wayne Chang.
NBA World Championship “This complex brings the
China Regional Finals, a sev- NBA to life, allowing fans to
en-day competition to select experience and celebrate their
the 10 best boys and girls to passion for the game, all under
represent China at the first one roof.
Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics takes aim over Ben Simmons (25) and JJ Reddick of the Philadelphia 76ers during Game 1 of their
Eastern Conference semifinal at TD Garden in Boston on Monday. The Celtics won 117-101. AFP
last year with an injury, Sim- play on Monday night.
mons was heckled by the Bos- “It’s been great to see Jays-
ton crowd with chants of “Not on and Terry and just our guys
a rookie!” In the fourth quar- play like that,” Horford said. “I
ter, as Tatum stepped to the think that Jayson’s starting to
free-throw line to protect a figure it out.”
double-digit lead, the chant
turned to “He’s a rookie!” Brown ’n’ out
“I love when people talk Up until about an hour
trash,” Embiid said. “Keep before game time, Brown was
bringing it, and we’ll see how still trying to figure out a way
it goes.” to play on his strained right
Tatum was Boston’s first hamstring.
pick last year — third overall The Celtics’ second-leading
— after swapping the No 1 scorer in the first round with
pick to the Sixers and grab- 17.9 points per game, Brown
bing a 2018 first-rounder as was finally ruled out 30 min-
well. Philadelphia picked utes before tipoff following a
Markelle Fultz, who did not conversation with doctors,
Asked why the games have
become a coin flip regardless
of venue, Penguins coach
Mike Sullivan, whose team
was outplayed at PPG Paints
Arena by Philadelphia in
Game 2 and Game 5 in the
opening round, said he
couldn’t really come up with a
reason.
“I don’t know if I have an
answer for you that makes
sense,” Sullivan said on Mon-
day.
“Sometimes when teams go
on the road, they have a tend-
Sidney Crosby
ency to simplify their game. I
know our team historically
so far in the playoffs heading has been very good at home
into Tuesday, when Pitts- and I believe we will continue
burgh hosts Washington and to do that.”
Winnipeg welcomes the Pred- If Pittsburgh wants to
ators. become the first franchise in
Both series are tied after the 35 years to win three straight
visitors claimed their respec- titles, it doesn’t really have
tive openers on the road. much of a choice.
“We are committed to
reaching all our fans in China,
so it means that we are looking
forward to building more
centers.”
The complex is a collabora-
tion between NBA China and
Hongkun Group, a global, Bei-
jing-based real-estate invest-
ment, development and
management company.
“We’re excited to join the
NBA in building this unique,
family-friendly destination
that caters to basketball fans,”
said Hongkun Group presi-
dent Yuan Chun.
“We can’t wait to share the
excitement of the game with
individuals and families who
desire a healthy and aspira-
tional lifestyle.”
Hongkun Group’s deputy
general manager, Zhang Hui,
promised the center will con-
tinue to evolve over time.
“Our first guarantee is the
functional diversity of the
center,” he said.
trainers and Horford.
“Jaylen’s a competitor, I
know he was doing every-
thing he could to be out
there,” Horford said.
“His health is most impor-
tant. We didn’t want any set-
backs with him. When I
talked to him, I was like ‘Hey,
we obviously really need you
out there, but we need you for
the long run.’
“Hopefully now he has a
couple of day to recover.”
Old-school feel
Sixers coach Brett Brown is
familiar with the Philadel-
phia and Boston matchups of
Though Sullivan is right in
that the Penguins are pretty
good at PPG Paints Arena,
they’ve only been so-so when
facing the Capitals — even
with a red-hot Sidney Crosby,
who has 15 points in eight
games this postseason.
Washington won Game 3
and Game 6 in Pittsburgh
during the 2017 playoffs and
wrapped up its third straight
Metropolitan Division title
with a 3-1 win there on April 1.
“You’ve got to create your
own momentum, but it gives
you good memories,” Capitals
coach Barry Trotz said.
“If you have to go back into
the memory bank, at least we
have one.
“Those are things that you
can bank on maybe for some
positive feeling going for-
ward.”
The road does offer the
“Also, we will make sure it
will hold various activities.
Meanwhile, we have to deliver
more NBA content to interact
with fans. Lastly, we have to
provide better and better ser-
vices and increase the popu-
larity of our brand.”
Since its establishment in
2008, NBA China has paid spe-
cial attention to connecting
with China’s younger genera-
tions through youth tourna-
ments and charity activities.
Continuing in that vein,
NBA Playzone, a family enter-
tainment center, opened in
Beijing on Sunday. The 965-
sq-m facility provides a variety
of basketball-themed play are-
as and activities.
Wilkins, 58, was also in
attendance there, and said:
“The NBA has initiated a lot of
grassroots programs to inte-
grate basketball with different
programs around the world.
It’s getting bigger and bigger.”
the 1980s, having grown up in
South Portland, Maine.
Though he knows other
teams in the East remain rele-
vant, he thinks there is
enough young talent on the
current 76ers and Celtics ros-
ters to give the rivalry a
rebirth.
“I hope so,” Brown said. “I
personally grew up with this
rivalry, just right on your
doorstep and just a big part of
your basketball life as a young
kid. It sure seems like both
programs are heading into
the right direction.”
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visiting team a sense of rou-
tine. There aren’t as many
friends or family around. No
kids waking up in the middle
of the night. No traffic to deal
with in most places.
Just wake up, suit up and go
play.
“You go out to dinner, but
there’s not really any distrac-
tions,” said Predators forward
Nick Bonino. “You’re just
there to play hockey.”
Nashville avoided heading
to Canada in an 0-2 hole with
a thrilling double-overtime
escape in Game 2.
“It doesn’t always have to
be pretty always on the road,”
Predators defenseman Matt
Irwin said.
“I think we embrace that;
it’s something we know we’re
capable of doing.”
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