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WEDNESDAY, September 16, 2020


RIGHT TRACK
Data points to stronger recovery
Continued rebound prompts economists
to raise forecast on China’s GDP growth
By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s economy continued its
strong recovery in August from the
damage caused by the COVID-19
pandemic as key economic data
pointed to a stabilizing growth
trend and a steady rebound of
domestic demand, the National
Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
The stronger-than-expected recov-
ery has prompted some economists
to raise their forecast on China’s
growth for the rest of the year, and
experts said that the country’s robust
recovery will be a crucial stabilizer for
the global economy.
Industrial output in China
expanded by 5.6 percent year-on-
year in August, exceeding the
growth rate in the previous month
A Long March 11-HY2 carrier rocket blasts off from the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, sending nine satellites into orbit. It was China’s first sea-based
commercial launch. CAI YANG / XINHUA
Long March rocket sends 9 satellites into orbit from sea
By ZHAO LEI on board
Zhonghua Fuxing in Yellow Sea
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
China launched nine satellites on
Tuesday with a Long March 11 solid-
propellant carrier rocket that blasted
off from a ship in the Yellow Sea,
achieving the country’s first com-
mercial launch at sea.
The Long March 11-HY2 — the
10th in the Long March 11 family —
roared to life at 9:23 am from the
Debo 3, a self-propelled deck barge
that was modified for the mission,
and soon thrust into the sky.
After flying about 13 minutes, the
rocket deployed nine Jilin 1 high-
resolution Earth-observation satel-
lites — three to take video footage
QINGHAI RANGERS RISE TO MEET CHALLENGES
Nomads experience changes in role they play
By SHEN WENDI
in Madoi county, Qinghai
shenwendi@chinadaily.com.cn
W
hen Tashi, a 49-year-
old park ranger, rose
at 6:30 am, his wife
was busy preparing a
breakfast of milk tea and tsampa, a
pastry made from highland barley.
Even though the rising sun’s rays
shone through the window, the Sep-
tember morning air on the Tibetan
Plateau was cool.
modern twist for viewers YOUTH, PAGE 18
by 0.8 percentage point. Retail sales
returned to growth for the first
time this year, rising 0.5 percent
year-on-year in August, according
to the NBS.
Fixed-asset investment, including
in the manufacturing, infrastructure
and property sectors, grew 4.18 per-
cent in August from the previous
month. From January to August,
fixed-asset investment declined 0.3
percent year-on-year, narrowing
from the 1.6 percent decrease in the
first seven months.
NBS spokesman Fu Linghui said
that the rebound of domestic
demand, the acceleration of invest-
ment growth and the recovery of
consumption are playing a stronger
role in driving the country’s overall
economic activities.
“If such momentum continues in
and six to take photos — into a sun-
synchronous orbit 535 kilometers
above the ground.
Developed by Changguang Satel-
lite Technology in Changchun, Jilin
province, these satellites, each
weighing about 42 kilograms, are
tasked with providing remote-
sensing products to users in indus-
tries such as agriculture, forestry,
land resources and environmental
protection.
The Debo 3 belongs to the Yantai
Salvage Bureau. It is 159.6 meters
long and 38.8 meters wide and has
a carrying capacity of 20,500 met-
ric tons. The ship is electrically
propelled with a top speed of 12
knots (22.2km/h).
The entire flight was controlled
Tashi is now in his fourth year
working as a ranger at Sanjiangyuan
National Park, in Qinghai province.
The venue is due to open later this
year and will become China’s first
national park.
Thirty minutes after double-
checking his baggage, which
Emerging tech
Growth of industrial
output (y-o-y)
Unit: percent
August
July
June
May 4.4
April 3.9
Source: National Bureau of Statistics
September, China will see faster
growth in the third quarter than in
the second quarter,” Fu said at a news
conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
The NBS spokesman warned that
the Chinese economy still faces exter-
nal uncertainties as the pandemic
has not been effectively controlled
globally and the government should
continue to step up policy support to
ensure stability in key areas including
employment, corporate operations
and people’s livelihoods.
Some economists have raised
and monitored by engineers on
board a support ship anchored
several kilometers from the Debo 3.
Spectators, including reporters
and invited guests, were on board
a nearby passenger liner.
The Long March 11’s first launch
from a ship took place in the Yellow
Sea in June 2019 and put seven sat-
ellites into orbit. It was China’s first
space mission launched at sea.
That mission was more experi-
mental than commercial as its
major task was to test and verify sea-
borne launch technologies and
equipment rather than serve a com-
mercial purpose, said Jin Xin, the
rocket’s deputy project manager.
Therefore, Tuesday’s launch
should be seen as the rocket’s, and
X
included a tent, oven, different-
sized sacks to collect litter, some
fast food and a bag packed full of
tsampa, Tashi went to meet his 14
teammates.
Each team member needs to carry
enough food to survive for at least
two nights at an altitude of 4,700
meters above sea level.
The team comprises 15 men and
women from the Tibetan ethnic
group, whose ages range from 18
to 55. Years of nomadic life have
left them with dark complexions,
set to reshape
BUSINESS, PAGE 13
their forecasts for China’s GDP
growth for the rest of year after the
August data pointed to robust eco-
5.6 nomic activities in the country.
“Strong external demand, a fur-
4.8
ther recovery from the pandemic
4.8 and pent-up demand from the floods
all contributed to the robust activity
data in August,” Lu Ting, chief China
CHINA DAILY economist at Nomura Securities,
said in a research note.
“The stronger-than-expected data
in August support our recent decision
to raise our Q3 and Q4 growth fore-
casts to 5.2 percent year-on-year and
5.7 percent, respectively. We expect a
further, albeit gradual, recovery of the
services sector, a steady improvement
in retail sales and elevated fixed-asset
investment growth,” Lu said.
See Rebound, page 4
Inside
Editorial, page 8
China’s, first sea-based commercial
flight operation, he noted.
In addition to its commercial
purpose, the mission also helped to
optimize seaborne launch proce-
dures and improve the safety and
reliability of those operations, pav-
ing the way for future sea-based
launches that will be conducted
frequently, Jin said.
Peng Kunya, the rocket’s chief
designer, said the sea area used in
Tuesday’s launch can be utilized in
future missions, adding that the
advantages of a sea-based launch —
higher mission efficiency, flexibility
and safety — will attract more clients
to this method.
See Rocket, page 4
in good physical shape and also
given them the courage and expe-
rience to survive in challenging
terrain.
For the next two days, Tashi and
his colleagues crossed woodlands,
wetlands and grasslands before
entering the Sanjiangyuan area, also
known as the Source of Three Rivers
— the Yellow, Yangtze and Lancang.
Outside China, the Lancang is
known as the Mekong.
See Duties, page 2
Trump visits California after
criticism on his response to fire
WORLD, PAGE 11
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Xi to take part in events
for UN’s 75th anniversary
By CAO DESHENG have been implemented, the
caodesheng@chinadaily.com.cn Foreign Ministry said.
Su Xiaohui, a researcher of inter-
President Xi Jinping will partici- national strategy at the China
pate in a series of high-level meet- Institute of International Studies,
ings for the 75th anniversary of the said that given the rise in unilater-
founding of the United Nations via alism and protectionism, China
video link and deliver speeches, firmly supports multilateralism
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman and the UN playing a bigger role in
Hua Chunying said on Tuesday. international affairs.
The announcement was made The Foreign Ministry released a
on the day the 75th Session of the position paper on the 75th anniver-
UN General Assembly opened. It sary of the United Nations on
will include a series of high-level Thursday, saying that China, as a
meetings, such as one commemo- founding member of the UN, the
rating the 75th anniversary of the first country to sign the UN Charter
UN, and the general debate. and a permanent member of the
Details of Xi’s agenda for partici- Security Council, embraces the
pating in the high-level meetings lofty ideals of the UN by contribut-
are still unknown, but observers ing with concrete actions to
said China would use the virtual humanity’s cause of peace and
meetings to express support for development and promoting a
multilateralism and the interna- community with a shared future
tional system with the UN at its for mankind.
center, set out its position on the The 75th anniversary of the UN
reform of global governance, and is a time to reflect on the reasons
call for international cooperation for its creation and its goals, and
to fight against COVID-19 and off- on the recent trend of the growth
set the impact of the pandemic on in populism and nationalism, Rob-
the global economy. ert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of
In 2015, Xi attended the high- the Kuhn Foundation of the Unit-
level meetings for the UN’s 70th ed States, was quoted by Xinhua
anniversary in New York, and News Agency as saying.
announced a host of initiatives “There are always differences
and measures to support the UN among nations. The high road is
during a speech at the general figuring out how to develop collec-
debate of the 70th session of the tive opportunities while control-
UN General Assembly. All of ling potential conflict by constant
these initiatives and measures contact,” he said.
Li: Nation can meet 2020
targets with major effort
By XU WEI retail sector also recorded its best
xuwei@chinadaily.com.cn performance so far this year.
It was no easy task for China, as a
China can attain positive eco- developing country with 1.4 billion
nomic growth in 2020 and reach its people, to contain the COVID-19
targets for the year, but will only pandemic within a short time peri-
manage to do so after making ardu- od and ensure the living standards
ous efforts to overcome risks and of its people, Li said, adding that
challenges, Premier Li Keqiang the Chinese people have made
said on Tuesday. strenuous efforts and sacrifices
Speaking during a special virtual during the process.
dialogue with global business lead- With small and medium-sized
ers organized by the World Eco- enterprises, micro businesses and
nomic Forum, Li said the Chinese the self-employed hit hardest by
economy has maintained a the pandemic, the government has
momentum of stable recovery, adopted aid packages for these
with 7 million jobs already created
in urban areas this year.
He said that China can reach
market players, he said.
China has over 30 million SMEs
and micro business as well as 87
its preset targets for this year if million people who are self-em-
there are no major setbacks in ployed, and they account for over
the situation. 80 percent of urban employment.
Li’s statement was supported by The country is expected to slash
data released on Tuesday by the corporate taxes and fees by 2.5
National Bureau of Statistics, which trillion yuan ($368.7 billion) this
showed that key indicators such as year, he added.
industry, retail and investment
improved markedly in August. The See Forum, page 4
Innovation center opens
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic (right) and Li Mengqun, presi-
dent of Huawei Technologies Co for the Western Balkans, open a
Huawei innovation and development center in Belgrade, Serbia, on
Monday. Brnabic said the center will help Serbia boost innovation
and creativity in its economy. XINHUA See story, page 11
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A bird’s-eye view of Sanjiangyuan National Park, Qinghai province. The venue is due to open later this year and officially become China’s first national park.
Duties: Barren village land transformed
From page 1
The rangers’ work includes preventing
grazing in prohibited areas and other
activities that are banned. They also
record traces of wildlife, monitor chang-
ing conditions in lakes and wetlands,
protect animals and clear up litter.
The team, which uses an app to report
and record its work, is taking part in the
“ecological ranger” program, launched
by the authorities in Qinghai in 2012 to
introduce indigenous people to ecologi-
cal management and enable them to
earn more. Tashi’s monthly salary is
1,800 yuan ($257).
Known as the “Water Bank” of China,
an average of 60 billion cubic meters of
clean water is pumped downstream from
the Sanjiangyuan area each year, supply-
ing more than 1 billion people in Asia.
The changeable weather and high alti-
tude are distinctive characteristics of the
plateau.
For hundreds of years, raising animals
was the primary source of income for
people living in the river sources area.
However, overgrazing of cattle, climate
change and mining activities accelerated
desertification in the area in the 1990s, in
turn reducing the herdsmen’s income.
Poverty and deteriorating environmental
conditions followed.
Tobdan, 68, head of Geduo village in
Dawu township, Madoi county, Golog
Tibetan autonomous prefecture, said:
“Four decades ago, the vast area of land
around this village was black, deserted
and barren. Rats ran wild. Livestock
starved.”
He is one of the pioneering locals who
fought desertification before the govern-
ment organized such work. For the past
16 years, Tobdan and other villagers, who
have devoted themselves to growing
grass on the land, have turned 101,980
hectares of barren terrain into lush
meadowland.
Sanjiangyuan National Nature
Reserve, founded in 2000, obtained
State-level status in 2003, after which
environmental improvement efforts
were made in the area. One of the key
projects involved relocating herdsmen
living on badly degraded land.
Sun Lijun, deputy director of
Sanjiangyuan National Park, said:
“Resettlement does not mean driving
them away from their homeland, to
which they are deeply attached. Rangers
Left: Rangers repair fencing in an area of Huanghe township, Qinghai, where grazing is forbidden. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Center: A ranger collects waste on a roadside in Madoi county, Qinghai. CHEN WEIBIN / FOR CHINA
DAILY Right: Rangers patrol at Sanjiangyuan National Park. ZHANG KE / FOR CHINA DAILY
XIAOKANG@GRASSROOTS
help protect their homeland while pre-
serving their traditions.”
There are 145,100 ecological rangers in
Qinghai, including 17,211 in the national
park area.
Each day after leaving their homes in
villages and towns in the province’s four
Tibetan autonomous prefectures, hun-
dreds of ranger teams patrol on horse-
back or on motorcycles.
Roaming bears
Dothar, 43, head of the ecological pro-
tection station in Huanghe township,
Madoi, said: “Not everyone has the abili-
ty to do this job. A ranger can protect a
place only when he knows it well.
“We (Tibetan herdsmen) know the
waters and mountains here like the
backs of our hands and we know how to
cope with the capricious weather. So, we
have an advantage.”
Rangers must be able to adapt to the
harsh environment. At such an altitude,
even locals experience headaches and
shortness of breath.
From January to last month, 879 ran-
gers from the seven villages in Huang-
he carried out 260 patrols in the area
they are responsible for, saving injured
wildlife more than 60 times and clear-
ing away more than 3 metric tons of
waste.
Tashi, the 49-year-old ranger, who is
from Jiangpang, one of the seven villa-
ges, said: “We never patrol alone, always
in groups. The weather here can sudden-
ly change. The roads are often destroyed
by heavy rain in summer, while in winter,
our vehicles are buried in waist-deep
snow. You can never be sure of being
home on time.”
Last winter, it took Tashi and 10 col-
leagues several hours to rescue a wild
horse trapped in snow, their clothes
becoming frozen during the attempt.
However, in summer, brown bears —
which even the most-experienced herds-
men fear — begin to roam the area.
Tashi said: “The bears can tear our
tents down with just a swing of their
paws. We are all afraid of them. As the
environment improves, we are now
seeing them more frequently, but the
animals are protected at national level,
so we need to be careful not to hurt
them.
“If you spot one, it’s best to just sneak
away, but they often just appear from
nowhere. If you find that one is
From top: A buteo chick on an
artificial nest is offered water
by a ranger; a black-necked
crane performs a courtship
dance. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA
DAILY
Yangtze River
Qinghai
Madoi
Yellow River
Lancang River
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approaching, you should shout out and
fling rocks to scare it away.
“I like my job, as it’s more stable and
interesting than merely herding, which
was our old lifestyle. In particular, it’s
meaningful because we are protecting
our homeland for coming generations.”
Nest-making team
Every April, when spring arrives on the
Tibetan Plateau, Dothar looks forward to
seeing his old friends — black-necked
cranes, which are under second-level
State protection.
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During the month, these beautiful
migratory birds return to Huanghe from
southern locations, nesting on mud
islands in a large area of shallow wetland,
breeding and hatching their eggs. They
remain in the area until October, when
their fledglings mature and the birds fly
south again.
However, over the past three years,
Dothar noticed the cranes’ nests were
destroyed when the frozen river thawed
in May. Rain fell and the birds’ eggs were
washed away.
Dothar thought long and hard about a
way to save the nests. After observing
them closely, along with the changing
water level, he found a solution through
trial and error.
On April 2, he and six colleagues began
making nests for the cranes. They used
steel bars and wiring to make a solid
foundation, overlaying it with grass,
twigs and some mud from the birds’ old
nests to attract them to their new homes.
Dothar, who made four nests with his
colleagues said, “It takes six or seven peo-
ple a whole day to make them.”
On April 10, about a dozen cranes
arrived. They flew cautiously onto and
away from the new nests, identified the
smell of the mud, and finally settled in. In
the following months, the four nests
withstood the rising water level.
The birds laid eight eggs and all the
fledglings hatched successfully.
Dothar could not be happier. “The
chicks are maturing. In less than a
month, the birds will fly south, but they
will return, as this place is one of their
homes,” he said.
“We were not ordered to make the
nests. We just reacted to what we saw and
did what we had to do.”
The cranes are not the only rare spe-
cies the rangers have tried to protect.
For example, they have also made
nests for buteos, large birds of prey com-
monly seen in pastureland whose diet
includes rats, which are responsible for
grassland degradation.
“Each species is an indispensable part
of the ecological chain. They deserve the
same treatment, and it’s our responsibili-
ty to protect them all. We are not just
doing it for us, but for the country and its
people,” Dothar said.
Positive results
Restoration of the Sanjiangyuan area
has produced positive results over the
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past decade, especially since 2016 when
the pilot project for the national park was
launched.
According to a report by the National
Development and Reform Commission
in 2018, the volume of water flowing
out of the province has increased annu-
ally by 6 percent and the area of grass-
land has expanded by 11 percent a year.
Since the national park project was
launched, the number of Tibetan ante-
lope in the area has risen from 20,000
to 70,000.
Sotrin, 43, from Doujiang village,
Huanghe, who has been a ranger for
four years, said: “I used to see our land
dying as a result of degradation. Four
to five years ago, one of the rangers’
main tasks was to clean garbage. We
didn’t even dare to drink spring water
then.
“Now, the rivers and lakes have
regained their purity. We don’t need to
take water on our patrols anymore, and
I’ve seen flowers growing that I’ve never
seen before.”
Sotrin said that every piece of waste he
has picked up and every small task he has
done have been worthwhile and made
him happy.
Sun, the park’s deputy director said:
“Their work as rangers has transformed
these nomads from being pure utilizers
of nature, to helping build and guard it.
What impresses me most is their enthu-
siasm, strong sense of responsibility and
pride.
“Such strength, coming from the grass-
roots, is the engine needed to build a leg-
acy like Sanjiangyuan, which will be with
us for a long time and will benefit every-
one.
“It is important to involve the indige-
nous people in ecological restoration and
environmental protection work at the
Source of Three Rivers. We will safely be
able to say that the greatest feature of
Sanjiangyuan National Park is its harmo-
nious co-existence with humans and
nature. Natural resources matter, but
people matter, too.”
Tashi, from Jiangpang village, has a
3-year-old daughter. Every time he
returns home from a patrol, she often
asks him to tell her stories about the ran-
gers. She used to ask him why he and oth-
ers risked so much to be rangers.
He replied: “Because the grassland is
our home, and animals are our roots. We
rely on each other.”
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TOP NEWS
US urged not
to obstruct
normal trade
Ministry calls using excuses invented
about Xinjiang ‘blatant hegemonic act’
By MO JINGXI
mojingxi@chinadaily.com.cn
China urged the United States
on Tuesday to stop disrupting nor-
mal economic and trade coopera-
tion between the two countries’
companies under the pretext of
issues related to the Xinjiang
Uygur autonomous region, saying
that it will take all necessary meas-
ures to protect its companies’ legit-
imate rights and interests.
The US Department of Home-
land Security announced on Mon-
day new restrictions on imports of
cotton, apparel, hair products and
technology goods from certain
Chinese companies, claiming that
those entities had used forced
labor in Xinjiang to make their
products.
“Using the so-called forced labor
issue as an excuse to put restric-
tions on related Chinese compa-
nies, the US side violates rules of
international trade and disrupts
global industrial, supply and value
chains,” Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Wang Wenbin said at a regu-
lar news briefing in Beijing. “It is a
blatant hegemonic act and China
firmly opposes it.”
Wang said the hypocritical faces
and sinister intentions of some
people in the US who hope to curb
Xinjiang’s development and
TikTok offer would keep
Chinese firm on board
By HE WEI in Shanghai
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
Technology company Oracle’s bid
to potentially become TikTok’s tech-
nology partner in the United States
indicates that there may be techni-
cal solutions available to address
US concerns instead of going to
great lengths to ditch Chinese own-
ership, according to experts.
The short video app has chosen
Oracle as a “trusted technology
partner” to operate in the US as a
way to avoid a ban, but the pro-
posed deal still requires regulatory
clearance from the government’s
Committee on Foreign Investment
in the United States.
The development of Oracle tak-
ing over stewardship of the popu-
lar short video app in the US came
just after TikTok parent Byte-
Dance turned down an offer from
Microsoft.
“We can confirm that we’ve sub-
mitted a proposal to the Treasury
Department which we believe
would resolve the administration’s
security concerns,” TikTok said in a
statement on Monday. “To do this,
we would have made significant
changes to ensure the service met
the highest standards for security,
privacy, online safety and combat-
ing disinformation, and we made
these principles clear in our
August statement.”
Oracle later confirmed it was
part of the proposal as a “trusted
technology provider”.
On the same day, US Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin con-
firmed receiving a bid proposal
from Oracle for TikTok’s opera-
tions over the weekend and said
that the Treasury-led Committee
on Foreign Investment in the US
would review it this week.
“We will be reviewing that at the
CFIUS committee this week and
then will be making a recommen-
dation to the president and
reviewing it with him,” Mnuchin
told CNBC in an interview.
The bid, should it be approved,
would move closer to a deal for the
app to head off a threat by the US
government to shut it down. The
US president’s executive order last
month gave US companies until
Sept 15 to stop doing business with
the video platform’s Chinese parent
progress and create ethnic divi-
sion were fully exposed.
He said that the so-called forced
labor issue is entirely fabricated by
some organizations and people in
the US and the West and seriously
conflicts with the facts.
The rights and interests of work-
ers from ethnic minorities in Xin-
jiang as part of China’s large
workforce are protected by law,
Wang said, adding that there is no
restriction whatsoever on their
personal freedom.
Their customs, religious beliefs
and spoken and written language
are all protected by law, he added.
“We urge the US side to respect
facts, lay down its prejudice and
stop playing political manipula-
tion,” Wang said.
At the briefing, the spokesman
also said that China has agreed
with the wishes of diplomatic
envoys from the European Union
and its member states to visit Xin-
jiang and is willing to make
arrangements, but investigations
based on the assumption of guilt
are opposed.
“We always welcome friends
from all countries, including those
of the EU side, to visit Xinjiang and
to see for themselves what is really
going on there instead of believing
in hearsay or even fabricated lies,”
Wang said.
or it would close it down in the US.
Details available at this stage
have dealt a heavy blow to the pre-
vious judgment of CFIUS on the
so-called security threat by Chi-
nese companies, said Shen Yi, pro-
fessor and director of the Research
Institution of Global Cyberspace
Governance at Fudan University in
Shanghai.
“It seems that the current
arrangement has nothing to do
with a ‘sale’, after months of insist-
ence by the US government that
TikTok sever its US operations
from Chinese ownership,” he said.
“The arrangement itself indicates
that instead of going to great
lengths to ditch Chinese owner-
ship, there are reasonable and
technical solutions available to
address US concerns.”
Export list a ‘lever’
While the nature of an Oracle-
TikTok partnership remains
unclear, chances are great for Ora-
cle to enter into a hosting deal and
act as a “trusted supplier in stor-
age”, Shen added, meaning Oracle
is less likely to take over significant
operations from the US TikTok
offices.
TikTok has denied allegations
that the company collects personal
data and poses a national security
threat to the US. The company has
said its data centers are located
entirely outside of China and that
none of that data is subject to Chi-
nese law.
A potentially critical turning
point is Beijing’s newly revised cat-
alog of technologies prohibited
and restricted from export as of
late August, which effectively
imposed new restrictions on algo-
rithm-backed services such as
those provided by ByteDance,
Shen said.
“The new rules have given Bei-
jing a precise lever to raise con-
cerns over technology transfer
deals that could jeopardize major
national interests, and therefore to
back companies in safeguarding
their lawful interests,” he said.
While the case is far from being
completed, given it hasn’t
obtained a green light from the
White House, Shen said the proc-
ess shows a company’s insistence
of its due rights is worth the effort.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 3
History comes alive
A staff member at Prince Gong’s Mansion in Beijing talks to visitors on Tuesday about the structure, built in the late 18th century during the
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). After being closed for 235 days due to the pandemic, the mansion reopened to the public on Tuesday. Strict epi-
demic control and prevention measures were enforced. Visitors have to make reservations and show their health code at the entrance.
JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY
Poll: Nation’s image steadily improves around world
By ZHAO XINYING exposing overall deficiencies in tutions to carry out surveys and global development contributor in
zhaoxinying@chinadaily.com.cn global governance, the COVID-19 make national image part of the the next five to 10 years, while 27
pandemic has also raised a question cooperation between think tanks percent said they expect China to
China’s national image in the for nations on how to build and inside and outside of China, he said. display its image as a country with a
international community has con- transmit their national images. The report said 31 percent of the rich history in the East and 25 per-
tinued to improve in recent years, China should be fully aware of its respondents said that China should cent hoped to see China rise as a
according to a report released in image, encourage professional insti- focus on building its image as a responsible major country.
Beijing on Tuesday.
China scored 6.3 in a 10-point sys-
tem concerning its overall image in
2019, 0.1 point higher than in 2018,
said a report released jointly by the
Academy of Contemporary China
and World Studies, a think tank
affiliated with China Foreign Lan-
guages Publishing Administration,
and Kantar Group, a consulting
company.
The report said respondents from
developing countries generally have
a better impression of China’s
image, rising from 5.8 points in 2013
to 7.2 points last year.
People aged 18 to 35 reported
viewing China more favorably (6.6
points) than two older age groups —
36 to 50 years old (6.3 points) and 51
to 65 years old (5.7 points).
The 2019 report was based on an
online survey conducted between
June and September 2019 among
11,000 residents in 22 countries,
including Japan, South Korea,
India, the United Kingdom,
France, Germany, the United
States, Canada, Brazil, Australia
and South Africa, said Yu Yunquan,
director of the academy. This is the
seventh time that the report has
been released.
The survey found that the respon-
dents paid great attention to China’s
participation in global governance,
particularly in three fields: science
and technology, economy and cul-
ture. It also found they expected
China to play a bigger role in the
first two fields in the future.
Sixty-eight percent of the people
polled believed that China has
strong abilities in innovation in sci-
ence and technology, with high-
speed trains being the country’s
best-known technological achieve-
ment, followed by supercomputers
(24 percent) and manned space
technology (23 percent).
The survey also found 56 per-
cent of the people polled said they
see China as “a major oriental
country with a rich history and full
of charm”, and almost half of the
respondents considered China “a
contributor to global develop-
ment”.
Cheng Manli, director of the
Research Institute of National
Strategy Communication at Peking
University, said although the survey
was conducted before the COVID-
19 outbreak, China’s role as a con-
tributor to global development has
been consistent and could be seen
during the pandemic.
Gao Anming, deputy head of the
China Foreign Languages Publish-
ing Administration, said that while
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CHINA
Air carriers
anticipating
holiday rush
Country to lift restrictions on limit of
weekly flights on 49 domestic routes
By WANG KEJU
wangkeju@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s air travel sector has recov-
ered significantly and is expected to
brace for a holiday travel rush as
National Day and the Mid-Autumn
Festival are around the corner, the
Civil Aviation Administration of
China said on Tuesday.
Zhang Qing, deputy director of
the administration’s development
planning department, told a news
conference that civil carriers han-
dled about 45.54 million passen-
ger trips last month, nearly three-
fourths of the figure reported in
August last year. In February, the
number was less than one-fifth of
that in February last year.
“The domestic air market, in
particular, has seen accelerated
recovery,” she said. “Over 45.35 mil-
lion domestic passenger trips were
made last month, recovering to
more than 80 percent of the level
during the same period last year.”
The figure, surpassing that in
January when the air travel mar-
ket had not yet been severely rav-
aged by the COVID-19 epidemic,
marked the highest monthly
domestic passenger transport vol-
ume this year, she added.
Zhang also noted that as COV-
ID-19 is continuing to spread glo-
bally, international passenger
flights are still at a low level, trans-
porting some 189,000 passengers
in August, or an average of 6,000
passengers a day — a year-on-year
decrease of 97.3 percent.
To help the virus-battered
industry speed up its recovery, the
administration has also rolled out
favorable policies for domestic air-
Passengers board a flight at Hami Airport in the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region last month. POLAT NIYAZ / FOR CHINA DAILY
Rebound: Retail sales regain
growth for first time this year
From page 1
The recovery of China’s domes-
tic consumption has beat expecta-
tions and has been a bright spot
as the country’s retail sales
returned to growth for the first
time this year. The country’s ser-
vices sector also continued to
recover as business activities in
the catering, hotel and entertain-
ment sectors substantially picked
up in August, the NBS said.
Wei Jianguo, vice-chairman of the
China Center for International Eco-
nomic Exchanges and former vice-
minister of commerce, said that
China has ample tools to spur
domestic consumption and more
supportive policies could be imple-
mented in areas including expand-
ing government procurement,
encouraging more imports by set-
ting up more duty-free stores and
widening market access to further
liberalize trade and investment.
“After the pandemic, China is
likely to be a key growth driver in
the global consumer market. And
the purchasing power of its vast
population will continue to be a
leading force driving China’s
growth,” Wei said.
According to German media
line services, the civil aviation reg-
ulator said.
Jin Junhao, deputy director of
the administration’s transportation
department, said the country will
lift restrictions on the limit of week-
ly flights on 49 domestic air routes,
giving carriers more flexibility to
operate passenger flights involving
airports in Beijing, Shanghai and
Guangzhou in Guangdong prov-
ince, among other busy airports.
The regulator also eased access
for airlines to operate regional
flights linking smaller airports with
major hubs in Beijing, Shanghai
and Guangzhou to help airlines tap
into potential markets, as well as
promote the recovery of small and
medium-sized airports, he said.
The civil aviation sector is cur-
rently gearing up for a surge in
domestic air trips as the country
looks to embrace its first long
vacation since the epidemic has
been mostly subdued.
The increasing travel demand is
also fueled by this year’s longer
holiday since the Mid-Autumn
Festival, which also falls on Oct 1
this year, will overlap with the
weeklong National Day holiday,
giving people an extended holiday
of eight days until Oct 8.
According to online travel agen-
cy Tongcheng-eLong, flight ticket
prices have seen a significant
increase ahead of the holiday, and
the average ticket price of return
trips is close to that of the same
period last year.
The administration will step up
efforts to ensure the safety and
on-time performance of the flights
during the holiday in a bid to guar-
antee smooth travel for passengers.
reports quoting data from the
Federal Statistical Office of Ger-
many, China surpassed the United
States to become the largest
importer of German goods in the
second quarter, purchasing nearly
23 billion euros ($27.3 billion) of
goods during the period.
China was the only G20 econo-
my to record economic growth in
the second quarter of this year
while most other G20 member
countries saw an “unprecedented”
contraction in their economies,
the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
said in a report on Monday.
Tang Jianwei, chief researcher at
the Financial Research Center of
the Bank of Communications, said
that production and demand are
recovering synchronously in China
and the country’s GDP growth is
likely to return to growth of around
5 to 6 percent in the third quarter.
Tang said that the steady eco-
nomic recovery has reduced the
likelihood of policymakers in Bei-
jing further engaging in monetary
easing to stimulate the economy
for the remainder of the year.
Zhou Lanxu contributed to
this story.
Lean greeting
Feng Jiachen (left), an actress who became an internet celebrity by playing a wobbly character who attracts visitors in Xi’an, Shaanxi
province, interacts with runners participating in an event in the city on Tuesday. The event marks the one-year countdown to the opening
of the 14th National Games of China, which will begin on Sept 15, 2021. WANG JIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Satellite to offer new experience for Bilibili users
By ZHAO LEI
aboard Zhonghua Fuxing in Yellow Sea
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
Among the nine satellites lifted by
the Long March 11 carrier rocket’s
sea-based mission on Tuesday, one
has drawn more attention than oth-
ers as it will strive to entertain users
of one of the most popular Chinese
websites.
The 42-kilogram Bilibili Video
Satellite is tasked with observing
Earth and other celestial bodies as
well as taking videos and pictures at
an altitude of 535 kilometers. The
results will be transmitted to Bilibili,
a Shanghai-based video-sharing
Rocket: Designers start to develop more powerful model
From page 1
The Long March 11, designed and
built by the China Academy of
Launch Vehicle Technology, is the
only solid-fuel rocket in the Long
March family, the pillar of China’s
space programs.
The model is 20.8 meters long,
China donates mapping
data to United Nations
By YANG WANLI
yangwanli@chinadaily.com.cn
China donated a new Global Land
Cover Dataset to the United Nations
for this year on Tuesday, providing
the world solid, science-based infor-
mation for making wise decisions
for sustainable development.
Covering a total land surface of
149 million square kilometers, this
year’s dataset is the world’s first
open-access map of the Earth’s
land cover with a high resolution
of 30 meters, according to the
Ministry of Natural Resources.
The datasets, which are released
every 10 years, are commonly
known as the GlobeLand30. This
year’s dataset comprises 10 types of
land cover, including forests, grass-
lands, glaciers and wetlands. A total
of 966 sub-datasets are included.
In 2014, China donated versions
of the GlobeLand30 to the UN for
the year 2000 and 2010, as a con-
tribution toward global sustaina-
ble development and combating
climate change.
So far, the two versions have
been used by more than 10 UN
branches, benefiting users from
130 countries worldwide, accord-
ing to the ministry.
Moreover, nearly 600 universi-
ties and 400 research organiza-
tions worldwide, including the
World Wide Fund for Nature and
the United States’ NASA, have
used datasets donated by China.
According to Wu Wenzhong,
website that boasts 172 million
active users in China, and will then
be used to create educational pro-
grams about science, technology,
nature and history, according to a
statement from the privately owned
company.
The satellite is the first video-tak-
ing spacecraft to be operated by a
Chinese internet enterprise for edu-
cational purposes, said Li Ni, the
company’s chief operating officer. In
the near future, Bilibili users, most
of whom are Chinese people aged 18
to 35, will be allowed to use the satel-
lite to take videos or pictures of pla-
ces designated by them, she said.
Designed and built by Chang
2 meters in diameter and has a
liftoff weight of 58 tons. It is capa-
ble of sending satellites into low-
Earth or sun-synchronous orbit,
according to the academy.
Its first flight was in September
2015 from Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center in northwestern
China’s Gobi Desert.
head of the ministry’s surveying and
mapping department, those data-
sets were mostly used for research
on climate change, biodiversity, sus-
tainable development, food security
and disaster prevention.
For the first time, the datasets for
this year provided a high-resolution
map of all of Antarctica, according
to Chen Jun, academician of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering.
“It is also the first time that high-
latitude regions of the Earth were
covered by a high-resolution map,”
said Chen, who explained that pre-
vious types of these maps only cov-
ered regions at latitudes between
85 degrees between the two poles.
Wu said China has helped to train
more than 300 professionals from
50 countries to use the datasets.
“The new version covered the
entire land area of the Earth. And its
accuracy has improved by 10 per-
cent compared to the previous ones,”
said Feng Guangxian, director of the
National Geomatic Center of China.
These datasets will be valuable for
monitoring environmental changes
and for resource management at
global, regional and local scales, said
Wang Qian, deputy head of the min-
istry’s international department.
“GlobeLand30 will promote sci-
entific data sharing in the fields of
Earth observation and geospatial
sciences. It will also contribute to the
evaluation of the UN’s sustainable
development goals, making scientif-
ic targets for our future efforts,” he
said.
Guang Satellite Technology, a lead-
ing maker of Earth-observation sat-
ellites in China, the satellite features
low operational cost and fuel con-
sumption and is capable of taking
color videos with a 1.2-meter resolu-
tion.
In addition to the educational
functions, it will also work with its
predecessors in the Jilin 1 network
to generate remote-sensing prod-
ucts for government and industry
users, Li said.
Tuesday’s launch was the compa-
ny’s second attempt to deploy its
first spacecraft. In July, it lost a satel-
lite during the failed debut flight of
the Kuaizhou 11 solid-propellant
The rocket has so far performed
10 launches — eight from launch
centers on land and two from ships
— that successfully placed 51 satel-
lites into orbit.
Designers have started to
develop an upgraded variant of
the Long March 11, which will be
more powerful than the existing
Beginning nimbly
Yoga instructors teach students via a video link at a university for
older adults in Xiangyang, Hubei province, on Monday, the first day
of the new semester. Thirty-eight teachers began holding online
classes for more than 7,000 students. YANG DONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Forum: Nation to move forward
in opening up sectors, Li says
From page 1
As it safeguards China’s smaller
firms and the self-employed, the gov-
ernment can stabilize the job market
and economic fundamentals and
secure the foundations of future
growth, said the premier.
Li highlighted the importance of
restoring international industry
and supply chains as early as possi-
ble to energize the global economy,
saying that joint efforts must be
made to promote trade facilitation
and investment liberalization.
With China already deeply inte-
grated into the world economy, the
nation will remain steadfast in
CHINA DAILY
rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center.
Over the past several years, small
satellites, especially those weighing
less than 100 kilograms, have
become increasingly popular among
Chinese internet companies interest-
ed in satellite-enabled capabilities.
Alibaba Group, the largest e-com-
merce service provider in the
nation, has bought and launched a
communication satellite to boost its
public relations and entertain users.
Robin Li, chairman and CEO of
search engine giant Baidu, has also
urged the government to help pri-
vate businesses enter the rocket and
satellite sectors.
model, project managers said.
The new type will be able to
send a 2-ton satellite into low
orbit. It is expected to perform its
first launch at sea around 2022,
they said.
China is now the only nation that
is independently able to conduct
sea-based space launches.
pursuing its opening-up policy and
move forward in opening up vari-
ous sectors, he said.
As the pandemic struck a blow to
the already struggling global econo-
my, undermined global trade and
impeded industry and supply
chains, it is neither appropriate nor
possible to seek decoupling in tech-
nologies and industries, he said.
The international system and
international order with the United
Nations at its core must be firmly
upheld, and different parties must
jointly shoulder responsibilities,
cherish the overall environment of
peace and development and stick to
multilateralism, the premier added.
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CHINA
Yunnan city
starts free
mass testing
Effort in Ruili follows confirmation of
2 virus cases, both illegal immigrants
By LI YINGQING in Kunming
and WANG XIAOYU in Beijing
Ruili, a city in Yunnan prov-
ince that lies on the border with
Myanmar, has begun free mass
nucleic acid testing of all resi-
dents after reporting two cases
of COVID-19 on Sunday, both
illegal immigrants who arrived
in the city recently.
“From 10 pm on Monday, no
people will be allowed in or out of
Ruili’s urban area for a week
except under special circumstan-
ces, and all residents will be placed
under home-based isolation,” Xie
Dapeng, the city’s mayor, told a
news conference on Monday
night.
“Those who had left Ruili since
Saturday should report to commu-
nity authorities at their destina-
tions and take nucleic acid tests,”
he said.
“Before the mass testing cam-
paign finishes, all business opera-
tions and public transportation
will be halted, except for those
related to selling or delivering dai-
ly essentials, such as food and
drugs.”
The two imported cases are
both Myanmar citizens — a
32-year-old woman surnamed
Yang and a 16-year-old nanny
hired by Yang.
They crossed the border from
Myanmar to China illegally on
Sept 3, along with three of Yang’s
children and another nanny. They
lived together in an apartment in a
residential community.
On Sunday, the pair were con-
firmed to have contracted the novel
coronavirus.
A total of 190 close contacts
were tracked down by 4 pm on
Monday, and 98 of them who had
taken the tests showed negative
results.
The two-block residential com-
munity where they lived has been
locked down since 7:30 pm on Sat-
urday, and 1,185 of its residents
tested negative for the virus. There
are 1,560 residents in total.
Local police are also investigat-
ing the case and will punish those
who organize or aid illegal cross-
ings.
To prevent a new wave of infec-
tions, the city is ramping up bor-
der controls — locking down all
border villages, prohibiting any
cross-border movement and
heightening precautions against
illegal immigration.
A citywide screening campaign
targeting illegal immigrants has
also been launched to identify hid-
den risks that could aid the spread
of the virus.
The local government will also
enhance communication with
Myanmar, transmitting informa-
tion on the conditions of the two
cases and urging the country to
step up border controls.
The China-Myanmar border in
Ruili stretches nearly 170 kilome-
An epidemic control worker disinfects a sanitation truck at the
entrance of a community that has been locked down in Ruili,
Yunnan province, on Tuesday. LI JIANFEI / FOR CHINA DAILY
Before the mass
testing campaign
finishes, all business
operations and
public transportation
will be halted, except
for those related to
selling or delivering
daily essentials,
such as food and
drugs.”
Xie Dapeng, the mayor of Ruili,
Yunnan province
ters, and residents on both sides
have been interacting closely for a
long time, according to Yang Bian-
qiang, vice-mayor of Ruili.
The border actually runs
through the village of Yinjing.
During a video conference
with health and foreign affairs
officials of Myanmar on Monday,
the Chinese embassy in Myan-
mar said both sides should join
efforts to stem the spread of the
virus as new infections imported
from Myanmar were recently
detected in arrivals by air and by
road.
More efforts will be devoted to
testing flight passengers before
their arrival in China, cracking
down on illegal border crossings
and stepping up information shar-
ing. China will also provide aid to
Myanmar.
Myanmar officials said that it
will ask local governments in bor-
der regions to enhance coopera-
tion with Yunnan and strive to
reduce the risk of the virus’s
spread to the minimum.
As the virus continues to rage
worldwide, the Ruili government
has taken steps to crack down on
illegal immigrants, including shut-
ting down illegal ports, confiscat-
ing boats and conducting regular
patrols.
However, Yang said the detec-
tion of imported cases in the city
had exposed weaknesses in its bor-
der control work.
He added that it will send pro-
tective equipment and financial
support to Myanmar if requested
and help the country set up more
checkpoints in border villages.
On Monday, no new confirmed
or asymptomatic cases were
reported in Ruili.
However, Kunming, the capital
of Yunnan, registered a new con-
firmed case on Monday in a man
who arrived in the city on Sept 4
on a flight from Indonesia.
He was diagnosed as an asymp-
tomatic carrier of the virus on
Sept 7.
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Women embroider with babies on their backs at a workshop in Meigu county of Liangshan Yi autonomous
prefecture, Sichuan province, on Aug 31. Authorities introduced embroidery businesses from Foshan,
Guangdong province, to help local women find employment close to home. HUA XIAOFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Campaign empowers poor, rural women
By LI LEI
lilei@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s antipoverty drive has
made headway in empowering poor,
rural women with assistance ran-
ging from easy loans to health
checks, said an official with the All-
China Women’s Federation, as offi-
cial figures have spotlighted female
susceptibility to extreme poverty.
Zhang Dongmei, a member of the
federation’s secretariat, said of the
93 million Chinese who have
escaped absolute poverty since late
2012, about half are women.
Female poverty is a major target
of the nationwide poverty reduction
efforts, and women are a major
force in taming rural impoverish-
ment, she said.
The central authorities have
rolled out a host of tailored meas-
ures to curb female poverty, includ-
ing a 2015 resolution to offer rural
women free health checks aimed at
early detection of cervical and
breast cancer, she added.
Cancer and other serious illness-
es can lead to expensive medical
bills and bankrupt less affluent
families.
Figures offered by the federation
showed women accounted for 45
percent of the rural poor, and 40
POVERTY ALLEVIATION | LINXIA COUNTY
County climbs out of poverty, brick by brick
By ZHOU JIN and MA JINGNA
in Linxia, Gansu
Based on a pattern sketched on a
smooth, green brick, Guo Aijun
carefully used sculpting knives to
carve out each leaf, branch and petal
of a peony, which is his favorite pat-
tern. The finished work will be used
for architectural decoration in the
northwest region of China.
The brick carving in Linxia coun-
ty of Linxia Hui autonomous prefec-
ture, Gansu province, is widely used
in temples, gardens and residential
buildings with patterns like flowers,
dragons, phoenixes, birds and
clouds.
Guo, 33, is an apprentice and has
been carving brick sculptures for
five years. The first step is to grind
the green bricks, and he recalled
that it took him a whole week of
learning and practice to smooth
them out.
“I became impatient because my
whole work is repetitive,” he said,
adding that he then gradually real-
ized that laying a good foundation is
key for mastering the skill.
After three months of imitating
his master’s carving works, Guo
finally got the opportunity to create
his own work, carving bamboo on a
small brick measuring 24 centime-
ters by 30 centimeters.
“Brick carving is hard work,” he
explained.
“We inhale a lot of dust while
working in the workshop, and
carvers have thick calluses on their
fingertips and the palms of their
hands.”
However, he added that he is so
passionate about his work that he
loses track of time and sometimes
forgets to eat.
Guo makes between 5,000 yuan
($730) and 6,000 yuan a month. It is
not just a job, he said.
“There are a few young people
engaging in brick carving, and I
percent of them were impoverished
because of crippling medical bills.
The federation said they have
teamed up with the National Health
Commission and rolled out 100 mil-
lion tests for cervical cancer and 30
million tests for breast cancer.
A total of 160,000 women with
the cancers have received financial
aid.
The 2015 resolution also required
stepped up efforts to hand out small
loans to help rural women start
family businesses and improve care
services for left-behind children
and women with limited incomes.
Zhang said the federation has
moved to lead women to set up
more than 300,000 homestays and
rural cooperatives over the past five
years and trained large numbers of
female experts in e-commerce, rural
tourism and domestic services,
among other industries.
The poverty relief drive has
boosted women’s economic stand-
ing, and more importantly has led
to changes in their “thoughts, spiri-
tual outlook, lifestyles and health
conditions”, she noted.
According to the All-China Wom-
en’s Federation, the female impov-
erishment rate was 0.4 percentage
points higher than their male
counterparts in 2010. The gap has
Gansu
Linxia
CHINA DAILY
think it is meaningful to carry for-
ward the craft.”
He said he believes he will be able
to fully master the skill in two or
three years and engrave all the pat-
terns by himself.
This is encouraging to craftsmen
like Zhang Hailin, who has over 20
years of carving experience.
“We would like to sincerely and
carefully teach young people who
have patience and are really into the
business,” said Zhang, who lives in a
registered impoverished household.
Zhang, who is the breadwinner
for a family of six, earns 7,000 yuan a
month and said he can continue
carving for at least 20 more years.
To Zhang, brick carving is no
longer just a hand-to-mouth job, it is
about creating works of art.
Linxia brick carving was listed as
a national Intangible Cultural Heri-
tage in 2006.
In 2018, Fan Xiangjun, general
manager of a local brick carving
company, set up a workshop relying
on the craft to create jobs and
increase the incomes of local people
to help them shake off poverty.
The county has yet to be removed
from the national list of impoverish-
ed counties.
The workshop provides four train-
ing sessions every year for 120 peo-
ple on the craftsmanship and culture
behind brick carving. It creates jobs
for trainees and people in local
impoverished households, Fan said.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 |
gradually closed over the years and
had nearly vanished by 2019.
To end the poverty cycle, the fed-
eration also worked to bolster
school turnout among girls, who are
susceptible to dropping out when
family finances are strained.
The Spring Bud Project, which
was launched by a foundation over-
seen by the federation, said they
have raised 200 million yuan ($29.4
million) in charitable funds and
helped 200,000 schoolgirls from
financially strapped families.
“Keeping girls in school has a
huge positive impact on economic
development because they have a
high chance of getting a proper job
and becoming productive in socie-
ty,” said Leslie Maasdorp, vice-presi-
dent and chief financial officer at
New Development Bank, a multilat-
eral bank established by the BRICS
countries — Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa.
It has been proven throughout
the world that investment in wom-
en and girls has a much bigger eco-
nomic developmental impact, he
said.
He noted that if women are pro-
vided with loans or other business
opportunities, they are more likely
to pay them back, as is evidenced by
the experiment.
“Most of the trainees are from
poor families and are interested in
the skill,” he said.
At the moment, 42 people are par-
ticipating in his workshop, 37 of
them from impoverished house-
holds, according to Fan.
His company produces about
50,000 square meters of brick carv-
ings a year, and most of the products
are sold to northwestern provinces.
To innovate traditional crafts-
manship, Linxia county works with
universities to improve carving
skills and develop cultural and crea-
tive products.
So far, the county has developed
28 kinds of small and exquisite
products derived from brick carv-
ings, such as small flowerpots and
ornaments, with average prices
from 200 to 300 yuan.
Guan Lansheng, a professor at the
School of Art and Design in Lan-
zhou Jiaotong University, said that
“only by making intangible heritage
works combined with the aesthetics
of modern life can the culture be
carried forward and developed”.
Guan and his team set up a tradi-
tional craft working station in Lin-
xia Hui autonomous prefecture. The
cultural industry will expand the
market for brick crafting works,
which will create more jobs to
reduce poverty, Guan said.
At present, the output value of the
brick carving industry in Linxia coun-
ty reached nearly 500 million yuan,
creating jobs for over 3,000 people —
700 from impoverished households
— said Han Jiehe, head of the county’s
bureau of culture and tourism.
Brick carving has become a major
pillar industry in Linxia, Han said.
“We will continue to develop new
materials for carving and focus on
promoting Linxia brick carving to
make it known to more people.”
Contact the writers at
zhoujin@chinadaily.com.cn
5
XIAOKANG@GRASSROOTS
Research
makes
sunflower
‘waste’
profitable
By LIU MINGTAI
and WU YONG in Baicheng, Jilin
Yang Li is busy decorating his
new apartment with the extra
money he made from selling
parts of sunflowers that were
previously discarded.
Yang, a farmer from Shuang-
gang village of Jilin province’s
Baicheng city, used to eke out a
living selling sunflower seeds
from 1 hectare of farmland. Now,
thanks to new technology, he can
make an extra 54,000 yuan
($7,960) a year with sunflower
disks — the hard round center of
the plant left over once the sun-
flower seeds are harvested.
“We never knew the disk could
bring in money because even
cows don’t like to eat it. Now, I
can afford to travel with my wife
with our increasing income,”
said Yang, 58.
Shuanggang as a whole has
benefited from scientific
research on sunflower disks.
According to Zhao Guo’an,
founder of Jilin Teyi Food Bio-
technology, the company pur-
chased more than 200 metric
tons of sunflower disks from
Shuanggang last year, which has
helped 130 local farmers earn
more than 5.2 million yuan.
Baicheng
Jilin
CHINA DAILY
“Small molecular peptides,
alkaloids and flavonoids that are
effective in treating gout and allay-
ing inflammation can be extract-
ed from sunflower disks,” said Gao
Bo, director of the department of
biological medicine at Jilin Uni-
versity. “It has a very promising
future in clinical practice.”
Gao, who graduated from
Changchun University of Tradi-
tional Chinese Medicine, came
across sunflower disk treatment
by chance.
“I learned this from Nobel Prize
winner Tu Youyou, who discov-
ered artemisinin from TCM. I
assumed some new drugs could
be developed from the little disks,”
said Gao, who organized a team of
molecular and computer experts
to study the working mechanism
with the support of Zhao.
The past two years proved
Gao’s prediction was correct as
the team found sunflower disk
extractives have a unique effect
on reducing uric acid and treat-
ing gout. They published a num-
ber of high-quality articles and
even developed products.
“The combination of TCM and
modern technology has a magic
touch and will make contribu-
tions to people’s welfare around
the world,” Gao said.
He said that the team has set up
a planting base and manufactur-
ing factory in Shuanggang, which
creates jobs for local farmers.
The project was supported by
Wu Hongtao, the local village
Party secretary, who is helping
locals profit from the discovery.
“This means a lot for farmers
because people like Yang Li can
plant sunflowers in our village
and do not have to leave home to
work in other cities. They have
more income and time to take
care of kids and seniors,” Wu said.
Mu Shanchun, director of the
medical and health branch of the
science and technology depart-
ment of the Jilin government,
said that local authorities have
invested 925 million yuan in the
field of medicine and health and
have set up 40 key laboratories in
the past five years.
Zhang Yiduo contributed to this
story.
Contact the writers at
wuyong@chinadaily.com.cn
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Huawei pushes forward intelligent ecosystem
Developer conference reveals new software
that can adapt to different electronic devices
By YUAN SHENGGAO
With technological progress,
building a fully connected and intel-
ligent world seems no longer a
vision from afar.
A series of technological innova-
tions launched at the Huawei Devel-
oper Conference, also known as
HDC Together, last week brought
the vision into reality.
This year’s annual gathering was
held at the telecommunication com-
pany’s Songshan Lake research and
development center in Dongguan,
South China’s Guangdong province,
between Sept 10-12.
The audience was briefed on
innovative tech solutions, including
HarmonyOS 2.0. The upgraded ver-
sion of the HarmonyOS distributed
operating system was debuted last
year.
New technologies are conducive
to data flow among electronic devi-
ces or screens in different sizes, ena-
bling high-speed wireless and
seamless connectivity, Yu Cheng-
dong, executive director of Huawei
and CEO of the company’s consum-
er business group, said at the meet-
ing on Thursday.
“Huawei has made break-
throughs in the industrial ecosys-
tem, which is dependent on support
from developers and partners from
around the world,” Yu said.
At the HDC Together 2020, Yu
said Huawei would open its core
technologies, as well as hardware
and software resources. Together
with developers, it will drive the
booming growth in the intelligent
industrial ecosystem.
The HarmonyOS 2.0 system
would create a milestone in the
industry, Wang Chenglu, president
of software department, consumer
business group at Huawei, told the
audience.
It will enable high-speed connec-
tion, fast identification and sharing
resources among various intelligent
devices, according to the company.
Wang told media after his speech
on stage that HarmonyOS is a sys-
tem where software can be decou-
pled, whether horizontally or
vertically. That is the reason why a
set of codes developed by Huawei
can meet the demands from a varie-
ty of systems.
Shoppers try their hands on smartphones at a Huawei store in
Shanghai in June. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Upgrades to EMUI 11
improve experiences
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Telecommunications company
Huawei Technologies launched the
EMUI 11, the latest version of its
operating system for smartphones
and tablets, during the three-day
Huawei Developer Conference held
last week in Dongguan, Guangdong
province.
The system, based on distribution
technology adopted in the compa-
ny’s computer operating system Har-
monyOS, can realize the connectivity
among electronic devices and equip-
ment related to the internet of
things, according to the company.
It has also brought other new fea-
tures to users, including improved
multi-screen collaboration, user
experiences designed based on
human factors engineering research,
and privacy safety. It supports instant
translation in text and pictures and
provides better services for audio-
video creations, the company said.
Some 10 types of Huawei smart-
phones are being upgraded with the
system, starting on Sept 10, Cnbeta
information news portal reported.
Wang Chenglu, president of soft-
ware department, consumer busi-
ness group at Huawei, estimated
Software architecture
must be adaptive.
The more easily it can
adapt to changes, the
better it proves.”
Wang Chenglu, president of
software department, consumer
business group at Huawei
“For the software industry, decou-
pling is the hardest, because it is
closely related to architecture,” he
noted. “Software architecture must
be adaptive. The more easily it can
adapt to changes, the better it
proves.”
Decoupling does not just mean
physical separation — it matters
more to separate from the system’s
business logistic perspective, he
said.
A system is composed of more
than 10,000 modules, each born
with an ID that will determine what
hardware the modules can be used
for. After disassembly, the separated
units can automatically be restruc-
tured into new modules, based on
their IDs, according to Wang.
If HarmonyOS had eyes, what it
saw would not be separate electron-
ic devices, but different module
sets, which can be adaptive to hard-
ware resources and apps needed, he
said.
“Personally, I have complete faith
in the operating system,” Wang said.
HarmonyOS has “enormous
potential”, he noted, adding that if
its ecosystem can be well construct-
ed, it will reshape the mobile indus-
try landscape over the coming two
decades.
“While currently, the internet of
things might sound abstract to the
ordinary, I’m sure there will be a
physical world that is identical to a
digital one,” Wang said. “Once IoT
devices and equipment are connect-
ed, they will form the digital world’s
sense systems.”
Without full, multidimensional
information collected, a city brain
cannot make accurate judgments
nor work properly, Wang said.
Intelligent management is the
during the conference that some 90
percent of Huawei smartphones will
be upgraded with EMUI 11. Harmon-
yOS is expected to be installed as ear-
ly as next year.
The number of EMUI 11 users is
expected to reach 200 million and
they will be given priority to upgrade
to HarmonyOS, Wang added.
The company said it has dedicated
itself to building a reliable, open and
fair industrial ecosystem, providing
users with diverse experiences.
Supported by 1.8 million software
developers, Huawei Mobile Services,
Huawei’s version of Google Mobile
Services, has embraced brisk growth.
It features HMS Core, a develop-
ers’ platform with a cluster of 96,000
apps, and AppGallery with 490 mil-
lion active users worldwide.
Huawei reported 261 billion down-
loads of apps from its AppGallery
during the first eight months of this
year. It makes it the third-largest soft-
ware ecosystem after those of Google
and Apple.
To date, some 73,000 overseas-de-
veloped apps are available at HMS
Core 5.0, 10 times that of last year.
Zhang Ping’an, president of cloud
service, Huawei consumer business
group, told the conference that the
Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei and CEO of the company’s consumer business group, delivers a keynote speech at the Huawei
Developer Conference on Thursday in Dongguan, Guangdong province. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
A staff member shows Huawei Vision smart TV equipped with
HarmonyOS operating system during the conference.
key to increasing efficiency in a
city’s transport and logistics and
IoT technology is expected to
company is sharing its innovation
resources with all of its HMS Core 5.0
sections — app service, graphics,
media, artificial intelligence, smart
devices, security and system — open
to developers around the world.
Huawei said it’s also sharing its
core software and hardware resour-
ces, which cover maps, search, pay-
ment, browser and advertisement
service engines, as well as leading-
edge technical tools for photography,
augmented reality technology-
backed mapping, telecommunica-
tion and privacy protection.
The move will help software devel-
opers in the sectors of video games,
audio and video products, entertain-
ment, e-commerce and socializing to
create new apps, according to the
company.
Within a year, the opening capaci-
ty of HMS Core 5.0 has expanded
from 14 kits to 56 kits, and the num-
ber of its application programming
interfaces has jumped from 885 to
12,981, Zhang said.
HMS apps have served users in
more than 170 countries and regions.
Of the apps, 10 each have a monthly
active user number surpassing 50
million. Seven of them each have at
least 100 million monthly active
users, with the most popular register-
ing 490 million users, said the compa-
ny. Overseas sales of HMS-equipped
smartphones has increased since
May, a reflection of HMS’ popularity
among foreign users, Zhang added.
In a bid to help local developers
integrate into the global market,
Huawei is building new joint labs in
Germany, Poland and Russia, and
five global developer service centers
are under construction in Romania,
Russia, Egypt, Mexico and Malaysia,
said a company statement.
Huawei ranked as the second-larg-
est smartphone manufacturer in the
world in terms of shipments last
year, with 240 million units rolling
out its plants, according to Yu.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic,
its sales of smartphones maintained
momentum. Its deliveries reached
105 million units worldwide in the
first half of 2020. Over the past quar-
ter this year, the company accounted
for more than half of the domestic
smartphone market, Yu said.
This page is sponsored by Huawei Technologies.
change a city’s structure, he noted.
Yu announced at the conference
that HarmonyOS will be open to
Helping drive smart-travel solutions
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Information and communica-
tion technology company Huawei
is poised to expand cooperation
with automakers, in a bid to pow-
er growth in the automobile
industry with its smart-travel
solution HiCar, according to exec-
utives at the company.
Yu Chengdong, executive direct-
or of Huawei and CEO of the com-
pany’s consumer business group,
said at the annual Huawei Devel-
oper Conference last week that
more than 150 models from over
20 automakers have been
equipped with HiCar apps.
The company’s goal is to have
more than 5 million vehicles
equipped with HiCar in 2021, Yu
said.
HiCar can connect mobile devi-
ces with vehicles, extend the ser-
vice reach of apps installed on
smartphones to cars and thus pro-
vide human-car-home smart trav-
el experiences, said a company
statement.
As intelligent travel is becom-
ing a trend in the automobile
industry, related software is
increasingly turning out to be
one of the key factors that influ-
ence an automaker’s competi-
tiveness.
Other tech companies includ-
ing Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent
have made forays into the field
using their expertise.
However, Huawei has adopted
a different approach.
“In the eyes of Huawei, every-
thing is like a smartphone, so a
car would be a phone on wheels,”
Wang Chenglu, president of soft-
ware department, consumer
business group at Huawei, told
media during the conference.
Instead of trying to move the
apps in a smartphone to an in-car
system, a Huawei smartphone
using HarmonyOS operating sys-
tem will take the car as different
modules, so all the apps that
seem to be running in the in-car
developers, offering them with
emulators and software develop-
ment kits as well as integrated
development environment tools.
Huawei would donate related
codes to the OpenAtom Foundation,
a nonprofit organization dedicated
to promoting open source software,
he added.
The first to go on the road map for
the open source HarmonyOS are IoT
equipment and devices, ranging from
128 kilobytes to 128 megabytes in
memory size. Their codes have been
open since Sept 10, according to Yu.
Devices with a memory size ran-
ging from 128 MB to 4 gigabytes will
be the second, with their codes
scheduled to open from April 2021.
Starting from October 2021, codes
for all devices starting at 4 GB of
memory will be open, Yu said.
The HarmonyOS developer beta
version, designed for smartphones,
is slated to be released in China at
the end of 2020, he said.
A concept car equipped with Huawei’s HiCar apps attracts
visitors’ attention. It was displayed at a Huawei showroom in
Shanghai in late June. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
150+
models
from over 20 automakers have
been equipped with HiCar
5m+
vehicles
are expected to be equipped
with HiCar in 2021
system are actually running in
the phone — they are just shown
on the car’s screen. For the phone,
it has another screen and mod-
ules to make use of, Wang
explained.
Huawei has added research
and development, production,
sales and services of auto compo-
nents and intelligent systems to
its businesses, CPN news portal
reported.
The company founded a new
business unit dedicated to work-
ing on smart travel solutions for
auto manufacturers in June 2019.
CHINA DAILY
Yang Haisong is vice-president of
the software department at Hua-
wei’s consumer business group. He
said the company aims to have more
than 200 million devices and equip-
ment powered annually by Har-
monyOS, with half of them from
Huawei’s own brands and the other
half from third-party businesses.
Huawei announced at the meet-
ing that it has partnered with home
appliance manufacturers Midea,
Joyoung and Robam Appliances to
equip some of their product portfo-
lios with HarmonyOS.
In addition, with major upgrades
in connectivity, interaction, opera-
tion, certification and solutions,
HiLink provides easy access to dif-
ferent smart home appliances and
electronics, according to Huawei.
Data from the company show that
the network has 50 million users
and received an average of 1 billion
daily requests for intelligent opera-
tions.
Wang Jun, head of the new
department, released the in-car
version of HarmonyOS, the com-
pany’s signature computer operat-
ing system, at the 2020 China
Auto Forum held in Shanghai in
mid-August.
On Sept 8, Huawei founded a
wholly-controlled subsidiary with
registered capital of 250 million
yuan ($36.85 million), focused on
the R&D of intelligent in-car sys-
tems.
Huawei has a series of patented
technologies related to intelligent
travel, including autonomous
driving and an in-car charging
method.
The company’s executives have
stated previously that Huawei will
not make cars themselves, but will
instead focus on ICT to assist
automakers in the production of
better cars.
Since it entered the field, Huawei
has capitalized on its advantages in
software to build an open system
incorporating more developers,
and promoted the healthy growth
of the industry, according to a com-
pany statement.
 CHINA DAILY
CHINA
‘Brother Apple’ sows seeds of approval
Exercise videos boost acceptance of
male teachers at kindergartens
By ZHAO YIMENG
zhaoyimeng@chinadaily.com.cn
Kindergarten teacher “Brother
Apple” set out with the intention
of keeping youngsters fit during
the COVID-19 epidemic, but
quickly became an online icon.
Xia Haoyang, who teaches at a
kindergarten in Qingdao, Shand-
ong province, kept the nickname
his students had given him when
he started uploading clips to the
Bilibili video-sharing platform
earlier this year.
In the clips, the good-looking,
well-groomed 23-year-old can be
seen doing gymnastic exercises
while music plays in the back-
ground. The videos are aimed at
teaching kindergarten children how
to dance and do exercises during
home isolation to prevent the spread
of the novel coronavirus. But Xia’s
lively moves, flexibility and healthy
image attracted not only children
but also adults, with his hottest clip
garnering 370,000 views.
Comments under the videos
praise Xia’s “adorable” moves,
which parents and other teachers
admit they are trying out. “As a
female kindergarten teacher, I
have to admit that you dance bet-
ter than me,” one comment said.
Xia said he didn’t expect to
become so popular so quickly. But
he also had a serious message about
the acceptance of men in the tradi-
tionally female job.
“Uploading the videos was just
for fun as well as communicating
with colleagues,” he said. “I want
society to know that male kinder-
garten teachers are greatly needed
and should be respected.”
Acceptance
In 2018, only about 2 percent of
Sino-German forum drives progress in future of mobility
By YUAN SHENGGAO
The Sino-German Future Mobili-
ty Forum opened on Monday in
Zhongguancun Science Park in Bei-
jing’s Haidian district. Inviting nota-
ble industry players and insiders to
share their ideas and vision, the
forum aims to boost the develop-
ment of new energy and intelligent
connected vehicles.
The future mobility forum forms
a part of the 2020 Zhongguancun
Forum, which will run from Thurs-
day to Sunday, and is a high-level
international forum on scientific
and technological innovation
founded in 2007.
The Sino-German Future Mobili-
ty Forum is focusing on the layout of
the industrial chain for intelligent
connected vehicles, and policy and
technical support in the fields of
NEVs, autonomous driving, smart
mobility and related infrastructure.
“Beijing is the birthplace of Chi-
na’s autonomous driving vehicle
industry and has the largest number
of autonomous driving companies
and innovative professionals in Chi-
na,” said Yin Yong, vice-mayor of
Beijing.
“Haidian district, where we are
today, is an innovation hub of Bei-
jing. The district takes the lead in
developing a series of industries,
such as autonomous driving and
NEVs.”
According to Yin, Beijing has
more than 100 companies develop-
ing autonomous driving vehicles,
including Baidu, Pony.ai and China
Transinfo.
Peng Jun, co-founder and CEO of
Pony.ai, attended the forum and said
in the whole development process of
intelligent driving, all technologies
should be closely combined with the
car. He added that his company has
reached cooperation with well-
known enterprises from both China
and Germany.
Last month, Pony.ai announced
its collaboration with German
industrial giant Bosch in exploring
and building fleet management
solutions for autonomous driving,
in an attempt to improve efficiency
of fleet operation and pave the way
the 2.58 million kindergarten
teachers in China were men, the
lowest proportion of all school
levels, according to the Ministry of
Education.
A 2017 survey by China Youth
Daily on how people viewed
careers, showed that 53.2 percent
of the 2,016 respondents thought
sex preference or discrimination
existed in the selection of kinder-
garten teachers.
Parents have also expressed
concern about sexual misconduct
cases involving male teachers or
them being too harsh on their stu-
dents, Xia said.
However, over the past 20 years,
more and more people have become
accepting of male kindergarten
teachers.
One viewer of Xia’s videos com-
mented: “My mom is a teacher of
early childhood education. She
said there were not many male
kindergarten teachers but they
were very needed, because teach-
ers of different genders have a dif-
ferent impact on children’s values
and personalities. Both male and
female teachers are indispensable
in shaping children’s characters.”
Another viewer commented,
“Male teachers are good, because
usually children lack the company
of male figures in their child-
hood.”
In recent years, several provin-
ces, including Fujian and Hunan,
have offered free education and
preferential treatment to male
students who train to become kin-
dergarten and primary school
teachers.
Gu Jie, a male teacher at the Bril-
liant International School in Beijing,
said a colleague called “Brother Sun-
shine” teaches outdoor physical edu-
cation lessons to kindergarten
Clockwise from top: The Sino-German Future Mobility Forum opens on Monday in Zhongguancun Science Park in Beijing’s Haidian
district. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY An autonomous driving road sweeper is demonstrated in Zhongguancun Science Park in July. WANG PEISEN /
CHINA DAILY Pony.ai conducts manned autonomous driving tests in Beijing in May. TENG XUEBEI / FOR CHINA DAILY
for the commercial operation of
autonomous driving in the future.
“This (the cooperation with
Bosch) is just a beginning. We are
seeking cooperation with German
automakers, as the country has a
complete automobile industrial
Clockwise from top: Xia Haoyang with children he teaches at a kindergarten in Qingdao, Shandong
province. Xia talks with a child at a New Year’s party at the kindergarten. Gu Jie (center) and a colleague
with children at the Brilliant International School in Beijing. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
children at their campus.
“The children like it when
Brother Sunshine plays sports and
games with them,” Gu said, add-
ing he had not personally experi-
enced gender discrimination.
chain,” Peng said.
Founded in 2016, Pony.ai has car-
ried out road tests under different
weather conditions, with a total test
mileage exceeding 3 million kilome-
ters.
“China and Germany have the
The section is sponsored by Zhongguancun Science Park.
“On the contrary, male teachers
are more popular at the kindergar-
ten,” he said. “Most parents expect
male teachers to take the same
responsibility in the care of their
children as female teachers, who are
basis for long-term cooperation,”
said Zhang Yongwei, vice-chairman
of China EV100, a think tank focus-
ing on the electric vehicle industry,
at the forum on Monday.
“China has already established a
relatively complete industrial base
more common in schools. I believe
more male teachers will join us in
the future.”
Too much?
Xin Xiaoyong, a physical educa-
in electrification. And the country’s
achievements made in internet and
information technologies have
granted China’s automobile indus-
try with distinctive features and eco-
systems,” Zhang added.
As a traditional automotive pow-
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 7
I want society to
know that male
kindergarten teachers
are greatly needed
and should be
respected.”
Xia Haoyang, a kindergarten
teacher in Qingdao, Shandong
province
tion teacher at Guangzhou No 1
Kindergarten, said when he grad-
uated from normal university in
2005, there were already many
male kindergarten teachers in
Guangzhou, Guangdong prov-
ince.
“Gender discrimination is not an
issue, instead male teachers are
treasured at the kindergarten and
we receive lots of care and support,”
Xin said.
Though most of the comments on
Brother Apple’s exercise videos are
positive, he has received some criti-
cism.
Xin said the gymnastic exercises
Xia demonstrated were too
advanced for younger children.
“Children age 3 to 6 don’t have a
high level of coordination in their
bodies. We cannot ignore the reality
of the abilities of the children for the
sake of being a popular icon,” Xin
said.
He encouraged male teachers to
display masculine physicality
rather than just doing moves to
cater to parents’ interests.
Xin said male teachers are expect-
ed to be professional and humble.
“Lots of handsome kindergarten
teachers are good at singing and
dancing, but we are just normal
teachers that provide happiness for
children and parents,” he said.
Haidian district,
where we are today, is
an innovation hub of
Beijing. The district
takes the lead in
developing a series of
industries ...”
Yin Yong, vice-mayor of Beijing
er around the world, Germany is
speeding up its industrial transfor-
mation to electric and intelligent
vehicles. There will be a great coop-
eration opportunity for the two
countries’ automobile industries,
according to Zhang.
Hubert Aiwanger, vice-governor
of the southern German State of
Bavaria, said that it is expected to
further strengthen cooperation
between Bavaria and China in
mobility, which is a broad field,
including but not limited to battery
technology, electric drive technolo-
gy and technologies in rail and air
transportation.
Zhongguancun Science Park,
where the Sino-German Future
Mobility Forum was held, is regard-
ed by insiders as the origin and the
earliest test site of autonomous driv-
ing in China.
The park has established an
autonomous driving innovation
demonstration area, which covers
100 square kilometers.
The demonstration area has test
roads with a total length of more
than 200 km. That figure is expected
to grow to 400 km by the end of the
year.
Coinciding with the forum, an
intelligent connected vehicle carni-
val was held in Zhongguancun Sci-
ence Park.
Gathering more than 10 autono-
mous driving enterprises, the carni-
val presented diverse application
scenarios to visitors, with autono-
mous driving sweepers, cruisers
and logistics cars being demon-
strated.
8 | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
COMMENT
Editorials
New Delhi shouldn’t let business ties
be held hostage by ultra-nationalism
A
lthough Chinese State Councilor and For-
eign Minister Wang Yi and his Indian
counterpart announced on Friday that a
consensus had been reached on reducing
the border tensions between the two countries after
their talks in Moscow, some Indian media outlets
continue to speculate on the tensions by fomenting
nationalism, jingoism and populism.
Underlying this irresponsible fanning of irrational
hysteria by the media is the targeting of Chinese apps,
companies and imports by the Narendra Modi
administration. The government’s campaign against
everything Chinese is providing the Indian media
with the gasoline they are using to fuel the flames of
ultra-nationalism, indicating that New Delhi will
need to demonstrate it is willing to act in good faith to
materialize the aforementioned consensus if public
sentiment is to be taken off the boil.
The question is which party’s interests New Delhi
is trying to serve by intentionally expanding the
tensions from limited border areas to trade and
economic cooperation.
That its attacks on Chinese businesses emulate
those initiated by the US administration raises the
possibility that they may not have been done in the
heat of the moment but are instead part of a coordi-
nated squeeze being put on the Chinese economy
by the two administrations. If that is indeed the
case, New Delhi should now desist and uphold the
consensus it reached with Beijing that confronta-
tion is not in the interests of either India or China.
Economy still on stable recovery track
T
he Chinese economy continued to expand
steadily in August according to data from
the National Bureau of Statistics released
on Tuesday.
The data show that despite having met with
some serious difficulties arising from the effects of
the pandemic and the trade protectionism initiat-
ed by some major economies, the world’s second-
largest economy and the largest contributor to
global growth is on the right track of stable growth.
China continued to show its economic resilience
in August on the back of already improving
growth-related indicators in the preceding four
months, with retail sales growth turning positive
in August for the first time this year and the unem-
ployment rate edging down.
If the national economy can continue to recover
in the coming months, there are hopes that it will
be able to make up the ground that was lost.
But while the data are encouraging, it is too early
to know for sure. Health experts have warned that
there is still the possibility of a recurrence of the
deadly virus as winter draws near. While economists
are also warning that there remain uncertainties in
global trade and geopolitics that could have a bear-
ing on China’s foreign trade and domestic demand.
Policymakers are fully aware that there are poten-
tial challenges ahead. On Tuesday, National Bureau
of Statistics spokesman Fu Linghui cautioned that
with “mounting uncertainties” internationally and
Political epidemic biggest curse for HK
W
ith the special administrative
region’s economy and unemploy-
ment in their worst shape in years, if
not decades, it has arguably never
been more imperative for Hong Kong to focus on
livelihood issues.
The novel coronavirus outbreak has added to
the serious harm that was already being inflicted
on the SAR’s economy and people’s livelihoods by
the trade war being waged against China by the
United States and the violent antics of the opposi-
tion camp.
The economy shrank by 9 percent in the second
quarter compared with a year ago, the fourth con-
secutive quarter of year-to-year contraction, and
the unemployment rate hit a decade high at 6.1 per-
cent. Low-income residents have been especially
hard hit, with those who have been made jobless or
who are underemployed about eight times more
than the overall rate, based on a recent survey.
Conceivably, the unemployment rate would have
shot up to an unprecedented level, had it not been
for the SAR government helping mitigate a wave of
business bankruptcies and staff layoffs by doling
out rounds of financial subsidies.
The state of Hong Kong residents’ mental health
has also hit an all-time low, according to an annual
survey, with the social turmoil and pandemic prey-
ing on people’s minds. Financial stress has no
doubt contributed significantly to the general dete-
rioration of residents’ psychological well-being.
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As well as the two foreign ministers announcing
the two sides had agreed to disengage their troops
along the border, they also said the two sides had
agreed to not let their differences become disputes
and to take guidance from the previous consensus-
es reached between Modi and President Xi Jinping
during their two informal face-to-face meetings in
Wuhan and Chennai, when the two leaders con-
curred on enhancing the closer partnership of the
two countries and strengthening the synergy of
their development strategies.
India and China are neighbors and forging a
stronger partnership would create development
opportunities for both.
In fact, many Indian people and companies make a
living through the banned Chinese apps, which Indi-
an companies cannot launch in a short time, and they
have seen their livelihoods and businesses seriously
impacted by the ban. But their voices are silenced in
the vortex of the fanatical national sentiment calling
for boycotting Chinese apps and products.
In contrast, thanks to the composure and restraint
exercised by the Chinese government in dealing with
relations with India — no trade and economic coun-
termeasures have been taken — there has been no
similar anti-India frenzy among the Chinese public,
and Indian companies and citizens’ legal rights are
well protected.
It is time for New Delhi to calm the situation, and
not only on the border, by matching its deeds with
words.
“pronounced domestic structural problems, there
remains huge pressure to keep employment and
businesses stable, and to safeguard people’s liveli-
hoods”, and the foundation for a stable economic
recovery needs to be strengthened.
But at least for now, the Chinese economy has
demonstrated its robust capability to cope with
unexpected shocks, whether it is the novel corona-
virus or the trade frictions arising from the protec-
tionist policies of some of its major trade partners.
Now, while continuing its reform and opening-
up drive and implementing measures to promote
economic stabilization to ensure the smooth recov-
ery of the economy, the country needs to remain
vigilant, in order to prevent any large-scale recur-
rence of the virus, and advance the “dual circula-
tion” framework for the economy.
With the international trade environment hav-
ing been severely disrupted by the pandemic and
the aggressive trade policies of the US administra-
tion, Chinese policymakers are set on weaning of
the Chinese economy off its reliance on exports and
driving the economy through domestic demand,
production and technological progress instead.
By strengthening the foundation for a stable
recovery over the rest of this year, China will be bet-
ter able to fortify its economic resilience by reduc-
ing its external vulnerabilities and strengthening
its self-reliance. That would make it a beacon of
certainty for other countries amid all the turmoil.
Hong Kong will not get rid of these woes until
economic activities get back to normal. It is the
urgent need to tackle this woeful socioeconomic
situation that has galvanized the SAR government
to implement an ambitious universal community
testing program to contain the pandemic, with the
assistance of the central government.
Yet to the dismay of those worst-affected by the
SAR’s travails, the bid to cut off the transmission
chains of the novel coronavirus by identifying
those infected with the virus but not showing
symptoms has been undermined by the opposition
camp, who have made the testing program another
rallying point to rekindle their political campaign
that has been choked by the SAR’s recent enacting
of national security legislation. Many residents
have been dissuaded from taking the test as a result
of the opposition camp’s rumor-mongering, com-
promising the effectiveness of the program.
By extending their “burn-together” tactic to the
universal testing program, the political zealots
have once again displayed their determination to
pursue their own agenda at the expense of society’s
well-being. That even the testing, which may well
be a matter of life and death for some Hong Kong
residents, has not been spared the malice of these
political extremists indicates they will go to any
lengths to indulge their spite and prejudice.
The “burn-together epidemic” these militants
hope to spread is the most harmful curse ever
inflicted on Hong Kong.
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Luo Jie
Opinion Line
Huize county breaks carriers,
as rural students ace gaokao
Huize county in Yunnan province,
one of the 52 poverty-stricken coun-
ties, has impressed everyone with
outstanding performance in the
national college entrance examina-
tion, or gaokao, this year. Around 80
percent of 6,796 candidates from
Huize registered the minimum
admission score or above, about 30
percent registered the minimum
admission score or above for key
universities and 11 candidates got
admission to one of the country’s
top two universities, Peking Univer-
sity and Tsinghua University.
Since 2010, some 139 students
have got admission to Peking Uni-
versity or Tsinghua University, more
than 30 percent of them from pov-
erty-stricken households. Tens of
thousands of students from impov-
erished families have successfully
Rewarding welcome at gates of independence
As the new academic year begins,
freshmen are entering college cam-
puses across the country, many of
them accompanied by their parents
or well-wishers. Xidian University in
Xi’an, Shaanxi province, has intro-
duced a policy that has caught
everyone’s attention. It will give
away a “Freshman Independence
Award” to those who come to college
alone, not accompanied by parents.
Awardees will receive a certificate, a
specially designed T-shirt, and a
photograph of them entering the
campus taken for memory.
That’s a very innovative idea and
will encourage the young to be bold
enough to travel hundreds or thou-
sands of kilometers on their own to
reach their new college. After all
being independent is an essential
part of growing up.
Most college freshmen are just 18
and have had little chance of travel-
What They Say
Lens on ‘fleeing’ scallops secures investors
The China Securities Regulatory
Commission announced on Friday
that it has decided to let the public
security organ probe the suspected
securities crimes committed by the
Zhangzidao Group and its execu-
tives.
Since 2014, when Zhangzidao
announced that the “fleeing” scal-
lops it was breeding caused it a loss
of 763 million yuan ($112 million) in
the third quarter that year, the com-
pany has come up with several more
similar excuses for its financial loss-
es, triggering investor concern. This
led the CSRC to verify Zhangzidao’s
information disclosure frauds and
mete out administrative punish-
ments according to law.
The latest action to try Zhangzidao
and related personnel for criminal
responsibilities is a manifestation of
the all-around and three-dimension-
al accountability network being
woven by the regulator for crimes in
the capital market and intensified
crackdowns on illegal acts.
The Zhangzidao Group has
become a laughing stock in the Chi-
entered college, starting a new jour-
ney to change their destiny.
What students from Huize have
achieved is huge for an impoverish-
ed county of 1 million people,
around 30 percent of them poverty-
stricken.
Education is always a problem for
residents of poverty-stricken
regions. The quality of education is
often unsatisfactory and many stu-
dents forgo higher education
because of economic hardships and
limitations of the local social envi-
ronment. So the outstanding scores
by students from Huize county sets
an excellent example of how pover-
ty-stricken counties can improve the
quality of education and help more
local students realize their dreams.
Teachers are crucial for encouraging
and nurturing such students and
JIN DING / CHINA DAILY
ing, as they were busy with studies
in high school. Going to college
could be their first chance to be on
their own.
The policy might actually encour-
age them to be independent.
However, that does not mean
those being accompanied by par-
ents should be scoffed at. Many
families look forward to the
moment when their child goes to a
college and would like to be there to
experience the moment. Many fam-
ilies thus travel from one city to
nese stock market ever since it
came up with innovative excuses
such as “the scallops fled” or “the
scallops died” to explain its “finan-
cial losses”. Such absurd claims hurt
investor confidence while the regu-
lator had no way to prove the com-
pany had committed irregularities.
Zhangzidao’s repeated violation
of investors’ rights and interests
without fear reflected the mindset
of some listed companies, which
felt information disclosure frauds
can at most earn them fines. How-
ever, that was a loophole of the
past, when because of difficulties in
finding evidence, a company com-
mitting information disclosure
frauds could not be held criminally
accountable.
The noose is tightening on
Zhangzidao now because of techno-
logical progress, such as the accu-
rate positioning technology used by
the CSRC through the Beidu Navi-
gation Satellite System to locate the
company’s fishing boats and verify
its true operating conditions, thus
gaining evidence of the company’s
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the local authorities in Huize paid
great attention to cultivating such
teachers. Since 2016, the county has
hired 2,569 new teachers to meet
the demands of relocated and new
middle schools. Every year the
county invests millions of yuan to
provide subsidies, allowance and
bonuses for teachers.
Particularly, the county stresses
on equality to enable all students,
especially those from poverty-
stricken families, to receive quality
education. It’s good to see students’
dreams come true.
More important, the talents will
further benefit the impoverished
regions by stopping poverty inher-
itance and help the once impover-
ished residents see prosperity in
the future.
— WANG YIQING, CHINA DAILY
another with their college-going
members in celebration.
For some students from poor
regions, going to college might be a
rare occasion and for their parents
the only chance to travel anywhere.
Not surprisingly, some cities see a
spurt in tourist figures in Septem-
ber, thanks to parents of college
freshmen. Authorities of some tour-
ist spots try to cash in on the occa-
sion by introducing favorable
policies to draw visitors.
Also, for some families, it might
be a last reunion of sorts to be
cherished, because once their
wards graduate they might move
to another city to work. So, here’s
wishing a bright career ahead to
every freshman, whether they
travel independently, or come
accompanied with their family
members.
— ZHANG ZHOUXIANG, CHINA DAILY
fraudulent behavior.
This shows that listed companies
can now be investigated for frauds
or other illegal acts under the coun-
try’s existing legal framework. It
will certainly deter enterprises
intending to break the law, leading
to creation of a clean ecological
environment in the stock market to
protect the rights and interests of
investors.
China faces increasing domestic
and international uncertainties,
which makes it particularly neces-
sary and important to maintain the
healthy development of its capital
market. Further strengthening of
legal supervision and escalated
crackdown on the frauds and other
illegal acts in the capital market,
along with stock market reforms,
such as the establishment of the sci-
entific innovation board and the
launch of the registration system,
mark the authorities’ greater efforts
to protect the interests of investors
and maintain the rule of law in the
capital market.
— BEIJING NEWS
 CHINA DAILY
VIEWS
Yang Xinming
Healthy growth likely despite outbreak
T
he COVID-19 pandemic has had
a huge impact on China’s econo-
my, similar to the 1997-98 Asian
financial crisis and 2008 global
financial crisis — different only in scope
and extent of the effects.
Despite the rapid surge in cases in the
early stage, the COVID-19 epidemic’s
impact on China, however, appears to be
relatively short-lived, as its economy grew
3.2 percent in the second quarter of this
year after shrinking by 6.8 percent in the
first quarter. China has been working to
offset the negative impacts of the epidem-
ic on its economy, so it can maintain a
medium-high economic growth rate for
some time to come.
Although China’s economic growth rate
has declined since it entered the “new
normal”, various agencies’ estimates sug-
gest China’s potential growth rate is still
in the 5-6.5 percent range, which is
expected to be the biggest support for the
country to achieve a medium-high growth
rate in the near future. After all, even after
30 years of rapid growth, the economies of
Japan and the Republic of Korea managed
to maintain a growth rate of 4-5 percent
for more than 20 years. And compared
with Japan and the ROK, China’s econo-
my is bigger and more resilient, and its
vast underdeveloped central and western
regions still have huge growth potential.
In terms of growth dynamism, China’s
market players remain very active. By the
end of 2019, the number of newly regis-
tered market players nationwide was
23.774 million, an increase of 2.27 million
or 10.6 percent over the previous year.
And now that China has effectively con-
tained the virus, its economic vitality is
expected to further increase in the second
half of the year.
Moreover, thanks to China’s huge work-
force and developed digital economy, a
large number of new internet services have
come to the fore. And the further develop-
ment of these new forms of businesses,
especially those of new production and liv-
ing services expected in the post-COVID-19
era, will narrow the existing digital divide
while helping low-income people get jobs
and increase their incomes.
Yet, as the digital economy has already
extended to all sectors of society, its poten-
tial to further propel economic growth is
on the wane. New, disruptive and revolu-
tionary technologies, however, are still in
their infancy and can become a new driv-
ing force for sustained growth. In this con-
text, emerging countries can take
advantage of their faster development
rate and economic vitality to realize the
new technological revolution earlier than
the traditional technological powers to
ensure sustained growth.
As for traditional macro-economic driv-
ers, consumption has now become the
ballast of China’s steady growth. Due to
the combination of a series of macroeco-
nomic policy tools, China’s household
income growth is expected to be higher
than its overall economic growth, which
will lead to sustainable growth in its final
household consumption.
Since China’s better-than-expected
Adriel Kasonta
Will EU resist the anti-China virus spread by US?
I
n these unprecedented and unpre-
dictable times, the ongoing tensions
between Washington and Beijing
have had an impact on the Europe-
an Union’s relations with China.
The United States has been putting
more and more pressure on its allies and
friendly countries in the region to join its
tug of war against China, which the US
administration sees as “a fight with a real-
ly different civilization and a different
ideology” — as argued in 2019 by the
former director of policy planning at the
State Department, Kiron Skinner.
With the numerous trips made by US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Euro-
pean countries clearly aimed at forming a
broad anti-China coalition around the
world, China is worried that it would be
forced on the back foot in Europe and
therefore is trying to manage the US-in-
flicted crisis in its relations with Brussels.
In achieving this goal, China’s State
Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi
recently visited Italy, the Netherlands,
Norway, France and Germany. Wang’s trip
was followed by the visits of Yang Jiechi,
China’s top diplomat, to Spain and Greece
in early September.
Although Wang was able to secure
mutually beneficial deals, it was not a
smooth state of affairs and as he met with
a telling change in the tone of EU leaders
who have started voicing similar concerns
to those across the Atlantic. The best
example was a confrontational attempt
by a group of Dutch lawmakers to invite
Wang to a meeting with the legislature’s
imports and exports in the first half of
2020 were mainly due to the slower
resumption of production and other eco-
nomic activities in the Unites States and
European countries, the rising external
uncertainties should remind China to fol-
low a “dual circulation” development pat-
tern, which is centered on the domestic
economy (or “internal circulation”) and
aims to integrate the domestic economy
with the global economy (or “external cir-
culation”), in order to reduce its depend-
ence on foreign trade and foster
endogenous growth driven by rising
domestic consumption. This will ensure
China grows at a medium-high rate in the
medium to long term.
The fluctuation in China’s potential
growth rate has been slowing, especially
after 1997, which shows the government’s
capability to implement scientific eco-
foreign affairs committee to discuss
human rights issues, which he declined.
During his final stop in Germany, Wang
also met with criticism from his German
counterpart Heiko Maas for his “threaten-
ing” comment against Czech Senate
Speaker Milos Vystrcil related to his con-
troversial trip to Taiwan.
Maas made clear that Europe has no
desire to “become a political football in
the great-power rivalry between the US,
Russia, and China”, but the actions of
European politicians such as Vystrcil, as
well as the calls to scrap the national
security law in the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, suggest other-
wise, even though the exclusive News-
week poll conducted in July by London-
based polling firm Redfield & Wilton
Strategies has shown that more people in
Hong Kong see the United States — rather
than the Chinese mainland — as a threat
to the highly autonomous SAR.
What we are seeing in Europe at the
moment is a fruit of the Washington-
sowed mistrust toward Beijing, which
translates into fear of China’s growing role
on the world stage and dissatisfaction
with the argument over market access
between Chinese and EU companies.
The very attitude resonates with the con-
cerns of BusinessEurope, a grouping of
business federations from 35 European
countries, which it voiced in the report
published early this year titled “The EU and
China: Addressing the Systemic Challenge”.
The 2019 Strategic Outlook, endorsed
by all EU member states, appears to be
nomic policies to minimize risks. China’s
well-judged responses to the Asian finan-
cial crisis, the global financial crisis and
the COVID-19 pandemic all highlight the
value of its scientific decision-making.
And since China is not expected to make
any irrational deviation from the existing
development policies, it has the institu-
tional and policy guarantees to achieve
healthy growth in medium to long term.
But to achieve medium-high growth, Chi-
na has to take certain measures.
First, it should continuously push for
market-oriented reforms, allow the mar-
ket to play a decisive role in resource allo-
cation, promote the circulation of
production factors in the domestic mar-
ket, and take steps to encourage market
entities to play a bigger role in economic
development.
Second, China should make scientific
the cornerstone of this new agenda and
describes China as “an economic compet-
itor in pursuit of technological leadership
and a systemic rival promoting alterna-
tive models of governance”.
Although the 22nd EU-China meeting
was postponed due to the pandemic and
took place online later than initially
scheduled, the EU’s high-level officials
emphasized during their e-meeting with
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that trade
plays a central role in EU-China relations,
with the EU being China’s largest trading
partner, and China being the EU’s second-
largest trading partner, after the US. The
same was stressed during the 8th High-
Level Trade and Economic Dialogue.
With the EU and China trading about
€1 billion ($1.18 billion) worth per day,
and Chinese foreign direct investment in
Europe totalling €1.7 billion in 2018, it’s
perfectly understandable why some EU
member states are highly reluctant to
pick sides against Beijing.
Bearing in mind that at least 37 million
of people have been displaced as a direct
result of the US’ so-called war on terror,
as the recent Brown University’s report
suggests, as well as the estimated popula-
tion explosion in Africa leading to huge
migration pressure on Europe, it may
well be true that “Europeans, mistakenly
in my view, keep assuming their core
strategic interests are aligned with those
of the United States”, as Kishore Mahbu-
bani, an academic and former Singapore
diplomat, suggested in his interview with
China Daily in May this year.
SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY
decisions to minimize, if not altogether
prevent, the adverse impacts of exogenous
shocks on the economy and rule out sys-
temic risks.
Third, it should make efforts to expand
the coverage of social security policies,
improve the income distribution pattern,
and lay the foundation for an endogenous
demand-oriented economic growth model.
And last, the country needs to strength-
en basic research, streamline the innova-
tion mechanism, promote the application
of research results in businesses, and
make concerted efforts to realize a new
technological revolution.
The author is a researcher at the Institute
of Economics, the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences.
The views don’t necessarily reflect those of
China Daily.
On Monday, the EU-China leaders’
meeting via video link presented a unique
opportunity for Beijing to address Brus-
sels’ concerns and make concrete com-
mitments which may help it regain the
EU’s full trust. Indeed, at the meeting Chi-
na and the EU leaders decided to hold
talks on the environment and climate,
and communicate more in the digital
field, to build their green and digital
cooperative partnerships.
This decision was made during the
China-Germany-EU leaders’ meeting,
which was co-hosted by Chinese Presi-
dent Xi Jinping, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, European Council Presi-
dent Charles Michel and European Com-
mission President Ursula von der Leyen
via video link.
In particular, President Xi said that Chi-
na and the EU should adhere to peaceful
coexistence, openness and cooperation,
multilateralism, as well as dialogue and
consultation for the sound and stable
development of their relations.
This should help increase Europe’s
immunity to the virus being spread by the
US administration which, like the novel
coronavirus, poses a serious threat to the
well-being of the continent’s inhabitants.
The author, former chairman of the Inter-
national Affairs Committee at the Bow
Group think tank, is a London-based for-
eign affairs analyst and commentator,
and founder of AK Consultancy.
The views don’t necessarily reflect those of
China Daily.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 9
Zhu Songling
Tsai sells interests
of residents to buy
American support
S
ome media reports say the United
States administration is reviewing the
schedule of under-secretary of state
Keith Krach’s planned visit to Taiwan
on Sept 17-19 to attend so-called high-level
economic talks with the island leaders.
Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen’s administra-
tion announced in late August that Taiwan
will open up its market from next year to US
pork with ractopamine, a feed additive to
promote leanness in animals raised for their
meat, and US beef more than 30 months old,
despite fears that the slaughtered pigs and
cattle could be infected by mad cow disease.
The decision has caused an outcry across
the island, with pig farmers threatening to
take to the streets in protest. To contain the
mounting protests, some politicians have
chosen to speak frankly, saying the decision
to import US meat is part of a political
exchange for bolstering Taiwan’s standing
globally with Washington’s help.
That agricultural states are big vote banks
for Republicans is well known. Hence, the US
administration has been trying to increase
the export of US farm products .
But by pandering to the US politicians to
purchase pork with ractopamine and beef
with high risk of infection, the island’s ruling
Democratic Progressive Party has put the
health and lives of Taiwan compatriots in dan-
ger, especially because more than 160 econo-
mies including the Chinese mainland have
banned the import of pork with ractopamine.
Indeed, it is naïve of Taiwan leaders to
believe the US is promoting economic
exchanges for the island’s good.
Seven decades of ups and
downs across the Straits have
shown that peaceful
development is key to
resolving the differences
between the two sides and
boosting the island’s
economic growth.
Since taking office in 2016, Tsai has been
pushing her “Taiwan independence” agenda
ruining the fruits of years of peaceful devel-
opment across the Straits. To begin with,
without acknowledging the 1992 Consensus
that there is only one China, Tsai has all but
destroyed the political foundation for official
exchanges across the Straits.
Also, rejecting the plan of peaceful reunifica-
tion, the Tsai administration has instead taken
huge amounts of loan to buy weapons from
the US, has been portraying the mainland as
an enemy, and defrauding Taiwan residents —
as well as violating laws, manipulating admin-
istrative means to gain political benefits and
cracking down on political rivals.
And by enacting a series of laws including
the “national security law” and “anti-infiltra-
tion law”, the Tsai administration has created
“green terror” on the island, stopping the
island’s residents from contacting their main-
land compatriots while taking measures to
sever ties between the mainland and Taiwan.
More recently, the Tsai administration has
taken administrative measures to deter civil
society and Taiwan residents from attending
the Straits Forum held in Fujian province
annually since 2009 to promote people-to-
people exchanges across the Straits.
Seven decades of ups and downs across the
Straits have shown that peaceful development
is key to resolving the differences between the
two sides and boosting the island’s economic
growth. Yet despite Tsai’s desperate efforts to
sever all ties with the mainland, statistics
show that cross-Straits trade and Taiwan’s
trade surplus with the mainland reached new
highs in the first half of the year.
Rising cross-Straits trade indicates that
neither natural calamities like the COVID-19
pandemic nor man-made disasters the Tai-
wan secessionists are scheming to cause
would hinder cross-Straits economic
exchanges and the historical trend of nation-
al reunification.
The Tsai authorities intend to sell the inter-
ests of Taiwan residents — by opening up the
island’s market to US pork with ractopamine
and beef, and buying obsolete weapons from
the US — in exchange for Washington’s stra-
tegic and trade “support”, but the White
House has never explicitly agreed to sign a
free trade or two-way trade agreement with
the island. The US’ assurances in this regard
have remained on paper, so have its promises
to bolster the island’s image globally.
History tells us that the only way Tsai can
truly make progress in the economic and
social fields is by improving the island’s rela-
tions with the mainland. If the Tsai adminis-
tration treads the right path, it will lead the
island toward a better future. But if it chooses
the wrong path, it will drag Taiwan to a point
of no return.
The author is a professor at the Institute of
Taiwan Studies, Beijing Union University.
The views don’t necessarily represent those of
China Daily.
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WORLD
Russia throws $1.5b credit lifeline to ally Belarus
By REN QI in Moscow
renqi@chinadaily.com.cn
Russian President Vladimir Putin
pledged a $1.5 billion loan to Belarus
during a meeting with his Belaru-
sian counterpart Alexander Lukash-
enko on Monday.
The meeting at a Black Sea resort
in the southern Russian city of
Sochi was the two leaders’ first face-
to-face talks since Lukashenko won
a sixth term in a presidential elec-
tion last month.
Putin said he hopes constitutional
reforms planned by Lukashenko
will help settle the crisis in Belarus.
He reiterated Moscow’s position
that the Belarusian people, in a
calm atmosphere enabling dialogue
among themselves, can reach a
common decision, without any
prompts and pressure from outside.
He added that Russia views Bela-
rus as its closest ally and will fulfill
all the obligations it has assumed in
relation to its neighbor.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman
ADB sees downturn persisting for developing Asia
MANILA — Developing econo-
mies in Asia, stretching from the
Cook Islands in the Pacific to
Kazakhstan in Central Asia, will
contract in 2020, the first such
downturn in nearly 60 years, the
Asian Development Bank said on
Tuesday in an update to its forecasts.
The update of the ADB’s outlook
estimates the regional economy will
contract 0.7 percent this year, recov-
ering to 6.8 percent growth in 2021.
Conditions could deteriorate fur-
ther, however, if the coronavirus
pandemic worsens significantly, the
regional lender said.
The update downgrades growth
estimates for many regional coun-
tries, where outbreaks of coronavirus
have surged in some countries, such
as the Philippines and Indonesia.
The report said that China has
already begun to recover and will see
its economy grow 1.8 percent this year
and 7.7 percent in 2021. The 6.1 per-
cent growth for China’s economy in
2019 was the slowest pace in decades.
Asia’s status as a production base
for many medical products, digital
devices and optical equipment helped
to cushion the blow to trade from the
pandemic downturn, the report said.
Opposition to Brexit-bending bill grows despite vote
By EARLE GALE in London
earle@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Several British politicians,
including lawmakers from Prime
Minister Boris Johnson’s ruling
Conservative Party, have said a pro-
posed bill that would give the gov-
ernment the power to break
international law risks seriously
damaging the nation’s reputation.
The warnings were made before,
during, and after a five-hour
debate in the House of Commons
on Monday night that the govern-
ment won by 340 votes to 263, a
comfortable margin that belies the
controversy surrounding the Inter-
nal Market Bill.
House of Commons committees
will now debate the proposed legis-
lation in detail before it returns to
the main chamber for another vote.
The bill, which allows the govern-
ment to override parts of the Brexit
Dmitry Peskov had said cooperation
on oil and gas, state debts and other
economic ties in the Belarus-Russia
“union state” would be discussed in
the meeting, but no joint documents
would be signed.
“We have agreed that Russia will
provide a state credit amounting to
$1.5 billion to Belarus in this chal-
lenging situation, and we will do it,”
Putin was quoted as saying by Rus-
sian state news agency Tass. “As far
as I know our finance ministers are
addressing that issue at the profes-
sional level.”
Putin said he hopes that the
announcement of the Russian loan
to Belarus will be viewed as positive
on the financial markets.
“It is no coincidence that I men-
tioned the loan that Russia is plan-
ning to provide to Belarus in the
near future. I hope this will have an
effect on the financial markets in a
proper manner,” he said.
The Russian president also sug-
gested to his Belarusian counterpart
that efforts should be made to
A vendor selling traditional Indian snacks looks for customers along
a street in the old quarter of New Delhi on Tuesday. JEWEL SAMAD / AFP
Nonetheless, the downturn is the
worst since the early 1960s, the
report added.
“This has set back efforts to lift
hundreds of millions of people in our
region out of poverty,” said the ADB’s
chief economist, Yasuyuki Sawada.
Governments in many countries
have imposed border controls, lock-
downs and other restrictions to
withdrawal agreement that the
United Kingdom reached with the
European Union last year, has been
criticized by five former prime min-
isters.
The fact that the Conservative
Party has 364 lawmakers in the
650-seat Parliament meant the gov-
ernment was never in danger of los-
ing the vote but, with two
Conservative MPs voting against
the bill and around 30 abstaining,
the episode will have embarrassed
the government.
Roger Gale, one of those who
voted against the bill, said it would
diminish the nation’s standing.
“I think that this is damaging our
international reputation for honest
and straight dealing at a time when
we are about to embark on a series
of trade negotiations,” he said on
the BBC’s Newsnight program. “I
took a view that you fight this tooth
and nail at every step.”
restore trade, which had decreased
due to the pandemic.
“We now have the opportunity to
talk about everything in a calm
manner, but first of all, we should
discuss economic issues,” said Putin,
adding that the two countries will
continue to fight the coronavirus
together, and jointly overcome the
difficulties facing the economy.
Lukashenko thanked Putin and
all Russians “who support us during
this postelection time”.
He said the Belarusian opposition
has not yet overstepped the bounda-
ries of acceptable actions.
Military cooperation
In the meantime, according to the
BBC, Putin reiterated the impor-
tance of military cooperation with
Belarus, and said he has a Russian
police force ready to intervene if the
protests get out of control.
Peskov stressed to media after
the meeting that Russia’s new loan
cannot be interpreted as Moscow’s
interference in the affairs of Minsk.
stem the spread of the coronavirus
and prevent more outbreaks. But
such measures come at a huge eco-
nomic cost.
To help compensate, regional gov-
ernments have promised $3.6 tril-
lion, equivalent to about 15 percent
of regional economic activity, in sub-
sidies, loans and other support for
individuals and businesses.
He predicted other Conservative
Party MPs will join the revolt at the
next stage.
Fellow Conservative MP Andrew
Mitchell said it would cause “incal-
culable damage to our reputation
all around the world”.
And the BBC reported that Sajid
Javid, a former chancellor of the
exchequer, said he will vote against
it at the next stage, if it is not
improved.
‘Serious error’
William Hague, a former leader of
the Conservative Party, wrote in the
Daily Telegraph newspaper it
amounts to “a serious foreign policy
error” that would have “a lasting
and damaging effect on our interna-
tional reputation and standing,
diminishing our ability to exert our
influence and protect our interests”.
But the government said the bill is
needed to ensure the free flow of
Art with heart
People pose for photographs in
front of a giant heart at the
Potsdamer Platz as part of the
yearly Festival of Lights in Berlin
on Monday. The open-air light
art gallery, with more than 90
works of art in 86 locations
throughout the German capital,
will last until Sunday.
JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP
Part of the new loan that Russia is
to provide to Belarus will be intend-
ed to refinance the country’s exist-
ing debts, he said.
The pandemic, along with the
conflicts between the government
and opposition, has sharpened the
focus on Belarus’ debt problems.
Lukashenko said at the end of
August that Belarus would negotiate
with Russia the refinancing of the
republic’s state debt worth $1 billion.
Russian Finance Minister Anton
Siluanov said later that the terms
and amount of the credit were dis-
cussed at the level of financial bodies.
Belarusian Finance Minister Yuri
Seliverstov said earlier that the
country is to repay a total of around
$3.6 billion of its foreign exchange
debt this year, of which $2 billion has
already been paid.
According to data provided by the
country’s Finance Ministry, Belarus’
external debt amounted to $18 bil-
lion as of July.
Xinhua contributed to this story.
But small companies that account
for most business in the region are
short of capital to weather the crisis,
the ADB said. It expects a recovery
to be “L-shaped”, or “swoosh-
shaped”, rather than V-shaped.
Even with a recovery, economies
will be “substantially below expecta-
tions before COVID-19”, Sawada said.
A prolonged pandemic could put
countries into debt crises or desta-
bilize their financial markets, the
report said.
“Another risk would be worsening
geopolitical tensions, most notably
potential for US–PRC (China) fric-
tion over trade and technology to
intensify,” it said.
South and Southeast Asian coun-
tries have seen some of the worst
devastation from the pandemic,
with Malaysia, the Philippines, Sing-
apore and Thailand logging double-
digit contractions in the April-June
quarter from a year earlier. All of
those economies are expected to
shrink by 5 percent or more this year.
Strong government spending will
be crucial to support their recover-
ies, the report said.
AGENCIES VIA XINHUA
goods and services between
England, Northern Ireland, Scot-
land, and Wales after the UK stops
following EU rules at the end of the
year.
And it insisted it will only be
needed if the UK and the EU fail to
agree a free-trade deal.
Johnson vowed he has “absolutely
no desire” to use its powers.
“It’s a protection, it’s a safety net,
it’s an insurance policy, and it’s a
very sensible measure,” he told MPs.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, who
supported the bill, said on Radio 4’s
Today program that the govern-
ment continues to work hard to “set-
tle on our future relationship” with
the EU and ensure the bill is not
needed.
Sky News said that, if the bill
clears the House of Commons as
expected, it will be debated in the
House of Lords, where it is likely to
face even more opposition.
Xi’s remarks
on China-EU
ties applauded
Experts say meeting shows Brussels’
growing self-confidence in Asia policy
By CHEN WEIHUA in Brussels
chenweihua@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese and European leaders
are determined to uphold multilat-
eralism and international coopera-
tion when unilateralism,
protectionism and a global eco-
nomic slowdown threaten the
world, experts said after a leaders’
online meeting.
President Xi Jinping held a two-
hour video talk with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe-
an Council President Charles
Michel and European Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen on
Monday.
“I feel that today we had a good,
open and honest dialogue which
should be continued,” Merkel told a
news conference after the meeting.
Michel said the meeting repre-
sents another step forward in forg-
ing a more balanced relationship
with China.
“We strive for a relationship that
delivers on our mutual commit-
ments that generate concrete
results for both sides, results that
are also good for the world,” he said.
Von der Leyen described the talk
as “frank and open, and construct-
ive and intense”.
The meeting covered a wide
range of issues from trade and
investment, climate change and
biodiversity to the response to the
COVID-19 pandemic and interna-
tional affairs.
Shada Islam, head of the New
Horizons Project, a Brussels-based
global strategy and advisory firm,
said that in language, style and for-
mat, this was an important EU-Chi-
na meeting showing that despite
their well-known differences, Bei-
jing and Brussels are determined to
keep the channels of communica-
tion open and to make the case for
multilateralism and international
cooperation in the face of a worry-
ing global economic slowdown.
“It’s no secret that the EU wants
a bilateral investment deal with
China by the end of the year and is
currently linking progress on such
an agreement to the conclusion of
an EU-China Strategic Agenda for
Cooperation 2025, a key Chinese
demand,” she said.
Negotiations for the Compre-
hensive Agreement on Investment,
or CAI, first started in 2014, have
speeded up this year, with the next
round scheduled for Sept 21-25.
Chinese and EU business commu-
nities have recently both urged an
early conclusion of the agreement.
“The meeting with China is
another illustration of the EU’s
Briefly
JAPAN
Suga sticks with
Cabinet continuity
The new head of Japan’s ruling par-
ty, Yoshihide Suga, in line to become
the next prime minister, appeared
set on Tuesday to continue his pre-
decessor’s policies by keeping key
Cabinet ministers and party offi-
cials in their posts, as he had prom-
ised. Suga, the chief Cabinet
secretary under outgoing Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday
won a landslide victory to take over
the Liberal Democratic Party. He
pledged to carry on many of Abe’s
programs, including his “Abenom-
ics” strategy. Finance Minister Taro
Aso and Foreign Minister Toshimit-
su Motegi are likely to stay in their
positions, media predicted.
IRAN
Assassination plot
claim called ‘baseless’
The Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesman on Monday dismissed
the report of an assassination plot
as “baseless” and part of “repetitive
and rotten methods to create an
anti-Iranian atmosphere on the
international stage”. A US media
CHINA DAILY
growing self-confidence in its
Asia policy and willingness to
stand apart and aside from the US
and its increasingly acrimonious
relationship with Beijing,” Shada
told China Daily.
Ding Chun, director of the Cen-
ter for European Studies at Fudan
University, said the meeting is of
great significance to deepen coop-
eration and manage and control
differences amid the raging pan-
demic and high tensions between
China and the United States.
He noted the two sides have
voiced their support for multilat-
eralism and free trade and opposi-
tion to unilateralism, having
reached consensus on cooperation
in global governance, expanding
bilateral cooperation and taking
care of each other’s concerns.
High-level talks
“The highlight of the meeting is
the reiteration to conclude the CAI
by the end of the year, the introduc-
tion of high-level talks on environ-
ment, climate and digital fields,
and China’s proposal to reduce mis-
understanding through dialogue,
to resolve difficult issues through
development, and to properly man-
age differences,” Ding said.
On Monday, China and the EU
signed an agreement to protect
100 Chinese “geographical indica-
tions”, or GIs, in the EU and 100
European GIs in China. The EU
said the deal reflected the commit-
ment of both sides to “deliver on
their commitment taken at previ-
ous EU-China summits and to
adhere to international rules as a
basis for trade relations”.
According to the EU, the Chi-
nese market has high-growth
potential for European food and
drinks exports. In 2019, China was
the third destination for EU agri-
food products, reaching a value of
14.5 billion euros ($17.2 billion).
Fraser Cameron, director of the
EU-Asia Center, said leaders wel-
comed the GIs pact and hoped, as
they have for several years now, to
conclude the important investment
agreement by the end of the year.
The meeting “showed the EU
was ready, able and willing to
defend its interests and values
without any prompting from
across the Atlantic”, he said, refer-
ring to the EU’s stance that it does
not want to be forced to take sides
between Beijing and Washington.
In a Monday op-ed on Politico,
Shada said: “Asian leaders want a
Europe that can think and speak
for itself, not one that walks in
America’s shadow.”
report, quoting unnamed officials,
said that the alleged Iranian plot to
assassinate the US ambassador to
South Africa was planned before
the presidential election in Novem-
ber as Iran looked to avenge the kill-
ing of general Qasem Soleimani. US
President Donald Trump warned
that any attack by Iran would be
met with a response “1,000 times
greater in magnitude”.
UNITED STATES
Scientists buoyed
by Venus gas find
Scientists have detected a gas
called “phosphine” in the toxic
atmosphere of Venus, a gas linked
to the presence of life on Earth. In
an article published on Monday in
Nature Astronomy, a group of sci-
entists said they used telescopes in
the US state of Hawaii and Chile’s
Atacama Desert to observe Venus’
upper cloud deck, around 60 kilo-
meters from the surface, and traced
the apparent presence of phos-
phine gas. The head of NASA hail-
ed the discovery as “the most
significant development yet” in the
hunt for extraterrestrial life.
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 CHINA DAILY
WORLD
Europeans
warned of
more deaths
WHO says fall will get worse, fueling
doubts over UK’s fresh virus curbs
By CHINA DAILY
Europe will face a rising death
toll from the coronavirus during
the fall, the World Health Organi-
zation has warned, as the number
of daily infections around the
world reached a record high.
Globally, more than 29.27 mil-
lion people have been reported to
be infected by the novel coronavi-
rus and 926,716 have died as of
early Tuesday, according to a Reu-
ters tally.
“It’s going to get tougher. In
October, November, we are going
to see more mortality,” WHO
Europe Director Hans Kluge said
in an interview on Monday.
But he stressed that the pan-
demic was “going to finish, at one
moment or another”, as the 55
members of the WHO in Europe
started a two-day online meeting
focusing on their response to the
virus.
The latest surge has sparked
alarm across Europe. A Czech
expert warned that his country’s
health system faces being over-
whelmed if the virus continues to
spread at its current rate.
It has also reheated the debate
over how best to respond to the
rise in infections, with the United
Kingdom limiting social gather-
ings to no more than six people
from Monday.
A new “rule of six” limit on
social gatherings has been intro-
duced across parts of the UK
amid increasing concerns about
the government’s handling of the
novel coronavirus, as infection
rates continue to rise.
The specific details of the new
restriction, banning gatherings of
more than six people, differ in
England, Scotland and Wales.
Having been announced last
week to come into force this week,
the details were only published
online 15 minutes before the mid-
night deadline of when it was due
to come into effect.
In England and Scotland, the
rule applies indoors and out-
doors, but in Wales, it is indoors
only. In England, it applies to all
ages, but in Wales, children aged
under 11 are exempt, and in Scot-
land, the cut off point is age 12.
Furthermore, it applies in private
homes, and places such as pubs, res-
taurants, cafes and public outdoor
spaces. But the rule does not apply
in schools or workplaces, or at orga-
nized team sports or events such as
weddings and funerals.
A man walks past signage about COVID-19 and social distancing
in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday. ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP
Chartered flight from California welcomed as business spur
By MAY ZHOU in Houston
mayzhou@chinadailyusa.com
The arrival in Beijing of a char-
tered flight from the United States
on Sunday — the first such flight
since coronavirus travel restric-
tions began in March — has been
welcomed on the business front.
Some 87 business executives and
their families were aboard the flight
from San Francisco in California. It
In Scotland, the rule can
include a maximum of two
households but in Wales it only
covers one extended household.
When asked on the BBC Radio
4 Today program if people should
inform the police if they observed
the rules being flouted, Policing
Minister Kit Malthouse said: “It
is open to neighbors to do exactly
that through the nonemergency
number.
“And if they are concerned and
they do see that kind of thing,
then absolutely they should think
about it.”
Sunday was the fifth-straight
day that the number of new cases
across the UK topped 3,000, with
3,300 new cases recorded, and
five fatalities. As of early Tuesday,
the country has reported 371,125
infections.
Decisive action needed
Chaand Nagpaul, council
chairman of the British Medical
Association, told Sky News deci-
sive action was vital now, or there
would be more trouble ahead.
“With daily cases still alarming-
ly high, and winter just around the
corner, we are at a critical cross-
roads in the fight against this
deadly virus,” he said.
“All efforts must be made to
avoid a repeat of the horror and
tragedy we all experienced earlier
this year.”
Meanwhile, documents seen by
the Sunday Times newspaper
show that the British COVID-19
testing system has been so over-
whelmed by demand that sam-
ples are having to be sent to Italy
and Germany to be tested.
The government claims that its
“world-beating” system would be
able to handle 375,000 tests each
day, but according to the docu-
ments, at the start of the month
437,000 people were being tested
per week, which works out as
62,000 a day.
The potential spreading of
infection in care homes is a partic-
ular concern, so the government
has made test availability in the
sector a particularly high priority.
Adar Poonawalla, the chief
executive of Serum Institute of
India has said there will not be
enough COVID-19 vaccines for
everyone in the world to be inoc-
ulated until the end of 2024 at the
earliest.
Agencies and Julian Shea in
London contributed to this story.
had been organized by the American
Chamber of Commerce in China.
The business chamber, also
known as AmCham China, said it
had worked for months on the
arrangement to get the executives
and their families back to China for
business operations.
The plane, which left San Fran-
cisco on Saturday, stopped in
Tokyo before reaching Beijing on
Sunday afternoon. The passengers,
A firefighter examines the remains of a burned-out house on Monday in Estacada, Oregon. Multiple
wildfires continued to burn as thousands stayed in evacuation centers across the West. NATHAN HOWARD / AFP
Biden calls Trump a ‘climate arsonist’
as US leader visits fire-ravaged West
By ANDREW COHEN in New York
andrewcohen@chinadailyusa.com
US President Donald Trump
arrived in California on Monday for
briefings on the devastating wild-
fires scorching the Western US, aft-
er criticism from his Democrat
rivals on his alleged muted response
to the disaster.
Democratic presidential candi-
date Joe Biden, in a speech that day,
branded Trump a “climate arsonist”
for failing to acknowledge the role
of global warming in the disaster.
Wildfires across Oregon, Califor-
nia and Washington have destroyed
thousands of homes and a half doz-
en small towns since August,
scorching more than 1.6 million
hectares and killing at least 35 peo-
ple. Fifty are reported missing in
Oregon alone.
Nearly 90 wildfires are raging
across the Western US, including
three of the largest wildfires in Cali-
fornia’s history.
In recent comments, Trump has
said poor “forest management” was
primarily to blame for the uncon-
trolled blazes.
Upon his arrival in Sacramento to
meet California Governor Gavin
Newsom amid the smell of smoke in
the air, Trump, in brushing off a
reporter who asked if climate
change was a factor in the fires,
said: “I think this is more of a man-
agement situation.”
Citing the experiences of other
countries, he said: “They have very
explosive trees, but they don’t have
problems like this.”
Biden, criticized by Republicans
Huawei opens innovation hub in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia — Chinese
tech giant Huawei opened an inno-
vations and development center in
the Serbian capital on Monday in
the presence of Prime Minister
Ana Brnabic, who sees it as an
immense contribution to the digi-
tal transformation of the country’s
economy.
At the opening event in Bel-
grade, Brnabic toured the new cen-
ter, accompanied by Chinese
Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo,
and Li Mengqun, president of
Huawei Western Balkans.
Brnabic said the center will help
Serbia further accelerate its digital
transformation, which has been
among the key priorities of her gov-
ernment, and boost innovation and
creativity in the Serbian economy.
“Large international companies
have an immense role in the digital
transformation of our economy,
along with our educational system
and local innovative and startup
who ranged in age from newborns
to 81, were either AmCham China
members or their extended fami-
lies. They took a group photo at the
boarding gate before taking off.
“We are thrilled to support so
many members’ journey back to
China, so that they can resume
their work and lives here,” said
AmCham China President Alan
Beebe. “We are also proud that the
Beijing government chose our
for not visiting disaster areas, spoke
from Delaware on the threat of
extreme weather that climate scien-
tists have said is supercharging fires.
“If we have four more years of
Trump’s climate denial, how many
suburbs will be burned in wild-
fires?” Biden asked. “How many
suburban neighborhoods will have
been flooded out? How many sub-
urbs will have been blown away in
superstorms?”
Increasing frequency
While in California, the presi-
dent maintained his long-standing
position that global warming is a
hoax that has little to with the
increased frequency and severity of
wildfires in recent years.
“It’ll start getting cooler. You just
watch,” Trump on Monday told
Wade Crowfoot, a top California
state environmental official.
“I wish science agreed with you,”
Crowfoot responded.
“I don’t think science knows,
actually,” the president said.
Campaigning in Nevada over the
weekend, Trump blamed forest
management for the current crisis.
Last month he threatened to with-
hold federal aid from California for
not implementing his ideas on for-
est management.
Newsom acknowledged that his
state had not done enough to man-
age forests and that more than 100
years of fire suppression had
allowed fuel to build up.
But he said global warming was
driving fires and told Trump that 57
percent of forests in the state were
under federal management and
companies. Such partners are of
key importance to us, and one of
the best and biggest of them is cer-
tainly the Chinese company Hua-
wei,” she said.
According to Brnabic, Serbia’s
cooperation with Huawei is not
limited only to 5G networks. She
highlighted the three main aspects
of the cooperation — introduction
of artificial intelligence, digitaliza-
tion of education and introduction
of smart cities across Serbia.
Another breakthrough
In their speeches, both Brnabic
and Chen pointed out the new cen-
ter is yet another breakthrough in
the comprehensive strategic part-
nership between the two countries.
“The digital industry in China
plays a significant role in economic
development. And now Serbia is in
the process of digitalization devel-
opment,” said the ambassador.
“Chinese companies are ready to
flight as the first charter to fly
directly into the capital.”
AmCham China had first sur-
veyed members to find out where
most of them were located and
then negotiated with the Beijing
government, which approved the
chartered flight at the end of
August.
After completing health checks
and passing through customs, the
passengers were transported in sev-
that only 3 percent of land in Cali-
fornia was under state control.
“We’ve known each other too long,
and as you suggest, (we have a) work-
ing relationship I value,” Newsom
told Trump. “We obviously feel very
strongly that the hots are getting hot-
ter. The dries are getting drier.”
Newsom continued: “And so I
think there’s an area of at least com-
monality on vegetation, forest man-
agement. But please respect — and I
know you do — the difference of
opinion out here as it relates to this
fundamental issue on the issue of
climate change.”
Trump, who has authorized fed-
eral disaster aid for California and
Oregon, questioned that science.
Trump announced in 2017 that he
would begin to pull the US out of the
Paris Agreement on combating
global warming. Biden says climate
change is on his list of major crises
facing the US.
“Talk to a firefighter if you think
that climate change isn’t real,” said
Democratic Los Angeles Mayor
Eric Garcetti on CNN’s State of the
Union on Sunday. “It seems like
this administration are the last
vestiges of the Flat Earth Society of
this generation.”
In 2018, a major scientific report
issued by 13 federal agencies con-
cluded that greenhouse gas emis-
sions from burning fossil fuels
could triple the frequency of severe
fires across the US West and could
reduce the national economy by as
much as 10 percent by the end of
the century.
Agencies contributed to this story.
share their technology and experi-
ence with Serbian partners. I am
sure that such cooperation will be
useful for both sides.”
Noting that Huawei has been in
the country for 15 years, Li said
the new development center has
five core value propositions — tal-
ent nurturing, ecosystem, smart
solutions, localization, and agile
innovation.
“We call this the ‘Tesla’ proposi-
tion, named after (Nikola Tesla),
one of the greatest inventors and
physicists born and raised right
here in the Balkans. Huawei has
high hopes for the role that the
center will play in digital transfor-
mation,” Li said.
“Together, we can make Serbia
a world leader in the digital era
with ubiquitous connectivity, dig-
ital platforms, and pervasive
intelligence.”
XINHUA
en buses with a police escort to a
designated hotel in Beijing, where
they are spending two weeks in
quarantine. The Beijing govern-
ment said all the passengers tested
negative for the novel coronavirus.
AmCham says it has on its books
4,000 executives from 900 US com-
panies that operate in China.
Most of the US companies in
China remained profitable last
year despite the trade frictions
between Beijing and Washington.
They are committed to staying in a
market that is too big to fail, a sur-
vey conducted by AmCham shows.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 11
China hears
support for
coronavirus
measures
By RENA LI in Toronto
renali@chinadailyusa.com
Canadian Health Minister Patty
Hajdu has defended China for its job
in handling the COVID-19 pandemic,
according to Canadian media.
Asked whether China was “hon-
est” and “forthcoming” in the intelli-
gence it shared with the global
community about the risks of the
novel coronavirus, Hajdu said all
countries have difficulties calculat-
ing the extent of a virus’ spread.
“Look, very early on, China alerted
the World Health Organization
(WHO) to the emergence of a novel
coronavirus and also shared the
sequencing of the gene, which
allowed countries to be able to rapid-
ly produce tests to be able to detect it
in their own countries,” Hajdu said
on The West Block.
“I think the phe-
nomenon of under-
reporting is going
to be something
that we hear about
across the world
because, of course,
Patty Hajdu
as pandemics come
and as we see sur-
ges,” she said. “It’s
very difficult to determine how many
people are sick at a given time and
how many people are having adverse
outcomes.”
‘Incredible demand’
Hajdu said every country has
been grappling with the “incredible
demand” on data systems, and it is
difficult when people are in the
middle of a crisis to do thorough
accounting.
With a population of 1.4 billion
people, China has reported more
than 85,000 coronavirus cases and
4,634 deaths. Canada, however, with
roughly 34 million, has logged
135,259 cases and 9,163 deaths. The
United States, which has become the
global epicenter for the pandemic,
has reported 6.4 million cases and
192,381 deaths among its population
of 328 million.
The virus was first detected
spreading in Wuhan in late Decem-
ber last year, although some reports
from the United States suggest there
may have been earlier cases.
Asked whether that was an “hon-
est mistake” by the Chinese and not a
“deliberate effort to conceal”, Hajdu
said she was not going to “speculate”
as minister of health.
“I can tell you that when every-
thing is happening all at once, it
can be very difficult, especially
depending on the legacy data sys-
tems that you may or may not
have,” she said.
“What I can say is the world needs
to work together right now, and we
need to ensure we’re working in full
partnership to defeat COVID-19.”
Hajdu said earlier this year that
questioning coronavirus infection
data from the WHO and China is
tantamount to engaging in “con-
spiracy theories”.
When asked in April for her
thoughts on whether the WHO’s
data — which is derived from indi-
vidual countries — can be trusted,
Hajdu dismissed the reporter for
feeding into conspiracy mongering
that many people have been perpet-
uating on the internet. The question
had been asked in the context of a
US intelligence paper that claimed
China concealed the extent of its
outbreak.
“It’s important to remember that
there is no way to beat a global pan-
demic if we’re actually not willing to
work together as a globe. We will
have to come up with a global solu-
tion to this virus; no country is an
island,” she said.
About 92 percent of the 346 com-
panies polled by AmCham in
Shanghai said they will remain in
the Chinese market, according to
the China Business Report 2020,
which was released last week
together with consultancy PwC.
On the broader business front
between the two countries,
AmCham China said it is dedicated
to improving the business environ-
ment in China, promoting con-
structive and sustainable US-
China economic relations, and
helping US companies succeed in
China.
12 | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
CIIE remains a magnet to global exhibitors
Entrepreneurs praise expo for continuing as planned in wake of novel coronavirus outbreak, offering new business opportunities
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Set for Nov 5-10, the third China Inter-
national Import Expo is less than 50 days
away. The CIIE Bureau has made great
progress in its preparation and organiza-
tion of exhibitions.
According to the bureau, this year’s
event will provide support for the nation’s
“dual circulation” development pattern,
in which the domestic and external
demands will complement each other and
offer vast opportunities for businesses
around the world.
The planned business exhibition space
for the third CIIE will cover 360,000
square meters, which is 20 percent larger
than last year’s planned exhibition area.
Business exhibitions will be divided
into six areas displaying food and agri-
cultural products, automobiles, intelli-
gent industry and information
technology, consumer goods, medical
equipment and healthcare products, as
well as trade in services.
Four special subsections dedicated to
public health, anti-epidemic products and
services, smart transportation, energy
conservation and sporting goods will be
set up during the event.
The following description by section
with facts, numbers and quotes from
exhibitors will help you learn more about
what the six exhibition areas are offering
for this year. It will also highlight key
aspects of the show as well as important
exhibitors.
Trade in services
The total exhibition area for trade in ser-
vices at the third CIIE is 30,000 sq m. More
than 250 companies will participate in the
exhibition. More than 50 of those businesses
are Fortune 500 and industry leading com-
panies.
The exhibition area consists of five sec-
tions of services covering financial, logistics,
consulting, inspection and testing, and cul-
tural tourism industries.
Exhibitions will include more than 100
trade and logistics enterprises spread out
among 10,000 sq m. The exhibition area for
financial service companies will be 3,000 sq
m and that for consulting, inspection and
testing service companies will be 4,200 sq m.
Highlights of key sections:
· CIIE will gather a group of globally
competitive enterprises in the fields of
shipping, air transportation, railway and
freight. It will help improve international
logistics solutions and address the diffi-
cult “last mile” connection for the railway-
sea transportation and multimodal
transportation.
· Non-banking financial institutions
will participate in the exhibition for the
first time. In addition to commercial
banks, companies in insurance, supply
chain finance, financial investment, cred-
it investigation and blockchain financial
technology industries will also partici-
pate. They will provide enterprises with
global financial solutions, such as proper-
ty management, value adding and risk
strategy support.
· The consulting service section will
showcase technological breakthroughs
and innovative service solutions of profes-
sional service institutions, which will help
enterprises grasp development opportu-
nities in the post COVID-19 phase.
What they say
I am delighted the third CIIE
will go on as planned in
Shanghai in November
despite the COVID-19 pan-
demic. Keeping the CIIE this
year reflects the strong
tenacity of the Chinese
economy and the country’s determination to
continue opening-up. It explains the impor-
tance of building a community with a shared
future for mankind. KPMG is willing to work
with CIIE to carry forward the spirit of ‘New
Era, Shared Future’.
Gong Weili, vice-chairman of KPMG China
Intelligent industry and
information technology
Over 300 exhibitors from 37 countries
and regions will display their products and
technologies in the section. More than
15,000 sq m of exhibition space has been
booked by Fortune 500 companies and over
22,000 sq m of exhibition space has been
booked by leading industry players.
The intelligent industry and information
technology exhibition area will be divided
into three parts — high-end manufacturing,
solutions and technology, and environmen-
tal protection.
The industries involved in the exhibition
area include numerical control machine
tools, industrial parts, industrial machinery
and finished products, automation, digital
information, integrated electronics, semi-
conductor chips, ventilation and air condi-
tioning, water purification and energy.
A host of world-leading industrial electric
companies, the top six players in the global
printing industry and notable enterprises in
the field of engineering machinery will
From top: Preparation is well underway for the third China International Import Expo, which is scheduled to be held from
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show their latest technologies and products
at the event.
The exhibition area also features a special
subsection dedicated to energy conserva-
tion and environmental protection. Tech-
nologies and products will be presented
through a digital and interactive exhibition
area with green and low-carbon scenarios.
What they say
Johnson Controls will
make its third appearance
at CIIE with a comprehen-
sive display of our smart
building solutions high-
lighting the green, smart,
resilient and healthy
aspects of built environments. Our products
and solutions are expected to play key roles
in China’s smart city and smart infrastruc-
ture development. CIIE will provide a tre-
mendous opportunity for us to meet more
Chinese companies and customers and to
have in-depth exchanges with them on how
Johnson Controls can support China’s dual
circulation economy.
Visal Leng, president of Johnson Controls Asia
Pacific
Consumer Goods
The exhibition area covers more than
90,000 sq m. Nearly 900 exhibitors and
over 2,000 brands from 80 countries and
regions will participate. Exhibition areas
booked by the world’s Fortune 500 and
leading companies will cover more than
25,000 sq m.
The exhibition will feature eight sections
— household appliances and intelligent life,
furniture and household goods, customiza-
tion and fashion trends, gem and jade,
sporting goods and games, beauty and per-
sonal care, cosmetics and household clean-
ing, and maternal and child products.
The household appliances and intelligent
life section will showcase more than 200
brands covering an area of nearly 15,000 sq
m.
Info Box
For more information on business exhibi-
tions at the third CIIE, please visit the
online exhibition at www.ciie.org.
Follow CIIE on Twitter, Facebook and Insta-
gram @ciieonline for the latest updates
from the event.
The special section of sporting goods
and games, which is designed for the first
time this year, will cover more than 5,000
sq m.
The beauty, personal care, cosmetics and
household cleaning sections will feature
more than 400 brands and span some
30,000 sq m.
Featuring kids stationery, household
goods, toys, skin care products and accesso-
ries, the maternal and child products sec-
tion will cover nearly 3,000 sq m.
The furniture and household goods sec-
tion will display more than 100 brands and
account for 10,000 sq m.
The customization and fashion trends
section will feature more than 100 brands
and exhibit across 15,000 sq m.
The gem and jade section will display
more than 300 brands across 15,000 sq m.
This page is sponsored by the CIIE Bureau.
What they say
The holding of CIIE as
scheduled sends a clear
signal to the world that
China has recovered from
the COVID-19 outbreak. It
also shows China’s deter-
mination to play a signifi-
cant role in fueling global development with
openness and a spirit of mutual benefit.
CIIE capitalizes on the opportunities creat-
ed by our increasingly interconnected
world. Enhancing China’s relationships with
the rest of the world not only promotes
trade and collaboration, but also stimulates
the innovation that is essential to improving
consumers’ quality of life and tackling glob-
al challenges. In a modern world where dif-
ference is often emphasized, CIIE offers a
valuable platform for all participating coun-
tries and corporations to embrace diversity
and explore ways to create and share a
brighter future.
Jean-Paul Agon, chairman and CEO of L’Oreal
Food and agricultural products
The exhibition area for food and agricul-
tural products will be about 90,000 sq m.
About 1,000 enterprises from nearly 100
countries and regions will participate in the
exhibition. Exhibitors in this area include
businesses from more than 40 countries and
regions, and more than 20 Fortune Global
500 and industry-leading companies as well
as nearly 1,000 companies from the coun-
tries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
The exhibition area is divided into six sec-
tions that encompass dairy products, fruits,
vegetables, agricultural products, meat,
aquatic products, frozen food, snack food,
sweets, condiments, beverages, alcohol and
general food.
Six of the top eight dairy companies in the
world will participate in the expo.
In the beverage and alcohol section,
exhibits from famous liquor brands, craft
red wine companies, and top-grade special
beer organizations as well as other various
CHINA DAILY
beverages will be on display.
In the meat and aquatic products section,
various kinds of healthy products will also
be shown.
In the snack food section, exhibitors will
display various kinds of high-quality prod-
ucts with flavor of the origin country.
In the comprehensive food zone, exhibit-
ors will show a series of food technologies,
such as a food traceability system.
What they say
We believe that with the
strong support of the Chi-
nese government, CIIE will
play a positive role in glob-
al economic integration,
trade expansion and the
building of a community
with a shared future for mankind. CP Group
has full confidence in China’s development
and will continue to actively support and par-
ticipate in CIIE to contribute to promoting
global win-win cooperation.
Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of CP
Group
Automobiles
With a planned exhibition space of 30,000
sq m, the automobile exhibition area will dis-
play the latest automotive products and servi-
ces including vehicles, parts and components,
electronics, supporting products and mainte-
nance supplies, and new energy products and
technologies as well as smart transportation-
related products and technologies.
More than 90 percent of the planned auto-
mobile exhibition space will be occupied by
Fortune 500 companies and leading industry
players. Almost all of the world’s top auto-
makers, parts suppliers and relevant service
providers will be present at this year’s CIIE.
This year, the automobile exhibition area
will introduce a brand-new subsection dedi-
cated to smart transportation with a
planned exhibition area of 3,000 sq m. The
subsection is set to reflect the new trend in
the automotive industry, featuring smart,
internet-connected, low carbon and sharing
and changes brought to urban life by smart
transportation.
A wide range of new products and cutting-
edge technologies will make their debut at
CIIE.
What they say
As a window for interna-
tional economic and trade
exchanges, CIIE serves as
a platform for Ford to
establish direct communi-
cation with domestic con-
sumers and to showcase
the company’s state-of-the-art products and
technologies. We look forward to fruitful
results in government-business exchange,
industry professional committees, and pro-
curement promotion events.
Chen Anning, group vice-president of Ford
Motor Company and president and CEO of Ford
China
Medical equipment and
healthcare products
The total exhibition area for medical
equipment and healthcare products at the
third CIIE will exceed 70,000 sq m. More
than 350 companies will participate, includ-
ing more than 70 Fortune 500 and industry-
leading companies.
The exhibition area consists of five sec-
tions: medical devices, nutrition and dietary
supplements, old-age rehabilitation and
healthcare, public health, and anti-epidemic
products and services.
In a section for medicines, the exhibition
area will be 23,000 sq m. Exhibitors include
the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the
world.
For medical devices, the exhibition area
will cover 20,000 sq m. Exhibitors include
the global top 10 medical device companies.
The nutrition and dietary supplements
section will cover an area of more than
15,000 sq m.
In the old-age rehabilitation and health-
care section, companies will display their
products, with more than 3,400 sq m of exhi-
bition area.
The sections of public health and anti-epi-
demic products and services will be among
the four newly added special subsections
this year. The exhibition area will be more
than 10,000 sq m. The companies will dis-
play products and services that have played
vital roles in fighting COVID-19.
What they say
As a window to show-
case China’s opening-up,
CIIE provides an excellent
platform for multinational
pharmaceutical compa-
nies. Over the past two
years, CIIE has built a
bridge of communication between enterpris-
es and governments, and among enterprises.
Roche has been proactively participated in it
and received very positive responses. This
year, Roche will continue to exhibit more
innovative drugs that are yet to be launched
in China, as well as anti-COVID 19 achieve-
ments at CIIE. We look forward to meeting
people from all walks of life during the event.
Hong Chow, CEO of Roche Pharma China
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TECHNOLOGY
Intelligent changes to
reshape auto sector
Baidu chief sees widespread use of
self-driving vehicles in next five years
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Self-driving technology is expected
to witness large-scale commercial
application in the next five years,
according to Robin Li Yanhong,
chairman and CEO of internet
search giant Baidu Inc.
Traffic congestion will be greatly
alleviated and there will be no restric-
tions on vehicle purchase and use in
the first-tier cities of China within five
years, as autonomous driving technol-
ogy becomes more popular, said Li at
the Baidu World 2020, the company’s
annual flagship technology confer-
ence, in Beijing on Tuesday.
Li said the rate of traffic accidents
will also be greatly reduced. “The
intelligent transformation of the
industry will bring conveniences to
people’s lives and promote economic
development,” he said.
According to Li, intelligent infra-
structure based on the vehicle-road
coordination system is expected to
improve traffic efficiency by 15 to 30
percent, thus bringing 2.4 percent to
4.8 percent absolute economic
growth.
The Beijing-based tech heavy-
weight also unveiled its cutting-edge
5G-powered remote driving service
on Tuesday. Based on the smart
Autonomous driving gains traction
By XING YI in Shanghai
xingyi@chinadaily.com.cn
Agreements and cooperation pro-
jects inked during the 2020 World
Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem
Conference in Shanghai on Monday
and Tuesday are expected to put the
Yangtze River Delta region at the
forefront of China’s autonomous
driving industry efforts.
Prominent among the agreements
signed was the one between the
authorities of Shanghai and the three
provinces in the region — Jiangsu,
Zhejiang and Anhui, to set up a
national pilot zone for intelligent
connected vehicles.
Since the application of autono-
mous vehicles relies not only on the
promotion of the self-driving tech-
nology for single cars but also on the
building of smart roads, the agree-
ments are crucial for the construc-
tion of roadside infrastructure and
large-scale testing in the future,
experts said.
Under the agreement, the eco-
nomic and information departments
of the local governments have agreed
to jointly design a series of standards
for smart traffic lights, 5G base sta-
tions, protocols for communication,
high-resolution road maps, and traf-
fic management platforms.
The governments will focus on the
construction of smart infrastructure
for interprovincial highways such as
the G2 Shanghai-Nanjing, G60
Shanghai-Kunshan, and the
Ha n g z h o u - S h a o x i n g - N i n g b o
expressway.
Efforts will also be focused on
encouraging various types of autono-
mous vehicles in the region for pri-
vate use, public transport, ride-
sharing, logistics and street cleaning.
Gao Xiang, director of Jiading dis-
‘New infrastructure’ to boost industrial momentum
By TAN YINGZI in Chongqing
and MA SI in Beijing
Cutting-edge technologies such as
artificial intelligence will play an
important role in reshaping a wide
range of sectors, amid China’s efforts
to accelerate the construction of
“new infrastructure” to inject new
vitality into traditional industries,
industry experts said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the opening ceremony
of the 3rd Smart China Expo, Robin
Li Yanhong, CEO of Chinese tech
transportation system, vehicle-to-
everything or V2X technologies and
high-speed 5G networks, the 5G
remote driving service allows
human operators to remotely con-
trol vehicles through cloud in the
case of emergencies.
The company will carry out
in-depth strategic cooperation with
China FAW Group Corp, the State-
owned carmaker, in the fields of self-
driving, artificial intelligence and
digitalization. It has fully opened
Apollo Go Robotaxi, its self-driving
taxi service, in Changsha, Hunan
province, Cangzhou, Hebei province
and Beijing.
“Autonomous driving is definitely
the future development direction of
the automobile industry. It not only
solves traffic safety problems, but also
greatly improves the efficiency of
transportation, brings about econom-
ic benefits and liberates people from
repetitive driving,” said Jiang Zheng, a
self-driving expert at China’s GAC
research and development center.
Jiang said some countries are try-
ing to promote implementation of
relevant policies and regulations
related to self-driving technology.
Chinese automaker Weltmeister
will launch a new car next year
equipped with Apollo’s level four
autonomous valet parking technolo-
trict of Shanghai, which hosts the
Shanghai International Automobile
City and the country’s first demon-
stration zone for intelligent connect-
ed vehicles, said the district has
already released the first testing
licenses in the Yangtze River Delta
Region.
“By the end of this year, the district
will open 315 kilometers of roads for
intelligent connected vehicles, and
by the end of 2022 the figure will
reach 1,300 kilometers in the dis-
trict,” she said.
Cheng Bo, dean of the Suzhou
Automotive Research Institute of
Tsinghua University, said there is an
urgent need for standards on road-
side smart infrastructure regarding
issues like what kind of sensors need
to be installed on traffic poles, at what
intervals and in what road conditions.
“It will be a large-scale engineering
project, which needs a great amount
of labor and resources. Once done, it
will be difficult to change,” he said.
Luo Junjie, head of the No 1 indus-
An intelligent heavy truck in Shanghai demonstrates how to steer
clear of pedestrians. MAI TIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
giant Baidu Inc, said intelligent tech-
nologies could bring a big change to
the automotive industry. As infra-
structure becomes more intellectual-
ized, the efficiency of urban
transportation will be enhanced.
“We hope to basically eliminate
traffic jams and (significantly) reduce
accident rates within 10 years,” Li
said in a speech via videolink.
The expo was held online in
Chongqing on Tuesday morning. The
annual expo has been held in the city
since 2018 to showcase new prod-
gy, allowing people to park and sum-
mon the vehicle autonomously.
Vehicles at L4 can complete all driv-
ing operations independently.
China is planning to realize the
mass production of vehicles capable of
conditional autonomous driving and
commercialization of highly autono-
mous vehicles in certain circumstan-
ces by 2025, according to a blueprint
issued by the National Development
and Reform Commission, the Minis-
try of Industry and Information Tech-
nology and nine other ministries.
Road tests for self-driving vehicles
are available in more than 20 provin-
ces and cities in China. Companies
such as SAIC Motor, BMW, Didi
Chuxing and DeepBlue Technology
have obtained authorization for pas-
senger-carrying tests.
Baidu is one of several Chinese
technology firms that have launched
autonomous taxi services to the pub-
lic in the country, in an attempt to bol-
ster the large-scale commercial use of
such cutting-edge technology. Didi
Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing
platform, announced in June the
opening of its on-demand robotaxi
service for passengers in Shanghai.
Intelligent vehicles with fully
autonomous functions may account
for 10 percent of the new vehicles this
year and self-driving vehicles will
likely be part of people’s daily lives in
2030, said Yang Diange, dean of the
automobile engineering department
at Tsinghua University.
trial equipment department of the
Ministry of Industry and Informa-
tion Technology, said: “The next five
years will be important for the auto-
motive technology industry as they
will bring fierce competition and
strategic opportunities.
“Efforts will be focused on improv-
ing the design and rules to help com-
panies surmount technological
bottlenecks and explore new busi-
ness models.”
The second phase of the 5G
smart traffic demonstration zone
in Jiading was launched during the
conference jointly by the district
government, SAIC Motor, Huawei
and China Mobile.
The construction of smart roadside
infrastructure will generate a large
quantity of data. The municipal gov-
ernment also unveiled the Shanghai
Intelligent Connected Vehicle Public
Data Center, which will collect data
from both testing cars and roadside
sensors, and provide services includ-
ing data analysis and early warnings.
ucts, technologies, business formats
and modes of smart technology
through conferences, exhibitions,
summits and competitions.
As the gateway to Southwest China
and a major industrial base, Chong-
qing, which is located on the upper
Yangtze River, has played an impor-
tant role in the country’s develop-
ment, particularly as a national
defense manufacturing area in the
1960s.
It has one of the world’s largest IT
industrial clusters and is one of Chi-
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Visitors look at a hydrogen-powered vehicle at the China International Industry Fair, which opened
in Shanghai on Tuesday. GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY
CIIF reaffirms ‘manufacturing edge’
By WANG YING in Shanghai
wang_ying@chinadaily.com.cn
Up to 500 new products and
technologies made their debuts at
the China International Industry
Fair, which commenced in Shang-
hai on Tuesday. A majority of the
products are tailored for the China
market, reflecting the exhibitors’
strong confidence in the domestic
market and China’s manufacturing
capabilities.
The fair, which is being held
amid China’s ongoing efforts to
regain industrial momentum since
the COVID-19 epidemic, also saw
several global debuts of products,
according to Yao Chunyu, deputy
general manager of Donghao Lan-
sheng (Group) Co Ltd, one of the
organizers of the CIIF.
The significant growth in new
product and tech debuts is largely
because there have been very few
high standard industrial exhibi-
tions this year, said Yao.
Themed “Intelligence & Inter-
connection Empowering New
Industrial Development”, this
year’s CIIF spread over an area of
245,000 square meters and has
more than 2,000 exhibitors show-
casing their latest technologies,
products and services in nine exhi-
bition areas, said Rong Zhiqin,
vice-chairman of the Shanghai
Municipal Commission of Econo-
my and Informatization.
This year, Guangdong-based Mid-
ea Group has used the largest corpo-
rate exhibition space of up to 1,000
square meters to showcase its signa-
ture products in robotics, industrial
automation, HVAC (heating, venti-
lation and air conditioning) systems
Briefly
Assets of financial
institutions rise 10%
Assets of financial institutions in
China rose to 340.43 trillion yuan
($49.77 trillion) at the end of the
second quarter, up 10 percent on a
yearly basis, the People’s Bank of
China, the central bank, said. The
banking sector’s assets totaled
309.41 trillion yuan at the end of
June, up 9.7 percent from a year
earlier, and assets of securities
institutions soared 14.8 percent to
9.04 trillion yuan, the PBOC said in
na’s biggest auto manufacturing bas-
es. Chongqing aims to build itself
into a renowned smart city and a
smart manufacturing powerhouse.
During this year’s expo, the West-
ern Autonomous Driving Open Test
Base built by Yongchuan district of
Chongqing and Baidu will be official-
ly opened.
The L4 self-driving minibus jointly
developed by Baidu and King Long is
also scheduled to make its world
debut in Yongchuan on Sept 17, an
indication that the first self-driving
As China’s first
national-level
industrial exhibition
this year, the CIIF is a
benchmark of sorts
for global industrial
exhibitions and
demonstrates
China’s commitment
to opening-up and is
spurring the global
economic recovery.”
Shi Hongyan, an official with
the Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology
and smart logistics.
Industrial robot maker Kuka
launched its first indigenously
developed robot at the fair. The
product, available for purchase
worldwide, can be used in various
industries including the electron-
ics sector, which usually have high
operational accuracy require-
ments, said Hao Wenbin, a manag-
er with Kuka China.
Global industrial giant ABB
unveiled its small six-axis industri-
al robot IRB1300 and showcased
more than a dozen other robotic
products and solutions at the CIIF.
“Today China is a global driving
force in robotics and automation.
The promotion of new economic
development models and new
infrastructure in the country has
an online statement. Meanwhile,
insurance sector assets hit 21.98
trillion yuan, up 12.7 percent from a
year earlier. Liabilities of financial
institutions stood at 310.01 trillion
yuan, up 9.9 percent on a yearly
basis. Liabilities of banking institu-
tions accounted for 283.93 trillion
yuan, up 9.5 percent on a yearly
basis.
Total sets up EV
charging station
France-based Total SA launched
bus line in western China will soon
be operational, Baidu said.
At the expo, 551 technology com-
panies will exhibit their products
and technology online with the
help of virtual modeling technolo-
gy. It will have 148 foreign partici-
pants, such as IBM, Intel,
Kawasaki, Siemens, as well as Chi-
na’s world leading technology
giants Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, JD
and Tencent.
Pony Ma Huateng, CEO of Chinese
social networking heavyweight Ten-
cent, said the company will further
increase investment in new infra-
structure through its southwestern
headquarters located in Chongqing.
enabled us to explore new oppor-
tunities in several industries,
such as new energy vehicles, 5G
and consumer electronics, logis-
tics, food and beverages, pharma-
ceuticals, education, and in areas
such as healthcare where robots
have immense potential,” said Gu
Chunyuan, chairman of ABB Chi-
na.
ZKH Industrial Supply (Shang-
hai) Co Ltd showcased the nation’s
first industrial intelligent
unmanned warehouse concept at
the CIIF, and the same is expected
to start in November in Wuxi,
Jiangsu province, according to the
Chinese digitalized industrial
products service platform.
The CIIF is the first offline exhi-
bition attended by SAP globally
this year, and the company looks
forward to demonstrating its latest
products and solutions, said Jason
Chiu, director of COE (center of
excellence), SAP digital supply
chain.
Shi Hongyan, an official with the
Ministry of Industry and Informa-
tion Technology, said many well-
known international exhibitions
had canceled their participation
this year due to the COVID-19 epi-
demic.
“As China’s first national-level
industrial exhibition this year, the
CIIF is a benchmark of sorts for
global industrial exhibitions and
demonstrates China’s commit-
ment to opening-up and is spur-
ring the global economic recovery,”
said Shi.
Since 1999, the CIIF has been an
important platform for showcas-
ing latest technologies, products
and services.
electric vehicle charging services
in China on Tuesday with the
opening of its first stand-alone
station in Wuhan, Hubei prov-
ince. The company plans to be a
significant player in the EV
charging market across China in
the next few years. Equipped
with 12 units of 120kW dual char-
gers, the EV charging station pro-
vides fast charging services for
commercial fleet and private cus-
tomers.
XINHUA - CHINA DAILY
“The company’s southwestern
headquarters will work hard to serve
the industrial internet and digital
economy construction, and help
form an important growth pole for
high-quality development in western
China,” Ma said in his speech via an
audio talk.
Yang Xu, president of the US tech
company Intel Corp’s China branch,
said driven by the digital economy,
increasingly smart things will come
into being in all walks of life, such as
in agriculture, medical care and edu-
cation.
Contact the writers at
tanyingzi@chinadaily.com.cn
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BUSINESS
A customer checks out a Samsung foldable smartphone at a store in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, over the weekend.
Firms bet big on foldable devices
Smartphones that can double up as tablets
promise to make a fortune for manufacturers
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Smartphone makers are betting big on
foldable screens that could be used either
as tablets or as pocket-size phones.
This innovation is expected to improve
handset utility and make their designs eye-
catching, thereby helping revive a COVID-
ravaged market.
According to a report from Strategy Ana-
lytics, a market research firm, global folda-
ble smartphone shipments will grow from
under 1 million units last year to 100 mil-
lion by 2025. Foldables will be the fastest-
growing segment in the premium
smartphone market in the next decade.
“Samsung was the world’s No 1 foldable
smartphone vendor last year, followed by
Huawei,” said Ken Hyers, director of Strate-
gy Analytics. Every major phone maker,
including Apple, should have foldables in
its portfolio by 2025, he said.
Some of the factors that are holding back
the foldables market are high pricing, low
yields of bendable displays and concerns if
the hinges or screens are durable as to last
longer than several months. They will be
addressed in the long term, Strategy Ana-
lytics said in its report.
Manufacturers have stepped up efforts to
roll out foldable smartphones recently.
South Korea-based Samsung Electronics
Co Ltd unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G, its
latest foldable smartphone, in China last
week.
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MNCs bullish on Chinese lab automation sector
By ZHENG YIRAN
zhengyiran@chinadaily.com.cn
Multinational corporations are accelerat-
ing their pace of bringing advanced labora-
tory automation to China to tap into the
country’s surging testing demand and enjoy
the country’s favorable policies in stabiliz-
ing foreign investment.
By shifting from manual to automated
operations, laboratory automation reduces
preanalysis faults, improves the level of bio-
logical safety protection, increases test effi-
ciency, reduces labor costs and improves
laboratory management competence.
United States-based healthcare company
Abbott announced that its laboratory auto-
mation solution — the GLP system — will be
launched in China by the end of this month.
Tony Chan, vice-president of Abbott Diag-
nostics China, said that many hospitals in
China have a long history, however, clinical
labs face various problems due to limited
space and lack of personnel. Therefore,
Abbott is bringing its fully automated clini-
cal laboratory to China to offer more effi-
ciency and convenience.
Chan said Abbott’s GLP system is a new
innovation for laboratory automation. The
modulation concept of the system has ena-
bled more flexibility and adaptation, allow-
100
million
expected global foldable
smartphone shipments by 2025,
according to a report from Strategy
Analytics, a market research firm
Priced 16,999 yuan ($2,483), the gadget
serves as a 7.6-inch tablet when fully opened.
It transforms into a phone when folded, with
a 6.2-inch display that fits a palm.
Last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy
Fold, its first consumer-ready foldable
smartphone. In February, it launched the
Galaxy Z Flip.
Earlier this year, China-based Huawei
also unveiled the Mate Xs, its latest foldable
smartphone.
On Thursday, US-based Motorola, which
is owned by Chinese technology company
Lenovo, rolled out the wallet-sized Razr.
With the premium 5G-powered foldable
mobile phone, Motorola hopes to grab a
slice of the foldables pie in the world’s larg-
est smartphone market.
Priced 12,499 yuan, the Razr is equipped
with a 2.7-inch quick-view touchscreen dis-
play on the front, and a 6.2-inch organic
light-emitting diode, or OLED, foldable dis-
play on the inside of the phone.
Jia Mo, an analyst at Canalys, a market
research company, said consumers need to
spend more to buy foldable smartphones
that have same technical configurations
ing laboratories to have diversified
operational models and programs to cope
with challenges posed by new technologies
and new procedures.
“At the same time, the system has opti-
mized user experiences to make training
and daily use simpler. This is a laboratory
solution that can meet demand from both
current and future needs,” he added.
Swiss medical enterprise Roche Diagnos-
tics has also launched its laboratory auto-
mation solution in China. With an
intelligent information management sys-
tem, automated laboratories increase test-
ing efficiency and optimize test process.
The company said its laboratory automa-
tion solution is expected to open up the 2.0
era of laboratory automation, meet clinical,
laboratory and patient needs for higher
quality and more efficient medical services,
and help promote China’s healthcare system
development.
The State Administration for Market Reg-
ulation estimated that 440 million copies of
testing reports will come out this year, and
the number will continue to grow robustly.
Pan Boshen, head of the clinical laborato-
ry at Zhongshan Hospital, said that in recent
years, with the continuous deepening of the
country’s medical reform, patients are
showing growing demand for better health-
compared with other handsets. That is
because foldables have low display yields
and higher design costs as of now.
However, prices of foldables will likely
fall in the future, and they will find broad
application scenarios given their two-size
screens, Jia said.
Data from IDC, a global market consult-
ancy focusing on technology, showed the
world’s smartphone makers shipped
275.10 million units during the first quar-
ter of 2020, down almost 12 percent year-
on-year.
Meanwhile, demand for displays that use
active-matrix organic light-emitting diode,
or AMOLED, technology is surging with
the arrival of foldable smartphones. Flexi-
ble display panel makers in China are set to
witness explosive growth in the next few
years, market experts said.
AMOLED displays are more flexible with
faster response times, high contrast and
wide visual angles compared to traditional
liquid crystal display, or LCD, panels.
According to Omdia, a market research
firm, the market for AMOLED smartphone
displays is expected to expand by 9 percent
this year, despite the overall negative
impact of COVID-19 on handset sales.
Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels
used in smartphones are set to soar to 513
million units this year, up from 471 million
units last year, suggesting the product’s pen-
etration is deepening rapidly, Omdia said.
“Smartphone brands across the world
are increasingly migrating their product
lines to AMOLED display technology,” said
Brian Huh, principal analyst of small/medi-
um displays at Omdia.
Chinese smartphone makers are expect-
ed to increase the number of high-end
care services, which brings about a need for
higher requirements for test quality and
efficiency of clinical laboratories.
Xu Yingchun, head of the clinical labora-
tory at Peking Union Medical College Hospi-
tal, said: “Currently, there are 100,000
clinical laboratories and 300,000 laboratory
technicians in China. However, the uneven
development of inspection disciplines at all
levels of medical institutions is becoming
prominent. The test workload will continue
to grow, but personnel and testing areas will
not be able to maintain continuous growth.
Laboratory automation will become a
trend.”
He said that with advances in hierarchical
diagnosis and treatment, the volume of out-
patient clinics will continue to be diverted to
grassroots-level hospitals, and the workload
of inspections will be greatly increased.
The National Health Commission said
that last year total visits to China’s primary
medical institutions reached 4.5 billion, tak-
ing up 52 percent of the total. The visits
increased by 120 million compared to 2018.
The surging inspection needs in primary
medical institutions call for laboratory auto-
mation, Xu said.
Industry experts said that with the deep
integration of emerging technologies —
including big data and artificial intelli-
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smartphones integrating AMOLED panels
this year, he said.
Huh also said Apple Inc is expected to
expand its AMOLED iPhone lineup to three
models this year, up from two last year.
Samsung currently dominates the global
flexible AMOLED sector, with more than
80 percent market share, but domestic dis-
play panel suppliers such as BOE Technolo-
gy Group Co Ltd, Visionox Technology Inc
and China Star Optoelectronics Technology
Co Ltd, which is known as CSOT, a panel
supplier and subsidiary of home appliances
giant TCL, are doubling down on flexible
screens mainly used in smartphones.
BOE has three sixth-generation
AMOLED production lines. It started mass
production of the flexible panels from its
facility in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in
October 2017. The panels have already been
used by more than 10 smartphone manu-
facturers.
CSOT announced its sixth-generation
flexible AMOLED display panel production
line in Wuhan, Hubei province, achieved
mass production on Jan 1. The company
will make 48,000 modules each month.
Li Yaqin, president of Sigmaintell, a Bei-
jing-based market research firm, said
demand for flexible OLED panels used in
foldable smartphones is estimated to surge
140 percent this year on the back of the
commercial application of 5G technology.
Li said panel makers need to improve their
yield rate capacities and reduce production
costs.
“The penetration rate of OLED in the
mobile market is expected to reach 50 per-
cent by 2024,” Li said, adding about 60 to 70
percent of sales revenue will be contributed
by OLED by then.
Visitors pass by Abbott’s booth during a healthcare exhibition in Wuhan, capital of
Hubei province. CHU LIN / FOR CHINA DAILY
gence — with clinical laboratories, tradi-
tional testing laboratories are evolving
toward automation, information and
intelligence. With the government’s favor-
able policies to stabilize foreign invest-
ment, multinational corporations are
expanding their layouts in the sector.
Wang Bingnan, vice-minister of com-
merce, said earlier during the China Inter-
national Fair for Trade in Services that
China will further lower market access for
its services trade industry, continue to
reduce the negative list of foreign invest-
CHINA DAILY
Sinopec
refinery sets
pace in
smart push
By CHAI HUA in Zhanjiang, Guangdong
grace@chinadailyhk.com
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp,
which is known as Sinopec, Asia’s biggest
refiner, is speeding up the development of
its intelligent refinery in the coastal city of
Zhanjiang, Guangdong province.
Operations at the Zhongke (Guangdong)
Refinery and Petrochemical Project Co Ltd
are mostly automated, so only about 1,500
employees work on site, far less than the
6,000 to 8,000 staff members needed at con-
ventional plants of comparable size.
The complex began production in June. It
provided the first batch of 33,800 metric tons
of gasoline and diesel oil to markets in South
China and East China in August.
On Sept 4, 280 tons of polypropylene res-
in products were loaded for delivery to mar-
kets nationwide, marking the project’s
debut in chemical products.
About 95 percent of its output is produced
domestically. The company achieved several
technological breakthroughs, ending
dependence on foreign products. The
plant’s annual output value could exceed 60
billion yuan ($8.86 billion).
Zhongke Refinery uses a highly automated
production system that improved its efficien-
cy. Its ProMACE platform is a virtual chemical
industrial internet that enhances the refinery.
Its 2,000-square-meter central control
room, the largest in the refinery industry, has a
gigantic screen and about 400 individual con-
trol boards, which can monitor, coordinate,
and connect over 30 major product units.
“It represents the highest level of intelli-
gent operations in the industry,” said Deng
Hanshen, a senior consultant of the plant.
Operators in the control room can see the
entire process of production, logistics, environ-
ment protection, and warehouse functions.
The intelligent factory connects dozens of
teams from production and infrastructure to
operations management. For example, the
results of crude oil and other product samples
on the quality analyses device of its laboratory
information management system could be
automatically updated to the product packag-
ing workshop and warehouse facility. This
increases working efficiency substantially
compared to manual data input.
The industrial internet is an ideal approach
to digitalize industrial operations, said Jiang
Baihua, senior vice-president of Petro-Cyber-
Works Information Technology Co Ltd, which
developed the ProMACE platform.
“If we could monitor all of Sinopec’s 3.8
million key devices together, safety risks
could be pre-empted,” Jiang said.
He said he believes industrial internet is
also key to environmental protection
because it could predict and monitor all pol-
lution emission points of a refinery or a pet-
rochemical plant.
The emission management of the chemi-
cal industry is enormously complicated. For
example, a medium-sized refinery has more
than 3,000 dangerous emission points.
He said internet-based management could
also help connect refineries with other firms
in the industrial chain, thereby helping
increase the utilization rate of crude oil.
The added value of China’s industrial
internet industry is expected to reach 3.7
trillion yuan by the end of this year, accord-
ing to data from the China Academy of
Industrial Internet.
ment access and accelerate the opening-up
process of sectors including healthcare.
Chan from Abbott said: “We attach great
importance to the Chinese market. We have
noticed the country’s growing population,
surging chronic disease patients as well as
the aging society. We are constantly paying
attention to China’s healthcare needs and
the dynamic market. In the future, Abbott
will bring about better automation solu-
tions for China’s clinical laboratories to help
hospitals operate more smoothly and bene-
fit more patients.”
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Smart TVs taking over home entertainment

Huawei Technologies, Coocaa of Shenzhen Skyworth-RGB Electronic among tech brands tapping emerging segment
By MA SI
masi@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese tech companies are
scrambling to develop operating
systems for smart TVs and beyond
as they work hard to build their own
core capabilities in the internet of
things era.
The moves come as advances in
artificial intelligence technologies
and smart home IoT device ecosys-
tems are expected to connect smart
TVs with other home appliances
and hardware to offer a more intelli-
gent life and work environment for
consumers.
Huawei Technologies Co, for
instance, is stepping up its push to
apply its in-house operating system
Harmony into more devices after it
was initially used in its smart TV —
Honor Vision.
Honor Vision, unveiled a year ago,
has the potential to become a center
for multi-device interaction and
supports the playing of high-defini-
tion mobile games on smart TVs
with low latency due to the ability of
the Harmony operating system to
reduce the response latency of apps
by 25.7 percent, Huawei said.
Honor Vision marks the first step
by Huawei to officially march into
the TV sector. “We hope to leverage
our years of innovation in smart-
phones to reshape the role of TV in
our lives,” said Zhao Ming, president
of Honor. HarmonyOS has also been
used in more of Huawei’s smart TV
products.
But HarmonyOS is more than just
an operating system for TVs. Yu
Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s con-
sumer business group, said Har-
monyOS is a next-generation
operating system designed for the
internet of things era. It is intended
to deliver a smooth experience
across different devices and Huawei
plans to begin using it in smart TVs,
automobiles, wearables and other
hardware from 2019 to 2022.
“You can develop your apps once,
then flexibly deploy them across a
range of different devices,” Yu said.
The moves all came as the concept
of the internet of things is finally
starting to be materialized, with
more devices now connected to the
network and becoming intelligent
in “communicating” with each oth-
er.
In China, smart TVs can play an
important role in connecting devi-
ces, experts said, as the country’s
home appliance manufacturers
press ahead with smart TV products
offering interactive scenarios,
enhancing their interaction with
mobile phones and connecting with
various smart home devices in order
to further attract customers.
Sophie Pan, research manager for
client systems at International Data
An employee introduces Huawei smart TVs to consumers at a company store in Beijing.
Huawei’s smart TV is displayed at a consumer expo held in June in
Zhengzhou, Henan province. MA JIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Corp’s China branch, said that with
the help of AI technology and home
IoT device ecosystems, the voice
interaction and connectivity afford-
ed by smart TVs can allow it to be
better integrated into a consumer’s
work, life and play scenarios at
home.
“With a high penetration rate of
smart TVs shipment in China, IDC
sees an opportunity for smart TVs to
get to the next stage of smart TV
development and increase its mar-
ket share,” Pan said.
IDC forecast that 44.8 million
units of smart TVs will be sold in
China in 2020, marking a 4.4 per-
cent decrease from a year ago, partly
due to the negative effects of the
COVID-19 outbreak.
But the improvement in con-
nection and interaction intelli-
gence in newer smart TV models
will increase their appeal to con-
sumers.
IDC said the evolution of smart
TVs in China has yet to take off, as
most manufacturers continue to
focus on video entertainment capa-
bilities instead of expanding diversi-
fied scenarios. In fact, only 29
percent of smart TVs on the market
A QING / FOR CHINA DAILY
connectivity with home and mobile
devices, which will be built on not
only the applications, but also the
Smart TVs will operating system. Device intercon-
be having wider nection will gradually develop
connectivity with from application layer connection
to system layer connection,” Pan
home and mobile said.
devices ...” That is where Chinese TV makers
are working. Internet TV brand
Sophie Pan, research manager Coocaa, a subsidiary of Chinese tele-
for client systems at vision producer Shenzhen Sky-
International Data Corp’s
worth-RGB Electronic Co Ltd, also
China branch
unveiled its latest operating system
as it eyes a bigger presence in the
IoT market.
Wang Zhiguo, CEO of Coocaa,
could connect with other home said Coocaa OS 8 is designed to pow-
devices as of 2019 — and 45 percent er a wide range of hardware and dis-
of smart TVs can support voice plays, including TVs, automobiles,
assistants. smart conferencing and smart edu-
“Smart TVs in China are still far cation.
from being fully connected and Wang said Coocaa’s OS 8 was
intelligent, and they have also to unveiled to help create an
improve in content intelligence, sce- “unbounded space”, and it is devel-
nario-based connection and inter- oped to be compatible with different
action, and service-based screens and can control smart devi-
connection and interaction,” Pan ces without being restricted by time
said. and place.
In such contexts, smart TV’s user Wang said the company will use
interface — the point of human- “Coocaa OS inside” as the identifica-
computer interaction and commu- tion for its latest Coocaa operating
nication — becomes increasingly system, which it hopes can trans-
important. It must be an integrated form the company from an intelli-
interface with a networking connec- gent product supplier to a solutions
tion port, an interaction port and a and services provider.
service port, IDC said. When Coocaa’s operating system
“Smart TVs will be having wider is used in cars, it can also support
artificial intelligence functions,
such as enabling consumers to
voice-control car windows and air
conditioning, Wang said.
These companies’ ambitions are
big, but the key to success lies in
whether software developers will
embrace the new OS and make
applications around it. Huawei said
last year that it will invest $1 billion
to encourage software developers to
be part of the HarmonyOS ecosys-
tem.
Analysts said Huawei made the
right move by building Harmony
into an open-source operating sys-
tem and allowing it to be compatible
with Android from the start.
“This will prevent it from repeat-
ing the fate of Microsoft in promot-
ing smartphone systems,” said Jia
Mo, an analyst at market research
company Canalys.
Microsoft failed to popularize the
use of its Windows system in smart-
phones years ago.
The increasing efforts to add tech-
nological elements into TVs also
come as the sector reaches a mature
stage. Market consultancy All View
Cloud said TV sales reached 20.87
million units in China in the first
half, down 9.2 percent compared
with the same period last year.
In such a context, Chinese TV
makers are working hard to
upgrade their products. Hisense
Group, a leading TV and appliance
manufacturer, launched its interac-
tive system for large-screen social
viewing in the Chinese market last
year.
The TV provides users with inter-
active experiences, including six-
party video chat, cinema sharing,
3D karaoke, AI-powered visual rec-
ognition and fitness as well as multi-
screen communication.
All View Cloud said in its latest
research note that TVs which come
with AI-enabled features account
for 64.9 percent of all TVs sold in the
first half in China, up from 53.2 per-
cent in 2019 and 35.6 percent in
2018.
Xiang Ligang, director-general
of the Information Consumption
Alliance, a telecom industry asso-
ciation, said: “Despite the mount-
ing competition in the TV market,
products that can bring new value
are still of great appeal to con-
sumers.”
Zhao from Honor said: “TV has its
irreplaceable advantages. TVs and
smartphones will work as two cen-
ters in people’s daily lives.”
He added that currently R&D
spending on TVs is still not enough,
which impedes the industry’s devel-
opment.
“Huawei’s strong R&D push into
TVs can even outperform that of
some entire TV companies. That’s
one of our edges,” Zhao said.

Micro light-emitting diodes making serious waves in rapidly growing industry

By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Micro light-emitting diodes
(LEDs) are opening a new direction
for the display industry and are
expected to be adopted in a wide
range of sectors including large-
sized display products, wearable
devices, augmented reality and vir-
tual reality, said industry experts.
Innovative display technology is
no longer a new idea in the industry
with Chinese display panel makers
marching into the emerging micro
LED segment, and more and more
micro/mini LED display products
have been exhibited at major inter-
national events over the past two
years.
China Star Optoelectronics Tech-
nology Co Ltd, a subsidiary of home
appliance giant TCL Technology
Group, will run a joint laboratory
with San’an Semiconductor — a unit
of San’an Optoelectronics Co Ltd —
to develop micro LED technology,
materials, production processes and
equipment and accelerate the com-
mercial large-scale production of
micro LED displays.
The two companies will invest a
total of 300 million yuan ($43.5 mil-
lion) in the new lab, with CSOT
accounting for 55 percent of the reg-
istered capital and San’an Semicon-
ductor the remainder.
Founded in November 2000,
San’an Optoelectronics Co Ltd employees work at a light-emitting
diode assembly line in Tianjin. ZHOU RUNJIAN / XINHUA
San’an Optoelectronics is engaged
in the R&D, large-scale production
and marketing of full-color, ultra
high-brightness light-emitting
diode epitaxial wafers and chips,
and has also worked in the field of
micro LED technology for many
years. Last year, the company
announced plans to invest 12 bil-
lion yuan to build a mini and micro
LED production site in Hubei
province.
During the 2020 Consumer Elec-
tronics Show in Las Vegas, TCL
unveiled for the first time a next-
generation display technology
called mini-LED, which delivers
exceptional contrast and powerfully
brilliant luminance.
“We believe that mini-LED tech-
nology will shape the near future of
the industry and TCL has pioneered
in applying this technology to TVs,”
said Kevin Wang, CEO of TCL Indus-
trial Holdings and TCL Electronics.
In addition, TCL acquired Zhong-
huan Electronics Information
Group in July, which is mainly
engaged in the R&D and produc-
tion of photovoltaic and semicon-
ductor silicon wafers, in order to
improve its positioning in the upper
stream of the semiconductor dis-
play sector’s industry chain and
Micro LED itself has
a lot of potential
and could one day
shine in lots of
applications ...”
Roger Chu, LEDinside’s
research vice-president
generate synergies with its display
business.
Micro LED display technology is
based on self-emitting pixels, deliv-
ering advanced contract ratio, high
brightness and a wide color range,
and is regarded as the benchmark in
next-generation display technology.
Compared with traditional liquid
crystal display (LCD) technology,
micro LED displays offer much bet-
ter image quality and are highly effi-
cient. Moreover, the technology
promises to be brighter and more
durable with a higher color range
than organic light-emitting diodes
(OLED).
According to LEDinside, a divi-
sion of technology research firm
TrendForce, the global market value
of micro LED products will reach
$694 million by 2022 and $2.9 bil-
lion in 2025.
Chinese television manufacturer
Konka Group Co Ltd is accelerating
efforts to expand into the semicon-
ductor sector and increase research
and development investment in
micro LED display technology.
Last year, the company
announced plans to invest 1.5 billion
yuan to establish a micro LED
research institute with Chongqing
Liang Shan Investment Co Ltd for
the R&D, production and sales of
micro LEDs.
Konka has concentrated its inno-
vation efforts on cutting-edge tech-
nologies such as 8K, AIoT, and 5G,
and will continue to make efforts in
emerging industries, new materials
and semiconductors to achieve
innovation in core technologies and
drive the company’s growth.
Konka showcased its latest prod-
uct — Smart Wall — which uses cut-
ting-edge micro LED technology at
this year’s CES in January in Las
Vegas, as well as other advanced dis-
play products such as the 8K OLED
TV, 8K mini LED TV and a series of
high-tech smart home products.
“Although the development of
micro LED still has many bottle-
necks at the moment, mini LED
has emerged as a transitional
technology that will contribute to
the evolution of LED in display-re-
lated applications,” said Roger
Chu, LEDinside’s research vice-
president.
Chu said more competitors may
not be a bad thing for the LED
industry when it comes to advanc-
ing technologies. “Commercializa-
tion and mass production of mini
and micro LED products will likely
arrive sooner if the number of mar-
ket entrants continues to grow.
“Micro LED itself has a lot of
potential and could one day shine in
lots of applications including VR
devices, AR projection, optical sen-
sors and fingerprint recognition,”
Chu added.
BOE Technology Group Co Ltd,
another leading display panel sup-
plier, is also carrying out R&D into
micro LED technology, and will
launch related products in the
future in accordance with market
demands.
“Micro LED, as a representative of
the next-generation of display tech-
nology, has certain advantages such
as excellent display effects and flexi-
ble sizes,” said Zhang Hong, director
of the TV department at Beijing-
based Sigmaintell Consulting, add-
ing major panel and home
appliance manufacturers have
tapped into the micro LED sector to
improve product and brand com-
petitiveness.
“However, such technology is not
mature and it still takes some time
to reach mass production. Micro
LED technology is expected to be
adopted in 80-inch or above display
products, home theaters, VR and
wearable devices,” Zhang added.
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Region’s cross-border
e-commerce brings
business success
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Economic and trade zones in Xia-
men, Fujian province, are playing
an increasingly important role in
boosting industrial development
and enhancing business coopera-
tion, according to local officials.
One of these is the Xiamen cross-
border e-commerce industrial park.
Home to more than 200 cross-bor-
der e-commerce companies, it
includes 20 demonstration projects
in the field of e-commerce. It has
become the largest industrial base
of cross-border e-commerce in Fuji-
an.
Wu Hong, deputy general manag-
er of Xiamen Xiangyu Group, said
the city has a good foundation for
the import and export trade. The
surrounding areas have a strong
demand for cross-border e-com-
merce in industries such as foot-
wear and textiles.
Xiamen also has advantages in
customs clearance. For example, in
2014, Xiamen launched express
shipping and the park built its
cross-border e-commerce industrial
ecosystem around it.
“Focusing on the industrial-chain
needs of e-commerce platforms, we
introduced comprehensive service
providers such as logistics and tal-
ent training.
“Traditional traders can receive
training in the park, find logistics
The Xiamen Area of the China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone
focuses on attracting investment and key projects.
CHEN LIJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY
City delivers major
boost to economy
via trade routes
By YUAN SHENGGAO
As a key port city of the 21st Cen-
tury Maritime Silk Road and the
Silk Road Economic Belt, Xiamen
in Fujian province has played a
crucial role in enhancing econom-
ic and trade exchanges with coun-
tries and regions involved in the
Belt and Road Initiative. This is
thanks to its fast development of
logistics channels, said local offi-
cials.
To date, Xiamen has opened 51
new shipping routes to the Mari-
time Silk Road, attracting nearly
170 well-known companies
involved in ports, shipping, logis-
tics, and trade worldwide.
Last year, the container through-
put of Xiamen Port completed 11.12
million twenty-foot equivalent
units, making it the 14th largest
port in the world. In June and July
this year, the monthly container
throughput of Xiamen Port exceed-
ed 1 million TEUs. In 2015, the first
China-Europe train departed from
the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone in
Xiamen via Chengdu. The train has
become a vital logistics route for
ensuring Sino-European trade
exchanges and cooperation.
At present, Xiamen has opened
freight train routes to Central
Europe, Central Asia and Russia,
reaching more than 30 cities in 12
countries. These including Poz-
nan, Poland; Budapest, Hungary;
A ship loaded with containers comes in to dock at a port in
Xiamen. CHEN LIJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
partners and enjoy online services,”
Wu said. He added that this is a
“one-stop” solution to the problems
faced by enterprises engaged in
cross-border e-commerce business.
The park will also launch a live
broadcast base this year. It will set
up e-commerce live broadcast and
incubation bases for internet influ-
encers, covering services such as
live broadcast delivery, talent incu-
bation and content output.
Another contributor to the city’s
fast pace of economic development
is the Xiamen Area of the China
(Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
On Aug 31, six industrial projects
in sectors such as blockchain and
artificial intelligence were signed
and settled in the zone, with a total
investment of 12.03 billion yuan
($1.75 billion).
Among them, blockchain startup
Bubi (Beijing) Network Technology
will establish an operations center
and innovation laboratory. To estab-
lish a blockchain industrial cluster
and ecosystem, Daoshang (Shang-
hai) Intelligent Control Technology
will set up an operating a headquar-
ter and plans to rollout a chain of
convenience stores and new smart
retail vending machines in 100 cit-
ies across the country within three
years. The zone will also promote
integrated circuits, artificial intelli-
gence, big data, blockchain and oth-
er digital industries.
Hamburg, Germany; Moscow,
Russia; and Almaty and Tashkent
in Central Asia.
By Aug 15, 168 international
freight trains had left Xiamen with
a total of 14,778 TEUs and a cargo
value of $583 million. More than
800 trains have traveled in five
years, carrying 62,090 TEUs with a
cargo value of $2.39 billion.
Since the beginning of 2020, the
China-Europe freight trains have
carried masks, protective clothing,
medical equipment, shoes, hats and
clothing and other urgently needed
materials to countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive. At the same time, Xiamen
opened new flight routes to build a
three-dimensional transport net-
work encompassing sea, land and
air.
At present, there are 21 routes
from Xiamen to countries and
regions involved in the Belt and
Road Initiative. They form a route
network with Xiamen as the core,
covering Southeast Asia and North-
east Asia, and connecting Asia,
Europe, America and Australia. Sta-
tistics from Xiamen Customs show
that in 2019, Xiamen’s imports and
exports to countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive totaled 202.19 billion yuan
($29.49 billion). It represented an
increase of 14.4 percent from 2018
and accounted for 31.5 percent of
Xiamen’s total foreign trade value.
Xiamen to go
all out to attract
investment
Pledge to boost high-quality development as 40th
anniversary of special economic zone celebrated
By YUAN SHENGGAO
O
ver the past 40 years, Xia-
men in East China’s Fujian
province has taken the
lead in boosting China’s
reform and opening-up, becoming
a pioneer in attracting investment
and innovating its economy.
“To mark the 40th anniversary of
the establishment of the special
economic zone, we will promote
high-quality development in all
sectors and build Xiamen into a
city of innovation, entrepreneur-
ship, beauty and modernity,” said
Hu Changsheng, Party secretary of
Xiamen.
In the past six years, Xiamen has
implemented a total of 326
reforms in the economy, culture,
environment and social develop-
ment.
Last year, Xiamen attracted
3,199 investment projects with a
total investment of some 1.4 tril-
lion yuan ($204 billion).
They included 197 projects with
Fortune Global 500 companies and
114 projects by State-owned enter-
prises.
The city has completed 983 pro-
jects with a total investment of 350
billion yuan.
Xiamen has focused on optimiz-
ing its business environment,
improving government services and
deepening reforms by relaxing
access for foreign investors and
reducing taxes and fees.
Hu said Xiamen views this year as
Clockwise from top: Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, Fujian province, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
HUANG RONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Fair continues to grow international cooperation
By YUAN SHENGGAO
The 2020 China International Fair
for Investment and Trade held
recently in Xiamen in Fujian prov-
ince, set out to promote internation-
al cooperation and economic
globalization.
The fair attracted merchants and
delegates from 42 countries and
regions including the United King-
dom, Germany, Belgium, the Neth-
erlands, Japan, South Korea,
Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
It was one of the first major interna-
tional economic and trade events
held in China since the outbreak of
COVID-19.
Iran’s Consul General Khalil Shir-
gholami said: “Energy, agriculture
and tourism are industries that we
have focused on in the Xiamen fair.
China is Iran’s most important eco-
nomic partner, and Fujian and
Guangdong play a particularly
important role.”
In light of the current situation,
the four-day event was held both off-
line and online with the help of Ali-
baba’s cloud services.
Tao Roujia, development direct-
or of Alibaba’s cloud expo, said the
cloud investment and trade fair
focused on solving the problem of
connecting government, business-
the “year of investment and project
construction”.
“We will go all out to attract
investment and promote the execu-
tion of projects to achieve high-qual-
ity development.”
Xiamen is planning to introduce
1,224 projects with a value of more
than 100 million yuan in the next
three years, with a total investment
of approximately 1.88 trillion yuan.
The city will increase infrastructure
construction with 953 projects in
the fields of transport, public health
and education, with a total invest-
ment of nearly 500 billion yuan.
In 1980, the State Council
approved a 2.5-square-kilometer
area in Xiamen’s Huli district as an
experimental area of the economy
and investment.
The city is among China’s first
batch of special economic zones,
together with Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shantou.
Xiamen is not only known for a
mild climate and beautiful scenery,
but also its economic zones.
One example is the Xiamen Torch
High-tech Zone, described as a “spe-
cial zone within a special zone”.
Since its establishment in 1990, it
has made outstanding achieve-
ments in developing high-tech
industries and boosting cross-
Straits cooperation.
Over the past 30 years, the zone
has been an industrial cluster for
the integrated circuit, panel display,
software and information service
sectors.
The 2020 China International Fair for Investment and Trade helps
to boost investor confidence and win-win cooperation.
JIANG KEHONG / XINHUA
men, projects and capital.
“Through multi-channel dock-
ing, new relationships were estab-
lished, and digital operations were
used to form a closed loop,” Tao
said.
Chen Jing, deputy director of the
Fujian Provincial Department of
Commerce, said the online and off-
line mode has been welcomed by
government departments.
“We also want to apply the
online platform to further expand
our investment promotion chan-
In recent years, the zone has
focused on emerging industries
such as artificial intelligence, big
data, cloud computing, the internet
of things, new materials, new ener-
gy, and digital cultural creativity.
High-quality projects have settled
in the high-tech zone, including
Inspur’s new-generation informa-
tion technology industrial base. It
opened in April this year, with an
estimated annual output of 300,000
of Inspur’s latest PCs and servers.
Xiamen is also known as a cradle
of China’s animation industry. In
2008, the annual output value of
Xiamen’s animation and game
industry was about 500 million
yuan. In 2019, the total revenue of
the city’s animation and game
industry exceeded 10 billion yuan.
The city is also a host for many
international conferences such as
the China International Fair for
Investment and Trade, the Interna-
tional Investment Forum, the
Straits Forum, the Asia-Pacific Eco-
nomic Cooperation Ocean Minis-
ters Meeting and Xiamen
International Exhibition Week.
In 2019, the exhibitions held in
Xiamen attracted 110,200 exhibitors
from more than 150 countries and
regions around the world.
Using the multiple advantages
accumulated by its exhibition
industry, Xiamen’s trade in goods
has grown significantly every year
and “Made in Xiamen” products are
sold to more than 220 countries and
regions around the world.
ZHANG QIHUI / FOR CHINA DAILY
nels, achieve year-round online
display and promotion and con-
duct online negotiations,” Chen
said.
This year’s fair promoted two-way
investment in hopes of boosting
investor confidence, enhancing win-
win cooperation and further pro-
moting the new economy.
“The new economy has a strong
complementary role to the tradi-
tional one,” said Pan Helin, executive
dean of the digital economy research
institute of Zhongnan University of
Containers await shipping at a port in Xiamen.
Economics and Law. “Especially
when the traditional economy is
severely affected by the pandemic,
the new economy strongly supports
the stable development of China’s
economy.
“The new economy and the con-
struction of the Belt and Road Initia-
tive are also complementary to each
other.”
Xian Guoyi, director of the service
and trade department of the Minis-
try of Commerce, said the conven-
tion and exhibition industry is an
important platform for building
modern markets and open econom-
ic systems.
“It plays a key role in driving eco-
nomic growth, promoting open
cooperation, increasing social
employment and promoting urban
development,” Xian said.
The General Office of the Fujian
provincial government recently
issued a three-year action plan for
the construction of new infrastruc-
ture in Fujian, proposing that by
2022, Fujian will build a hub for
information and communication in
the digital era.
The plan will enhance in-depth
integration with new infrastruc-
ture, 5G, big data, the internet of
things, industrial internet, artifi-
cial intelligence, blockchain and
WANG XIEYUN / CHINA DAILY
other new technologies while fully
empowering high-quality develop-
ment.
The global spread of COVID-19
has plunged international trade and
investment into a downturn. But
trade with countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive has shown strong resilience and
vitality.
Gao Feng, a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Commerce, said China’s
investment in countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive during the first six months of
2020 achieved rapid growth.
Non-financial direct investment
reached $8.12 billion, a year-on-year
increase of 19.4 percent.
Also in the first half of the year,
China’s imports from and exports to
countries and regions involved in
the initiative were valued at 4.2 tril-
lion yuan.
China’s imports from and exports
to members of the Association of
Southeast Asia Nations countries
were valued at 2.09 trillion yuan, an
increase of 5.6 percent, with
ASEAN becoming China’s largest
trading partner.
In 2019, Fujian’s imports from
and exports to countries and
regions involved in the BRI totaled
455.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year
increase of 16.3 percent. That was
8.5 percent higher than the prov-
ince’s growth rate in the same peri-
od.
The city has a solid economic foundation thanks to its good investment environment and favorable policies.
Construction projects worth 680 billion yuan signed
By SONG MENGXING
songmengxing@chinadaily.com.cn
Xiamen has balanced its epidem-
ic prevention and investment pro-
motions so far this year and
achieved good results, it was
announced at a news conference on
Sept 7.
The coastal city in Fujian province
has secured 7,007 new investment
attraction projects since the begin-
ning of the year, 2.9 times the total of
2019. It has seen 4,016 projects
signed since the beginning of 2020,
with a total investment worth 680.8
billion yuan ($99.74 billion).
In fact, 118 projects from China’s
top 500 enterprises, such as JD, Zijin
Mining and New Hope, were signed
this year, with investment totaling
146.2 billion yuan.
Xiamen focused on 12 large
industrial chains, tackling their
weaknesses and encouraging lead-
ing companies.
The innovation capacity of
advanced manufacturing, such as
panel displays, semiconductors and
integrated circuits and new materi-
als, was noticeably enhanced, said
Huang Heming, director of the Xia-
men bureau of commerce.
It hastened Xiamen’s develop-
ment into a “capital of servers”,
A staff member from Xiamen Customs provides one-stop online
services for enterprises. LIU YULONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Huang said. Server and personal
computer projects, led by compa-
nies including Inspur, have now
begun operation.
The move also promoted the new
economy and has attracted 79 pro-
jects involving smart robots of
Shenzhen-based Ubtech Robotics
and artificial intelligence of Shang-
hai-based Yitu. The projects’ invest-
ments totaled 27.6 billion yuan.
Some companies involved in the
film and television industry also
decided to invest in projects Xia-
men, such as the regional headquar-
ters project of online audio platform
Ximalaya and the film and televi-
sion project of Maoyan Entertain-
ment. The city also made
achievements in attracting foreign
capital this year. Noted multination-
als such as Schneider Electric
increased investment and expanded
production. Several quality foreign-
funded projects were launched,
involving Philippine SM Group and
other companies.
Xiamen used foreign capital of
12.13 billion yuan from January to
August, a year-on-year rise of 36.3
percent.
After the COVID-19 outbreak, it
has echoed national strategic plans
and seized industrial development
opportunities. Big data, 5G, artificial
intelligence and online medical
treatment were points of invest-
ment. Projects including artificial
intelligence and medical rehabilita-
tion of the pharmaceutical company
Luyan were also put into operation.
Huang said local authorities set
up different teams and cooperated
to promote spatial planning, land
supply and construction related to
the projects. They founded 14 pro-
fessional teams, comprising people
from different fields, to attract
investment.
On top of this, 133 policies were
released to support industrial devel-
opment and encourage investment
attraction in fields such as finance,
health, cultural tourism, biological
medicine and electronic information.
Specific policies were formulated for
agricultural and manufacturing com-
panies, which have big demand for
capital, land, environment and poli-
cies.
Innovation platforms have also
been established to support indus-
trial development.
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What they say
In recent years, Xiamen has
improved its construction of the
industrial internet and launched
industry-specific cloud platforms.
The next step is to build a high-
quality industrial internet platform
to drive the development of the
electronic information industry
and support the high-quality
development of the manufactur-
ing industry. It is necessary to
improve the industrial chain with
leading enterprises at the core,
focus on key industries, and real-
ize the optimal allocation of pro-
duction resources.
Li Ying, inspector with the
Information Technology Develop-
ment Department of the Ministry
of Industry and Information Tech-
nology
Our goal is to build a new type
of scientific research institution
and an influential incubation base
with Xiamen characteristics. We
have not only played a role in fight-
ing the pandemic with science and
technology, but also empowered
Xiamen’s industrial development.
We will establish the country’s first
open-source chip industry devel-
opment base in Xiamen, continue
the achievements of the Institute
of Computing Technology of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and
build a brand-new intelligent com-
puter in Xiamen by using data
intelligence.
Xu Yongjun, dean of Xiamen
Institute of Data Intelligence, Insti-
tute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiamen is a big stage for inno-
vative entrepreneurs and a big
platform for investment and busi-
ness. It not only has a good envi-
ronment, but also a high-quality
business environment. Last year,
our new power lithium battery
production line project, with a
total investment of 10 billion yuan
($1.46 billion), settled in Xiamen.
We are committed to building this
project into an advanced bat-
tery system. We will take root in
Xiamen and contribute to the
development of Xiamen’s elec-
tronic information industry.
Liu Jingyu, chairman of AVIC
Lithium Battery
Xiamen’s electronic informa-
tion industry has a very good
foundation. I hope that the digital
industrialization will promote the
digitalization of industry in the
future. Xiamen has attracted a
large number of talented people
from home and abroad. The next
step is to make good use of the
“Digital China Construction Sum-
mit” platform to attract more
leading domestic companies to
base themselves in Xiamen. We
should further promote the con-
struction of new infrastructure,
especially in the area of block-
chain.
Chen Ronghui, director of the
digital office of Fujian province
With a good living environment,
rich resources and many talented
people, Xiamen has advantages to
develop a complete chain of the
electronic information industry. In
the context of major changes in
the international situation, the
development of independent
technologies has become a new
proposition and challenge for the
electronic information industry. To
make Xiamen’s electronic infor-
mation industry to become bigger
and stronger, I have three sugges-
tions: First, we need overall plan-
ning to clarify the development of
key industries; the second is to
attract high-quality projects and
cultivate high-end local enterpris-
es; third, we should focus on
research and development of
advanced technologies to lay a
solid foundation for future devel-
opment.
Cao Rong, dean of Xiamen
Institute of Data Intelligence at
Institute of Computing Technolo-
gy at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences
The Xiamen government is very
courageous and forward-looking.
It has a good layout for the devel-
opment of the electronic informa-
tion industry and has launched a
series of measures. Xiamen has a
very good business environment
and ranks among the top in the
country. The electronic informa-
tion industry needs an open mar-
ket and most domestic
enterprises are participating in
international market competi-
tion. The innovative application of
information technology is usher-
ing in a golden opportunity for
development.
Yao Wu, vice-president of the
Shenzhou Xinchuang Group
16 | ADVERTORIAL

Region’s cross-border
e-commerce brings
business success
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Economic and trade zones in Xia-
men, Fujian province, are playing
an increasingly important role in
boosting industrial development
and enhancing business coopera-
tion, according to local officials.
One of these is the Xiamen cross-
border e-commerce industrial park.
Home to more than 200 cross-bor-
der e-commerce companies, it
includes 20 demonstration projects
in the field of e-commerce. It has
become the largest industrial base
of cross-border e-commerce in Fuji-
an.
Wu Hong, deputy general manag-
er of Xiamen Xiangyu Group, said
the city has a good foundation for
the import and export trade. The
surrounding areas have a strong
demand for cross-border e-com-
merce in industries such as foot-
wear and textiles.
Xiamen also has advantages in
customs clearance. For example, in
2014, Xiamen launched express
shipping and the park built its
cross-border e-commerce industrial
ecosystem around it.
“Focusing on the industrial-chain
needs of e-commerce platforms, we
introduced comprehensive service
providers such as logistics and tal-
ent training.
“Traditional traders can receive
training in the park, find logistics
The Xiamen Area of the China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone
focuses on attracting investment and key projects.
CHEN LIJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY
City delivers major
boost to economy
via trade routes
By YUAN SHENGGAO
As a key port city of the 21st Cen-
tury Maritime Silk Road and the
Silk Road Economic Belt, Xiamen
in Fujian province has played a
crucial role in enhancing econom-
ic and trade exchanges with coun-
tries and regions involved in the
Belt and Road Initiative. This is
thanks to its fast development of
logistics channels, said local offi-
cials.
To date, Xiamen has opened 51
new shipping routes to the Mari-
time Silk Road, attracting nearly
170 well-known companies
involved in ports, shipping, logis-
tics, and trade worldwide.
Last year, the container through-
put of Xiamen Port completed 11.12
million twenty-foot equivalent
units, making it the 14th largest
port in the world. In June and July
this year, the monthly container
throughput of Xiamen Port exceed-
ed 1 million TEUs. In 2015, the first
China-Europe train departed from
the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone in
Xiamen via Chengdu. The train has
become a vital logistics route for
ensuring Sino-European trade
exchanges and cooperation.
At present, Xiamen has opened
freight train routes to Central
Europe, Central Asia and Russia,
reaching more than 30 cities in 12
countries. These including Poz-
nan, Poland; Budapest, Hungary;
A ship loaded with containers comes in to dock at a port in
Xiamen. CHEN LIJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
partners and enjoy online services,”
Wu said. He added that this is a
“one-stop” solution to the problems
faced by enterprises engaged in
cross-border e-commerce business.
The park will also launch a live
broadcast base this year. It will set
up e-commerce live broadcast and
incubation bases for internet influ-
encers, covering services such as
live broadcast delivery, talent incu-
bation and content output.
Another contributor to the city’s
fast pace of economic development
is the Xiamen Area of the China
(Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
On Aug 31, six industrial projects
in sectors such as blockchain and
artificial intelligence were signed
and settled in the zone, with a total
investment of 12.03 billion yuan
($1.75 billion).
Among them, blockchain startup
Bubi (Beijing) Network Technology
will establish an operations center
and innovation laboratory. To estab-
lish a blockchain industrial cluster
and ecosystem, Daoshang (Shang-
hai) Intelligent Control Technology
will set up an operating a headquar-
ter and plans to rollout a chain of
convenience stores and new smart
retail vending machines in 100 cit-
ies across the country within three
years. The zone will also promote
integrated circuits, artificial intelli-
gence, big data, blockchain and oth-
er digital industries.
Hamburg, Germany; Moscow,
Russia; and Almaty and Tashkent
in Central Asia.
By Aug 15, 168 international
freight trains had left Xiamen with
a total of 14,778 TEUs and a cargo
value of $583 million. More than
800 trains have traveled in five
years, carrying 62,090 TEUs with a
cargo value of $2.39 billion.
Since the beginning of 2020, the
China-Europe freight trains have
carried masks, protective clothing,
medical equipment, shoes, hats and
clothing and other urgently needed
materials to countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive. At the same time, Xiamen
opened new flight routes to build a
three-dimensional transport net-
work encompassing sea, land and
air.
At present, there are 21 routes
from Xiamen to countries and
regions involved in the Belt and
Road Initiative. They form a route
network with Xiamen as the core,
covering Southeast Asia and North-
east Asia, and connecting Asia,
Europe, America and Australia. Sta-
tistics from Xiamen Customs show
that in 2019, Xiamen’s imports and
exports to countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive totaled 202.19 billion yuan
($29.49 billion). It represented an
increase of 14.4 percent from 2018
and accounted for 31.5 percent of
Xiamen’s total foreign trade value.
Xiamen to go
all out to attract
investment
Pledge to boost high-quality development as 40th
anniversary of special economic zone celebrated
By YUAN SHENGGAO
O
ver the past 40 years, Xia-
men in East China’s Fujian
province has taken the
lead in boosting China’s
reform and opening-up, becoming
a pioneer in attracting investment
and innovating its economy.
“To mark the 40th anniversary of
the establishment of the special
economic zone, we will promote
high-quality development in all
sectors and build Xiamen into a
city of innovation, entrepreneur-
ship, beauty and modernity,” said
Hu Changsheng, Party secretary of
Xiamen.
In the past six years, Xiamen has
implemented a total of 326
reforms in the economy, culture,
environment and social develop-
ment.
Last year, Xiamen attracted
3,199 investment projects with a
total investment of some 1.4 tril-
lion yuan ($204 billion).
They included 197 projects with
Fortune Global 500 companies and
114 projects by State-owned enter-
prises.
The city has completed 983 pro-
jects with a total investment of 350
billion yuan.
Xiamen has focused on optimiz-
ing its business environment,
improving government services and
deepening reforms by relaxing
access for foreign investors and
reducing taxes and fees.
Hu said Xiamen views this year as
Clockwise from top: Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, Fujian province, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
HUANG RONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Fair continues to grow international cooperation
By YUAN SHENGGAO
The 2020 China International Fair
for Investment and Trade held
recently in Xiamen in Fujian prov-
ince, set out to promote internation-
al cooperation and economic
globalization.
The fair attracted merchants and
delegates from 42 countries and
regions including the United King-
dom, Germany, Belgium, the Neth-
erlands, Japan, South Korea,
Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
It was one of the first major interna-
tional economic and trade events
held in China since the outbreak of
COVID-19.
Iran’s Consul General Khalil Shir-
gholami said: “Energy, agriculture
and tourism are industries that we
have focused on in the Xiamen fair.
China is Iran’s most important eco-
nomic partner, and Fujian and
Guangdong play a particularly
important role.”
In light of the current situation,
the four-day event was held both off-
line and online with the help of Ali-
baba’s cloud services.
Tao Roujia, development direct-
or of Alibaba’s cloud expo, said the
cloud investment and trade fair
focused on solving the problem of
connecting government, business-
the “year of investment and project
construction”.
“We will go all out to attract
investment and promote the execu-
tion of projects to achieve high-qual-
ity development.”
Xiamen is planning to introduce
1,224 projects with a value of more
than 100 million yuan in the next
three years, with a total investment
of approximately 1.88 trillion yuan.
The city will increase infrastructure
construction with 953 projects in
the fields of transport, public health
and education, with a total invest-
ment of nearly 500 billion yuan.
In 1980, the State Council
approved a 2.5-square-kilometer
area in Xiamen’s Huli district as an
experimental area of the economy
and investment.
The city is among China’s first
batch of special economic zones,
together with Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shantou.
Xiamen is not only known for a
mild climate and beautiful scenery,
but also its economic zones.
One example is the Xiamen Torch
High-tech Zone, described as a “spe-
cial zone within a special zone”.
Since its establishment in 1990, it
has made outstanding achieve-
ments in developing high-tech
industries and boosting cross-
Straits cooperation.
Over the past 30 years, the zone
has been an industrial cluster for
the integrated circuit, panel display,
software and information service
sectors.
The 2020 China International Fair for Investment and Trade helps
to boost investor confidence and win-win cooperation.
JIANG KEHONG / XINHUA
men, projects and capital.
“Through multi-channel dock-
ing, new relationships were estab-
lished, and digital operations were
used to form a closed loop,” Tao
said.
Chen Jing, deputy director of the
Fujian Provincial Department of
Commerce, said the online and off-
line mode has been welcomed by
government departments.
“We also want to apply the
online platform to further expand
our investment promotion chan-
In recent years, the zone has
focused on emerging industries
such as artificial intelligence, big
data, cloud computing, the internet
of things, new materials, new ener-
gy, and digital cultural creativity.
High-quality projects have settled
in the high-tech zone, including
Inspur’s new-generation informa-
tion technology industrial base. It
opened in April this year, with an
estimated annual output of 300,000
of Inspur’s latest PCs and servers.
Xiamen is also known as a cradle
of China’s animation industry. In
2008, the annual output value of
Xiamen’s animation and game
industry was about 500 million
yuan. In 2019, the total revenue of
the city’s animation and game
industry exceeded 10 billion yuan.
The city is also a host for many
international conferences such as
the China International Fair for
Investment and Trade, the Interna-
tional Investment Forum, the
Straits Forum, the Asia-Pacific Eco-
nomic Cooperation Ocean Minis-
ters Meeting and Xiamen
International Exhibition Week.
In 2019, the exhibitions held in
Xiamen attracted 110,200 exhibitors
from more than 150 countries and
regions around the world.
Using the multiple advantages
accumulated by its exhibition
industry, Xiamen’s trade in goods
has grown significantly every year
and “Made in Xiamen” products are
sold to more than 220 countries and
regions around the world.
ZHANG QIHUI / FOR CHINA DAILY
nels, achieve year-round online
display and promotion and con-
duct online negotiations,” Chen
said.
This year’s fair promoted two-way
investment in hopes of boosting
investor confidence, enhancing win-
win cooperation and further pro-
moting the new economy.
“The new economy has a strong
complementary role to the tradi-
tional one,” said Pan Helin, executive
dean of the digital economy research
institute of Zhongnan University of
Containers await shipping at a port in Xiamen.
Economics and Law. “Especially
when the traditional economy is
severely affected by the pandemic,
the new economy strongly supports
the stable development of China’s
economy.
“The new economy and the con-
struction of the Belt and Road Initia-
tive are also complementary to each
other.”
Xian Guoyi, director of the service
and trade department of the Minis-
try of Commerce, said the conven-
tion and exhibition industry is an
important platform for building
modern markets and open econom-
ic systems.
“It plays a key role in driving eco-
nomic growth, promoting open
cooperation, increasing social
employment and promoting urban
development,” Xian said.
The General Office of the Fujian
provincial government recently
issued a three-year action plan for
the construction of new infrastruc-
ture in Fujian, proposing that by
2022, Fujian will build a hub for
information and communication in
the digital era.
The plan will enhance in-depth
integration with new infrastruc-
ture, 5G, big data, the internet of
things, industrial internet, artifi-
cial intelligence, blockchain and
WANG XIEYUN / CHINA DAILY
other new technologies while fully
empowering high-quality develop-
ment.
The global spread of COVID-19
has plunged international trade and
investment into a downturn. But
trade with countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive has shown strong resilience and
vitality.
Gao Feng, a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Commerce, said China’s
investment in countries and regions
involved in the Belt and Road Initia-
tive during the first six months of
2020 achieved rapid growth.
Non-financial direct investment
reached $8.12 billion, a year-on-year
increase of 19.4 percent.
Also in the first half of the year,
China’s imports from and exports to
countries and regions involved in
the initiative were valued at 4.2 tril-
lion yuan.
China’s imports from and exports
to members of the Association of
Southeast Asia Nations countries
were valued at 2.09 trillion yuan, an
increase of 5.6 percent, with
ASEAN becoming China’s largest
trading partner.
In 2019, Fujian’s imports from
and exports to countries and
regions involved in the BRI totaled
455.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year
increase of 16.3 percent. That was
8.5 percent higher than the prov-
ince’s growth rate in the same peri-
od.
The city has a solid economic foundation thanks to its good investment environment and favorable policies.
Construction projects worth 680 billion yuan signed
By SONG MENGXING
songmengxing@chinadaily.com.cn
Xiamen has balanced its epidem-
ic prevention and investment pro-
motions so far this year and
achieved good results, it was
announced at a news conference on
Sept 7.
The coastal city in Fujian province
has secured 7,007 new investment
attraction projects since the begin-
ning of the year, 2.9 times the total of
2019. It has seen 4,016 projects
signed since the beginning of 2020,
with a total investment worth 680.8
billion yuan ($99.74 billion).
In fact, 118 projects from China’s
top 500 enterprises, such as JD, Zijin
Mining and New Hope, were signed
this year, with investment totaling
146.2 billion yuan.
Xiamen focused on 12 large
industrial chains, tackling their
weaknesses and encouraging lead-
ing companies.
The innovation capacity of
advanced manufacturing, such as
panel displays, semiconductors and
integrated circuits and new materi-
als, was noticeably enhanced, said
Huang Heming, director of the Xia-
men bureau of commerce.
It hastened Xiamen’s develop-
ment into a “capital of servers”,
A staff member from Xiamen Customs provides one-stop online
services for enterprises. LIU YULONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Huang said. Server and personal
computer projects, led by compa-
nies including Inspur, have now
begun operation.
The move also promoted the new
economy and has attracted 79 pro-
jects involving smart robots of
Shenzhen-based Ubtech Robotics
and artificial intelligence of Shang-
hai-based Yitu. The projects’ invest-
ments totaled 27.6 billion yuan.
Some companies involved in the
film and television industry also
decided to invest in projects Xia-
men, such as the regional headquar-
ters project of online audio platform
Ximalaya and the film and televi-
sion project of Maoyan Entertain-
ment. The city also made
achievements in attracting foreign
capital this year. Noted multination-
als such as Schneider Electric
increased investment and expanded
production. Several quality foreign-
funded projects were launched,
involving Philippine SM Group and
other companies.
Xiamen used foreign capital of
12.13 billion yuan from January to
August, a year-on-year rise of 36.3
percent.
After the COVID-19 outbreak, it
has echoed national strategic plans
and seized industrial development
opportunities. Big data, 5G, artificial
intelligence and online medical
treatment were points of invest-
ment. Projects including artificial
intelligence and medical rehabilita-
tion of the pharmaceutical company
Luyan were also put into operation.
Huang said local authorities set
up different teams and cooperated
to promote spatial planning, land
supply and construction related to
the projects. They founded 14 pro-
fessional teams, comprising people
from different fields, to attract
investment.
On top of this, 133 policies were
released to support industrial devel-
opment and encourage investment
attraction in fields such as finance,
health, cultural tourism, biological
medicine and electronic information.
Specific policies were formulated for
agricultural and manufacturing com-
panies, which have big demand for
capital, land, environment and poli-
cies.
Innovation platforms have also
been established to support indus-
trial development.
CHINA DAILY | 17
What they say
In recent years, Xiamen has
improved its construction of the
industrial internet and launched
industry-specific cloud platforms.
The next step is to build a high-
quality industrial internet platform
to drive the development of the
electronic information industry
and support the high-quality
development of the manufactur-
ing industry. It is necessary to
improve the industrial chain with
leading enterprises at the core,
focus on key industries, and real-
ize the optimal allocation of pro-
duction resources.
Li Ying, inspector with the
Information Technology Develop-
ment Department of the Ministry
of Industry and Information Tech-
nology
Our goal is to build a new type
of scientific research institution
and an influential incubation base
with Xiamen characteristics. We
have not only played a role in fight-
ing the pandemic with science and
technology, but also empowered
Xiamen’s industrial development.
We will establish the country’s first
open-source chip industry devel-
opment base in Xiamen, continue
the achievements of the Institute
of Computing Technology of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and
build a brand-new intelligent com-
puter in Xiamen by using data
intelligence.
Xu Yongjun, dean of Xiamen
Institute of Data Intelligence, Insti-
tute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiamen is a big stage for inno-
vative entrepreneurs and a big
platform for investment and busi-
ness. It not only has a good envi-
ronment, but also a high-quality
business environment. Last year,
our new power lithium battery
production line project, with a
total investment of 10 billion yuan
($1.46 billion), settled in Xiamen.
We are committed to building this
project into an advanced bat-
tery system. We will take root in
Xiamen and contribute to the
development of Xiamen’s elec-
tronic information industry.
Liu Jingyu, chairman of AVIC
Lithium Battery
Xiamen’s electronic informa-
tion industry has a very good
foundation. I hope that the digital
industrialization will promote the
digitalization of industry in the
future. Xiamen has attracted a
large number of talented people
from home and abroad. The next
step is to make good use of the
“Digital China Construction Sum-
mit” platform to attract more
leading domestic companies to
base themselves in Xiamen. We
should further promote the con-
struction of new infrastructure,
especially in the area of block-
chain.
Chen Ronghui, director of the
digital office of Fujian province
With a good living environment,
rich resources and many talented
people, Xiamen has advantages to
develop a complete chain of the
electronic information industry. In
the context of major changes in
the international situation, the
development of independent
technologies has become a new
proposition and challenge for the
electronic information industry. To
make Xiamen’s electronic infor-
mation industry to become bigger
and stronger, I have three sugges-
tions: First, we need overall plan-
ning to clarify the development of
key industries; the second is to
attract high-quality projects and
cultivate high-end local enterpris-
es; third, we should focus on
research and development of
advanced technologies to lay a
solid foundation for future devel-
opment.
Cao Rong, dean of Xiamen
Institute of Data Intelligence at
Institute of Computing Technolo-
gy at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences
The Xiamen government is very
courageous and forward-looking.
It has a good layout for the devel-
opment of the electronic informa-
tion industry and has launched a
series of measures. Xiamen has a
very good business environment
and ranks among the top in the
country. The electronic informa-
tion industry needs an open mar-
ket and most domestic
enterprises are participating in
international market competi-
tion. The innovative application of
information technology is usher-
ing in a golden opportunity for
development.
Yao Wu, vice-president of the
Shenzhou Xinchuang Group
18 | Wednesday, September 16, 2020 CHINA DAILY

YOUTH

In an online program, Chinese Paintings’ Adventure, real actors bring to life some artworks, such as Xihu Yinqu Tu (left) by Qian Xuan of Song Dynasty (960-1279), which depicts a reclusive poet, his disciple and
a crane appreciating plum blossoms, and the Portrait of Yunli, Prince Guo (right, middle), believed to be the work of Mangguri (1672-1736), both of which are housed at the Palace Museum.

Bringing art to life

Famous paintings are re-created to provide a contemporary twist for viewers, Chen Nan reports.

W
hat do you think when
you look at an old
painting? Maybe you
consider its history,
maybe the stories of the people fea-
tured in the frame, or the message
delivered by the artist?
“A truly great painting with hun-
dreds of years of history carries a
sense of motion within it, whether
in the gestures of the people por-
trayed in it or the emotion
expressed,’’ says Zhu Lexian, direct-
or of the documentary studio within
Tencent Penguin Pictures.
“However, normally, the paint-
ings don’t actually move and we try
to make it happen,” Zhu adds.
That’s right. Zhu and his team
make art that moves. People act out
the images in the paintings and
bring them to life. This is living art,
one of a kind.
They have created a program,
entitled Chinese Paintings’ Adven-
ture, which transforms Chinese art
history’s most celebrated paintings
into live pictures featuring real
actors and actresses.
For any of the viewers, who have
wondered about what was happen-
ing in those ancient Chinese paint-
ings, the show provides an
imaginative glimpse with humor and
a connection to contemporary life.
Premiered on Aug 19, the 30-epi-
sode show, with each episode lasting
around five minutes, has based its
content on 14 famous ancient Chi-
nese paintings, spanning from the
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
(907-960) to the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911).
“Our goal is to popularize ancient
Chinese paintings among the view-
ers and to make art education fun,
simple and easy to comprehend.
We want them to learn the history
of, and the stories behind, the
paintings in an interesting way,”
says Zhu, the program’s executive
producer.
The company released a seven-
episode docudrama last year titled
War of Seven Kingdoms, which
introduced the history of the Spring
and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
and the Warring States Period (475-
221 BC). It was a huge hit.
The first episode of the pro-
gram, Chinese Paintings’ Adven-
ture, features Court Ladies
Preparing Newly Woven Silk by
Tang Dynasty (618-907) painter
Zhang Xuan — the existing copy of
which is now housed in the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts. The paint-
ing provides a precious insight
into the women working in the
ancient royal court.
To make the painting come alive,
the show has 12 actresses play the 12
characters depicted in the painting.
These include women pounding silk
with wooden poles and sewing and
ironing freshly-woven silk.
The actresses also have conversa-
tions while working. They complain
about the demanding job, talk about
the different kinds of work assigned
by the boss and make fun of one
another’s techniques.
“I learned about this painting
from a textbook in school. The
women in the painting are so vivid
when they start to talk,” comment-
ed one fan named Yu Guanghan on
micro-blogging platform Sina
Weibo.
“The actresses look exactly like the
women in the painting. They talk
and joke just like we do while work-
ing in the office, which is very inter-
esting,” commented another fan, Ma
Da. “Though the conversation may
not be real and was written by the
scriptwriters, it’s fun to watch.”
According to Zhu, so far, the
show has received over 26 million
views online, which is beyond his
expectations.
“It shows that the audience loves
this creative way of introducing
ancient Chinese paintings,” says Zhu.
The show’s viewers are mostly
people aged from 18 to 24, Zhu says.
To appeal to the younger audience,
scriptwriters of the program tried to
connect the people depicted in the
ancient Chinese paintings with con-
temporary life.
For example, from the famous
paintings by Su Hanchen, viewers
are offered an insight into the lives
of children during the Song Dynasty
(960-1279). One of the paintings,
titled Jiaoyin Jiqiu Tu, or Children
at Play in Summer — currently
Above: Actors and actresses
re-create Bunian Tu, a
renowned Tang Dynasty
(618-907) painting by Yan
Liben, also housed at the Palace
Museum, of which shows
Emperor Taizong receiving a
Tubo envoy. Left: Actors bring
the paintings to life by
imagining the conversations
that might have taken place
between the featured
characters.
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housed at the Palace Museum in Bei-
jing — captures the lovely spirit and
appearance of children playing a
ball under the shade of a palm tree.
Their mother is looking at them
with a smile on her face.
The actress playing the role of the
mother not only keeps her children
company but urges them to finish
their homework.
“Parents’ role in homework is a
common topic now,” says Wu Zijuan,
director of the show, Chinese Paint-
ings’ Adventure.
“The mother in the painting is
characterized as a mother, who
wants her children to play outside
and, at the same time, feels the
need to get her children to do their
homework as soon as possible. This
conversation between a mother
and her children is commonly seen
nowadays.”
Adding modern elements that
contemporary people can relate to in
their own lives has turned out to be
“an easy way for the audience to
remember the ancient paintings”.
According to Zhu, the creative
team started to prepare for the show
in July last year. They researched
many ancient Chinese paintings
and spent lots of time working on
the costumes, makeup and scripts.
History of the paintings is also
vital as each episode of the show
opens and ends with the historical
background of the featured art-
work.
He notes that the second season
of the show may shift its focus to
paintings portraying natural scen-
ery and works that are larger in
scale. One subject under consider-
ation is the masterpiece Along the
River During the Qingming Festival
by 12th-century painter Zhang
Zeduan, currently housed at the
Palace Museum in Beijing.
The 5.28-meter scrolled painting
gives a panoramic portrayal of
flourishing urban life, covering all
social classes, in Bianliang (today’s
Kaifeng in Henan province), which
was the capital of the Northern
Song Dynasty (960-1127).
Contact the writer at
chennan@chinadaily.com.cn

Legend’s legacy inspires musical of heroic intellectual

By CHEN NAN
When musician Shen Qing studied
at Leshan No 1 High School in South-
west China’s Sichuan province in the
mid-1980s, he heard stories about
Guo Moruo (1892-1978), a celebrity
alumnus of the school, whose statue
stands at its entrance.
Born in Shawan, a small town of
Leshan city, with the name Guo
Kaizhen, he became a commanding
figure in the Chinese intellectual
history, making enormous contri-
butions to literature, archaeology,
art and translation, among other
areas.
The school, with its name written
in Guo’s calligraphy, has now set up
an exhibition hall to recount the
great man’s life story and showcase
his achievements.
“He was everywhere in the
school and I read his legendary sto-
ries as a teenager. Because we share
the same hometown, I naturally
felt close to him,” recalls Shen, 50,
who moved to Beijing and
launched a full-time career as a
singer-songwriter in 1990.
Last year, Shen was approached
by the local government of Leshan to
write a musical based on Guo’s early
life in Shawan before 1905, when he
left his small town to pursue further
education at the age of 12.
The two-hour, four-act musical,
titled Shaonian Guo Moruo, or
Youngster Guo Moruo, will be pre-
miered at Shawan, Leshan, on
Sept 18 and will run until Oct 2
with five performances, before
touring nationwide.
The musical aims to inspire the
younger generation with Guo’s sto-
ries and boost tourism of the serene,
isolated town, which is located
along the Dadu River. Besides Shen,
the creative team members also
include directors Chen Jun and Wen
Pei, both veterans of theatrical pro-
ductions, and Xu Li from the China
National Theater for Children.
After writing pop songs for dec-
ades, Shen, who made a name during
the early 1990s with his catchy, sooth-
ing ballads, has written eight songs
for the musical. He collected local
folk songs performed by fishermen
and combined the Leshan dialect
with Mandarin while writing lyrics.
He also wrote the musical’s script.
To better understand Guo, he
traveled back to his hometown earli-
er this year and visited memorials
and Guo’s former residence.
“The most impressive things about
Guo’s former residence are the family
mottoes that are inscribed every-
where, on wood pillars and tablets,
which have been passed down for
generations of the Guo family,” Shen
says. “Those mottoes showed that his
family honored traditional Chinese
virtues, such as hard work, kindness
and loyalty. Guo’s father used to set
up a classroom in the courtyard, a
proof that education was highly val-
ued in his family.”
Guo’s family were Hakka people
from Fujian province, who moved to
Sichuan during the 17th century.
The eighth child of his family, Guo
learned classic Chinese literature
Musical Shaonian Guo Moruo, based on Guo’s early life, premieres
in Shawan town, Sichuan province, on Sept 18 and will run until Oct
2 before embarking on a national tour. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
A major part of the
musical features his
hard work and devotion to
knowledge, which are
important and related to
today’s younger generation.”
Shen Qing, composer and scriptwriter
and ancient cultural tradition from medicine in 1914, where he began to
his private tutor, Shen Huanzhang. learn foreign languages and litera-
As a teenager, he was also exposed to ture. Guo Moruo published his first
modern books and magazines by his anthology of poems, The Goddesses,
eldest brother, Guo Kaiwen. Guo in 1921, laying the foundation for
Moruo followed in his brother’s “new-style poetry” in China and
footsteps, leaving for Japan to study achieving immediate success. He
co-founded a literary association
called “the Creation Society” in
Shanghai, which hailed the roman-
tic spirit and promoted modern ver-
nacular literature.
Guo Moruo, fluent in Japanese,
German and English, was also a
prolific translator, whose transla-
tions include the works of German
philosophers Friedrich von Schiller
and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev of
Russia, Percy Shelley and H.G.
Wells of Britain, and Upton Sinclair
of the United States.
“Through his early life in Shawan,
I learned that he read lots of books
of various kinds. His teacher Shen
Huanzhang once asked him: ‘How
to define a genius?’ Guo Moruo
answered: ‘It’s a result of diligence’,”
recounts Shen Qing.
“A major part of the musical fea-
tures his hard work and devotion to
knowledge, which are important
and related to today’s younger gen-
eration,” adds the songwriter.
Aside from personal and academ-
ic achievements, Guo Moruo also
held many important government
positions, such as the roles of first
president of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, chairman of the China Fed-
eration of Literary and Art Circles,
and vice-chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National People’s
Congress and Chinese People’s Polit-
ical Consultative Conference.
“When I read the book about his
youth, I was touched by his gratitude
to his mother, who had taken good
care of the family and accompanied
the children as much as possible,”
says Shen Qing. “It is good advice for
parents of today, who, busy with
their work, ignore the importance of
quality family time. Therefore, we
contrived some plot points in the
musical to help remind parents to
spend more time with their chil-
dren.”
There are nine amateur child
actors in the musical performing
alongside professional singers.
Li Xiang, a tenor from China
National Opera House, plays the
role of Guo’s father, a businessman,
who believed in education and val-
ued traditional Chinese culture.
“He was a strict father and kept
the tradition of educating his chil-
dren through the values espoused
by family mottoes. Nowadays, how-
ever, it’s a pity that family mottoes
have been neglected by modern Chi-
nese families,” says Li, 38, who grad-
uated from the Central
Conservatory of Music in Beijing
and joined the China National
Opera House in 2005.
The tenor also mentions that dur-
ing the field trips before the musical’s
creation, he was attracted by the nat-
ural scenery of Shawan and loves the
local food as well as making friends
with local people, who are “warm,
straightforward and sincere”.
“We want to portray Guo Moruo’s
life before he became a celebrity with
his encyclopedic knowledge and
artistic talent. The local culture of
Shawan, the food, and his family
members, all contributed to his
growth,” Li says.
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TENNIS
Djokovic determined to
move on from New York
Serbian says he’s learned ‘big lesson’
from costly US Open temper tantrum
ROME — Novak Djokovic
learned “a big lesson” after being
disqualified from the US Open for
unintentionally hitting a line judge
in the throat with a ball.
The incident nine days ago
marked a stunning end to Djokov-
ic’s 29-match winning streak and
his bid for an 18th Grand Slam title.
“I’m working mentally and emo-
tionally as hard as I am working
physically,” Djokovic said Monday
at the Italian Open. “I’m trying to
be the best version of myself on the
court and off the court and I under-
stand that I have outbursts and this
is kind of the personality and the
player that I have always been.
“I’m going to take this in as pro-
found as possible for me as a big
lesson. I’ve been thinking about it.
I’ve been comprehending. I’ve been
talking to my team. It’s just one of
these things that is just unfortu-
nate and happens. You have to
move on.”
The disqualification came dur-
ing Djokovic’s fourth-round match
against Pablo Carreno Busta.
As he walked to the Arthur Ashe
Stadium sideline for a changeover,
trailing Carreno Busta 6-5 in the
first set, Djokovic — who was seed-
ed and ranked No 1 and an over-
whelming favorite for the
championship — angrily smacked
a ball behind him. The ball flew
right at the line judge, who
dropped to her knees at the back of
Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Results of the MLB games on Monday (home
team in CAPS):
SEATTLE 6 Oakland 5 (7 innings), 1st game
Oakland 9 SEATTLE 0 (7 innings), 2nd game
BALTIMORE 14 Atlanta 1
CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3 Minnesota 1
MIAMI 6 Philadelphia 2
CINCINNATI 3 Pittsburgh 1 (7 innings), 1st game
CINCINNATI 9 Pittsburgh 4 (7 innings), 2nd game
MILWAUKEE 2 St. Louis 1 (8 innings), 1st game
St. Louis 3 MILWAUKEE 2 (7 innings), 2nd game
SAN DIEGO 7 LA Dodgers 2
GOLF
World rankings
Through Sept 13
1. Dustin Johnson (USA) 10.16
2. Jon Rahm (ESP) 9.85
3. Justin Thomas (USA) 8.68
4. Rory McIlroy (NIR) 7.91
5. Collin Morikawa (USA) 7.68
6. Webb Simpson (USA) 7.11
7. Xander Schauffele (USA) 6.42
8. Brooks Koepka (USA) 6.09
9. Bryson DeChambeau (USA) 5.88
10. Patrick Reed (USA) 5.79
11. Patrick Cantlay (USA) 5.26
12. Adam Scott (AUS) 5.22
13. Daniel Berger (USA) 5.08
14. Tyrrell Hatton (ENG) 4.79
15. Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) 4.59
16. Tony Finau (USA) 4.59
17. Matthew Fitzpatrick (ENG) 4.24
the court and reached for her neck.
“It was totally unexpected and
very unintended as well,” Djokovic
said.
“When you hit a ball like that you
have a chance to hit somebody that
is on the court. The rules are clear.
So I accepted it. I had to move on
and that’s what I did.
“Of course I did not forget about
it,” Djokovic added. “I don’t think
I’ll ever forget about it, because it’s
one of those things that stays in
your memory for the rest of your
life. But I don’t think I’ll have any
major issues coming back to the
tour and being able to perform well
and hit the tennis ball.”
Djokovic said he checked with
the lineswoman after the incident
and was told she was not seriously
injured.
“I felt really sorry to cause the
shock and drama to her, because
she didn’t deserve that in any way,”
Djokovic said. “She obviously is vol-
unteering and doing her work. She
loves tennis, and she’s been there,
as I understood, for quite a few
years.”
Djokovic had won five of the past
seven Grand Slam tournaments to
raise his total to 17, closing in on
rivals Roger Federer, who has a
men’s-record 20, and Rafael Nadal,
who has 19.
Federer (injury) and Nadal (con-
cerns about travel amid the corona-
virus pandemic) both did not play
18. Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 4.15
19. Paul Casey (ENG) 4.14
20. Justin Rose (ENG) 4.10
21. Tiger Woods (USA) 4.06
22. Marc Leishman (AUS) 3.89
23. Abraham Ancer (MEX) 3.87
24. Im Sung-jae (KOR) 3.85
25. Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 3.84
26. Gary Woodland (USA) 3.81
27. Matt Kuchar (USA) 3.79
28. Scottie Scheffler (USA) 3.52
29. Shane Lowry (IRL) 3.51
30. Kevin Kisner (USA) 3.40
-----------
118. Li Haotong (CHN) 1.37
139. Zhang Xinjun (CHN) 1.22
308. Wu Ashun (CHN) 0.53
338. Yuan Yechun (CHN) 0.47
344. Dou Zecheng (CHN) 0.45
399. Bai Zhengkai (CHN) 0.40
ICE HOCKEY
Result of the NHL Western Conference final on
Monday:
Dallas 3 Las Vegas 2 (OT)
(Dallas wins best-of-seven series 4-1)
NFL
Results of the National Football League games
on Monday (home team in CAPS):
Pittsburgh 26 NY GIANTS 16
Tennessee 16 DENVER 14
SOCCER
I’m going to take this
in as profound as
possible for me as a
big lesson. I’ve been
thinking about it. I’ve
been comprehending.
I’ve been talking to
my team.”
Novak Djokovic
at the US Open.
“Sorry for him. He had an oppor-
tunity there,” Nadal said. “But in
some way you should not be doing
this. ... It is important to have the
right self-control on the court.”
Djokovic has an opening-round
bye in Rome. His first match this
week will come against either Ital-
Chinese Super League
11th-round results on Monday:
Henan Jianye 1 Shenzhen FC 3
Dalian Professional 1 Shanghai Greenland 1
Standings after Sunday’s matches (tabulated
under matches played, won, drawn, lost, goals
for, goals against and points):
Group A
Guangzhou Evergrande 11-9-1-1-27-9-28
Jiangsu Suning 11-5-4-2-20-14-19
Shandong Luneng 11-5-2-4-15-10-17
Shenzhen FC 11-4-2-5-16-16-14
Shanghai Shenhua 11-3-5-3-12-15-14
Dalian Pro 12-2-5-4-17-16-11
Guangzhou R&F 11-3-2-6-13-26-11
Henan Jianye 11-1-3-7-13-27-6
Group B
Shanghai SIPG 10-7-2-1-22-9-23
Beijing Guoan 10-6-3-1-24-14-21
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 10-4-4-2-16-11-16
Wuhan Zall 10-5-1-4-15-11-16
Hebei China Fortune 10-4-2-4-16-19-14
Chongqing Lifan 10-3-3-4-13-18-12
Qingdao Huanghai 10-1-4-5-10-16-7
Tianjin TEDA 10-0-1-9-7-25-1
English Premier League
Results on Monday:
Wolverhampton 2 (Jimenez 3, Saiss 6) Sheffield
United 0
Chelsea 3 (Jorginho 23, James 56, Zouma 66)
Brighton 1 (Trossard 54)
TENNIS
ian wild-card entry Salvatore Caru-
so or a qualifier.
The tournament at the Foro Itali-
co in Rome was rescheduled from
May because of the pandemic and
will be played without fans in
attendance.
Nadal, who has a record nine
Italian Open titles, is on the oppo-
site side of the draw from Djokovic.
The Spaniard is returning to tennis
for the first time since February.
“I am similar to always — maybe
a little bit worse because I didn’t
compete for the last six months,”
Nadal said. “To feel that you’re 100
percent you need matches.”
Nadal opens against Carreno
Busta.
“He’s playing great,” Nadal said.
“Going to be a good test.”
Like at the US Open, players are
being kept in a protective “bubble”
and being tested frequently for the
coronavirus. But as opposed to the
situation in New York, players are
not required to wear masks when
they enter and leave the court.
“All of the players have been test-
ed, so that makes total sense,” sixth-
ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas said.
“And they don’t have people run-
ning around telling you what do
and what protocol you have to fol-
low every single minute that you’re
in the bubble. Plus, the accommo-
dation is another level.”
Men’s players are staying at the
five-star Rome Cavalieri, which
overlooks the city center from a
hilltop.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATP Tour singles rankings
Through Sept 13
1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 10860
2. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 9850
3. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 9125
4. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 6630
5. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 5890
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 5175
7. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 4650
8. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 2940
9. Gael Monfils, France, 2860
10. Roberto Bautista-Agut, Spain, 2620
11. David Goffin, Belgium, 2555
12. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 2414
13. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 2400
14. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 2345
15. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 2265
16. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 2200
17. Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland, 2185
18. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 2130
19. Milos Raonic, Canada, 1995
20. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 1976
Doubles
1. Robert Farah, Colombia, 8380
2. Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, 8380
3. Nicolas Mahut, France, 5975
4. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 5930
5. Joe Salisbury, Great Britain, 5490
6. Rajeev Ram, USA, 5400
7. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, 5140
7. Marcelo Melo, Brazil, 5140
9. Filip Polasek, Slovakia, 4930
10. Mate Pavic, Croatia, 4900
WTA Tour singles rankings
BASKETBALL
Lin eyeing NBA
comeback after
Ducks departure
By SUN XIAOCHEN
sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn
Jeremy Lin has parted ways with
the Beijing Ducks to pursue a
“dream” return to the NBA, leaving
the capital club to rebuild with a
reinforced domestic core.
With the tipoff of the 2020-21 CBA
campaign a month away, the three-
time league champion Ducks on
Tuesday announced Lin’s exit,
claiming they had tried to persuade
the 32-year-old guard to stay.
In a video message posted on his
Weibo account on Tuesday, the offi-
cial deadline of the new CBA sea-
son’s player registration, Lin
confirmed his departure from the
Chinese league, attributing the deci-
sion to his desire to resume playing
at the very highest level.
“I’ve decided not to come back to
Beijing, which was the hardest deci-
sion I’ve had to make in my life,” Lin,
who joined the Ducks on a reported
$3-million, one-year contract last
summer, said in Chinese.
“I’ve spent the past four weeks
almost sleeplessly to consider my
future and I’ve realized that my
dream to continue my career in the
NBA is still alive.
“I feel I still have a career ahead of
me to play at the highest level, so I
have to go after it. The Ducks organi-
zation has been nothing but kind to
me, and I appreciate very much the
support of my teammates, the
coaching staff and most importantly
the Chinese fans,” added Lin, who as
a Toronto Raptors player in 2019
became the first Asian-American to
win an NBA championship.
An exceptional playmaker and
consistent mid-range jumper, Lin
led the Ducks to the CBA semifinals,
where they were defeated by even-
tual champion the Guangdong
Southern Tigers, 2-1, in the league
resumption following a five-month
COVID-19 shutdown.
Although averaging 22.7 points,
5.6 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 43
games for the Ducks, Lin’s decision-
making and physicality were fre-
quently questioned by Chinese
media during the brutally contested
playoffs as the Ducks failed to win a
fourth league championship as a
hot favorite entering the resumed
campaign in June.
Still, the Ducks organization was
full of praise for Lin on Tuesday,
revealing they had tried to extend
his stay with the franchise for
Jeremy Lin is leaving the CBA after one year with the Beijing Ducks,
who reached the semifinals in the season just passed. XINHUA
Through Sept 13
1. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 8717
2. Simona Halep, Romania, 6356
3. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 5780
4. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 5205
5. Sofia Kenin, USA, 4700
6. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 4580
7. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 4555
8. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 4335
9. Serena Williams, USA, 4080
10. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 4010
11. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 3736
12. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 3615
13. Johanna Konta, Great Britain, 3152
14. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 3122
15. Madison Keys, USA, 2962
16. Petra Martic, Croatia, 2850
17. Garbine Muguruza, Spain, 2771
18. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 2501
19. Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, 2378
20. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 2360
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32. Wang Qiang, China, 1706
39. Zheng Saisai, China, 1510
40. Zhang Shuai, China, 1475
Doubles
1. Hsieh Su-wei, Chinese Taipei, 8350
2. Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 8260
3. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 8115
4. Timea Babos, Hungary, 7955
5. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 7205
6. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 7080
7. Xu Yifan, China, 5820
8. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 5650
9. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 5390
10. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 5275
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 19
another year.
“We’ve kept close contact with Lin
since the beginning of the offseason
and had reached an agreement with
him on a contract extension to
return to the CBA,” the Ducks said in
a statement.
“However, we understand and
respect Lin’s final decision. His pur-
suit of his dream is respectful. His
efforts in leading the team on the
court and enthusiasm in charitable
programs off it are very much appre-
ciated. We wish him success in chas-
ing after his goals.”
Lin’s departure headlines a busy
offseason of restructuring for the
Ducks, who have already hired a
new head coach, Italian Simone
Pianigiani, and two towering
on-court additions — Li Muhao
from Shenzhen and Fan Ziming
from Guangzhou — to make up for
their lack of height in the paint.
The club has yet to make an offi-
cial announcement on its import
players for the 2020-21 season,
which will feature a salary cap and
tighter limits on the use of foreign-
ers in a bid to develop more home-
grown talents.
According to CBA rules, each
team can sign up to four import
players, with their annual salaries
capped at $7 million in total. Game-
day rosters can only feature two
imports, who can play a combined
four quarters against a team with
foreigners and two periods against
an all-Chinese team.
Replacing former coach Ioannis
Christopoulos of Greece, Italian tac-
tician Pianigiani is tasked with
sharpening the Ducks’ offense,
which will be built around the
inside tandem of Li and Fan.
“I believe he can build a better
and stronger Ducks with rich expe-
rience and an excellent modern bas-
ketball concept,” Qin Xiaowen,
chairwoman of the franchise, said
after announcing the appointment
of Pianigiani on Sunday.
Touted as one of Europe’s best
coaches, Pianigiani started his
coaching career in his hometown of
Siena at the age of 26. Since 2007, he
has led three teams from the Italian
and Turkish leagues into the Eurol-
eague, the continent’s most prestig-
ious hoops competition.
As a coach, the 51-year-old has
amassed seven national champion-
ships, five national cup titles and
seven super cup trophies across lea-
gues in Italy, Turkey and Israel.
ATP and WTA at Italian Open
Results on Monday (x-denotes seedings):
Men’s 1st rd
Filip Krajinovic (SRB) bt Felix Auger-Aliassime
(CAN x16) 6-4, 7-5; Casper Ruud (NOR) bt Karen
Khachanov (RUS x11) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Grigor Dimit-
rov (BUL x15) bt Gianluca Mager (ITA) 7-5, 6-1;
Marin Cilic (CRO) bt Alexander Bublik (KAZ) 6-7
(4), 6-2, 6-4; Borna Coric (CRO) bt Cristian Garin
(CHI x14) 6-4, 6-4; Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) bt Nikol-
oz Basilashvili (GEO) 6-3, 6-1; Ugo Humbert (FRA)
bt Kevin Anderson (RSA) 6-3, 7-6 (5); Hubert Hur-
kacz (POL) bt Daniel Evans (GBR) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5;
Jannik Sinner (ITA) bt Benoit Paire (FRA) 6-2, 6-1;
Kei Nishikori (JPN) bt Albert Ramos-Vinolas
(ESP) 6-4, 7-6 (3); Stefano Travaglia (ITA) bt Tay-
lor Fritz (USA) 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Women’s 1st rd
Elena Rybakina (KAZ x10) bt Ekaterina Alexan-
drova (RUS) 6-0, 6-4; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
(RUS) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN) 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1;
Amanda Anisimova (USA) bt Donna Vekic (CRO
x16) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6); Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt
Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 6-3, 6-3; Marie
Bouzkova (CZE) bt Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-3,
6-4; Jasmine Paolini (ITA) bt Anastasija Sevasto-
va (LAT) 6-2, 6-3; Magda Linette (POL) bt Jelena
Ostapenko (LAT) 6-4, 6-3; Anna Blinkova (RUS) bt
Jil Teichmann (SUI) 6-3, 6-3; Elise Mertens (BEL
x11) br Hsieh Su-wei (TPE) 6-3, 6-1; Danka Kovinic
(MNE) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 6-1, 6-0; Aliona Bol-
sova Zadoinov (ESP) bt Alison Riske (USA x13)
5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3; Dayana Yastremska (UKR) bt
Camila Giorgi (ITA) 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4.
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SPORTS
SOCCER
Uzbekistan international Odil Akhmedov has spent four years at Shanghai SIPG, helping the club win the 2018 Chinese Super League title.
The 32-year-old admits saying farewell to teammates has been “pretty hard” after leaving for Tianjin Teda last week. XINHUA
SIPG exit flips the script
on Akhmedov’s season
Long-serving Uzbek midfielder leaves
title hopefuls for struggling Tianjin
By SHI FUTIAN
shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn
Odil Akhmedov’s midseason
switch from Shanghai SIPG to Tian-
jin Teda was as surprising to himself
as it was the fans. But now the
Uzbek midfielder has vowed to shift
his focus from fighting for the title
with SIPG to saving free-falling Teda
from relegation.
“For me it’s pretty hard to say
goodbye to Shanghai SIPG,” said
Akhmedov after Teda announced
his arrival last Friday. “I will need
some time to fit into the new team
and to get to know all of my team-
mates. I hope we can fight together
to avoid relegation.”
Akhmedov signed for Shanghai in
2017 from Russian Premier League
side Krasnodar, going on to become
a core player in the SIPG midfield.
Akhmedov has played 64 Chinese
Super League matches, including
eight this season, scoring nine goals
and contributing nine assists.
One of the undoubted highlights
of Akhmedov’s SIPG career was
helping the club win its maiden CSL
title in 2018. Vitor Pereira’s current
SIPG squad sits top of Group B with
four games to play and will hope to
wrest the title back off Group A lead-
er Guangzhou Evergrande when the
knockout stage gets underway from
Oct 16.
“Honestly speaking, all my team-
mates at SIPG are like family to me,”
Akhmedov said. “We won the league
title together, and we also finished
runner-up and third place. I met
some very good friends and broth-
ers. It’s tough to leave but there’s no
other way.
“The past four years at SIPG were
pretty successful for me. I will start a
new journey with these great mem-
ories. I hope they can keep doing
their great job. I also want to thank
all the SIPG fans who supported me.
I will miss you all.”
SIPG’s Brazilian star Oscar was
clearly sorry to see Akhmedov
depart, posting on social media:
“Thank you for being my teammate
all these years. Good luck in this
new challenge.”
Goalkeeper Yan Junling posted a
photo of himself with Akhmedov,
accompanied by the message: “It’s
tough to say goodbye to you. You are
a great big brother on and off the
pitch for me. Hope your future jour-
ney will be great.”
Leaving title contenders for rele-
gation battlers could prove to be
something of a shock to the system
for Akhmedov.
Teda has managed just a single
point from 10 matches to currently
sit rooted to the bottom of the Group
B standings.
That’s the worst record in either
CSL group, with Akhmedov person-
ally inflicting some of that pain by
bagging the opening goal in SIPG’s
4-1 victory over Teda last month.
“I still think Teda is a good team,
but it’s a tough time for them now,”
said Akhmedov.
“Based on my experience for the
past several seasons, Teda’s per-
formance has been pretty stable.
They were at a good level. It’s hard
now, but we can make a difference.
We will produce better performan-
ces and fight for the common goal
together.
“Now for me, the most important
thing is to adjust my mentality. I
need to have a strong desire to win
once I walk onto the pitch. We need
to have hope and believe we can
win. What we need now is a win.
“Soccer is a team sport. And if we
can unite as a team and help each
other, we can improve and have bet-
ter performances. It’s not impossi-
ble to break through this tough
situation.”
Teda head coach Wang Baoshan is
also hopeful Akhmedov’s arrival can
prove a turning point for his belea-
guered outfit.
“In the next games, we will have a
better lineup. So I believe our per-
formance will be better,” said Wang.
“We’ve lost games, but I still hope
my players can keep the faith. Many
of our players are injured, and even
under these circumstances, we are
doing our best.”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
the 2020 CSL season was delayed
until late July, when it kicked off in
two host cities — Suzhou, Jiangsu
province, and Dalian, Liaoning
province.
Players continue to be under
strict lockdown in these bio-secure
venues, with no interaction allowed
with the outside world.
SIPG and Teda are both playing in
Suzhou, meaning Akhmedov’s
change of club will only involve a
short walk as regards his new hotel
accommodation.
“After the club made the
announcement I moved to Teda’s
rooms. My teammates welcomed
me and I’m happy to be in the new
team,” Akhmedov added. “I need
time to fit in here to know more
about my teammates. I believe here
will also be my next family.
“It won’t be easy for us, and inju-
ries are affecting the team, but we
will still prepare the best we can and
will try hard to stay in the CSL. What
we need to do now is to play well and
try to win more points. And I want
to tell our fans to keep supporting us
and believing in us.”
BOXING
Historic Canelo
contract mired
in legal limbo
By MURRAY GREIG
murraygreig@chinadaily.com.cn
Less than two years after signing
the richest multi-fight deal in box-
ing history, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez
wants out of it — but he’s going to
have to wait.
The four-division world champi-
on, universally recognized as the
current pound-for-pound king,
filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on
Sept 11, citing breach of contract by
streaming giant DAZN, Golden
Boy Promotions and its CEO,
Oscar De La Hoya.
Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) signed a
$365-million deal with Golden
Boy and DAZN in 2018, covering 11
fights at $33.1 million per outing
against “premium” opponents
selected by the network and pro-
moter. But as of now, the 30-year-
old Mexican has fought just three
times, beating Rocky Fielding,
Daniel Jacobs and, most recently,
WBO light heavyweight champ
Sergey Kovalev last November.
According to ESPN, Alvarez is
seeking $280 million in damages,
which represents what he’s owed
for the remaining eight fights, in
addition to sponsorship and gate
revenue.
Two days after it was filed, the
lawsuit was dismissed in a Los
Angeles court due to an error by
one of the Mexican star’s lawyers.
They have until the end of the
month to amend the mistake.
The judge reportedly wants
Alvarez’s lawyers to specify which
of the DAZN entities they are suing.
De La Hoya told ESPN the snag
won’t end the case, but the promot-
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has filed a US federal lawsuit claiming
breaches of contract by streaming giant DAZN, Golden Boy Pro-
motions and its CEO, Oscar De La Hoya. AP
CHINA DAILY
er hopes the error will allow both
parties to “reset” and “work togeth-
er” to reach a resolution.
The World Boxing Council
recently approved Alvarez to fight
for its vacant super-middleweight
title against No 1 contender Avni
Yildirim, but Golden Boy and
DAZN would not go for it because
they don’t consider Yildirim a
worthy foe.
Golden Boy planned on match-
ing Alvarez against WBO super
middleweight champ Billy Joe
Saunders in May, but the fight fail-
ed to come off because of the pan-
demic. There were subsequent
attempts to reschedule the bout
for this fall, but when Saunders
requested more training time to
drop weight, it was scuttled.
The only blemishes on Alvarez’s
record are a majority-decision loss
to Floyd Mayweather Jr (2013),
and draws against Gennady Gol-
ovkin (2018) and Jorge Juarez
(2006).
Even if both sides agree to work
together to resolve the case, the
complaint makes it clear that Alva-
rez is prepared to go to court.
“This lawsuit arises from the
breach of the single largest con-
tract in the history of boxing, and
one of the largest in all of sports
history,” the lawsuit reads, per
ESPN.
“I’m not scared of any opponent
in the ring, and I’m not going to let
failures of my broadcaster or pro-
moters keep me out of the ring,”
Alvarez said in a statement. “I filed
the lawsuit so I can get back to box-
ing and give my fans the show they
deserve.”