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Friendly flock
FRIDAY, May 11, 2018
China ready
to defend
its interests
If talks fail, nation is resolute in its
response to planned Trump tariffs
By ZHONG NAN in Beijing
and CHEN WEIHUA
in Washington
China will resolutely defend
its interests even as it expects a
positive outcome from the
upcoming China-US trade
talks through efforts from both
sides, the Ministry of Com-
merce said on Thursday.
The ministry issued the
statement ahead of a planned
May 15 hearing by the Office of
the US Trade Representative to
discuss proposed 25 percent
tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese
imports.
During the hearing, US com-
panies and consumers will
have the chance to have certain
products taken off the list or
others added through public
discussion and lobbying.
Regarding this issue of Chi-
na-US trade friction, China’s
stance has been very clear. Chi-
na opposes any form of unilat-
eralism and protectionism in
trading. The US must with-
draw its threats, said Gao Feng,
spokesman for the Ministry of
Commerce.
As China and the US will con-
duct the second high-level eco-
nomic and trade consultations
in the US soon, Gao said China
hopes the two sides can work
together to jointly advance
bilateral business ties and gain
mutual benefit for the good of
the people in both countries
and the world as a whole.
The Ministry of Commerce
also announced on Wednesday
that Vice-Premier Liu He will
lead a delegation to the US to
discuss economic and trade
issues at an appropriate time,
marking the second high-level
meeting since a bilateral trade
dispute escalated in March.
The first talks were in Beijing
on May 3 and 4.
Tu Xinquan, director of the
China Institute for WTO Stud-
ies at the University of Interna-
tional Business and Economics
in Beijing, said the Chinese del-
egation’s visit will be helpful to
tell the US public that unilater-
ally imposing a tariff on China
will generate a huge impact on
Protesting pullout from pact
Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest in front of the long-closed US embassy in
Teheran on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear
deal with Iran and renew sanctions. VAHID SALEMI / AP
See story, p11
Branding China
Fr
Cr
Crested ibises from China boost
Japa island’s tourism WORLD, PAGE 10
Japan


the US economy.
“This will send a signal to
companies or people attending
the hearing that proposed tar-
iffs will penalize US consumers
by increasing prices on con-
sumer and technology prod-
ucts,” he said. “Both sides
definitely will discuss the
details on this issue in the US.”
The administration of US
President Donald Trump esca-
lated trade tensions with Chi-
na in late March by invoking
Section 301 of the US Trade
Act of 1974 to probe China’s
intellectual property and
technology transfer.
A tariff list was issued tar-
geting 1,300 Chinese prod-
ucts, including industrial
robots and telecommunica-
tions equipment.
Business leaders in the US
have voiced concerns about the
negative impact of a possible
worsening China-US trade
relationship and pinned high
hopes on the resumed talks
between the two countries.
William Cohen, US defense
secretary from 1997 to 2001
and now chief executive of the
Cohen Group, said there were
legitimate concerns to be
addressed, but he emphasized
that it’s important to address
them in a responsible fashion
so that everyone is in a win-win
situation.
“I don’t feel the (Trump)
administration has a strategy
for achieving that,” Cohen said.
“The stated objective of doing it
within the next two years is
pretty short term. I don’t think
it’s possible.”
According to US media
reports, the US trade delega-
tion that Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin led to Beijing
last week demanded China cut
the bilateral deficit by $100 bil-
lion a year over the next two
years, a demand that most
economists regard as untena-
ble because US fiscal policy and
low savings rates in the US are
the primary cause of the deficit.
Inside
Comment > p9
eases
in April
TOP NEWS, PAGE 3
Yang Xinglong, an English teacher and counselor at the Qiyi middle school in Yingxiu, Sichuan province, offers psychological
counseling to quake survivors on Wednesday. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
THE HIDDEN SCARS
THAT TAKE YEARS TO HEAL
Many survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake, which struck 10 years
ago this week, are still experiencing psychological problems.
By CUI JIA claimed 69,226 lives and left
and WANG KEJU another 17,923 people missing.
in Yingxiu, Sichuan It also left the main building of
and YANG WANLI in Beijing Xuankou High School in the
mountain township severely
Chen Heqiong vividly warped and leaning precari-
remembers the absolute ously to one side. Buildings
darkness that engulfed her were destroyed almost imme-
when she was trapped for diately in the worst-affected
three days below the ruins of areas of the quake zone, which
her high school after a magni- covered about 130,000 square
tude 8 earthquake hit Ying- kilometers.
xiu, Sichuan province, on The twisted school build-
May 12, 2008. ing is now part of the local
The temblor, known as the earthquake museum. Every
Wenchuan earthquake, year, on May 11, Chen visits
Ousted insurance head gets 18-year term
By LIN SHUJUAN led investors so he could
in Shanghai fraudulently raise 65.25 bil-
linshujuan@chinadaily.com.cn lion yuan and divert the mon-
ey for his own use. The funds,
Wu Xiaohui, former chair- raised by ignoring regulatory
man of Anbang Insurance limits to oversell insurance
Group, the Chinese insurer products worth 724 billion
that owns the Waldorf Asto- yuan to 10.6 million inves-
ria New York hotel, has been tors, were transferred to com-
sentenced to 18 years in pris- panies he personally con-
on for fraudulently raising trolled for overseas invest-
$10 billion and embezzle- ment, debt repayment and
ment of corporate funds. “personal squandering”.
The sentence was announ- To achieve the fraud, the
ced on Thursday by Shanghai court said Wu concealed his
No 1 Intermediate Court. Wu, ownership of more than 100
51, also was deprived of his companies, filed false state-
political rights for four years. ments with authorities and
The court also ordered 10.5 lured investors by promising
billion yuan ($1.65 billion) of higher returns than those
Wu’s property be confiscated. offered by competitors.
The court found that Wu, Wu, who founded Anbang
between 2011 and 2017, mis- in 2004, also embezzled 10
Center to warn of tsunamis
By WANG QINGYUN
and ZHOU JIN
China will continue to
provide public goods and
services to countries border-
ing on the South China Sea
and will work with them to
maintain regional peace,
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Geng Shuang said on Thurs-
day after the inauguration of
a tsunami alert center.
The South China Sea Tsuna-
mi Advisory Center, built by
China and authorized by the
Intergovernmental Oceano-
graphic Commission of the
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organi-
zation, was officially launched
on Tuesday. Vladimir Ryabi-
nin, executive secretary of the
commission, joined the open-
ing ceremony in Beijing.
The center, built to monitor
Expo in Shanghai presents
domestic goods to the world
BUSINESS, PAGE 13
X
the site on her own to “talk” to
the 54 students and eight
teachers who lost their lives.
Most of the students and
teachers were in classrooms
and school offices when the
quake struck at 2:28 pm on
the first day of the school
week.
“It’s a form of therapy for
me. I avoid going there at all
costs, except for that one day.
After all, it was a day the peo-
ple of Yingxiu, including me,
have been trying to forget,”
said Chen, 50.
billion yuan in premiums
paid by policyholders, a viola-
tion of insurance regulations,
to ensure the cash flow of his
other companies, according
to the court’s verdict.
The court said the ruling
was made with consideration
of the facts, nature, circum-
stances and harm to society.
Over 50 people, including
Wu’s family, journalists and
members of the public,
attended Thursday’s public
sentencing.
Wu was detained in June
after a multibillion-dollar
string of global acquisitions
by the insurance and invest-
ment conglomerate prompt-
ed doubts about how it paid
for its buying spree, including
the $2 billion Waldorf Astoria
and warn about possible tsuna-
mis, began its trial operation at
the end of January, and will pro-
vide a 24-hour service to nine
countries, including China,
Geng said at a news conference.
The other eight countries
covered by the service are
Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philip-
pines, Brunei, Indonesia,
Thailand, Cambodia and
Singapore. The center also
will provide training.
“China has always believed
in and been committed to pro-
moting pragmatic maritime
cooperation among countries
bordering on the South China
Sea and fulfilling duties to
cooperate, stipulated in the
UN Convention on the Law of
the Sea,” Geng said, adding
that China hopes to strength-
en such cooperation.
“This helps the common
interests of countries in the
chinadaily.com.cn
She now works as a psy-
chological counselor at a new
school, named Qiyi, which
was built after the quake. It
stands near a huge boulder
that rolled down the moun-
tain during the disaster and
has become a tourist attrac-
tion because it marks the epi-
center of the quake.
See Quake, page 6
Inside
Editorial > p8
purchase in 2015.
On Feb 23, Wu was
removed as the group’s head
when the country’s insurance
regulator took control of the
insurer to protect its solvency
and consumer rights.
Anbang announced last
month that the company
was receiving a $9.6 billion
bailout from a government-
run fund, which would be
able to purchase 98 percent
of its equity.
An open trial of Wu’s case
was held on March 28.
Wu contested all charges
against him, but pleaded
guilty in his final statement
at the end of the trial.
Xinhua contributed to this
story.
region, and will benefit their
people in the long term,” he said.
Also, China hopes to work
with these countries to make
the South China Sea “waters
of peace, friendship and coop-
eration”, the spokesman said.
Zhang Jie, a researcher at
the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences’ National
Institute of International
Strategy, said the establish-
ment of the advisory center is
in line with China’s policies
toward the South China Sea.
Countries in the South Chi-
na Sea have begun to focus on
cooperation since the situa-
tion in the region eased,
Zhang said, adding that such
cooperation will help enhance
mutual trust and will be
strengthened over time.
Contact the writers at wang-
qingyun@chinadaily.com.cn

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Li reminds
Japanese
of terms
in treaty
By HU YONGQI
and CAI HONG in Tokyo
The China-Japan Treaty of
Peace and Friendship, which
includes Japan’s self-reflection
on aggression against China
and its one-China stance, is
one of the four political docu-
ments both countries should
fully comply with to bring
bilateral ties back to the right
track, Premier Li Keqiang said
on Thursday.
The treaty was a milestone
document for bilateral rela-
tions, confirming principles in
the China-Japan Joint Decla-
ration and the adherence to
the one-China policy, the pre-
mier said at a reception that
commemorated the 40th
anniversary of the signing of
the treaty in Tokyo.
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, and more than
1,400 representatives from
both countries participated in
the event, which Li said show-
cased a wide range of common
interests shared by the two
countries.
Over the past 40 years, bilat-
eral ties made productive
achievements guided by prin-
ciples set in the treaty, despite
twists and turns, Li said. Ties
can move back to the right
track because of the spirit and
fundamental principles set in
the four political documents,
he said.
Both countries should com-
ply with the treaty to increase
friendship, said Li, who called
for learning from history and
facing up to the future, while
keeping high-level exchanges
between the two neighbors.
The premier called on Japan
to align its development strat-
egies with the Belt and Road
Initiative, boost cooperation
in innovation and high-end
manufacturing.
Li said people-to-people
exchanges, including tourism,
should be promoted to
enhance connections between
the two peoples. Tokyo’s host-
ing of the 2020 Summer Olym-
pic Games and China’s hosting
the 2022 Winter Olympic
See Li, page 3
Inside
Related story > p10
LATE NEWS
Trump says
he’ll meet
with Kim
on June 12
US President Donald Trump
said on Thursday he will meet
with Kim Jong-un, leader of the
Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, on June 12 in Singapore.
“We will both try to make it a
very special moment for World
Peace!” Trump tweeted, calling
it a “highly anticipated meet-
ing”.
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Looking ahead
Candid camera: Birds of a feather
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Key property market forum Congress to be held during May 16-18. A

to be held in Beijing
On Monday, the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences will hold the China Real Estate
Forum in Beijing. Officials, experts and
enterprises in the sector will gather to dis-
cuss how to ensure the healthy develop-
ment of the property market. A blue book
on the sector’s development will also be
released during the event.
Tianjin gears up for
intelligent driving event
The World Intelligent Driving Challenge
will be held in Tianjin from Monday to
Thursday, attracting teams from home and
abroad. It is part of the World Intelligent
demonstration of smart driving will be one
of the highlights. Focusing on the challen-
ges of self-driving vehicles, the WIDC com-
petition is divided into three series,
including self-driving, smart-aided driving
and information security.
Athletes have high hopes for
climbing competition
The second leg of the 2018 International Fed-
eration of Sport Climbing World Cup series
China tour will take place in Tai’an, Shan-
dong province, on Saturday and Sunday, fol-
lowing the first stop in Chongqing. Hailed as
the premier climbing competition in the
world, the event will gather more than 300
elite boulder and speed-climbing athletes.

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Photos: Images keep the past Wednesday. Shipments of smartphones

totaled 32.667 million in April, down by 15.3
alive with each precious frame percent year-on-year. Also, fewer new An egret seems to hover in expectation of food on a lake in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 29. WANG WEIGUANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Histori-
mobile phone models were rolled out last
cal
month with only 55 new models entering
photos
the market in April, down by 53.8 percent
enable
people to
examine
and
year-on-year. Phone shipments dropped
23.7 percent year-on-year in the first four
months. Analysts believe that the Chinese
Nightmares fade into lived dreams
smartphone market will see a reshuffle as
under- My nightmares have flash floods of rock that injuries wondered how wriggled in a puddle.
smartphone consumption slows as almost
stand the mostly stopped. inundated those below. they’d cope without walking. Tadpoles.
all Chinese own at least one phone.
condi- I don’t know if theirs have. Tectonic vehemence simulta- They did. “Look,” my colleague, a
tions of the past. Yu Zhixin, a senior jour- Everything convulses and neously warped buildings Then, they told me, they local, said. “Life.”
nalist born in 1955, has a collection of Society: Changsha pavilion to
buries me. into real-life M.C. Escher wondered how they’d make We laughed. And cried.
images that give a precious insight into be placed in US city I snap up in bed like a paintings. love with their spouses. That was shortly after I
yesteryear. He started to shoot photos in Changsha mousetrap. I soon realize it Many people were Nobody among this group met Xue Chen.
1979, and most of his works are themed Yanghu never actually happened — interred. in Mianyang city, at least, I’d volunteered at his pre-
around people. He focuses on daily work, Wetland Park at least to me, in real, waking Five of my birthdays were divorced. Some say their fabricated middle school half
lives and folk customs and through his presented the life. spent at the Cave of 10,000 relationships grew. a year after the disaster.
images tries to keep the past alive. Xiangjiang It did to Dead in Sichuan’s Yingxiu, I recall driving into the He said his goal was to
Pavilion to St. them. since the date tends to fall mountains beyond the miles master English and become
Easy Talk: Films plot storyline Paul, Minneso- Many were around China’s Tomb Sweep- and miles of tents and rubble a tour guide to meet people
ta, US, last
for happy ending overseas week, in
buried alive. ing Day. until these improvised settle- from around the world and
Over the past decade, many Chinese films About 80,000 Few experiences make you ments were replaced with travel.
celebration of didn’t sur- think about meaning like miles and miles of landslides Today, he leads foreigners
that have done well at the domestic box
the 30th Erik vive. entering into another year of that eventually clogged the along the ancient Silk Road.
office have flopped in North America. With
anniversary of Nilsson Survivors life surrounded by death. bone-clattering road. “I had a dream,” he recent-
the aim of taking Chinese films to a global
Changsha and Second awoke to a That is, while watching par- We’d seen nothing for ly texted me.
audience, Cinedigm, a leading independent
St. Paul becoming sister cities. The pavilion Thoughts living night- ents claw at the earth and hours but the fan-shaped “I studied and worked
content distributor in the United States,
was modeled after the Aiwan Pavilion, one mare every scream at the sky, since their ejections of rock and sand hard … I love my job.”
plans to enter strategic alliances with six
of the four most famous pavilions in China, morning then. But some of children will never celebrate that erupted from the moun- He invited me to his wed-
Chinese movie and television companies.
which was built on Yuelu Mountain during their life dreams have since another birthday. taintops. Buildings’ top ding.
What is the biggest challenge Chinese films
the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in 1792. The come true. Over the years, more of the floors sometimes poked out Indeed, his story is one of
face in terms of going global? Easy Talk
new pavilion will become part of the Phalen I spent about eight women I met had babies aft- like periscopes with win- the nightmares of a decade
speaks to Chris McGurk, chairman and
Regional Park in St. Paul this August. The months in total making 15 er losing their only children. dows for lenses. Other build- ago that’ve turned into
CEO of Cinedigm, and Bill Sondheim, presi-
sister-city project between St. Paul and journeys through the Now, these kids have birth- ings’ bottom floors spat dreams come true today.
dent of Cinedigm’s Entertainment Group.
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TOP NEWS
Inflation eases for
2nd month in row
Lower prices for food — especially pork
— were easy on consumers in April
By XIN ZHIMING
and LI XIANG
China’s consumer inflation
eased for a second straight
month, dragged down by
lower food prices. Analysts
said consumer inflation
would continue to be stable
this year despite the recent
spike in international oil pri-
ces.
The consumer price index
increased by 1.8 percent in
April from a year ago, com-
pared with a 2.1 percent year-
on-year gain in March, the
National Bureau of Statistics
said on Thursday.
Food prices dropped 1.9
percent in April month-on-
month, making it the main
contributor to easing con-
sumer inflation last month,
said Sheng Guoqing, a senior
NBS statistician, in a state-
ment on the bureau’s web-
site. Pork prices dropped by a
sharp 16.1 percent in April
compared with a year ago.
Analysts said China’s con-
sumer inflation would
remain mild this year
although international oil
prices have risen sharply,
which will have a spillover
effect on domestic prices.
International crude prices
topped three-year highs fol-
lowing the news that US
President Donald Trump
decided to pull out of the Iran
nuclear deal. Investors
expected the development
NPC priorities point to crackdown on polluters
By CAO YIN
caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn
The top legislature has
placed environment-related
legislation high on its agenda
this year to offer a stronger
legal basis for the country’s
fight against pollution.
The annual work plan of the
Standing Committee of the
National People’s Congress,
which was made public at the
end of last month, lists four
major legislative items relat-
ing to environmental protec-
tion.
In August, the legislature
will revise the Chinese Land
Administration Law to ensure
rational exploitation of land
Tibet delegates find
success in Canada
A delegation of the National
People’s Congress from Chi-
na’s Tibet autonomous region
concluded a four-day visit to
Canada on Wednesday.
The lawmakers visited
Toronto and Ottawa, where
they exchanged ideas with a
variety of people. The group
was led by Pema Wangdu, dep-
uty to the People’s Congress of
the autonomous region and
member of the Tibetan region-
al Party standing committee of
the Communist Party of China.
Pema Wangdu, who is also
the secretary of the CPC Lhasa
Municipal Party Committee,
gave a presentation on Tibet’s
economic and social develop-
ment and answered questions
from Canadians.
In Ottawa, the delegation
met with the Canada-China
Legislative Association and the
foreign and international
development committee of the
House of Commons. In Toron-
to, the delegation met with the
head of the department of
international relations of
Ontario province.
Pema Wangdu said China
and Canada enjoy a good
would add to the complexity
of the geopolitical situation
in the Middle East and cur-
tail oil supplies.
Cao Heping, an economist
at the Peking University
School of Economics, was
quoted by Chinese media as
saying that given China’s pru-
dent and neutral monetary
policy stance and overall
domestic supply and
demand would remain bal-
anced and consumer prices
may maintain the trend of
stable and mild rises.
The producer price
index, which gauges
factory gate prices,
rose by 3.4 percent
in April from a year
earlier, ending a five-
consecutive-month
deceleration cycle,
up from 3.1 percent
in March.
Sun Fu, an analyst at Zhe-
jiang Securities, said pork
prices remain in a downward
cycle and international oil
prices have yet to show a
trend of continual sharp rises
in the second quarter. In this
scenario, China’s inflation
resources, as well as further
review a draft law on the pre-
vention and control of soil pol-
lution, according to the plan.
The soil law was discussed
among lawmakers twice last
year. A draft law usually
receives three reviews before
being adopted by the legisla-
ture.
In December, the Solid
Waste Control Law is expected
to be revised, the plan shows.
The legislature is also con-
sidering a draft law on atomic
energy, but it did not release
the exact timetable for the
law.
“The legislative efforts
against pollution will make
our environment-related laws
momentum of development in
their relations and they share
a wide range of common inter-
ests and opportunities for
cooperation.
He said China is willing to
work with Canada to earnestly
implement the important con-
sensus between the leaders of
the two countries, deepen
exchanges and cooperation in
various fields, properly handle
differences and sensitive issues,
and promote the sustained and
stable development of the stra-
tegic partnership between Chi-
na and Canada so as to better
benefit the two peoples.
He added that the Tibet
autonomous region is willing
to continue to actively support
and participate in friendly
exchanges between the two
countries.
Pema Wangdu spoke of the
historic changes that have tak-
en place in Tibet since the
implementation of the system
of regional ethnic autonomy
and the historic achievements
in Tibet’s economic and social
development over the past 40
years of reform and opening-
up, especially since the 18th
level would remain “control-
lable”, he was quoted as say-
ing by Securities Daily.
China set a consumer infla-
tion control target of under
about 3 percent this year.
The producer price index,
which gauges factory gate
prices, rose by 3.4 percent in
April from a year earlier, end-
ing a five-consecutive-month
deceleration cycle, up from
3.1 percent in March.
Industries, such as petrole-
um and natural gas exploita-
tion, metal smelting, coal
processing and chemicals,
are the main contributors to
factory gate price increases
in April, said Sheng of the
NBS.
“After a weak March ..., we
think economic activity in
April and May is likely to stay
firm,” said a research note by
financial group UBS before
the release of the NBS data
on Thursday.
“Policy support for rental
market development may
only provide limited lift for
the downward property
adjustments this year. On the
other hand, manufacturing
investment revival, resilient
consumption and strong
external demand should
offer some cushion,” it said.
Overall, China’s GDP
growth may ease this year as
property and infrastructure
activities weaken, the report
said, warning that the ongo-
ing China-US trade frictions
may bring some headwinds.
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zhiming@chinadaily.com.cn
more systemic and complete,”
the plan says.
The NPC Environment Pro-
tection and Resources Conser-
vation Committee also plans
to conduct more research on
clean energy this year to help
the country’s northern regions
avoid winter air pollution,
according to the top legisla-
ture.
Environment-related legis-
lation and enforcement
inspections have received
much more attention from the
top legislature since the 18th
National Congress of the Com-
munist Party of China in late
2012.
In the past five years, the
NPC Standing Committee
Pema Wangdu (right), deputy to the National People’s Congress from
the Tibet autonomous region and member of the Tibetan regional Par-
ty standing committee of the Communist Party of China, answers
questions in Ottawa on Wednesday. YU WUIDONG / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
CPC National Congress.
Under the guidance of Xi
Jinping Thought on Socialism
with Chinese Characteristics
for a New Era, he said, Tibet-
ans are working with the rest
of the Chinese to move toward
the grand goal of building a
moderately prosperous socie-
ty in all respects and to strive
for the realization of the “Two
Centenary Goals.”
“Canadian friends are wel-
come to visit Tibet, take a look
at the new socialist Tibet today,
listen to the true thoughts of
the Tibetan people and
enhance understanding of the
reality of Tibet,” he said.
Canadian officials said they
consider developing relations
with China important, and the
Canada-China Legislative Asso-
Premier Li Keqiang engages in conversation on Thursday with Japan’s Emperor Akihito (left) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. He said he
hoped bilateral ties improve. It was the first time a Chinese premier has met with the emperor since June 2010. Akihito said he hopes “our
relations of goodwill and friendship will improve”, according to the royal household. AFP
Li: Oppose trade protectionism
From page 1
Games will provide opportu-
nities to enhance communica-
tion among the public.
As two of the world’s major
economies, China and Japan
should make further efforts to
safeguard the multilateral
trading system and free trade
by fighting against rising pro-
tectionism, Li said.
“During my visit, Abe and I
had frank talks and reached a
basic consensus. Around 20
projects were approved by
both countries,” Li said.
Meetings between leaders
from both countries can make
great strides in ties, and the
two countries have agreed to
expand cooperation in fields
adopted and revised about 20
laws and bills on environment
and ecology, including the
Water Pollution Prevention
and Control Law and similar
laws on environmental protec-
tion and air pollution preven-
tion.
As the number of such laws
has been rising, the ability to
punish polluters has been
more powerful.
For example, the revised
Environmental Protection Law,
which went into effect in 2015,
is the law with the strictest pun-
ishment. Polluters face fines
ranging from 10,000 to 100,000
yuan ($1,576 to $15,765) a day if
they do not stop emissions after
being alerted, and there is no
ciation will continue to work to
promote the development of
friendly and cooperative rela-
tions between the two countries.
Ontario is willing to
strengthen cooperation with
China in economy and trade,
science and technology and
tourism, officials said. Canada
is impressed by Tibet’s
achievements in various fields
in recent years and is willing
to maintain candid exchanges
with China to enhance mutual
understanding, they said.
During the visit, the delega-
tion also met ethnic Tibetans
living in Ottawa and Toronto,
experts and scholars from Car-
leton University and the Cana-
dian Institute of Foreign Affairs.
XINHUA
such as finance and trade, Abe
said.
Earlier on Thursday, Li also
visited Japanese Emperor Aki-
hito and several leading politi-
cians.
The two countries should
take full advantage of the
exchange of their legislative
organizations, bringing peo-
ple from all walks of life to
have an objective and rational
perception of the ties, Li told
Japanese legislators.
During a meeting with Ta-
damori Oshima, speaker of the
House of Representatives in
Japan’s parliament, or Diet,
the premier said President Xi
Jinping sent a clear message to
the world at the 2018 Boao
Forum for Asia in Hainan
ceiling for the fine.
In addition, there have been
more enforcement inspec-
tions related to such laws. For
example, from June to August
last year, legislators were
divided into five teams for 10
regions to check how the Solid
Waste Control Law had been
implemented.
In March, the legislature
said it would invite officials of
environment-related authori-
ties under the State Council to
respond to concerns and ques-
tions from national legislators
regarding the Air Pollution
Prevention and Control Law,
and to conduct an inspection
on how the law is implement-
ed this year.
E-sports bonus: Plentiful jobs
By SHI FUTIAN
shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn
While gaming is still con-
sidered by many parents to
be the enemy of their chil-
dren’s studies, Chinese uni-
versity students are being
encouraged to attend
e-sports courses and even
find a career in the sector.
That’s because there are
an estimated 260,000
vacant positions waiting to
be filled in the Chinese
e-sports industry, according
to a university e-sports
development report pub-
lished on Thursday by the
Network Film and TV Cen-
ter of the Chinese Commu-
nist Youth League in
Beijing.
The jobs, however, are not
to play games. With no short-
age of gamers, authorities
are trying to nurture profes-
sional game designers,
coaches, tournament man-
gers and e-sports live broad-
casters.
The youth league also
announced the establish-
ment of the Chinese Universi-
ty E-Sports League to help
further boost the healthy
development of e-sports,
During my visit,
Abe and I had
frank talks and
reached a basic
consensus.”
Premier Li Keqiang
province that China will firmly
open its door wider. New
opportunities will come for
pragmatic cooperation
between China and Japan.
Oshima congratulated Li for
HK tycoon retires
Li Ka-shing, 89, who amassed a fortune estimated at over $33
billion, steps down as chairman of his flagship CK Hutchison
Holdings on Thursday at Harbour Grand Kowloon hotel. He told
reporters he had “done the best I can”. ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY
especially at the university
level.
Through the national
e-sports league, the youth
league plans to facilitate and
regulate the emergence of
more e-sports clubs at Chi-
na’s universities and create
more job opportunities in the
e-sports sector.
“The purpose of having
this report is to give the uni-
versity student the right
understanding of e-sports
and to help the scientific and
healthy development of
e-sports in China,” said Yu
Miao, vice-president of the
China Youth E-Sports Com-
petition. “We will build an
ecosystem of e-sports and
create more job opportuni-
ties.”
There were about 260 mil-
lion registered e-sports
gamers in China in 2017, but
the number is expected to
rise to 350 million in 2019,
according to the report, pro-
duced with the help of
CYEC, Tencent E-Sports and
the Tencent team that sup-
ports the hit game League of
Legend.
Also, 54.8 percent of the
nation’s e-sports gamers have
undergraduate degrees,
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his successful visit to Japan.
Cooperative agreements
signed between Japan and
China and positive results
from trilateral talks by leaders
of China, Japan and the
Republic of Korea on Wednes-
day will help promote peace,
stability and prosperity for
Asia and the world at large, he
said.
Chuichi Date, president of
the House of Councillors in the
Diet, said bilateral ties are
among the most important
ties for both countries. China’s
peaceful development is vital
to Japan as well as the region
and the world, he said.
Contact the writers at huyong-
qi@chinadaily.com.cn
making university students
the mainstay of the e-sports
market.
The market value of Chi-
na’s e-sports sector had
reached a whopping 20 bil-
lion yuan ($3.15 billion) in
2016 thanks to direct spend-
ing on games, copyright dis-
tribution, merchandising and
other e-commerce, but the
report indicates a looming
danger for the sport — a
shortage of talent.
“Many university students
have an interest in and love
for e-sports, but they don’t
have the opportunity to get
into the business,” said Bob-
by Jin, a senior manager of
League of Legend at Tencent.
“Through more university
activities and tournaments,
we hope that more students
will get involved and have
the chance to work in the
e-sports sector.”
In September 2016, the
Ministry of Education listed
“e-sports and management”
as a college major, paving the
way for higher-education
institutes to offer related
courses and official diplo-
mas. Many universities saw a
promising future for the field
and jumped in.
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Friday, May 11, 2018
CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/
Briefly
HENAN
Ride-share driver
suspected in killing
China’s ride-sharing giant
Didi Chuxing is offering a
reward of up to 1 million
yuan ($157,600) for informa-
tion on the whereabouts of
one of its drivers, Liu Zhen-
hua, who is suspected of kill-
ing a flight attendant. The
woman ordered Liu’s car on
Saturday via the Didi app to
take her from the Zhengzhou
airport area to the city’s
downtown. The woman, sur-
named Li, 21, worked at
Lucky Air. She told col-
leagues via WeChat that the
driver said she was beautiful
and wanted to kiss her. Li
declined their advice to get
out of Liu’s car. Didi shared
Liu’s name, photo, ID num-
ber and cellphone number.
The woman’s body was
found with stab wounds on
Tuesday. Police are still
searching for the suspect.
SHAANXI
5 people die in
minivan crash
Five people were killed in a
minivan crash in Fugu
county on Thursday,
according to local authori-
ties. The vehicle plunged
into a reservoir at 7:50 am.
Five of the eight passengers
in the vehicle died at the
scene; three survivors were
treated at a hospital.
YUNNAN
Large rhino horn
intercepted
Customs officials in Yunnan
province intercepted a large
cross-section of rhinoceros
horn. Customs staff in Teng-
chong intercepted a parcel
on Monday and found the
horn section, which
weighed 757 grams. The
case is under investigation.
Transactions involving rhi-
noceros horns or products
have been banned in China
since 1993.
HUBEI
Park to open
by year’s end
A heritage park in Wuhan
will open to the public at
the end of this year, authori-
ties said on Thursday. The
Panlong City Ruins, featur-
ing bronzes from the Shang
Dynasty (c. 16th century-
11th century BC), were the
first of their kind discov-
ered along the middle
reaches of the Yangtze Riv-
er. Located beside Panlong
Lake, the site was discov-
ered in 1954 and has been
named one of China’s top
100 archaeological discov-
eries of the 20th century.
XINHUA—CHINA DAILY
In Shanghai, anxiety remains as education choices narrow
By CAO CHEN in Shanghai
caochen@chinadaily.com.cn
A sharp decline in the num-
ber of students applying to pri-
vate primary schools in
Shanghai may indicate that
the city’s newly introduced
regulations have cooled its
long-standing ardor for the
schools.
The number of applicants
for kindergarten and primary
slots at private schools in the
metropolis dropped by half
this year, according to regis-
tration figures from the
Shanghai Municipal Educa-
tion Commission.
Private schools have
received only 19,900 applica-
tions, compared with 37,400
last year. The enrollment ratio
— the ratio of applicants to
available slots in private
schools — dropped from
around 3-to-1 in the past two
years to 1.4-to-1 this year.
Aliwedding
Jack Ma (center), founder and chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, attends a group wedding as chief witness for his
employees in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Thursday. A total of 117 mainly Alibaba-employed lovebirds participated in the wedding and
received greetings from Ma. NIU JING / FOR CHINA DAILY
More nurses are needed to
care for graying population
Focus shifts from nursing homes to
more community and at-home service
By JIANG CHENGLONG
jiangchenglong@
chinadaily.com.cn
More seniors will be able to
receive nursing care — not
only at elderly care facilities
but also within communities
and even at home in the
future, according to a health-
care official.
“Based on our national con-
ditions, nursing care provided
by organizations should not
An exhibitor shows a therapeutic bed to visitors at the China
International Senior Services Expo in Beijing on Wednesday.
FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY
According to this year’s pri-
mary school enrollment poli-
cy, applicants must choose a
private or public school when
filling out enrollment papers.
This means that if one is not
accepted into a private school
— which can happen because
of limited space and high
demand — the student also
risks losing his or her spot at a
designated public school
based on the residential prox-
imity system. The student will
then be subject to allocation
to another primary school,
which can be less desirable
than the previously designat-
ed one.
Children could once be
steered toward a private
school without losing their
spots in their neighborhood
public school, because enroll-
ments in private schools
came earlier than in public
schools.
“The new policy forces
be our main future direction,”
said Jiao Yahui, deputy chief
for medical administration
and supervision for the
National Health Commission.
“The main bodies offering
care for the elderly should
mostly be communities and
home-care options, with pri-
ority given to communities.”
Hospitals are currently the
main providers of nursing
services for the elderly in
China.
19,900
Number of applications
received by private schools
in Shanghai so far, compared
with 37,400 last year
parents to be more rational
in selecting private schools,”
said Xu Yanxin, assistant to
the principal of ECNU Affili-
ated Bilingual School, a pri-
vate boarding school serving
students from preschool to
Grade 12.
Zhou Ping, the mother of a
6-year-old, said the family
bought an apartment in 2016
to ensure that her son would
have a spot at a reputable
public school nearby. She had
planned to apply for a private
school as a priority choice,
priority given to communities.”
Jiao Yahui, deputy chief for medical administration and supervision, National Health Commission
According to the National
Committee on Aging, there
were 241 million people over
60 in China at the end of 2017,
accounting for 17.3 percent of
the total population. Those
from 60 to 69 made up 56.1
percent of that group, or 135
million people.
Yet there were only 3.8 mil-
lion nurses nationwide in
2017, which is insufficient to
care for the country’s elderly,
Jiao said, noting that elderly
includes healthy individuals,
those with chronic diseases
and those able to look after
themselves to some degree.
“So we are now extending
our nursing services for the
elderly from hospitals to com-
munities and even homes,”
Jiao said. “Our healthcare
centers within communities
can send staff to seniors’
homes.”
Shanghai has been setting
up nursing centers within
communities since 2016, with
the goal of bringing such ser-
vices closer to where people
live.
Wen Daxiang, deputy
director of the Shanghai
Health Commission, said: “Up
until the end of 2017, there
were 108 nursing centers in
the city, 99 of which were oper-
ated by private companies.”
with the designated public
school as a backup.
After introduction of the
new regulations, the family
decided to drop the private
school application, saying the
risk was too high.
Competition for a seat at
private schools has become so
fierce over the past decade
that in some extreme cases
more than 70 pupils have
applied for a single seat.
Anxiety about school selec-
tion has also led parents to
enroll their children in inten-
sive after-school private train-
ing sessions to ensure
successful interviews. Anxiety
has prevailed and complaints
of children being overbur-
dened have run rampant.
To ease the stress, Shang-
hai’s education commission
has, since 2015, narrowed the
choices for private education.
It ruled that each student
could apply to two private
The main bodies offering care for the elderly should
mostly be communities and home-care options, with
In terms of easing the eco-
nomic burden on nursing ser-
vices, the National Health
Commission has been paying
more attention to long-term
care insurance. The insurance
is designed to provide eco-
nomic assistance to those
who lose the ability to tend to
their daily needs as they grow
old.
“This can help with sen-
iors’ long-term nursing
expenses to a certain extent,”
Jiao said.
In 2016, 15 pilot cities in
China were designated to
pilot long-term care insur-
ance, including Shanghai;
Guangzhou, Guangdong
province; and Chengdu, Si-
chuan province.
The nursing profession in
China is becoming much
stronger in terms of quantity
and quality, Jiao said. “The
number of registered nurses
in 2017 rose by 126.5 percent
over the 1.68 million in 2008,”
she said. “And 67 percent of
them have college or higher
degrees.
“However, there is still a
huge gap between supply and
demand. Our society should
pay more attention to promot-
ing the profession so more
people will decide join their
ranks.”
schools and that schools with-
out boarding facilities must
not accept students from oth-
er districts.
In addition, all interviews
for private primary schools
were limited to just two days
— this year on May 19 and 20.
At the same time, authori-
ties have attempted in recent
years to balance the education
quality of private and public
schools through methods such
as curriculum resource shar-
ing and high-quality teacher
exchanges.
Despite the drop in the over-
all number of applications to
private schools, however, anxi-
ety remains high for many
parents.
“The average ratio for all
private schools may be lower,”
said a parent of a 6-year-old
who asked that only his sur-
name, Shi, be used. “But for
the most popular schools, it’s
still a dog-eat-dog scramble.”
Tourists warned
to stay away from
rare camel habitat
By ZOU SHUO
zoushuo@chinadaily.com.cn
Travel agencies have been
offering expeditions to Lop
Nur in the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region for trav-
elers looking to conquer the
no man’s land in the region’s
southeast.
But the trips are illegal.
The Lop Nur Wild Camel
National Nature Reserve, the
largest dry desert reserve in
Xinjiang, is dedicated to the
protection of wild Bactrian
camels, which are even more
scarce than the giant panda.
Fewer than 1,000 wild Bac-
trian camels live in the harsh
deserts of China and Mongo-
lia. About 600 of them — 60
percent of the global popula-
tion — call the reserve home.
Lop Nur holds the mystery
of the disappearance of Lou-
lan, an ancient Silk Road civili-
zation from the third century.
It was also the site of China’s
first atomic bomb test in 1964.
The area has been attractive to
visitors who love adventure.
At travel website Qu-
nar.com, a trip to Lop Nur
costs more than 15,000 yuan
($2,400) per person. Each
tourist must pay a 1,500-yuan
“protection fee” to the reserve.
The tour lasts seven to 10
days. A tour guide, who also
serves as the driver, will carry
three tourists around Lop Nur.
Similar travel services are
also offered at Ctrip.com
and Fliggy.com at similar
prices. Fliggy.com also offers
guides for tourists who drive
themselves. A guide costs
2,600 yuan per day.
Ctrip and Fliggy said on
Thursday that they have tak-
en such travel services off
their websites.
Established in 1986, the
Lop Nur reserve covers
61,200 square kilometers. It
Tibetan antelopes
start birthing journey
XINING — Pregnant Tibet-
an antelopes have begun
their annual migration to a
lake deep within the Hoh Xil
Nature Reserve in Qinghai
province to give birth, the
reserve’s management
bureau said on Tuesday.
At around 7:30 pm on May
3, about 50 Tibetan ante-
lopes were seen crossing the
Qinghai-Tibet highway to
Zonag Lake in Hoh Xil,
which is known as the “deliv-
ery room” for the migratory
species.
Every year, tens of thou-
sands of the expectant ante-
lope mothers migrate to the
lake between the end of May
and early June. They usually
depart the area with their off-
spring in August.
Some puppy
A worker from the Yunnan Zoo uses a blowgun to shoot an anesthesia
dart into an Asian black bear at a resident’s home in Yiliang county,
Yunnan province, before taking the bear to the zoo on Wednesday.
The resident, Su Jun, bought the animal two years ago from a road-
side vendor who said it was a puppy. Su realized that it was a bear as
it grew to more than 200 kilograms, leading him to contact county
forestry officials in January. ZHANG HAOZHE / FOR CHINA DAILY
Urumqi
Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region
Lop Nur Wild Camel
National Nature Reserve
is overseen by the Xinjiang
Department of Environmen-
tal Protection, which issued a
rule earlier this month pro-
hibiting any expeditions or
tourists in the area reserved
for Bactrian camels.
“Spring is the reproductive
season for Bactrian camels,”
the statement said. “No orga-
nization or individual may
enter the reserve for expedi-
tions or sightseeing purposes.”
Violators will face fines
and can even be held crimi-
nally liable, it said.
In November 2017, a fleet of
16 Land Rovers and 49 peo-
ple were found driving
through Lop Nur as part of a
cross-country activity. The
reserve imposed fines of up to
5,000 yuan on the company
that organized the activity,
and the 49 tourists were fined
5,000 yuan each.
An official at the reserve
said on Thursday that the
“protection fees” listed on
travel website are being
examined. She declined to
provide more information.
He Mang, assistant dean of
the School of Tourism Man-
agement at Sun Yat-sen Uni-
versity, said the ecology of
the reserve is vulnerable and
illegal expeditions not only
threaten wildlife but also
destroy vegetation.
Expeditions into deserts
also entail significant safety
risks. Rescue missions require
a lot of manpower and finan-
cial resources, he said.
The animals usually mate
in December and give birth
in late June or early July.
The Tibetan antelope is
mostly found in the Tibet
autonomous region, Qinghai
and the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region. The ani-
mals are a Class 1 protected
species in China.
The antelope population
declined sharply from
200,000 to 20,000 in the
1980s because of illegal hunt-
ing. The population has since
recovered, thanks to meas-
ures taken to protect habitat
and stricter enforcement of
the hunting ban.
In July, Hoh Xil became a
world heritage site.
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Safflower plants
come to the desert
By LUO WANGSHU in Beijing
and MAO WEIHUA in Urumqi
As a bulwark against deser-
tification, safflower plants are
being cultivated on arid land
in the Xinjiang Uygur autono-
mous region, according to a
regiment of the Xinjiang Pro-
duction and Construction
Corps.
Workers from the regiment
began sowing safflower seeds
on May 1, and will complete
the task soon. About 53 hec-
tares will be planted in the
Gurbantunggut Desert in
northern Xinjiang.
Wang Hongjiang, a techni-
cian in the regiment, said
desert conditions are actually
ideal for safflower cultivation.
“The soil and water condi-
tions there are all good for the
crop,” he said, adding that
workers draw water from a
nearby reservoir for irrigation.
Wang has been cultivating
the thistlelike annual plant in
Xinjiang for about six years,
mostly in Ili Kazak autono-
mous prefecture.
“Xinjiang is known for saf-
flower, but it is mostly grown
on dedicated agricultural land
or along hillsides. This is the
Special delivery
Postal worker Wang Hua sets a route for an aerial drone in
Qingzhen, Guizhou province, on Thursday. The local postal bureau
has used the device, which can carry about 4 kilograms, to deliver
parcels to five remote communities, covering routes in just 10 min-
utes that once took 2 hours. LIU XU / XINHUA
Guizhou residents
protect cedar forest
For 18 generations, people in
Denglu village in Taijiang coun-
ty, Guizhou province, have kept
their ancestor’s oath to guard a
primeval forest of Chinese
cedar trees.
The large, slow-growing
evergreens were the precious
timber used to build imperial
palaces, such as Beijing’s For-
bidden City, and to furnish
imperial houses. However,
overcutting has driven the
plant species to near extinction
in China.
Denglu, secluded in a cedar
forest about 11 kilometers from
a county-level town, has 140
households, many in wooden
houses supported by sturdy
trunks.
Zhang Shengyi, Party chief of
the village, said the wood is a
symbol of longevity, and resi-
dents had maintained a tradi-
tion of cedar worship. There are
more than 20,000 cedar trees in
the forest and nearly every big
tree blossoms with red prayer
ribbons.
During the village’s 600-year
history, every generation of
Zhang clan has pledged to
guard the rare trees, swearing
an oath and drinking wine with
Women parade through a cedar forest in Denglu village in Taijiang
county, Guizhou province during last year’s Spring Festival.
LIU KAIFU / XINHUA
first attempt in China to culti-
vate safflower in the desert,”
he said.
Despite Wang’s confidence,
it’s still too early to know
whether the plants can survive
in the Gurbantunggut. Results
will be known in less than
three months: Workers will
begin harvesting at the end of
July.
The flowers and seeds from
safflower plants are used in
traditional Chinese medicinal
products, in vegetable oil and
other applications.
Xinjiang is China’s biggest
safflower production base,
mostly in Ili, Tacheng and Jim-
sar.
According to Wang, the
investment per hectare is
9,000 to 10,500 yuan ($1,418 to
$1,650).
The regiment decided to
plant in the Gurbantunggut
late last year in light of suita-
ble soil conditions, weather
and a relative lack of pollution,
Wang said. More will be plant-
ed next year if the crop is suc-
cessful, he said.
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drops of their own blood in a
traditional ritual.
There is a major economic
interest, as traders covet the
precious timber. But the resi-
dents say they would rather live
in poverty than make a fortune
from the wood.
Zhang said a businessman
once offered him 2.8 million
yuan ($439,000) for a single
tree, in addition to a brokerage
fee of 500,000 yuan and proper-
ty in the county. But he refused.
In 2015, the county govern-
ment joined residents’ efforts to
protect the trees after some ille-
gal logging occurred. The gov-
ernment helped identify
individual trees that were more
than a century old and entrust-
ed the residents to manage the
forest.
As part of poverty relief
efforts, a paved road to the vil-
lage was built, 4G mobile servi-
ces were introduced and a
primary school was built. The
pristine woods and the legend-
ary village are drawing more
artists and tourists, and resi-
dents hope that the wood will
bring them some fortune in a
sustainable way.
XINHUA
Artifact facts
A visitor learns about the protection of artifacts at the 14th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, on Thursday. The five-day event features exhibitors from 42 countries and regions. XUAN HUI / FOR CHINA DAILY
Chengdu woman nurses
4-legged quake survivors
Guided by empathetic heart, she
quit business to open dog shelter
By HUANG ZHILING
and CUI JIA in Chengdu
When Chen Yunlian and a
guest opened the door to her
apartment in the suburbs of
Chengdu, Sichuan province,
a dozen dogs barked,
wagged their tails and licked
their shoes and trousers.
“It is their way of being
friendly,” said Chen, who
seems much younger than
her 70 years.
She gently took out a dog
lying below a chair to apply
medicine to its eyes.
“She is Jing Ling, which
means smart in Sichuan dia-
lect. She lost her eyesight in
the Wenchuan earthquake
when a building fell on her,”
Chen said.
Jing Ling has lived at
Chen’s canine center with
some 5,000 other aban-
doned dogs on a hill in the
suburbs of Chengdu. As her
right eye became inflamed
recently, Chen took her
home for intensive care.
“She is more than 10 years
old. One year for a dog is
about 7 years for a human,”
Chen said.
After the magnitude-8.0
earthquake in 2008, Chen
rescued more than 200 dogs
from the rubble. Most of
them died or were adopted
by dog lovers. Jing Ling is
Tibet solar energy park to benefit 2,000 poor families
By DAQIONG in Lhasa
and ZHANG YI in Beijing
Construction of China’s
largest photovoltaic industrial
park has begun in Samdrubze
district of Shigatse, Tibet
autonomous region, with the
project expected to house
2,000 families from poverty-
stricken areas, local anti-pov-
erty authorities said on
Thursday.
The park, with an invest-
ment of 28 billion yuan ($4.4
billion), will be centered on a
2,000-megawatt solar power
plant, with an annual output
of 4 billion kWh, and an out-
put value of over 4 billion
yuan, said Galsang Nyoidrub,
director of the Samdrubze
Development and Reform
Commission.
He said developing the solar
power sector in Shigatse
makes sense on many fronts. It
is even nicknamed “the city of
sunlight” with average annual
sunlight of 3,300 hours.
“We plan to officially start
building the solar segment at
the end of this year. If every-
one of around 20 quake sur-
vivors.
Chen was an employee at
a State-owned thermos
plant in Chengdu. In the ear-
ly 1980s, she quit her job
and became wealthy by sell-
ing plastic bowls.
Her life took a U-turn in
1996. When she was on her
way to sign a business con-
tract, she found a sick, stray
dog along the side of the
road gazing sadly at her.
Feeling empathy, she sought
treatment for the dog and
took him home.
“Since then, I have just
adopted dogs and no longer
do business,” Chen said.
After the Wenchuan
earthquake, she and volun-
teers rushed to the quake
zone because she knew dog
owners could not care for
their animals, and police
would kill strays because of
concerns about disease.
“Many dogs hid in the rub-
ble for fear of being killed. It
was difficult and dangerous
to look for them. Very often
the rubble collapsed after
we took away a dog,” Chen
said.
Her love for dogs deep-
ened as she heard stories of
their loyalty in the quake
zone.
Minutes before the earth-
quake, a dog in Dujiangyan
thing goes well, the plant will
be completed in 2025. Five
percent of the annual profit
will be used for local poverty
alleviation,” Galsang Nyoidrub
said.
He said the electricity will
be sold to South Asian coun-
tries, including Nepal and
India, as well as to East China
after transmission lines go up
in the future.
“Located close to an
expressway which is under
construction, and near the
city’s airport, the industrial
park will also develop ecologi-
cal agriculture and service
industry jobs to generate more
employment opportunities,”
he added.
“The power plant alone will
not generate enough job
vacancies, so we will also
develop agriculture suitable to
local conditions. Greenhouses
will be built under photovolta-
ic panels to save space.”
Two agricultural companies
have already started opera-
tions in the park, investing 150
million yuan, Galsang Nyoi-
drub said.
Many dogs
hid in the
rubble for fear of
being killed. It was
difficult and danger-
ous to look for them.
Very often the rubble
collapsed after we
took away a dog.”
Chen Yunlian, who rescued more than 200 dogs from the rubble
of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008
began biting the trousers of
her owner, trying to lead the
way out of the building. The
family did not understand
her strange behavior but
complied.
“The dog was the last to
leave the building. Falling
building materials blinded
her. The owner cried and
asked me to take care of
her because dogs were for-
bidden in the tent shelters
in the quake zone,” Chen
said.
Chen cared for the dog for
two years until the owner
got a new house to welcome
the savior home.
In another case, in Beich-
uan county, a dog was seen
digging in the rubble after a
building buried his owner.
But he only managed to pull
some clothes out of the rub-
The government has patiently
introduced policies to us
many times, and after countless
family discussions, we finally made
up our minds.”
Lhagchog, Shigatse resident who moved from
a remote village to the solar park
Opposite the photovoltaic
industrial park, a “photovolta-
ic town” is under construction,
with an investment of 4 billion
yuan. The community will
accommodate 2,000 house-
holds from poverty-stricken
areas, representing the largest
relocation project in the
region.
“We have already finished
75 percent of the project.
Some 1,008 people from 234
households have already
moved in, and most are satis-
fied with their living condi-
tions and employment
arrangements,” Galsang Nyo-
idrub said. “One task is to per-
suade those poor households
to leave their hometowns and
ble. He sat on the clothes
and refused to leave.
Chen adopted the dog,
which died four years later.
Chen has a 7.3-hectare
facility to care for the thou-
sands of dogs she has adopt-
ed.
The cost is heavy and
Chen must raise the funds
herself.
“In preparing a meal, the
base requires 500 kilograms
of rice,” she said.
Despite her difficult
financial straits, she offers
the rescued dogs chicken
breast and giblets in addi-
tion to rice and dog food.
“They are old and need
special care,” she said.
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help them find proper jobs.”
Lhagchog, 28, one of the
beneficiaries of the project,
moved from Garzang village to
the community in downtown
Shigatse last December.
“My family has always lived
in Garzang, a remote village,”
she said, “We have relied on
seven acres of land to make a
living, but it has low yields due
to water shortages and the
high altitude.
“Since 2016, the govern-
ment began encouraging us to
move, but we were hesitant at
first because of fear of an
unknown future. The govern-
ment has patiently introduced
policies to us many times, and
after countless family discus-
CHINA 5
Broader
vision
urged
for HK
By LUIS LIU in Hong Kong
luisliu@chinadailyhk.com
A high-ranking official
called on Hong Kong to
push forward the develop-
ment of the “one country,
two systems” policy in new
ways.
Wang Zhimin, director
of the central government’s
liaison office in the Hong
Kong Special Administra-
tive Region, made the
remarks during a meeting
to study the spirit of Presi-
dent Xi Jinping’s speech
commemorating the 200th
birthday of German philos-
opher Karl Marx, a founder
of communist ideology.
In his speech, Xi high-
lighted the openness and
epoch-defining character
of Marxism — a guiding
theory of the Communist
Party of China.
Wang urged liaison offi-
cials to push forward the
development of the “one
country, two systems” poli-
cy with a more innovative
perspective, a broader
vision and more open
mind.
This is in line with Xi’s
pledge made during his vis-
it to Hong Kong in July that
the country must do well in
building up the socialist
mainland but also the capi-
talist Hong Kong, Wang
said.
He also said that Marx-
ism is people-centered and
practical, and added that
liaison officials must step
up their efforts to commu-
nicate the care and support
Xi and the central govern-
ment offer to the people of
Hong Kong.
Moreover, as Marxist
theory is scientific and
truthful, liaison officials
must stand firm politically,
Wang said.
Achieving the goal also
requires full implementa-
tion of Xi Jinping Thought
on Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics for a New
Era, which is the latest
development of Marxism
in China, Wang said.
New era thought has
enriched the idea of one
country with two systems
and has offered guidelines
to further develop the prin-
ciple, Wang said.
The office will work hard
to ease Hong Kong’s inte-
gration into the nation’s
overall development by
pushing forward the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-
Macao Greater Bay Area
plan and supporting Hong
Kong’s participation in the
Belt and Road Initiative,
Wang said.
sions, we finally made up our
minds,” she said.
Lhagchog said she opened a
small restaurant which
brought in more revenue than
expected, and the local govern-
ment also helped her father
find a job as a custodian, with a
monthly salary of 4,500 yuan.
Penpa, the 54-year-old
father, said, “We moved from a
shabby mud building to a big
and bright house. Our life
changed totally from farmers
to city residents.”
Lhagchog said: “With con-
venient transportation, it is
easy to take my 2-year-old
daughter to the hospital. Now I
am improving my cooking
skills to run my restaurant bet-
ter. I want to raise my daughter
to be a grateful, educated per-
son who is useful to society,”
“The family is satisfied with
our life now, and we believe a
brighter future is coming. We
are lucky to live in the new
era,” she said.
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Chen Heqiong (second from right), a former teacher who is now a counselor at Qiyi, a middle and high school in Yingxiu, Sichuan province, plays a game with students.
Quake: Teachers-turned-counselors
help survivors rebuild shattered lives
From page 1
Ten years on, all the schools in the
province that were damaged or
destroyed have been rebuilt and fit-
ted with state-of-the-art teaching
equipment. However, many of the
students who survived the quake
are still struggling with post-trau-
matic stress, and it may take dec-
ades for them to recover fully,
according to Chen, the teacher-
turned-counselor.
“The earthquake has left a giant
boulder in everybody’s heart. Some
people are able to walk past it, while
others remain stuck behind it,” she
said.
As a result, many teachers in the
quake zone have retrained as psy-
chological counselors to provide
step-by-step assistance for troubled
survivors, even those who have
graduated and started their work-
ing lives.
“As someone who was trapped
and then rescued, I can perfectly
understand what students who had
similar experiences went through. I
can connect with them and they
trust me,” said Chen, who had
gained a bachelor’s in educational
psychology a few months before the
earthquake struck.
In 2009, when the new campus
came into use, Chen, who once
taught political education, became a
full-time counselor at the school
because she believed the students’
psychological wounds should be
treated as quickly as possible.
During the following year, she
helped a student who began crying
uncontrollably when the teacher
asked the class to write letters to
their relatives, because he had lost
his father in the quake. She also
held therapy sessions with a stu-
dent who told her she saw no point
in living after her mother and
grandmother died in the disaster.
Feng Chengjie, a former student
of Chen’s, knows he was fortunate to
survive.
“My left leg was stuck in the rub-
ble and I was trapped for more than
two days. But I consider myself
lucky because a classmate who was
right behind me as we tried to
escape died when the ceiling fell in,”
said the 24-year-old, who started
working in Chengdu, the capital of
Sichuan, two years ago after gradu-
ating from a university in the city.
Although the muscles in his left leg
were badly damaged below the knee,
the doctors treating him were able to
avoid amputation. However, the leg
was permanently damaged and the
scars are obvious.
In 2009, after completing his
studies in junior high school at the
temporary tent campus in Yingxiu,
Feng began attending a senior
He Yulong, a science teacher at Yongchang Primary School, also offers psychological counseling to quake survivors.
high school in another township.
That was when he first noticed his
emotional scars.
“When my new classmates asked
what was wrong with my leg, I
immediately became very angry and
refused to say another word,” he
recalled.
Eventually, he decided to consult
Chen in an attempt to deal with his
stress before it became worse.
“She told me it was perfectly nor-
mal to feel uncomfortable about
people’s questions about my injury,
but I should understand that my
new classmates only asked because
they cared about me,” he said.
“She also encouraged me to
accept my injury as a part of the
‘new me’, and that there was nothing
to be ashamed of. Now, I have no
problem explaining about the earth-
quake and what happened, but I
don’t want to be treated differently
because of what I went through 10
years ago.”
Feng keeps in close contact with a
student who was rescued from a
high school in Yingxiu that was also
severely damaged. The two shared a
room in the hospital and quickly
became friends.
“One of his legs was amputated,
and he lost his father. The earthquake
is still a forbidden topic for him. He
gets very angry and swears at people
if they mention the event, which he
believes destroyed his life,” Feng said.
Although Feng doesn’t mind talk-
ing about the quake, he usually
refuses to visit Yingxiu: “The old
school is still there. I don’t really
want to see it.”
However, he will make an excep-
tion this year, to attend a class
reunion.
Hidden problems
Chen Xuemin, a teacher who pro-
vides psychological counseling at
Ziyan Primary School in Mianzhu
city, which was also hit by the quake,
said some students displayed obvi-
ous and severe psychological trau-
ma immediately after the event, but
that didn’t mean that those who
showed no symptoms wouldn’t
experience problems later on.
She described treating a former
student who began having a recur-
ring nightmare about seven years
after the quake. The girl dreamed
she was walking to school with her
friends along a road lined with
graveyards. However, on the jour-
ney home she was always alone.
“After a number of therapy ses-
sions I discovered that she had
walked to school with her friends
on the day of the earthquake, but
she was the only one in the group
who survived. The nightmares
were triggered by anxiety as she
prepared for the national college
entrance exam,” Chen Xuemin said,
adding that the deeper the prob-
ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
lems are hidden, the more difficult
they are to treat.
Unexpected trigger
According to Du Li, a counselor at
Dingxin Xinjian Primary School in
Dujiangyan city, many teachers
who survived the quake are still
experiencing psychological prob-
lems, but as a result of unusual cir-
cumstances.
“Many parents who lost children
in the earthquake decided to have
another baby, and now some of the
teachers are teaching the younger
brothers or sisters of children they
knew who died. Trust me, it’s not
easy for them,” she said.
The 50-year-old is fully aware of
the importance of psychological
counseling because she has also
experienced post-traumatic stress
disorder, marked by extreme irrita-
bility and hallucinations. Profes-
sional assistance helped Du
overcome her difficulties, and later
she trained as a counselor.
Although many aspects of her life
have changed in the past 10 years,
one thing has remained constant —
her cellphone number. “I want all
the students who consulted me
before to be able to reach me when-
ever they need to. Recovering psy-
chologically from an earthquake
can be a lifelong process,” she said.
In the aftermath of the disaster,
almost every school in the area
Friday, May 11, 2018 CHINA DAILY
ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
affected by the quake established
psychological consultation facilities,
and many teachers received profes-
sional training.
“Psychological consultation was
used like a first aid service in the
first few years after the quake, and
now it’s part of the students’ health-
care routine,” Du said.
Established in 2006, the AIDS Pre-
vention Education Project for Chinese
Youth was one of first nonprofit orga-
nizations to provide psychological
counseling after the quake.
“At the time, psychological prob-
lems didn’t receive a lot of attention,
because most resources were target-
ed at medical aid, food and water
supplies, along with temporary
housing,” said Zhang Yinjun, the
project’s director.
A few days after the earthquake,
the project organized teams of psy-
chologists to help resolve conflicts
between the education department
and parents who had either lost
children or whose children had
been severely injured.
“Nothing can relieve the anguish
of losing a child. Some parents had
no way of expressing their grief,
except by directing their anger at the
education department,” Zhang said.
However, when the experts
arrived in the areas devastated by
the quake, they realized that many
students and teachers were experi-
encing severe post-traumatic stress.
I want all the students
who consulted me
before to be able
to reach me whenever
they need to.
Recovering
psychologically from
an earthquake can be a
lifelong process.”
Du Li, counselor at Dingxin Xinjian
Primary School in Dujiangyan city
In Dujiangyan, safety concerns
meant 349 high school students and
329 teachers had to gather at one
school, and classes had to resume
almost immediately because many
of the students were set to take the
most important test of their young
lives — the gaokao, or national col-
lege entrance examination — about
a month later.
“Some students and teachers had
post-traumatic stress disorders, such
as insomnia and depression,” Zhang
said. “The experts lived with them for
about two weeks, and offered assist-
ance whenever they could, which
helped many of those affected.”
Long-term support
Zhang stressed the importance of
long-term psychological support.
“People often need a long time to
recover from mental wounds. For
example, take the magnitude 7.8
earthquake in Tangshan (Hebei
province) — even now, many people
are still influenced by what they
experienced then, even though the
quake occurred in 1976,” she said.
In November 2008, the AIDS pre-
vention project arranged for 34
teachers from Sichuan to visit Beijing
and spend two weeks attending psy-
chology classes and lectures deliv-
ered by experts. In the following three
years, the project was extended, with
the result that many of the teachers
became licensed psychologists.
“The Wenchuan earthquake is a
milestone in post-traumatic psycho-
logical support in China. In the past,
people were reluctant to visit psy-
chologists, even during a crisis,
because they felt ashamed to be
labeled as having a ‘mental illness’,”
said Liu Zhengkui, a researcher with
the Institute of Psychology at the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to Liu, before the
Wenchuan quake, no psychologists
in China specialized in post-trau-
matic assistance, so the inadequate
counseling provided by untrained
volunteers in the immediate after-
math resulted in many victims
shunning psychological assistance,
and some inappropriate advice even
made the victims’ conditions worse.
In the first three years after the
quake, the institute sent professionals
to many badly affected areas to pro-
vide treatment and training.
“Foreign experts who provided
experience of post-trauma assistance
were very helpful, but we discovered
that some of their techniques, such as
exposure therapy (which is often used
to treat anxiety disorders), were not
practiced efficiently in China,” Liu
said.
“By learning from both practice
and overseas experience, our
experts discovered some unique
and effective treatments — for
example, practicing calligraphy —
which proved to be useful methods
of tackling stress and nervous disor-
ders for many patients.”
According to the institute, more
than 1 million people have benefited
from crisis counseling in the past 10
years, with more than 50 percent of
them age 18 or younger.
Moreover, some survivors have
learned to overcome their initial
trauma and now regard the disaster
as a moment of revelation.
“I don’t see the earthquake as a
bad thing. Somehow, I have to
appreciate it because it made me see
the best in people. For me, the rescu-
ers who used their bare hands to dig
me out, the volunteers who cared for
me 24/7 at the hospital and teacher
Chen are all superheroes,” said Feng,
the former student.
Chen Heqiong, the teacher who
spent three days buried in the rub-
ble of Xuankou High School, was so
deeply affected by the disaster that
in 2009 she changed her birthday to
May 12, the date the earthquake
struck.
“For me and students such as
Feng, it was the day we were reborn
— we have to make sure we live our
new lives to the full,” she said.
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Huaxi village in Jiangsu province has long been considered the country’s No 1 village.
Village blazes path to prosperity
Huaxi, where residents once subsisted on grain rations, owns billion-yuan conglomerate
By CANG WEI in Nanjing
cangwei@chinadaily.com.cn
Wu Xie’en, a village chief in
Jiangsu province, has person-
ally donated more than 100
million yuan ($15.7 million) in
15 years to help villagers build
a well-off community.
Huaxi village, where he
works, is known as China’s No
1 village. It may not be the
country’s richest village, but it
is considered by many to be
the most famous.
“Leading such a village is
never easy,” Wu said. “I just
hope that my work can bring a
better future to Huaxi and our
villagers.”
The 54-year-old has a busy
schedule most days. He gets
up at 6:30 am and arrives at
the office within an hour. After
spending an hour catching up
with the news and routine
paperwork, Wu turns his
attention to meetings, making
investment decisions and giv-
ing lectures. He often does not
get to bed until 1:30 am.
The village he leads now
owns a conglomerate, Jiangsu
Huaxi Group, with total assets
of more than 50 billion yuan.
Located in the city of Jiangyin,
it has grown from just under 1
square kilometer in the 1960s
to 35 sq km.
About 60,000 people live in
Around China
HENAN
Teacher suspended
for spitting ordeal
A kindergarten teacher, sur-
named Zhang, has been sus-
pended after ordering all 17 of
her female pupils to line up
and spit at a young male class-
mate in Pingdingshan. Foot-
age showed Zhang leading her
class in a round of applause
after each spitting. The boy
was in tears by the end of the
ordeal. Zhang said she just
wanted to teach the boy a les-
son after he was caught spit-
ting at one of his female
classmates. The boy’s parents
contacted the education
authority after learning what
had happened to their son.
They have since filed a lawsuit
against the kindergarten.
SHANGHAIIST.COM
GUANGDONG
Intermarriage ban
lifted for villages
Village heads in Guolong and
Beishan signed a goodwill
agreement on May 6 that offi-
cially allows their villagers to
intermarry. Before the agree-
ment was signed, residents
from the two villages had been
prohibited for over 200 years
from marrying one another.
Village heads and clan chiefs
originally implemented the
ban over two centuries ago
Village chief Wu Xie’en talks about Huaxi’s development in front of
a photo of the Long Wish Hotel. LIU YIFAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
the well-planned village,
where each family owns fancy
cars and free villas. They work
in the group’s companies and
factories, have free medical
insurance and enjoy stock and
yearly bonuses.
due to a land-use feud. A Guo-
long village head, surnamed
Zhuang, said young villagers
should no longer suffer from
age-old resentment.
NANFANG RURAL DAILY
JIANGSU
Icy treat contains
vile surprise
A woman, surnamed Yang,
who discovered a rat’s tail
inside her flavored ice rejected
a compensation offer of 2,000
yuan ($315) in Huai’an on May
1. Yang said she was shocked
when she found the object aft-
er taking a few bites. She
immediately returned to the
supermarket and asked for
compensation of 50,000 yuan,
but was denied. She contacted
authorities but was told the
most she could receive in com-
pensation for a case like hers
was 1,000 yuan.
BTIME.COM
SHANGHAI
Worker sacked for
wearing shorts
A man in Hongkou, surnamed
Jin, has demanded compensa-
tion from his ex-boss after he
was sacked last year for repeat-
XU CONGJUN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Huaxi has never been hesi-
tant about showing the out-
side world how wealthy it is.
Its 328-meter-high Long Wish
Hotel, which cost 3 billion
yuan to build and opened in
2011, houses a golden bull that
edly wearing shorts to work.
Jin is suing for 25,000 yuan
($3,930) in damages. He has
accused his former employer of
violating labor laws and regu-
lations, while it countered that
Jin had breached company
regulations because he had
been told when he was hired in
2016 that he would not be
allowed to wear shorts to work.
SHANGHAI TV STATION
SHAANXI
Man beaten for
forgetting hi-fi
A man, surnamed Wang, was
beaten after he forgot to take a
hi-fi to a square for a public
dance session in Xi’an. Wang
had pitched in with another
man, surnamed Zhou, and oth-
er dance partners to purchase
a hi-fi this month. But Zhou
and three other dancers
rushed to his barbershop and
beat him, bruising his head,
after he failed to take the hi-fi
to a square in the city’s Chan-
gan district on the night of May
6. Police arrived at the scene
and took them all to a nearby
substation for questioning.
BEIJING YOUTH DAILY
is estimated to worth 300 mil-
lion yuan according to media
reports.
But 57 years ago, Huaxi was
a poor village with only 1,764
yuan in assets and debts of
20,000 yuan. Each of its 667
villagers received a daily
ration of 250 grams of grain.
Then its chief, Wu Xie’en’s
father, Wu Renbao, started to
kick-start industry and help
the villagers shake off poverty.
In his 15 years as village
chief since succeeding his
father, Wu has put a lot of
thought into reforms and
finding new growth engines
— even being called the “fac-
tory-closing chief” for shut-
ting down traditional
industries.
In 2003, his first year in
office, he closed nine compa-
nies engaged in traditional
industries, such as chemical
production and the manufac-
ture of wire rods, which pollut-
ed the environment but could
earn more than 100 million
yuan a year.
The group now owns com-
panies in many sectors, from
wholesale agricultural prod-
ucts and financial services to
investment and cutting-edge
technologies.
In 2001, Huaxi started to
accept villagers from neigh-
boring areas.
Roses bring riches to flower innovator
A man in Southwest China
is learning that a rose by any
other name perhaps smells
sweeter after all.
After three decades in the
flower trade, Yang Yuyong’s
business is blossoming, and
he was even given the right to
name a variety of Chinese
rose — bingqing, or “icy
clear”.
Yang, 63, now calls Yunnan
province home — where the
mild climate has allowed the
cultivation of a booming flo-
ral market.
The province has 200,000
flower growers, creating
800,000 sector-related jobs.
Commercial flower planta-
tions cover over 100,000
hectares. Last year, the mar-
ket in Yunnan was worth
about 50 billion yuan ($8
billion). “Spring is the busi-
est season as that’s when we
experiment with new varie-
ties of hydrangea and roses,
including domestic varie-
ties,” Yang said.
He learned flower growing
in his native Northeast China
from his father, and was the
first to register a trademark
for a Chinese rose.
To expand his business aft-
er initial success, Yang relo-
cated to Yunnan in 1998,
aiming for a broader overseas
market. Now he watches over
80 hectares of flowers in Yuxi.
“We have many preferential
policies to attract talent,” Wu
said. “They are crucial to our
development and we must
have an open mind to wel-
come them.”
The group has invested in a
laser chip program led by sci-
entists who returned to China
from Silicon Valley in the Unit-
ed States. It began production
in the neighboring city of
Changzhou recently.
People working for the
group now share the same sal-
ary standards and rights as vil-
lagers, who used to enjoy extra
bonuses but now make up less
than 8 percent of its work-
force.
“You are a Huaxi local if you
work for the village,” Wu said.
“The talented young genera-
tion is Huaxi’s future.”
For five years, he has sent
batches of young people to
poverty-stricken areas in Guiz-
hou and Qinghai provinces to
live with local farmers.
“Many of our young people
have enjoyed good living con-
ditions since they were born,”
Wu said.
“They should experience
farmers’ lives in other areas
and know more about the
country. We hope that with
their help, the village and its
companies can thrive for at
least 100 years.”
Women gather rose petals at a plantation in Anning, Yunnan province. The province has 200,000
flower growers, creating 800,000 sector-related jobs. WONG CAMPION / FOR CHINA DAILY
“When I came to Yunnan,
most flowers on the market
were ordinary at best, not
good enough for export,” he
said.
He started to work for
French company Meilland
International in 1999. “Until
2008, we exported over 20
million yuan in flowers each
year, but our business shrank
during the global financial
crisis,” he said.
Farmers like Yang now
concentrate on developing
new varieties. He holds 39
patents for rose varieties, and
nine for hydrangeas.
“It takes a great deal of
investment and manpower to
come up with new strains,
but the government has
helped me,” he said.
Rebirth in the
face of death
By CAO YIN in Beijing and
HUANG ZHILING
in Chengdu
Jiang Yuhang regards the
2008 Wenchuan earthquake
as his rebirth and something
to treasure in his life.
His survival was seen by
many as a miracle. The then-
19-year-old intern at the
Yingxiu highway adminis-
tration spent 124 hours
trapped under the rubble of
a six-story building in Ying-
xiu township, Sichuan prov-
ince, near the quake’s
epicenter, and he could
smell the bodies of his dead
colleagues nearby.
Ten years later, he still
clearly remembers catching
glimpses of the orange uni-
forms of the firefighters in
the rescue team through the
cracks in the debris that sep-
arated him from safety.
“Seeing those flashes of
color made me feel secure
and brought hope, so I made
a decision at that moment to
join them,” the 29-year-old
said.
Six months after the
quake, he joined a rescue
unit affiliated to the Shang-
hai Fire Service, which had
saved his life. Later, he was
transferred to his home-
town, Kaili in Guizhou prov-
ince, as part of an emergency
response team.
“I am able to better under-
stand peoples’ feelings of
hopelessness and fear dur-
ing an emergency, because I
have been in the same situa-
tion,” he said.
Jiang Yuhang trains a search dog in Kaili, Guizhou province.
JIANG HONGJING / XINHUA
Yang is exempt from
600,000 yuan in taxes each
year as support for innova-
tion. But these new varieties
of flowers are too expensive
to cultivate for most growers
who are required to pay roy-
alties on registered varieties.
“Most think they are too
expensive and the stakes are
too high,” said Zhang Li, head
of an international floral auc-
tion center in Kunming, capi-
tal of Yunnan.
Beginning in 2006, the cen-
ter has waived patent fees on
seeds, only charging royalties
to flower growers when their
products are sold.
“Only five farmers grew the
patented types in the begin-
ning. Now more are growing
them because they are dis-
CHINA 7
The work has helped him
to realize that it is not easy to
become a good rescue work-
er. Every firefighter is always
ready to respond quickly
when the alarm bell rings,
no matter what they are
doing, because “no one
knows when the next emer-
gency will come”.
At first, the work was new
and exciting, and even
though Jiang has inevitably
settled into a routine, he has
never regretted his choice.
Although the upcoming
10th anniversary of the
quake means he cannot
avoid recalling the disaster,
he has devised his own
method of dealing with it.
“Every May 12, I talk in my
heart to the people who
saved me and helped me aft-
er the disaster. I report the
year’s achievements and fail-
ures to them,” he said, refer-
ring to the imaginary
conversations he has with
his saviors.
“The significance of com-
memorating the event is that
we should improve our res-
cue services because learn-
ing lessons from a disaster
can help to prevent us from
being harmed again,” he add-
ed. “I am proud to be a fire-
fighter. For me, the happiest
thing in the past 10 years has
been better understanding
the job and becoming fully
integrated with the rescue
team. I want to do this work
for as long as possible.”
Contact the writers at
caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn
ease-resistant and command
higher selling prices,” Zhang
said.
Last year, close to 4,000
farmers planted patented
roses, paying 8.5 million yuan
in fees through the center.
Yang himself collected
200,000 yuan in royalties last
year.
“Intellectual property
rights are ultimately produc-
tive forces. Patented products
will eventually be accepted by
more people,” he said.
China is the world’s largest
producer and consumer of
flowers, with 13,300 square
kilometers of flower fields.
Sales stood at 139 billion yuan
in 2016.
XINHUA
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Realistic expectations Song Chen

for Kim-Trump talks

E
verything appears to be rosy ahead of the planned
meeting between US President Donald Trump and
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim
Jong-un.
Trump expressed his personal appreciation to
Kim after three US citizens who had been detained
by Pyongyang for anti-state activities were released
on Wednesday. The DPRK’s official news agency, KCNA, reported
that Kim had decided to grant amnesty to the three Americans at
the “suggestion” of the US president.
The move came just hours after the government leaders of China,
Japan and the Republic of Korea expressed their shared commit-
ment to preserving and promoting the positive momentum on the
Korean Peninsula at their long-postponed tripartite summit meeting
in Tokyo. And it has been a while since they all agreed on something.
And it came the day after Kim made his second visit to China to
meet with President Xi Jinping, just 40 days after his first visit,
which was also his first trip outside his country since he became
leader. During their cordial conversations in the northeastern
coastal city of Dalian, Kim reiterated his willingness to denuclear-
ize and his hopes that the upcoming summit with Trump would
lead to lasting peace for his country and the Korean Peninsula.
History has hardly seen such broad-based support for substan-
tive headway to be made in resolving the Korean Peninsula situa-
tion. With all the direct stakeholders enthusiastically engaged, it is
becoming seemingly more possible by the day that the “historic
meeting” Kim anticipates will produce what Trump hopes will be
a “very successful deal”.
But it is that very desire that may prevent it from being realized.
Anyone anticipating that “complete, verifiable, irreversible denu-
clearization” can be obtained with just a snap of the fingers, is
probably destined to be disappointed.
That Pyongyang is actively promoting rapprochement, and has
openly embraced the idea of ultimate denuclearization is indeed a
very encouraging development. And, considering the shared inter-
est in a negotiated outcome for the protracted crisis, the region may
be closer than ever to untying what has long been a Gordian knot.
However, let us not ignore Kim’s statement that a successful
summit with the US president will only be “a fine first step toward OPINION LINE
building a fine future”.
And given Washington’s apparent eagerness for immediate out-
comes and Pyongyang’s preference for things to proceed in a step-
by-step manner, a lot still needs to be straightened out in order to
Project’s cascade of corruption Age not height
bridge what could be an unsurmountable gap. should clarify
Given the role it has been playing in facilitating the progress
that has been achieved so far, Beijing can play a more active role in
this respect by promoting a convergence of pragmatic expecta-
was a series of failed supervision who’s still a kid
tions for the upcoming meeting. A WATER AND SOIL EROSION TREATMENT PROJECT in Huangyuan county, Central China’s
Hunan province, was a cash cow for more than 50 officials of county, city and the provincial governments. IT IS COMMON for children
Guangming Daily comments: under a certain height to be able to
Nation learns lessons from Xinhua News Agency reported that the officials sated with a share of the funds.
use public transport and other public
services for free. However, this prac-
siphoned off nearly 68 percent of the 10 million yuan Even now, the project is still trumpeted as an tice is outdated because Chinese chil-
rebuilding Wenchuan ($1.57 million) that the central government provided
for the project. The fund was serially fleeced at least
achievement.
The reports show that corrupt officials are still
dren enjoy better nutrition today.
Gmw.cn comments:
six times before reaching the project site. What is looking to find ways to get around the anti-graft insti-

T
en years ago, on May 12, 2008, a devastating magnitude 8
earthquake hit Wenchuan county in Sichuan province. It
killed nearly 70,000 people and left around 18,000 peo-
ple missing. The disaster also left an indelible scar on the
collective memory of the Chinese nation.
As the country marks the 10th anniversary of the quake on Sun-
day, we can take pride in how the stricken areas have risen from
the ruins, in the fortitude of those who survived the quake, and in
the helping hands that have been offered and continue to be
offered to help them rebuild their lives.
Not least the huge amount of assistance in various forms pro-
vided by the central government and the governments of provin-
ces and regions nationwide, which has helped the economies and
disposable incomes of residents in the 39 counties and regions in
Sichuan that were hardest hit by the quake expand more than
threefold over the past decade. That is higher than the province’s
average, according to official statistics.
But while it is right to acknowledge what has been achieved in
the post-disaster reconstruction efforts, we should bear in mind
that the best way to commemorate the dead and missing is to make
sure that the nation is better prepared for any natural disaster.
To help ensure that is the case, an earthquake monitoring net-
work is being set up in the seismically active regions of Sichuan
and Yunnan in an effort to explore the possibility of earthquake
prediction. The aim is to successfully predict earthquakes whose
epicenters are less than 20 kilometers deep, as the closer to the
surface an earthquake starts, the more ground shaking and poten-
tially damaging it will be. Fittingly, the first of 2,000 planned mon-
itoring stations was established in Wenchuan on Monday.
Yet while we might one day be able to predict such cataclysmic
quakes, it would be hubris in the extreme to believe that we can
prevent or forewarn of every natural disaster that may befall us.
And while Wenchuan has shown that new buildings, bridges and
roads can be built, and economic activities revived, it has also
shown how hard it can be for people to get over the psychological
aftershocks.
The fact that less than 10 percent of those who suffered psycho-
logical problems after the quake have sought counseling shows
more attention should now be paid to this area.
noteworthy is, this happened in 2013 after the central
authorities’ anti-graft campaign had heated up.
The project should have covered an area of 300 hec-
tares. But on completion, it only treated 67 hectares of
land. It should not have been difficult to spot the cor-
ruption clues. But the collective corruption was not
uncovered until late 2015 when the National Audit
Office carried out a spot check.
The project and the projected spending of the funds
had gone through all the procedures required by rele-
vant rules and regulations, there being supervisory
mechanisms to oversee the quality of such projects,
how the government funds will be used and the ten-
dering process. But all the supervisory bodies were
Hard to believe glowing figures were a mistake
THE GOVERNMENT OF NINGSHAN COUNTY in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province said its tourism
revenue was 1.4 billion yuan ($220 million) over the three-day May Day holiday from April 29 to May 1. But later
admitted it had made a mistake and the figure was actually 140 million yuan. Xiaoxiang Morning News comments:
Ningshan’s slip-of-the-pen error was exposed when
Ankang city, where Ningshan, one of 11 counties is
located, said its May Day holiday tourism revenue was
1.9 billion yuan.
Generally speaking, there is a strict procedure for
government to release statistics, and the chance of
enlarging the amount tenfold is slim. That’s why the
netizens have tended to believe the county govern-
ment intentionally exaggerated its tourism revenue.
Especially as the local governments in Liaoning prov-
ince, Tianjin and the Inner Mongolia autonomous
region were found to have fudged their gross domes-
tic product data.
Economic data remains the major criterion for
tutional designs. And that there is still a long way to
go to form a healthy atmosphere in which officials
dare not be corrupt.
The case indicates that instead of taking the initia-
tive to fight against corruption, many officials are still
sniffing around for opportunities to monetarize their
power.
Thus, the central authorities should carry out a
sweeping investigation on how government funds are
being used, particularly in ecological and environ-
mental protection, poverty alleviation and industrial
upgrading projects, and never ease the anti-graft cam-
paign no matter how many corrupt officials have been
uprooted.
evaluating the performance of local officials. If it had
not been a “clerical error”, Ningshan’s exorbitantly
high tourism revenue would have directly boosted the
county’s annual economic figures, which would have
made a very positive starting paragraph in the local
governor’s work report for the year, and be testimony
to the capability of officials in the related fields.
The county government’s apology should not be an
end to the incident. To prevent the same scenario
from happening again, the higher authorities in
Ankang city or Shaanxi province should look into the
case to verify who should take the blame for the bold
clerical error, which, if it had gone unspotted, would
have benefited many people at almost no cost.
In the past children did not get an
ID card until they reached the age of
18. As a result, many children did not
carry anything with them that could
prove their age, and it was hard to
judge children’s ages based on their
appearances.
Many park and bus management
companies solved the problem by
introducing the height standard,
namely granting children under cer-
tain heights ticket exemptions. It was
much easier to apply because all the
ticket checkers needed to do was
install a fixed ruler at a checkpoint.
Most of the standards were made in
the 1980s or earlier. Children now
enjoy much better nutrition and grow
much faster than before. That in turn
causes social injustice because the
Minor Protection Law clearly states
that “Every minor should enjoy legal
rights equally”. It is time to amend the
policy to ensure the law is fairly
implemented.
It is quite easy today for ticket
checkpoints to check a child’s age.
Children today have ID cards, school
cards, as well as other cards, all of
which are registered with their birth
dates. Public service institutions
should accept such cards as valid evi-
dences of a child’s age.
Besides, the concept of “children”
should be extended to “all minors”,
namely all citizens under 18. Those
above the age of 14 and still under 18
should also enjoy the social welfare.

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Frank Ding and Vanessa Xu
Open Door 3.0 heralds a new growth era
C
oncerns over a looming
US-China trade war cre-
ated tremendous market
volatility in the past
months. But it appears unlikely
that an all-out trade war between
the world’s two largest economies
would break out.
Even more positively, in his key-
note speech at the Boao Forum for
Asia in Hainan province last
month, President Xi Jinping
announced a new round of open-
ing-up, which we term as China’s
“Open-Door 3.0”.
In December 1978, former lead-
er Deng Xiaoping set in motion
the transformation of China’s
economy when he announced the
reform and opening-up policy.
Since then, China’s policy to open
up its economy to the rest of the
world has constituted an essential
part of the overall economic
reform. As a first step of opening-
up, four special economic zones
were established in southern Chi-
na, and tax incentives were offered
Cui Hongjian
Unilateralism a wall between US and EU
I
gnoring the call of an over-
whelming majority of the
international community
that the United States con-
tinue to honor the Iran nuclear
deal, US President Donald Trump
on Tuesday withdrew the US from
the deal and reimposed sanctions
on Teheran.
Last month, French President
Emmanuel Macron and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, during
their separate visits to the US,
tried to reason with Trump that it
was in the interest of Middle East
peace — and thus in the interest of
Washington — that the US stay in
the deal. But their efforts had little
effect on Trump. The French and
German leaders even failed to per-
suade Trump to rethink his deci-
sion to impose 25 percent tariff on
steel and 10 percent tariff on alu-
minum imports.
The fact is, despite their troub-
lesome alliance with Washington,
some European Union countries
changed their “policies” to
strengthen relations with the US.
For instance, Macron started
bilateral talks with the US after
Trump made public his discontent
with the EU’s support for multilat-
eralism and Germany’s trade sur-
plus with the US.
Trump went ahead with his
unilateral actions, and included
the EU on the tariff list “for the
sake of US national security”. By
so doing, he once again under-
mined international trade rules
and hurt the US’ European allies,
which have huge interests in the
US steel and aluminum industry.
Moreover, when Trump
described the Iran nuclear deal as
“insane” and “ridiculous”, some
EU countries attached great
importance to his remark. Trump
has disturbed the balance of pow-
er in the Middle East by further
Axel van Trotsenburg
More and better jobs for developing nations
J
ob creation is an immense
global challenge. More
than 200 million people
worldwide are unem-
ployed, many of them young peo-
ple. Another 2 billion working age
adults — mostly women — remain
outside the workforce.
With the world’s population
growing rapidly, 600 million
more jobs will need to be created
during the next 15 years. Sub-Sa-
haran Africa alone will need 11
million new jobs a year through
2030. In many places, the need
for jobs will intensify social and
political pressures, contributing
to international migration.
Above all, job creation will be the
key factor for developing coun-
tries to reduce poverty, improve
people’s lives, and reach the Sus-
tainable Development Goals by
2030.
Creating more and better jobs
requires economic transforma-
tion: moving workers from lower
to higher productivity activities. It
also means a spatial transforma-
tion with urbanization pulling vil-
lagers into secondary towns and
cities. This shift will need to be led
to attract foreign capital, know-
how and businesses.
Although China’s “Open-Door
1.0”, as we term it from 1980-2000,
was a fundamental change for a
closed economy, it was still a baby
step toward a complete opening-
up of the economy and full current
account liberalization. By and
large, only Guangdong province
was fully open during that period
while most of the rest of China
remained largely closed.
China’s entry into the World
Trade Organization in 2001 can
be regarded as China’s “Open-
Door 2.0”. China’s entry into the
WTO coincided with the last
great boom in global trade and
allowed the country to develop
enormous industrial capacity,
become the “factory of the world”
and accumulate huge amount of
foreign exchange reserves. As a
result, China has grown to
become the world’s second-larg-
est economy, the largest mer-
chandize trading country and
strengthening the US’ relations
with Saudi Arabia and Israel,
which could neutralize the EU’s
efforts to maintain peace in the
Middle East. His move will also
intensify the refugee crisis and
possibly increase terrorist
attacks in the EU countries.
Although many EU members
differ with the US on several
issues, they have cooperated with
Washington on many fronts.
France, for instance, cooperated
with the US to launch air strikes
on Syria in April, as it was seeking
“mutual value and interest”. And
the EU increased the pressure on
Iran to expand the terms of the
nuclear deal.
Several EU members
have given in to Washing-
ton, and asked it to
extend “ally treatment”
to them, abandoning in
the process international
trade rules and compro-
mising the interests of oth-
er World Trade Organization
members. French Finance Min-
ister Bruno Le Maire even said
that, “there is no reason why the
European Union should suffer
from a trade war between the
United States and China”.
In spite of all this, Trump
turned a deaf ear to Macron’s call
that the US stay in the Iran nucle-
ar deal, and Merkel won only a
one-month suspension of the tar-
iff on the European steel and alu-
minum exports to the US.
The EU finds itself in such a
precarious position because it did
not appropriately respond to the
US’ new diplomatic policy and
became obsessed with self-de-
fense.
Trump’s “America First” policy
puts the US above the global com-
munity disregarding all interna-
tional rules. It has scant respect
by the private sector, the main
engine of job growth. For this to
happen on a large enough scale,
we need to look at what has
worked best to create jobs, focus-
ing on sectors that have the high-
est potential.
Agriculture still accounts for
almost 70 percent of total employ-
ment in low-income countries. A
central challenge for agriculture
and the food system is to generate
high value-added jobs across the
value chain, especially for women
and youth.
Manufacturing, which has driv-
en economic growth in many
countries, is changing with new
technologies and shifting pat-
terns of globalization. While some
industries remain feasible entry
points for low-skill employment,
technological innovations could
cause substantial job losses. The
World Bank’s recent study,
“Trouble in the Making: The
Future of Manufacturing-Led
Development”, urges that we con-
sider economies’ competitiveness,
capabilities and connectedness
against shifting international
trade patterns, market demands
Not only does it
indicate further
domestic market
liberalization, it
also shows China is
progressing toward
a rule-based mar-
ket economy.
holder of the largest foreign
exchange reserves.
But China’s “Open-Door 2.0” is
still far from full current account
and capital account liberalization.
Now China has entered a new
era. As people were still debating
whether China would deepen
reform and opening-up, Xi sur-
for mutual interests of strategy,
value and economy. But many of
the EU countries failed, or
refused, to see Trump’s policy for
what it is, believing their alliance
with the US or their NATO mem-
bership would prevent Trump
from taking unilateral actions
against them.
Relations between the US and
the EU have suffered especially
because Trump distinguishes
China’s path offers
useful lessons for
others. As it moves
higher on the global
value chain, China
is also creating fresh
opportunities for
other developing
countries.
and financial strengths.
Beyond these traditionally
important sectors, it is essential to
harness the technological innova-
tion and entrepreneurship that
the digital age has unleashed. As
startups and digital platforms
mushroom across the world, from
Silicon Valley to Beijing’s Zhong-
guancun to Kenya’s “silicon savan-
nah”, there are amazing examples
prised the market once again with
the courage, speed and scale of the
deepening of reform and opening-
up. Xi’s speech at the Boao Forum
for Asia highlighted his conviction
to transform China into a respon-
sible global power.
More specifically, Xi said China’s
goal is to reach a balanced current
account and it “… will take the ini-
tiative to expand imports”. For this
purpose, China will substantially
cut import tariff on automobiles
and some other products this year.
Xi also emphasized that the finan-
cial sector would be further
opened up, so would be other ser-
vice sectors this year.
The manufacturing sector will
also see easing of restrictions on
foreign ownership. Intellectual
property rights protection, too,
has become a focus, as Xi said
“stronger IPR protection is the
requirement of foreign enterpris-
es, and even more so of Chinese
enterprises”, and termed it as the
most important incentive to boost
between friends based on their
capability to boost the US econo-
my and generate employment,
especially in the “Rust Belt”, so
that the US can maintain its lead-
ing position in high-tech and
finance.
The outcomes of the meetings
of Macron and Merkel with
Trump show that no country is
immune to Trump’s unilateral and
protectionist moves. They also
of how innovations are creating
new and different jobs.
Governments need to take pub-
lic policy actions to create an ena-
bling environment. They need to
invest in education, from early
childhood to adulthood, to build
the human capital needed for a
rapidly evolving global economy.
They need to build quality infra-
structure to connect domestically
and globally. And they need to set
up the right ecosystem for private
investments, especially for smaller
businesses and entrepreneurs.
“Jobs and Economic Transfor-
mation” has become a special
theme for the International Devel-
opment Association, the World
Bank Group arm that works with
the world’s 75 poorest countries,
reflecting a shared sense of urgen-
cy among our donor partners and
clients. The World Bank Group
has a long-standing commitment
in understanding and tackling the
challenges of job creation and eco-
nomic transformation. Our
research and knowledge sharing
help IDA borrowers learn from
successful examples of creating
jobs on a sustained basis.
China’s competitiveness as its
economy matures.
The day after the Boao Forum,
Yi Gang, the new reform-minded
governor of the People’s Bank of
China, announced further reform
agenda for banking, insurance
and asset management industries.
The long-term implications of
Xi’s speech will be hugely positive,
as it is a landmark in China’s new
opening-up policy for the coming
decades. Not only does it indicate
further domestic market liberali-
zation, it also shows China is pro-
gressing toward a rule-based
market economy.
The Open-Door 3.0 should be a
positive factor in China’s econom-
ic development as well as equity
investment in the long run. And
thanks to Xi’s vow to further deep-
en reform, China’s policy risks
have substantially receded.
The authors are co-founders of
FountainCap Research & Invest-
ment (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd.
LI MIN / CHINA DAILY
show that only cooperation and
respect for international trade
rules can allow all countries to
effectively counter protectionism
and guard against the unilateral
actions of the US, which could
trigger major trade and geopoliti-
cal crises.
The author is director of European
Studies at the China Institute of
International Studies.
China’s experience is one such
example. In recent decades, China
has succeeded in creating millions
of employment opportunities and
absorbing millions of new
entrants into its labor market,
while transforming its economy
and society. China’s path offers
useful lessons for others. As it
moves higher on the global value
chain, China is also creating fresh
opportunities for other developing
countries.
We are working with partners,
in China and globally, to share les-
sons of job creation and economic
transformation and use them to
support other developing coun-
tries. By looking closely at these
successes, we can identify what
governments can do to generate
incomes and create jobs, by engag-
ing the private sector and unleash-
ing people’s energy and creativity.
Only if we work together can the
international community unlock
the human and economic poten-
tial of our countries, through more
and better jobs.
The author is World Bank vice-
president of development finance.
VIEWS 9
Chen Weihua
The author is deputy editor of
China Daily USA.
chenweihua@chinadailyusa.com
White House up
to its tricks with
some nonsense
quite a lot
I
n a statement last Saturday, the
White House described China’s
caution that foreign airlines
should not refer to Hong Kong,
Macao and Taiwan as independent
countries as “Orwellian nonsense”.
But it is the statement itself that is
nonsense. The letter by the Civil Avia-
tion Administration of China to 36 for-
eign air carriers is simply trying to
correct a mistake that has existed for
too long.
Who on earth still thinks the Hong
Kong and Macao special administrative
region or Taiwan are independent
countries? Since China and the US
established formal diplomatic ties in
1979, even the US government does not
think so.
So why does the White House still
make a fuss about the issue by ignoring
plain and simple facts?
On Jan 12, The Paper, a Shanghai-
based news publication, reported that
at least 24 foreign airlines still list Hong
Kong, Macao and Taiwan as countries,
rather than using the term “regions”,
which Chinese prefer. The story went
viral among Chinese netizens.
Yes, given the country’s recent histo-
ry, Chinese are sensitive to such issues.
Macao was for too long occupied by the
Portuguese, Hong Kong was forced to
be ceded to the British, and Taiwan was
forced to be ceded to the Japanese.
International compa-
nies know that in
order to succeed, they
need to be sensitive to
the feelings of the local
populations where
they operate.
International companies know that
in order to succeed, they need to be sen-
sitive to the feelings of the local popula-
tions where they operate. In this case,
foreign airlines that were not aware of
this sensitivity before should seriously
heed CAAC’s advice.
Such advice applies not only to cor-
porations, but also to every individual.
When starting to learn English in ele-
mentary school, I was taught to refer to
people from the United Kingdom as
British, not English, because they could
be Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish,
many of whom don’t want to be called
English.
Referring to Hong Kong, Macao and
Taiwan as a country goes beyond insen-
sitivity, it’s about basic facts.
Would the White House or average
Americans feel okay if others start to
describe Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska or
Texas as independent countries,
because there have long been inde-
pendence movements there?
After spending a year in Hawaii in the
early 1990s, I learned that the Hawaiian
sovereignty movement has been alive
since 1893, when the US overthrew the
Hawaiian kingdom. In 1993, both the
US Congress and then US president Bill
Clinton apologized to the native Hawai-
ians for the illegal annexation.
A Puerto Rican independence move-
ment has also existed ever since the US
seized the territory from the Spanish in
1898. I have made three trips to the Car-
ibbean island and love its people, cul-
ture, history, beaches, coffee and its
“un-American” metric system.
However, news from the beautiful
island after Hurricane Maria last Sep-
tember has been heart-breaking. Not
only have so many people been living
without power month after month, the
federal government of the world’s only
superpower has not exactly been going
all out to help the disaster-stricken pop-
ulation. It is shameful.
I could go on and on with the inde-
pendence movement in Alaska, Texas
or even Vermont. But of course, the US
Constitution does not allow any state to
declare independence.
And most Americans may find it hard
to understand the feelings of Chinese
on the matter. After all, US history over
the last 150 years has been a constant
annexation of territories from Asia to
Latin America.
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Island takes flight
after China bird gift
Crested ibises
on Japan’s Sado
all descended
from Shaanxi
TOKYO — Crested ibises, the
iconic birds that were on the
verge of extinction in Japan in
the 1980s, are now prospering
and providing a boost to the
local economy on the island of
Sado, thanks to China’s help.
Since May, the island’s farm-
ers have been busy in the fields
transplanting rice seedlings.
In the morning and evening,
white-plumed crested ibises
can be seen hunting for food in
the paddy fields.
“We can see these birds for-
aging in the morning and even-
ing all seasons now, as there
are crested ibises’ nests near
our rice fields,” said 54-year-old
farmer Katsumi Oi.
Sado, covering an area of
855 square kilometers and
with a population of 55,000
people, is the sixth largest
island in Japan.
The so-called Agriculture in
Harmony with Endangered
Japanese Crested Ibis is seen
as an advantageous resource
on the island given its recogni-
tion by the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation as Globally Important
Agricultural Heritage.
A crested ibis is an iconic
bird deeply rooted in Japanese
history and culture. Records
of the bird can be traced back
to as early as the Chronicles of
Japan, a book of history fin-
ished in 720 AD.
Maritime
masks
Balinese artists
dressed in decorative
costumes take part in
the Maritime Festival
at Pandawa Beach on
the resort island of
Bali, Indonesia, on
Wednesday. JOHANNES
P. CHRISTO / REUTERS
Russians assure British govt
over World Cup fan safety
By JULIAN SHEA in London
julian@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Police from Russia and the
United Kingdom are working
to protect supporters traveling
to the upcoming World Cup,
British Foreign Office said,
as Russian authorities have
given the British government
assurances that soccer fans at
this summer’s event will be
safe despite fears of crowd vio-
lence.
According to the Foreign
Office, people who attacked
English fans at the Euro 2016
match in Marseille, France,
have been banned from
attending matches in Russia.
The Euro 2016 tournament
in France was marred when
Russian soccer hooligans
attacked English fans before
the teams’ match in Marseille,
with one England supporter
being left with severe brain
injuries.
In February, a 31-year-old
However, the number of
crested ibises in Japan
plunged in the 20th century as
the birds were hunted for their
meat and fine feathers. They
also lost their habitats due to
deforestation.
“Sado used to be the last
habitat of crested ibises in
Japan. But with the develop-
ment of modern agriculture
and the abuse of pesticides,
food consumed by crested
ibises, such as frogs and small
fish, disappeared from the
paddies, and crested ibises
also went to extinct,” said Tak-
ayuki Nishimaki, an official
from the agriculture depart-
ment of the local government.
To save the endangered spe-
cies, the Japanese government
captured the last five wild
crested ibises on the island
and relocated them to a con-
servation center.
But 22 years later, the last
Japanese-born crested ibis
died at the center at the age of
36, an age equal to 100 in
human years.
Today’s crested ibises on the
island are all descendants of
those from northwest China’s
Shaanxi province.
In 1981, while the world was
holding its breath for the
endangered species, seven wild
crested ibises were discovered
in the mountains of Shaanxi.
“The gloom in the conserva-
tion center (in Sado) was dis-
pelled by the good news. ...
These birds were to save the
species from extinction,”
Hiroyuki Ishi, an environmen-
tal journalist and scientist, lat-
er wrote in an article.
With the seven ibises, Chi-
na successfully launched its
suspect was arrested over the
incident, and now faces up to
15 years in prison in France.
Around 10,000 English fans
are expected to be going to the
tournament, which starts on
June 14, and Harriett Baldwin,
a Foreign Office minister, said
the Russian authorities had
promised world football’s gov-
erning body FIFA and the
British government that they
would be protected.
Baldwin said that managing
the threat of violence had been
one of the priorities of tourna-
ment planners over the last
two years.
These fans will be traveling
to Russia in the aftermath of a
major breakdown in diplo-
matic relations between the
countries following the poi-
soning of former double agent
Sergei Skirpal and his daugh-
ter Yulia in Salisbury in March.
Russia has denied responsi-
bility for the incident, which
led to tit-for-tat diplomatic
artificial breeding programs
for conserving and protecting
the species. In 1999, two crest-
ed ibises went to Sado as a gift
from China, and three more
ibises were sent to Japan by
2007.
Now, around 284 crested
ibises are living in Japan.
To boost the local economy,
the city of Sado plans to
increase the number of for-
eign tourists from 1,510 in 2011
to 5,000 by 2019, according to
Hiroaki Iwasaki, a local gov-
ernment official, who said the
target has already been
achieved in large part due to
the birds.
Moreover, crested ibises
have become a brand of their
own for local products, espe-
cially agricultural products.
“We produce 20,000 tons of
rice every year, enough to satis-
fy the needs of 500,000 people
a year, which is ten times of the
population of Sado,” said Man-
abu Watabe, an official from a
local agricultural cooperative.
To excel in the fiercely com-
petitive Japanese rice market,
local farmers stressed that
their rice is “produced in har-
mony with crested ibises”.
To produce such rice, farm-
ers must make the rice pad-
dies an effective ecological
system, where small creatures
coexist in harmony and crest-
ed ibises have plenty of food,
Nishimaki explained.
“Crested ibises increase
demands on protecting the
environment, and the birds
successfully breeding here
shows that the rice here is
safe,” said Nishimaki.
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expulsions in both the United
Kingdom and Russia.
The Foreign Office said:
“Due to heightened political
tensions between the UK and
Russia, you should be aware of
the possibility of anti-British
sentiment or harassment at
this time.”
The government website also
has a specific section dealing
with travel to the World Cup.
It said UK police have made
four visits to Russia in the past
year, with Russian police visit-
ing the UK twice in the last
nine months, and that there
will be a British embassy pres-
ence on match days in all cities
where the England team are
playing, as well as a 24-hour
telephone advice service.
Baldwin said that police
cooperation had been strong
“but clearly as with any foot-
ball event this is a risk that
does need to be closely worked
on and the risk of violence
needs to be mitigated”.
Confection collision
Liquid chocolate is spread across the A2 highway between Wrzesnia and Slupca near Poznan, western Poland, after a truck transporting
the sweet freight crashed through a traffic barrier on Wednesday. The tanker flipped on its side, blocking traffic in both directions,
police said. POLISH PRIVATE TVN CHANNEL VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Tracks of ancient road in Aleppo
ALEPPO, Syria — Despite
the widespread destruction of
its ancient treasures in the
past years of war and vio-
lence, the historic spirit and
glorious past of the Syrian city
of Aleppo is showing signs of
a return to life.
Though much of the city is
largely in ruins, it feels like
every fallen stone and broken
relic tells a story, and holds
the promise of a new future.
In the Bab al-Nasr Souk,
which dates back to ancient
Greece, three or four shops
have reopened since the city
was liberated from the rebels
in late 2016.
The souk is named after the
adjacent Bab al-Nasr, or the
Victory Gate, the northern
portal to the city. It has been
destroyed and rebuilt several
times throughout history
because of war and earth-
quakes.
One of these shops is an old
Cracks in nuclear
reactor ring alarm
bells over power
LONDON — Cracks in
the core of a Scottish nucle-
ar reactor could signal that
most of Britain’s aging
plants will not be able to
supply the country with
much needed power for as
long as predicted.
Nuclear reactors gener-
ate just over 20 percent of
Britain’s electricity and
even before EDF Energy
said last week it would need
to shut down one of two
reactors at the Hunterston
B plant, almost half of that
capacity was scheduled to
go offline by 2025.
“These reactors are over
40 years old. This is a gener-
ic defect which cannot be
fixed so it would not sur-
prise me if the older plants
would all need to close
within the next few years,”
said John Large, an inde-
pendent nuclear engineer-
ing consultant.
Britain’s electricity gen-
eration is under scrutiny
due to a plan to close coal-
fired power plants by 2025
and weak economic condi-
tions for investment in new
gas plants.
There are also doubts
about the timetable for
EDF’s Hinkley Point C
nuclear plant, which is not
expected to come online
until the end of 2025, and
the proposed Sizewell C
plant, which is not even
being built yet.
French utility EDF said
the Hunterston B shut-
down was due to new
cracks developing faster
than expected in graphite
bricks in one reactor’s core.
These bricks are used in all
14 advanced gas-cooled
nuclear reactors, or AGRs,
in Britain which drive
bakery, possibly the only one of
its kind in the city these days.
The bakery produces vari-
ous types of cookies and
bagels, the most famous crea-
tion being the sesame seed
breadsticks, known as Kaak
al-Sakhaneh in Arabic, which
used to be a favorite food for
travelers and merchants on
the ancient Silk Road and are
still enjoyed today.
Khaled Mari, the owner of
the bakery, said the bread-
sticks were so popular among
travelers because they could
last for months.
“People used to come and
take the Kaak al-Sakhaneh in
wrapped bags and would
travel long distances, and as
long as it’s dry and not pene-
trated by humidity, it could
last for two months and the
taste remains the same as if
just coming out of the oven,”
said Mari.
Recounting what his father
seven out of eight of the
country’s plants.
“We believe that most of
the AGRs will have their life
limited by the progression
of cracking,” Britain’s Office
for Nuclear Regulation said
on its website, adding that
this presents “unique chal-
lenges”.
The bricks cannot be
repaired or replaced and
EDF said it will work with
the ONR to show there
would be no danger posed
even in the event of an earth-
quake or other disruption.
“The longer-term safety
case will build on work
already completed and
EDF Energy expects that
this will demonstrate that
there are large safety mar-
gins both now and for the
projected reactor lifetime,”
EDF Energy said.
EDF has not changed its
lifetime forecasts for Hunt-
erston B, which is due to be
decommissioned in 2023,
although it predicts the
reactor will remain shut
until mid-November.
But experts said this is
overly optimistic. The
graphite bricks form chan-
nels which contain nuclear
fuel and the reactor control
rods, while allowing carbon
dioxide coolant to remove
heat from the reactor fuel
and core. They crack with
age, but cannot be replaced
due to their location.
In France, EDF’s nuclear
plants provide up to 75 per-
cent of the country’s power
needs but the fleet has been
dogged by repeated shut-
downs and inspections
over the integrity of some
components.
REUTERS
Friday, May 11, 2018 CHINA DAILY
and grandfather had told
him, Mari said the Silk Road
merchants used to buy the
breadsticks while crossing
Aleppo’s old city toward Con-
stantinople (now Istanbul),
Anatolia, the Black Sea and all
the way to Europe.
Alaa al-Sayyed, a lawyer
and history researcher, said
that the ancient city of Aleppo
was located on the crossroads
of several trade routes.
“Aleppo was in the heart of
the Silk Road, the one coming
from China in the Far East
toward what is currently
known as Western Europe
and the Spice Route coming
from the far south in India to
Yemen, Hijaz, the Levant and
then north of Aleppo heading
either toward the Black Sea to
Armenia or the Caspian Sea,
or to Constantinople to enter
Western Europe,” he said.
Sayyed said Bab al-Nasr
was important as the com-
Two soldiers monitor the concentration of sulfur dioxide during
ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday.
TAO XIYI / XINHUA
Volcano predicted to
keep up show of force
PAHOA, Hawaii — A large
explosion in Hawaii’s Kilauea
volcano on Wednesday may
mark the beginning of more
violent, explosive eruptions
that could spray rocks for kilo-
meters and dust nearby towns
in volcanic ash and smog, the
US Geological Survey said.
The USGS warned that
more violent eruptions at the
crater could begin in mid-May,
shooting rocks weighing sev-
eral tons for over half a kilo-
meter, hurling pebble-sized
projectiles several kilometers
and dusting areas up 32 km
away with ash.
“This is the first of perhaps
more events like that to come,”
Tina Neal, the scientist in
charge of the USGS Hawaiian
Volcano Observatory, said of
Wednesday’s blast which shot
projectiles from the crater.
The town of Hilo about 40
km northeast of Kilauea on
Hawaii’s Big Island and the vil-
lage of Pahoa 39 km east, could
be exposed to volcanic air pol-
lution, or so-called vog, and a
layer of ash should explosive
eruptions begin and prevail-
ing wind directions shift, Neal
said.
Geologists cautioned that
Kilauea’s past explosions had
been relatively small on a glob-
al scale, and while ash from
the volcano posed a nuisance
mercial caravans used to pass
through it to reach the souk,
where shops were lined on
both sides of the streets.
Nowadays, most of the
souks in Aleppo, including
Bab al-Nasr, have been largely
destroyed by the war.
But the shops that were not
heavily damaged have started
operating again, including
the bakery that makes the
Kaak al-Sakhaneh.
China launched the Belt
and Road Initiative in 2013,
with the aim of building a
trade and infrastructure net-
work connecting Asia with
the Middle East, Africa and
Europe along the ancient
trade routes including the
Silk Road.
Hopefully, Aleppo can
revive its past glory and pros-
perity through participation
in the initiative.
XINHUA
as an eye and respiratory irri-
tant, it was not a serious health
hazard. “We don’t anticipate
there being any wholesale dev-
astation or evacuations neces-
sary anywhere in the state of
Hawaii,” said Donald Swanson
of the Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory.
Hawaii County Civil Defense
said all 1,900 residents of the
Leilani Estates and Laipuna
Garden areas, around 40 km
east of the crater, had been
evacuated. Lava oozing from
two new fissures in the area
had paused but sulfur dioxide
gas was still a hazard.
Exposure to very high levels
of the gas, which causes acid
rain, can be life-threatening,
according to the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry.
Fifteen fissures have opened
since Kilauea’s vents started
spraying fountains of lava up to
90 meters into the air on Thurs-
day and 47 hectares of land
have been covered with lava.
Kilauea has been in a state
of nearly constant eruption for
35 years. It predominantly
blows off basaltic lava in effu-
sive eruptions that flow into
the ocean but occasionally
experiences more explosive
events.
REUTERS
 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018
Europeans work to save Iran accord
EU says it will
ensure sanctions
toward Teheran
remain lifted
By CHINA DAILY
Dismayed European allies
sought on Wednesday to sal-
vage the Iran nuclear deal and
preserve their Iranian trade
after US President Donald
Trump withdrew the United
States from the landmark
accord and ordered sanctions
reimposed on Teheran.
“The deal is not dead.
There’s an American with-
drawal from the deal but the
deal is still there,” French For-
Israel strikes
Iranian ‘military
targets’ in Syria
By CHINA DAILY
Syrian air defenses destroyed
tens of Israeli missiles that were
fired at Syrian positions before
dawn on Thursday, but some of
the missiles hit their targets,
state TV reported.
The missiles targeted air
defense battalions, radars, and
arms depots, state TV said,
providing no further details
about the exact location of the
targets.
Russia’s Defense Ministry
said on Thursday that 28 Isra-
eli F-15 and F-16 aircraft took
part, with around 70 missiles
being fired.
A Russian deputy foreign
minister called for “restraint
on all sides” on Thursday, say-
ing Moscow was “concerned”
at the escalation.
“We have established con-
tacts with all parties and we
call for restraint from all par-
ties,” Deputy Foreign Minister
Mikhail Bogdanov said.
The strikes came a day after
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu held talks in
Moscow with Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin.
According to Israeli Defense
Forces, its fighter jets struck
“almost all” the dozens of Ira-
nian military targets in
response to a rocket attack on
the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights by Iran’s Islamic Rev-
olutionary Guard Corps.
A UK-based watchdog
group said the Israelis target-
ed positions near Damascus,
central Syria and the southern
province of Qunaitera.
Israeli soldiers walk next to tanks near the border with Syria in
the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday.
AMIR COHEN / REUTERS
Migrant babies born at sea defying tides of turmoil
ROME — Mercy, Francesca,
Newman, Diabam and Sophia
were the names their mothers
chose. What they had no con-
trol over was where their
babies were born.
As hundreds of thousands
of migrants risk their lives on
the perilous sea crossing from
North Africa to Europe, doz-
ens of newborns have taken
their first breath aboard res-
cue ships in recent years.
“There were a lot of people
in the rubber boat, we were all
packed together. ... The pain
was awful,” said Stephanie, a
Nigerian woman who gave
eign Minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian said.
But Iranian President Has-
san Rouhani, who helped
engineer the 2015 agreement
to ease Iran’s economically
crippling isolation, told
French counterpart Emmanu-
el Macron in a phone call that
Europe had only a “limited
opportunity” to preserve the
pact, the Iranian Students’
News Agency reported.
Iranian Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said:
“Mr Trump, I tell you on behalf
of the Iranian people: You’ve
made a mistake. ... I said many
times from the first day: Don’t
trust America.”
Macron, who like other
European leaders had lobbied
Trump to keep the agreement
that was struck before the
The Dumair air base in the
eastern part of the Qalamoun
region north of Damascus is
believed to have been hit, the
group said, adding that Israeli
missiles fell near a position
where Iranian fighters are sta-
tioned.
The latest tension came a
day after Israel targeted a Syri-
an military site in the Kisweh
area southwest of Damascus,
killing 15 fighters, including
eight Iranians, according to
activists.
Last month, Israel targeted
two military sites in Syria
where Iranian fighters were
located, including the T-4 air
base.
It’s the second large-scale
missile strike on Syria since
April, when the United States
and Western allies launched a
series of missile strikes on mil-
itary positions in retaliation
for an alleged chemical weap-
ons attack on a former rebel-
held area east of Damascus.
But the confrontation on
Thursday was long and more
intense, reflecting the boiling
tension between Israel and
Iran and Syria on the other.
Israel has repeatedly said it
will not tolerate an Iranian
military presence inside Syria,
and has targeted several posi-
tions where Iranian fighters
were believed to be stationed.
The Thursday attack was
the first major Israeli-Syrian
confrontation since the 1973
Arab-Israeli war.
Xinhua AFP and AP
contributed to this story.
birth to Francesca aboard an
aid boat.
There are many elements of
a tortuous sea crossing that
can push pregnant women
traveling aboard crammed
vessels into labor — stress, the
vibration of boat engines, even
the relief of being rescued
from danger.
But the chance of a woman
having to give birth on the per-
ilous voyage is ultimately a
question of numbers.
Since 2014, almost 80,000
women have landed on Italian
shores, not including adoles-
cents.
Republican president took
office in January 2017, urged
Rouhani to adhere to the deal
and to consider broader nego-
tiations.
Trump said on Tuesday he
would revive US economic
sanctions, which would penal-
ize foreign firms doing busi-
ness with Teheran, to
undermine what he called “a
horrible, one-sided deal that
should have never, ever been
made”.
On Wednesday, he said Iran
would now either negotiate or
“something will happen”. It
was not immediately clear
what actions he was suggest-
ing would take place.
The White House said later
that Trump was preparing to
impose new sanctions on Iran,
perhaps as early as next week,
Mahathir Mohamad reacts during a news conference after his general election victory, in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
LAI SENG SIN / REUTERS
Mahathir sworn in after shock victory
By CHINA DAILY
Mahathir Mohamad, a
former Malaysian prime min-
ister who led the opposition
to a stunning victory in the
general election, took the
oath of office on Thursday
night, becoming the world’s
oldest elected leader at the
age of 92.
In a huge political upset,
Mahathir’s opposition alli-
ance broke the grip on power
of the Barisan Nasional coali-
tion, which had governed
Malaysia uninterrupted since
its birth as an independent
country in 1957.
The vote tally released by the
Malaysian Election Commis-
sion on Thursday showed that
the opposition alliance Paka-
tan Harapan, or PH, led by
Mahathir, won 113 seats out of
the 222 seats of the parlia-
ment’s lower house, enough
for them to form the federal
government.
Mahathir ruled Malaysia
from 1981 to 2003. Born in a
small village near the border
with Thailand, Mahathir is
known for steering Malaysia
from a mining backwater to
become one of Asia’s fastest-
growing economies.
The majority of them are
young and many are pregnant.
“I’ve met many women who
were raped,” said Marina Koji-
ma, a Japanese midwife who
spent several months aboard
the Aquarius, a rescue ship
jointly run by NGOs SOS Med-
iterranee and Doctors With-
out Borders, or MSF.
“Often they have to sell their
bodies in order to get a place
on the boat.”
Citizenship dead-end
But even if the 35 babies
born aboard Mediterranean
rescue vessels in recent years
but gave no details.
Iran has drafted a “propor-
tional” plan to cope with the
US withdrawal, the official
news agency, IRNA, quoted
government spokesman
Mohammad Baqer Nobakht
as saying. He said without
elaborating that budgets had
been drawn up to handle vari-
ous scenarios.
The fruit of more than a dec-
ade of diplomacy, the nuclear
agreement was clinched in
July 2015 by the US, France,
Britain, Germany, Russia, Chi-
na and Iran.
It was designed to prevent
Iran developing a nuclear
bomb in return for the remov-
al of sanctions.
Trump complained that the
deal did not address Iran’s bal-
listic missile program, its
Our struggle to change Malaysian
politics is not wasted. We believe
Mahathir can make a change.”
Mohamad Azlan Shah,
a member of Mahathir’s alliance Pakatan Harapan
His PH alliance of four par-
ties trounced the BN coalition
of prime minister Najib Razak.
Najib’s BN won 79 seats, a
collapse from the 133 it won in
the 2013 election, which was
itself the coalition’s worst poll
performance ever at the time.
Foreign Ministry Spokes-
man Geng Shuang said on
Thursday that Mahathir is a
veteran statesman, who made
great contributions to the
development of China-Malay-
sia relations.
The comprehensive strate-
gic partnership between Chi-
na and Malaysia has a sound
momentum for development,
the mutually-beneficial coop-
eration has achieved signifi-
cant outcomes and brought
substantial benefits to both
defy the odds to make it safely
to Europe, their ordeal is just
getting started.
According to maritime law,
children born at sea are con-
sidered nationals of the ship’s
flag carrier: Italy for Francesca
and the United Kingdom for
Mercy.
But in these countries,
restrictive citizenship laws
mean the babies are not enti-
tled to a European passport.
Upon arrival in Italy, their
unusual birth affords them
no special treatment and
they often get lost among the
masses.
nuclear activities beyond 2025
or its alleged role in conflicts
in Yemen and Syria.
His decision raises the risk
of deepening conflicts in the
Middle East, puts the US at
odds with European diplo-
matic and business interests
and casts uncertainty over
global oil supplies. European
and US companies could lose
billions of dollars in canceled
commercial deals and a major
new export market undercut
by the US decision to reimpose
sanctions on Iran.
‘Region deserves better’
Le Drian, German Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel and the
International Atomic Energy
Agency all said Iran was hon-
oring its commitments under
the accord.
countries and the two peo-
ples, which should be cher-
ished and safeguarded by
both sides, Geng said.
Mahathir has promised to
hand over the premiership to
Anwar Ibrahim, a former dep-
uty prime minister who is in
prison on sodomy charges
and is scheduled to be
released in June.
“Our struggle to change
Malaysian politics is not wast-
ed. We believe Mahathir can
make a change,” said PH mem-
ber Mohamad Azlan Shah.
Mahathir was once Najib’s Xinhua, Reuters and
patron but they clashed over a Gao Desheng in Beijing
scandal around 1Malaysia contributed to this story.
Development Berhad, or
1MDB, a state fund from
which billions of dollars were Online
allegedly siphoned off.
Mercy and her mother were
taken to Mineo reception cen-
ter in Sicily, the largest in
Europe.
It still houses nearly 3,000
people who sometimes wait
years for an answer to their
asylum applications.
Little Francesca, and two
others, Newman and Favor,
born on the Aquarius in 2016,
were luckier: Their parents
were taken in by smaller cen-
ters, which may offer the
chance to grow up to live a life
less precarious than their birth.
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“The region deserves better
than further destabilization
provoked by American with-
drawal,” Le Drian said.
The European Union said it
would ensure sanctions on
Iran remain lifted, as long as
Teheran meets its commit-
ments.
The Kremlin said Russian
President Vladimir Putin was
“deeply concerned” by the
withdrawal, the RIA news
agency said.
Iranian officials will next
week meet counterparts from
France, Britain and Germany.
Khamenei appeared sceptical
whether they could deliver: “I
don’t trust these three coun-
tries.”
Reuters and AP
contributed to this story.
The 1MDB affair is being
investigated by at least six
countries, although Najib has
denied any wrongdoing and
has been cleared by Malay-
sia’s attorney-general.
At a news conference on
Thursday morning, Mahathir
said he would not seek
revenge but is “seeking to
restore the rule of law”.
Mahathir had vowed to
investigate the scandal if
elected and bring missing
funds back to Malaysia. On
Thursday he said that if
Najib had done anything
wrong he would “face the
consequences”.
Multiple polls before the
election had predicted that
BN would extend its grip on
power.
The rout of BN was made
possible by a swing of BN core
supporters to PH such as
those in rural areas, who have
long relied on subsidies and
favorable BN policies.
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Bernadette Obiona (right) and David Dibonde (left) pose with
their newborn Alex during a family picture in 2016, a day after they
were rescued off the Libyan coast.
GABRIEL BOUYS / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Briefly
KENYA
At least 41 killed
after dam bursts
A dam burst its banks in
Kenya’s Rift Valley, killing at
least 41 people and forcing
hundreds from their homes,
officials said on Thursday.
Water burst through the
banks of the Patel Dam in
Solai on Wednesday night,
sweeping away hundreds of
homes, including those on
the expansive Nyakinyua
Farm, which borders the
reservoir. So far, up to 40
people have been rescued
from the mud and taken to
hospitals. Many are feared
still trapped.
IRAQ
Security forces
vote in post-IS poll
Around 1 million soldiers,
police and other security
personnel were voting
across Iraq on Thursday in
the first national elections
since the country declared
victory over the Islamic State
group. Servicemen in uni-
form queued up to cast their
ballots two days before the
rest of the country heads to
the polls for a parliamentary
election on Saturday, just
five months after the month-
slong battle against the
extremists drew to a close.
INDONESIA
Police hostage
crisis at jail over
A hostage crisis involving
extremist prisoners at a
high-security jail outside
Jakarta has been resolved
nearly two days after a
deadly riot broke out at the
prison, Indonesian officials
said on Thursday. Hundreds
of police and armored vehi-
cles were deployed to rescue
a police officer taken hos-
tage by inmates after chaos
erupted late on Tuesday at
the facility inside the Mobile
Police Brigade headquarters
in Depok, leaving five offi-
cers and an inmate dead.
INDIA
Dust, rainstorm
leaves 14 dead
A powerful dust and rain-
storm demolished homes
and downed power lines in
northern India, killing at
least 14 people, an official
said on Thursday, a week aft-
er another unseasonable
storm caused deaths and
destruction in the same
region. The storm with
winds blowing up to 100
km/h swept western parts of
Uttar Pradesh state on
Wednesday night, toppling
trees and demolishing doz-
ens of mud and brick homes.
UNITED KINGDOM
Trump risks anger
over iconic drink
US President Donald Trump
has risked the further ire of
Scotland, his mother’s home-
land, after his luxury Turn-
berry golf resort banned the
sale of national soft drink
Irn-Bru. The resort’s general
manager told the Ayrshire
Post newspaper that he no
longer sold the fluorescent
orange fizzy drink as it
stained the carpets. Irn-Bru
has dominated the Scottish
market for 100 years with
the equivalent of 12 cans
consumed every second.
AP—AFP
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China Import Expo blazes trail in
electronics, high-tech industries
Global corporate giants from China, the US and elsewhere participating, Cao Yingying reports.
T
he 2018 China Import
Expo to be held in
Kunshan, Jiangsu
province, will show-
case the city’s strength in
the electronics industry and
provide platforms for global
companies to seek out more
business opportunities, said
organizers.
The expo, to be held at Kun-
shan’s Huaqiao International
Expo Center, runs from May
16 to 18.
It is hosted by the Ministry
of Commerce, China Council
for the Promotion of Interna-
tional Trade and the Jiangsu
provincial government. To
offer a high-end, intelligent
and environmentally friendly
expo, the organizers have
replaced the previous con-
sumer goods exhibits with
new photoelectronics, semi-
conductor and electrical
equipment exhibits this year.
According to officials of the
fair’s organizing committee,
a total of 400 international
companies will display their
photoelectronics and semi-
conductor products during
the expo.
These include multination-
als such as Microsoft, Fujitsu,
Keyence, Osaka Transformer
and Chinese technology com-
panies including telecom
giant Huawei, Huatian Tech-
nology (Kunshan) Electron-
ics and Kunshan Govisionox
Optoelectronics.
The exhibition will consist
of three main parts.
The first one is the intelli-
gent manufacturing exhibi-
tion area, which will show-
case products related to arti-
ficial intelligence, precision
machines and industrial auto-
mation — as well as numerical
control equipment, pharma-
ceuticals and environmental
protection equipment.
The second exhibition area
will display semiconductor
equipment and materials,
integrated circuit sensors
and chip manufacturing pro-
cesses.
The third exhibition area
will display electric motors
as well as related equipment,
key components and parts,
computer integrated manu-
facturing systems and related
technologies.
To boost cooperation
between companies from Chi-
na and the world, this year’s
China Import Expo — or CIE
— will host the first Sino-US
(Kunshan) Intelligent Manu-
facturing Cooperation Forum,
the seventh World Business
Leaders (Kunshan) Confer-
ence and different themed
matchmaking meetings.
International industry lead-
ers are invited to discuss hot
topics such as e-commerce,
Internet Plus, industrial trans-
formation and upgrading, and
solutions to problems related
to these areas will be provided
during the expo.
Some of the big names
attending the forum include
Zhang Yujing, president of
the China Chamber of Com-
merce for Import and Export
of Machinery and Electron-
ic Products, Zhang Kelin,
vice-president of the China
Machinery Industry Federa-
tion, Sun Bo, general manager
of JD Logistics — the logistics
arm of China’s e-commerce
giant JD. They will be joined
by many more industrial lead-
ers in China.
In addition to Chinese busi-
ness leaders and officials, the
United States Consul-Gen-
eral in Shanghai Sean Stein,
Verinda Fike, the manager
of North East Asia at the US
Trade and Development
Agency and other leaders
of US companies, such as
GE, IBM and Microsoft, are
expected to share their opin-
ions at the forum.
The seventh World Busi-
ness Leaders (Kunshan)
Conference, hosted by the
China Chamber of Interna-
tional Commerce, will focus
on innovative development
and aims to promote global
industrial and commercial
cooperation.
Top international figures
will attend the conference.
They include Roger Fisk, the
The 2018 CIE will globally renowned strategist
continue to make who was director of former
US President Barack Obama’s
efforts to help presidential campaign; Zhang
Xingping, senior vice-presi-
Kunshan to attract dent of ride-hailing company
Didi Chuxing, Omar Ahmad
influential financial Adi Al Bitar, ambassador of
the United Arab Emirates to
leasing companies China and the leaders of other
companies.
and professionals.” To improve service quality
An official at the expo’s and promote communications
organizing committee between exhibitors and buy-
ers, this year’s CIE will launch
several matchmaking events
for enterprises with different
themes.
These themes include intel-
ligent equipment and acces-
sories, Sino-US intelligent
manufacturing, Sino-Japanese
semiconductors, automation
and the robot industries.
Clockwise from top: A cross-border e-commerce forum is
an important part of the previous expos. A young visitor
examines jade jewelry on display. Precision instruments
attract attention. Local opera performances entertain
guests at the event. An experience area gives first-
hand information about new technologies to visitors.
International exhibitors get feedback about their exhibits.
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Organizers will arrange
representative companies in
related industries to talk with
each other face to face, to offer
more opportunities for coop-
eration.
According to officials, the
expo will also set up special
stands for financial leasing
services.
Last month, the Kunshan
city government released new
policies to promote financial
leasing and equipment trade,
to help the technical develop-
ment of local companies.
The policies are seen stimu-
lating more transactions of
related products, equipment
and services at the expo.
“The 2018 CIE will con-
tinue to make efforts to help
Kunshan attract influential
financial leasing companies
and professionals and pro-
mote integrated development
between financial leasing
companies and local manu-
facturers,” said an official in
the event’s organizing com-
mittee.
Lei Shing Hong Leasing,
China Development Inter-
national Leasing, Kunshan
Zhonghongxin Leasing and
another eight leasing com-
panies will attend the exhibi-
tion.
The CIE — one of China’s
most important and pro-
fessional trade shows for
imports — was launched in
2012.
According to official statis-
tics, during the last six years,
the annual expos have attract-
ed 4,243 companies from 46
countries and regions, includ-
ing the US, Japan, Germany
and Australia.
Organizers said the events
served 287,200 professional
visitors and the exhibition
area totaled 430,000 square
meters over the past years.
Contact the writer at caoyin-
gying@chinadaily.com.cn
Friday, May 11, 2018 C HI NA DA I LY
An exhibit featuring cutting-edge technology at last year’s event.
Eco-friendly and
intelligent exhibits
take center stage
By CAO YINGYING
In order to host a unique,
eco-friendly and intelligent
expo this year, organizers of
the 2018 China Import Expo
and exhibitors will provide
new head-turning features
and facilities to wow visitors.
One star of the show will
be a cutting-edge humanoid
robot which has never been
displayed outside Japan.
Another example at this
year’s expo — which is also
known as CIE — is exhibitor
Kangbeike Equipment (Kun-
shan) Co.
It will provide an innovative
garbage collection device to
users, which not only collects
different kinds of drink cans
and plastic bottles, but also
recycles printed coupons.
In addition to many eco-
friendly devices, environmen-
tal equipment is one of the
key displays at the 2018 CIE’s
intelligent manufacturing
exhibition area.
Emerson InSinkErator, the
leading international high-
tech garbage disposal unit
maker, will showcase its prod-
ucts at CIE.
The company’s food pro-
cessors grind food waste into
small particles using advanced
technology, allowing it to be
discharged through sewage
pipelines.
The product can solve the
problems related to kitchen
waste treatment for families,
including kitchen garbage
cleaning and sorting.
The company’s instant hot
water system provides healthy
and high-quality drinking
water. Its instant hot water
dispensers provide near-boil-
ing water right at the sink,
which can be used for making
coffee and tea.
Also being showcased
at CIE are environmental
equipment and technologies
Kawasaki’s intelligent manufacturing equipment is displayed at the
2017 expo.
A robot on display during last year’s event. Developed by
Changzhou-based company Udear, it teaches children to read and
learn.
in the sectors of air pollu-
tion treatment, water pol-
lution control, disposal of
solid waste, and ecological
restoration and protection.
Organizers said these
products are in great demand
from manufacturers.
Robotic products will be
another highlight of this
year’s expo, with one of the
stars on display being a
humanoid robot.
The robot has the shape
and appearance of a middle-
aged man. Standing 175 cen-
timeters tall and weighing 80
kilograms, it was created by
Kawasaki, the world-leading
robot manufacturing com-
pany based in Japan.
Organizers said it will be
the first time for the robot
to go on display outside its
home country.
The robot is made of a
cutting-edge material, which
cannot easily be destroyed in
hazardous situations includ-
ing fire and in environments
contaminated by high levels
of radiation.
The developer of the robot
aims to expand its scope for
potential applications, to
help human beings to deal
with various tasks in extreme
conditions.
In the future, the robot is
expected to work in environ-
ments dangerous for human
beings, including workplaces
where there is radiation or
high temperatures.
The robot can also wear
firefighters protective cloth-
ing to provide rescue servic-
es at disaster-hit spots.
Another four models of
Kawasaki’s latest robots —
the RS007, duAro, CX210 and
CP700 units, whose mass
production began in last
November — will be show-
cased at the China Import
Expo later this month in
Kunshan.
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MACROECONOMY
Flexibility
crucial for
policy gains
Prudent monetary stance ‘can help
China deal with economic risks’
By CHEN JIA
chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese policymakers
need to be more vigilant and
decisive while formulating
monetary policy and keep it
flexible to deal with uncer-
tainties that could hamper
economic growth in the com-
ing months, economists said.
Globally, monetary policy
normalization in some large
developed economies, or the
retreat from quantitative
easing after the global finan-
cial crisis, may become one
of the major uncertainties
for China, requiring highly
cautious policymaking that
aims at building buffers and
increasing resilience, a
group of economists from
the International Monetary
Fund said on Thursday.
“But historically, market
turmoil has often followed
monetary normalization,”
which requires a premium
on prudence, said Alfred
Schipke, the IMF’s senior
representative for China.
He said recent US bond
yields and dollar movements
underscore the uncertainty
and “Asia could be materially
affected given its high house-
hold and corporate leverage”.
Some economists said that
a too sharp slowdown of
broad money supply, or M2,
as well as credit growth, may
harm the macroeconomy
but in a lagging period.
Wang Yongli, academic
committee member of the
International Monetary Insti-
tute of Renmin University of
China, called for “vigilance” on
possible economic weakening
from negative impact such as
multiple financial tightening
policies taking effect at the
same time, which might mag-
nify the effect and restrain eco-
nomic growth momentum.
“Monetary policy should
be flexible and also have a
response plan to deal with
the possible economic cool-
ing,” he said.
China’s M2 growth rate
slowed to 8.2 percent in
March, down from 8.8 per-
cent in February and 8.6 per-
cent in January. Yuan-
denominated new loans also
Expo to enhance domestic competitiveness
By SHI JING in Shanghai
shijing@chinadaily.com.cn
China is looking to enhance
its soft power and global
influence with the three-day
Exposition on China’s Indige-
nous Brands that commenced
in Shanghai on Thursday.
The event, themed with
“China brand, world sharing”,
is designed to help domestic
companies build influential
brands to enhance the coun-
try’s overall competitiveness
and help in China’s transition
toward a consumption-driven
economy.
At the same time, it will also
highlight China’s support of
the real economy, stress on
intellectual property rights,
and resolution to boost the
development of domestic
companies in a more open
manner.
Innovation drives new economic growth p15
Chinese interest for US IPOs still strong p17
showed slower expansion in
the first quarter compared
with last year, according to
data from the People’s Bank
of China, the central bank.
In 2017, China’s broad mon-
ey supply growth only record-
ed 8.2 percent, far away from
the goal of 12 percent, which
was also lower than the sum
of the 6.9 percent GDP
growth and 1.6 percent for the
Consumer Price Index.
China was used to setting
its annual target of M2
growth rate as a sum of the
expected GDP growth rate,
the inflation gauge of CPI,
and an adjustment factor
usually at 3 percent, accord-
ing to Wang.
6.6
percent
IMF’s forecast for
China’s growth in 2018
The reason was explained
as a result of financial delev-
eraging by the monetary
authority, but this scenario
“is very rare in history”
according to experts. It is the
first year in 2018 that the
government has abandoned
M2 target as a monitor of the
real economic growth.
The International Mone-
tary Fund issued the latest
version of Regional Economic
Outlook: Asia and Pacific on
Tuesday, and forecast “China’s
growth to moderate to 6.6
percent in 2018 as financial,
housing, and fiscal tightening
measures take effect”.
The fund warned that there
are risks and challenges
ahead, including from a tight-
ening of global financial con-
ditions and a shift toward
inward-looking policies.
“Strengthening monetary
policy frameworks and cen-
tral bank communications
can bolster the importance of
expectations, and exchange
rate flexibility can help to
insulate economies from
imported inflation,” it said.
“Policymakers should focus
on keeping debt under con-
trol.”
Spread over 25,000 square
meters, the exposition has
attracted more than 600
domestic companies, includ-
ing State-owned enterprises
such as China National Nucle-
ar Corp and China Aerospace
Science and Technology Corp,
as well as privately-owned
companies such as China’s
largest online travel agency
Ctrip and Qingdao-based
home appliances giant Haier.
In late April last year, the
State Council approved the
China Brand Day, which will
fall on May 10 every year.
Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua
said at the opening ceremony
of the exposition that China
has witnessed the rise of a
number of domestic brands
with the country’s economic
growth and increased com-
petitiveness in the global mar-
ket.
The production line of Chinese home appliance maker Haier in Qingdao, Shandong province. The company has developed an industrial
internet platform, which can help SMEs customize products in factories. XINHUA
SME digitalization drive gets shot in arm
By MA SI
masi@chinadaily.com.cn
China will step up the push
to fuel the digital transforma-
tion of small and medium-
sized enterprises by helping
them embrace cloud comput-
ing, big data and other cut-
ting-edge technologies, a
senior official from the
nation’s top industrial regula-
tor said on Thursday.
Such a move is part of Chi-
na’s broader effort to build
world-class industrial inter-
net platforms by 2035,
which can allow companies
to customize products at
speed and scale, and help
them boost productivity and
cut costs.
Wang Jiangping, vice-min-
Rules on financial holding firms in pipeline
By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s financial regulators
are mulling new rules to regu-
late the nation’s financial
holding companies to curb
risks originating from their
risky and opaque operations.
The drafting of the new
rules is being led by the Peo-
ple’s Bank of China, the cen-
tral bank, and the new
regulation will likely require
financial holding companies
to obtain necessary licenses
issued by the PBOC to con-
duct business, according to
media reports citing people
close to the regulators.
The new rules, which could
be issued and implemented
this year, will strengthen the
regulation and supervision of
financial holding companies’
22
number of Chinese
companies among the top
100 in 2017 in the Global
500 list
“We have seen the renova-
tion of century-old domestic
brands and the rise of young-
er brands thriving in the
international market after the
reform and opening-up,
which can be largely attribut-
ed to Chinese companies’
increased brand awareness,”
he said.
According to State Admin-
istration for Market Regula-
tion, there were more than
14.9 million registered trade-
marks by the end of last year,
which outnumbered the rest
ister of industry and informa-
tion technology, said
accelerating the informatiza-
tion of SMEs in China is an
effective way to improve their
competence and facilitate
their financing efforts amid
fierce competition.
“About 16,000 startups reg-
ister in China every day. More
efforts will be made to
encourage such SMEs to
embrace new technologies, in
order to upgrade their corpo-
rate structure and production
lines,” Wang said.
According to the ministry,
technology and telecom
giants in China have been
active in speeding up the
digital transformation of
SMEs by laying out an
affordable network infra-
capital authenticity and ade-
quacy, shareholding structure,
corporate governance and
their connection with subsidi-
aries, according to the reports.
Industry experts said that
the new regulation would
likely target private groups
and financial conglomerates
funded by industrial capital.
Growing risks from big
financial holding companies
have caught the attention of
Chinese regulators who are
concerned that the risks asso-
ciated with these big groups
could lead to wider systemic
financial risks that could jeop-
ardize the overall economy.
Many of the big financial
holding companies have com-
plex and opaque sharehold-
ing structures and are
believed to have conducted
risky practices such as exces-
of the world for 17 consecutive
years.
“Chinese consumers now
put more emphasis on indi-
viduality and diversity, attach-
ing more importance to
experiences. More efforts on
brand image building can
ensure the more efficient sup-
ply of products. As the eco-
nomic ties between different
economies are strengthening
with globalization, we can
provide more choices to glob-
al consumers,” he said.
Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong
said that one of the major pur-
poses of holding the exposi-
tion is to enhance Chinese
domestic brands’ global
awareness and influence.
According to the Global 500
list released by British brand
valuation consultancy Brand
Finance in February, 22 Chi-
nese companies were among
structure and offering quali-
ty cloud services.
In 2017, 16 major Chinese
companies, including telecom
carriers and information ser-
vice providers, invested 18 bil-
lion yuan ($2.8 billion) to help
SMEs across China deploy
new technologies. They set up
almost 5,000 agencies and
employed 140,000 workers to
assist SMEs in their informa-
tization.
Last year, local govern-
ments also allocated a com-
bined 300 million yuan to fuel
the process.
Fang Li, deputy general
manager of the government
and enterprise client branch
of China Mobile, the nation’s
largest telecom carrier, said
the company aims to attract
sive borrowing and high capi-
tal leverage. Some are even
engaged in illegal activities
such as fake capital injection
and fundraising fraud.
Zeng Gang, director of
banking research at the Insti-
tute of Finance and Banking of
the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, said it is necessary to
address the regulatory void for
financial holding companies,
especially those that are con-
trolled by industrial capital
and local governments.
“Supervision of financial
platforms controlled by finan-
cial firms is relatively easier
because the parent companies
are already subject to strict reg-
ulation. The risks are less con-
trollable when it comes to
financial platforms owned by
industrial capital or by local
governments. It could be a chal-
A visitor examines the stand of China National Petroleum Corp at
the Exposition on China’s Indigenous Brands in Shanghai.
GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY
the top 100 companies in the
world in 2017, compared with
16 in 2016.
Shanghai Party secretary Li
Qiang said that Chinese
brands should demonstrate
their new image to the world
with the help of this exposi-
tion. They should embrace
the market in a more open
manner and seek possible
GLOBAL
PLAYER
Nation gears up
for robotics race
p16
100,000 SMEs to move their
businesses to cloud in 2018.
“After doing a good job by
partnering with Zhejiang
provincial government, we
will replicate such a coopera-
tion model in other provinces
such as Jiangsu, Hebei, and
Shandong to help more SMEs
embrace new technologies,”
Fang said.
Encouraging SMEs to use
cloud services is part of Chi-
na’s effort to build globally
competitive industrial inter-
net platforms. Last year, the
State Council unveiled a
guideline that aims to build
three to five industrial inter-
net platforms, which will
reach international stan-
dards by 2025 and lead the
world in key areas by 2035.
lenge for the regulators to inte-
grate them into a unified
framework,” Zeng said.
China has stepped up the
supervision of financial hold-
ing groups. The government
took control of private con-
glomerate Anbang Insurance
Group in February. Its former
chief Wu Xiaohui was sen-
tenced to 18 years in prison
for illegal fundraising and
embezzlement on Thursday
in the first trial.
Former central bank gover-
nor Zhou Xiaochuan warned
in March about the rising
risks associated with finan-
cial holding companies. Zhou
said that some business
groups have formed financial
holding companies to control
multiple financial institu-
tions and to conduct business
across different sectors.
global cooperation at the
show.
“The brand is the compre-
hensive demonstration of the
competency of a country, a
region and even a company,”
he said. “Shanghai will make
all efforts to promote the four
brands of the city, which are
manufacturing, services,
shopping and culture.”
Hisense
offers best
bid for
Slovenia’s
Gorenje
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese home appliances
maker Hisense Electric Co
Ltd has won the bidding proc-
ess for Slovenian appliances
producer Gorenje, which said
it received three binding
offers by interested strategic
partners from Asia on Tues-
day.
Hisense offered the best bid
of 12 euros ($14.2) per share
subject to its acquisition of 50
percent plus one share of
Gorenje in the takeover proce-
dure, the Slovenian firm said
in a statement on its official
website.
Hisense has committed to
launch a takeover intent with-
in 15 days and to make a take-
over offer in accordance with
the statutory deadlines,
according to Gorenje.
Gorenje said on Tuesday it
received bids from three com-
panies who had performed
due diligence over the past
several weeks, but it did not
reveal the names of the bid-
ding companies.
The other two bidders were
identified as the Chinese home
appliance maker Haier Group
and Hefei Meiling Co Ltd,
according to reports by local
newspapers Finance, Delo and
Dnevnik. The three bidders
declined to comment on the
matter.
Gorenje reported in March
that its 2017 net profit fell 84
percent due to cost pressures
and strong competition. It was
seeking a strategic partner to
increase cost efficiency and
strengthen the brand.
Hisense is
counting on
overseas markets
for future growth.”
Zhou Houjian, chairman of
Hisense
“Acquiring local compa-
nies is the easiest way for
Chinese household applian-
ces producers to expand
their presences in the global
market,” said Zhang Yanbin,
assistant director of All View
Cloud, a Beijing consultancy
specializing in home appli-
ances, adding the European
market is of great signifi-
cance to Chinese appliance
manufacturers.
The Chinese home appli-
ances market is almost satu-
rated, so domestic makers
are looking overseas to find
new business growth points.
The acquisition will allow
the Chinese company to
obtain local customers
quickly and reduce produc-
tion costs, Zhang said.
Hisense, which is based in
Qingdao, Shandong prov-
ince, has been relying on its
go-global strategy to expand.
“Hisense is counting on over-
seas markets for future
growth,” said Zhou Houjian,
the company’s chairman, in
an earlier interview, adding
it is targeting the middle and
high-end segments of the
market.
The company has secured
sponsorship deals for the 2018
FIFA World Cup, becoming
the first-ever Chinese consum-
er electronics brand to spon-
sor the tournament.
14 BUSINESS
Regulators ‘working on REIT policy framework’
By WANG YANFEI
wangyanfei@chinadaily.com.cn
Regulators are working on a poli-
cy framework for a real estate
investment trusts open to public
investment in China, but uncer-
tainties about tax policies and the
future responsibilities shouldered
by different regulatory bodies may
delay its official introduction,
according to people familiar with
the matter.
“The overall trend is China is
working towards introducing REITs
in the future, but related policies
might not come out as quick as
expected, say, in the coming
What’s news
GOVT AND POLICIES
Ministry: ‘Houses
are for living in’
China’s top property market
watchdog has urged local govern-
ments to stick to real estate mar-
ket management goals and not
loosen regulatory measures. The
Ministry of Housing and Urban-
Rural Development arranged
talks on Wednesday with senior
government officials from the cit-
ies of Chengdu and Taiyuan on
property market regulation. Offi-
cial data showed that both cities
saw the prices of new and sec-
ond-hand houses rise year-on-
year in March. The ministry
reiterated that “houses are for liv-
ing in, not for speculation” and
urged them to take specific meas-
ures to ensure stable and healthy
development of the local proper-
ty market.
Shanghai bank sector
assets see uptick in Q1
Total assets in Shanghai’s banking
sector saw steady growth in the
first quarter of 2018, according to
the local banking regulatory body.
By the end of March, assets of
Shanghai’s banking industry
reached 14.8 trillion yuan ($2.32
trillion), up 3.8 percent year-on-
year. The loan balances reached 7
trillion yuan by March, up 11.2
percent year-on-year, while the
balance of deposits grew by 4.3
percent year-on-year to 9.4 tril-
lion yuan. The nonperforming
loan ratio was 0.53 percent by
March, down 0.03 percentage
point from the beginning of this
year, a record low within four
years.
Hangzhou to host
global tea expo
The second International Tea
Expo will be held from May 18 to
22 in Hangzhou, capital of East
China’s Zhejiang province, the
organizer said. The exhibition
area will be 70,000 square
meters, twice the size of the first
expo, and there will be a total of
2,654 booths for exhibitors, said
Lin Jiandong, director of the pro-
vincial agricultural department.
The expo will have a 8,300 square
meter exhibition hall, a hall for
Chinese teas, an international tea
hall and an innovation hall. Vari-
ous teas from Turkey and Sri
Lanka will also be showcased at
the event. A cultural exchange
events will be held during the
expo.
Tax reduction campaign brings welcome boost to real economy
KUNMING — Li Yunxia’s compa-
ny will save about 6 million yuan
($940,000) in annual operating
costs, thanks to the VAT rates cut
rolled out in China in May.
Li is the tax manager of Yunnan
Raycom Technology Industry
Investment Co in Yunnan province.
“The annual sales volume of our
company is about 1 billion yuan.
According to the new VAT policy,
the tax rate will be decreased to 10
percent from 11 percent, which
could save us about 1 percent of
operating costs,” Li said.
Li’s company is among hundreds
of thousands of beneficiaries of Chi-
na’s tax reduction campaign to
boost the real economy.
months,” said a source close to the
regulators.
“The major regulatory bodies
have yet to reach an agreement on
future responsibilities on supervi-
sion, and in particular, preferential
policies to lower transaction taxes,
which need further action from the
nation’s taxation administration,”
the source said.
Discussion on the introduction
of REITs in China at a regulatory
level started as early as 2007, dur-
ing which time the People’s Bank
of China and the Ministry of Hous-
ing and Urban-Rural Develop-
ment agreed to start by
introducing pilot programs while
Pricey choice
Employees display luxurious umbrellas at a shopping mall in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Wednesday. Consumption of high-end umbrellas is expected to
see a jump with more summer rains expected in the country. Customers pay around 7,000 yuan ($1,102.47) for a high-end umbrella, with some even using
them as home-decoration products. MIAO JIAN/ FOR CHINA DAILY
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
Yuan weakens to 6.3768
against US dollar
The central parity rate of the renmin- deal with Arsenal
bi, or the yuan, weakened 35 basis
points to 6.3768 against the US dollar
on Thursday, according to the China
Foreign Exchange Trade System. In
China’s spot foreign exchange mar-
ket, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall
by 2 percent from the central parity
rate each trading day. The central
parity rate of the yuan against the US
dollar is based on a weighted average
of prices offered by market makers
before the opening of the interbank
market each business day.
Dow Chemical opens
new plant in Sichuan
Dow Chemical Co has announced
the opening of its coating materi-
als plant in Meishan of Sichuan
According to China’s State Council,
the country will cut VAT rates as part
of a tax reduction package amount-
ing to 400 billion yuan this year.
On May 1, the tax rate in China
was lowered from 17 percent to 16
percent for manufacturing and
some other industries, and from 11
percent to 10 percent for transporta-
tion, construction, basic telecom-
munication services and farm
produce.
There are now more than 10,000
companies issuing 170,000 VAT
invoices using the new rates in Yun-
nan, involving more than 2.54 bil-
lion yuan and with taxes exceeding
349 million yuan.
According to the State Adminis-
The thing is that all quasi REITs intro-
duced so far are equivalent to bond
issuance, which means they cannot lead to high
yields to lure investors.”
Ouyang Jie, vice president of Future Land Holdings
enacting the law for REITs.
Recent documents from the top
financial regulators sent positive
signals on the development of real
estate investment trusts in China, as
the government hopes to promote
the growth of the rental market as
province, the company’s first
manufacturing site in western
China. The new facility will pro-
duce acrylic emulsion and addi-
tives to address the growing needs
of the architectural and industrial
coating markets, an attempt to
further explore China’s emerging
markets in the region.
BYD signs sponsorship
English Premier League side Ar-
senal and China’s electric carmaker
BYD have signed a global sponsor-
ship deal. BYD has become Ar-
senal’s second Chinese global part-
ner following smartphone and tele-
communications equipment giant
Huawei, whose two-year deal with
Arsenal expired this month. The
agreement between Arsenal and
BYD covers hospitality opportuni-
ties and branding at the Emirates
Stadium in north London.
CRRC sets up freight
train unit in Qiqihar
Chinese rolling-stock maker CRRC
Corp on Wednesday set up its
freight train subsidiary in Qiqihar,
tration of Taxation, 11.32 million
invoices involving about 146.9 bil-
lion yuan have been issued nation-
wide as of May 2.
“The reform is being pushed for-
ward in a stable way,” said Deng
Yong, an official from SAT.
Investment bank China Interna-
tional Capital Corp estimated that
firms in the two tax brackets will see
their VAT tax burden decline by 6
percent and 9 percent respectively.
“Thanks to the policy, we can put
more money toward talent cultiva-
tion and research and development
to provide qualified and professional
services to our customers,” Li Yunxia
said.
“Lowering the tax rates is the most
part of efforts to promote long-term
healthy development of the real
estate sector.
By selling shares in a trust that
owns a collection of buildings, the
investment scheme is able to let
shareholders enjoy the returns from
Northeast China’s Heilongjiang
province. CRRC Qiqihar Co was set
up through a restructuring of a
former transportation equipment
company of CRRC in Qiqihar as
well as CRRC’s four wholly owned
locomotive and wind power bran-
ches in Liaoning, Hebei and Shand-
ong provinces and the Inner
Mongolia autonomous region. The
restructured CRRC Qiqihar Co has
registered capital of 6.7 billion yuan
($1.1 billion), employing 20,300
people. Its core business is the pro-
duction of freight trains, with
exports to more than 30 countries,
including Australia, New Zealand,
the United States and Brazil.
AROUND THE WORLD
IMF forecasts growth
in sub-Saharan Africa
The International Monetary Fund
has forecast economic growth in
10 percent
the tax rate for transportation,
construction, basic telecommu-
nication services and farm
produce in China after the
VAT rates were cut
directive measure in tax reduction,
which plays a significant role in fur-
ther boosting the market vitality and
driving industrial development,” said
Mei Shucan, a senior official with the
Yunnan Provincial Office, SAT.
“Preferential policies concerning
taxation should be actively imple-
Friday, May 11, 2018 CHINA DAILY
rental income, while opening a
channel to help property companies
obtain financing.
A host of guidelines with encour-
aging signs on promoting the rental
market have led to expectations that
a policy framework may come out
very soon to support REITs, where
the overall scale of the investment
scheme is expected to exceed 4 tril-
lion yuan, according to an estimate
by Peking University.
China has conducted some pre-
liminary trials by starting pilot pro-
grams at local levels, and has
launched some quasi REITs that
could only be held by private equity
funds.
sub-Saharan Africa to recover
modestly from 2.8 percent in 2017
to 3.5 in 2018. In its latest Region-
al Economic Outlook for sub-Sa-
haran Africa, the IMF said several
economies such as Cote d’Ivoire,
Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal are
expected to maintain robust
growth at about 6 percent or fast-
er. “Average growth in the region
is projected to rise from 2.8 per-
cent in 2017 to 3.4 percent in
2018, with growth accelerating in
about two-thirds of the countries
in the region aided by stronger
global growth, higher commodity
prices, and improved capital mar-
ket access,” the IMF said in its
report.
US PPI for final demand
rises 0.1% in April
The Producer Price Index for final
demand rose just 0.1 percent in
April, the US Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported. The Producer
Price Index, which measures
costs for goods at the factory
gate, rose 0.1 percent in April aft-
er the final demand prices rose
0.3 percent in March and 0.2 per-
cent in February. On an unadjust-
mented to better the business envi-
ronment and allow more market
entities to enjoy the bonus from the
reform,” she added.
Besides VAT reduction to pro-
mote the real economy, Yunnan also
exempted 6 billion yuan of taxes to
enterprises through replacing their
business taxes with VAT in the first
quarter this year, up more than 80
percent.
“A series of tax reforms in China
will help to ease the burden on enter-
prises, increase their circular funds,
and inject fresh impetus to the coun-
try’s real economy,” said Li Lei, asso-
ciate professor at Yunnan University
of Finance and Economics.
Due to the new VAT rates, the
“The thing is that all quasi REITs
introduced so far are equivalent to
bond issuance, which means they
cannot lead to high yields to lure
investors,” Ouyang Jie, vice-presi-
dent of Future Land Holdings, said
at a forum held by Golden Credit
Rating in Beijing.
Low enthusiasm for rentals in
China is one of key problems put-
ting the brakes on the develop-
ment of the REIT market,
according to Nie Meisheng, presi-
dent of China Real Estate Chamber
of Commerce.
She said the government needs to
introduce more policies to encour-
age rentals.
ed basis, the final demand index
increased 2.6 percent for the 12
months ended in April. The rise
in final demand prices is attribu-
table to a 0.1-percent advance in
the index for final demand servi-
ces. However, the index for final
demand goods remained
unchanged.
Houston home prices
show sharp rebound
Single family homes have reached
an average price of $240,000 in
Houston, the fourth-largest city in
the United States, which is a
record high for the area, the Hous-
ton Association of Realtors said in
a report. According to the report,
home sales in the Houston region
increased 7 percent in April, a
rebound after falling in March for
the first time since Hurricane Har-
vey hit the region last summer. For
the third straight month, the best-
performing segment of the market
consisted of homes priced in the
$500,000 to $749,999 range. Sales
in that range soared nearly 30 per-
cent.
Vietnam’s automobile
sales decline by 2%
Vietnam’s total automobile sales
in the first four months of this
year were 79,115 units, a year-on-
year decline of 2 percent, the
Vietnam Automobile Manufactur-
ers Association said on Thursday.
Specifically, sales of passenger
cars rose 9 percent to 52,760,
those of commercial vehicles such
as trucks and buses, dropped 16
percent to 23,364, and those of
special-purpose vehicles fell 37
percent to 2,991. In the January-
April period, Vietnam imported
completely-built automobiles and
components for assembly totaling
nearly $1.2 billion, down 32.2 per-
cent year-on-year.
Emirates Airline’s
profit surges 124%
Emirates Airline, the national
carrier of the United Arab Emir-
ates, said on Wednesday it has
generated a net profit of 2.8 bil-
lion dirham ($762 million) in the
2017-18 fiscal year, representing a
year-on-year increase of 124 per-
cent. Emirates has transported a
total of 58.5 million passengers
from April 1, 2017 to March 31,
2018, up 4 percent year-on-year,
said the company’s Chairman
Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum.
However, the business environ-
ment remains tough because of
the ongoing political instability,
currency volatility and devalua-
tion in the region, rising oil pri-
ces, and downward pressure on
margins from relentless competi-
tion, he said.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
highest retail prices of gasoline and
diesel in China have dropped by 75
yuan and 65 yuan per metric ton
respectively since May 1.
Automobile company Jaguar
Land Rover has adjusted the selling
prices of almost 70 types of cars in
the Chinese market, with the big-
gest drop of about 20,000 yuan.
“The government should lead and
encourage enterprises to conduct
investment or expand production to
promote their business develop-
ment,” Li added.
China aims to reduce taxes on
businesses and individuals by more
than 800 billion yuan this year.
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 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018
Q&A WITH CEO
Innovation drives new economic growth
Leaders from unicorn firms — Ofo, Royole and Kuaishou — offer their views on how technology is changing businesses and people’s lives
By CHENG YU
and LIU YUKUN
A booming digital economy
is reshaping China’s economic
landscape as a string of uni-
corn companies — startups
valued at more than $1 billion
— gear up to become new
growth engines in the country.
These unicorns, covering a
wide range of high-tech sec-
tors including artificial intelli-
gence, the internet of things
and intelligent manufactur-
ing, have thoroughly changed
how people live, and are invig-
orating the country’s innova-
tion and fostering a new
economy.
During the annual sessions
of the nation’s top legislative
and advisory bodies in March,
China called for more intensi-
fied efforts to stimulate inno-
vation and pledged to do more
to implement the innovation-
driven development strategy.
In cooperation with iAsk
Media, an omnimedia plat-
form founded by Ai Cheng, a
journalist and businesswom-
an, China Daily interviewed
CEOs from three unicorns for
their views on opportunities
and challenges brought about
by the country’s ongoing
progress, as well as their inno-
vative development strategies.
They are Dai Wei from Ofo
Inc, one of the country’s main
bike-sharing players; Liu
Zihong from Royole Corp, an
innovator and a manufacturer
of flexible electronics; and Su
Hua from Kuaishou, a leading
video-sharing and livestream-
ing platform.
The two sessions this year
called for more efforts to
support innovative enter-
prises, especially with IPOs
and financing. How do you
view this policy and what
benefits will it bring to your
company?
Dai Wei: As a Chinese com-
pany, Ofo hopes to go public in
China if possible in order to
create more value for the
domestic capital market.
As a young tech startup, Ofo
has achieved success in the
past years thanks to the favor-
able policies and business
environment. Like most start-
ups, Ofo is on its path of rapid
development and needs to
expand financing channels to
get more support to bolster
our businesses.
The two sessions delivered a
good signal for startups like
Ofo and revealed that the gov-
ernment has attached great
importance to technology
innovation. These favorable
policies will help us to explore
more new advanced technolo-
gies in the future.
What is your take on the role
of China’s internet and tech-
nology development in its
economic transition? What
are the challenges that we
might encounter?
Dai Wei: China has
embraced rapid internet and
technology development,
which is significant to our eco-
nomic transition, especially in
improving social efficiency.
Big data and artificial intelli-
gence were included in the
Government Work Report,
indicating their future signifi-
cance to industrial integra-
tion, economic structure and
people’s lifestyles.
We say Ofo is a great
attempt to apply internet tech-
nology to people’s lifestyles —
their way of daily commuting.
In order to enhance its user
experience, Ofo has been facil-
itating our tech innovations
like the first NFC smart lock
and big data platform for
urban traffic. Going forward,
we will continue to develop
innovative technology and
further explore artificial intel-
ligence and big data.
What’s Ofo’s business mod-
el? How does the company
gain profits? Do you mainly
gain from the deposit?
Ai Cheng (center), founder of iAsk Media, and Liu Zihong (right), CEO of Royole Corp, attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the United States, in January.
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Dai Wei, founder and CEO of Ofo Inc, one of China’s
main bike-sharing players.
Dai Wei: It’s more like the
car-hailing business where
we offer products for users to
rent and users pay by times.
In fact, even though users
only need to pay 1 yuan (16 US
cents) per time, the profit rate
of bicycle-rental is far better
than cars.
Our main profit comes
from the rental fees rather
than the deposit. The deposit
is not a property that users
can invest in to preserve or
increase the value. It is not at
all a product and, from my
perspective, will not exist in
the long run. We’ve never
diverted the deposit for other
purposes and we are waiting
for government policies on
how to deal with it.
For our 3.2 version of Ofo
bike, the cost is 400 yuan. As of
June 2017, an Ofo bike is usually
used four to five times a day,
which generates revenue of
four to five yuan. We can recoup
the cost of one bike within half
a year. We are profitable in
many cities, with the maximum
profit hitting 40 percent.
Shared bikes have caused
many problems. There are
people who keep the bikes
for themselves. In extreme
cases, some groups can
decode the pin of shared
bikes. What’s your feeling
towards this?
Dai Wei: At first, I felt anx-
ious and sad. But now, I think
that what we need to do is to
continue increasing our scale
and using our resources to get
used to such a concept and
then use it. Our statistics show
Liu Zihong, chairman and CEO of Royole Corp, an inno-
vator and manufacturer of flexible electronics.
that fewer bikes are being opening-up and thus have
damaged as more and more enjoyed benefits brought
bikes are being made availa- about by this policy.
ble. When a newcomer enters, These talents are able to
it will face various challenges. receive high-quality education
from home and abroad to
How big do you think Ofo’s grasp advanced knowledge in
market will be? What’s your technologies and form an
plan for the future? innovative mind thanks to
Dai Wei: Five billion peo- reform and opening-up.
ple across the globe will ride In addition, the deepening
bikes. Even now, more than of reform and opening-up has
100 million bikes are sold brought up a group of Chi-
every year. You can see peo- nese internet giants and pro-
ple riding a bike in nearly vided them with a great
every corner of the world. In innovative environment, so
the future, we hope that we that they are able to survive
can serve several million and grow.
people every day and Ofo We notice that some Chi-
can be found everywhere nese enterprises have already
globally. stood at the forefront of fields
The internet of things will including e-commerce and
be a certain trend. We are mobile payment, but going
cooperating with Huawei and forward they will need to
China Telecom in creating the explore “no man’s land”.
next generation of IoT prod- It follows that entrepreneurs
uct. It may become one of the need to be more innovative to
largest applied scenarios for explore some unexplored
narrow band IoT. In the fields to catch up with some
future, bikes will be intercon- precious opportunities.
nected and can help govern-
ments to collect data, What do you think about Chi-
including air quality and traf- nese internet companies’
fic jam information. innovations in recent years?
Which fields are expected to
This year marks the 40th become the next frontier of
anniversary of the nation’s innovation?
reform and opening-up. Liu Zihong: Chinese inter-
What opportunities and net enterprises have grown at
challenges do you think the an unprecedented speed with
reform and opening-up have some of them having stood out
brought to Chinese tech to lead the world, such as
companies? e-commerce and mobile pay-
Liu Zihong: A great number ment companies.
of talents in Chinese tech com- I think that human-comput-
panies, especially internet er interaction, artificial intelli-
companies, were born after gence and IoT are expected to
the launch of reform and be trendsetting in the future
Su Hua, CEO of Kuaishou, a leading video-sharing and
livestreaming platform.
and each of them will be able
to become an important plat-
form to serve a wide range of
industries.
Human-computer interac-
tion became crucial last year.
It will develop rapidly and
start to be applied on a large
scale this year.
In the field of human-com-
puter interaction, only limited
types of technologies have the
potential to become such plat-
form-like technologies. I think
that flexible electronics have
great potential as they break
the limit of physical space and
have wide applications in a
variety of industries.
What are Royole’s core busi-
nesses and how are they
developing?
Liu Zihong: Our businesses
are underpinned by technolo-
gies of flexible displays, flexi-
ble sensors and smart devices,
with all three developing neck
and neck.
We are also integrating
them into one technological
platform called Flexible+. It
represents the idea that our
fundamental and innovative
technologies regarding flexi-
ble electronics will be
applied into a wide range of
industries including smart-
phones, tablets, wearable
devices and smart home, as
well as intelligent architec-
ture and decoration.
Royole has accumulated
more than 1,700 patents,
which means one patent
nearly every day. How has
Royole achieved this?
Liu Zihong: In fact, if you
and your team really focus
on innovation, you just come
up with new ideas continu-
ously, with patents coming
naturally.
In Royole, about 70 percent
of employees are technical and
R&D staff, who come up with
great ideas every day. Our
R&D costs accounted for
roughly 80 percent of the total
spending in the first three
years.
The past two years wit-
nessed a decrease of R&D as
more of our products have
entered the market, but still,
over half of the total spending
is on R&D.
How large will the flexible
electronics market be?
Liu Zihong: Some interna-
tional research institutes
predicted that the market
size of flexible electronics is
expected to exceed $300 bil-
lion in the next five to 10
years. It is hard to say how
accurate this figure is, but I
believe that the market will
be huge as flexible electron-
ics technologies are univer-
sal and can be applied in
various industries.
Royole was established and
is operating in Silicon Valley,
Hong Kong and Shenzhen
simultaneously. What was
the reasoning behind this
unusual decision?
Liu Zihong: It was not an easy
decision. We were very cautious
about it as we were afraid that
such a large-scale operation
would heavily burden a start-
15
up’s early development and
may even drag the company
down to collapse.
This decision was based on
what we are going to do in the
future. We need to integrate
the different resources of
those three places to facilitate
our businesses.
How can ordinary people
become superstars over-
night through Kuaishou?
Su Hua: Unlike competi-
tors who have contracts with
stars and influencers, Kuais-
hou positions itself as a plat-
form where common people
can share their life with oth-
ers from the very beginning.
Our platform started as a GIF
tool, but soon switched to a
short video-sharing commu-
nity to meet the appetite of
the audience.
What is your strategy facing
the increasingly fierce and
rapidly changing internet
industry?
Su Hua: The key is to figure
out what you want and contin-
ue with it. The industry always
changes, but you need to find
something that you can stick
with. Once you start, you
ought to think for your users
and solve their problems.
It is important to do the
right thing at the right time,
but we don’t follow what oth-
ers are pursuing.
Are you worried that users
may harm themselves when
making erratic videos for
more public attention?
What’s your take on content
regulation?
Su Hua: We have regula-
tions on our platform, and the
bottom line is there is nothing
that is no leeway against the
law. We will stop some
accounts if they break the bot-
tom line.
However, gray areas still
exist. What we are doing is
to measure the amount of
users who send us com-
plaints. Once the complaint
reaches a certain number,
we will intervene in this
account. We do not inter-
vene in the content creation
process, but we do have reg-
ulations to exclude some
improper content.
Why did you refuse coopera-
tion with studios who want-
ed to use talents from your
platform in films and reality
shows? It seems a good way
to make money by nurturing
talents and drawing in more
audience.
Su Hua: Our users are most-
ly welcome to pursue what
they want, but we will not get
involved in their decisions nor
represent them. We position
ourselves as a platform focus-
ing on video sharing between
ordinary people, and that is
why it attracted so many users
at the very beginning.
Making money by nurtur-
ing talents and drawing in
more audience is a trend that
many video-sharing platforms
follow right now. Kuaishou,
however, has no current plans
to step into the business.
The government is stepping
up efforts to reduce the tax
burden of business entities.
How do you view this?
Su Hua: The decreasing tax
burden can not only enhance
our competitiveness against
companies in other countries,
but also allow Chinese enter-
prises to invest more in inno-
vation, which will enable them
to better participate in the
fierce global competition.
Contact the writers at chengyu
@chinadaily.com.cn
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Opening-up to drive
need for new talent
in accounting sector
Financial reforms
will increase
cross-border flow
of professionals
By WANG YANFEI
wangyanfei@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s efforts to promote
opening-up are expected to
generate more demand for
accounting professionals as
such moves will create a cross-
border flow of talent, accord-
ing to the CEO of the
professional organization for
certified public accountants in
the United States.
Barry Melancon, president
and CEO of the American
Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, said the slew of
measures announced by Chi-
na’s top financial regulators
sent positive signals and
injected confidence for mar-
ket players.
The US professional asso-
ciation of CPAs has more
than 400,000 members
worldwide.
“Overall, if you look at the
efforts of opening-up, China
has done a remarkable job,”
Melancon said. “Recent
efforts will just make that
quicker.”
Earlier in April, Yi Gang, the
governor of the People’s Bank
of China, unveiled fresh
details of plans to open up the
financial sector, many of
which went beyond market
expectations.
For instance, the long-
Overall, if you
look at the
efforts of open-
ing-up, China
has done a
remarkable
job.”
Barry Melancon, president
and CEO of the American
Institute of Certified Public
Accountants
400k
members
of the US professional
association of CPAs
worldwide
$8.3b
the daily Shanghai-Hong
Kong Stock Connect quo-
ta starting from May 1
awaited Shanghai-London
Stock Connect is expected to
start this year and the daily
Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock
Connect quota will quadru-
ple to 52 billion yuan ($8.3
billion) starting from May 1,
according to Yi.
These efforts will signifi-
cantly increase the integration
of China’s market, according
to Melancon.
Such measures are crucial at
a time when the world is
developing more rapidly,
which means economies have
to rely more on each other.
“China, as an open market,
helps with that whole proc-
ess,” he said.
China’s greater involvement
in the global financial markets
will generate more demand
for accounting professionals,
providing more opportunities
for the association to enhance
cooperation with local institu-
tions and help more talents in
the industry to continue their
training, according to Melan-
con.
He cited the example of the
Belt and Road Initiative,
which is going to create more
business, a freer flow of eco-
nomic factors and more
opportunities for multilateral
financial cooperation.
“Every one of those busi-
nesses has to have compe-
tent accountants to work in
that particular process,” he
said.
Demand also comes from
young accounting profession-
als who might need to contin-
ue with further training and
education, he added.
The association is looking at
China as a potential exam site.
There will be plenty of
changes to achieve localiza-
tion in the future, because it is
important to stay relevant to
the needs of the profession in
China, he added.
An exhibitor calibrates a robot before the opening of the World Robot Conference.
Nation gears up for robotics race
By MA SI
masi@chinadaily.com.cn
China will ramp up resour-
ces to build a globally com-
petitive robotics industry by
We have approved
attaching high importance to a plan to build a
tackling core technological
bottlenecks, an official from
national robotics
the country’s top industry
regulator said.
innovation center,
Luo Junjie, deputy director which will focus
of the industrial equipment
department at the Ministry of
Industry and Information
on tackling com-
Technology, said more efforts mon bottlenecks
are needed to cultivate high-
end products after China pro- ...”
duced over 130,000 industrial
robots last year, accounting Luo Junjie, an official from the
for one-third of the world’s Ministry of Industry and Infor-
annual production volume. mation Technology
“We have approved a plan
to build a national robotics ogies and compliant control,”
innovation center, which will Luo said at a news conference
focus on tackling common for the 2018 World Robot
bottlenecks such as human- Conference in Beijing.
machine interaction technol- According to Luo, the plan
TAILG confident about
overseas e-bike sales growth
By WANG YING in Shanghai
wang_ying@chinadaily.com.cn
The anti-dumping investi-
gation launched by the Euro-
pean Union on Chinese
electric bikes will not impact
the global strategy of TAILG
Electric Vehicle Co Ltd, which
is confident of becoming a
leading brand in Europe, its
CEO said during the four-day
28th China International
Bicycle Fair held recently in
Shanghai.
“Our globalization won’t be
suspended because of the
ongoing anti-dumping inves-
tigation launched by the EU.
In fact, as a global company,
we have already established
our European headquarters
in The Netherlands,” said Yao
Li, CEO of Shenzhen-based
electric vehicle company
TAILG.
An investigation into the
alleged dumping of Chinese
e-bikes has been launched by
the European Commission,
according to a notice pub-
lished in the Official Journal of
the European Union in Octo-
ber, 2017.
According to Yao, TAILG
has started the operation of its
European company, and once
the manufacturing site is
picked, production and
assembling will soon follow.
“It will be very difficult for
Chinese enterprises and Chi-
nese brands to ... break into
(the) European market, but we
are resolved to become a lead-
ing brand there,” he said.
Because Europe is commit-
ted to cutting energy use and
pollution, eco-friendly vehi-
cles will have great potential
for growth. In fact, the Euro-
pean electric bike market has
doubled its growth in each of
the past several years.
“European nations are
actively slashing energy con-
sumption and emissions in
accordance with the Paris
agreement and the Energy
Friday, May 11, 2018 CHINA DAILY
WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
is designed to help the coun-
try lead the world in the race
toward a smarter, automated
society by accelerating the
development of high-end
industrial and service robots.
As robotics becomes
increasingly intertwined with
artificial intelligence, big data
and other technologies, the
2018 World Robot Confer-
ence, which will be held in
Beijing from Aug 15 to 19, will
feature a slew of competitions
such as a brain control tech-
nology contest to find promis-
ing robotics research and
development teams.
Xu Xiaolan, secretary-gen-
eral of the Chinese Institute of
Electronics, one of the orga-
nizers of the 2018 World Robot
Conference, said more than
300 industry experts and sen-
ior company executives from
around the world will attend
the annual robotics event this
year to share their views on
Electric bikes of TAILG Electric Vehicle Co Ltd are displayed at a
new energy expo held in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
ZHEN HUAI / FOR CHINA DAILY
250 million
number of electric bikes in
operation across the nation
Roadmap 2050, and this move
presents Chinese enterprises
huge opportunities for pro-
moting electric bikes and new
energy transportation in
Europe,” Yao said.
In addition, the e-mobility
partnership agreement
signed between TAILG and
the UN Environment aimed
at introducing electric vehi-
cles in Africa and other are-
as of the world in March
makes the company more
confident in promoting glo-
balization.
The agreement looks to help
governments in Africa and
other areas of the world start
phasing out older vehicles,
thus curbing air pollution.
Electric bikes “originated in
China, and over the years, the
nation has been taking a lead
in the sector by holding the
lion share of the global mar-
ket. Nothing could stop us
going to Europe,” Yao said.
As of the end of last year,
China had become the
the booming industry. Com-
panies such as ABB Group of
Switzerland and Fanuc from
Japan will also demonstrate
their latest products.
China has been the world’s
largest market for robot
applications since 2013, data
from the International Feder-
ation of Robotics show. The
trend has been further fueled
by a corporate push to
upgrade labor-intensive man-
ufacturing plants and comes
amid surging demand from
the healthcare, education and
entertainment sectors.
In 2016, China unveiled an
ambitious plan to triple its
annual production of robots
used in the manufacturing
sector to 100,000 in five years.
It also aims to sell more than
30 billion yuan ($4.6 billion)
worth of service robots by
2020 amid the increasing use
of assistant robots in an aging
society.
world’s largest producer and
consumer of electric bikes,
according to Ma Zhongchao,
director of the China Electric
Vehicle Association. There
are 250 million electric bikes
in operation across the
nation at the moment. Mean-
while, the nation’s more than
700 manufacturers produce
more than 33 million units
per year, worth a total 135 bil-
lion yuan.
Overseas markets contrib-
uted about 12.5 percent to
TAILG’s total sales in 2017, and
the company is geared up to
raise the ratio to 20 percent by
2019, Sun Muchu, vice-presi-
dent of TAILG, told China Dai-
ly earlier.
To date, TAILG’s electric
bikes and scooters are export-
ed and traded in 66 nations
worldwide, and the company
saw its overseas business dou-
ble in each of the past two
years.
Chinese e-bike producers
said that unlike other trade
complaints, there is no overca-
pacity in China’s e-bike indus-
try. Export volumes are
customized and based on the
EU demand, while more than
95 percent of China’s e-bikes
are sold to the domestic mar-
ket, the Xinhua News Agency
reported.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018 Markets | BUSINESS 17

Lipton to sell Guizhou tea globally Chinese interest for

US IPOs still strong
By ZHU WENQIAN in Beijing
and YANG JUN in Guiyang

Lipton plans to sell tea bags

containing black and green
tea produced in Zunyi, Guiz-
hou province, nationwide and
later worldwide, marking the
first time it has used purely
Zunyi-produced tea.
Lipton, a tea brand under
consumer goods giant Unilever
PLC, launched the new product
in Guiyang, capital of the prov-
ince, this week, and the compa-
ny plans to start selling it in July.
Guizhou is expected to pro-
vide 50 metric tons of raw tea
annually to Lipton, and the
tea bags will be made in Lip-
ton’s manufacturing base in
Huangshan, Anhui province,
the company said.
With its subtropical climate
and clean air, Guizhou is ideal
for growing high-quality tea.
The new product is based on
Asian preferences.
“Some time is needed to
examine the product if it is to
be sold abroad. But the tea
produced in Guizhou has a
safety guarantee, and it is eas-
ier to meet standards,” said
Zeng Xiwen, vice-president of
Unilever North Asia.
In 2016, Unilever launched
a sustainable tea planting
poverty alleviation project in
Farmers pick tea leaves at a plantation in Zunyi, Guizhou province, on May 6.
Zunyi, and the company
found that the tea produced
locally was of sufficient quali-
ty to enter higher-end mar-
kets. It then introduced the
Zunyi-produced tea into its
global procurement system.
“The project will help to
raise the quality and reputa-
tion of locally planted tea,
upgrade related sectors and
fuel the transformation of
economic benefits to social
benefits,” Zeng said.
Last year, 335 hectares of
tea plantations in Zunyi were
certified by Rainforest Alli-
ance, a New York-based NGO
that aims to protect biodiver-
sity and achieve sustainable
development by changing
earth utilization models and
consumer behavior.
By 2020, the certification of
6,700 hectares of tea planta-
tions in Zunyi is expected to
be completed. This process
has helped to lay the founda-
tion for the internationaliza-
tion of Guizhou tea.
Meanwhile, Unilever will
donate 1 yuan (16 cents) to the
YANG JUN / CHINA DAILY
China Youth Development
Foundation for each box of
Zunyi-made tea it sells, and
the funds will be used for local
charity programs. In addi-
tion, the company will pro-
vide free training and
management for some
impoverished tea farmers
and give them work.
Zhao Yandi contributed to
this story.
Contact the writers at zhuw-
enqian@chinadaily.com.cn
Trade disputes
haven’t curbed
businesses’ plans
to list overseas
By ZHANG RUINAN
in New York
ruinanzhang@
chinadailyusa.com
Chinese companies are
looking to launch IPOs in the
United States regardless of the
ongoing trade tensions
between the two countries.
“Despite the heated talk on
trade, I remain an optimist
about US-Chinese relations,
economic and otherwise,” said
Drew Bernstein, co-head of
the China practice at Marcum
Bernstein & Pinchuk and an
auditor of Chinese IPOs in the
US. “I can tell you that we are
getting more inquiries about
US IPOs from China right now
than at any time in recent
memory.”
Chinese IPOs in the US
accounted for about a fifth of
US IPO proceeds in the first
quarter this year, according to
We continue to see
a wide spectrum of
the readiness of
teams to truly be
successful as US
public companies.”
Drew Bernstein, co-head of the
China practice at Marcum Bern-
stein & Pinchuk
restrictions in place … And the
dynamic in China seems to
favor investors rather than
issuers.”
However, Kennedy said Chi-
nese IPOs’ performance so far
this year has been disappoint-
ing.
“Looking at the eight com-
panies that have listed in the
US, six of them have had a neg-
ative return. The two positive
ones (microcaps) have raised
less than $15 million. Also,
investors are not making mon-
IPO in Hong Kong last week.
“Everyone is fixated right
now on the changes that Hong
Kong has made to its listing
standards to accommodate
dual-class shares so as to be
able to attract the big China
tech unicorns,” Bernstein said.
“While I do think this makes
Hong Kong more viable at the
margin, there are a whole host
of factors that go into choosing
the best listing venue, and
dual-class now creates a level
playing field between the US
and HKEX.”
Bernstein said that there is
also a lot of discussion about
the potential for China deposi-
tary receipts to enable tech
titans such as Alibaba and
Tencent to tap into Chinese
shareholders.
China’s securities regulator
published draft rules on the
issuance of CDRs on May 4,
paving the way for the domes-
tic flotation of offshore-listed
companies and the launch of a
cross-border link between the
exchanges in Shanghai and
London.
The rules on CDRs, modeled
after American depositary
receipts, came days after the

Tencent signs UK creative partnerships Renaissance Capital, an IPO

By CECILY LIU in London
cecily.liu@
mail.chinadailyuk.com
Technology giant Tencent
Holdings Ltd has announced
several high-profile deals to
help British creative industry
companies and organiza-
tions, such as the BBC and
British Fashion Council, to
reach the Chinese market.
One of China’s top three
internet companies alongside
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
and Baidu Inc, Tencent is a
pioneer of the nation’s digital
economy growth.
The company derives most
of its revenue from games, but
in recent years it has engaged
with a number of cultural and
creative industry projects in
China, such as helping the
Beijing-based Palace Museum
to digitalize its information.
The deals announced in
London on Wednesday are a
continuation of this expansion
into the cultural and creative
industries. They also coincide
with British companies’ grow-
ing efforts to develop their
businesses further afield,
amid uncertainty over Britain
leaving the European Union.
The agreements have been
bundled together in an offi-
cial partnership signed
between Tencent and the Brit-
ish government’s Department
for International Trade.
Seng Yee Lau, senior execu-
tive vice-president of Tencent,
said the deals will see the com-
pany using its digital technol-
ogy strength to help scale up
the impact of the UK’s world-
leading creative and cultural
industry products.
He said they were not being
done with short-term profits
in mind. Rather, the deals fit
in with the company’s vision
to create an open and free
information ecosystem.
“Openness, partnership
and sharing at a global level
have become our common
vision for the future of human
development in this digital
era,” Lau said.
Liam Fox, the UK’s secre-
tary of state for international
trade, said the deals will
“accelerate the growth of the
global digital creative indus-
tries, in which the UK is a
world leader”.
In the film sector, Tencent’s
subsidiary Penguin Pictures
will work with the BBC in a
three-year partnership in
co-production and content
distribution. The deal comes
in the wake of last year’s suc-
cessful co-production of the
documentary Blue Planet II,
which garnered a record-
breaking 220 million views.
The partnership with the
British Fashion Council
focuses on using Tencent’s
artificial intelligence technol-
ogy and big data analysis to
help British fashion compa-
nies better target Chinese cus-
tomers.
research firm based in Con-
necticut.
“There are several factors
that make a US listing attract-
ive to Chinese companies,”
said Bernstein. “Time to mar-
ket can be much faster, given
that IPOs need to meet disclo-
sure requirements but are not
subject to government
approval and don’t have to
wait in line.
“The US also has very active,
liquid markets for follow-on
equity and debt offerings. As
long as a company performs
financially, they can return for
multiple rounds of funding at
a lower cost of capital,” Bern-
stein said.
Matt Kennedy, IPO market
strategist at Renaissance Capi-
tal, said: “There is a backlog of
Chinese IPOs there pending
approval. There are several
ey on Chinese IPOs,” he added.
“We continue to see a wide
spectrum of the readiness of
teams to truly be successful as
US public companies,” Bern-
stein said. “That is why when I
talk to Chinese CEOs, I always
frame this as training for a
marathon while running a
sprint. You don’t want to be
that broken IPO that does only
one financing, and two years
after the opening bell trading
has dried up, analysts have
dropped you, and institutional
funds have fled.”
Kennedy said in 2017 and in
the first quarter of 2018, Chi-
nese IPOs in the US hit a mul-
tiyear high, but changes in
China’s exchanges could affect
that. He said Chinese main-
land technology firm Xiaomi
Corp was considering listing
in the US at one point, but sub-
mitted its application for an
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
adopted new rules to broaden
its listing regime, intensifying
a battle for listing resources.
Both Beijing and Hong Kong
are targeting the likes of Baidu
Inc, Alibaba Group Holding
Ltd and JD by allowing them
to list at home via secondary
listings.
The rules “lay the founda-
tion for innovative companies
to return to the domestic capi-
tal markets via the issuance of
CDRs”, the China Securities
Regulatory Commission said
on its website.
“There are a lot of technical
issues that would need to be
ironed out, but I think that giv-
ing Chinese investors access is
ultimately a positive,” accord-
ing to Bernstein.
Reuters contributed to this sto-
ry.

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Shenzhen Deren Electr 19.75 6.30 Beijing Sinnet Tech 15.66 –3.93 Gold (USD/t oz.) 1313.00 –0.1
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LIFE
Friday, May 11, 2018
CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/LIFE
THE RISE OF INTANGIBLES
New technologies promise huge scalability for businesses in such industries as marketing,
branding and software design, says economist Jonathan Haskel. Andrew Moody reports.
J
onathan Haskel says
the rise in property
values in China’s cities
is more down to the
rise of the intangible economy
than the attraction of tangible
assets such as apartments and
houses.
The economist says the fac-
tor behind the rise is people
moving to the city to work in
intangible industries such as
marketing, branding and soft-
ware design.
“The types of people who
benefit from the intangible
economy are going to move
into the cities. This has the
effect of raising house prices,
because property is in short
supply,” he says.
“The other thing it does is
increase the social divide
between city and rural dwell-
ers, whose properties don’t
tend to rise in value. People
there are not doing these inno-
vative new jobs and they get
left behind.”
Haskel, 54, who was speak-
ing in the office of the futuris-
tic campus of the Imperial
College Business School in
London, where he is professor
of economics, is the author
with Stian Westlake of a new
book, Capitalism Without
Capital, that has attracted
significant attention in the
West.
“I think with this book, we
are pushing at an open door.
People know from their every-
day experience that business
is just getting more and more
intangible. It is, however,
something that is more or less
ignored in company accounts
and also in national (govern-
ment) accounts,” he says
“There is just this discon-
nect between the sort of nar-
rative people talk about in
terms of a company’s success
and what they read when they
get the hard numbers.”
He cites as examples a com-
pany like Microsoft, where it
is almost impossible to meas-
ure the value of investment in
software development unless
it has been developed and
sold, and also airlines.
“Monarch Airlines, Brit-
Edgar Snow’s Red Star shines on
In 1936, a 31-year-old Amer-
ican writer ventured into a
“no-go” zone in a remote part
of Northwest China’s Loess
Plateau with many questions
in his mind.
Who were the Chinese Com-
munists? How did “the Reds”
dress, eat, play, love and work?
What were the chances of the
Red Army winning at all?
What was their leader Mao
Zedong like?
Edgar Snow entered, stayed
and re-emerged with little
doubt that the almost-isolat-
ed fighting force led by the
Communist Party of China
would ultimately succeed.
He penned the book Red
Star over China, giving a rare,
detailed and at times brilliant
account of the revolutionary
movement the world knew so
little about.
In 1938, the Chinese ver-
sion hit the market.
Eighty years later, the book
is once again being widely
read as people seek to under-
stand the CPC.
The political party Snow
introduced to the world is now
behind the wheels of the
world’s second-largest econo-
my as it drives ever closer to
the global center stage.
“The book’s charm is its
true account of reality,” said
Cao Wenxuan, a Peking Uni-
Economics professor Jonathan Haskel says the intangible economy is making society unequal.
ain’s fifth-biggest airline,
went bankrupt in October. It
was an example of the fact
that very few airlines own
anything tangible anymore.
Within 10 days, most of the
fleet had been returned to the
people who were leasing it,”
he says.
“What there was then was
this huge long argument
about the intangible assets of
the business, which in Mon-
arch’s case were the landing
slots at Britain’s congested
airports.”
The book’s ideas challenge
those of the French economist
Thomas Piketty, who in his
best-selling book Capital in
the Twenty-First Century
argued that it is those with
assets who have been getting
consistently wealthier over
the past 250 years, compared
with those without assets.
No other
Westerner had
presented such
insight into
Chinese
communism
before.”
Gordon H. Chang, professor of
history at Stanford University
versity professor, at a sympo-
sium last week to mark 80
years of the book’s Chinese
edition.
Until the book’s publication,
Mao and his comrades had
usually been portrayed in the
West as “Red bandits” fighting
a losing guerrilla war. Reports
about them often relied on
hearsay or were pure fabrica-
tion since the “Red zone” was
blockaded.
But Snow was undeterred.
His trip to Bao’an, the make-
shift CPC headquarters near
the present-day city of Yan’an,
opened his eyes. He was one of
the first outsiders to gain an
“The reason why we disa-
gree with Piketty is that he
takes a slightly old-fashioned
Marxist view that the marquis
or the duke can make a lot of
money by just hording their
assets,” he says.
“The problem with this is
that not all assets are rising.
House prices may be going up
in the cities, where the intan-
gible workers move to, but if
you, for example, took a place
like Gateshead (a northeast-
ern English town), which has
been quite run down, they are
not really rising at all. The
same can be said also of
Donald Trump’s so-called
Rust Belt.”
Haskel says the intangible
economy is not new, with
most of the assets of compa-
nies like Coca-Cola, which
dates back to the late 19th
century, being intangible.
inside look at the Chinese Com-
munists. Snow wrote about
Mao, Zhou Enlai and other rev-
olutionary leaders he spent
four months living with in the
hillside caves there.
“I remember a chapter in
which Mao talked about his
childhood,” says Men Liangjie,
a journalism graduate student
at Tsinghua University. “I felt
like I was also sitting in that
cave with Snow, listening to
Mao.”
Gordon H. Chang, a profes-
sor of history at Stanford Uni-
versity, says he had an
“electrifying” reading experi-
ence with the book.
“No other Westerner had
presented such insight into
Chinese communism before,”
Chang says. “Edgar Snow was
a singular individual who
came along at the right
moment. He was an excellent
writer and a keen observer of
history.”
He adds: “It was not just
sympathetic but appeared to
be grounded in real sources
and observations. It felt truth-
ful and I think many others
who read it, even today, feel
similarly.”
Red Star over China has
become a must-read for peo-
ple keen to learn about the
CPC’s revolutionary past. And
its Chinese editions proliferat-
NICK J.B. MOORE / FOR CHINA DAILY
“The value of the company
is in its actual recipe, the
branding, the marketing and
the advertising, whereas the
bottling and the delivery are
on the tangible side. Of
course, the recipe cannot be
patented because then every-
one would know what the
formula was.”
The economist says new
technologies have made it
possible for intangible busi-
nesses to have huge scalabili-
ty.
“If I am Bob’s Taxis and
want to carry more taxi pas-
sengers, I have to order more
taxis, whereas if I am Uber or
Didi, I don’t have to make that
kind of investment to scale
up,” he says.
Haskel says the real win-
ners in the intangible econo-
my are the managers and the
organizational people who
ed over time.
One of the latest editions
sold 3 million copies in just
over a year since its release.
The Ministry of Education has
also suggested the book be
compulsory reading for mid-
dle school students.
Douban, a popular online
review site, has about 10 Chi-
nese editions of Red Star Over
China and they all score rat-
ings of more than 8 out of 10.
Snow discovered that com-
munism genuinely stirred
many young Chinese. Soldiers
of the Red Army were
described as “unbeatable”,
demonstrating “sheer dogged
endurance” and having “the
ability to stand hardship
without complaint”. The epic
Long March was a perfect
example of this.
Snow wrote about how the
Red Army, whose members
were mostly poor peasants,
trekked over mountains,
crossed rivers, while surviv-
ing on little food and dodging
their Kuomintang pursuers
on their journey to reach
Yan’an.
“This had a big impact on
Western readers,” says Wu
Shulin, vice-executive direct-
or of the Publishers Associa-
tion of China. “The Red
Army’s resilience and ability
to overcome hardships won
put everything together.
“When Steve Jobs passed
away, Apple didn’t appoint
the best software program-
mer or chip engineer to
replace him, but the supply-
chain management guy, Tim
Cook, who was chief operat-
ing officer. People who can
bring stuff together and coor-
dinate a little bit are the ones
now with the valuable skill
sets,” he says.
Haskel, who studied eco-
nomics both at the University
of Bristol and the London
School of Economics, has
spent most of his career in
academia.
He has been at the Imperial
College Business School since
2008, where he is now both
professor of economics and
academic director.
He also was an adviser at
the Treasury when Gordon
Top: Edgar Snow talks to Communist officials in 1936 after ventur-
ing into Bao’an, the makeshift CPC headquarters in a remote part
of northwestern China. Above: Two Chinese editions of Red Star
over China, published in 1979 and 2016. XINHUA PHOTOS
them a lot of admiration.”
And the communists won
support from the masses who
suffered during the Kuomint-
ang regime.
Brown was chancellor of the
exchequer, and was a member
of the reporting panel of the
Competition Commission,
which looks into competition
issues in the UK, for most of
the past decade.
Haskel is a particular critic
of the euro, which he believes
is doomed to fail.
“It is almost entirely politi-
cal, it seems to me. The lesson
from successful currency
unions, like the US, for exam-
ple, is that you not only need a
single monetary authority,
but you also need a single fis-
cal authority as well, or some
way of having fiscal transfers,
between the parties to the
union,” he says.
“In the US, Connecticut, for
example, has been a net payer
to Louisiana for decades. In
Europe, we have to reach a sit-
uation where the Germans
also have to be net payers to
countries which aren’t doing
as well. That to me does not
seem politically feasible. I
don’t therefore see any future
for the euro.”
Haskel also believes there
are major risks to recovery 10
years after the global finan-
cial crisis.
“The developing countries
are looking a little better in
the sense that they keep
going. The developed coun-
tries are clawing their way
back. It does, however, seem
to me that we haven’t got the
banking sector sorted out
yet,” he says.
Haskel says one unknown
factor is the impact that artifi-
cial intelligence will have on
jobs.
“The usual example econo-
mists will throw about is
automatic teller machines.
They will say that they creat-
ed banking jobs because bank
staff could now sell you finan-
cial advice and that kind of
thing,” he says.
“As anybody at MIT and
places like that will tell you,
the world of artificial intelli-
gence has changed over the
past 18 months or so, with
advances in image recogni-
tion and all these technolo-
The CPC introduced
extremely popular policies in
the Red zone: they eradicated
opium, child slavery and com-
pulsory marriage, while pro-
People know from
their everyday
experience that
business is just
getting more and
more intangible.”
Jonathan Haskel, economics
professor
gies. The idea was that the
university lecturer could be
helped by AI, but it may be the
machine will start giving lec-
tures and indeed writing a
book,” he says.
As for China, he believes
that the rise of the intangible
economy could prove to be a
boon for the world’s second-
largest economy.
“China is going from what
was a very capital-driven
innovation to a more knowl-
edge-driven innovation, and
that is another way of saying
that intangibles are going to
become much more impor-
tant in driving growth,” he
says.
Contact the writer at
andrewmoody@
chinadaily.com.cn
moting mass education at the
same time.
Their honest, upright and
down-to-earth behavior was
in stark contrast to the arro-
gance, arbitrariness and cor-
ruption displayed by the
Kuomintang, and helped
them gain mass appeal.
The Red Army’s growing
number of new recruits were
often described as the “poor
man’s army”.
At the end of his book,
Snow wrote that the Commu-
nist revolution would “even-
tually win”.
Today’s China is a world
apart from Bao’an in the
1930s. Yet the CPC carries on
its traditions.
The Chinese leadership has
called on fellow comrades to
“remain true to our original
aspiration”, and to “never for-
get why you started, and you
can accomplish your mission”.
Over the past five years,
many wide and far-reaching
campaigns to rid the Party of
corruption and undesirable
conduct have been launched,
leading to broad improve-
ments in the political system.
Snow died in Switzerland
in 1972. Some of his ashes
were buried at Peking Univer-
sity.
Inscribed on the tombstone
are words in both Chinese and
English that read: “Edgar
Snow, American friend of the
Chinese people.”
XINHUA
 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018
I
n chapter 35 of The
Dream of the Red Cham-
ber, when protagonist
Jia Baoyu is asked what
he would like to eat after being
beaten by his father, he asks
for lotus leaf soup.
It’s one of the many dishes
described in Cao Xueqin’s epic
novel, but it’s unlikely anyone
has ever tried to re-create these
delicacies from scratch, let alone
reinterpret them.
Not until now, that is. Luo
Dan, a dessert chef from
Chengdu, Sichuan province,
has set herself to the task of
re-creating 12 dishes from the
famous novel and turning
them into a range of daring
modern desserts through an
online course she developed
called A Bite of The Dream of
the Red Chamber.
“Each dessert has been
designed according to the nov-
el, and all the recipes will be
easy for anyone to follow and
require no complex skills,”
says Luo.
For Jia’s lotus soup, Luo uses
honeydew melon, lotus leaf,
sago and rice, and employs a
simple molecular gastronomy
trick to make it work perfectly.
The rice porridge is cooked
with lotus leaves before being
rolled into balls, laid out on a
bed of honeydew melon puree,
and topped with marsh penny-
wort — an aquatic herb that
resembles tiny lotus leaves.
The porridge balls explode in
the mouth to leave a fresh taste
of summer.
Luo believes that beautiful
things have souls.
“Good food not only awak-
ens our taste buds, it also
reminds us of fond memories,”
the 36-year-old says.
“People in ancient times
regarded food more as an art
form. So when I designed the
soup dessert, I asked myself
‘How can I be creative and
make this special?’.”
In chapter 54 of the book,
Jia’s grandmother orders
almond tea after a family din-
ner. While Chinese desserts
are usually made out of white
almonds, Luo has created a
new version which uses tor-
toise-herb jelly as a base. To
this she adds almond cream
and two spoons of black rice,
before topping it off with
crispy black sesame sugar.
“All the ingredients are good
for the lungs, which fits with
the character of Chinese-style
desserts that are designed not
only look pretty, but to also fol-
low the natural rules,” says Luo,
adding she is determined to
elevate Chinese desserts into
an item of cultural heritage.
“Many countries have their
signature dessert, such as
Japan’s wagashi, Germany’s
black forest cake, and France’s
macaroon,” says Luo. “But
what about China? I hope that
one day my desserts will
answer that question, and
show the beauty of desserts
seen through Chinese eyes.”
Luo says Chinese desserts
follow the seasons and also
change with the times. “There
is more about Chinese des-
serts to dig up, and I want to
make them more delicate.”
A Bite of The Dream of the
LITERARY
TASTES
A chef from Chengdu has turned a
dozen dishes from Cao Xueqin’s epic
novel The Dream of the Red Chamber
into a selection of daring new desserts.
Li Yingxue reports.
Red Chamber may be Luo’s
latest venture, but she is no
stranger to success, having
already wowed the world with
her desserts at the 2014 Asia-
Pacific Economic Cooperation
summit in Hangzhou.
Luo was chosen to make Chi-
nese cookies for all the first
ladies at an APEC dinner, which
were later presented as gifts in a
specially made wooden box.
Luo painstakingly decorat-
ed her handmade cookies with
flowers from all four seasons,
with each one taking her four
to five hours to make. The
flowers were very lifelike.
“The petals were made of
icing sugar, which I shaped
first of all. I then added color
to them before pasting each
one onto the cookies. They
were very small and thin and
very fragile, so I needed to be
Main picture: Luo Dan’s
re-creation of the almond tea
mentioned in The Dream of the
Red Chamber. Above: Luo makes
a cookie with painted flowers.
very careful,” says Luo.
Luo learned traditional Chi-
nese painting when she was a
child and kept up the hobby
until college. After studying
graphic design at the Sichuan
Fine Arts Institute from 2001 to
2005, Luo became a designer.
Her passion for desserts
started during college, when
she began experimenting with
baking cakes at home. A year
into her design job, she decided
to quit and pursue her dreams.
Luo gave birth to a boy two
years after getting married in
2007, and now her life is divid-
ed into two distinct roles —
raising her son and creating
desserts.
Luo has witnessed how des-
serts have grown in popularity
in China over the past decade.
“When we first started in
2008, we would communicate
Creating a dessert is like
making an art piece for dessert
chef Luo Dan.
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
via an online food forum,
where we would discuss new
dishes. One homemade cake I
made wowed everyone,” Luo
says.
“Now many families have
their own ovens. They can eas-
ily make cookies or bread at
home. And it’s easy to find a
dessert shop down the street,
which was rare 10 years ago.”
Creating a new dessert is
like making an art piece for
Luo. “I enjoy each cooking
process — from designing the
dish, to preparing the ingredi-
ents, to making the dessert —
even though each step takes a
long time.”
Besides launching her culi-
nary career, Luo developed an
interest in flower arranging,
tea culture and designing fur-
niture. But after the APEC
summit, she chose to shun the
limelight and focus her efforts
on making Chinese desserts.
“The ingredients used in
making Chinese desserts are
healthy, such as grain, fruit
and vegetables, which don’t
add too much burden to your
body. And sweet foods also
make people happy,” says Luo,
explaining why she continues
to run the online course to
teach dessert making.
For Luo, creating new West-
ern-style desserts is an easier
undertaking because there are
more reference points availa-
ble, whereas she often has to
develop new Chinese desserts
from scratch. There are no cer-
tainties in the process. Some-
times she worries that her
creations are too Western, and
at other times she finds her
wondering if the traditional
recipes are actually better.
“Making desserts is like life.
You need to find the beauty,
and add your own understand-
ing and inspiration, so the
beauty will be relevant to you.”
Contact the writer at
liyingxue@
chinadaily.com.cn
Dining | LIFE 19
A girl and a boy (behind her) seal two pots of Anhua dark tea
with mud and a piece of red paper during the recent tea-sealing
ceremony in Beijing. JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY
Tea-sealing tradition
gets a new lease of life
By LI YINGXUE
liyingxue@chinadaily.com.cn
One legend says that the
process of sealing tea and let-
ting it age began after
Emperor Qianlong (1711-99)
visited Hangzhou in Zheji-
ang province.
But there are those who
say the tradition is much old-
er.
Zhou Fan, director of the
ancient tea institute at the
Chinese Tea Culture
Research Institute, says:
“The tradition actually has a
history of more than 1,000
years, and began in the Tang
Dynasty (618–907).
“In the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911), a ceremony (for
the sealing) would be held
on an auspicious day.”
According to Zhou, the
last recorded imperial tea-
sealing ceremony was held
in 1909 at the Temple of
Heaven in Beijing.
Now, over a century later,
the custom is being revived.
And, on May 3, a special tea-
sealing ceremony for Anhua
dark tea (produced in
Anhua county of Hunan
province) was held in
Badachu Park, Beijing, as
part of the 17th Badachu
Spain uses food to
boost China links
MADRID — Spanish gas-
tronomy is vital to help boost
Spain’s profile in China, says
Carlos Espinosa de los Mon-
teros, the high commission-
er for Marca Espana, a
Spanish government institu-
tion set up to promote
Spain’s image abroad.
He says Marca Espana
planned to have a greater
presence in Asia, and espe-
cially in China. “One of the
tools we have to promote is
our gastronomy, which
along with fashion and
sport, leads the strategy to
enter into important mar-
kets such as China.”
Although Spanish food is
not well known in China,
progress is being made in
China Garden Tea Cultural
Festival & Anhua Dark Tea
Cultural Week.
Zhou says: “Sealing
liquor, food and tea are tra-
ditional in China. And the
tea or liquor then ferment,
leading to the presence of
probiotics that are good for
health.”
As part of the recent cere-
mony, a boy and a girl sealed
two pots of Anhua dark tea
with mud, and a calligrapher
wrote on a piece of red paper
that was used as a seal.
Zhou says that in the old
days the tea would be kept
sealed for about two decades
to obtain the desired results,
but now the same results can
be achieved within three to
five years.
“Earlier pottery was used
to preserve the tea, but then
porcelain became popular,”
says Zhou.
“We would like to further
develop the technique.”
Anhua dark tea was used
as a tribute in the Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644).
Xiao Weiqun, vice-presi-
dent of the Hunan Tea Indus-
try Association, hopes that
sealed Anhua dark tea can
become a sought-after prod-
uct in the future.
popularizing Spanish culina-
ry traditions in the Asian
giant, Espinosa de los Mon-
teros says.
“Every time a prestigious
chef goes to China, or begins
to work in China, they are
very popular; it is food that
Chinese people enjoy,” he
says.
He explains that although
Spain has a traditional food
culture, a generation of chefs
are also known for their
innovation.
“It is a culture which is
typified by innovation, talent
and technology, which has
been incorporated into the
old art of cooking,” he says.
XINHUA
20 LIFE | Culture
Chinese paper-cutting artist Zhou Shuying, known for her multicolored style, is coloring one of her representative works, Tree of Life.
CUTTING EDGE
Zhou Shuying spent years injecting new life into an age-old folk craft, which saw
her develop new colors, patterns and techniques. Yang Yang reports.
“W
hen my
father
decided to
teach me
the art of paper-cutting, he
asked me not to have romantic
relationships before I was 40
years old.”
The comment prompted a
general buzz when 54-year-
old Zhou Shuying addressed
more than 900 middle school
students at a recent opening
ceremony of an exhibition of
intangible cultural heritage at
Beijing No 80 Middle School.
“Thirty-four years ago, peo-
ple paid little attention to
such crafts as paper-cutting,
and craftspeople were rela-
tively poor. But there were
people sacrificing a lot to pre-
serve the arts,” Zhou said.
During the speech, Zhou
did not explain why her father
made such a demand, but she
later told China Daily: “My
father worried that if I was
married, I wouldn’t have time
to work on paper-cutting.”
Besides, her three brothers
needed to make a living from
it, so if she married into
another family living off this
craft, she would become a
competitor to them.
Traditionally, at the school
in her hometown in Yu county,
North China’s Hebei province,
paper-cutting could only be
inherited by male family
members. But Zhou, one of
the most well-known masters
and the representative of the
multicolored paper-cutting
school, is an exception.
“It is because my father dis-
covered my talent when I was
little,” she says.
However, it was still not a
smooth process.
Zhou’s father Zhou Yong-
ming was the only student
taught in person by Wang
Laoshang, who founded the
paper-cutting school in Yuxi-
an county that originated in
the Ming Dynasty (1368-
1644).
In northern China, in
ancient times before glass
became affordable, people
used opaque white paper on
their windows to keep out the
wind and cold while letting
light in. But stark white was
considered dull and ominous
Translation in focus as China moves to share rich culture
By CHINA DAILY
Translation has always been
more about the yearning to
connect with the world at large
rather than just turning works
from one language into anoth-
er. And driven by this shared
desire, many translators, writ-
ers and publishers from
around the globe are now
working together to share Chi-
nese culture with the rest of
the world in innovative ways.
At the 10th China Transla-
tion Profession Forum held at
Peking University in April , the
discussions focused on how
collaborations between Chi-
nese and foreign translators,
writers and artists can help
readers around the world bet-
ter understand China.
Meanwhile, collaborations
since it is used as a funeral col-
or, so people gradually formed
the custom of pasting paper-
cuts using red or other colors
onto their windows.
At the age of three, Zhou
started learning the paper-
cutting craft using colors.
Unlike many other paper-cut-
ting schools in China, paper-
cut works from Yuxian county
tend to be multicolored rather
than in the single colors of
red, black, green or blue. After
drawing and cutting out the
patterns, craftspeople always
added color to them.
There were traditionally
only five colors — pink, green,
yellow, red, and blue — used in
Zhou’s hometown. Flowers
had to be pink or yellow, but
little Zhou always wanted to
make them different.
Once she watched a spider
accidentally blend two colors
into a beautiful pinkish pur-
ple while scurrying from one
color into another and leaving
marks on paper. She then
managed to replicate the pur-
ple color and used it on one of
the flowers she was assigned
to work on. Worrying that her
father and elder brothers
would scold her, she hid the
purple flower under other
works, but when it was found,
she felt relief because they
thought it beautiful too.
Despite her talent and dili-
gence, Zhou’s father firmly
refused to teach her all the
skills. She always observed
between Chinese writers and
foreign illustrators have in
recent years proved very suc-
cessful in spawning foreign
language translations of Chi-
nese books, according to
Zhang Yuntao, the chief editor
of children’s book publisher
Tian Tian Publishing.
In 2013, Tian Tian Publish-
ing and the People’s Literature
Publishing House jointly
launched a project to get for-
eign illustrators to work with
64-year-old Chinese writer Cao
Wenxuan, the winner of the
Hans Christian Andersen
Award in 2016.
Speaking about the project,
Zhang says: “When we are
translating and publishing
books, we don’t always know
who the readers are. But work-
ing with foreign illustrators,
Zhou Shuying’s World Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Paper-cutting
Art Series (above), and patterns
inside (top), which readers can cut
out from the book.
her father closely and imitat-
ed his skills. She would put the
patterns she learned to draw
on his desk, but he always tore
them up immediately.
It was not until Zhou turned
20 years old that her father
finally agreed to teach her, but
solely on the proviso that she
did not fall in love before the
age of 40.
True to her word, Zhou did
not have a romantic relation-
ship until in her 40s, by which
time she had long been
regarded as a laughing stock
in her village and “a bit crazy”.
But in order to fulfill her
promise to her father and
realize her dream, she was
determined to overcome
these difficulties.
Working with for-
eign illustrators ...
allows us to see
how Chinese liter-
ature is received
outside China.”
Zhang Yuntao, chief editor, Tian
Tian Publishing
who are very careful readers of
our books, allows us to see how
Chinese literature is received
outside China.”
The project involved illus-
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
In 1995, Zhou’s paper-cut
work Peace Dove was chosen
as the emblem for the 4th
United Nations World Confer-
ence on Women. In 1996, she
graduated from the Central
Academy of Fine Arts in Bei-
jing with another representa-
tive work Tree of Life, in which
she adapted more than 50
propitious Chinese symbols to
represent life.
“I drew many patterns
before the final Tree of Life,
which were all disapproved by
my professor Lyu
Shengzhong. But in the end,
he was pleased with Tree of
Life,” she says.
In 2006, Chinese paper-cut-
ting was included on the list of
the World Intangible Cultural
Heritage. As one of its inherit-
ors, Zhou has become well-
known with many of her
works collected by art galler-
ies and museums around the
world.
But she always bears the
last words of her father in
mind: “Keep this art alive and
pass it on to later genera-
tions.”
That was why as a National
People’s Congress deputy,
Zhou proposed at the two ses-
sions meetings in March that
national intangible cultural
heritage should be included in
elementary school syllabuses
as well as for higher educa-
tion, in order to protect, main-
tain and develop national art
forms such as paper-cutting.
trators from Italy, Sweden and
Denmark and led to the publi-
cation of six picture books in a
series called Chinese Seeds
and Global Blossoms.
The books have been pub-
lished in Sweden, Denmark
and the United Arab Emirates.
Then, in February, two of
Cao’s picture books, Bronze
and Sunflower and Feather
featured on a top US literary
list. Feather is illustrated by
52-year-old Brazilian illustra-
tor Roger Mello, winner of the
2014 Hans Christian Anders-
en Award. And the book
recounts a feather’s journey to
seek its owner.
Separately, foreign translat-
ors are also collaborating with
Chinese magazine publishers
to introduce their products to
global readers.
That was also why she
agreed to work with other five
paper-cutting masters to pub-
lish a three-volume book,
titled World Intangible Cul-
tural Heritage of Paper-cut-
ting Art Series, which
combines the most represent-
ative Chinese poetic works
from the Tang, Song and Yuan
dynasties with the art of
paper-cutting.
“I know that many publish-
ers have invited Ms Zhou to
publish her works. When I
visited her in Yuxian county at
the end of 2016, she wore a
polite smile at the beginning,
but when I described our
detailed plan about the book
and our aim to let children
appreciate this beautiful Chi-
nese art by reading the poems
and verses represented
through the form of paper-
cutting, her eyes lit up,” the
editor of the book Yuan Jingya
says.
“Although paper-cutting is
not so familiar to children
these days, it will help them
better understand the art
form and the great poems and
verses from Chinese history.”
The book is divided into
three volumes, each contain-
ing works from the three dif-
ferent dynasties: poetry from
the Tang Dynasty (618-907),
poetry from the Song Dynasty
(960-1279) and verses from
the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).
Yuan carefully chose 24 arche-
typal works for each category
and gave a modern explana-
tion on the right side of each
work, with paper-cut inter-
pretation of the work in other
pages.
She also puts in an intro-
duction about the two mas-
ters in both English and
Chinese at the end of each vol-
ume, so that “English readers
will also understand the skills
of each school and the contri-
bution of the masters to the
art,” she says.
At the same time, curious
readers can create their own
paper-cut works using the pat-
terns and red paper offered in
the book set.
Contact the writer at
yangyangs@
chinadaily.com.cn
Italian translator Patrizia
Liberati works with Chinese
editors on the Italian version
of China’s longest-running lit-
erature magazine Ren Min
Wen Xue (People’s Literature).
The Italian version of the
magazine titled Caratteri pub-
lishes Chinese works that have
not yet been translated into
Italian. And its four issues pub-
lished so far have featured
espionage novel writer Mai Jia
and 2016 Hugo Award winner
Hao Jingfang among others.
Speaking about her work,
Liberati says: “We want to
introduce up-and-coming
(Chinese) writers to Italian
readers.”
In a related development,
the magazine published Wang
Shuo’s Dong Wu Xiong Meng
(Ferocious Animals) as a spe-
Friday, May 11, 2018 CHINA DAILY
Exhibitions showcase
traditional creativity
By WANG KAIHAO
wangkaihao@
chinadaily.com.cn
In recent years, China has
created a large number of
products based on its cultur-
al traditions, ranging from
souvenirs developed by
museums to products with
modern design.
And now, China Week:
Inherit and Innovate, a set of
exhibitions that is being
staged in about 30 cities
around the globe, including
Seoul, Brussels and Mexico
City, are showcasing these
products to the world.
The exhibitions, which
began on Thursday and run
through June, are organized
by China Cultural Centres —
the country’s institutions for
cultural diplomacy run by
the Ministry of Culture and
Tourism — in those cities.
According to Zheng Hao,
the deputy director of the
ministry’s Bureau for Exter-
nal Cultural Relations, lec-
tures and business seminars
will also be part of China
Week, making it a compre-
hensive cultural event
encouraging the cross-bor-
der exchange of expertise.
Zheng says 86 activities
are part of the program,
which covers museums,
intangible cultural heritage,
animation and digital tech-
nology.
“It (the program) offers a
channel for Chinese prod-
ucts to go abroad. And, it
helps build bridges between
domestic institutions and
their overseas counterparts
for further cooperation and
allows the rest of the world
to see Chinese designs.”
Among the institutions
taking part in the program
are the Palace Museum in
Beijing, which is known for
its development of souve-
nirs.
According to Ren Wan-
ping, the deputy director of
the museum, more than
9,000 kinds of products have
been developed by the muse-
um so far. And some of the
products will be promoted in
six countries during China
Week.
Speaking about how the
program will help the muse-
Some cultural products developed by the Palace Museum in
Beijing will be displayed worldwide for China Week: Inherit and
Innovate. PHOTOS BY CHENG HAOLONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
cial feature called “must-read
books for Italian students”.
Giving details about the fea-
ture, Liberati says: “I’ve always
wanted to translate Dong Wu
Xiong Meng ever since I was a
college student, and at the
magazine we finally did it.”
As for Liberati’s back-
ground, she is the Italian trans-
lator of Nobel Prize Laureate
Mo Yan’s work Tan Xiang Xing
(Sandalwood Death), Wa
(Frog) and Sheng Si Pi Lao
(Life and Death Are Wearing
Me Out). And Liberati, who
has been translating Chinese
literature since 2002, is now
translating Jia Pingwa’s Tian
Gou (Sky Dog).
Zhu Zhenwu, 55, a professor
of literature and translation at
Shanghai Normal University
and the Chinese translator of
um, Ren says: “To revive tra-
ditional Chinese culture, we
cannot simply copy ancient
art and close our doors to the
outside. More creative think-
ing is needed to promote
cross-border communica-
tion.”
Then there’s NICE, an
institution affiliated to the
Ministry of Culture and
Tourism, which deals with
cultural exchanges, which is
showcasing its products
which are inspired by the
Shaolin Temple, renowned
for its kung fu and the
Mogao Caves in Dunhuang,
a pivotal post on the ancient
Silk Road.
Separately, the China
National Philatelic Corpora-
tion is displaying its stamps
at the exhibitions.
Speaking about the
stamps, Tang Jing points to a
set featuring Tang Dynasty
(618-907) poetry which uses
microprinting to depict
more than 25,000 characters
on the stamps.
The activities under the
program will not be restrict-
ed only to the respective Chi-
na Cultural Centres.
For instance, an exhibi-
tion at the Museum of the
City of Mexico will use
resources from Beijing
Design Week to showcase
modern Chinese design.
Speaking about the enthu-
siasm the program has gen-
erated, Wang Yudong, who is
in charge of Beijing Design
Week, says: “Even before this
exhibition kicked off, the
Mexican side had contacted
us, showing interest to
extend the show.”
Separately, the National
Library of Vietnam in Hanoi
is giving Nanjing, the capital
of Jiangsu province, a
chance to display the city’s
cultural creativity.
China has set up 35 China
Cultural Centres around the
world since 1988, and Zheng
says the number will reach
50 by 2020.
Speaking about the
purpose of the cultural units,
Zheng says: “They serve to
explain the Belt and Road
Initiative and improve
people-to-people exchanges.
They showcase China in
different dimensions.”
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci
Code, says closer collaboration
between Chinese and foreign
translators is needed when it
comes to translating Chinese
works.
Hu Zongfeng, a professor of
literature and translation at
Northwest University in
Shaanxi province, has set up a
workshop with Robin Gilbank
from the United Kingdom to
translate the works of Shaanxi-
based writers, including Jia
Pingwa and Chen Zhongshi.
The workshop’s translation
of the best-selling Chinese
writer Ye Guangqin’s
Mountain Stories was
published last July in the
United Kingdom.
Liu Yinglun contributed to
this story.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018 Fun | LIFE 21
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Horoscope
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Crossword Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
Don’t feel you must do something drastic just because someone
wants you to participate. Walk away from any offer that appears
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will be a positive personal gain, but the downside will be that
someone disappoints you.
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Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20) materials and reference books are.
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BASKETBALL
Tee time for Trevor

Celtics stay Smart

to outlast Sixers
Boston vanquishes Philly to book
Eastern showdown with Cavs
BOSTON — With 2.4 sec-
onds left and the Boston Celt-
ics leading by two, Marcus
Smart had a chance to clinch
Game 5 of the Eastern Confer-
ence semifinal and eliminate
Philadelphia by making a pair
of free throws.
He missed the first.
He could have made things
more difficult for the 76ers by
missing the second one on
purpose and forcing them to
go the length of the court with
the clock running.
He chucked the ball off the
rim and it dropped in.
That gave the 76ers a chance
to win with a desperation
3-pointer. The full-court
inbounds pass went into the
left corner, and who was there
to intercept it, heaving it back
into the air to run out the clock?
To the surprise of no one in a
Celtics uniform, it was Smart.
“That’s a Marcus Smart
sequence. That just describes
him so well,” guard Jaylen
Brown said after Boston beat
Philadelphia 114-112 on
Wednesday night to advance to
the Eastern Conference final
for the second straight year.
“If it came down to one guy
coming up with it, everybody’s
got their money on Smart.”
Jayson Tatum scored 25
points, Brown had 24 and Ter-
ry Rozier scored 17, sinking a
pair of free throws to make it a
four-point game with 9.8 sec-
onds left after forcing Joel
Embiid’s turnover.
Al Horford added 15 points
and eight rebounds for Bos-
ton.
The Celtics will play Cleve-
land in the Eastern final for
the second straight year. Game
1 is Sunday in Boston. It’s the
Celtics’ first back-to-back trips
to the conference final since
making it five straight times
from 1984-88.
“When you get here, you’re
flattered by the thought of the
George goes under the knife
Oklahoma City Thunder for-
ward Paul George had arthro-
scopic surgery on his left knee
on Wednesday, which the NBA
team described as “successful”.
A statement posted on the
Thunder website said that the
team, George and his represen-
tation “collectively determined”
for the procedure to be per-
formed by Dr Neal Elattrache
with Thunder medical personnel
present at the Kerlan-Jobe
Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Ange-
les, California.
“George is expected to miss
Shore shot
Jaylen Brown reacts after scor-
ing to help the Boston Celtics to
a series-clincing 114-112 victory
over the Philadelphia 76ers at
TD Garden in Boston on
Wednesday. USA TODAY SPORTS
Boston Celtics,” said Celtics
coach Brad Stevens. “You real-
ize if you’re going to break
records here. You’re going to
break bad ones, because none
of the good ones are reacha-
ble.”
Embiid had 27 points and 12
rebounds for the 76ers, Dario
Saric had 27 points and 10
rebounds, and Ben Simmons
added 18 points, eight
rebounds and six assists.
The 76ers rode The Process
back into the playoffs for the
first time since 2012, winning
20 out of 21 games before Bos-
ton beat them three straight
times to open the series.
“The Process is never going
to end,” Embiid said. “This is a
process to get to the playoffs,
Paul George
six to eight weeks before return-
ing to normal offseason activi-
ties,” the Thunder said.
The team’s statement came
after George posted a photo of
himself on Instagram, smiling
from a hospital bed with a cap-
tion reading: “Good spirits.”
George is coming off a superb
first season in Oklahoma City,
we did it. This was a process to
get to the conference final, but
we didn’t. Next year, that’s our
goal.”
In a game that featured 21
lead changes — the most in the
playoffs this year — the Celtics
scored eight straight points in
the final 1:37, taking the lead
on Tatum’s layup with 23 sec-
onds left.
Embiid had a chance to tie it
but he missed a heavily con-
tested layup, failed to tip it
back in and then grabbed that
rebound, too. Rozier knocked
the ball out of his hands, off his
leg and out of bounds with
10.8 seconds left.
“Just a championship play,
that’s all,” said Rozier, who
made a pair of free throws to
make it 113-109 for Boston.
JJ Reddick’s 3-pointer cut
the deficit to one, and then it
was Smart’s turn. Coming off
the bench, he had 14 points, six
rebounds, six assists and three
steals.
“He’s made for this,” Stevens
said. “He’s made for these
moments. We can go through
the stat line all you want, but
when your season’s on the line
and you need to do really hard
things, he can do them.”
Together at last
After striking up a long-dis-
tance friendship with Drew
Bledsoe during the first-round
series against the Milwaukee
Bucks, Rozier finally met the
former New England Patriots
quarterback in person.
Rozier first invoked Bled-
soe’s name during a trash-talk-
ing back-and-forth with Bucks
guard Eric Bledsoe, pretend-
ing to confuse the two.
Drew Bledsoe joined the fun
by recording a video that was
played for the sold-out TD
Garden crowd during a break
in Game 7.
On Wednesday, the football
player met Rozier before the
game, which he watched from
courtside with Celtics owner
Wyc Grousbeck.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
where he started 79 games and
averaged 21.9 points, 5.7
rebounds and 3.3 assists.
A five-time NBA All-Star, the
28-year-old made a career-best
244 3-pointers in the regular
season.
He is widely expected to opt
out of the final year of his cur-
rent contract in order to seek a
long-term deal — perhaps not
with OKC.
The Thunder fell in six games
to the Utah Jazz in the first
round of the playoffs.
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before a thunderstorm halted the day’s action. Play was set to resume on Friday morning. The top five on the tour’s order of merit will
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ATHLETICS
Gatlin out to prove he’s still
the man to beat in Shanghai
By ALYWIN CHEW London, was scheduled to
in Shanghai compete here but pulled out
alywin@chinadaily.com.cn earlier this week, with his
coach saying the move was
Justin Gatlin, reigning “precautionary”.
world champion in the 100m Coleman has also had an
sprint, intends to pull out all impressive start to the sea-
the stops in Saturday’s race at son, setting a world record at
the 2018 Shanghai Diamond the indoor championships in
League athletics competition. Birmingham.
“I want to get a world-lead- When asked if Coleman’s
ing time in Shanghai. I ran at withdrawal was good news
the Grenada Invitational ear- for the rest of the field, Gatlin
lier this year and the track disagreed, instead expressing
was a little slower, but the concern for his compatriot,
track here is a little faster and whom he raced alongside in
harder, so I want to be able to US sprinter Justin Gatlin interacts with students at Qibao Mid- the 4x100 at the Tennessee
get the job done and put away dle School in Shanghai on Thursday. ALYWIN CHEW/ CHINA DAILY Relays in Knoxville in April.
a strong competition,” the “It’s never good news. He
36-year-old said at Thurs- might have injuries and you
day’s pre-competition media Karlsruhe, Germany, in Feb- modest time of 10.28sec. never want to wish that on
event at Qibao Middle School, ruary and setting an Asian Gatlin, who spoiled Usain any athlete because of how
where he met with student record of 6.47 seconds in the Bolt’s farewell party last year hard we all work,” Gatlin said.
athletes. process. He eclipsed it with a by beating the Jamaican leg- “We’re from the same col-
“There are going to be Chi- time of 6.43 just a few days end for the 100m title at the lege, so I want to see him
nese and Japanese athletes in later at the tour’s next stop in world championships in Lon- come back strong and be
the race on Saturday and they Dusseldorf. don, said he is well aware of good for the rest of the sea-
are good contenders. I think The 28-year-old also made Su’s exploits. son.”
this is going to be one of the history in March when he “I’m definitely going to Also scheduled to compete
best races of the year so far,” won silver in the same event have to take him seriously. Su in Saturday’s 100m is Cana-
he added. at the World Indoor Champi- is a strong athlete who won da’s Andre De Grasse, who
One of the Chinese athletes onships in Birmingham, silver at the indoor champi- won the silver medal in the
Gatlin will be up against is England, becoming the first onships, so he’s going to be a 200m and bronze in both the
local favorite Su Bingtian, Chinese male sprinter to great opponent,” Gatlin said. 100m and 4×100 relay at the
who won the 100m at last medal in an individual event “I’m going to have to take 2016 Summer Olympics in
year’s Diamond League meet at an international competi- him seriously. When the gun Rio de Janeiro.
in Shanghai. tion. goes off I’m going to be watch- De Grasse made his come-
Su has enjoyed a blistering Earlier this month, Su ing out for him.” back at the Drake Relays at
start to the 2018 season, win- cruised to a comfortable vic- Up-and-coming US sprint- the end of April after recover-
ning the 60m final at the tory in the 100m at the Hong er Christian Coleman, who ing from a right hamstring
IAAF World Indoor Tour in Kong championships with a finished second to Gatlin in injury.
CHINA’S RISING STARS READY TO SHINE
By SHI FUTIAN | shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn stars with a chance to showcase their talent.
Their challenge has been eased somewhat by the injury with-
From Justin Gatlin to Su Bingtian, Saturday’s Diamond drawals of American sprinter Christian Coleman, Jamaican
League Shanghai meet is a veritable roll call of the world’s and Olympic 100 and 200m champion Elaine Thompson and Chi-
China’s premier track and field stars. However, the annual nese 110m hurdler Xie Wenjun this week. Here, China Daily
extravaganza — the second stop on the IAAF’s prestigious takes a look at the cream of the young Chinese crop hoping to
global one-day circuit — also provides the host’s young rising get the Shanghai Stadium crowd on their feet this weekend.

Guo Zhongze Huang Bokai Shi Yuhao Wu Shuijiao Liu Shiying

The 21-year-old fur-
thered his reputation as
one of China’s most
promising 400m special-
ists by clocking a nation-
al-record 45.14 seconds
over one lap at last year’s
National Games in Tianjin
— a massive progression
from his disappointing
debut at the 2015 world
championships in Beijing,
where he failed to
advance from the first
round. The Shanghai
Lin Yiqi of Team Fujian dives for the ball during the Pingtan stage of the National Beach Volleyball Tour native will be relishing
on Thursday in Pingtan, an island city in Fujian province. Fifty-three professional teams are taking part the opportunity to hit the
in the four-day tournament. In a bid to promote the sport, organizers are offering free tickets, cheer- accelerator on his own
leader shows and live TV and online broadcasts. HU MEIDONG / CHINA DAILY doorstep.
The pole vaulter shot
to prominence by claim-
ing gold at the 2016
Asian Indoor Champion-
ships in Doha with an
Asian junior record of
5.75 meters. He failed to
build on that at the Rio
Olympics later that year,
finishing 16th with a
shorter throw. However,
after undergoing surgery
last year, he could well be
primed to challenge for
honors in Shanghai.
At just 19 years old,
long jumper Shi is one of
the most exciting talents
in Chinese athletics.
He set an Asian junior
record of 8.30m in 2016
and improved it by a centi-
meter a year later to gain
qualification for the 2017
worlds in London, where
he finished a commenda-
ble sixth. Shi cemented his
reputation as one to watch
by claiming gold at this
year’s Asian indoors with a
world-leading jump of
8.16m.
The only current Javelin thrower Liu’s
female Chinese hurdler personal best of 66.47m
to break 13 seconds over was set in 2017 as a then-
100m, Wu clocked a per- Asian record. After bag-
sonal-best 12.93 in 2013. ging numerous junior
She’s already racked up titles at the world and
an impressive medal continental levels, Liu
count, taking golds at the made the grade as a sen-
2012 Asian indoors, the ior by winning gold at the
2013 East Asian Games 2015 Asian champion-
and the 2013 National ships. An eighth-place fin-
Games. She regained the ish at the 2017 worlds in
national title last year London bodes well for the
and will be looking to future.
lower her long-standing
PB in Shanghai.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, May 11, 2018 SPORTS 23
RUGBY UNION Digest

OUT TO TACKLE A WHOLE NEW WORLD BASEBALL

Fledgling pro league bullish about chances of gaining mainstream status in North America
HOUSTON — A rugby revo-
lution is taking place in the
United States where it is
hoped the launch of a new pro-
fessional league will unlock
the potential of the game in
the world’s biggest sports mar-
ket, former Ireland interna-
tional Justin Fitzpatrick said.
Fitzpatrick is coach of the
Houston SaberCats, one of
seven sides competing in the
inaugural season of Major
League Rugby (MLR) that
kicked off last month, the lat-
est bid by rugby union to gain
traction in North America.
“The potential in this mar-
ket is huge and rugby has
been the fastest growing
sport in the US in the past five
years,” Fitzpatrick said.
“Major League Rugby is the
logical step in unlocking that
potential and already we are
seeing a tremendous
response to the competition.
“I firmly believe that in 15
or 20 years, Major League
Rugby could rival Super Rug-
by and the top European lea-
gues. That is the potential
that exists here from both a
playing and commercial
point of view.”
Prior to the start of the sea-
son, MLR signed television
deals with ESPN and CBS
Sports Network, which
ensured that all 31 games will
be broadcast nationally.
“We are the first profession-
al sport to have a national
broadcasting deal right out of
the gate. That is huge,” Fitz-
patrick said.
“When you combine the ele-
ments that our game has visu-
ally — it is a fast-paced and
collision-based sport, but also
has the elements of respect —
it is an easy sell to America.
“Once Americans are
exposed to it, as they have
been in growing numbers,
they fall in love with the
sport.”
The league currently has
teams from Austin, Houston,
Glendale (Colorado), New
Orleans, San Diego, Seattle
and Salt Lake City, with a New
York side to start competing
next season.
SOCCER
A forward rises to collect a lineout throw during a Major League Rugby match between the Houston SaberCats and Austin Elite at Dyer Stadium in Houston, Texas, on
April 28. The new professional circuit has already signed television deals and has high hopes of rapid expansion in the US. REUTERS
“To have an American com-
petition that brings that inter-
city rivalry and allows rugby
to be accessible to more local
markets is going to really help
grow the game,” Fitzpatrick
said.
“In an American sporting
context, that’s how it works —
Seattle playing Houston,
Chicago playing Atlanta. You
have to have that intercity
rivalry.
“If we can get 10 to 12 teams
in the next few years, which is
looking very promising, we
will be in a strong position.”
With teams restricted to
five foreign imports, MLR is
hoping to draw players pri-
marily from two areas — both
largely untapped to this
point.
“How many incredible ath-
letes fall just short of making
it to the major sports in Amer-
ica? Be it American football or
basketball, only a very small
percentage go on to play pro-
fessionally,” said Fitzpatrick.
“But what happens to the
rest? Most just give up, but we
want to be able to give those
tremendous athletes an
opportunity to play a profes-
“I firmly believe sional sport. We have already
had players cross over with
that in 15 or some success.
“Most have never played
20 years, Major rugby before, so it is a process
to teach them the sport, but
League Rugby they come with such incredi-
ble athletic ability that it is
could rival very exciting.”
Super Rugby School spurt
and the Fitzpatrick acknowledges
that for rugby to truly succeed
top European in the US, it needs players
engaged from an early age,
leagues.” not only to play the game, but
also to become supporters of
Justin Fitzpatrick, former the sport.
Ireland international “Over the last five years a
lot of that has happened at
youth and high-school level.
Even 10 years ago, most play-
ers came into the sport at the
college level,” he said.
“That is starting to change
and in terms of demographic,
youth and schools rugby is
much bigger than club rugby
in Houston.
“We understand that we
need to expose kids to rugby
at earlier ages and give them
avenues to play and compete.
We have been partnering with
high schools and colleges to
help grow their efforts and
now we can offer them a pro-
fessional team as an outlet.”
The SaberCats are also hop-
ing to break ground on their
own stadium in Houston this
month.
“To be building what will be
the number one purpose-
built rugby stadium in the US
is very exciting,” he said.
“It speaks volumes about
how far the game has grown
that people, whether it be in
the corporate world, govern-
ment or the local community,
are so excited about rugby.
“I toured here with Ireland
in 2000 and we played in New
Hampshire in front of 2,000
or 3,000 people. Fifteen years
later I was sitting in a box at
Soldier Field in Chicago, one
of the most iconic venues in
sport, with 65,000 people
there to watch the USA play
New Zealand.
“Look on cable TV and see
how accessible rugby is, when
it wasn’t probably even on at
all 10 years ago.
“Whether it is Super Rugby,
the (English) Premiership,
Championship Rugby or the
Six Nations, it is there to be
watched.”
REUTERS
Gardner plants
Yankees in first
Brett Gardner hit a go-ahead
two-run triple and Aaron
Judge followed with a mam-
moth two-run homer with one
out in the bottom of the eighth
inning off Craig Kimbrel as the
host New York Yankees pulled
out a 9-6 victory over the Bos-
ton Red Sox to take over first
place in the AL East on
Wednesday night.
Gardner began the night
with a .198 average but capped
his first three-hit game of the
season by blasting Kimbrel’s
96 mph fastball over center
fielder Mookie Betts’ head to
give the Yankees a 7-6 lead.
After Gardner’s hit scored
Neil Walker and Gleyber Tor-
res, Judge followed with his
ninth homer of the season — a
420-foot shot into the right-
field bleachers.
TENNIS
Serena might not
be ready for Paris
Former world No 1 Serena
Williams has withdrawn from
next week’s Italian Open, the
organizers said on Wednesday,
casting doubt on her participa-
tion in the French Open later
this month.
The 36-year-old, who has
triumphed in Italy on four pre-
vious occasions, returned to
action in March after the birth
of her daughter in September,
but is yet to regain full fitness.
The 23-time Grand Slam
champion made her comeback
at Indian Wells in March and
has not played since her open-
ing-round loss to Japan’s Nao-
mi Osaka at the Miami Open.
GOLF
Tiger confirmed
for Carnoustie
Three-time British Open
champion Tiger Woods will
make his 20th appearance in
the tournament this year, but
first since 2015, tournament
organizers announced on
Wednesday.
The 42-year-old American —
a 14- time major winner —
returned to competitive golf
this season after missing most
of the past two years through
injury and finished tied for
32nd at last month’s Masters.
“Tiger Woods plans to tee it
up at Carnoustie for the 147th
Open after confirming his entry
into golf’s original champion-

Pochettino praises Spurs resolve in ‘38 away games’

LONDON — Tottenham
Hotspur’s success in claiming
a top-four Premier League
finish on Wednesday to guar-
antee Champions League soc-
cer next season is a “massive
achievement”, according to
manager Mauricio Pochet-
tino.
Spurs will have played “38
away games” by the end of the
campaign, the Argentine said
after a 1-0 win over Newcastle
United at their temporary
Wembley Stadium home,
which has been used while a
new White Hart Lane ground
is built.
“It was a real quality season
for the group to achieve the
top four — a massive achieve-
ment,” Pochettino said after
England striker Harry Kane’s
second-half goal secured the
three points that took Spurs
up to third place, ahead of
fourth-place Liverpool and
fifth-place Chelsea.
The win also means Totten-
ham, which has again missed
out on a trophy, will finish the
season as the top London club
Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Results of the Major League Baseball
games on Wednesday:
Cleveland 6, Milwaukee 2
Texas 5, Detroit 4, 10 innings
Pittsburgh 6, Chicago White Sox 5
L.A. Angels 8, Colorado 0
Houston 4, Oakland 1
Baltimore 5, Kansas City 3
N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 6
Toronto 5, Seattle 2
Atlanta 5, Tampa Bay 2
SOCCER
AFC Champions League
Last 16 round first leg results on
Wednesday (home teams first):
Kashima Antlers bt Shanghai SIPG FC 3-1
Ulsan Hyundai bt Suwon Samsung
Bluewings 1-0
for the first time since the
1994-95 campaign, a statistic
Pochettino was happy to
highlight at the post-match
media conference.
Critics will argue that win-
ning silverware is what the
game is all about, but Totten-
ham is making progress
under Pochettino and finish-
ing above Chelsea and Arse-
nal is no mean feat given
Spurs’ tight salary structure.
Next season Spurs will
again cross swords with the
elite of European soccer, hav-
ing been unfortunate to exit
the Champions League in the
last 16 to Juventus following a
highly encouraging group
campaign during which they
beat Real Madrid at Wembley
and pipped the Spanish giant
to top spot.
The importance of the
Champions League and the
money it brings cannot be
overstated, given the rising
cost of their 62,000-seat sta-
dium which could reported-
ly rise to as much as $1.35
billion.
English Premier League
Results on Wednesday:
Chelsea 1 (Alonso 62) Huddersfield 1
(Depoitre 50)
Leicester 3 (Iheanacho 14, Vardy 76-pen,
Mahrez 90) Arsenal 1 (Aubameyang 53)
Manchester City 3 (Danilo 16, B. Silva 34,
Fernandinho 72) Brighton 1 (Ulloa 20)
Tottenham 1 (Kane 50) Newcastle 0
Played Tuesday
Swansea 0 Southampton 1 (Gabbiadini
72)
Italian Cup
Results on Wednesday:
Juventus 4 (Benatia 56, 64, Costa 61,
Kalinic 76-og) AC Milan 0
Spanish La Liga
Results on Wednesday:
Barcelona 5 (Coutinho 11, Paulinho 16,
ship,” read the statement from
the organizers. “The confirma-
tion of the entry from one of
the greatest golfers ever to
grace the sport will delight fans
around the world.”
stadium and play in the
Champions League,” said SOCCER
Pochettino, who has yet to Sir Alex out of
win a trophy in his four years
at Tottenham.
intensive care
“It will be another massive Former Manchester United
challenge (at the new stadi- manager Alex Ferguson is out
um) — the same as playing at of intensive care after under-
Wembley. But this group of going emergency surgery for a
players now have the experi- brain haemorrhage, the Pre-
ence to make the new stadi- mier League club said on
um feel like home. Wednesday.
“Thirty eight games away Ferguson, who retired in
for home. Maybe people 2013 as United’s most success-
didn’t realize it was so tough ful manager, had surgery last
for the players and for the Saturday.
staff and for the fans to move “Sir Alex no longer needs
from White Hart Lane to intensive care and will contin-
Wembley. ue rehabilitation as an in-
“To achieve the top four in patient,” United said in a state-
that condition, despite many ment on Twitter.
things that happened during “His family is overwhelmed
the season ... if you’re not by the level of support and
strong — mentally and physi- good wishes, but continues to
Tottenham's Harry Kane celebrates scoring the lone goal in Wednesday’s 1-0 victory over Newcas- cally — and you don’t show request privacy as this will be
tle United at Wembley Stadium in London. ANDREW COULDRIDGE / ACTION IMAGES / REUTERS passion, it’s difficult to vital during this next stage of
achieve what we have recovery.”
achieved today.
Financing the stadium and tricky balancing act — Spurs’ has struggled in that regard. “It’s truly remarkable.” City rewrites
developing a team that can north London rival Arsenal is “For the club it’s a massive EPL record book
compete for major honors is a a prime example of a club that thing to move into the new REUTERS
Manchester City smashed
Premier League records for
points earned, goals scored and
number of wins with Wednes-
day’s 3-1 victory at home to
Messi 45, Dembele 87, 90+3) Villarreal 1 Levante 9 13 13 34 50 40 (McMillan 65-pen, Wotherspoon 80) Kyle Edmund (GBR) bt Novak Djokovic Brighton & Hove Albion.
(Sansone 54) Deportivo La Partick Thistle 0 Motherwell 1 (Bowman (SRB x10) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; John Isner (USA
Sevilla 3 (Ben Yedder 26, Layun 45, Coruna 36
6 11 19 35 70 29
60) x7) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 City’s triumph took it to 97
Ramos 84-og) Real Madrid 2 (Mayoral Las Palmas 5 7 24 23 71 22 Ross County 0 Dundee 1 (Murray 51) (9/7); Pablo Cuevas (URU) bt Albert points with one game remain-
87, Ramos 90+5-pen) Malaga 5 5 26 23 56 20 Ramos Vinolas (ESP) 6-1, 6-7 (2/7), 6-2;
Standings: TENNIS Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Fernando Ver- ing, at Southampton, eclipsing
-- Top four teams qualify for 2018-19
Barcelona
W D L Gf Ga Pts
27 9 0 94 24 90 Champions League
dasco (ESP) 6-2, 6-1 Chelsea’s previous mark of 95
Madrid Open
Atletico Madrid 22 9 5 55 20 75 -- Teams in fifth, sixth and seventh qual- Results on Wednesday (x denotes seed- Women’s 3rd rd points set in 2004-05. City has
Real Madrid 21 9 5 84 39 72 ify for 2018-19 Europa League
Valencia 20 7 9 62 37 67 -- Bottom three teams relegated to sec-
ing):
Men’s 2nd rd
Simona Halep (ROM x1) bt Kristyna Plis- scored 105 goals and won 31
kova (CZE) 6-1, 6-4; Karola Pliskova (CZE
Real Betis 18 5 13 56 56 59 ond-tier Segunda Division Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Gael Monfils x6) bt Sloane Stephens (USA x9) 6-2, 6-3; matches so far.
Villarreal 17 6 13 51 46 57
Getafe 14 10 12 41 32 52
(FRA) 6-3, 6-1; Diego Schwartzman (ARG Darya Kasatkina (RUS x14) bt Garbi City’s Danilo and Bernardo
Scottish Premiership x13) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 7-5, 2-6, 6-2; Muguruza (ESP x3) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Petra
Sevilla 15 6 14 43 54 51
Results on Wednesday: Borna Coric (CRO) bt Jan-Lennard Struff Kvitova (CZE x10) bt Anett Kontaveit
Silva netted either side of a
Girona 13 9 14 48 57 48
Eibar 13 8 15 41 48 47 Celtic 0 Kilmarnock 0 (GER) 6-0, 6-2; Dominic Thiem (AUT x5) (EST) 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-3; Caroline Garcia Leonardo Ulloa effort for
bt Federico Del Bonis (ARG) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5;
Real Sociedad 13 7 16 63 56 46 Hearts 2 (Lafferty 26, Naismith 57) Hiber-
Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) bt Roberto
(FRA x7) bt Julia Goerges (GER x11) 6-2, Brighton in the first half and
Celta Vigo 12 10 14 55 52 46 nian 1 (Kamberi 48-pen) 6-4; Carla Suez (ESP) bt Bernarda Pera
Alaves 14 2 20 37 48 44 Played Tuesday Bautista Agut (ESP x11) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Kev- (USA) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Maria Sharapova Fernandinho scored the host’s
Athletic Bilbao 10 13 13 40 45 43 Aberdeen 1 (McLean 14-pen) Rangers 1 in Anderson (RSA x6) bt Mikhail Kukush- (RUS) bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-3, third after the interval.
Espanyol 10 13 13 31 41 43 (McCrorie 63) kin (KAZ) 5-7, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2; David Goffin 6-4; Kiki Bertens (NED) bt Caroline Woz-
Leganes 11 7 17 29 43 40 Hamilton 1 (Imrie 82) St Johnstone 2 (BEL x8) bt Robin Haase (NED) 7-5, 6-3; niacki (DEN x2) 6-2, 6-2 AGENCIES
24 Advertorial
Capital bolsters business-friendly environment
Streamlined processes for registrations,
licenses to improve service efficiency
By HAO NAN
haonan@chinadaily.com.cn
Government departments
in Beijing have launched a
series of innovative measures
to improve the capital’s busi-
ness environment.
One such way that the city is
fostering growth is by cutting
red tape in the retail sector.
Beijing’s industry and com-
merce administration, and
the commission of commerce
have implemented a new busi-
ness registration policy mak-
ing it easier for operators of
convenience store to open new
branches. A total of 17 chain
store brands, including Hao-
linju Supermarket, OurHours,
Wumart and 7-Eleven, are cov-
ered by the initiative.
In a bid to increase efficiency
and reduce costs, the policy
enables the chain store opera-
tors to open new branches
without having to apply for a
new business license each time.
Instead, operators of chain
convenience stores need only
assign a business license to one
of their branches in each dis-
trict, with all other branches
in the district operating under
that license.
The policy applies to all new
stores as long as they have val-
id supporting documents and
operate in line with current
laws and regulations, accord-
ing to the city government.
On April 16, a new branch
of Bianlifeng, a 24-hour chain
convenience store, in Guangcai
Road, Fengtai district became
the first store to benefit from
the policy.
Streamlined business regis-
tration is just the tip of the ice-
berg in terms of the efforts the
city government is making to
optimize the business-friendly
environment, according to offi-
cials.
The industry and com-
merce administration has also
recently adopted an online
system for business registra-
tion and data sharing.
To start a new business,
applicants can use the new
system to submit all applica-
tion materials for registration
processes, with the uploaded
information shared among
various departments such as
the tax administration and the
public security bureau, freeing
the applicants from having to
visit different websites of gov-
ernment agencies.
Applicants can also apply for
official seals and invoices via
the platform at the same time.
Since the e-platform went
online in April, the city has
handled a total of 12,600 busi-
ness registration applications
with 9,533 of them filed via the
platform, accounting for nearly
80 percent of the total.
Another way in which the
industry and commerce admin-
istration has sought to improve
efficiency is to open its elec-
tronic database of corporate
names to the public. It allows
companies in the fields of sci-
ence and technology, culture,
business services and sports to
more easily choose and register
corporate names online.
Beijing has also established
dedicated business startup
service halls in each district to
provide all business registration
services under one roof. All gov-
ernment agencies of industry
and commerce are represented
in the halls to process applica-
tions and to offer guidance.
Applicants need only to visit
a single service window to sub-
mit all the required documents
for opening a business. The
city now has 122 such service
windows, with more than 200
related officials working there.
As a result of the new system,
Clockwise from left: An official at the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce offers consultancy services to a business representative. Staff members at the
Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce 12315 hotline service center deal with consumer complaints and log suspected infringements. As a growing number of
companies use the online administrative service system launched by the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, the administration’s office buildings are less
crowded than before. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Efforts increased to crack down on counterfeits
As the watchdog of the
local market, the Beijing
Administration for Industry
and Commerce has launched
a series of special operations
to maintain market order.
With the 2018 FIFA World
Cup Russia approaching,
enforcement officials are
paying special attention to
sports businesses to prevent
and curb infringements.
BAIC’s Dongcheng district
branch has recently checked
sports businesses across
its jurisdiction, both online
and offline, and enhanced its
supervision over the use of
logo, trademarks and graphics
related to the soccer gala.
During one check,
enforcement officials found an
online travel agency offering
sports tickets highlighting
terms such as “World Cup”
Enforcement officials
check a shop in Beijing to
make sure no counterfeit
goods are on shelves in early
February.
CHEN XIAOGEN / FOR CHINA DAILY
and “Russia 2018” on its
websites, which indicate the
2018 FIFA event.
The expressions may
infringe on trademarks owned
by FIFA, the international
soccer governing body, said
the enforcement officials at
the Dongcheng branch. The
travel agency is now under
investigation.
The officials said they will
strike a blow for intellectual
property protection and
increase cross-regional, multi-
department cooperation.
Well-known trademarks
have long been a key group
under supervision on the
agenda of BAIC. Its Xicheng
district branch has initiated
four special operations
targeted at Apple-branded
copycats, after receiving
information from consumers.
The enforcement officials
raided 12 Apple stores across
the district and seized 156
accessories carrying the
Apple logo. The seizure worth
more than 200,000 yuan
($31,407) included batteries,
smartphone and tablet covers,
headsets, USB cables and
power adapters.
YUAN SHENGGAO
The Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce has reduced the business registration
period to five working days. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Beijing market watchdog
rolls out new initiative series
By YUAN SHENGGAO
The Beijing Administration
for Industry and Commerce
has launched new initiatives
to help create a business-
friendly environment.
The efforts are being rolled
out at an administrative cen-
ter that integrates market
supervision and taxation ser-
vices.
The center was unveiled
in Beijing’s Daxing district in
June 2017. Since its inaugu-
ration, the center has intro-
duced a series of new policies.
They include the abil-
ity to make appointments
on WeChat, a social media
platform, delivery of certifi-
cates and other documents by
mail, and expanded services
online.
Also, a staff member of the
center will be dedicated to
following the entire business
registration process for each
applicant.
The center’s officials said
Friday, May 11, 2018 C HI NA DA I LY
applicants are able to receive a
business license in just one to
three working days, down from
the eight working days it took
previously. In total, administra-
tive procedures for starting a
new business have been short-
ened to five working days from
24 working days previously.
Gao Huijun, a legal repre-
sentative for an eco-technology
company in Fengtai district,
experienced the new service
after it was launched to the
public on March 26, and fin-
ished all the required adminis-
trative procedures in three days.
“It’s amazing really, I thought
it would take a month to get the
business license, official seals
and invoices,” Gao said.
Li Yin, general manager of
China Aviation Emergency
Rescue Alliance Technol-
ogy Co, said the streamlined
administration approval proce-
dures have helped his company
retrieve a potential economic
loss of hundreds of thousands
of yuan.
“We had canceled the regis-
80
percent
of new businesses in Beijing
opt for online administrative
services
the facility includes a service
section tailor-made for new
businesses, which has reduced
the approval period of new
business registration to five
working days.
The streamlined approval
process has been applied to
the entire city.
Sun Jialin, head of the busi-
ness registration department
at BAIC’s Daxing branch, told
Beijing Morning Post that his
team has begun to offer online
services to founders of limited
companies.
Those services include fil-
ing applications, submitting
required documents, confirm-
tration of our company because
we planned to change the regis-
tration address, but a client was
adamant in requesting receipts
before we had time to finish
registering the new company,”
Li said. “If we failed to provide
the receipts on time, the bill
would have turned into a bad
debt.”
After being informed of the
company’s dilemma, industry
and commerce administrative
officials in the Yizhuang devel-
opment area, where the com-
pany is now located, offered to
help Li file an online registra-
tion application. As a result of
the speedy process, Li obtained
the new business license, offi-
cial seals and invoices four days
later.
Beijing is also currently offer-
ing official seals for startup
companies free of charge to
further incentivize those wish-
ing to go into business. In 2017,
about 194,000 startups were
founded in the city, saving relat-
ed costs of nearly 60 million
yuan ($9.41 million).
ing shareholders’ electronic
signatures and generating
electronic business licenses.
An applicant only needs half
a day to secure an electronic
business license after his or her
application, Sun added.
The Daxing branch has
issued nearly 600 electronic
business licenses in the first
quarter of this year, doubling
the number issued last year,
according to Sun.
At an administrative service
center of BAIC’s Chaoyang dis-
trict branch, a one-stop ser-
vice window designed for new
business registration, began to
accept filings in late March.
Applicants can file for busi-
ness registration online, cor-
porate seals funded by the Bei-
jing government, and taxation
invoices.
More than 80 percent of
new businesses opt for the
online administrative services,
said Deng Huimin, chief of the
business registration depart-
ment at BAIC.