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FRIDAY, October 26, 2018
Xi pledges
to expand
opening-up
Further reform highlighted during
his inspection tour in Guangdong
By MO JINGXI
mojingxi@chinadaily.com.cn
While wrapping up his
four-day inspection tour in
Guangdong province on
Thursday, President Xi Jin-
ping reiterated China’s deter-
mination to comprehensively
deepen reforms and expand
opening-up amid profound
changes at home and abroad.
Xi, also general secretary
of the Communist Party of
China Central Committee,
made the remark after listen-
ing to work reports from the
CPC Guangdong Provincial
Committee and the provin-
cial government in
Guangzhou. It was the last
stop of a trip that also
brought him to Zhuhai,
Qingyuan and Shenzhen.
Xi said Guangdong is the
pioneer, frontier and pilot
zone of reform and opening-
A-shares
withstand
impact of
Wall Street
plummet
By ZHOU LANXU
and WANG YANFEI
China’s benchmark Shang-
hai Composite Index managed
to edge up 0.02 percent to close
at 2,603.8 on Thursday, despite
plunges on overseas bourses
led by Wall Street.
The three major US stock
indexes slumped Wednesday,
with the Nasdaq Composite
down 4.4 percent to 7,108.04,
the largest one-day percent-
age loss in eight years.
The Shenzhen Component
Index and the startup-heavy
ChiNext Composite Index
edged 0.21 percent and 0.82
percent lower, respectively.
Some other Asia-Pacific
indexes suffered from a chain
reaction following the sell-off in
the United States, with Japan’s
Nikkei 255 down 3.72 percent
and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200
losing 2.83 percent.
“The general weakening of
A-shares Thursday was main-
ly attributable to the US mar-
ket sell-off of the previous
night,” said Hong Rong,
founder of investor education
platform Hongda Education
and an MBA tutor at the
Shanghai Advanced Institute
of Finance.
“But the drag was moderate
as Chinese regulatory authori-
ties’ determination and con-
crete measures to boost the
market released last Friday
have shored up investor senti-
ment,” Hong said.
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up, and the Party central com-
mittee has always encouraged
the province to be bold in
exploration and practice.
The past 40 years of devel-
opment in Guangdong have
fully demonstrated that
reform and opening-up is the
only way to practice socialism
with Chinese characteristics,
as well as a key factor in real-
izing the great rejuvenation
of the Chinese nation, the
president said.
Reform and opening-up is
faced with new conditions
and challenges in the new era,
Xi said, but the more compli-
cated the environment, the
more reason to continue with
firm confidence and stronger
measures.
He said construction of the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Ma-
cao Greater Bay Area is a great
opportunity to deepen
Guangdong’s reform and
Premier Li Keqiang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tour an exhibition about bilateral
economic and trade cooperation progress in Beijing on Thursday. XU JINGXING / CHINA DAILY
Greater trust with Japan urged
By XU WEI
xuwei@chinadaily.com.cn
China and Japan should
step up mutual political
trust and see bilateral rela-
tions as a partnership rather
than representing any
threat, Premier Li Keqiang
said on Thursday.
Li’s remark came as he
and visiting Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe each
delivered a speech at a
reception to commemorate
the 40th anniversary of the
Treaty of China-Japan Peace
and Friendship.
Abe arrived in Beijing on
Thursday to start his three-
day official visit to China,
which is the first official trip
to China by a Japanese
prime minister in seven
years.
Li said the treaty
enshrined the joint desire of
the two countries to live in
perpetual peace and friend-
ship, and includes the con-
cept that Japan should
deeply reflect on its wartime
acts and its adherence to the
one-China policy.
The treaty, along with the
other three key political doc-
uments, represents what is
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, greets children at a community
center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, during an inspection tour on Wednesday. JU PENG / XINHUA
opening-up.
Xi urged more effort to
build the Guangdong Pilot
Free Trade Zone according to
high standards.
Visiting the Qianhai and
Shekou areas of the Guang-
dong Pilot Free Trade Zone in
Shenzhen on Wednesday, Xi
said greater miracles will be
created by sticking to the right
path of reform and opening-
up.
necessary for the healthy
development of bilateral
relations, he said.
The two sides should fol-
low the general direction of
peace, friendship and coop-
eration, and jointly work
toward more full-fledged,
stable, pragmatic and enter-
prising bilateral relations,
he said.
It is important for the two
sides to constructively man-
age disputes and differen-
ces, and create a better
environment for the stable
and healthy development of
bilateral relations, he added.
Li said that China is in the
course of further expanding
its reform and opening-up,
which will create greater
space and more opportuni-
ties for the two countries to
conduct cooperation at
higher levels.
The two nations should
steadily advance pragmatic
cooperation, give play to
complementary strengths
and jointly explore third-
party markets, the premier
said.
China welcomes Japan to
actively take part in the
building of the Belt and
Road and bring mutually
sweetens deal
for youngsters
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Standing on reclaimed
land in the once small fishing
village, he said rapid develop-
ment has demonstrated the
feasibility of Qianhai and its
experience should be repli-
cated and promoted nation-
wide.
In 2010, the State Council
approved the overall develop-
ment plan for Qianhai in
order to upgrade its industrial
structure and further open up
beneficial cooperation to
even more platforms, he
said.
As major countries in Asia
and leading economies in
the world, the two nations
should jointly safeguard
multilateralism, free trade
and regional peace, as well
as promote regional devel-
opment and prosperity, Li
said.
Li also voiced support for
intensified people-to-people
exchanges between the two
countries and expanded
cooperation in culture, edu-
cation and sports at local
levels.
China supports promot-
ing exchanges between the
two peoples, especially
among the young, to cement
public opinion in favor of
friendship, the premier add-
ed.
Abe said in his speech that
Japan and China both
played irreplaceable roles in
Asia’s economic growth and
around the world.
The Japanese leader said
he hopes the two nations
can work together to bolster
the lasting development of
bilateral friendship and
cooperation.
Democrats targeted
Opposition party, CNN receive
slew of suspicious packages
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to the outside world.
Xi also urged continued
efforts to improve the success-
ful experience of special eco-
nomic zones such as
Shenzhen and Zhuhai.
Earlier, while meeting with
participants in Guangdong’s
own reform and opening-up,
the president said China’s
development and achieve-
ments over the 40 years since
reform and opening-up began
Manned spacecraft
under development
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese engineers are
developing the nation’s sec-
ond generation of manned
spacecraft which will be
tasked with servicing the
country’s space station and
participating in manned lunar
missions, said a researcher
involved with the program.
The new-generation space-
craft, which has yet to be
named, will have a new aero-
dynamic design that will be
more streamlined than the
Shenzhou series, China’s first-
generation manned space-
craft family, said Yang Lei, a
senior designer at the China
Academy of Space Technolo-
gy, while speaking at the Fifth
Manned Space Conference on
Wednesday in Xi’an, Shaanxi
province.
It will consist of two sec-
tions — a re-entry module
that will house astronauts
and control the entire craft
during flight, and a service
module that will contain
power and propulsion sys-
tems, he said.
By comparison, the current
Shenzhou-series spacecraft
has three modules tasked
with re-entry, orbiting and
propulsion.
The new spacecraft will be
reusable and will adopt a host
of advanced technologies
such as new heat-resistant
materials, non-toxic propel-
lants, human-computer inter-
action systems and high-
chinadaily.com.cn
have impressed the world and
there is no reason not to con-
tinue.
Even though there are diffi-
culties and problems of vari-
ous kinds, they should be
solved and overcome during
the process, he said.
He noted that the path of
reform and opening-up
should be followed with
determination in a deeper
and broader way.
performance solar batteries,
Yang said, adding that its
inner design and equipment
layout will be more ergonomi-
cally friendly.
Yang said the China Acade-
my of Space Technology has
been carrying out experi-
ments and tests on major
components of the new
spacecraft, and plans to con-
duct test flights atop the Long
March 5B carrier rocket,
which is also under develop-
ment and is scheduled to
make its maiden flight in
June.
The new spacecraft will be
used in China’s future space
programs including the space
station, manned lunar mis-
sions and manned deep-
space expeditions, he added.
Currently, only China and
Russia have manned space-
craft. The United States hasn’t
had any manned spaceship
since 2011 when it retired all
space shuttles.
All three space powers are
developing new manned
spacecraft — the US is build-
ing the Orion Multi-Purpose
Crew Vehicle, Dragon 2 and
CST-100 Starliner, and Russia
is working on its Federation
spacecraft.
Zhang Hongtai, president
of the academy, previously
told reporters that the over-
all capability of the next-gen-
eration manned spacecraft
will be much broader than
that of the Shenzhou series
and will be as good as the US
and Russian prototypes.

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Stronger
military
teamwork
envisioned
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
President Xi Jinping said on
Thursday that China adheres
to a security outlook that is
comprehensive, cooperative
and sustainable in nature.
China is willing to deepen
cooperation with other coun-
tries to foster development and
enhance international security,
moving together toward a bet-
ter, shared future for all of
mankind, he said in a congrat-
ulatory message to the three-
day Eighth Beijing Xiangshan
Forum, an international secu-
rity and defense conference
co-hosted by the China Associ-
ation for Military Science and
the China Institute for Interna-
tional Strategic Studies.
General Wei Fenghe, state
councilor and minister of
national defense, read Xi’s letter
at the forum’s opening ceremo-
ny.
In the let-
ter, Xi said
China’s mil-
itary is
always a
defender of
world peace
and stabili-
ty. He called
Wei Fenghe the forum a
significant
platform for dialogue on
international security and
defense issues, praising it for
its contribution to security
dialogue, mutual trust and
collaboration in the Asia-Pa-
cific region.
Xi encouraged participants
at the forum to share their
thoughts and generate con-
sensus to help to establish a
better international system.
The theme of this year’s
forum is: “Building a new secu-
rity partnership that features
equality, mutual trust, coopera-
tion and mutual benefit”. It
involves 500 attendees from 67
countries and seven interna-
tional organizations. High-rank-
ing defense officials from
countries including Russia, Viet-
nam, Nigeria and the Democrat-
ic People’s Republic of Korea
gave speeches at the forum.
Li Zhanshu, chairman of the
Standing Committee of the
13th National People’s Con-
gress, China’s top legislature,
said on Wednesday during a
reception banquet in Beijing
for the event that the forum
aims to strengthen mutual
trust, resolve uncertainties,
generate consensus and
expand collaboration.
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Nation sets out to change village landscape
Arts events and
festivals aim to
spark rural revival
By DENG ZHANGYU
dengzhangyu@chinadaily.com.cn
T
he Echigo-Tsumari Art Tri-
ennial, the world’s largest
art festival that spans 200
villages in northwestern
Japan’s Niigata prefecture, closed at
the end of last month, but its influ-
ence is still being felt in China.
Fram Kitagawa, the festival’s
founder, received more than 10 invi-
tations from China recently to give
lectures on the festival, which is held
every three years and has attracted
more than 2.3 million visitors to the
remote mountainous area since
2000.
Labeled “the art festival of earth”, it
invites celebrated artists worldwide to
create works in sprawling rural areas,
including rice paddies, schools that
have been closed and empty houses.
Hundreds of works by well-known
artists scattered among villages
attract not only visitors, but have also
sparked a revival in rural areas that
are populated mainly by the elderly
and children.
The festival’s influence has extend-
ed its reach to Chinese art circles.
Dozens of art events and festivals
have been held or planned in villages
since the start of this year.
Most are initiated by curators and
artists asking the same question --
can China stage a similar event in
rural areas to revitalize its “empty vil-
lages”?
Sui Jianguo, dean of the sculpture
department at the Central Academy
of Fine Arts, said:“The Echigo-Tsu-
mari art festival is a very successful
way to solve the problem of empty
villages in Japan. China faces the
same problem now.”
A leading sculptor, Sui’s large-scale
works can be seen in many cities. But
this year, he has received many invi-
tations to create works for art events
in remote villages.
This month, Sui completed his art
residency project in Shijiezi, a poor
village in Northwest China’s Gansu
province, which some people never
leave due to poverty and poor trans-
portation.
The village was transformed into
an art space, with each of its 13 hous-
es functioning as small galleries
through collaboration between art-
ists and villagers.
Sui is a judge for a competition
aimed at supporting artists to pro-
duce tailored works to be installed in
the vast mountainous village district
of Lishui, near Nanjing, capital of
East China’s Jiangsu province.
Bamboo forests, rice terraces,
mountains covered by tea plants,
and vacant factories in Lishui, where
dozens of villages are located, have
been recommended as exhibition
spaces for artists. The project aims to
use the power of art to attract tour-
ists, as the Japanese art festival did
when it was launched in 2000.
Sui said the popularity of the Echi-
go-Tsumari Art Triennial among Chi-
nese artists and the rise in the
number of art events being held in
rural villages in China can largely be
attributed to the emphasis on rural
revitalization.
For the past decade, rural con-
struction and revitalization have
been at the top of the central govern-
ment’s agenda as it aims to inject
new energy into “empty villages”.
President Xi Jinping made rural revi-
talization a priority for governments
at all levels at the 19th National Con-
gress of the Communist Party of Chi-
na last year.
“Many artists are joining the trend
to find creative ways to become
involved in rural construction. We
A show displaying photos taken by villagers is held at a vacant school in
Longquan village, Anhui province. The event was staged by artists.
Artist Hu Quanchun’s work, a 12-meter diameter stone drain in a rice field, records the history of Yubulu, a picturesque village in Guizhou province. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
can find more interesting ways than
the Japanese art festival,” Sui said.
Villagers migrate
Tian Ye, an artist who works in Bei-
jing and Paris, became involved in
rural revival this year in his home vil-
lage of Tianjiatang, a remote location
about 200 kilometers from Yin-
chuan, capital of Northwest China’s
Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
“You can’t imagine how poor it is if
you have never seen it in person,”
Tian said.
The village, which is home to 24
families, including the artist’s broth-
ers, uncles and some other relatives,
was without electricity until 2005.
Villagers mainly plant rice and
corn. The infertile soil has forced
many of them to move to cities to
make a living, and according to one
local joke, farming a vast field for one
year can only produce a hatful of rice.
Tian decided to save the village
through art, as he has become influ-
ential in the artistic community.
He helped to renovate houses in
the village that were in poor condi-
tion. Next, he intends to build an art
space, a library, a theater, a health
clinic and an art school as part of a
highly ambitious plan that will take
several years to complete.
In March, construction of the art
space began. The work attracted
about 500 people, most of them from
nearby villages. Tian said Tianjia-
tang had not seen so many people
gather together for many years.
“Everyone is excited and expects to
learn about the outside world
through art, although they have little
idea of what art is,” he added.
Tian has lived in France for 10
years and his work includes oil paint-
ings, sculptures and installations.
He plans to invite friends, writers,
musicians and performers to visit his
home village for artistic activities
that can help locals to improve their
global knowledge, and also to attract
tourists.
Tian, curator of the Western China
International Art Biennial, which
was launched in 2010, said he will
bring the biennial to the village,
which has a history of more than
1,000 years.
Tianjiatang, which lacks beautiful
scenery and cultural relics, has its
Akiko Utsumi’s 2006 work, For Lots of Lost Windows, produced at a Japanese
village hit by an earthquake, features at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial.
work cut out to attract tourists. But
Tian said its history makes it stand
apart from newly built cities in China.
Clay walls, which can be seen
throughout the village, are hundreds
of years old, making it “a history
museum” he said of Tianjiatang’s
appeal to artists.
Since the start of this year, Tian has
travelled to the village frequently. He
decided to set up his art studio there,
a space that can also be used by other
artists to create works in the future.
“I return to my village for two sim-
ple reasons: to let my people earn
money by offering services for future
visitors and to let them learn about
the outside world,” he said at his stu-
dio in Beijing.
Residency project
Unlike Tian, whose mission is to
lead his fellow villagers out of pover-
ty, curator Yang Xiaobo focuses on
the villagers’ involvement in art-
works.
Yang was in charge of an art resi-
dency project last year for the Echi-
go-Tsumari Art Triennial. He worked
with several Chinese artists to trans-
form vacant classrooms into art spa-
ces in a mountainous village in
Niigata prefecture.
“It’s not simply about displaying
artworks in villages or how many vis-
itors are attracted after the two-
month art festival is over. We should
Tian Ye (center) plans to bring the Western China International Art Biennial to
Tianjiatang village, Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
care more about the artistic influ-
ence on locals when art events end, ”
Yang said.
He fears the sudden rise in the
number of art festivals being held in
villages throughout China may be
just a passing fad.
This year, Yang brought three art-
ists to Longquan, a village about an
hour’s drive from Hefei, capital of
Anhui province. Longquan is still
poverty-stricken, as many people
have moved to cities.
Yang’s team stayed there for about
four weeks in May and completed
several works with locals.
They transformed a primary
school of about 50 classrooms into a
large exhibition space. The school
had only three students and three
teachers. One month later, when the
team departed, the school was left
without any students when all three
boys graduated.
Artist Wang Mao invited one boy
to write a poem on a blackboard as
part of a classroom installation. The
poem told the story of a man looking
for the source of a river.
The boy, abandoned by his mother
as a baby, believes that one day he
will find her, and waits for her at the
entrance to the village every day. He
added a sentence on the blackboard,
“It’s a road to find my mom.”
Yang said: “The boy understands
the artwork. That’s how art works.”
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The villagers love to read poems
and produce calligraphy. Yang and
other artists invited them to write
poems and combine their work with
installations in classrooms. They
also turned the school playground
into a giant installation, which
attracted locals for dancing.
Yang said the villagers’ engage-
ment with artworks had taught
them about what art represents and
offered the children other opportu-
nities for the future.
“I hope our art event can be a reg-
ular program the villagers can join.
It will gradually change the people
here,” Yang said.
Public artist Hu Quanchun has
been working on projects in rural
villages since 2013. Every year, he
has visited different villages to
explore the role of the artist in rural
construction, but said some areas
had been damaged as a result of
changes brought by artists.
He said some artworks may not
match the natural environment and
could possibly ruin ancient houses
renovated by artists. “The landscape
of a village might be totally changed
in a bad way, ” Hu added.
Last year, Hu and his team stayed
for a month in Yubulu, a picturesque
village in Guizhou province that is
surrounded by mountains.
When they arrived in the village,
locals thought they were singers or
dancers, because that was all they
knew about art. The villagers, from
the Miao ethnic group, excel at both
singing and dancing.
Hu did not create sculptures or
installations, as he has done in cit-
ies. Instead, he paid the villagers to
build a 12-meter diameter stone
drain in a rice field to record the vil-
lage’s history.
Many years ago, it often rained
heavily in the village, turning rice
paddies into a river. Locals made
many drains in rice fields to disperse
the water. But it seldom rains there
now and the old drains no longer
work due to lack of maintenance.
“It’s a thing I made to remind peo-
ple of the village’s past, and it also
can work as a drain if there’s a
storm,” Hu said.
The huge drain has become a popu-
lar site in the village, and many drive
for hours to Yubulu just to see it.
The Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, restored as an artistic space known as the “Tunnel
of Light”, opened for the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. NEWSCOM
Demanding work
Hu also used videos to encourage
villagers to take part in his work.
Every night, he put up a screen in
front of the village’s ancestral tem-
ple to project a short film he made to
record people’s daily lives, from
farming in the fields to cooking at
home.
Everyone was intrigued and asked
Hu to play the video repeatedly. Aft-
erward, they often danced and sang
folk songs together.
“What I did can’t offer financial
rewards for them, but it made them
proud of their lives and their village,”
Hu said.
He said artists who create works in
villages should first respect the
locals, as opposed to intervening in
their lives and forcing them to accept
artistic ideas.
“We should learn to talk to them
and respect their lives and history,”
he said.
Sun Xu, organizer of the art com-
petition in Lishui district with Sui,
said persuading villagers to accept
an artwork is very demanding.
For years Sun has looked for ways
in which art can play a role in rural
construction. In June, he flew to
Japan to visit the Echigo-Tsumari
Art Triennial to look at how the
model for this event could be
applied to the program in Lishui.
He learned that one local had
started to farm his field again after
seeing that figures placed there by
an artist had attracted many visi-
tors. Earlier, he had repeatedly
refused the artist permission to
erect the figures.
Now the farmer views working in
his field as a kind of performance on
a natural stage because he has real-
ized the beauty of such work.
Sun said: “I think that art festivals
in rural areas are a kind of explora-
tion of the relationship between
humans and earth. It’s a method to
revitalize the earth.”
He added that it had taken two
decades for the Japanese festival to
be a success, while China’s explora-
tion of this type of rural revival
through art is only just beginning
and needs time and artists’ persist-
ence.
“I hope our artists can be stubborn
about it,” he added.
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TOP NEWS
Nation to
strengthen
tech links
with Israel
JERUSALEM — China and
Israel are intensifying their
joint efforts to tap into the vast
potential for cooperation in
innovation, which benefits
both nations.
Vice-President Wang Qi-
shan visited Israel this week
and attended the fourth meet-
ing of the China-Israel Joint
Committee on Innovation
Cooperation to bolster their
collaboration.
Ami Appelbaum, chief scien-
tist and chairman of the board
of the Israeli Innovation
Authority, said there is still
work to be done on both sides in
order to fully realize the poten-
tial of the bilateral relations.
“1+1 (China and Israel) will
be much bigger than each one
on its own,” he told Xinhua.
“The next step for the two
countries will be Israeli and
Chinese entities working
together in the Chinese mar-
ket,” said Yaki Zinger, vice-
president of LR Group, an
Israeli firm specializing in
development and financing of
large-scale projects in high-
growth economies.
During the visit, Wang head-
ed a large delegation with
members from different min-
istries. Agreements were
signed between the two coun-
tries in fields including science
and technology, life science,
innovation, digital health and
agriculture.
There are several areas in
which China and Israel have
mutual benefits to offer, offi-
cials said. Biomedicine is one
of them.
“The market in China is an
excellent opportunity for us,”
Zinger said. “We will bring the
medical training center for med-
ical staff to China, and we have
the backup of the Israeli Econo-
my and Finance ministries.”
Agritech, Appelbaum said,
is another potential field of
cooperation.
Israel is considered an agri-
cultural powerhouse after
years of experience using
technologies to overcome an
arid climate and harsh condi-
tions. The country is also con-
sidered a pioneer in precision
irrigation.
“For China, with its huge
population, its agriculture sec-
tor is an area where I think
both countries need to focus to
leverage our knowledge on
one hand, and to explore
needs and opportunities on
the other, and to work togeth-
er for the benefit of human-
kind,” he said.
In the field of autonomous
driving, there is also great
potential. China, at the fore-
front of driverless vehicles,
can benefit greatly from the
thriving autonomous driving
technology in Israel.
Economic relations be-
tween the two countries grew
rapidly since the establish-
ment of diplomatic ties at the
beginning of the 1990s.
There is also increasing
cooperation in civil aviation.
Eli Alfassi, vice-president of
marketing at Israel Aerospace
Industries, called the future of
cooperation bright.
“IAI is planning to form a
joint venture for general avia-
tion aircraft design, manufac-
turing and sales in China,”
Alfassi said.
“China’s aviation industry is
growing rapidly and IAI is a
natural partner of Chinese
companies, with our extensive
know-how and experience to
help promote the field in Chi-
na,” he added.
However, challenges, main-
ly cultural, remain. There are
differences in language, cus-
toms and business practices.
To deal with the obstacles,
there should be more cultural
interaction between the two
countries, officials said. Chinese
and Israeli employees should
be encouraged to work togeth-
er, Appelbaum suggested.
XINHUA
Participants in the Eighth Beijing Xiangshan Forum have a conversation on Thursday in Beijing. The three-day forum, which ends on
Friday, aims to strengthen regional security dialogues and to enhance international peace and development.
WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
Defense minister urges
better Washington ties
Official blames United States
for tensions in bilateral relations
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
A senior military official
criticized the United States
on Thursday for creating
tension and damaging Sino-
US relations, and pressed for
mutual respect and coopera-
tion.
“Who is going against his-
torical trends?” General Wei
Fenghe, state councilor and
defense minister, asked the
audience at the Eighth Bei-
jing Xiangshan Forum on
Thursday morning in the Chi-
nese national capital.
“Recently, a senior US lead-
er slandered China in a
speech, claiming China med-
dled in US internal affairs and
also threw out groundless
accusations on our domestic
and foreign policies. Such
acts have seriously jeopar-
dized Sino-US ties and our
mutual trust and coopera-
tion.”
Forum: Peaceful development reaffirmed
From page 1
China will never seek
hegemony no matter how
strong the country becomes,
Li said.
The nation sticks to the
approach of dialogue and
negotiation among equals,
and always honors interna-
China not a major threat, US surveys say
By ZHOU JIN
zhoujin@chinadaily.com.cn
A series of US surveys
showed that the majority of
US citizens do not see China
as a major threat.
Newly released polling
data from the Chicago Coun-
cil on Global Affairs indicated
that although many in the
United States think the rise of
China is an important con-
cern, it ranks lower than
many other global problems,
The Washington Post report-
ed on Friday.
Fifty percent of Americans
say China is mostly a partner,
both the Chicago Council’s
polling on China and Pew’s
surveys of US views of China
have found.
A Pew survey showed that
49 percent of 18- to 29-year-
olds in the US view China
favorably, while 72 percent of
He said China urges the US
to correct its mistakes and
stop damaging China’s inter-
ests and Sino-US ties. He also
said China does not believe in
confrontation-based security
and that the world should not
return to the path of the Cold
War.
The defense minister
stressed that Sino-US mili-
tary relations are important
and sensitive. He said both
sides should fulfill instruc-
tions from top leaders of the
two countries and avoid con-
frontation and conflicts.
Wei also asked both mili-
taries to practice mutual
respect and cooperation to
make their relations a “sta-
bilizer” in the two nations’
ties.
Wei said that China will
never give up “one single
piece” of its territory, adding
that the Chinese armed forces
are determined to safeguard
the country’s sovereignty,
tional rules, norms and con-
sensus when it comes to
settling international issues,
Li added.
Regarding Sino-US rela-
tions, Li said that conflicts
will harm both sides and
cooperation is the only option
for the two countries. He
urged both nations to resort
Americans think China is
more important than it was a
decade ago.
Questioned about why
public opinion differs from
the view of some in US gov-
ernment leadership who
view Beijing as Washington’s
biggest threat, Foreign Minis-
try spokeswoman Hua Chun-
ying said on Thursday that
“the survey precisely showed
that most Americans would
like to see a sound and stable
relationship with China and
hope to strengthen coopera-
tion and communication
with China”.
China is willing to continue
enhancing dialogue and
mutual trust with the US, and
deepen cooperation as well as
properly handle differences,
Hua said at a news briefing.
In another development,
the US embassy in China said
on Wednesday that Washing-
security and development
interests.
The Taiwan question con-
cerns China’s sovereignty
and territorial integrity and
is about the nation’s core
interests, according to the
general.
“Repeatedly challenging
our bottom line (on the Tai-
wan question) is extremely
dangerous. If someone
attempts to split Taiwan from
China, the Chinese military
will take any necessary
actions at any cost,” Wei
stressed.
Wei also said that China’s
construction of necessary
defense facilities on its
islands in the South China
Sea is a lawful implementa-
tion of the country’s sover-
eignty over those regions and
has nothing to do with “mili-
tarization”.
He noted that the situation
in the South China Sea has
been stable and is becoming
better, which proves that
nations in this region are
capable of properly handling
related issues.
“China strongly stands
to dialogue and negotiation
to address problems in the
relationship between the two
countries.
In his speech at the forum
on Thursday, General Wei
Fenghe said that China
adheres to a defensive mili-
tary strategy and a peaceful
development path.
ton will not send high-level
officials to participate in the
China International Import
Expo, and demanded that
China level the playing field
for US goods and services.
The US has the right to
decide who to send to the
expo, Hua said. But, she said,
while constantly demanding
that China open its markets,
the US has no plan for partici-
pation when Beijing opens its
door to welcome foreign
guests. That, she said, “is con-
tradictory and confusing”.
The event is the world’s
first imports-centered na-
tional expo, which fully dem-
onstrates China’s willingness
to share its development
opportunities with the world,
and its sincerity, goodwill and
confidence in opening-up,
she said.
The first China Internation-
al Import Expo is scheduled
against some out-of-the-region
countries flexing their muscles
and making provocations
under the name of ‘freedom of
navigation and flight’ that
result in tensions,” Wei said.
Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a
spokesman for the Defense
Ministry, said at a news con-
ference on Thursday after-
noon that good military-to-
military relations are in the
interest of both China and the
US and require joint efforts
from both sides.
He said the US has been fre-
quently sending its military
aircraft and ships to the
South China Sea and drawing
out-of-the-region parties to
stage targeted exercises and
patrols, which are actually
militarization acts in the
South China Sea.
Talking about US Defense
Secretary James Mattis’ invi-
tation to Wei for a US visit,
Wu said the two sides’
defense authorities are in
close communication on this
matter.
Zhang Zhihao contributed to
this story.
Wei explained that the
country’s goal of building a
moderate military power is
intended to safeguard the
Chinese people and world
peace.
China will never pursue
hegemony or expansion, and
will not take part in any arms
race, Wei added.
for Nov 5 to 10 in Shanghai. It
has attracted more than 2,800
companies from 130 coun-
tries.
As many as 180 US enter-
prises such as Microsoft,
Intel, General Electric and
Disney have confirmed their
attendance, ranking US com-
panies third among partici-
pants, Hua said.
Many of the companies
expressed their hope to use
the expo as an opportunity to
strengthen communication
with China.
The expo is intended to
bring more diversified and
personalized choices to Chi-
nese consumers, and build a
platform to offer opportuni-
ties for high-quality and supe-
rior products from other
countries to enter China, a
huge consumer market with a
population of nearly 1.4 bil-
lion, Hua said.
Forgotten story
on London stage
By BO LEUNG in London
boleung@
mail.chinadailyuk.com
The little-known story of
Chinese workers who served
on the Western Front during
World War I has been
brought to a theater in Lon-
don via an original stage play.
Forgotten, which was writ-
ten by UK playwright and
actor Daniel York Loh, was
inspired by the true story of
the 140,000 Chinese men
recruited in 1916 by the Brit-
ish and French militaries to
provide support to front-line
soldiers. York Loh is of Brit-
ish and Singaporean descent.
The contribution of these
unsung heroes was barely
recognized at the end of the
war, and York Loh set out to
tell the story of the tremen-
dous effort made by the
laborers during the conflict.
They were ultimately “com-
pletely forgotten and wiped
out of history” and “uncele-
brated”, he said.
“I don’t think anything
sums up how invisible the
Chinese traditionally are in
the Western world, despite
being a very large immigrant
community,” York Loh said.
“Nothing sums up that invis-
ibility, that lack of considera-
tion, that lack of ac-
knowledgment, more than
the World War I Chinese
Labour Corps. It was a huge
contribution, let’s make no
bones about that.”
York Loh first wrote the
play as a five-minute produc-
tion, but, after eight months
of research and delving into
the history books, he went on
to develop it into a full-
length play.
“I read a lot of books about
the Chinese Labour Corps,
about World War I, about the
Chinese history and political
Showing their colors
Over 10,000 students wield paint and brushes as part of a mock
entrance exam in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday to
get into college art programs. The official art exam in Jiangsu is
scheduled for Dec 2. SUN CAN / XINHUA
Stocks: New measures
set to stabilize market
From page 1
China’s top financial regu-
lators promised a slew of
measures to stabilize and bol-
ster the stock market, such as
allowing banks’ wealth man-
agement subsidiaries to
invest in shares.
Hong said other factors
defending Chinese stocks
from foreign bourse conta-
gion were the low valuation of
A-shares and the reduced
impact of the US market’s cor-
rection on the domestic mar-
ket as Chinese investors have
become accustomed to the
recent US market volatility.
“More measures to boost
the development of securities
firms should be rolled out to
prompt long-term market
development and further ral-
ly short-term investor senti-
ment,” Hong said.
Analysts also said the US
3
I don’t think
anything sums up
how invisible the
Chinese tradi-
tionally are in the
Western world.”
Daniel York Loh, UK playwright
and actor
situation at that point. At one
point ... it had 300 pages, and
it had 25 characters,” he said.
The Chinese title of the
play means “forgotten,
erased or left behind”.
The play follows fictional
members of an amateur Chi-
nese theater troupe in
Shandong province and the
opportunities in Europe that
were presented to them.
“There is obviously a huge
tragic and sad undertone to
the play but, at the same
time, I wanted to celebrate
the spirit of human resist-
ance and the spirit of the Chi-
nese people … the spirit of
people wanting to leave a
story behind,” York Loh said.
Forgotten not only reflects
the forgotten 140,000 Chi-
nese laborers, York Loh says,
but it also represents the
overlooked and “invisible”
British East Asian communi-
ty and shines the spotlight on
British East Asian actors.
The piece is a coproduc-
tion of Moongate Produc-
tions and Yellow Earth
Theatre and is directed by
Kim Pearce. It is showing at
the Arcola Theatre in Lon-
don until Nov 17.
imposition of hefty tariffs upon
its major trade partners has
started to backfire.
Major US stock indexes
had weakened since the start
of this month before plung-
ing on Wednesday.
“The US is bound to bear
the bitter fruit of trade protec-
tionism,” said Gao Ting, head
of China Strategy at UBS
Securities, adding that the
firm has revised US GDP
growth outlook for 2019 from
2.8 percent to 2.4 percent as a
result of its tariff hikes.
“Semiconductors are so
tied to Asia,” Max Gokhman,
head of asset allocation for
Pacific Life Fund Advisors,
told Financial Times, adding
that trade tensions are threat-
ening long-standing supply
arrangements in the industry.
Contact the writers at zhou-
lanxv@chinadaily.com.cn
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Ex-senior officials
found guilty of graft
By ZHANG YAN
zhangyan1@chinadaily.com.cn
Zhou Chunyu, former vice-
governor of Anhui province,
stood trial in Shandong prov-
ince on charges of bribery,
abusing power, concealing for-
eign deposits and insider trad-
ing, according to the Jinan
Intermediate People’s Court
on Thursday.
Zhou Chunyu Chen Xu
Zhou, 50, pleaded guilty
during the hearing and
showed remorse for his illegal
practices. The court verdict
will be released later.
According to the indictment
by prosecutors, he took advan-
tage of his position to gain
benefits for others in enter-
prise acquisition and bidding
for projects, then accepted
bribes valued at 13.6 million
yuan ($1.96 million) either
paid in cash or property from
1996 to 2017.
During those two decades,
he mainly served as deputy
director of the Anhui provin-
cial finance department; may-
or of Maanshan; mayor and
Party chief of Bengbu; and
vice-governor of Anhui.
Prosecutors said that when
he was serving as mayor in
Bengbu in Anhui, he violated
the State land management
rule and privately decided to
return land-transfer fees to rel-
evant enterprises, causing eco-
nomic losses to the State of 665
million yuan ($95.5 million).
When he served as Party
chief in Bengbu, he violated
the rules and transferred a
total of $4.12 million in illicit
assets to his foreign accounts
and didn’t report those to the
Party, the prosecutors said.
Visual tools employed
to stave off dementia
By XIE CHUANJIAO
in Qingdao, Shandong
xiechuanjiao@chinadaily.com.cn
Experts from the United
States are developing augment-
ed reality and virtual reality sys-
tems to help prevent dementia
in patients at early ages.
The research mainly focuses
on restoring past scenarios lin-
gering within the human brain
through AR and VR technolo-
gies, according to Steve Chen, a
member of the National Acad-
emy of Engineering in the US.
“What we are doing is trying
to connect human brains to
real life, rather than creating
new scenarios,” Chen said on
the sidelines of the 18th China
Conference on Virtual Reality
in Qingdao, Shandong prov-
ince, which concluded on
Wednesday.
Chen said that his research is
based on human brain science
and studies of optic nerves.
“We use the technology to
enliven brain activity and pre-
vent mental recession before
people approach old age,” he
said. “It’s too late when people
have already acquired demen-
tia and are lying in their beds, so
early testing and treatment is
important.”
“People with Alzheimer’s dis-
ease fail to put fragmented
memories together because they
are out of order,” Chen said. “But
AR and VR can efficiently con-
nect memories, facilitate nostal-
gia and create joy in the process.”
Chen said the research has
entered the clinical stage in
hospitals in China and the US,
Moreover, as an insider with
confidential information about
stock trades, he purchased 270
million yuan in stocks and ille-
gally earned 350 million yuan.
In April 2017, the anti-graft
watchdog launched an investi-
gation of Zhou for “serious vio-
lations of Party discipline”. In
July last year, he was expelled
from the Party and removed
from public office.
In a separate development,
Chen Xu, former chief prose-
cutor of the Shanghai Munici-
pal People’s Procuratorate,
was convicted on Thursday of
taking bribes amounting to
more than 70 million yuan
and sentenced to life impris-
onment by a court in the
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous
region.
In addition, he was deprived
of his political rights for life
and his ill-gotten gains were
confiscated. The money will be
handed over to the State trea-
sury, according to Nanning city
Intermediate People’s Court.
The court said Chen made
use of his position to help others
handle cases, bid for projects
and promote civil servants,
then accepted huge bribes in
return that were valued at 74.2
million yuan from 2003 to 2014.
From 2003 to 2014, he main-
ly served as deputy secretary-
general of the Shanghai
Municipal Party Committee
and chief prosecutor of the
Shanghai Municipal People’s
Procuratorate.
“During the court hearing,
we notified the suspect of his
legal rights and listened care-
fully to the lawyer’s defense
statements to protect his legit-
imate rights,” a statement
released by the court said.
In another development,
Xing Yun, 66, former vice-
chairman of the Inner Mongo-
lia People’s Congress, was
under investigation for sus-
pected severe violation of Par-
ty discipline and laws, the
Central Commission for Disci-
pline Inspection announced
on Thursday.
44 million
Estimated number of people
who had Alzheimer’s or a
related dementia condition
worldwide in 2017
and his team aims to test the
research in 10,000 cases to
prove efficacy.
The scientist said his team is
transforming their research
into software and equipment
products that are expected to go
to market in one or two years.
He hoped the products
would be used widely in local
community-level hospitals and
help prevent dementia, as well
as Parkinson’s disease, depres-
sion and autism at early ages.
In 2017, an estimated 44 mil-
lion people had Alzheimer’s or
a related dementia condition,
but only one in four were diag-
nosed, according to Alzheim-
ers.net, an online community.
Chen said the research also
could be used to accelerate
young people’s learning proc-
ess and improve their innova-
tive abilities.
“At present, most young peo-
ple conclude their doctoral
studies in their late 20s and it is
too late to carry out innovative
projects,” he said.
“With our technology to
accelerate memory, I hope
young learners can end their
studies and embark on innova-
tive paths in their early 20s or
even before, when human brain
activity is the most dynamic.”
Passing along a smile
A nurse dressed as a clown interacts with a girl with a cleft lip and palate at Sichuan University’s West China Hospital of Stomatology in
Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Wednesday. Nine children with the condition from the Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture are receiving
corrective surgery at the hospital. SU YANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Top judges, prosecutors
address issues with NPC
Inquiry gives deputies insights
on how to improve rule of law
By CAO YIN
caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn
Judicial officials vowed to
redouble their efforts to solve
problems in the legal system
that draw the most complaints
from the public and welcomed
more supervision from resi-
dents to further improve the
rule of law and push forward
judicial reforms.
Heads of the country’s
highest court and procura-
torate made the promise on
Thursday while attending a
special inquiry held by Chi-
na’s top legislative body.
Among other things, depu-
ties to the National People’s
Congress asked how they
would strengthen verdict
enforcement and avoid fake
lawsuits.
It is the first time for the
NPC Standing Committee,
‘Snack’ packages help seniors pay power bills
By CANG WEI in Nanjing
cangwei@chinadaily.com.cn
A product that allows buy-
ers to pay electricity fees for
seniors living in China’s
remote areas has sold very
well among residents of Nan-
jing, Jiangsu province.
The package, which
resembles a snack and is sold
at 10 Lawson convenience
stores in Nanjing, has photos
and brief introductions of
the seniors. It also has a QR
code for the buyers to pay the
fees.
They will pay at least 2 to 3
yuan ($0.29 to $0.43) toward
the seniors’ bills when they
scan the code. Each package,
with no real food inside, con-
tains a piece of paper with a
message.
The message, written by an
elderly person, includes feel-
ings about life and other
things they want to tell the
public.
More than 120 packages
were sold on the first day at a
convenience store in Central
Emporium of the city’s down-
town Xinjiekou area, and 72
people paid fees.
Mao Jiashu, a college stu-
dent in Nanjing, had the idea
of selling the fee packages
the top national legislature,
to host a special inquiry for
the two top judicial authori-
ties. In previous bimonthly
sessions, government offi-
cials, including those from
environmental protection
and development and reform
authorities, have attended.
“This inquiry is timely and
significant, as it responds to
hot issues in the legal indus-
try and to the public,” said
Wang Junfeng, chairman of
the All China Lawyers Associ-
ation, who participated.
He said it’s the duty of the
top court and prosecutors to
explain to the legislature what
they are doing. “It’s also neces-
sary for them to explain what
difficulties they are experienc-
ing in the application of law to
help legislators better under-
stand the work and then to
improve the system.”
when she visited the Inner
Mongolia autonomous region
earlier this year.
“I noticed it was complicat-
ed for some seniors to pay
their electricity bills, because
they didn’t know how to pay
online. Sometimes the elec-
tricity was cut off because
they could not walk the long
distance to pay in time. Some-
times they simply didn’t have
enough money,” she said. “As
a college student who knows
how to combine package
design with online payment, I
decided to do something to
help the seniors and increase
people’s awareness of them.”
Mao and her friends con-
tacted the convenience store
management and secured
their support. She put the
photos of the seniors living in
the Inner Mongolia autono-
mous region and other
remote areas on the packages
to draw attention.
“I was worried that people
might ignore the product,”
Mao said. “But it sold out the
first day. I think what I did was
meaningful, and I will contin-
ue to help those seniors who
have trouble paying their bills.”
Many people were touched
when they opened the packa-
ges and read the messages. A
It’s too late when people have already
acquired dementia and are lying in their
beds, so early testing and treatment is important.”
Steve Chen, member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States
This inquiry is timely and
significant, as it responds to
hot issues in the legal industry and to
the public.”
Wang Junfeng, chairman of the All China Lawyers Association
Answering a question
from NPC deputy Ma Yin-
ping, Zhou Qiang, president
of the Supreme People’s
Court, said he had ordered all
judges to distinguish
between people who refuse
to pay money the courts have
awarded to the winners of
lawsuits and people who are
unable to pay.
“The line must be clear to
ensure that we punish the
ones who are able to comply
with court-mandated penal-
ties yet ignore the enforce-
ment,” he said.
Such face-to-face talk, in
Wang’s eyes, directly reflects
real concerns of the public.
A product whose package resembles a snack allows buyers to pay
the electrical bills of seniors living in remote areas of China. These
were sold at a convenience store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
XU KANGPING / FOR CHINA DAILY
video from inside the conve-
nience store showed a girl
hugging her mother after she
opened a package.
The message she got read:
“If you have someone by your
side at this moment, please
give him or her a hug for me. I
no longer have a chance to
hug.”
Another woman read the
message in front of a camera:
“The company you work for
will survive if you collapse,
but your family won’t.”
Zhao Le, a resident who
paid 20 yuan for one senior’s
electrical fees, said the mes-
sage made her feel warm.
He suggested such inquir-
ies should be held regularly,
saying he looks forward to
hearing responses on how to
prevent judicial mistakes
and what efforts can be
made to protect the rights of
lawyers.
Zhou Guangquan, a law
professor at Tsinghua Univer-
sity, called the inquiry an
innovation of the top legisla-
ture in playing its role of
supervising the work of judi-
cial departments. Zhou
expressed hope that “the top
judge and the top procurator
will often come to receive the
supervision and further
answer questions”.
“They don’t simply ask you
for a favor. They want to pay
you back by sharing their life
experience with you.”
Sui Zhenshan, general
manager of Lawson’s Nan-
jing branch, said that the
company did not expect that
the product would be so
popular.
“We’ll count the total
sales and release it to the
public soon,” he said. “We’ll
continue to support this
form of public welfare at our
stores.”
Guo Jun contributed to
this story.
Briefly
BEIJING
Trade union head
is re-elected
Wang Dongming, vice-chair-
man of the Standing Com-
mittee of the National
People’s Congress, was ree-
lected chairman of the All-
China Federation of Trade
Unions on Thursday. Cai
Zhenhua, 57, former deputy
director of the General
Administration of Sport of
China, was elected as one of
the federation’s 15 vice-
chairmen, at the organiza-
tion’s 17th national congress.
Wang worked in Liaoning
province for 25 years and,
after 2000, served as deputy
head of the Organization
Department of the Commu-
nist Party of China Central
Committee and Party chief
of Sichuan province. Cai was
appointed deputy head of
the sports administration in
2007 and began taking
charge of the country’s soc-
cer development in 2010.
SICHUAN
4 killed, 2 hurt
in gas explosion
Four people died and two
others were injured in a
coal mine gas explosion in
Sichuan province, local
authorities said on Thurs-
day. The explosion occurred
at about 9:30 am on Thurs-
day at a coal mine owned by
Shuangying Coal Co in the
city of Neijiang, according
to the provincial work safe-
ty authority.
SHANDONG
Rescue efforts
continue at mine
Five miners have died and
one was rescued, but 16
remain trapped after a rock
burst at a coal mine in
Shandong province on Sat-
urday, local authorities
announced on Thursday.
The incident occurred at
around 11 pm Saturday at
Longyun Coal Mining Co in
Yuncheng county. A total of
22 people were trapped in
the tunnel after a mine shaft
collapsed at both ends. Res-
cue work is continuing.
SHANXI
China launches
marine satellite
China sent a new marine
satellite into orbit on Thurs-
day. A Long March 4B rock-
et carrying the HY 2B
satellite took off at 6:57 am
from the Taiyuan Satellite
Launch Center in Shanxi
province. The HY 2B is
designed for ocean observa-
tions and will form a net-
work with the subsequent
HY 2C and HY 2D for mari-
time environmental moni-
toring. Thursday’s launch
was the 288th in the Long
March rocket series.
YUNNAN
Police seize over
128 kg of drugs
Police in Yunnan province
have busted a large drug
trafficking ring, seizing
more than 128 kilograms of
methamphetamine, local
authorities said on Thurs-
day. On Sunday, police in
the border township of
Xiding found six blue
woven bags in a wooded
area containing 139 packs
of methamphetamine.
GUIZHOU
New swine fever
case confirmed
China has confirmed a new
outbreak of African swine
fever in Guizhou province,
the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs said on
Thursday. All 10 pigs raised
on a farm in Bijie died. All
were confirmed infected, the
ministry said in a statement.
XINHUA—CHINA DAILY
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
Jobs grow at
steady pace
during Q1-3
Series of policies issued by central
government effective, experts say
By JIANG CHENGLONG
jiangchenglong@
chinadaily.com.cn
China’s employment mar-
ket saw stable growth from
January to September, as
more jobs were created and
the unemployment rate fell,
according to China’s top
human resources and statis-
tics authorities.
More than 11 million new
urban jobs were offered
from January to September,
up 100,000 from the same
period a year ago, according
to a statement from the Min-
istry of Human Resources
and Social Security.
In addition, the national
surveyed urban unemploy-
ment rate was 4.9 percent in
September, down by 0.1 per-
centage point from August,
according to the National
Bureau of Statistics.
Mao Shengyong, spokes-
man for the NBS, said the
number of newly created
jobs in urban areas met the
year’s annual employment
target three months early.
“It shows that the coun-
try’s employment situation
has developed smoothly and
steadily,” said Feng Xiliang,
director of the School of
Labor and Economics at
Capital University of Eco-
nomics and Business.
Starting in April this year,
the NBS has regularly
released the monthly sur-
veyed unemployment rate in
urban areas to help the gov-
ernment improve macro
control and provide infor-
mation for formulating
employment policies.
The surveyed rate is calcu-
lated based on the number
of unemployed respondents
to the survey in urban areas,
including migrant workers
in cities.
The metric was used to
reflect the job market and
serve as a supplement to the
registered urban unemploy-
ment rate.
The ministry said that
from January to August, the
ratio of jobs to job hunters in
11 provinces, including
Jiangsu and Guangdong,
was 1.21-to-1, a rise of 0.02
jobs per worker over the
same period last year, indi-
cating the number of jobs
was greater than the num-
ber of job hunters.
“The employment situa-
tion mostly relies on the
country’s economic situa-
tion, which has been stable,”
Feng said. “There will be
more than 1 million new jobs
created when the GDP
growth rate rises by 1 per-
centage point.”
According to the NBS,
China’s GDP has grown 6.7
percent from January to
September.
Yang Yiyong, director of
the Society Development
Institute, part of the Nation-
al Development and Reform
Commission, said that bet-
ter economic growth means
more business and more
Job seekers speak with employers at Hefei University in Hefei,
Anhui province, on Saturday at the sixth national autumn roving
job fair for college graduates. ZHANG DUAN / XINHUA
It shows that the
country’s employ-
ment situation
has developed
smoothly and
steadily.”
Feng Xiliang, director of the
School of Labor and Economics
at Capital University of Eco-
nomics and Business
orders for companies. And
that requires more factories
and machines to do the
work, which results in great-
er demand for workers, he
said.
The Chinese government
has issued a series of policies
to promote employment
recently, which experts say
have had a positive effect.
In May, the State Council
enlarged the existing voca-
tional training system to a
lifelong system in which
working ability, startup
skills and training allowance
can be accessible to current
and potential skilled work-
ers during their studies and
careers, especially university
graduates, migrant workers
and laid-off workers in
industries with overcapaci-
ty.
In addition, the ministry
issued an action plan in Sep-
tember, aiming to make reg-
istered impoverished
workers and middle school
dropouts eligible for voca-
tional training by the end of
2020.
“The government strongly
boosted vocational educa-
tion for workers, which can
help them adapt to society’s
pattern of development,”
Feng said.
At the same time, he said,
there has been a clear trend
of more university students
joining startup businesses.
According to the ministry,
there were 324,000 universi-
ty students starting busi-
nesses in the first half of this
year, increasing by 10.6 per-
cent year-on-year.
About 75 percent of them
worked in industries such as
IT, accommodation and
catering, and science
research and technical servi-
ces, the ministry said.
“The fact that more young
people started businesses
would encourage the whole
of society to make innova-
tions, which is quite impor-
tant for economic growth,”
Feng said. “New economic
growth points mostly rely on
all-around technology and
product innovations.
“And with the technolo-
gy’s rapid growth, the major-
ity of those young
entrepreneurs would like to
utilize more new IT technol-
ogies to offer services.”
Chronicle of reform
People visit a photo exhibition at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Thursday. The exhibition, which features
40 years of reform and opening-up in the province, will run for a month. It includes a collection of pictures and videos from ordinary
people. LI ZHONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Shanghai serves both as gatekeeper
and magnet for digital talent in Delta
By ZHOU WENTING
in Shanghai
zhouwenting@
chinadaily.com.cn
The Yangtze River Delta
region has proved a magnet
for domestic digital talent,
with Shanghai playing a cru-
cial role in the redistribution
of such talent within the
region, according to a recent
report based on user data by
LinkedIn, a US-based net-
working website.
The Digital Economy and
Talent Development Report
for China’s Yangtze River Del-
ta Region, which was released
on Tuesday, showed that the
region has been attracting
and retaining a growing
amount of digital talent, with
an inflow versus outflow ratio
of 1.35-to-1.
The report also identified
Shanghai’s pivotal role in
where the talent goes, said
Chen Yubo, head of Tsinghua
University’s Center for Inter-
net Development and Gov-
ernance in the School of
Economics and Manage-
ment.
40 YEARS ON | PEOPLE
Career train engineer learns to go faster
By TIAN XUEFEI and
ZHOU HUIYING in Harbin
After taking trains on three
round trips from Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, to
Tianjin over the National
Day holiday, Deng Zhike
finally earned a rest.
“It takes only six hours for
the 1,242-kilometer trip by a
bullet train,” the 45-year-old
engineer for China Railway
Harbin Group said. “When I
started the job in the 1990s, I
never expected that it would
be so fast.”
Over the past 25 years, he
has covered 1.52 million kilo-
meters, roughly 37 times the
circumference of the Earth at
the equator, without an acci-
dent.
Deng — who is licensed to
operate steam, diesel and
electric locomotives and now
bullet trains — is proud of
the rapid development of the
country’s railway system.
Living near a railway in his
childhood, he always liked
trains.
“Every time a train passed
through, I would run out to
look at it,” he said. “I
dreamed that one day I could
sit in the cabin and pull the
steam whistle.”
After graduating from jun-
ior middle school, he chose a
Specifically, entry-level
workers accounted for more
than 40 percent of the talent
that flowed into Shanghai
from the rest of the region,
while such workers account-
ed for 37 percent of those who
flowed out of the city, the
report said.
By comparison, senior
workers at director level and
above accounted for 16 per-
cent of the talent that flowed
into Shanghai and nearly 19
percent of those who flowed
out.
“It showed that Shanghai
welcomed young digital tal-
ent, many of whom are fresh
graduates from other areas of
the Yangtze River Delta region
or overseas, thanks to the city’s
advantage in international
connectivity,” Chen said.
“After gaining experience
in the industry in Shanghai
for several years, they may
flow out to other cities.”
The report, jointly created
by the center, the Shanghai
Institute of Science and Tech-
nology Policy and LinkedIn
China, also said that most of
the digital talent flowing out
railroad school in his home-
town of Suihua, Heilongjiang
province.
Three years later, he began
working as a fireman, adding
coal to the firebox of a steam
locomotive.
However, the gap between
his dream and reality was a
disappointment.
“You can’t imagine how
hard it was to work in a
steam locomotive,” he said.
“At that time, I had to add
about 10 tons of coal to the
firebox during a 14-hour
shift.”
A steam locomotive typi-
cally requires three people —
two engineers and a fireman
— and it took more than sev-
en hours from Harbin to
Changchun, Jilin province,
about 240 kilometers away.
“Handling the coal at
work, I was all covered in
black,” he recalled.
Two years later, he
obtained a license to operate
a steam engine. In 1995, after
driving a steam locomotive
for several months, he
stepped up to diesel at a time
when most of the steam loco-
motives in China were
upgraded.
“Only two people are need-
ed for a diesel locomotive —
an engineer and a conduc-
tor,” said Deng. “The speed
After gaining
experience in the
industry in Shang-
hai for several
years, they may
flow out to other
cities.”
Chen Yubo, head of Tsinghua
University’s Center for Internet
Development and Governance
of Shanghai worked in infor-
mation and communication
technology (20 percent) and
manufacturing industries (18
percent), which exactly fits
the industrial strengths of
neighboring Zhejiang and
Jiangsu provinces.
In general, digital talent in
Shanghai is distributed rela-
tively evenly across indus-
tries, while cities elsewhere
increased to
120 kilome-
ters per hour,
cutting time
between Har-
bin and
Changchun
Deng Zhike from seven
hours to
three.”
“The operating environ-
ment was largely improved
with no smoke and ashes in
the cabin, but still a loud
engine noise,” he said.
He stayed with the diesel
locomotive for 18 years and
got his license for electric
locomotives in early 2013.
“The electric locomotive
runs at 160 km/h and it’s qui-
et and more environmentally
friendly,” said Deng. “More
amenities have been put in
the cabin, such as a refrigera-
tor, microwave oven and air
conditioner.”
At about the same time,
the Harbin-Dalian High-
Speed Railway, the world’s
first high-speed railway in a
frigid zone, began operation.
“When I learned that only
one driver was needed to
operate the train and the
high-speed link had reduced
travel time between Harbin
and Changchun to one hour,
I wanted to have a try,” he
said.
have advantages in different
industries with more concen-
trated talent, the report said.
For example, the concen-
tration of talent in Hangzhou
in the software and informa-
tion technology services sec-
tors is nearly double that of
the average for the delta.
Suzhou and Wuxi in Jiangsu
province register strong con-
centrations in the field of
manufacturing.
“It presents a fairly healthy
developing trend in the
region, featuring a diverse
and organic industry struc-
ture rather than homogene-
ous competition,” Chen said.
Practices in the area pro-
vide valuable experience for
other regions, he said.
Wang Yanping, head of
public policy and govern-
ment affairs at LinkedIn Chi-
na, attributed the organic
ecosystem of the digital econ-
omy of the Yangtze River Del-
ta to the network of cities in
the region and the interactive
flow of resources and talent
and an advanced transporta-
tion network, including high-
speed rail.
However, it was not so
easy for a 42-year-old to get a
license to drive bullet trains.
“There was so much theo-
retical knowledge to learn,
which was an enormous
challenge to my poor memo-
ry,” said Deng. “And most of
the knowledge is different
from what I knew about the
trains I had driven, such as
the structure.”
“Thanks to my family
members’ support, I could
focus on my new goal,” he
said. “I finished studying the-
ory and took psychological
and etiquette training cours-
es before I got the license for
the bullet train.”
Finally, at the end of 2015,
he realized his dream to
operate bullet trains.
“The trains are not only
faster but also equipped with
more advanced devices,” said
Deng. “For example, Wi-Fi
service is available on trains,
and facial recognition tech-
nology is used for passengers
entering the station.”
“I am proud to have wit-
nessed the great changes
over the past decades,” he
said. “I hope I can stick to my
post and participate more in
the future.”
Contact the writers at zhou-
huiying@chinadaily.com.cn
CHINA 5
Colleges
enforcing
academic
standards
with rigor
By ZOU SHUO
zoushuo@chinadaily.com.cn
More universities in China
are raising academic require-
ments, with poor students fac-
ing delays in graduation or
downgrading of degrees.
Huazhong University of Sci-
ence and Technology in
Wuhan, Hubei province,
downgraded 18 students from
a bachelor’s degree to an asso-
ciate degree because they fell
short of the school’s academic
standards.
According to a regulation
issued by the university last
year, undergraduate students
who don’t meet the require-
ments are given a warning.
After two warnings, they are
transferred to an associate-
level school.
At most universities in Chi-
na, students who don’t achieve
enough credits are given a
final chance to take the exams
they failed, which are usually
easier than the previous ones.
Among the 4,119 graduates
of Yunnan University this year,
220 had their graduations
delayed because they had
insufficient credits, and six
students were expelled, Xin-
hua News Agency reported.
Hunan Polytechnic of Envi-
ronment and Biology expelled
22 students for failing to reach
scores. Forty other students
were asked to repeat their sen-
ior year.
It is necessary for universi-
ties to weed out or postpone
the graduations of some
unqualified students, Wu
Yan, director of the ministry’s
Department of Higher Edu-
cation, said during an inter-
view with Wuhan Evening
News.
“We cannot have a ‘happy’
university where students just
play computer games, have
romantic relationships or idle
their time away,” he said.
The country should increase
the academic pressure on col-
lege students to increase the
quality of university education,
since they are the backbone of
the country’s talent, he added.
After the gaokao, the
national college entrance
examination, many students
avoid their parents’ supervi-
sion and skip classes to play
computer games or nap while
on campus.
220
number of students whose
graduations were delayed
this year at Yunnan Univer-
sity
In July, Minister of Educa-
tion Chen Baosheng said the
quality of education is the
most important criterion for
evaluating universities.
University students should
study hard during their four
years of college, and no stu-
dent should get a degree while
wasting time playing comput-
er games, he said.
Chu Zhaohui, a senior
researcher at the National
Institute of Education Scien-
ces, said, “This is a wake-up
call for many Chinese under-
graduates, as universities usu-
ally have a higher threshold to
get in, with only a 40 percent
enrollment rate nationwide
and almost the lowest dropout
rate in the world.”
For the slackers, it is better
to learn the lesson while at
school than after graduation,
he said.
In January, the Ministry of
Education released a plan to
support 10,000 majors in its
higher education institutes to
achieve “world-class” status.
Around 20 percent of
majors in China’s universities
are expected to become first-
class in the world by 2022 to
ensure that the country will
have competitive talent glo-
bally.
6 CHINA
Environment
Shanghai cleans up waste collection, recycling
The city authorities have introduced a range of programs designed to promote good habits. Xing Yi reports.
I
s used tissue paper “dry”
or “wet” garbage, and to
which category of trash
does hair belong?
Those are just two exam-
ples of the sort of questions
that confused Qi Daolun
when her neighborhood
joined a trash sorting pro-
gram that started in April.
The 84-year-old Shanghai
resident’s confusion was
short-lived, though, and
within a few days she had
become a pro at sorting
domestic trash.
Qi, a retired Party cadre,
lives with her husband and
son in a residential commu-
nity in the city’s Chengjiaqiao
subdistrict.
By September, 27 commu-
nities in Chengjiaqiao had
joined the program of house-
hold waste sorting and fixed-
time collections. “I didn’t
take trash sorting seriously
before, but now I realize that
it is a good thing and every-
one should do it,” Qi said.
She added that she learned
about the different categories
of trash at lectures delivered by
social workers and volunteers,
and, most important, at the
neighborhood trash station.
Lin Jing serves as an offi-
cial on Qi’s community com-
mittee, and a major part of
her job is to implement the
municipal government’s
campaigns to promote better
sorting of household waste.
She and her colleagues
started educating local peo-
ple about trash sorting in
2013, using a range of meas-
ures to promote the concept.
Earlier this year, they gave
lectures to all the households
in the 27 neighborhoods and
handed every family a trash
bin with separate chambers
for dry and wet waste.
“We have seen incremental
progress in people’s attitudes
and practice, especially after
the neighborhood started the
fixed-time trash collection
program,” Lin said.
When the program was
launched, Lin visited the trash
station every day to ensure
that people used the appropri-
ate bins for dry garbage (gen-
eral household waste), wet
garbage (food waste), hazard-
ous waste (batteries, electron-
ic items and related trash),
and recyclables.
She also asked people to
make sure they used different
bags for different types of
trash, and when she disposed
of the bags, she opened them
to see if they had complied.
“It was a lot of work at first,
but it is the most effective way
of teaching people about sort-
ing trash and encouraging
the right behavior,” she said.
Soon, Lin didn’t need to vis-
it every day because people
had become accustomed to
sorting their trash and plac-
ing it in the right receptacle.
Even the local security
guard volunteered to help by
opening the trash station at
the designated times — 7:30
to 9:30 am and 4:30 to 7:00
pm every day — when resi-
dents dispose of their trash
and waste treatment compa-
nies send trucks to collect it.
Long-term action plan
In March, the Shanghai
municipal government pub-
lished an action plan to
implement the sorting of
household waste across the
city, and made it clear that
every residential community
in every district would be
required to operate a trash
sorting program by 2020.
The aim is to reduce the
daily volume of dry waste
from 21,400 metric tons to
18,100 tons.
Meanwhile, the amount of
wet waste, mainly kitchen
leftovers, which can be
reused as compost or fertiliz-
er, must be increased from
3,480 tons to 6,300 tons a day,
and the daily volume of recyc-
lables, including plastics and
papers, should rise from 660
tons to 1,100 tons.
Clockwise from top: A volunteer (left) helps a Shanghai resident add points on her app account after the senior sorted waste in a community in the Chengjiaqiao
subdistrict. XING YI / CHINA DAILY Citizens put cardboard into the paper recycling chamber of a self-service trash sorting machine; A member of staff at the trash sorting
company teaches a senior citizen how to use the machine’s app on her cellphone. PHOTOS BY YIN LIQIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Gas-guzzlers go to town on ‘gutter oil’
At the Jinfeng gas station on
the Shanghai-Hangzhou
expressway, biodiesel has
become the fuel of choice for a
growing number of truck drivers.
The reason is simple — the fuel
is a few cents cheaper than reg-
ular diesel.
However, few of the truckers
realize that the biodiesel, called
B5, sold at the station comes
from restaurants, and is pro-
duced from waste cooking oil
collected across the city.
At a media briefing held by
the Shanghai government on
Sept 13, officials announced that
the city had built a recycling sys-
tem in which waste cooking oil
— a notorious substance known
as “gutter oil” — is collected,
synthesized into biodiesel and
sold at 40 gas stations.
Yang Jinsong, director of the
Shanghai Food and Drug Admin-
istration, said an average 150
metric tons of waste cooking oil
is collected from restaurants in
the city every day. This year, he
expects to see about 30,000
tons of biodiesel produced from
gutter oil.
The system is the latest
response to a scandal in 2011,
when media reported that some
companies had been illegally
producing and selling cooking oil
made from gutter waste.
“Trash sorting is an impor-
tant step in achieving harm-
less treatment and effective
disposal of solid waste,” said
Liu Chang, deputy chief engi-
neer at the Ministry of Hous-
ing and Urban-Rural
Development’s Environmen-
tal Sanitation Engineering
Technology Research Center.
Currently, landfills and
From left: Despite the difference in color, the biodiesel (left) and water are equally clean; An attendant pumps biodiesel at a gas
station in Shanghai. PHOTOS BY JIANG DIWEN / FOR CHINA DAILY
“It means the proper recy-
cling and reuse of gutter oil is
now completely interconnected,”
Yang said.
The new system features
monitored waste oil collection
and transportation, based on a
big data platform.
Every restaurant of more
than 150 square meters now
has an ID card on which the
amount of waste oil it turns in
to the collectors every day is
recorded and uploaded to the
system. In addition, collectors
have been issued with cards
that will monitor where they
transport the waste oil they pick
up.
After the data has been
incineration are the domi-
nant methods of treating
waste in China, but properly
sorted trash can save space in
landfills, which have a limit-
ed area, while certain types of
dry waste can be burned as
fuel for incineration plants.
“The amount of household
waste produced in China is
rising every year, and the sol-
uploaded, the platform will alert
supervisors if a restaurant has a
significant drop in the amount of
waste oil it hands in, or it is sig-
nificantly lower compared with
the average at similar restau-
rants.
“The system has the address-
es of all the restaurants, the
license plate numbers of the col-
lectors’ trucks, the type of waste
oil and the time it is collected.
By using big data, a few people
can then supervise the thou-
sands of restaurants in Shang-
hai,” said Xu Zhen, general
manager of Traceability Technol-
ogy, the company that helped
build the monitoring platform.
More than 34,000 food and
id waste treatment industry
is developing at high speed as
well,” Liu said.
“But there is still a huge gap
between the waste we pro-
duce and our ability to treat
it,” he added, estimating the
shortfall at about 30,000 tons
a day.
“Sorting our trash will help
to close the gap.”
catering businesses in the city
are now registered with the sys-
tem, he said.
A large proportion of the
waste oil is taken to Zhongqi
Environment Technology, a com-
pany founded in 2005 that spe-
cializes in producing biodiesel
from cooking oil.
Zhang Xuewang, chairman of
the board at Zhongqi, said the
company only received about
10,000 tons of waste cooking oil
in 2011, but now it gets an aver-
age 40,000 tons annually.
After the oil has been treated,
the biodiesel is taken to gas sta-
tions operated by Sinopec, one
of China’s leading oil and gas
companies, across the city.
Innovation
Shanghai has a history of
innovative waste treatment.
In 2000, it was selected as
one of eight pilot cities to
implement a trash sorting
program, and over the years
the city has launched several
campaigns to promote and
implement the practice.
Since August, a new round of
Friday, October 26, 2018 CHINA DAILY
To encourage drivers to use
the biodiesel, the Shanghai gov-
ernment and the company pro-
vide a subsidy to reduce the
price at the pump.
“In January, sales at the Jin-
feng station, where we initially
provided B5 biodiesel, only
accounted for 15 percent of the
total, but now the figure is 60
percent,” said Lyu Wei, deputy
general manager of Sinopec
Marketing Shanghai Co.
He added that by August, 54
million liters of the fuel had been
consumed at the 40 gas sta-
tions in the program.
By the end of the year, Sino-
pec plans to provide B5 at 200
gas stations in Shanghai.
trash sorting has been carried
out in many parts of the city,
and pamphlets and brochures
have been printed and handed
out in schools and residential
communities to ensure that
residents are fully aware of the
ongoing campaign.
In addition, teams of volun-
teers, including university stu-
dents and retirees, are
instructing residents about
garbage classification, accord-
ing to the municipal volunteer
association.
Last month, authorities des-
ignated the fifth of every month
as a trash sorting-themed day.
Moreover, new technology
is being used at pilot trash sta-
tions equipped with smart
recycling bins fitted with sen-
sors that can identify the type
of trash and pay people who
deliver it. Because they are
linked to the internet, the
smart bins can notify the trash
recycling company when they
are almost full.
New supervision systems are
being tested, too. In Fengxian
district, Party members and
local officials have been
assigned to garbage stations as
“trash bin chiefs”, responsible
for supervising sorting in specif-
ic areas.
Last year, Shanghai issued
mandatory rules for sorting
trash that specifically target-
ed waste produced in work
places, including govern-
ment offices, public institu-
tions and businesses.
The Shanghai Municipal
Administration of Afforesta-
tion and City Appearance,
whose main tasks include
waste transportation and
treatment, sent notices to
50,000 offices and handled 557
cases in which office buildings
failed to comply with the rules.
Last year, it handed out fines
totaling 20,000 yuan ($2,900).
As a result, many office
buildings have upgraded
their trash bins. During the
summer, Liu Peng, a worker
at an advertising company,
discovered that his office
building on Huaihai Road in
the downtown had replaced
its one large trash can with
three different bins.
“I didn’t sort my trash
before, but I will do so now,
even though it requires a lit-
tle effort,” he said.
In August, notices were
posted in the entrance of his
office building to inform all
the companies in the com-
plex that they were required
to sort their own trash. Zhao
Jianming, the building’s
manager, praised the pro-
gram, and said he has made it
his personal responsibility to
see that all the trash is sorted.
Niu Debi, a cleaner in the
building, said she has to
check the trash bins and pick
out garbage that has been
placed in the wrong contain-
er, which has raised her work-
load but not her paycheck.
Slow progress
Despite the various meas-
ures taken in Shanghai in
recent years, the progress of
trash sorting in general is still
slow because while most peo-
ple know about it, few actual-
ly practice it, despite years of
education.
Michael Rosenthal, a Unit-
ed States national who has
lived in Shanghai for 13 years
and founded US Green Solu-
tions, a waste treatment com-
pany, said the key to
overcoming the problem is
better and more stringent
standards and regulations set
by the government, and more
companies developing new
technology.
“That said, public coopera-
tion is also important,” he
said. “To see green practices
becoming more common in
China and people’s behavior
changing in just a few years is
truly an amazing thing.”
In addition to those factors,
Qi, the old Party member in
Chengjiaqiao, is convinced
that determination and moti-
vation are also essential to
improve the situation.
“It’s all about people’s
mindsets; just lift a finger
and it’s done, so why not do
the right thing?” she said.
Yu Ruyue contributed to this
story.
Contact the writer at
xingyi@chinadaily.com.cn
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
40 YEARS ON | SHAOSHAN, HUNAN
Red tourism pays off for Shaoshan
Birthplace of Mao Zedong welcomed 20 million visitors last year
By FENG ZHIWEI
and ZHANG ZHOUXIANG
in Changsha
A lack of scenic attractions
has not stopped Shaoshan, a
small city in Central China’s
Hunan province, from becom-
ing one of the country’s top
tourism destinations.
It attracted 20 million visi-
tors last year, cementing its
status as one of China’s 246
5A-level tourism zones. They
all came to commemorate
Mao Zedong, the founding
father of New China, who was
born in Shaoshan in 1893.
During this year’s weeklong
National Day holiday, in early
October, there were more
than 10,000 cars and buses
parked every day in the park-
ing lot of the local tourism
exchange center, where tour-
ists can transfer to shuttle
buses.
Almost two weeks after the
holiday ended, the center was
still full of tourists from all
over China.
Mao, who spent his child-
hood in Shaoshan, went on to
join and lead the Communist
Party of China, and play a cen-
tral role in the founding of the
People’s Republic of China in
1949.
Just two years later, his
former residence in Shaoshan
was opened to the public as a
place of interest, sowing the
seeds for the growth of Red
tourism in the city.
Following Mao’s death in
1976, red tourism further
prospered in the 1980s, with
many people wanting to
express their condolences
and commemorate the late
chairman of the CPC Central
Committee.
Foshan forges ahead with research and innovation
By CHEN HONG
chenhong@chinadaily.com.cn
The government of the city
of Foshan, a manufacturing
hub in China, has backed the
establishment of a new group
of research institutes and inno-
vation centers to bolster its pil-
lar industry and improve its
expansion on the global stage.
A total of 12 key projects,
with an investment worth
more than 90 billion yuan
($13 billion), were signed at
the opening ceremony of the
fourth China (Guangdong)
International Internet Plus
Exposition, one of the city’s
most important events of the
year, that runs from Wednes-
day to Saturday.
One of the main projects
involved the Foshan city gov-
ernment and the Nanhai dis-
trict government signing an
agreement with Tsinghua Uni-
versity to build an academy
for research into new materi-
als. Foshan aims to become a
national leader in the sector.
Officials said the academy’s
achievements would not only
benefit South China, where
Foshan is located, but also the
whole country.
The academy will focus on
the technological develop-
ment and commercialization
of materials for renewable and
sustainable energy, biomedi-
cal materials, energy-saving
and environmentally-friendly
materials, electronic infor-
mation materials and smart
manufacturing.
In other projects, the Nanhai
district government will col-
laborate with Alibaba Cloud,
a subsidiary of billionaire Jack
Ma’s Alibaba, to concentrate
on the incubation of promis-
ing companies in a wide range
of sectors — from big data,
smart manufacturing and
information security to inter-
net finance and mobile inter-
net — which will ultimately
promote the transformation
and upgrading of those areas.
The former residence of Mao Zedong is the major tourist attraction in Shaoshan, Hunan province.
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Changsha
SHAOSHAN
HUNAN
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“I am on a business trip to
Changsha and I took the
opportunity to come here to
commemorate Chairman
Mao,” said Cheng Zedong, a
60-year-old Party member
Britain’s Prince Michael of Kent (center), attends the fourth China (Guangdong) International Internet Plus Exposition, one of the
city’s most important events of the year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Our city will
actively push
forward the
combination of the
digital economy
with the physical
economy...”
Lu Yi, Party chief of Foshan
Lu Yi, Party chief of Foshan,
made a speech at the expo’s
opening ceremony, pledg-
ing full government support
for industrial upgrade with
technologies. “Foshan will
unswervingly develop manu-
Visits by tourists
to Shaoshan
（million）
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18.8
13.1
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8.4
3,6
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from Sichuan province. “It has
long been my dream to visit
Chairman Mao’s former resi-
dence and now the dream has
finally come true.”
Most of the brochures in
facturing as the core industry
of the city… and is studying a
mode that integrates global
technology, global markets
with smart manufacturing,”
he said.
“Prompted by the expo, our
city will actively push forward
the combination of the digi-
tal economy with the physical
economy and build a national
manufacturing innovation
center that has a global influ-
ence.”
Just six months ago, the Fos-
han government announced at
a technology conference that it
would invest 3.5 billion yuan
in the brand-new Jihua Labo-
ratory in the next three years,
which is designed to provide
world leading technologies
and solutions for advanced
manufacturing.
The facility will start con-
struction by the end of this
year and will employ 150
doctoral students next year
The section is sponsored by Foshan city.
tourism agencies in Changsha,
Hunan’s provincial capital, list
Shaoshan as a “must-see”
tourism destination.
Tourism mushroomed after
Mao’s former residence was
given 5A ranking in 2011, and
it is now the main pillar sup-
porting the local economy,
reaping 6 billion yuan ($865
million) last year.
Xiong Juan, a local tour
guide, said she can earn about
10,000 yuan a month, more
than the average monthly
income in Beijing.
“In the past, most of the
tourists were seniors or mid-
dle-aged people,” she said. “In
the past decade, we have
increasingly had more college
students, and even middle
school and primary school
to enrich its talent pool, Song
Zhiyi, executive deputy direc-
tor of the lab, told reporters
during the expo.
He noted that the research
will emphasize three major
aspects — robotics, high-end
equipment manufacturing for
life sciences and micro/nano
optics.
“One of our missions is
to provide solutions for the
manufacturing industries to
meet their needs for indus-
trial upgrading and transfor-
mation, which would not only
benefit Foshan, but can extend
nationwide,” Song told China
Daily.
As one of the first four key
labs in Guangdong, Song said
the Jihua Laboratory aims to
become listed as a State-level
lab in the future.
“Foshan has strong manu-
facturing strength and it’s
located in the center of the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-
pupils who come in groups.
They hope to learn more
about China’s history and pay
their respects to Chairman
Mao.”
But the tourism boom did
create one major problem:
Traffic jams.
“The tourism zone is only 5
kilometers from the nearest
highway exit,” said Yin Zhi-
gang, Party secretary at Shao-
shan Tourism Development
Group. “However, around the
year 2011, there were so many
cars and buses that it took four
hours for a car to finish the
5-km route.”
That’s why the group invest-
ed 680 million yuan to build
the transfer center, which
opened on March 25, 2016.
Tourists can now transfer
from buses or cars to shuttle
buses there, or just walk into
the tourism zone.
In the three National Day
holidays since the launch of
the transfer center, traffic has
flowed smoothly in Shao-
shan’s tourism zone. Nowa-
days it’s rare to hear a car horn
there.
Earlier this year, the city
Party committee and the city
government issued a three-
year plan on further develop-
ing red tourism in the zone.
According to a leading local
tourism official, they hope to
stress the role of red educa-
tion in the sector.
By 2020, the number of visi-
tors to Shaoshan each year is
expected to exceed 26 million,
with 30 percent of local resi-
dents making a living from
tourism.
Contact the writers at
zhangzhouxiang@
chinadaily.com.cn
Macao Greater Bay area, which
has the advantage of attracting
talent globally,” Song said.
Nine institutes that are par-
ticipating in the construction
of the lab displayed robots,
sensors and micro/nano optics
products at the expo, and
attracted the interest of many
visiting professionals.
The expo, organized by
CeBIT, a world leader in digi-
tal events, has gathered 731
well-known industrial and
internet enterprises from all
over the world, according to
officials.
Covering an area of 50,000
square meters at the Guang-
dong Tanzhou International
Convention and Exhibition
Center, the expo features six
areas including advanced
Internet Plus technology,
digital business, digital life,
innovation and entrepreneur-
ship, robots and intelligent
manufacturing.
Tourists’ cars pack the parking lot of the Shaoshan tourism
exchange center. MO ZHENGDE / FOR CHINA DAILY
Spicy dish sparks
eatery success story
By ZHANG ZHOUXIANG
and FENG ZHIWEI
in Changsha
It was 1914 and Mao
Zedong, one of the most
influential figures of the
20th century, was still a stu-
dent at a teacher training
college in Changsha, Hunan
province.
According to historical
accounts, he was happiest
on Saturdays, the day the
students were served a kind
of heavily spicy meat, slowly
cooked on a mild fire. It was
oily, but the young students
enjoyed it.
That dish became one of
Mao’s lifetime favorites.
In 1987, 11 years after the
death of the national leader,
Tang Ruiren, a woman from
his hometown, Shaoshan,
opened a restaurant featur-
ing the dish.
Her Maojia Restaurant
now has more than 300 bran-
ches across China, with over
30,000 employees. Tang, 88,
has long since retired and
spends her days posing for
photos with tourists.
“Our first branch was in
Beijing, the capital; the sec-
ond in Nanjing,” said Mao
Taozhi, Tang’s daughter, who
is now chairwoman of Hu-
nan Shaoshan Maojia Res-
taurant Development. “We
Tech charges to the
fore at internet expo
By CHEN HONG
Exhibitors at the fourth Chi-
na (Guangdong) International
Internet Plus Exposition held in
Foshan in South China’s Guang-
dong province, have displayed
a variety of new technologies
and products designed to make
waves in the digital industry.
The latest 5G mobile network
has not been put into use yet,
but China Mobile, the world’s
largest mobile carrier by sub-
scribers, has allowed visitors to
the expo to control robots using
the technology.
The time delay between
control inputs and the robots’
movements has been shortened
from 10 to two milliseconds
with the use of 5G, which is
almost the equivalent of real-
time operation.
The Foshan branch of China
Mobile is also showcasing its
latest industrial augmented
reality technologies via the 5G
network, which enables users to
interact with visualized digital
designs of various objects.
China Unicom, another Chi-
nese mobile operator, is holding
classes featuring AR and the
use of 5G to create and display
holographic images.
China’s premier search
engine Baidu is also attend-
ing the four-day show and has
brought with it DuerOS — a
world-leading artificial intel-
ligence technology, as well as
its products that feature virtual
reality.
Led by Britain’s Prince
Michael of Kent, the UK Pavil-
ion at the expo showcases a
future world in an era of intelli-
gent technology which includes
facial recognition, design simu-
lation, health monitoring and
smart cities.
“I am here now to support
a new wave of British innova-
tors in the fast-moving technol-
ogy sector, who have created
much of the technology we take
CHINA 7
hope to introduce the cul-
ture and traditions of Shao-
shan to the whole nation.
“The tourists who come to
Shaoshan will know it with
their eyes; those who have
not come yet should know it
via their nose and tongue.”
Mao Taozhi attributes the
success of her company to
people’s love for Mao.
“We have 50 tables and 20
rooms in the flagship restau-
rant alone, but there are still
long lines waiting at the
gate,” she said. “Many people
dine here as an expression of
love for Chairman Mao.”
In 2009, Tang founded
another company that sells
food and souvenirs featuring
Shaoshan flavor, or Mao’s
favorite. She said she hopes
to pass on the spirit of Mao
instead of making money
alone.
“Mom always tells me not
to taint the image of Mao,”
Mao Taozhi said. “We are the
hometown of Mao and we
must keep that honor.”
Quite a few of the 40
employees at the flagship
restaurant are disabled peo-
ple who would otherwise
find it difficult to get a job.
The enterprise has also
been helping poor farming
families by signing long-
term contracts to buy vege-
tables from them.
Cutting-edge robots can be
seen at this year’s expo.
PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
for granted today,” said Prince
Michael at the event.
“What Chinese investors
value in their work with British
companies, is their ability to
innovate value-enhancing solu-
tions to complex technological
issues.”
Several CeBIT European
exhibitors such as the Ger-
man Chambers of Commerce
Abroad have brought their lat-
est product solutions for smart
city operations, blockchain,
big data processing and online
video language transfer to the
show.
It has also attracted many
domestic industrial leaders
such as DJI Technology and
Huawei Technology, according
to the organizer.
The expo opens to the public
on Saturday.
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more on www.
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COMMENT
EDITORIALS
Stock market volatility sign
that Washington off course
U
S stocks closed sharply lower on Wednesday,
with major indices posting slumps of at least 2
percent, triggering widespread sell-offs in other
parts of the world.
While analysts said the mixed corporate earn-
ings performances and other factors, such as
geopolitical tensions, are behind the nosedive,
there was general agreement that the dampened sentiment was
the fallout from the ongoing trade disputes the United States has
initiated with its major trade partners.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.4 percent, or more than
600 points while the Nasdaq Composite Index plummeted 4.4 per-
cent, its worst day since 2011. The US stock indices have obviously
trended down this month after climbing to almost 27,000, making
analysts predict worse to come.
Admittedly, technical factors can partially explain the recent
losses in the US stock market. The US stock indices have risen
uninterruptedly for nearly 10 years and with their stock prices
soaring, US companies’ price-earnings ratios have risen to very
high levels. Moreover, economists are widely expecting the
world’s largest economy to start weakening from next year or
2020.
A major stock market correction would therefore not be surprising.
Still, that should not negate the fact that investors have
expressed their concerns over the uncertainties caused by the
trade confrontations resulting from the hard-line trade policies of
the US government.
These echo those of the US Federal Reserve, which admitted in a
report that firms nationwide are worried about the serious impact
of the US administration’s tariff policies.
This was in line with an earlier IMF report that stated the trade
conflicts among major players would be a drag on global trade
activities and economic growth, and threatened to fracture global
supply chains.
The recent deep corrections in the US stock indices show that
investors are in agreement that Washington’s stance is jeopardiz-
ing the global trade system.
The stock market falls should serve as a signal to Washington
that if the global economy as a whole worsens, the US economy
will not go unscathed and its beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy will
only backfire.
Instead of sticking to their adventurist game, US policymakers
should reassess their trade strategy, and adopt a more reasonable
stance. At best its self-serving trade tactics will only produce tem-
porary gains, over the long run as investors are predicting they are
likely to batter the US.
Clinging to outdated mindset
will not guarantee security
T
he latest manufactured angst in the United States about
the president’s phone habits is yet another demonstration
of the zero-sum Cold War mentality that still grips Wash-
ington.
This is at odds with the view expressed by President Xi Jinping
in his congratulatory letter to the eighth Beijing Xiangshan Forum,
a high-profile platform facilitating security dialogue in the Asia-Pa-
cific, which opened in Beijing on Thursday.
Peace, development and win-win cooperation are the trends of
today’s world, and the future of people around the world is closely
connected, he wrote.
It is a view encapsulated in his proposal that countries work
together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
A community based on common, comprehensive, cooperative and
sustainable security.
The forum, which Xi praised for playing a positive role in pro-
moting security dialogue, mutual trust and cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific region since its launch eight years ago, is part of Chi-
na’s continuous endeavors to deepen global mutual trust, build
consensus, mitigate suspicion and expand cooperation.
Beijing has been steadfast in calling on countries to join hands
to build a peaceful and stable security environment conducive to
the pursuit of common development.
This year, the theme for the forum is “Building a New Type of
Security Partnership of Equality, Mutual Trust and Win-Win Coop-
eration”. This offers an inspiring alternative to the self-interest and
unilateralism that is being promote at present by some countries
and encapsulates the trend of the times.
Those denying the validity of agreements and global institutions
are seeking to destroy the underpinnings of global stability that
support the trend for multilateral cooperation.
Agreements such as the deal on climate change reached in Paris
and the Iran nuclear deal were achievements made through diffi-
cult negotiations. But although hard-won, they were reached.
In his letter, Xi called on participants at the forum to pool their
wisdom and work to realize a brighter future for mankind by
building momentum for a new type of international relations that
reject the zero-sum mentality in favor of all being winners.
The practice of seeking exclusive security at the expense of oth-
ers’ legitimate interests and concerns is no longer desirable, or
indeed tolerable. Those clinging to the ways of the past will be left
behind by history.
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OPINION LINE
Just an alarmist rumor to claim
country on brink of financial crisis
WITH THE FAST RISE OF ITS LEVERAGE RATIO, some have expressed concern that China is
on the verge of a debt or financial crisis. Economic Daily comments:
Statistics of the Bank for International Settle-
ments indicate that the leverage ratio of China’s
nonfinancial enterprises soared from 96 percent in
2008 to 166 percent in 2016.
Yet it is worth pointing out that the problem is a
characteristic of China’s current stage of develop-
ment. Indirect financing (bank credit loans) is the
main form of financing in China, accounting for 70
percent to 90 percent of the market, as direct
financing remains less developed. This unavoida-
bly pushes up the leverage ratio of the whole finan-
cial sector.
In developed economies, such as the United
States and Japan, equity financing is the main form
of financing and debt financing accounts for less
than one-third of the market.
Besides, the high leverage ratio of enterprises
mainly involves State-owned enterprises, which is
partially caused by the fact that either the SOEs or
their creditors, mainly State-owned banks, assume
Academic wrongs must not be ignored
LIANG YING, a professor from the School of Social and Behavior Sciences, Nanjing University, is
reported to have deleted 120 papers she wrote from online versions of academic journals. Thepaper.cn
comments:
Liang claimed that she deleted the essays
because they were written in her early academic
years and were of low quality. Yet a probe by China
Youth Daily found that some of them might con-
tain plagiarism. Even though the essays have been
deleted from the online databases of the academic
journals, the printed journals still exist and any-
body who doubts its claims can take a look for
themselves.
Liang has previously admitted academic misbe-
havior in the past, saying that it happened before
the first national crackdown on academic malfea-
sance was launched in 2005.
Given this, the suspicion is that Liang deleted the
online papers in order to destroy evidence of
wrongdoing, as over the past few years, one univer-
sity after another has taken strict measures to root
out academic transgressions such as plagiarism.
Liang became a professor at a relatively young
age and is also the member of quite a few young
HOT WORDS
State-owned asset
management reports
On Wednesday, the sixth meeting of the
13th Standing Committee of the National Peo-
ple's Congress reviewed the Comprehensive
Report of the State Council, China's Cabinet,
on the Management of State-Owned Assets in
2017 and the 2017 Special Report on State-
Owned Assets of Financial Enterprises.
This is the first time the State Council has
EDITORIAL • OPINION
China Daily
chinadaily.com.cn/opinion
W H AT T H E Y S AY
Treaty pullouts
sabotage pillars
of global stability
Editor’s note: The Donald Trump admin-
istration has vowed to withdraw from the
certain government functions. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
And, both the fast development of the real estate Wang Chunyan, a researcher of South Asia
market, and the country’s accelerating urbaniza- studies with Sichuan University, comments
tion and monetization have raised the leverage
ratio of both enterprises and individuals. The shad-
in a column for Voice of China:
ow banking that flourishes in some places is also a US President Donald Trump pledged to
power driving up the leverage ratio.
Although these challenges are practical — some
strengthen US military power, including
missile technologies, during the presiden-
are even pressing — they have not shaken the foun- tial election, and he aims to lift the restric-
dations of the Chinese economy, and are unlikely to tions on the development of intermediate-
trigger a financial crisis. range nuclear weapons by pulling out of
In fact, the prediction that China is on the verge the treaty.
of a financial crisis has been heard for years. The National Defense Authorization Act
The Chinese authorities have paid close attention for Fiscal Year 2018 clearly required Secre-
to the high leverage ratio, and deleveraging and tary of Defense James Mattis to clarify the
risk prevention and control are regarded as impor- cost, progress and feasibility of upgrading
tant tasks. the US’ missile systems and developing
A series of deleveraging policies have worked new ones that have a range of 500-5,500
well. Therefore, it is far-fetched to predict that a kilometers. Which meant it was only a mat-
financial crisis is looming in China. ter of time before the US consigned the
treaty to history.
But it is not only a political decision, it is
also an economic one, as it will help the US
to support its military manufacturing
industries, which is part of Trump’s eco-
nomic security policies.
Also, Trump hopes to use the INF Treaty
to divert domestic attention from the mur-
der of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and
scholar programs funded by the Ministry of Educa- rally support from conservatives, hawks
tion. But if her past essays are found to have prob- and arms dealers before the midterm elec-
lems, it might ruin her future career. tions.
However long ago, academic misdeeds should be The US withdrawal from the INF Treaty
corrected when found, and the person responsible will likely promote a new arms race, cast-
should be given his or her deserved penalty. There ing a dark shadow over the world peace.
is no sell-by date and no academic misbehavior It is almost predictable that, if that hap-
should be considered immune. pens, the US will probably deploy more
The departments that have bestowed honorary newly developed intermediate-range mis-
titles on Liang should check to make sure there are sile systems in its allies that are closer to
no loopholes in their procedures. China Youth Dai- Russia, which will necessarily invite the
ly said they found the problems of Liang’s essays countermeasures from Russia, intensifying
rather easily, so why did the departments fail to the regional tensions.
find them earlier? The move is another instance of the US
In a response to the China Youth Daily claims, unilaterally withdrawing from an interna-
Nanjing University said it is already looking into tional treaty, a trend that has seriously
the matter and the results of the investigation will undermined the international practice,
be made soon. We hope other departments will whereby sovereign states opt to sacrifice
take action so that such misbehavior does not ruin some rights and interests for order, peace
the reputations of academic institutions. and stability.
reported the State-owned asset management owned enterprises (excluding financial enter-
situation to the Standing Committee of the prises) is 183.5 trillion yuan ($19.96 trillion),
National People's Congress, the top legislature. and the total asset value of State-owned finan-
State-owned assets are the valuable wealth cial enterprises is 241 trillion yuan. In addi-
of all the Chinese people, and how well the tion, the value of the
State-owned assets are managed relates to assets of national admin-
people's well-being. The third Plenary Session istrative institutions is
of the 18th Central Committee of the Commu- 30 trillion yuan.
nist Party of China has advanced enhancing The two reports reflect
the supervision of the National People's Con- the situation of State-
gress over State-owned assets, and the State- owned assets, and are
owned asset management reporting system is conducive to increasing
of great significance for this. the transparency and
The report covers all levels and all kinds of credibility of State- Online
State-owned assets. According to the report, owned asset manage- Scan it for
the total value of the assets of national State- ment. more hot words.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
Luigi Gambardella
China, EU can be closer cyber partners
B
eijing hosted the fifth
annual conference of
the Taihu World Cul-
tural Forum in Beijing
last week, with its significance
highlighted in a congratulatory
letter sent by Chinese President
Xi Jinping.
As politicians, entrepreneurs,
scholars and cultural notables
gathered to promote dialogues
among civilizations, it was good to
see the digital element of our con-
temporary culture was one of the
focuses for those discussions.
Nowadays no one can image
our world without cyberspace,
which has become an indispensa-
ble part of almost every aspect of
our current society since the
emergence of the internet.
Unlike the land or sea, no
national borders lie in cyberspace,
meaning it is a new territory that
needs joint efforts from the inter-
national community to cope with
the challenges and ease mistrust.
China’s strategy for cyberspace
is clear. In December 2016, China
released its national cyber securi-
ty strategy, aiming to push for a
peaceful, secure, open, coopera-
tive and orderly cyberspace.
In March 2017, China unveiled
an International Strategy of Coop-
Washington’s smears simply stain itself
W
ashington’s recent
accusation that Chi-
na is interfering in
the United States’
internal affairs is an utter absurd-
ity aimed at distracting public
attention from its domestic troub-
les.
This time, Washington is claim-
ing that China has targeted cer-
tain voters in the US midterm
elections with its retaliatory trade
measures.
That is nonsense because these
trade measures are a legitimate
response to Washington’s tariff
offensive targeting Beijing. China
has been forced to fight back, and
it has done so tit-for-tat, it has
nothing to do with US voters or
elections.
With Washington imposing
additional tariffs on more and
more Chinese products, many US
industries and districts have been
affected, and American families
and consumers are paying a high
price for their government’s
actions.
These consequences are of
Washington’s own making.
The US smear campaign
against China can neither conceal
Washington’s attempt to shift the
focus away from domestic issues
during the election season nor
achieve the goal of blackmailing
China. What’s more, it will never
deter China from seeking mutual-
ly beneficial cooperation with the
Chen Deming
Reform and opening-up still the way forward
T
he international eco-
nomic order and govern-
ance rules established
after World War II have
promoted the world’s economic
recovery and booming globaliza-
tion. In particular, the informa-
tion revolution and the global
deployment of multinational com-
panies since the 1980s have great-
ly catalyzed the growth of
investment and trade worldwide.
Multinational companies are
the main driving force behind glo-
balization. For example, about 70
percent of cross-border invest-
ment is done by multinationals,
and two-thirds of international
trade conducted by them. At the
end of 2017, cross-border trade
accounted for more than 33 per-
cent of the global GDP.
Globalization includes three
main elements, the first being the
growing interconnection and
increasingly interdependent trade
and investment among world
economies; the second is the
increasing openness and uniform-
ity of participating countries’
domestic economic rules, includ-
ing their financial, fiscal, invest-
ment and other macroeconomic
policies; the third is an efficient
international economic coordina-
tion mechanism, which coordi-
nates the domestic macro policies
of major powers and has thus
eration on Cyberspace. To many
China watchers, Beijing’s
approaches are inclusive and
cooperative.
A cooperative approach makes
it easier to win partners and those
who are like-minded should work
together. In some ways, the Euro-
pean Union has some similarities
with China in its approach to
cyberspace as Brussels invited
international cooperation on
cyberspace in its 2013 cyber secu-
rity strategy.
It is heartening to see dialogues
between the EU and China on
cyberspace have been conducted
since the two launched a cyber
task force in 2012. However, the
EU and China could move a step
further and become truly reliable
partners on cyberspace.
First of all, Europe and China
could build their trust via dia-
logue and work closely on
addressing cyber security con-
cerns.
Both Europe and China are
exposed to cyber security inci-
dents, which are becoming more
frequent and difficult to deal with.
EU data shows that last year,
there were more than 4,000 ran-
somware attacks per day and 80
percent of European companies
rest of the world.
China continues to adhere to a
path of peaceful development and
to uphold the principle of nonin-
terference in other countries’
internal affairs, which has been
widely recognized by the interna-
tional community.
Meanwhile, China is committed
to developing friendly coopera-
tion with other countries and
building a community with a
shared future for mankind. Its
Belt and Road Initiative has
attracted partners across the
world and built up great momen-
tum for peace and development.
In sharp contrast, the United
States has been interfering in Chi-
na’s internal affairs concerning
Taiwan, Tibet and the South Chi-
na Sea. It is also crystal clear
which country tends to meddle in
other countries’ internal affairs
via military invasions, economic
sanctions, cultural infiltration or
election manipulation.
Forty years into its epic process
of reform and opening-up, China
now has a huge consumer market
and a complete industrial system,
with strong innovation momen-
tum and economic resilience.
Both China and the US benefit
from cooperation and suffer from
confrontation. Waging a trade
war against China will not help
the US solve its underlying eco-
nomic problems, and even if it
could curb China’s development
becomes the cornerstone of global
governance.
Obviously, the three elements
not only verify that mankind is a
community with a shared future,
they also reveal that the realiza-
tion of such a community requires
each country to give up some poli-
cy and regulation jurisdiction to
bring itself in line with the multi-
lateral rules jointly formulated by
world countries. Putting excessive
emphasis on one’s own interests
while turning a blind eye to estab-
lished multilateral rules usually
leads to opposite results. That is
because if every member of the
world community is obsessed
with unilateralism, the multilater-
al rules that underpin globaliza-
tion will collapse, causing
globalization to seriously retro-
gress.
China was a signatory to the
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade, the predecessor of the
World Trade Organization, and
due to its domestic regime
change, it was a marathon process
for China hold talks with WTO
members and multilateral organi-
zations and realize its WTO mem-
bership, during which China took
big strides forward in opening its
market and made huge conces-
sions.
In the 17 years since its WTO
accession, China has abolished
... the two should
work together to
build their resil-
ience, to drive
technological
innovation togeth-
er ...
experienced at least one cyber
security incident.
In the WannaCry ransomware
attack in May 2017, both European
and Chinese institutions and com-
panies were hit. Cyberattacks are
estimated to cost the global econ-
omy 400 billion euros ($530 bil-
lion) every year.
Technology is evolving, so are
cyberattacks. Given the nature of
cyber threats, no country can face
the challenges alone. Dialogues
on cyber security will greatly help
build mutual trust to enhance
EU-China cooperation on law
enforcement to crack down on
that will not make America great
again.
In today’s world, it is an irresist-
ible trend to pursue peace and
development through win-win
cooperation. Unilateralism, pro-
tectionism and anti-globalization
go against the tide of the times
and will lead nowhere.
Washington should stop its
inappropriate rhetoric and pro-
vocative behavior, join China in
bringing bilateral relations back
to the right track and help pro-
mote peace and development in
the world.
This is a Xinhua
News Agency
commentary.
related laws and regulations on a
large scale so that it could better
adapt to its WTO commitments in
trade in goods and services, and
the protection of intellectual
property rights, during which it
has had to make imaginable sacri-
fices. For example, in opening the
domestic market and advancing
its transformation from a planned
economy to a market economy, a
large amount of foreign goods and
capital flooded into China, caus-
ing many domestic enterprises to
go out of business at the cost of
many workers losing their job,
and fueling rising prices and an
overloaded social security net-
work. So, China’s current per-
formance is not the gift of a
certain great power. While appre-
ciating its accession to the WTO,
China also abides by its WTO
commitments and tries to bring
business opportunities to all
countries through its own open-
ness and development.
Despite its remarkable econom-
ic performance achieved over the
past decades, China is still a devel-
oping country in the primary
stage of socialism and has a long
way to go in advancing its reform
and opening-up. But it should be
acknowledged that although Chi-
na’s current openness is insuffi-
cient compared with its goal to
being a socialist power, based on
crimes in cyberspace.
Second, on protecting data pri-
vacy.
Europe and China are now
ahead of other nations on making
laws to protect data privacy.
In the EU, the General Data
Protection Regulation, or GDPR,
one of the biggest and most
empowering overhauls to its data
laws, took effect on May 25. The
GDPR is designed to make sure
that EU citizens’ personal infor-
mation is protected — no matter
where it is sent, processed or
stored — even outside the EU. The
GDPR’s impact is global, as long
as foreign companies, including
many Chinese ones, have to deal
with EU citizens’ personal data
within the EU.
At the same time, China’s Cyber
Security Law, which has been
enforceable since June 1 last year,
provides better protection for
people’s personal information.
However, both the European
and Chinese public are yet to have
sufficient knowledge of the two
important laws. The two sides
should work more to raise aware-
ness of the regulations.
Last but not least, on the digital
economy.
The digital economy is vital to
its national conditions and devel-
opment stage, China has been
actively and continually opening
up its market in bilateral and mul-
tilateral areas since its accession
to the WTO. In recent years, China
has further implemented such
unilateral initiatives as establish-
ing pilot free trade zones and
reducing import tariffs.
As a member of the WTO fami-
ly, China keeps an attentive ear to
the voices of any party for its fur-
ther opening-up and also con-
ducts feasibility studies on any
proposals put forward for that
purpose on a bilateral, multilat-
eral and regional basis. China
also has high expectations for
further openness from the rest of
the world. China adheres to the
principles of fairness and nondis-
crimination and is firmly
opposed to unilateralism and any
acts of bullying or the trampling
on international norms by other
countries.
The current economic and
trade frictions between China and
the United States are not only a
result of the US’ domestic politics
and President Donald Trump’s
personal characteristics, but also
due to global governance not
keeping pace with the speed of
globalization. The fundamental
weakness of globalization is that a
government is nation-based while
both European and Chinese pros-
perity.
The EU’s digital economy is bur-
geoning. The EU’s data economy
was estimated to stand at 335.5 bil-
lion euros ($385,4 billion) in 2017, an
increase of 11.8 percent compared to
the previous year.
China’s digital economy is
remarkable. It totaled $3.4 trillion
dollars in 2017 and accounted for
one-third of its national GDP, mak-
ing it the world’s largest e-commerce
market and one that is appealing to
European companies.
China is too important to be
ignored. Any discussion on the
internet or cyberspace without men-
tioning China, which owns the larg-
est population of netizens in the
world, will be empty and meaning-
less.
As both Europe and China are
keen to work with other countries
to cope with the challenges and to
cooperate in cyberspace, the two
should work together to build
their resilience, to drive techno-
logical innovation together, and as
Chinese President Xi urged, to
“jointly build a community of
shared future in cyberspace”.
The author is president of Chi-
naEU.
MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY
the market is global-oriented.
From a global perceptive, the
market economy of capitalist pri-
vate ownership still dominates the
world landscape and China will
have to “dance with the wolves”
for a long time. China’s rise as a
big power will inevitably break
the established world economic
balance. In this sense, economic
globalization is conducive to
establishing a new balance and
helps other countries share the
dividends from China’s rise.
Therefore, China should firmly
uphold rule-based globalization
and oppose all kinds of pan-glo-
balization and anti-globalization
practices. In the face of the cur-
rent economic and trade frictions
with the US and its bullying
behavior, a feasible strategic
choice for China is to promote
deeper reforms through greater
openness, consult with developed
economies such as the US or the
European Union at a higher level,
and discuss global governance
rules and bilateral cooperation
frameworks. There is no possibili-
ty of shutting the door and going
backward.
The author is former minister of
commerce. The article is part of
his speech delivered to a recent
forum of economists hosted by
Fudan University.
VIEWS 9
Chen Weihua
The author is a columnist at China Daily.
chenweihua@chinadailyusa.com
Global call is for
US to stop being
a threat to peace
B
ack in November 2012, I con-
demned the documentary Death
by China based on the book
Death by China: Confronting the
Dragon – A Global Call to Action by Peter
Navarro, then a professor at University of
California-Irvine and now director of the
White House National Trade Council and
an assistant to US President Donald
Trump.
I equated the movie to “hate speech”
because its key points are China is bad in
every respect; China is stealing American
jobs, killing its babies with unsafe toys,
and its army is preparing to kill Ameri-
cans. I also called the movie “garbage”
and “akin to World War II Nazi propagan-
da” that “should never have made it to the
screen”.
Sadly, slandering of China has become
a favorite pastime for some US politi-
cians, as exemplified by Donald Trump in
his 2016 campaign. The HuffPost Enter-
tainment’s hilarious video Donald Trump
Says ‘China’, in which China is men-
tioned 234 times, has been viewed 14.58
million times on YouTube.
For US politicians, defaming a rising
China can be done at no cost to them-
selves, and can help energize and mislead
their often less informed voters. Few US
news organizations are bothered to con-
duct any fact checks of what they say.
That’s why US politicians never tire of
scaremongering about China. That’s why
Vice-President Mike Pence could deliver
a speech targeting China redolent of the
rhetoric of the Cold War at the Hudson
Institute in Washington on Oct 4, a ludi-
crous speech that described everything
China does as evil. And that’s why Secre-
tary of State Mike Pompeo began his talk
in Mexico City on Oct 18 by backstab-
bing Chinese investment in Latin Ameri-
ca.
It’s clearly time for
these narcissist US poli-
ticians to look at them-
selves more carefully in
the mirror.
The accusations that China’s invest-
ment in Latin America is neocolonialism
and Chinese loans in Africa are all debt
traps not only betray the facts on the
ground, they are insulting to those sover-
eign African and Latin American nations
by assuming they don’t know what they
are doing.
The fake Bloomberg story on Oct 4, the
day Pence spoke at Hudson, about Apple
and Amazon products containing a Chi-
nese spy chip could well be part of this
political campaign. Apple, Amazon and
Super Micro executives have all demand-
ed Bloomberg retract the story written
based on sheer speculation.
These are just some of the latest cases
in which an all-out smear campaign is
being conducted against China by the US.
Let me make clear that I am not claim-
ing that China does not make mistakes or
never does anything wrong. Like many
developing nations, China is in the mid-
dle of a long learning process. Learning
from the rest of the world has contributed
hugely to China’s success over the past 40
years, and China should welcome honest
criticism so it can improve its develop-
ment path.
But to describe everything China does
as evil, as Pence did, or to denigrate China
in a third country, as Pompeo did, is sim-
ply indecent behavior, especially for
national leaders.
Fortunately, Chinese leaders have not
demonstrated the same trait as these US
politicians. Few national leaders in the
world do.
Yet that does not mean they could not
give a long — and factual — list detailing
the hideous track record of the US, which
would include the invasion of Afghani-
stan and Iraq and the thousands of inno-
cent civilians killed as “collateral
damage” in US military drone strikes.
China, despite all the accusations by
the US, has never done anything remotely
as destructive to world peace as the US
war in Afghanistan, which is now in its
17th year and has become the longest war
in US history.
Global polls, including by Gallup, have
shown repeatedly over the years that the
US is considered the greatest threat to
world peace. It’s clearly time for these
narcissist US politicians to look at them-
selves more carefully in the mirror.
10 WORLD
EU backs plastics ban for 2021
Straws, stirrers,
cotton buds and
cutlery among
products on list
STRASBOURG, France —
The European Parliament
voted overwhelmingly on
Wednesday for an EU-wide
ban on single-use plastics
such as straws, cutlery, cotton
buds and balloon sticks.
The European Commission,
the 28-nation European
Union’s executive arm, pro-
posed banning such items
that it said account for 70 per-
cent of the waste in the oceans
and beaches.
“Today we are one step clos-
er to eliminating the most
problematic single-use plastic
products in Europe,” the EU’s
environment commissioner
Karmenu Vella said.
The European Parliament
Nepal
measuring
world’s
tallest peak
KATHMANDU — A team
from Nepal has restarted its first
measurement of Mount Qomo-
langma, also known is the West
as Mount Everest, the Nepali
Department of Survey said.
The department, which
began its mission in February,
said it is measuring the world’s
tallest mountain to see if it was
effected by a massive earth-
quake that hit Nepal in 2015.
Geologists say the quake
may have shrunk the moun-
tain by about 3 centimeters.
They also want to investigate
whether climate change has
altered the mountain’s height.
Although expeditions from
different countries have meas-
ured the altitude of Qomo-
langma, producing diverse
results, Nepal was not the part
of those expeditions.
This year marks the 65th
anniversary of Sir Edmund
Hillary’s and Sherpa Tenzing
Norgay’s successful ascent of
the mountain.
Over the next month, Nepali
surveyors will gather measure-
ments from the Himalayan
country’s southern plains,
where they will calculate sea
level. During climbing season,
dependent on weather, a team
of trained Sherpas will bring a
GPS receiver to the summit
and put it on the ice for an hour
to calculate the height of the
sea from satellites and meas-
urements of gravity at the base,
The New York Times reported.
Earlier, the department had
organized a workshop inviting
experts from around the world
to finetune the method of
measurements in December.
It plans to measure both
rock height and height with
snow and said it will involve
foreign experts during the data
processing to ensure interna-
tional recognition of the result.
Nepal has so far recognized
8,848 meters as the altitude of
the mountain as measured by
the Survey of India in 1954.
China reassessed the summit
in 2005 and measured the
height at 8,844.43 meters cov-
ered by 3.5 meters of snow.
In 1999, the US National
Geographic Society and Bos-
ton’s Museum of Science meas-
ured the height of the peak at
8,850 meters including snow.
CHINA DAILY—XINHUA
in Strasbourg, France, voted
in favor of the ban by 571 to 53,
with 34 abstentions.
The legislation, which sup-
porters want to take effect by
2021, must still be approved in
negotiations involving the
member states, parliament
and the commission.
The WWF said the vote put
“the EU on track as a global
leader in reducing plastic pol-
lution and pioneering strong-
er circular economies”.
However, it said the parlia-
ment missed an opportunity
to close a legal loophole on the
definition of single-use plas-
tics, adding it allows products
to be labeled reusable when
they may not be.
The manufacturers associa-
tions PlasticsEurope said the
measures are “disproportion-
ate”, adding bans discourage
investment needed to develop
ways to recycle plastics.
Like WWF, it said single-use
plastics definitions remain
“ambiguous”.
Families rest on the roadside while traveling with a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America en route to the United
States in Mexico on Wednesday. UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS
Migrant caravan continues exodus
MAPASTEPEC, Mexico—
Thousands of Central Ameri-
can migrants crossing Mexico
toward the United States in a
caravan have resumed their
long trek, walking about 12
hours to their next destination.
The migrants, who have
drawn near-daily Twitter tira-
des from US President
Donald Trump, walked and
hitched rides from the town
of Huixtla, in southern Mexi-
co, to Mapastepec, some 60
kilometers away.
Carrying their few belong-
ings on their backs — many
with babies pressed to their
chests or holding their chil-
dren by the hand — they left
at dawn after taking a one-
day break to rest, bathe and
nurse aching and injured feet.
“I miss my country. I’m not
doing this because I want to.
No one wants to leave their
home to go to a place they
don’t know. But sometimes
Comic strip heroes make European museum debut in London
By JULIAN SHEA in London
julian@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Original artwork by legend-
ary US cartoonist Charles M.
Schulz is making its European
museum debut at London’s
Somerset House gallery in the
new exhibition “Good Grief,
The parliament said its ban
across the EU targets single-
use cutlery, cotton buds,
straws and stirrers, which
were on the commission’s
original list of 10 items.
MEPs added polystyrenes
used to wrap fast-food and
oxo-plastics, such as bags that
have been touted as biode-
gradable but which break up
into tiny particles.
The legislation calls for
plastic items where no alter-
natives are available to be
reduced by at least 25 percent
by 2025.
‘Ambitious legislation’
Under the ban, drinks bot-
tles and other plastics will
have to be collected separately
and recycled at a rate of 90
percent by 2025.
The legislation calls for
reducing waste from tobacco
products, especially cigarette
filters containing plastic, by
50 percent by 2025 and 80
percent by 2030.
necessity pushes us to do this,
because of what’s happening
in our countries,” said Delmer
Martinez, a migrant from El
Salvador.
Fleeing violent crimes and
poverty at home, the
migrants say they are deter-
mined to reach the US —
despite Trump’s vows to stop
them, and his threats to cut
aid to Central American
countries, as well as to deploy
the military and close the
southern US border.
On Tuesday, Mexican For-
eign Affairs Minister Luis
Videgaray spoke by telephone
with US Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo about his coun-
try’s efforts to attend to the
migrants with the help of the
United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees.
There are now about 7,000
migrants in the caravan, the
United Nations estimates —
though Mexican authorities
Charlie Brown! Celebrating
Snoopy and the Enduring
Power of Peanuts”.
Schulz, who died in 2000,
drew 17,897 strips about the
world of Charlie Brown, his
dog Snoopy, and their friends,
which were printed in more
than 2,600 newspapers
Cigarette butts can take up
to 12 years to disintegrate
when thrown on a road, the
parliament said.
It calls for member states to
ensure that tobacco firms cov-
er the costs of waste collection
for those products.
The bill calls on member
countries to ensure that at
least 50 percent of lost or
abandoned fishing gear con-
taining plastic is collected
annually.
It calls for recycling at least
15 percent of fishing gear —
which accounts for 27 percent
of the litter on Europe’s beach-
es — also by 2025.
Producers of fishing gear
containing plastic will also
need to assume the cost of col-
lecting litter and help meet
the recycling target.
Frederique Ries, member of
the liberal ALDE party and
the European Parliament’s
rapporteur for the draft meas-
ures, said the bill she steered
through parliament is “the
put the number much lower
on Wednesday: 3,630.
The vast majority are from
Honduras.
Show of solidarity
In a show of solidarity, Mex-
icans watching the caravan
pass shouted out “Keep it up,
brothers!” and gave them
food and water.
“Mexico! Mexico!” the
migrants shouted in reply,
bathed in sweat under the hot
sun of the southern state of
Chiapas.
They have so far traveled
about 100 kilometers from
the Mexico-Guatemala bor-
der, where they crashed
through a series of border
gates on Friday.
Halted at the final gate by
hundreds of riot police, most
of the caravan entered Mexico
by swimming or taking rafts
across the river that forms the
border.
around the world with a read-
ership of 355 million people.
The strips and the charac-
ters remain especially popu-
lar in China, where there are
20 Charlie Brown-themed
cafes, and, earlier this year,
Chinese-dressed statues of
several Peanuts characters
were sent from the US city of
Saint Paul, Minnesota, where
Schulz grew up, to Changsha
in Hunan province in celebra-
tion of the 30th anniversary
of the two cities forging sister-
city ties.
Despite the all-American
setting and references of the
script, the deceptively simple-
looking Peanuts cartoons
have been a huge hit around
the world, and have been cele-
brated for the often deep,
most ambitious legislation
against single-use plastics”.
She added that “it is up to us
now to stay the course in the
upcoming negotiations with”
the EU member states, which
could start next month.
She said the legislation is
needed to protect the environ-
ment and cut damage from
plastics that will rise to an
estimated $25 billion by 2030.
The European Commission
has said businesses will bene-
fit from one set of rules for an
EU market of around 500 mil-
lion people.
It said it will encourage EU
companies to develop econo-
mies of scale and become
more competitive in the
“booming” global market for
sustainable products.
The EU push to crack down
on plastic use follows China’s
decision to ban imports of for-
eign waste products for recy-
cling.
AFP—XINHUA—REUTERS
Mexican federal police
have periodically accompa-
nied the caravan in trucks or
flown overhead in helicop-
ters, but without attempting
to stop it.
According to the Mexican
government, about 1,700 peo-
ple who were traveling in the
caravan have requested asy-
lum in Mexico.
The migrants still have
some 3,000 km left to walk to
reach the US.
Venezuela’s President Nico-
las Maduro labeled US Vice-
President Mike Pence “a
madman” after he accused
Caracas of financing the cara-
van.
“What tremendous conven-
ing power I have in Central
America, Mike Pence! If it
wasn’t for an extremist, an
extremist madman saying it,
... one would have to laugh.”
AFP—XINHUA—AP
philosophical content of their
childlike characters.
Schulz’s widow Jean Schulz
admits to being pleasantly
surprised by the cartoons’ uni-
versal popularity, and thinks
their success in Asia may be
down to the continent’s artis-
tic traditions, including Chi-
nese calligraphy.
“Right from the beginning,
we wondered why Peanuts
and Snoopy took off in other
cultures,” she said. “In Japan,
the words were translated by
the poet laureate, so it meant
it was sensitively translated,
and I think the smooth sim-
plicity of the lines of the
drawing make them attract-
ive as well.”
The London exhibition has
three parts, focusing on
Friday, October 26, 2018 CHINA DAILY
Najib faces six
more charges
over state funds
KUALA LUMPUR —
Former Malaysian prime
minister Najib Razak was
charged with six counts of
criminal breach of trust
involving government funds
worth more than $1.5 billion
on Thursday, adding to the 32
charges he already faces for
money laundering and graft.
His former treasury chief,
Irwan Serigar Abdullah, was
also charged with criminal
breach of trust, becoming
the highest-ranking civil ser-
vant to be charged since
Najib was unexpectedly
ousted in a general election
in May.
The two pleaded not guilty
to all the charges, each of
which carries a jail term of
up to 20 years, a financial
penalty and a whipping sen-
tence. Both Najib and Irwan
would be exempted from
whipping as they are over
the age of 50.
“Nothing in the charges
show that any of the acts I
undertook resulted in any
benefit to me,” Najib said at a
news conference after the
court hearing.
“There shouldn’t be any
belief that any of the moneys
stated in the charges were
lost, or that there were any
elements of self-interest.”
The new government led
by Mahathir Mohamad has
been cracking down on cor-
ruption and has charged sev-
eral former senior
government officials, includ-
ing Najib’s former deputy.
A particular focus is how
billions of dollars went miss-
ing from state fund 1Malay-
sian Development Berhad,
or 1MDB, founded by Najib
in 2009.
Four of the six charges
filed on Thursday involving
about 4.78 billion ringgit
($1.15 billion) relate to a set-
tlement agreement between
1MDB and Abu Dhabi state
fund IPIC, said Azam Baki, a
deputy commissioner at the
anti-graft agency.
In 2017, 1MDB had agreed
to pay $1.2 billion to the Abu
Dhabi fund, in a settlement
agreement following a dis-
pute between the two over
bond payments, according to
the companies.
Deadly collapse
Rescue personnel are seen at the scene of a scaffolding collapse
which killed one person and injured at least one more in Antwerp,
Belgium, on Wednesday. ERIC VIDAL / REUTERS
Schulz the artist, the strips
and their cultural signifi-
cance, and newly-created art
inspired by the original works.
Chinese fans
Appropriately for Chinese
fans, the Schulz Museum in
Santa Rosa, California, cur-
rently has an exhibition focus-
ing on Snoopy entitled The
Year of the Dog.
Somerset House’s senior
curator Claire Catterall visited
Santa Rosa to set up the Lon-
don exhibition and was so
inspired by what she saw that
her plan changed.
“Originally, this exhibition
was just about the art Schulz
had inspired, and I thought I’d
just put in a couple of strips,
but the detail and brush
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former
prime minister, arrives at the
Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex
on Thursday.
JOSHUA PAUL / BLOOMBERG
The 1MDB-linked charges
allege Irwan and Najib com-
mitted the breach of trust
offense with 220 million ring-
git of government funds
meant for Kuala Lumpur
International Airport Berhad,
1.3 billion ringgit meant for a
subsidy and cash aid program
and 3.3 billion ringgit of other
government funds.
10-day bail
Najib’s lawyer Muham-
mad Shafee Abdullah said
his client did not personally
benefit from these transac-
tions.
“These were funds that
were initially allocated for a
purpose, but on priority was
revised, in the face of urgency
and dire straits the nation was
placed into. For the purposes
of settlement of the IPIC issue,
an executive decision had to
be undertaken very honestly,”
Shafee told the court.
The judge released Najib
and Irwan after setting a bail
of 1 million ringgit each. The
judge ordered the bail be
paid in 10 days.
Najib is already facing 32
money laundering, graft and
breach of trust charges over
transactions linked to
1MDB. He has pleaded not
guilty and his trial is due to
begin next year.
His wife, Rosmah Mansor,
was charged with money
laundering earlier this
month and had to pay bail of
2 million ringgit.
US authorities allege that
$4.5 billion was siphoned
from 1MDB and that about
$700 million was diverted
into Najib’s personal bank
accounts.
REUTERS—AP
strokes are so magical I fell in
love with them and they took
over as my passion,” she said.
“I’m not sure I’ve ever done
an exhibition about anything
I’ve loved quite so much.”
Both Schulz and Catterall
agree that the exhibition is
particularly timely, given the
often subliminal political and
social comment messages in
the original strips, which they
think add to their timeless
global appeal.
“He was never political —
Schulz would put ideas out
there but very subtly, so he
addressed many of the diffi-
cult themes of the postwar
era, which are perfectly
aligned with what’s happen-
ing in the world now,” said
Catterall.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
Obama, Clinton among targets of bombs
Threats highlight
risks of violent
political rhetoric;
govt vows probe
WA S H I N G T O N / N E W
YORK — Former US president
Barack Obama and former sec-
retary of state Hillary Clinton
were among the targets of sus-
pected package bombs deliv-
ered to several high-profile
Democrats and CNN, which
the FBI said it was investigat-
ing as an act of terrorism.
At least eight suspicious par-
cels were intercepted before
reaching any intended recipi-
ents, including Obama’s attor-
ney general, Eric Holder,
former CIA director John Bren-
nan and prominent Democrat-
ic Party donor George Soros.
Two packages were sent to
California Congresswoman
Maxine Waters, the FBI said.
Investigators were trying to
track down another suspi-
cious parcel they believe was
addressed to Obama’s vice-
president, Joe Biden, a feder-
al official said late on
Wednesday.
None of the eight packages
detonated, and nobody was
hurt. There was no immediate
claim of responsibility.
On Thursday morning,
police were investigating a
suspicious package at a build-
ing New York that houses a
restaurant owned by actor
Robert De Niro, NBC reported.
But news of the bomb
threats heightened tension in
a nation deeply polarized
NATO kicks off largest Prince vows justice in Khashoggi murder
drill since Cold War
OSLO — Military forces from
31 countries began NATO’s
largest exercise in decades,
stretching from the Baltic Sea
to Iceland, on Thursday, prac-
ticing military maneuvers close
to Russia, which itself held a
huge military drill last month.
Russia, which shares a bor-
der with Norway, was briefed
by NATO on the Trident Junc-
ture 2018 drill.
As temperatures fell below
freezing across training
grounds in central Norway,
giving a taste of what it means
to defend NATO’s vast north-
ern flank, some 50,000 troops,
250 aircraft and 10,000 tanks,
trucks and other land-based
vehicles were ready.
“Forces are in position, they
are integrating and starting
combat enhancement training
for major battlefield operations
over the next two weeks,” said
Colonel Eystein Kvarving at
Norway’s Joint Headquarters.
The exercise is by far the big-
gest in Norway since the early
1980s, a sign that the alliance
wants to sharpen its defenses
after years of cost cuts and far-
flung combat missions.
In recent years, Norway has
sought to double the number
Jet rehearsal
The South Korean air force’s Black Hawk aerobatic team takes part in
a rehearsal on Thursday in Sacheon, South Korea, for the upcoming
Sacheon Aerospace Expo 2018. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY VIA VISUAL CHINA
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo gives a media briefing outside the Time Warner Center in New York after a suspicious package was
found inside the CNN Headquarters on Wednesday. KEVIN COOMBS / REUTERS
ahead of elections on Nov 6
that will decide whether Dem-
ocrats take control of one or
both houses of the US Con-
gress from Republicans and
deny US President Donald
Trump the majority his party
now holds in both.
Some leading Democrats
were quick to accuse Trump
himself of stoking the poten-
tial for political violence by
frequently engaging in hyper-
partisan, vitriolic rhetoric.
Trump told a political rally in
Wisconsin on Wednesday that
of US Marines receiving train-
ing on its soil every year, a
move criticized by Moscow.
NATO’s war games were
originally meant to involve
35,000 troops, but the number
grew in recent months and
included the late addition of
an aircraft carrier, the USS
Harry S. Truman with some
6,000 personnel. On Oct 19,
the Truman became the first
US aircraft carrier to enter the
Arctic Circle since before the
fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Although a solid majority of
Norwegians support member-
ship of NATO, whose secre-
tary-general is former
Norwegian prime minister
Jens Stoltenberg, some parties
on the left would prefer that
the country quit the alliance
and form some type of mili-
tary cooperation arrangement
with its Nordic neighbors.
“The effect of this activity
will increase the tension
between Norway and Russia,”
Socialist member of parlia-
ment Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes
said of the exercise, adding that
the presence of an aircraft car-
rier caused particular concern.
REUTERS—AP
his government would conduct
“an aggressive investigation”.
“Any acts or threats of politi-
cal violence are an attack on
our democracy itself,” Trump
said. “We want all sides to
come together in peace and
harmony.”
Printed address
The first package, which
turned up on Monday, was
addressed to Soros, the billion-
aire financier and frequent
target of right-wing conspira-
cy theories.
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s
crown prince denounced the
“repulsive” murder of jour-
nalist Jamal Khashoggi and
vowed justice will prevail, in
his first public comments on
the case, without addressing
US accusations of a monu-
mental cover-up.
Speaking at an investment
conference in Riyadh, due to
end on Thursday, Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Sal-
man pledged there would be
“no rupture” in ties with
Ankara, after the killing in the
Saudi consulate in Istanbul
triggered a diplomatic crisis.
“The incident was very
painful for all Saudis, it’s a
repulsive incident and no one
can justify it,” he said in Ara-
bic, during an address to the
Future Investment Initiative
Forum on Wednesday.
“Those responsible will be
held accountable ... in the end
justice will prevail.”
Three weeks since Khas-
hoggi, a Saudi citizen living
in the United States, disap-
peared after walking into the
consulate on Oct 2 to obtain
marriage documents, the cri-
sis shows no sign of abating.
Putin warns of new arms race with US
MOSCOW — Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin has
warned of a new arms race if
the United States pulls out of
weapons treaties, and said
Russia would respond “in
kind” to any new US missiles
placed on European soil.
At the weekend, US Presi-
dent Donald Trump sparked
concerns globally when he said
he would ditch a key Cold War-
era nuclear weapons pact, the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty, or INF. The deal
marked the first pact reached
by Washington and Moscow
on nuclear disarmament and a
major step forward in restrict-
ing the arms race.
Speaking after hosting
Trump’s national security
adviser John Bolton on Tues-
day, Putin warned that aban-
doning the treaty, and failure
to extend another key arms
control agreement known as
the New START, would
unleash a new arms race and
The parcel intended for
Holder ended up rerouted to
the return address printed on
all the packages — the Florida
office of US Representative
Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
who formerly chaired the
Democratic National Commit-
tee, according to the FBI.
The FBI said late on
Wednesday that it had con-
firmed that two additional
packages, similar in appear-
ance to the others, were
addressed to US Representa-
tive Waters, a veteran Demo-
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman speaks during the
Future Investment Initiative Forum
in Riyadh on Wednesday.
BANDAR ALGALOUD VIA REUTERS
Washington, a longtime
ally of Riyadh, moved late on
Tuesday to revoke the visas of
several Saudis. London fol-
lowed suit on Wednesday as
France said it was ready to
back international sanctions
against those responsible.
Saudi leaders have denied
involvement in the murder.
‘Premeditated’ crime
On Thursday, Saudi prose-
cutors admitted that the kill-
ing of Khashoggi was planned,
state-run media reported.
Saudi Attorney General
Saud al-Mojeb said investiga-
tors concluded that Khashog-
gi’s killing was a premeditated
crime after reviewing evidence
put Europe in danger.
Putin said dismantling a
global arms control system
was “very dangerous”, adding
Russia was concerned about
the fact that the US had
already abandoned the Anti-
Ballistic Missile treaty,
planned to ditch the INF, and
that the future of the New
START was unclear.
“There would be nothing
left except an arms race,” he
said on Wednesday at a news
conference after talks with
Italian Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte.
The Russian president said
that if Washington moved to
abandon the INF and placed
more missiles in Europe, Rus-
sia would respond “in kind”.
“Will we be able to
respond?” he said. “Yes, we
will and this will be very quick
and effective.”
Putin said any European
countries agreeing to host
US missiles would be at risk
cratic congresswoman from
Los Angeles and also an out-
spoken Trump critic.
An earlier FBI statement
said the other packages con-
sisted of a manila envelope
with a bubble-wrap interior
containing “potentially
destructive devices”. Each bore
a computer-printed address
label and six “Forever” postage
stamps.
Other officials said the devi-
ces contained in the envelopes
were all similar to one found
in the mailbox of the Soros
presented by Turkish officials
as part of a joint investigation,
according to a statement on the
state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Ankara has been holding its
own probe and Turkish Presi-
dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said the killing was planned,
calling for 18 Saudis detained
by Saudi authorities to be
tried in Turkey.
Erdogan on Wednesday
spoke with Prince Moham-
med in their first telephone
conversation since the killing,
a Turkish presidential source
and Saudi state media said.
Speaking at the investment
forum, Prince Mohammed
said: “Many are trying to
exploit the Khashoggi affair
to drive a wedge between Sau-
di Arabia and Turkey.”
But, he said: “They will not
succeed as long as there is a
king named Salman and a
crown prince named Moham-
med bin Salman.”
Since becoming heir appar-
ent last year, Prince Moham-
med has won plaudits for
reforms, including ending a
ban on women drivers.
The investment conference,
nicknamed “Davos in the
of a Russian attack.
“These are obvious things,”
the Russian leader said.
“We will return to the situa-
tion with the Pershing missil-
es in Europe,” he added,
referring to US missiles sta-
tioned in Western Europe in
the 1980s.
Putin accused the US of
violating the INF treaty which
Trump has said Russia is in
breach of.
Italy is ‘concerned’
The Russian president said
he wanted to discuss the issue
with his US counterpart
when they attend a Nov 11
event in Paris commemorat-
ing the centenary of the end
of World War I.
“We are ready to work with
our American partners with-
out any hysterics,” he said.
Italy’s Conte said his coun-
try was also concerned about a
possible collapse of the INF
agreement, adding he would
home and later detonated by
police. At least one bomb was
packed with shards of glass,
one federal source said.
The US Secret Service inter-
cepted packages addressed to
Obama at his Washington
home and to Clinton, the 2016
Democratic nominee for presi-
dent, at her home in New York
state.
The CNN bureau in New
York received a package
addressed to Brennan, who
has appeared as an on-air
CNN analyst, leading police to
evacuate the Time Warner
building in a busy Manhattan
neighborhood near Central
Park. It contained an envelope
of white powder that experts
were analyzing, Police Com-
missioner James O’Neill said.
The package to Clinton was
found late on Tuesday while
the one addressed to Obama
was recovered early on
Wednesday, both during rou-
tine off-site mail screenings,
the Secret Service said. Obama
and Clinton were not at risk,
they said.
“So far the devices have
been what appeared to be pipe
bombs,” John Miller, the New
York City police deputy com-
missioner for intelligence and
counterterrorism, told a news
conference.
An FBI-led Joint Terrorism
Task Force of federal, state and
local law enforcement agen-
cies “will continue to work to
identity and arrest whosoever
is responsible for sending
these packages,” FBI Director
Christopher Wray said in a
statement.
REUTERS—AP
desert” and aimed at drum-
ming up funds to help Riyadh
diversify its oil-reliant econo-
my, has been overshadowed
by the outcry over Khashoggi’s
murder and a string of global
business leaders withdrew
from the three-day event.
Riyadh’s changing narra-
tive over what happened
inside the consulate has met
with deep skepticism abroad.
US President Donald
Trump described the killing
as “one of the worst in the his-
tory of cover-ups”.
Faced with calls from US
lawmakers across the political
spectrum for tough measures,
the US State Department said
it had identified 21 Saudis
either whose visas would be
revoked or who would be inel-
igible for future visas.
British Prime Minister
Teresa May said Britain was
“taking action against all sus-
pects to prevent them enter-
ing the United Kingdom”.
France added that it would
take “punitive measures” if
Saudi Arabia was “proven” to
be behind the murder.
AFP—AP
speak to Trump on the subject.
“I’ve already let President
Putin know that I was really
young in the era of the Per-
shing missiles and I would not
want to return to the time that
we have been able to over-
come,” the 54-year-old said.
“We should focus on other
prospects of cooperation and
avoid an escalation that could
be alarming for us all.”
Trump had said the US was
ready to build up its nuclear
arsenal because Russia violat-
ed the INF agreement.
“Until people come to their
senses, we will build it up,” he
said on Monday, referring to
the US’ nuclear stockpile.
Trump’s announcement
sparked concern globally,
with the European Commis-
sion urging the US and Russia
to pursue talks to preserve the
treaty, and China calling on
Washington to “think twice”.
AFP—XINHUA
WORLD 11
Briefly
UNITED KINGDOM
Chinese colleges
shine in rankings
QS Quacquarelli Symonds,
the world’s largest interna-
tional higher education
network, released on
Wednesday its latest assess-
ment of Asia’s 500 best
universities, which saw
institutions from China
taking six out of the top 10 in
the rankings. The top 10 are:
National University of Sing-
apore, the University
of Hong Kong, Nanyang
Technological University,
Tsinghua University, Peking
University, Fudan Universi-
ty, the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology,
Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology, the
Chinese University of Hong
Kong, and Seoul National
University. Among the top
500, China has the highest
number, 157 in total (112
from the Chinese mainland).
Japan follows with 89, India,
75, and South Korea, 57.
JAPAN
Freed journalist
returning home
A 44-year-old Japanese free-
lance journalist was sched-
uled to arrive home on
Thursday to an uncertain
welcome more than three
years after militants in Syria
captured and held him in
what he described as a
physical and mental “hell”.
Jumpei Yasuda, who quit
his job as a reporter on a
Japanese newspaper to
cover the Iraq War in 2003,
was due in Tokyo on Thurs-
day on a flight from Turkey,
rekindling debate in Japan
about reporting from war
zones that some see as reck-
less adventurism and others
as courageous journalism.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
thanked authorities in Tur-
key and elsewhere for their
help in freeing Yasuda.
MEXICO
Evacuations carry
on; Willa weakens
Emergency workers and fed-
eral troops struggled to
reach beach towns left
incommunicado by Hurri-
cane Willa, and the storm
continued to force evacua-
tions on Wednesday due to
fear of flooding even as it dis-
sipated over northern Mexi-
co. Thousands of homes
were still without power.
There were no immediate
reports of deaths or missing
people, but the storm’s 195
km/h winds damaged a hos-
pital, knocked out power,
toppled wood-shack homes
and ripped metal roofing off
other houses in the Sinaloa
state municipality of Escuin-
apa when it came ashore on
Tuesday evening.
INDIA
New Delhi air
further worsens
Air quality continued to
worsen in the Indian capital
for the fourth day in a row on
Thursday ahead of Diwali,
festival of lights, when pollu-
tion levels peak. On Thurs-
day morning, air quality
index dipped to 337, consid-
ered very poor. An AQI
between O and 50 is said to
be good, 51 and 100 satisfac-
tory, 101 and 200 moderate,
201 and 300 poor, 301 and
400 very poor and 401 and
500 severe. New Delhi’s air
quality has been in the poor
category since Monday.
ARGENTINA
MPs approve
austerity budget
The lower house of Argenti-
na’s Congress approved on
Thursday an unpopular aus-
terity budget designed to
meet the requirements of a
$57 billion IMF bailout. The
vote came in the early morn-
ing after 14 hours of debate
and a day of unrest that saw
police fire tear gas at people
throwing rocks outside the
legislature building to pro-
test the 2019 blueprint’s bit-
ter cocktail of tax increases
and spending cuts.
XINHUA—REUTERS—AFP
12 Advertorial
Belt and Road Initiative brings
business to Confucius hometown
Many thriving companies in the metropolis are now ranked among the top 500 in the country
By LI YOU
liyou@chinadaily.com.cn
Companies in Jining, the
dynamic city in the southwest
of Shandong province, are
looking to profit from business
opportunities brought about
by the Belt and Road Initiative.
In 2008, Shandong Sun
Paper Group, a Jining-based
company in the paper-making
sector, invested $200 million in
a “forest-pulp-paper” integra-
tion project in Laos. Now, it’s
time to reap the rewards.
The project was put into
operation last year and now
boasts 300 million yuan ($46.10
million) in annual revenue with
an annual output of 300,000
metric tons of pulp.
“Ten years have passed and
it is so inspiring that finally we
made it,” said Wu Xinfang, the
company’s communications
manager.
“The project brought employ-
ment to the local people, which
has increased their incomes
and boosted the local economy.”
At present, Shandong Sun
Paper Group has more than
10,000 employees and an
annual production capacity of
over 7.5 million tons of pulp and
paper. There are plans to invest
$640 million in another project
in Laos in the future.
Shandong Yonghua Machin-
ery, another of Jining’s compa-
nies that have actively invested
overseas, has been working
with high-tech companies in
Germany’s manufacturing sec-
tor.
In 2014, it signed a compre-
hensive agreement with Rottler,
a German manufacturer, for
the joint development of high-
end machine tools, while also
emphasizing market develop-
ment and brand building.
By sharing technology and
resources with Rottler, Yong-
hua has introduced high-speed,
high-precision milling process-
es and high-level technicians.
Chen Zhou, CEO of Yonghua,
said the company is now lever-
aging Rottler’s sales channels to
pave the way for broader market
access in Europe and Turkey.
Another way the city’s indus-
trial giants are pushing forward
is by stepping up global acquisi-
tions.
In February, textile manu-
facturer Shandong Ruyi
announced the decision to pur-
chase the Swiss luxury clothing
brand Bally International in an
agreement.
The year before, it acquired
British clothing manufacturer
Aquascutum for $117 million.
Ruyi’s first acquisition of a
globally renowned brand came
in 2010, and the company now
owns a raft of world famous
City of Jining capitalizes on its rich cultural heritage
By LI YOU
The teachings of Confucius,
although thousands of years
old, could help establish a com-
munity with a shared future for
mankind today, according to an
expert on the ancient Chinese
philosopher.
Yang Chaoming, head of the
Confucius Research Institute of
China, said that all inhabitants
of planet Earth should live in
harmony and help each other
— ideas that have been central
to Confucian theory since its
beginning in the Spring and
Autumn Period (770-476 BC).
“The main characteristics
of Chinese culture are benevo-
lence, justice and social values,”
Yang said. “It can help to unite
different nations and maintain
a peaceful world.”
According to Yang, there is a
A bird’s-eye view of Nanchi Park in Jining, an industrial hub in the southwest of Shandong province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
The production line at Shandong Sun Paper Group, a Jining-based
company in the paper-making sector. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Shandong Ruyi Group’s employees work on the production line. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
names such as Renown Incor-
porated, from Japan, and the
SMCP Group in France.
“Acquisitions are win-win
decisions,” said Li Yunpeng,
Ruyi’s brand promotion direc-
tor.
Through the purchase of
consensus among researchers
— both foreign and domestic —
that Chinese culture will play a
greater role in world affairs in
the future.
Yang made these remarks on
Oct 18 during a speech he deliv-
ered at the Confucius Research
Institute in Qufu to a group of
journalists visiting from coun-
tries and regions involved in the
Belt and Road Initiative.
Qufu, a county-level city in
East China’s Shandong prov-
ince, was the birthplace of Con-
fucius. The temple and ceme-
tery of Confucius and the Kong
Family Mansion in Qufu were
added by UNESCO to its World
Heritage List in 1994.
Today, the city is still home
to a number of Confucian
research and exchange cen-
ters, including the Confucius
Institute Headquarters and the
Journalists from countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative visit
an exhibition hall in Yanzhou in Jining. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
fessional garment-designing
resources, Li said.
Many of Jining’s companies
now rank among the coun-
try’s top 500, as rated by China
Enterprise Confederation. So
far, a total of 51 Fortune 500
companies from overseas have
invested in 92 projects in Jin-
ing, according to Yan Jianbo,
deputy Party secretary of the
city.
In evolving from a tradi-
tional agricultural city into a
modern industrial one, Jining
has developed a number of
national-level industrial bases
for coal chemicals, engineering
machinery, biotechnology, new
textiles and the optoelectronics
foreign brands, Ruyi is able quality, there is little difference industry, he said.
to enrich its own supply lines between our Chinese products The city will deepen its
and learn more about brand and these brands. The culture reforms and strengthen its
building, while also giving the and design embedded in their international business ties by
brands greater access to the DNA are what we should catch advancing the national poli-
Chinese market, Li said. up with,” Li said. cy of reform and opening-up
“In terms of manufactur- With its acquisitions, Ruyi from a new starting point, Yan
ing techniques or production is looking to integrate its pro- added.
Foreign visitors try out the
traditional instrument — Suona
Visitors practice Chinese calligraphy at the Nishan Holy Land scenic horn at Jiaxiang county.
spot, the birth place of Confucius. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
Mencius Research Institute. The 2018 China (Qufu) Inter- regions attended the opening
It also organizes and hosts national Confucius Cultural ceremony.
a wide range of international Festival kicked off in the city During the annual gather-
events, such as the World Con- on Sept 26. More than 500 ings of the National People’s
fucian Conference and Nishan experts, scholars, guests and Congress and the Chinese
Forum on World Civilizations. reporters from 25 countries and People’s Political Consultative
Friday, October 26, 2018 C HI NA DA I LY
What they say
On Oct 17-20, a foreign media
visit was organized by the
city of Jining, marking the
40th anniversary of China’s
reform and opening-up
policy. Reporters from 17
media outlets in 13 countries,
including Russia, South
Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam
and Thailand, took part in the
event.
They visited Qufu, the
birthplace of Confucius,
representative companies
in Jining National High-tech
Industrial Development Zone
and museums, experiencing
the local economy and its
cultural heritage. Their
impressions about Jining are
as follows.
I feel really
surprised that
some parts of
the cultures
of China and
Vietnam are
overlapping.
In Vietnam, we have a
place called the Temple
of Literature. Basically it
was the first university
in Vietnam. At that time,
they followed the idea
of Confucius in Vietnam.
Nowadays, almost every
student in the northern part
of Vietnam goes there before
exams, to pray for good
grades and luck. I think I can
tell my friends and readers
about the similarity between
the two cultures in terms
of Confucianism and the
interesting stories about him.
Dao Khoa Thu, journalist
from the Viet Nam News
It is my first
visit and
I’m really
impressed
by the city.
Confucius is a
very popular
scholar and philosopher, not
only in China but all over
the world. In Pakistan, we
are learning the Chinese
language and the wisdom
of Confucius. I personally
think Confucianism is
extremely good because of
its messages about unity and
humanity. Also, stories about
how Confucius was born are
really interesting and we are
getting more knowledge from
that.
Zafar Hussain,
correspondent from the Jang
Newspaper in Pakistan
This place (the
Nishan Holy
Land) is a noble
birth place,
and it is really
really beautiful.
I think this is
a good tourist destination
as well, just like the Great
Wall. When people talk about
China, they know about the
Great Wall, but they don’t
know much about the history,
the heritage and culture. I
believe that activities like
this can let people know
about Chinese culture. The
Conference in March, Yang
made two proposals named
“Suggestions on Establishing
the Confucius University in
Qufu” and “Recommendations
for Establishing the World Con-
fucian Center in Qufu”.
According to the propos-
als, the Confucius University
in Qufu would draw on the
city’s cultural heritage to serve
as both a traditional cultural
study center for overseas Chi-
nese and a spiritual link to Chi-
nese people all over the world.
The World Confucian Center,
meanwhile, has been designed
to act as an international
exchange and cooperation base
for Confucian culture and lead
the direction of global Confu-
cian research.
“One day, if China can really
take center stage globally, it will
contribute its own culture to
others. Perhaps this is the best
gift that the Chinese nation can
give to the world,” Yang said.
In addition to the relics in
Qufu, Jining has 36 properties
different halls in this place we
visited introduced us to the
different values of Confucian
thoughts. The sculptures
and the decorations are
also amazing. Wearing
Han clothes is also a nice
experience, like we are living
in that culture and really
going back to that time.
Anne Malsha Sunali,
freelance journalist from
the Elegant Magazine in Sri
Lanka
This is the first
time I have
visited Jining
in China. And I
think Jining is
one of the most
wonderful places to visit.
The countryside of this place
is beautiful, the downtown
city is beautiful, and the
birthplace of Confucius is
very, very nice. And the way
that the government and the
local people have preserved
the philosopher Confucius
makes people realize that
this is the place where
Confucius lived. So it felt so
great to see how people have
preserved his stories and
philosophy and the idea of
harmony.
Shreejana Shrestha, video
journalist from the BBC
Nepali Service
During the visit
to Sun Paper
Group, it was
the first time I
found out that
diapers can also
be used in the
paper making process. I think
Sun Paper will benefit a lot of
people in Laos, especially the
local people who work near
the plantation, because they
plant a lot of trees, and they
will create a lot of jobs and
income for local people. In
the future, not only business,
but I think education and
human resources will also be
included in the cooperation.
Souksamai Boulom,
journalist from the Vientiane
Times
We heard a lot
about China
before we came
here. But on
our visit to
the high-tech
industry zone,
we witnessed how China is
advanced technologically,
and the high-tech industry
is very impressive because
we learned that Chinese
companies now supply
many world giants like
Oracle and IBM. Already
in Africa, there are many
Chinese companies working
in various fields such
as telecommunications
infrastructure. So I think the
relationship and cooperation
between China and Africa
will be stronger in the
coming years.
Kaleyesus Bekele, editor
from The Reporter in
Ethiopia
that are listed as national-level
cultural relics for protection,
with about 830,000 cultural
relics in its museums and more
than 7,000 relic sites.
Jiaxiang county, in western
Jining, has about 80 entries
on its county-level intangible
cultural heritage list, ranging
from traditional music and folk
literature to textile technology
and local customs.
Stone carvings in the Wushi
Mausoleums, located in the
county’s Zhifang town, date
back to the Eastern Han Dynas-
ty (25-220).
Yan Jianbo, deputy Party sec-
retary of Jining, said the city
is a fascinating place to visit,
thanks to its beautiful envi-
ronment, varied landscapes
of mountains and lakes, and
great cultural and tourism
resources.
Every year, Jining receives
nearly 100 million tourist trips
from home and abroad, making
it both a domestic and interna-
tional tourist city, Yan said.
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BUSINESS
AIMING HIGH
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Trade
An employee oversees loading of containers at Qingdao Port, Shandong province.
US companies keen to
take part in first CIIE
Nearly 180 firms
from the United
States sign up
By JING SHUIYU
US companies are showing
enthusiasm for the upcoming
first China International
Import Expo, with the num-
ber of firms that signed up for
the event from the United
States ranking third among
all economies, the Ministry of
Commerce said on Thursday.
The event, scheduled for
Nov 5-10 in Shanghai, will
mainly be categorized by
country pavilions and busi-
ness exhibitions. The former
is exclusively reserved for
country exhibitions, not for
business transactions.
Ministry spokesman Gao
Feng said nearly 180 US com-
Ports to have better business environment
By JING SHUIYU
jingshuiyu@chinadaily.com.cn
The nation will further opti-
mize the business environ-
ment at its ports to facilitate
cross-border trade and pro-
mote the stable and healthy
development of foreign trade,
according to a recent State
Council announcement.
The announcement,
released on Oct 19, mapped
out 20 measures to form a
more dynamic, efficient, open
and convenient business
environment at the nation’s
ports. One of those moves is
to reduce the supervision
items in imports and exports
by streamlining documents
and optimizing procedures.
According to the
announcement, by the end of
2018, the number of docu-
ments required to be verified
for imports and exports will
be reduced by more than one-
third compared with 2017,
and all verifications will be
operated online except for
documents deemed confiden-
tial, which will reduce the
overall customs clearance
time by one third.
“The plan has put forward
specific measures to ensure
the stable and healthy develop-
ment of foreign trade. It will
help create a stable, fair, trans-
parent and predictable busi-
ness environment at ports and
further enhance China’s over-
all ranking in terms of global
cross-border trade facilita-
tion,” said Li Dawei, a senior
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Chinasoft to ramp up efforts in foreign markets p17
panies have so far confirmed
their participation in the
event, although the US won’t
have a country pavilion.
As for the business exhibi-
tion, US firms will cover
fields such as high-end man-
ufacturing, intelligent equip-
ment, agricultural products,
culture and sports, Gao said
at a news conference.
The event will create a
high-level platform for all
global companies to commu-
nicate and cooperate with
each other, Gao added.
The CIIE, the first-ever Chi-
nese fair focusing exclusively
on imported goods and servi-
ces, has attracted over 2,800
companies from more than
130 countries and regions.
China is expected to import
$10 trillion worth of goods
and services in the next five
years, according to the com-
merce ministry.
World Bank lauds efforts to boost trade
Amid rising global trade ten-
sions and domestic economic
rebalancing, the World Bank
assesses the evolution of Chi-
na’s foreign trade positively,
and is “very impressed” with
China’s efforts to boost foreign
trade, a World Bank economist
has said.
China’s foreign trade rose
9.9 percent year-on-year to
22.28 trillion yuan ($3.2 tril-
lion) during the January-Sep-
tember period. Exports
increased 6.5 percent in the
period while imports grew 14.1
percent, resulting in a trade
surplus of 1.44 trillion yuan,
which narrowed by 28.3 per-
cent.
“We do not see that as an
imbalance,” John Litwack,
World Bank lead economist for
China, told Xinhua in a recent
interview, referring to the
export and import growth
rates. “We think that it is quite
normal at this point in time.”
The rapid export-led growth
of the past relied on China
research fellow at China Mac-
roeconomic Institute.
“Twenty measures listed in
the plan will not only play an
important role in stabilizing
import and export growth in
the short term. In the mid and
long-term, these measures
will also upgrade foreign
trade, drive high-quality
development and enhance
ZHANG JINGANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
For US companies doing
business with China, the trade
tensions between the US and
China are really “a distraction”,
Robert Kuhn, chairman of the
US-based Kuhn Foundation,
told Xinhua News Agency.
“They’re unhappy with it.
It’s beyond their areas of
expertise. They really don’t
want to deal with the prob-
lems of the bigger macroeco-
nomic, political, or economic
or geopolitical matter. They
only want to deal with the
nuts and bolts of their own
business. And to be success-
ful, they need to be in the Chi-
nese market,” Kuhn said.
Shane Tedjarati, president
of Honeywell Global High
Growth Regions, said the expo
offers a good opportunity for
global companies to strength-
en cooperation with China.
The company will intro-
duce a series of high-tech con-
occupying an increasingly larg-
er share of world exports, he
said.
“In the current period of
rebalancing and world trade
tensions, this is likely no longer
feasible for political as well as
economic reasons.”
Noting that a steady weak-
ening of China’s trade balance
as “a natural part” of the rebal-
ancing process, the economist
said: “We don’t think that a
shrinking trade balance is
something for China to worry
about right now.”
A weaker trade balance can
even be helpful in preventing
the value of the renminbi from
becoming too strong and
thereby hurting the competi-
tiveness of domestic produc-
ers, he added.
Meanwhile, Litwack cau-
tioned China of rising global
trade tensions, saying “the
current world political situation
cannot be ignored”.
XINHUA
the country’s global value
chain,” Li said.
By the end of 2020, compli-
ance costs of container
imports and exports will be
halved compared to 2017, the
announcement said, adding
that by the end of 2021, the
overall customs clearance
time also will be halved com-
pared with 2017.
nected technologies during
the expo, Tedjarati said.
China and the US, the
world’s two largest econo-
mies, have been embroiled in
trade tensions for the past
several months.
Gao said trade negotiations
are a mutual process, rather
than a “one-way street” that
addresses the concerns of a sin-
gle party. China has always
been sincere about trade talks,
and hopes the US side will also
show sincerity and negotiate in
a constructive manner, he said.
China will accelerate the leg-
islative process of the Foreign
Investment Law, further
improve investment liberaliza-
tion and facilitation, and
maintain a stable, fair, trans-
parent and predictable foreign
investment policy, Gao added.
Xinhua contributed to this
story.
It also decided to optimize
customs clearance proce-
dures and operations by
enhancing national customs
clearance integration. The
efficiency of logistics services
at ports will be improved, and
intelligent port management
should be promoted, accord-
ing to the announcement.
“Since the beginning of this
year, China has introduced a
series of effective measures,
such as tax reduction and fee
reduction, to optimize the
business environment at the
ports and promote cross-bor-
der trade facilitation,” Li Kui-
wen, spokesman of the
General Administration of
Customs, said at a recent
news conference. Such meas-
ures have effectively helped
maintain the growth of for-
eign trade, Li added.
In the first three quarters,
China’s foreign trade volume
remained stable despite
ongoing trade disputes with
the United States, according
to the GAC. Goods trade
increased by 9.9 percent year-
on-year to 22.28 trillion yuan
($3.22 trillion) in the first
three quarters.
Zhao Ping, a senior
researcher at the China Coun-
cil for the Promotion of Inter-
national Trade Academy, said
the impact of China’s trade
friction with the US on its
overall trade situation is con-
trollable, and the country’s
foreign trade is expected to
continue its strong run this
year.
New products to help fend off
liquidity risks of listed firms
By JIANG XUEQING
jiangxueqing@
chinadaily.com.cn
China announced a decision
on Thursday to allow insur-
ance asset managers to set up
special products to invest in
listed companies, as part of
the measures taken by the
authorities to mitigate the
liquidity risks of listed compa-
nies which have borrowed
money using shares as collat-
eral.
In a notice, the China Bank-
ing and Insurance Regulatory
Commission permitted insur-
ance asset management com-
panies to set up special
products, and the investment
targets of these products
include shares of listed com-
panies, publicly issued bonds
of listed companies and their
shareholders, and non-public-
ly issued exchangeable bonds
of the shareholders of listed
companies.
The major investors in the
special products will be insur-
ance companies, institutional
investors such as the National
Council for Social Security
Fund, and the asset manage-
ment products of financial
institutions, according to the
banking and insurance regula-
tor.
For insurance companies,
the balance of their invest-
ment in these special products
is not included as part of their
equity assets when the regula-
tor calculates the proportion
Shanghai gets into the gigabit groove
By HE WEI in Shanghai
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
Shanghai Telecom, a China
Telecom Corp subsidiary, is
leading the world by support-
ing 10Gbps (10G) throughout
its citywide wireline broad-
band access network.
It announced on Wednes-
day that it had completed the
first commercial fiber to the
home (FTTH) network based
on 10G PON across the entire
city.
This means that China Tele-
com has deployed faster
broadband speeds for residen-
tial buildings of up to 10 gigab-
it per second, while fiber users
can have the option of up to 1
Gbps service for download.
“Becoming the first gigabit
city demonstrates Shanghai’s
bid to implement the strategy
of building China into a strong
cyber power,” said Ma Yimin,
general manager of China Tel-
ecom Shanghai Branch.
“Life in Shanghai has
become easier thanks to high-
er internet speed, smarter
infrastructure and better
accessibility to the world
(through technologies).”
The three-year infrastruc-
ture upgrade cost more than 1
billion yuan ($144 million),
the company said. The service
has become available to nearly
20,000 neighborhoods, cover-
ing 10 million households in
Shanghai.
The so-called gigabit con-
nection is typically delivered
over fiber optic lines and pro-
vides speeds of 1,000 Mbps,
which is also referred to as “1
Gbps” or “Gigabit” internet.
“A gigabit connection
means our customers have the
bandwidth needed to be as
connected, entertained and
immersed as they could possi-
bly want,” said Chen Zhihong,
the company’s vice-general
manager.
Much faster than today’s
average broadband connec-
tion, the gigabit connection
can power a variety of services
that meet the needs for band-
width-hungry users, including
multi-channel 4K video, smart
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of their investment, and there-
fore is not restricted to the
related regulatory require-
ment.
Asset management profes-
sionals consider this an incen-
tive for insurance companies
to increase their investment in
listed companies.
According to the existing
rules, the balance of an insur-
ance company’s overall invest-
ment in equity assets should
not exceed 30 percent of its
total assets at the end of the
previous quarter; and the bal-
ance of its key equity invest-
ment should not exceed its net
assets at the end of the previ-
ous quarter.
15.87
trillion yuan
the balance of insurance
funds as of September
People familiar with the
matter said many insurance
companies are actively pre-
paring for the launch of spe-
cial products.
China Life Asset Manage-
ment Co Ltd has already start-
ed conducting research on
establishing this category of
special products to take part in
resolving the risks of listed
companies whose loans are
backed by equity collateral,
Wang Junhui, chief invest-
ment officer of China Life
Life in Shanghai
has become easier
thanks to higher
internet speed ...”
Ma Yimin, general manager of
China Telecom Shanghai Branch
home, online gaming and vid-
eo streaming at the same time,
among others, he noted.
The company said the new
infrastructure also provides
room for emerging automa-
tion-based and 5G services
that the carrier is expecting to
reach the market in the com-
ing years.
Before rolling out the ser-
vice city-wide, the carrier
unveiled two subscription
plans priced from 299 yuan
per month including broad-
band, mobile and IPTV servi-
ces. Existing users of the plans
can choose to upgrade to the
service for free.
A woman holds a can issued by Shanghai Telecom to commemo-
rate the city’s Gigabit coverage. A social media campaign has been
launched to nominate 1,000 roads and lanes with significant fea-
tures of Shanghai. Around 40 million netizens got involved in the
campaign. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Insurance (Group) Co and
president of China Life Asset
Management Co, said in an
article published in the Bei-
jing-based Securities Times on
Thursday.
“Facing the current mar-
ket situation, our company
will uphold the concept of
value investment, grasp the
features of growth of the new
economy, and take strategic
emerging industries and
high-quality private compa-
nies into the scope of our
core assets.
“We’ll hold our core assets
for long through different
channels including long-term
open market equity invest-
ments, strategic investments
and preferred shares, in the
aim of effectively reducing the
impact of equity investment
fluctuations and achieving
long-term value appreciation
of the investments,” Wang
said.
Researchers said insurance
asset managers are looking for
opportunities to invest in
high-quality listed companies
and prefer companies that
either take the lead in their
own sector or have potential
for value growth.
Data from the banking and
insurance regulator show that
the balance of insurance funds
reached 15.87 trillion yuan
($2.28 trillion) as of the end of
September. Among the total,
1.3 trillion yuan were invested
in stocks and 0.89 trillion yuan
were invested in funds.
Beijing introduced the
“Broadband China” strategy in
2013 which aims to speed up
the network, lower service fees
and drive the proliferation of
internet usage.
Massive infrastructure
input has paid dividends. By
the end of September, 88 per-
cent of Chinese broadband
users were on fiber optic con-
nections, according to figures
released by the Ministry of
Industry and Information
Technology.
The current development
will also put Shanghai on a par
with Singapore and Qatar as
the most prominent econo-
mies to have the highest fiber
penetration rate which can
drive gigabit broadband,
according to US-based con-
sultancy Arthur D Little.
“While people may not
make use of all that perform-
ance (the high speed), they
will be ready to adapt in the
future after upgrading their
equipment,” said Xu Heyuan,
deputy chief engineer of Chi-
na Academy of Information
and Communications Tech-
nology.
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GOVT AND POLICIES
PBOC continues
liquidity injection
The Peoples’ Bank of China, the
nation’s central bank, contin-
ued to inject funds into the
market for a fifth consecutive
trading day on Thursday to
maintain liquidity. The central
bank conducted 100 billion
yuan ($14.4 billion) of seven-
day reverse repos at an interest
rate of 2.55 percent, unchanged
from the previous operations.
The move, together with the
routine return of excessive
required reserves to some
banks, can offset the impact of
factors including tax payments
and government bond issu-
ance, keeping liquidity in the
banking system at a reasonable
and ample level, according to a
central bank statement.
Foreign banks to
get more leeway
Foreign banks will be allowed
to set up wholly owned banks
and branches in China, the
banking and insurance regula-
tor said on Thursday. The reg-
ulator also said that Chinese
citizens can establish time
deposits exceeding 500,000
yuan ($72,000) in domestic
branches of foreign banks. All
branches of foreign banks
would need to keep more than
8 percent of yuan risk assets as
yuan-denominated operation-
al funds and reserves, it said.
Nation to make big
aviation strides
The International Air Transport
Association (IATA) said on
Wednesday that China will
replace the United States as the
world’s largest aviation market
in the mid-2020s. In its 20-Year
Air Passenger Forecast, IATA
Dancing in harmony
Visitors watch a smart humanoid robot dance at the 20th National Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition in Foshan, Guang-
dong province, on Wednesday. More than 200 teams from 78 colleges across China participated in the two-day event, which had
49 competitions in 13 categories for various types of robots. LIU DAWEI / XINHUA
said that the rebalancing of Chi-
na’s economy toward consump-
tion will support strong
passenger demand in the long
term. The IATA report revealed
that present trends in air trans-
port suggest global passenger
numbers could double to 8.2 bil-
lion in 2037.
NDRC for private
funding of projects
The nation’s top economic
planner said on Wednesday
that it supported private
investment in projects related
to major national strategies
and fixing economic weak
links. “The National Develop-
ment and Reform Commission
will further promote public-
private partnerships to
encourage the participation of
private capital in projects that
have rational scientific policy-
making and clear mechanisms
on investment returns,” NDRC
spokesperson Meng Wei said
at a news conference. “More
efforts will be taken to improve
social credit systems in a bid to
create a sound environment
for private investment.”
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
Renminbi weakens
against greenback
The central parity rate of the
Chinese currency renminbi,
or the yuan, weakened by 52
basis points to 6.9409 against
the US dollar on Thursday,
according to the China For-
eign Exchange Trade System.
In China’s spot foreign
exchange market, the yuan is
allowed to rise or fall by 2 per-
cent from the central parity
rate each trading day. The
central parity rate of the yuan
against the US dollar is based
on a weighted average of pri-
ces offered by market makers
before the opening of the
interbank market each busi-
ness day.
Hyundai Motor
profit slumps in Q3
Hyundai Motor, South
Korea’s biggest carmaker,
posted a double-digit
decline in its third-quarter
operating profit, a regulato-
ry filing showed on Thurs-
day. Hyundai’s operating
profit plunged 76 percent
over the year to 288.9 billion
won ($253.6 million) in the
July-September quarter. It
was the lowest quarterly
earnings since a new
accounting standard, or
International Financial
Reporting Standards, was
adopted in 2010.
Facebook removes
obscene content
US top social media net-
work Facebook said on
Wednesday it has pulled 8.7
million pieces of child nudi-
ty content from its platform
in the past three months to
fight child exploitation.
Facebook said it has been
using artificial intelligence
and machine learning tech-
nology in its efforts to pre-
vent child exploitation and
increased enforcement of
its ban on photos that show
minors in a sexualized con-
text. Facebook Global Head
of Safety Antigone Davis
Beijing inks investment deals
worth $3.53b with Hong Kong
By DU JUAN
dujuan@chinadaily.com.cn
Investment deals worth
$3.53 billion were inked
between Beijing and the
Hong Kong Special Admin-
istrative Region on coopera-
tion in services,
infrastructure construction
and finance sectors at the
22nd Beijing-Hong Kong
Economic Cooperation Sym-
posium, which concluded on
Thursday.
Among the 15 projects that
were inked on Thursday are
also ones that focus on cooper-
ation in consultancy services,
transportation infrastructure
construction, medical care and
financing.
Vincent Lo, chairman of
the Hong Kong Trade Devel-
opment Council, said the
cooperation between com-
panies from Beijing and
Hong Kong in the past few
years has been smooth and
fruitful.
“Hong Kong can play the
role of an international hub in
the Belt and Road Initiative
and this is something that Bei-
jing can make use of. We
should establish a platform for
capital and projects that can
connect State-owned enter-
prises, private companies and
international corporations,”
said Lo.
“We can also leverage on our
financial technology and tal-
ents to explore markets along
the BRI.”
The projects discussed
during the symposium main-
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AROUND THE WORLD
S.Korea’s real GDP
sees healthy uptick
South Korea’s real gross
domestic product (GDP)
grew 0.6 percent in the third
quarter from the previous
quarter, central bank data
showed on Thursday. The
GDP growth rate fell from 1
percent in the first quarter to
0.6 percent in the second
quarter and the identical fig-
ure in the third quarter,
according to the Bank of
Korea. The third-quarter
number was in line with mar-
ket expectations. Exports,
which account for around
half of the economy,
advanced 3.9 percent, lead-
ing the third-quarter expan-
sion.
US manufacturers
stare at higher costs
US manufacturers were fac-
ing higher input costs due to
the Trump administration’s
tariffs against imports, the
US Federal Reserve reported
on Wednesday. According to
the Fed’s newly released
“Beige Book” report, econom-
ic activity expanded across
the United States at a modest
to moderate pace between
September and mid-October.
The report said that US man-
ufacturers in most areas
reported moderate output
growth, while employment
also expanded “modestly or
moderately” across the
nation.
Expo to boost China
trade opportunities
The China International
Import Expo will provide a
valuable platform to promote
Australian wines and help cul-
tivate trade relationships
within the Chinese wine mar-
ket, said CEO of Wine Austra-
lia Andreas Clark. China is one
Hong Kong can
play the role of an
international hub
in the Belt and
Road Initiative and
this is something
that Beijing can
make use of.”
Vincent Lo, chairman of the
Hong Kong Trade Development
Council
ly focus on Beijing’s role as
national cultural and scien-
tific innovation centers. Sev-
eral Hong Kong companies
have also invested in Bei-
jing’s telecommunication
industry and cultural art cen-
ters.
Fitch Ratings, a leading
global ratings agency, said
its Hong Kong unit has
signed a contract with Cha-
oyang district on setting up
a credit ratings agency in
Beijing.
Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology has
teamed up with a Beijing com-
pany for a lab on artificial
intelligence and computer
vision sectors.
Chen Jining, mayor of Bei-
jing, said the capital has a
of the world’s largest markets
for imported wine which
presents enormous opportuni-
ties for Australian wine
brands and businesses, Clark
said.
Pork propels meat
offtake in Vietnam
Pork accounts for 75 percent
of Vietnam’s total annual
meat consumption in Viet-
nam, but the country still
lacks a supply chain to pro-
vide safe pork to consumers,
according to the Department
of Livestock Production. Peo-
ple in Vietnam consume
3.5-3.7 million metric tons of
pork annually, daily newspa-
per Vietnam News quoted
the department under the
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development as
reporting on Thursday.
Mexico inflation up
as prices soar
Mexico’s inflation hit a mod-
erate 4.94 percent in its year-
on-year rate through the first
half of October in spite of an
increase in energy prices, the
National Institute of Statistics
and Geography said on
Wednesday. The data from
the statistics body surpassed
the goal set by the Central
Bank of Mexico of 3 percent.
In just the first half of the
month, the National Consum-
er Price Index increased by
0.4 percent, largely due to ris-
es in energy prices and some
agricultural products.
Malaysia growth
may ease in Dec
Latest economic figures
showed that Malaysia’s eco-
nomic growth is likely to ease
in December this year to Feb-
ruary 2019, Malaysia’s Statis-
tics Department said on
Wednesday. The leading
index, which provides a sig-
nal where the economy is
heading for an average of four
to six months ahead, fell 0.9
percent year-on-year in
August. However, on a
month-on-month basis, the
leading index rose 0.3 percent
for the month, after increas-
ing by 0.1 percent in July. The
growth was supported by the
increases in number of hous-
ing units approved, real mon-
ey supply and real imports of
semiconductors.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
group of ongoing urban con-
struction projects which
offer investment opportuni-
ties for Hong Kong investors
like Beijing’s sub-city center,
Daxing International Air-
port and the 2022 Winter
Olympics.
“These projects are not
only about construction, but
also include high-technology
and services cooperation,” he
said.
In the past years, Beijing
has come out with several
policies to open its finance,
science and technology,
commerce and tourism
industries to outside invest-
ment, Chen said.
“Beijing will further open
its services sector and offer
more opportunities for
investors.”
According to the Beijing
Investment Promotion
Bureau, by the end of Septem-
ber this year, Hong Kong had
set up 15,687 companies in
Beijing with an overall invest-
ment of $79.58 billion,
accounting for 52 percent of
the capital’s overseas invest-
ment.
The investment from Hong
Kong mainly focuses on sec-
tors such as real estate, finan-
cial services, information
technology, computer services
and software.
Beijing has invested $28.81
billion in Hong Kong,
accounting for 44 percent of
its outbound investment,
mainly in information tech-
nology, cultural and entertain-
ment sector.
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Q&A WITH CEO
Editor’s Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up. China Daily interviewed top executives of well-known multinational companies for their views on the country’s socioeconomic development.
Canon and
China closely
connected
Company cites support from government as
key factor for sustained business growth
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Please use three words to describe
China’s changes in the past 40
years.
Earth-shaking, leapfrog and
touching.
What are the biggest achievements
in China since the introduction of
the reform and opening-up policy
40 years ago?
Compared with 1981, when I first
came to China, the country is totally
different now. I started to work in
Beijing in 2005, and in the past 40
years, China has been continuously
improving. I have seen that most
clearly in terms of economic devel-
opment, as Chinese people’s living
standards are gradually improving
and their lives are becoming richer.
How has your company benefited
from the country’s reform and open-
ing-up policy?
Canon and China have been close-
ly connected with each other since
the country began to implement the
reform and opening-up policy. In
1979, Deng Yingchao, the wife of
former premier Zhou Enlai, came to
the Canon headquarters to meet our
boss.
Our business in China includes
production, research and develop-
ment, and sales, which are very
important segments in the whole
value chain.
In the past 40 years of China’s
reform and opening-up, Canon has
continually grown in China. For
example, we set up a joint venture in
cooperation with Peking University
to carry out software R&D in 1988.
Then, we established Canon Infor-
mation Technology (Beijing) Co Ltd,
which still exists and is involved in
the expansion of R&D work.
L’Oreal pursuing a mission of ‘Beauty for All’
By WANG ZHUOQIONG
wangzhuoqiong@chinadaily.com.cn
Please use three phrases to
describe China’s changes in the
past 40 years.
Opening-up: Over the past 40
years, the world has witnessed Chi-
na become a powerful nation.
Thanks to reform and opening-up,
China achieved huge economic
growth and became the second-
largest economy in the world, with
the largest middle and high-income
population.
Consumption diversification:
With the rise of the middle and
high-income group, consumption in
China has become the powerhouse
of economic growth. Chinese con-
sumers and their demand have
become new engines driving China’s
economy, and their pursuit of a bet-
ter life is pushing the consumption
upgrading toward a higher-quality,
personalized, diversified and global-
ized future.
Sustainable: “Lucid waters and
lush mountains are invaluable
assets” — this President Xi Jinping
saying summarizes the high strate-
gic level of environmental protec-
tion and sustainability targeted in
China nowadays. Building an eco-
logically civilized society has
become the new key target of China.
What’s the biggest challenge Chi-
na faces today and how can the
country overcome it?
In line with China’s vision to build
a great nation that is prosperous,
strong, democratic, culturally
advanced, harmonious and beauti-
ful, one of the prominent challenges
is to address the contradiction
between unbalanced and inade-
In 1989, Canon set up factories in
Dalian in Northeast China’s Liaon-
ing province and Zhuhai in South
China’s Guangdong province in
1990. Since then we have expanded
our production in China. At present,
Canon has five production bases
across the nation.
At first, the Chinese authorities
offered tax exemption policies.
Thanks to mutual benefits, we soon
took root in China, and the five pro-
duction bases have been operating
well since then.
Canon (China) Co Ltd, which was
established in 1997, is a sales compa-
ny in China. Due to the policy limita-
tions at that time, we hadn’t really
carried out any sales activities for
seven years since the company was
established.
In 2004, we secured the right to
directly import and sell foreign
products, and then we embarked on
a series of marketing activities.
Our business in China has been
growing steadily every year. More-
over, consumers’ awareness and
perception of Canon have been
improving. In terms of specific
product lines, our digital cameras
and inkjet printers have maintained
the largest market share in China
for several consecutive years.
Currently, Canon has about 1,600
employees in China. If we include all
of our factories and associated com-
panies on the Chinese mainland, we
have more than 20,000 employees.
It is a pleasure to work with them, as
they are all very excellent.
We are grateful for the strong poli-
cy support from the Chinese govern-
ment.
Has competition intensified
between your company and Chinese
companies?
In the past 20 years, we have wit-
nessed the rapid growth of many
quate development, and the people’s
ever-growing need for a better life.
As a consumer goods company,
we are riding on the waves of con-
sumption diversification to satisfy
consumers’ increasingly demand-
ing lifestyles, and we are committed
to bringing the most aspirational
brands and products, as well as
superior innovation to Chinese con-
sumers.
How has your company benefited
from the country’s reform and
opening-up policy?
L’Oreal has benefited significant-
ly from the reform and opening-up
policy in many aspects.
Our entry into the Chinese main-
land as one of the first French com-
panies in 1997 can be attributed to
the favorable Chinese policies
designed to attract foreign invest-
ment and capital.
With China’s reform and opening-
up getting bigger and the business
environment getting better, L’Oreal
has seized this great opportunity to
develop itself into the top beauty
group in China, with 24 unique and
complementary brands, one head-
quarters, one research and innova-
tion center, two plants, one academy
and five representative offices.
The further implementation of
favorable policies and the launch of
open trade platforms boost our
confidence in rooting more deeply
and reinforcing our investment in
China.
In recent years, the reduction of
consumption taxes and importation
tariffs of cosmetic products has ena-
bled L’Oreal to increase investment
in research, innovation and quality
of service, which will ultimately
benefit Chinese consumers and
A woman poses for a photo in front of a poster for a Canon products promotion event in Beijing on Sept 13.
CV
Name: Howard Ozawa
Nationality: Japan
Career:
2017 onwards: Executive vice-
president of Canon Inc, president of
Canon Asia Marketing Group, and
president & CEO of Canon (China)
Co Ltd
2016-17: Senior managing execu-
tive officer of Canon Inc
2014-16: Senior managing direct-
or of Canon Inc
2010-14: Managing director of
Canon Inc
2007-10: Director of Canon Inc
2005-07: President of Canon Asia
Marketing Group, and president &
CEO of Canon (China) Co Ltd
Education: Keio University
CHINA DAILY
boost domestic consumption.
Taking the example of the Pudong
Free Trade Zone Non-functional
Imported Products Notification
Program, on March 9, 2017, L’Oreal
gained the very first company
account and product notification.
This program shortens the market
entrance process from three months
to five working days, which has
enlarged the possibility of global
synchronization.
For L’Oreal, it accelerates the
speed of bringing new products into
the China market. For the beauty
industry, it promotes trade facilita-
tion and industrial prosperity. And
best of all, for Chinese consumers, it
enables them to enjoy the latest
innovative products.
Has competition intensified
between your company and Chi-
nese companies?
We are happy to witness the evo-
lution of the Chinese market with
the growth of both multinational
companies and their Chinese coun-
terparts. Although we do not com-
ment on competitors, we do believe
as long as competition is healthy
and benefits consumers by creating
more options, while also driving
the vitality of the market, we wel-
come it.
The world has been changing tre-
mendously fast. Especially in China,
the shifts in consumers’ demands
and expectations for products, ser-
vices and experiences are faster
than ever before. The winner of this
era will be the first to successfully
meet Chinese consumers’ ever-
evolving aspirations, or even creat-
ing new desires.
L’Oreal has operated on the Chi-
nese mainland for 21 years. Choices
Chinese local companies. They are
strong competitors, not only for
Canon, but also for other enterpris-
es from European countries and the
United States.
We are delighted to see their
growth, such as Alibaba, Suning,
Gome, Tencent and other e-com-
merce platforms or internet compa-
nies, because they will become our
clients and important partners in a
lot of business ventures in the
future.
Looking back over past four dec-
ades, especially in the early years,
Japanese, European and US enter-
prises had great advantages in
terms of technology. It was in that
early stage that we came to China
and provided many Chinese enter-
prises with technical assistance and
support. However, the situation is
now reversed, as many Chinese
enterprises have mastered the most
advanced technology, especially aft-
er the rise of internet enterprises.
Instead, Japanese, European and
US enterprises can now learn from
Chinese enterprises. We feel that we
can learn a lot from China’s emerg-
ing companies. For example, mobile
payments, such as WeChat Pay and
Alipay, are very common in China,
while payment methods are less
developed in Japan.
from Chinese consumers make us
the No 1 beauty group in China. We
are confident to offer all Chinese
people the best of beauty in terms of
quality, efficacy and safety, as well as
services and experiences in line with
our “Beauty for All” mission.
Apart from economic develop-
ment, what progresses in other
fields has L’Oreal witnessed in
China in the past years?
First, China has been making
remarkable progress in driving
green and sustainable development,
as it shifted its focus of development
from speed to quality and sustaina-
bility. With our “Sharing Beauty
with All” commitment, L’Oreal has
always been a keen contributor and
reliable partner with China in facili-
tating the development of ecological
civilization.
Second, great achievements have
been made in improving social well-
being, especially in poverty allevia-
tion and empowering the
underprivileged. As a responsible
corporate citizen, we have been pio-
neering in these areas:
Female empowerment: The
L’Oreal Foundation is dedicated to
science education with its flagship
program “For Women In Science”,
which is designed to support and
recognize accomplished female
researchers, to encourage more
young women to enter the profes-
sion and to assist them once their
careers are in progress.
The L’Oreal China Women
Empowerment Fund selects and
finances projects nationwide that
are dedicated to empowering wom-
en mainly in the education and sus-
tainability sectors.
Precise poverty alleviation: We
WANG JING / CHINA DAILY
How do you view China’s role in the
world today?
China has undoubtedly devel-
oped into a global economic power.
Now that it has become such a pow-
erful country and holds a significant
global role, it takes responsibility
not only for Chinese nationals, but
also the whole world.
It can be seen from projects like
the Belt and Road Initiative that the
Chinese government considers not
only its own nationals, but also the
people of the world in terms of
actions and words. It is also a
responsibility being a world power.
Thirty or 40 years ago, China was
like a sleeping market and no one
had activated it, so we generally
thought Japan, the US and Europe
were the center of the world. How-
ever, since I came to Beijing in 2005,
the changes have been very big. The
Chinese market has been increas-
ingly active, and has gradually
become one of the most important
markets around the world.
Such a market is also a top priori-
ty for Canon.
What is the most unforgettable
experience you have had in China?
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,
the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and
the Canon expos in 2011 and 2016 in
are working in partnership with the
Women Foundation to support
underprivileged women by tutoring
them in styling skills via the “Beauty
for a Better Life” program.
We collaborated with JD to sup-
port disabled people to achieve self-
fulfillment by providing them with
job opportunities in e-commerce, as
well as relevant training.
Education: Regarded as the No 1
campus corporate social responsi-
bility campaign in China, our Char-
ity Sales program has operated for
16 consecutive years and benefited
over 5,000 students with more
than 30 million yuan ($4.32 mil-
lion) in total donations.
How are you going to better suc-
ceed in this market in the future?
For the past 21 years, L’Oreal has
always been tied with China to pur-
sue the mission of “Beauty for All”.
To further succeed in this new gold-
en era, our secrets are:
Consumer centricity: We are rid-
ing on the waves of consumption
diversification to satisfy their
increasingly demanding lifestyles.
For example, in 2017, our 22 aspira-
tional brands served more than
100 million consumers with at
least one newly launched product
per day on average. This is just the
beginning — there are still over
500 million potential consumers
for us to conquer.
The winning strategy of 5-Power
Model: powerful brands/products,
superior innovation, new market-
ing, new retail and social value.
A great China team and amazing
Chinese professionals with dedica-
tion, collaboration, entrepreneur-
ship and a fighting spirit.
L’Oreal is a leader with the spirit
15
Shanghai all left deep impressions
on me.
Big sports events attract the
media from all over the world.
Whether they are photographers or
journalists, we can see them in the
stadium or in the news center. As
most of their equipment is Canon,
we set up an on-the-ground Canon
professional service center, with
professional staff to provide servi-
ces, such as loaning cameras and
lenses, as well as offering repair and
maintenance.
Meanwhile, the presence of many
professional photographers is a
good opportunity for marketing,
and we took advantage of this oppor-
tunity to do a lot of promotions,
advertising and other activities.
However, if I go back to Japan one
day and someone asks me that ques-
tion again, I would say the people
around me impressed me signifi-
cantly, no matter whether they are
dealers or our own employees. They
are very friendly and easy-going.
The most memorable experience is
to work with them.
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CV
Name: Stephane Rinderknech
Age: 46
Nationality: France
Career:
2018 onwards: Member of the
L’Oreal Group Executive Committee
2016 onwards: CEO of L’Oreal
China
2011-16: General manager of
L’Oreal Luxe, China; head of the
consumer products division, L’Oreal
China
2008-11: Head of L’Oreal Luxe in
South Korea
2004-08: General manager of
Biotherm, L’Oreal Japan; deputy
general manager of Lancome,
L’Oreal Japan
2001-04: Lancome area manager
for L’Oreal South America; division
manager for Biotherm and Helena
Rubinstein for Americas
Education:
Institut Superieur de Gestion
CHINA DAILY
of challenger, a multinational with
the spirit of startup. We are always
ready for upcoming challenges, and
will bravely embrace booming
opportunities and keep leading the
market in the future.
Online
See more by
scanning the
code.
16 BUSINESS
Mars opens chocolate-themed hotel
Pop-up venue
is the latest
viral marketing
campaign tailored
to local tastes
By WANG ZHUOQIONG
wangzhuoqiong@
chinadaily.com.cn
Global confectionery firm
Mars Inc has launched a new
pop-up, chocolate-themed
store in Shanghai, as part of a
campaign to attract young
trend-following consumers.
Dubbed the Dove Hotel, aft-
er the firm’s most popular
chocolate brand in China by
market value, the store con-
sists of four concept rooms
featuring various chocolate
flavors.
The firm says it has been
designed around Dove’s slo-
gan of Pleasure makes you
extraordinary, and features
the chance for guests to craft
DIY chocolate products, and
taste desserts prepared by a
Michelin-level chef.
Dove Hotel follows the sim-
ilar Dove Choc Bar concept,
which popped-up last Sep-
tember in Beijing’s busy San-
litun district. Over three
weeks, the bar welcomed
30,000 visitors and reached
152 million people through
social media.
According to the compa-
ny, the marketing campaign
is part of a push for young
customers.
“Everything we are doing
on this is to create the buzz
that is in connection with the
brand,” said Thomas Delabri-
ere, vice-president of Mars
Wrigley Confectionery China.
“We want to convey their own
attitude and encourage young
people to pursue their own
pleasure.”
The firm has also used
Firms told to back African loans, improve business environment
By ZHONG NAN
zhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn
The China Chamber of
International Commerce has
called on its member compa-
nies from both private and
State-owned sectors to
improve their commercial
credit systems in Africa, in
order to help foster business
development in the region.
Officials and experts said
that even though many Chi-
nese companies have built a
strong presence in Africa, par-
ticularly in sectors such as
infrastructure, power genera-
tion, agriculture and other
service businesses, it is time
for firms to up their credit
facilities, support lending
platforms, and deploy more
resources.
Sun Xiao, director of the
Gilead Sciences to launch more healthcare products in China
By ZHENG YIRAN
zhengyiran@chinadaily.com.cn
California-based biophar-
maceutical firm Gilead Scien-
ces Inc is accelerating plans to
launch more products in Chi-
na, as part of its efforts to tap
the nation’s growing health-
care market.
The company aims to
launch three more products
in China by the end of this
year. Currently, Gilead has
two anti-hepatitis C drugs in
the market. Then on Saturday,
Gilead launched Genvoya, a
drug designed for the treat-
ment of HIV-1 infection in
adults and children weighing
over 35 kilograms and 12
years of age and older. It is
also the country’s first
approved single tablet regi-
men treatment for HIV-1
infection.
According to a report from
qianzhan.com, an industry
information provider, Gile-
ad’s market share for anti-
AIDS products was roughly
90 percent in 2017 in China.
Models showcase Dove chocolate products at a themed event in Shanghai.
Thomas
Delabriere,
vice-presi-
dent of Mars
Wrigley
Confectionery
China
celebrity influencers, such as
three members of Rocket
Girls 101, an 11-member pop
group from the Chinese reali-
ty show Produce 101, as a way
to exploit the potent power of
social media.
“China is a top priority for
multilateral cooperation
department of the Beijing-
headquartered CCOIC, said
China’s move to establish a
credit system is admirably in
tune with its efforts to
enhance market order, and
create a favorable business
environment.
His words were echoed by
Lu Ming, president of the
Academy of China Council for
the Promotion of Internation-
al Trade, who said: “Business
credit is an essential non-in-
stitutional pillar of a good
business environment, espe-
cially as the establishment of
an ideal market economy sys-
tem with integrated laws and
regulations is still ongoing in
China.”
According to a recent State
Council meeting, the Chinese
government is to support
“We want to extend our full
support to China’s efforts to
combat AIDS and are glad to
bring our new range of prod-
ucts,” said Rogers Luo, vice-
president of Gilead and
general manager of Gilead
China.
“We hope that these prod-
ucts will address the unmet
long term health needs of HIV
patients in the country.”
Data from the Chinese
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention shows that
by the end of 2017, there
were roughly 140,000 newly
diagnosed HIV patients.
Furthermore, due to the
expansion of screening, the
number of confirmed cases
has risen.
In the past 10 years, China
has launched dedicated
efforts to combat AIDS. With
the increasing coverage of
antiretroviral treatment in
the country, the AIDS mortali-
ty rate had dropped from 18.4
percent in 2005 to 4.6 percent
in 2015. By the end of last year,
there were 758,000 HIV
Mars globally,” Delabriere
said. “Mars is committed in
investing in China for the
longer term and the invest-
ment will keep on good
momentum.
“Mars will develop innova-
tions among existing brands,
creating in China, and for
China.”
According to Nielsen, Mars
leads the chocolate market in
China, with a 49 percent share
in 2017 in terms of offline val-
ue, followed by Ferrero Group
at 25.5 percent. In the year to
healthy lending with a raft of
measures. It will establish a
credit-centered regulatory
system to improve the busi-
ness environment; create a
blacklisting mechanism for
credit defaulters; and reso-
lutely deal with law violations
including infringement,
counterfeiting, cheating in
the marketplace and fraudu-
lent advertising. It will also
look to safeguard informa-
tion, trade secrets and indi-
vidual privacy.
In 2017, China’s trade pro-
motional agencies and gov-
ernment branches carried out
8,300 activities to help
encourage business integrity,
including educational activi-
ties, theme days and exhibi-
tions, reaching 11.6 million
people.
Liu Guijin, the former Chi-
A scientist analyzes patient antibody levels at a laboratory of Gilead Sciences in Foster City,
California, the United States. BLOOMBERG
patients in China, data from
the CCDCP showed.
Gilead will launch another
anti-AIDS product, as well as
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July, Mars chocolate sales
grew 3.7 percent year-on-year,
while digital commerce saw
30.6 percent growth, accord-
ing to AC Nielsen.
Delabriere said one of the
firm’s priorities in China is to
go more premium, as Chinese
consumers are becoming
increasingly demanding and
sophisticated. Dove says it
will launch premium Valen-
tines’ Day gift packages, many
of which can be personalized
online.
Another focus for the firm
CREDIBLE
CHINA
It is ... imperative
that the business
communities on
both sides stay
united ...”
Liu Guijin, former Chinese
ambassador to South Africa
nese ambassador to South
Africa and China’s first spe-
cial representative on Afri-
two products to combat hepa-
titis in China by the end of this
year.
According to CCDCP data,
is to incorporate local tastes.
Following matcha green tea,
strawberry and yogurt fla-
vors, this year Dove produced
durian and red velvet cake fla-
vor products.
Delabriere said each new
product undergoes about six
to 12 months of research and
development before it
comes to the market. This
includes traditional con-
sumer surveys, analyzing
big data, to better under-
stand consumer tastes and
innovate faster.
can affairs, called for China
and Africa to do more to
deepen their understanding
of each other, especially in
the area of trade and invest-
ment. He said Africa does not
know much about China, and
China’s knowledge about
Africa is also shallow.
“It is therefore imperative
that the business communi-
ties on both sides stay united,
as many Chinese companies
want to establish country
branches, and seal more
deals in Africa in the long-
term,” he said. “A better-de-
veloped commercial credit
system certainly can help
them win the trust of their
African partners, local com-
munities and consumers.”
Meanwhile, some have
argued that loans from Chi-
nese firms to African coun-
currently, there are roughly
93 million hepatitis B patients
in China, and more than 1 mil-
lion new cases of viral hepati-
Friday, October 26, 2018 CHINA DAILY
“It offers us more flexibili-
ty and enables us to respond
quickly,” he said.
Mars is also looking to
improve its digitalization in
China, and has worked with
major digital giants including
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
and Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Online distribution channels
have also offered them ways
to provide personalized gift
experiences at special occa-
sions to attract younger con-
sumers who shop online,
Delabriere said.
tries have fueled their debt
burdens. But He Wenping, a
senior researcher at the Chi-
nese Academy of Social Sci-
ences, said the debts have
mostly accumulated over a
long period of time, and that
China is not a main creditor
of African countries. She
said China has always paid
attention and sought solu-
tions on Africa’s debt sus-
tainability.
“China’s financing support
to Africa is mainly invested
in infrastructure construc-
tion and the field of produc-
tion, which has greatly
improved the environment
for Africa’s economic devel-
opment, added to its appeal
to foreign investment and
enhanced its capability to
achieve self-driven develop-
ment,” she said.
tis occur each year. China also
spends more than any other
country on the treatment of
hepatitis.
Luo noted that for a multi-
national biopharmaceutical
company, “now is a good
time”.
“The government has been
putting extra focus on the
healthcare sector and step-
ping up medical reforms. The
new drug approval process
and talks on inclusion of more
drugs under the medical
insurance ambit have also
been stepped up.
“More and more products
are being included into the
medical insurance, which
has significantly improved
patients’ accessibility. These
aspects are beneficial to the
company. But more impor-
tantly, they are beneficial for
Chinese patients. The Chi-
nese healthcare market is
evolving, and we will adapt
to changes in the environ-
ment and launch more prod-
ucts in the country,” Luo
said.
Tencent
looks to
tap smart
transport
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese tech conglomerate
Tencent Holdings Ltd is
expanding its QR code pay-
ments, bus hailing and intelli-
gent travel assistance, in an
effort to grab a slice of China’s
burgeoning smart transporta-
tion market.
The Shenzhen-based com-
pany has ramped up efforts to
promote the digitalization of
China’s public transport sec-
tor, and is working with local
governments, bus and subway
companies to promote its QR
code payment.
Rather than swiping public
transportation cards, or queu-
ing for tickets to pay for jour-
neys, commuters simply scan
a QR code generated on their
phones via a smartphone app.
Since being launched in
2017, its QR code payment ser-
vice for buses, subways and
ferries have expanded to cover
more than 50 million users in
100 cities, and the firm is eye-
ing further gains.
“Transportation is a very
important area for Tencent’s
exploration of the industrial
internet. We hope to utilize
our technological achieve-
ments over the past two dec-
ades to become a digital
assistant to the public trans-
portation industry,” said
Zheng Haojian, Tencent’s vice-
president, in a forum on smart
transportation in Beijing.
Transportation is a
very important
area for Tencent’s
exploration of
the industrial
internet.”
Zheng Haojian, Tencent’s
vice-president
He added that intelligent
transport technology could
help improve traffic conges-
tion, and the market had huge
room for growth.
As part of the push, Ten-
cent has signed an agreement
with Shenzhen Airlines to
allow passengers to use QR
codes for security checks and
boarding planes. The part-
ners will also carry out coop-
eration in big data, cloud
computing and artificial
intelligence.
Tencent is also piloting a
bus hailing business in
Zhengzhou, the capital of
Henan province, and explor-
ing the application of cloud
computing and big data in
analyzing real-time traffic
data for smarter transport
management.
Fellow tech conglomerate
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is
also eyeing public transporta-
tion systems, with its digital
payment method Alipay.
So far, users can use Alipay
on a range of metro systems,
including those in Beijing,
Shanghai, Xi’an and
Hangzhou.
As of May, Alibaba said its
digital wallet was also accept-
ed on buses in 50 cities, with
50 more target within next
year.
Competition between the
two giants is intense, with
both trying to assert their own
system as the digital wallet of
choice in scenarios ranging
from bike-sharing, to ride-
hailing, to e-commerce, to
money transfers.
More than 60 percent of
Chinese people have used
smart transportation services
such as online ride-hailing
and mobile maps, while 36.1
percent of travelers pay for
public transit with QR codes,
according to a report released
by a think tank of Tencent
Financial Technology earlier
this month.
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018 BUSINESS 17

No free meals, says Tianjin Airlines

By ZHU WENQIAN
zhuwenqian@chinadaily.com.cn
Tianjin Airlines has announced
that from Oct 28, its economy class
will no longer offer complimentary
meals, allowing it to offer cheaper
tickets.
Passengers who would like to eat
in-flight can book ahead online.
High-end economy class will still
offer free catering services.
The carrier also said that passen-
gers who bought tickets for econo-
my class with discounts of above 60
percent off will have to pay for
checked luggage. Previously, all
passengers could check their lug-
gage for free.
The carrier is altering its services
partly as a result of cost pressures.
Last year, Tianjin Airlines trans-
ported 71.69 million passengers,
spending 1.52 billion yuan ($219
to the earnings report of its parent
HNA Group.
“Not providing free food has
been one way to boost profits
among budget airlines, but we
found that budget and full-servi-
ces airlines are gradually integrat-
ing in China in recent years,” said
Lin Zhijie, an aviation industry
analyst and columnist at Carnoc,
a leading Chinese civil aviation
website.
“This business model is a future
growth avenue for the aviation sec-
tor, as it is beneficial for both sides.
For passengers, they can pay for
any services they require, and if
they don’t need extra services, they
can buy cheaper tickets. For air-
lines, they can lower operational
costs and raise profits.
“In addition, they can add new
income sources by providing high-
er-quality additional services,” he
Hainan province, in November,
could be discounted by as much
as 95 percent, costing only 120
yuan.
In-flight meals are a major
source of waste, as they are often
unpopular with certain passen-
gers, either due to taste or timing
preferences. Tianjin Airlines’
website now offers various food
packages, including simple meals
priced at 37 yuan and set meals at
99 yuan.
“In China, the government
doesn’t allow airlines to charge
for seat selections for domestic
flights, and Chinese consumers
are used to one ticket covering all
services. Also, budget carriers’
market share is small in China
and they are not competitive,”
Lin said.
“In the United States, full-service A child looks at a drone for agricultural use designed by Chinasoft International at a high-tech exhibition in Qingdao,
airlines suffered a huge blow from Shandong province. WANG HAIBIN / FOR CHINA DAILY

Chinasoft set to ramp up

million) on providing in-flight said. budget airlines, and they had to
meals. Following its latest move, Tian- offer cheaper flight tickets to com-
Providing meals usually jin Airlines is offering notably pete with budget carriers. There-
accounts for 3 percent to 5 percent cheaper flight tickets. For exam- fore they canceled those extra
of an airline’s total costs, according ple, a flight from Tianjin to Sanya, services.”

Great Wall to launch new SUVs efforts in foreign markets

By ZHANG YU in Baoding, Hebei According to the Ministry of IT and software service provider banking on tem platform,” Chen said.
zhangyu1@chinadaily.com.cn

Great Wall Motor, China’s biggest

SUV and pickup producer by sales
volume, is set to release SUVs that
meet the tougher China VI emis-
sion standard, the company said.
The stricter standard, formulat-
ed in 2016, will be adopted in Hebei
province — where the company is
headquartered — in July, 2019,
according to the Hebei Provincial
Environmental Protection Depart-
ment.
“The company started conduct-
ing research earlier this year on
upgrading the powertrain system
to meet the new standard,” said
Yuan Zhancheng, deputy general
manager of Great Wall Motor’s
domestic market.
“Developing technologies to
facilitate upgrades is not difficult,
but the cost for each round of
research will increase,” he said.
According to Yuan, a small
amount of its major SUVs will be
released at the end of the year with
the upgraded powertrain system
already equipped, including the
Haval H6 and H4 models. The
amount of vehicles and models will
gradually expand from 2019
onward, he said.
851,900
the number of Haval SUVs
sold worldwide in 2017
“The aim is to meet the market’s
changing needs as soon as possible,
so that we can maintain our lead-
ing market share,” Yuan said.
About 851,900 Haval SUVs —
Great Wall Motor’s major brand —
were sold worldwide in 2017, top-
ping the SUV sales volume rank-
ings in China for the 15th
consecutive year.
Yuan said more and more new
customers or car owners are hesitat-
ing when searching for a new car.
“Buying a car that meets the new
emission standard is the best
option, but there are not as many
options as compared to vehicles
with the old standards,” said Wu
Di, a resident in Baoding, Hebei,
who considered changing her car
after her second child is born.
Many automakers are preparing
to roll out upgraded vehicles to meet
the stricter measures, and some
have already released cars that meet
the new standard, Yuan said.
Ecology and Environment, the new
emission standard will take effect
from July next year, starting in cer-
tain regions including the Pearl
River Delta, Chengdu in Sichuan
province and Chongqing.
Some regions, including South
China’s Hainan province, have
already introduced the stricter emis-
sion standard for motor vehicles.
The standard will be expanded
across the country gradually, aim-
ing to reduce vehicle emissions and
combat air pollution, according to
the ministry.
“It’s a development trend for
automakers to manufacture vehi-
cles that are more environmentally
friendly,” Yuan said.
He said Great Wall Motor is also
developing new energy vehicles in
addition to upgrading petrol-pow-
ered cars.
In July, Great Wall Motor and
automaker BMW signed an agree-
ment to set up a joint venture for
their planned production of Mini
electric vehicles in China.
Following its first big move into
the cleaner electric vehicle field, it
unveiled a new brand in August,
Ora, which is dedicated to making
and selling micro and small elec-
tric cars.
growth in overseas business to boost revenue
By CHENG YU
chengyu@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinasoft International Ltd, a
leading information technology and
software service provider in China,
is aiming to expand its annual reve-
nue to 30 billion yuan ($4.32 billion)
over the next three years, with its
overseas business as an important
growth engine, its CEO said on
Thursday.
Similar to the business models of
major Chinese e-commerce plat-
forms such as Taobao and JD, the
company provides an online IT and
software platform where users can
search for desired IT services, while
outsourcing companies, especially
small and medium-sized ones, can
find business opportunities.
“Overseas business now accounts
for around 20 percent of the compa-
ny’s total revenue. It is expected to
grow rapidly as an increasing num-
ber of its clients, including Huawei
Technologies Co Ltd, are going
abroad,” said Chen Yuhong, chairman
and CEO of Chinasoft International,
in an interview with China Daily.
He said that in face of the current
Chen
Yuhong,
chairman
and CEO of
Chinasoft
International
Ltd
trade tensions between China and
the United States, the company will
make full use of the domestic mar-
ket and develop core technologies to
grow stronger.
“Meanwhile, we will switch part
of our efforts to extend business to
manufacturing powers in Europe.
We are also exploring emerging and
innovation-driven markets such as
Israel,” Chen said.
Driven by increasing orders, the
Nanjing, Jiangsu province-based
company is exploring uncharted ter-
ritory in the IT and software sector
by establishing JointForce, an open
cloud platform linking companies,
engineers and outsourcing provid-
ers.
“With JointForce becoming our
new growth driver, we aim to
build China’s largest cloud ecosys-
Data from Chinasoft Internation-
al showed that the platform has
gathered more than 320,000 engi-
neers and 30,000 companies.
China’s IT and software segment
has been gaining momentum in the
past few years. According to data
from the Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology, the soft-
ware industry hit 3.95 trillion yuan
in market scale in the first eight
months of this year, up 14.8 percent
year-on-year.
However, Chen said that com-
pared with international big brands,
Chinese IT companies still have
much room to grow in terms of core
technologies, innovation and man-
agement.
“But thanks to the country’s digi-
tal transformation, the market is
becoming a more promising one for
us,” he said.
Chinasoft International, found-
ed in 2000, mainly provides IT
solutions including big data, cloud
computing and mobile internet,
for companies such as Huawei,
which is now the company’s largest
partner .
According to its fiscal report, its
total revenue hit 9.24 billion yuan
last year, with an increase of 36
percent year-on-year.

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A LONG BRAND ASSOCIATION

Pierre Cardin’s show on the Great Wall a 'gift' on anniversary year of China’s reform and opening-up, Xu Haoyu reports.

O
n a September aft-
ernoon, after climb-
ing a hilly road,
members of the
media carrying cameras and
tripods, and the invited guests,
some in heels and others in
tight suits, reached their desti-
nation — a fashion show by
Pierre Cardin on the Great
Wall to mark the clothing
brand’s 40th anniversary in
China.
Pierre Cardin, the epony-
mous founder of the brand,
visited the wall some 40 years
ago as well.
Last month’s show was
intended to tell the audience
about the brand’s beginnings
and also to talk about its mar-
ket in China.
Fang Fang, chief representa-
tive of Pierre Cardin China, Left and right: Maryse Gaspard (center), one of the first French models who visited the Great Wall in 1979 (left), attended Pierre Cardin’s fashion show recently (right) to mark its 40th anniversary in China as
said she faced a few problems the representative of the brand. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
when selecting the show ven-
ue. She was the general direct-
or of the event. red” reflected the long associa- in Paris and another 40 sets istics of the brand. The third series — a collec- shape was also different from avant-garde style, while the
Fang said she first found a tion of the brand with China. It from its coming spring/sum- Trendy colors, including lake tion of cocktail dresses — had other series of the brand. other had an added element of
quiet corner on a section of the is a representative color of the mer collection developed and blue and deep green, as well as many international elements. The women’s tight fishtail a Chinese cloak.
wall where tourist numbers brand, Fang said. produced by Chinese repre- the classic tartan design, The contrast of rose red and dress made the model look like A ballet dancer accompa-
were expected to be low, but China is also associated with sentatives. The unusual venue appeared on the set of day dark green generated a feeling a beautiful mermaid. The sim- nied by French music compos-
she was alerted just a week the color, she continued. From for the event added to the dresses for women. of rhythm; the application of ple combination of black and er Jules Massenet’s Meditation
before the show that the loca- cultural symbols and the fusion: China and the West, the For men, oversized sleeve- silk made the clothes look ele- white showed the steady inde- from Thais emerged from the
tion could not be used for the national flag, to the scarfs of traditional and the trendy. less and collarless tops were gant; and the three-dimen- pendence of the modern wom- beacon tower on that section of
event. As her company had young pioneers. The sportswear series that matched with skinny pants sional cut led to the an. The texture of gauze added the wall, as a “Cardin red” silk
already handed out all of the “Mr Cardin also considers opened the show followed the decorated with big ribbons, asymmetrical draping and lightness to some dresses and cloth was slowly pulled away,
invitations, there was no turn- red as the color of China, and design concept of “loose on the and patterns of triangles, gathering of the dresses on dis- the tie-dye work revealed tradi- bringing the show to its climax.
ing back. this show is the brand’s gift on upper body, tight on the bot- squares and rhombuses lined play. tional cultures in China and All of the models wore flat
She then found a “wilder” the 40th anniversary of China’s tom”. up on legs of trousers. Male models showed up in other parts of Asia. shoes during the show, reflect-
section of the Great Wall, reform and opening-up,” Fang The women’s wear on show The menswear grabbed the cloaks and tuxedos to match The men’s style changed ing the brand’s approach to
where people eventually told China Daily. included leather catsuits, short audience’s attention further the ladies, just like they were from thin pants to wider legs modern living, according to
enjoyed the show. Around 40 In order to celebrate the skirts and A-line skirts, which with the diversity of materials attending a ball together. and distinct contours. Fang.
security personnel were draft- brand’s anniversary better, the created a sense of modernity used, including leather, a spe- The colors of the formal Three wedding dresses were
ed in to ensure the event ran show selected 40 sets of classic and presented geometric ele- cial cotton and a “three-dimen- dress series were the most presented at the end of the Contact the writer at
smoothly. The theme “Cardin clothes from its headquarters ments as the classic character- sional fabric”. prominent, and the choice of show, two of which were an xuhaoyu@chinadaily.com.cn
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
CLASSIFYING CUISINE
A new book looks to systematically categorize Chinese dishes across
various dimensions to create a tabletop taxonomy, Li Yingxue reports.
L
iu Guangwei views
Chinese cuisine’s
thousands of dishes
as pearls — and he
hopes to systematically string
them together to create a
beautiful necklace.
The Beijing Easteat
Research Institute’s dean has
wondered exactly how many
dishes Chinese cuisine con-
tains since he started learn-
ing how to cook in college in
1978.
He attempts to answer this
question in a systematic way
with his book, Chinese Cuisine
Products 34-4 System,
released earlier this month.
“It’s said that Chinese cui-
sine is extensive and profound
— but how extensive? How
profound?” Liu asks.
“We should establish a com-
plete system to answer this
question as soon as possible.”
His categorization system
examines nine dimensions,
including space, time, genre,
raw materials, techniques,
consumer, season, skills and
ethnicity.
“It’s necessary to position
each dish within Chinese cui-
sine. And the system has to be
Bringing Swiss
bliss to Beijing
By LI YINGXUE
One-star Michelin chef
Marc Strebel took over TRB
Forbidden City’s kitchen
from Oct 19 to 21 as part of
the third edition of the Swiss
Gastronomic Week initiated
by the country’s embassy in
China.
He served a four-course
lunch and five-course din-
ner with wine pairings every
day.
Strebel offers contempo-
rary dishes that pay respect
to natural products at his
restaurant, La Maison du
Village, on Lake Neuchate’s
bank.
The “curious perfection-
ist’s” philosophy is to present
an atmosphere where he can
create simple, gourmet
moments in relaxed settings,
he says.
His menu and its inspira-
tions hail nature, while the
ingredients he chooses
embrace fine dining’s
essence.
The 40-year-old began his
culinary career at the Mon-
treux Palace on Lake Geneva.
He and La Maison du Vil-
lage’s manager, Caroline
Arlettaz, took their current
restaurant over in 2012.
“My cuisine is influenced
by our everyday food and by
the respect of the fact that
some products are not reach-
able all year-round but only
seasonally,” says Strebel, who
put his restaurant’s top dish-
es on the TRB Forbidden
City’s menu.
“Typical Swiss cuisine is a
simple and convivial meal,
like cheese fondue and
raclette. I would describe my
style of cooking as local, and
using fresh and seasonal
products and only home-
made preparation.”
Strebel takes inspiration
A dessert created by Marc Strebel at TRB Forbidden City’s
kitchen during the Swiss Gastronomic Week in Beijing from
Oct 19 to 21. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
accessible so that it’s used in
practice rather than set aside
as a neglected theory,” Liu
says.
Chinese Cuisine 34-4 Sys-
tem divides Chinese food into
34 kinds, and further classifies
these by cuisine, genre, school
and dish.
Liu also develops a 19-digit
code to identify every Chinese
dish.
The China Cuisine Associa-
tion released a list of classic
Chinese dishes and banquet
themes for each provincial-
level jurisdiction on Sept 10. It
includes 10 classic dishes from
each place and a total of 273
banquet themes.
CCA president Jiang Junxi-
an says the traditional region-
based “eight-cuisines” system
that ordinary people use is
insufficiently detailed to
describe Chinese food’s com-
plexity.
Liu explains that adminis-
trative division is the first tier
of classification — that is, 34
cuisines for China’s 34 provin-
ces, municipalities, and auton-
omous and special
administrative regions.
“As we all know, China has
from local producers, fine-
dining restaurants, street
food and reading books.
“Sharing each other’s
experiences with the team is
important to stay creative,”
he says.
“Criticism isn’t always
easy to manage. But it makes
us grow.”
Strebel served three cana-
pes — onion soup with miso
and cheese, beetroot rolls
with ham houses, and aspar-
agus with smoked mayon-
naise and croutons — as
appetizers in Beijing.
His courses included scal-
lops, codfish and Wagyu beef
with his own twists. Fennel
ice cream impressed diners
before the dessert of dark
chocolate, pecan nuts and
earl grey tea.
TRB Forbidden City was
the Swiss Gastronomic
Week in China’s third stop.
The previous two were Hil-
ton Beijing in April and
Hotel Eclat Beijing in Sep-
tember.
“When it comes to Swiss
cuisine, not that many peo-
ple know that Switzerland
possess such a diverse,
dynamic and multicultural
culinary culture,” says Swiss
ambassador to China Jean-
Jacques de Dardel.
“In addition, the long and
profound wine culture, dat-
ing back to 2,000 years, helps
elevate the dining experi-
ence.
“For any of our Chinese
friends who fancy haute cui-
sine (and) extraordinary
experiences — such as at the
Michelin-starred restaurant
on the top of the 3,466-me-
ter-high Jungfrau peak — I
personally welcome and
encourage them to visit
Switzerland and to enjoy the
dining experiences to the
fullest.”
Chinese Cuisine Products
34-4 System describes
Chinese food’s complexity in a
systematic way.
eight traditional cuisines —
they’re the major, broad cate-
gories. The theory of 34 cui-
sines does not deny the eight
cuisines but adds 26 more to
depict a complete picture,” Liu
says.
Genre is the second classifi-
cation tier. It’s indicated by
location but without specific
boundaries. Liu believes the
ingredients available in each
Koji’s cups run
over for the sake
of perfection
By LI YINGXUE
When you enter Koji, the
first thing you notice is the
exquisite handcrafted wine
cups exhibited on the shelves
— rendered from glass, porce-
lain and pottery.
They are all brought from
Japan by the co-owner of Koji,
Kazuyuki Tanioka, to allow
Beijing’s gastronomes to expe-
rience authentic Japanese cul-
ture and refinement while
enjoying fine Japanese cui-
sine.
Located in the Wangjing
area, the new restaurant is run
by Tanioka and his Chinese
wife as their second venture
alongside Toya in a drive-in
cinema in the capital.
The collection of cups
makes sense when you learn
that the eatery’s moniker, Koji,
is a nod to renowned Japanese
porcelain master, Koji Inoue
— in fact, some of those on dis-
play are original examples of
Inoue’s work.
“If we compare Japanese
cuisine to a woman, then the
good utensils are like her
clothes,” says Tanioka, who
believes the consummate ves-
sel not only adds a delicacy to
proceedings that is typically
Japanese, but also provides a
visual feast for foodies.
“Porcelain has developed
place determine each genre’s
flavor in ways that are difficult
to draw sharp lines around.
“China’s diverse landscapes
generate Chinese food’s diver-
sity, and its various cooking
techniques, flavors and dish-
es,” he says.
“We named the genres
according to the ancient
names of their respective pla-
ces of origin, since they took
shape centuries ago.”
The third tier — school — is
determined by chefs and
apprentices.
“Chinese cuisine has differ-
ent schools like Peking Opera,”
Liu says.
Each school in Liu’s Chinese
Cuisine Products 34-4 System
must have at least 10 signature
dishes created using unique
cooking styles and have been
passed down for at least three
generations.
The fourth tier is dishes, for
which Liu created the 19-digit
IDs.
“The 19 digits respectively
represent space, cooking tech-
niques, main ingredients,
skills, sense, time, consumer,
ethnic group and season,” Liu
explains.
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alongside Japanese cuisine,
and Inoue has created count-
less unique porcelain pieces
with his masterful skill and
perception.”
Koji provides Japanese set
menus, also known as kaiseki,
starting with a platter of
assorted appetizers, includ-
ing steamed pumpkin, scal-
lop with apricot and
tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled
omelet).
Perfect cuts of sashimi are
complemented by handmade
grapefruit soy sauce and
grapefruit vinegar, which
deliver a delicious surprise on
the diner’s culinary journey
through Japanese food cul-
ture.
Equally, whether it is the
caramelized silver cod or mar-
bled rare beef, prime cuts of
meat and seafood are another
area of supreme indulgence at
Koji.
Working in concert with the
beautiful food, Koji provides
“For example, the 19th num-
ber represents season —
spring, summer, autumn or
winter.”
The editors of Cooking Art-
ist, published by the Beijing
Easteat Research Institute,
sent a research team to travel
around China to verify infor-
mation about genres and
schools for the book.
The first part of Liu’s new
book focuses on Chinese cui-
sine’s different orientations
with a collection of his earlier
essays examining space, time,
structure and consumer.
The second part introduces
the geography, economies,
culinary histories and repre-
sentative dishes of the 34 pro-
vincial-level administrations
in 34 chapters.
“I identify 92 genres and
exemplify 308 major schools
in the book,” Liu says.
“The diversity and com-
plexity within each cuisine
means there are also many
sub-genres that need more
research.”
Liu’s system respectively
examines cuisine, genre,
school and dish, but he doesn’t
list all of the schools. He
Kazuyuki Tanioka, co-owner of Koji restaurant in Beijing, wants
gastronomes to experience Japanese culture and handcrafted utensils
while enjoying Japanese cuisine. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Japanese epicurean delights
of a liquid nature — making it
a destination for sake lovers,
too. Tanioka selects high-qual-
ity sake from renowned Japa-
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Liu Guangwei divides Chinese food into 34 kinds, and further
classifies these by cuisine, genre, school and dish, in his new
book. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
believes more data will
improve the system, since he
doesn’t yet have all the infor-
mation on the schools. For
instance, if two chefs create
the same dish, that’s currently
tallied as two dishes.
“There’s a lot of work yet to
nese distillers that are hard to
find in China — including
Jikon’s Junmai Ginjyo Yumad-
anishiki Nama, Ohmine’s Jun-
mai and Ippakusuisei’s
be done in classifying dishes,”
he says.
“This will require more
in-depth research.”
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“There are three kinds of
sake,” he observes. “The cheap
sake to get you drunk, the sake
that pairs with food, each com-
plementing one other, and the
sake that can be enjoyed alone.
Jikon’s sake belongs in the
third category.”
As a sake sommelier,
Tanioka was the youngest of
his countrymen to ever pass
the Diplome de Senior Som-
melier in 2003.
He started his culinary jour-
ney at the age of 18, when he
worked part-time in the kitch-
en at a Chinese restaurant in
his hometown of Kumamoto
in Japan.
In 1998, after graduating
from college, Tanioka moved
to Toyko to work for an Italian
restaurant, where he started
to learn to be a sommelier and
a chef.
He then decided to change
his career, becoming a general
manager of hotels in a bid to
hone his management skills.
In the role, he helped in the
preparation and opening of
many hotels and, of course,
the numerous restaurants
within.
He moved to Beijing in 2012.
He continued to help plan new
Japanese hotels and restau-
rants in the capital, undertak-
ing research, marketing and
conceptualization of the
venues to their planning and
operation.
At the end of 2016, Tanioka
started to make plans for his
own restaurant, Koji, and took
a year to decorate it. He
focused on every detail to
ensure it delivered an authen-
tic Japanese-lifestyle experi-
ence, even bringing all of the
tableware from Japan to Bei-
jing himself.
“High-quality tableware is
not easy to find, even in Miche-
lin-starred restaurants in
Japan,” says Tanioka.
A gastronomic journey in
Koji begins by selecting a bot-
tle of sake followed by choos-
ing a cup. Tanioka will
recommend the type of cup
that pairs best with the
choice of sake if the diners
want.
“Sometimes the customers
will ask me to pair food with
the sake they choose. It’s part
of my job as a sake sommelier,”
he says.
Tanioka thinks there are
two rules that define Japanese
cuisine — to extract the best
flavor from each ingredient
and to use only those that are
in season.
“Koji provides food made
from seasonal ingredients
and countless liquors, pre-
sented in artistic vessels,”
Tanioka says.
“Along with the thoughtful
and attentive service — that’s
the quintessence of Japanese
cuisine.”
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THE SCIENCE OF A GOOD STORY
Acclaimed author Liu Cixin’s latest book translated into English is a cautionary
tale of unchecked scientific obsession — and is already proving to be a hit, Mei Jia reports.
T
wo months after the
English version of
Ball Lightning hit the
international book
market in August, sci-fi writer
Liu Cixin headed for the 2018
Frankfurt Book Fair in Germa-
ny.
There, following the book
fair, Liu met with fans and gave
talks and interviews at a uni-
versity, in an old coal mine and
several more venues across
four German cities over the
course of a week. According to
local reports, he was received
enthusiastically, as the second
book of his Three Body trilogy,
The Dark Forest, was still hot
off the presses after its Ger-
man-language release.
This time, however, as well
as his critically acclaimed tril-
ogy, Liu is armed with another
recently translated novel — a
story about tragedy, obsession
and cutting-edge weapons.
The story begins on Chen’s
14th birthday, when his par-
ents are killed in front of him,
turned to ash after being hit by
ball lightning.
Chen makes it his life’s mis-
sion to uncover the mysteries
of the natural phenomenon in
college, trying to figure out the
mathematical pattern behind
its random occurrence and
movements.
Isolating himself from the
world, he puts everything into
his single-minded pursuit of his
obsession. His research leads
him to Lin Yun, an army major
who — driven by the death of
her mother on the battlefield
when she was just a child —
also has a fascination with the
phenomenon, but with the
ambition to channel its energy
to create a deadly weapon.
The novel left a lot of space
for contemplation and inter-
pretation about what happens
when the pursuit of knowl-
edge runs up against the drive
to harness new discoveries
with no consideration of their
possible consequences.
Already receiving rave
reviews, Publishers Weekly
said of Ball Lightning: “Read-
ers intrigued by cutting-edge
and slightly speculative sci-
ence, and the philosophy of
scientific ethics, will want to
pick up this fine novel.”
Liu told China Daily before
he departed from Beijing to
Frankfurt that even he can’t
tell which one is his true inten-
tion for the story: the magnifi-
cent science, the ethics, the
childhood psychoanalysis or
its views on the army and war.
As such he maintains the
attitude that “it’s better for
writers to hide behind their
work”, because as he was
quoted previously as saying:
“One more explanation (from
the author) will block one
more way for the readers to
imagine. I don’t explain to
appeal. I just speak about
what I truly feel and see.”
Powerful migrant drama wins Pingyao festival plaudits
By CHENG YUEZHU and
SUN RUISHENG
chengyuezhu@chinadaily.com.cn
“We immerse ourselves in
the region and therefore
understand the problems
much better,” Kazak actress
Samal Yeslyamova said at the
second Pingyao Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon Interna-
tional Film Festival held in
Shanxi province in China from
Oct 11 to 20.
She won the best actress
award at the Cannes Film Fes-
tival earlier this year.
Her film, Ayka, made its
Chinese mainland debut at the
Pingyao festival under its
“best of fest” section that aims
to showcase outstanding films
from this year’s major interna-
tional film festivals for their
Asia or China premieres.
Echoing the feminist focus
of this year’s Pingyao festival,
Ayka tells the story of the
eponymous protagonist, a
Kyrgyz illegal migrant in Mos-
Writer Liu Cixin meets fans and signs books during his recent trip to Germany.
In fact, Liu records in the
afterword of Ball Lightning
that he personally witnessed
the rarely seen natural phe-
nomenon in 1982 in Henan
province, and, ever since, he has
found himself accumulating a
lot of fanciful ideas about it.
For Liu, however, rarer still
in China in the 1980s were
translations of the works of
Arthur C. Clarke into Chinese.
Even though several years had
passed since the reform and
opening-up began, “fewer
than one in tens of thousands”
had read the books that would
shape Liu’s own writing and
pave the way for his Three-
Body trilogy.
Ball Lightning, first pub-
lished in 2004, is considered to
be a prequel with several key
characters from the trilogy
making an appearance.
The novel differs from the
Three Body trilogy in that the
latter is a manifesto of Liu’s
ideal of creating something
based on a combination of
imagining the very grand and
the very tiny — or based on the
idea of something being imag-
ined out of nothing.
However, Liu says: “Ball
Lightning was my trial, creat-
ing one part of what I craved
as a whole, because the read-
ers, then, were not ready for
the latter.”
Ten years later, many read-
ers have found themselves
obsessed with Three Body’s
grand storytelling.
Liu’s foreign readers also
know him well.
Oregon-based writer and
editor Erik Henriksen says in
his review of the book: “As usu-
al, Liu is a master at evoking
awe and horror at the scale
and strangeness of our uni-
verse — but here, he also lays
bare why we study it. He’s
more interested in, and better
cow, who abandons her new-
born for survival. According to
the film’s director, Sergey
Dvortsevoy, statistics suggest
248 babies were abandoned in
Moscow hospitals by Kyrgyz
mothers in 2010 alone.
As a Russian born in
Kazakhstan, he said he under-
stood the importance of family
ties in Central Asian culture,
rendering it incomprehensi-
ble that women should aban-
don their babies. But while
researching the topic of
female migrants, Dvortsevoy
says he gradually understood
the choices the women make.
“These migrants, especially
women, come to Moscow
fighting for a living. When
they live in such hard life con-
ditions, you see that they can
do anything for money,” he
tells China Daily.
In Ayka, Dvortsevoy
presents the dilemma of the
protagonist with handheld
cameras and long takes. The
film is shot chronologically,
The English version of Liu’s
Ball Lightning hits the global
book market in August.
at, cracking open the big ideas
of space and time.”
Bloomberg published a
report under the headline
“China uses sci-fi to try to
spark a tech boom”, after meet-
ing Liu at the World Confer-
ence on Science Literacy in
Beijing in late September.
According to Yao Haijun, the
editor of Science Fiction World,
there were an estimated 80
million sci-fi readers in the
country, while there were only
about 200 sci-fi writers in 2016.
Yao also says the country
published just one-twentieth
Left: Ayka’s director, Sergey Dvortsevoy, actress Samal Yeslyamova (second right) and the film’s Chinese distributers, Wang Luna (left)
and Zhu Li (right), present at the recent Pingyao film festival. Right: Samal Yeslyamova stars as the eponymous protagonist in Ayka.
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with two years of preparatory
work and four years of actual
filming.
“I made changes to the
script during (the) shooting,”
he says.
Dvortsevoy praises Yesly-
amova’s acting. She had
worked on his previous film,
Tulpan, the winner of the Prix
CHEN FENG / FOR CHINA DAILY
of the volume of sci-fi titles
compared to the volume pub-
lished in the United States
where 1,797 writers were
active in the genre, between
2011 and 2016.
Liu says the core of his nov-
els is sci-fi fantasy; less impor-
tant elements are stories and
characters.
He used to sit for long hours,
contemplating new ideas or
constructing his stories. Now,
in recent years, he is able to get
in touch with — and discuss
things with — more scientists.
“Science-fiction writers may
consider many angles on a
subject, but they always
choose to write about the least
likely,” he says in the after-
word. “It’s the seemingly
unlikeliest of the possibilities
in science-fiction stories that
tend to become reality. So, in
the end, who knows.”
Lindsey Hall, senior editor
with Tor/Forge Books, the US
publisher of Liu’s novels, tells
China Daily that Ball Light-
ning is a great read for fans of
the Three Body Problem, as
well as those who haven’t yet
read the trilogy.
“We’re very open to working
with more Chinese science-fic-
tion authors, and the success
of The Three Body Problem has
helped make that possible,”
Hall explains, adding that the
company is launching Chen
Qiufan’s Waste Tide in English
in April 2019.
“The issues Chinese sci-
ence-fiction are confronting
are issues we’re all facing —
questions about the environ-
ment, the economy, recycling;
how to find family and love
and hold on to your heritage
in an ever-changing modern
world. These are questions
that are felt worldwide, and
we hope to continue showcas-
ing the breadth and depth of
Un Certain Regard section at
the 2008 Cannes Film Festi-
val.
“Thanks to her, I was able to
adopt these changes, because I
understand that she can per-
form difficult scenes,” Dvort-
sevoy says.
“She can act metaphysically
and realistically. You can some-
this rich genre.”
Officially titled the Remem-
brance of Earth’s Past trilogy
— which contains The Three
Body Problem, The Dark For-
est and Death’s End — in the
English-language market, it
had sold 760,000 copies by the
end of 2017.
Worldwide, the trilogy has
been published in 11 languages
and has four more yet to come,
making it a global phenome-
non. The original Chinese-lan-
guage version had sold 4
million copies by July 2016.
Liu says the success of the
trilogy is an unexpected coinci-
dence, and the sales number of
Ball Lightning does not mean
that a similar miracle will hap-
pen again. But, in the six weeks
since its release, about 9,000
copies have been sold.
Another of Liu’s books
translated into English is The
Wandering Earth, a collection
of 11 short stories published in
October 2017.
As Hall says, Liu has opened
a gateway for more Chinese sci-
fi writers to reach a wider glob-
al audience, but that would not
be possible without profession-
als like Joel Martinsen.
The 40-year-old, Beijing-
based translator finished The
Dark Forest and Ball Light-
ning.
“The novel, my favorite by
China’s most popular science-
fiction writer, is one that I’ve
been wanting to translate
since I first read it many years
ago. I’m excited about tackling
the challenges posed by the
book’s inventive physics, and
doing justice to its fast-paced
story of the pursuit of a scien-
tific obsession,” Martinsen says
of Ball Lightning.
Liu says he has read through
Martinsen’s version and is sat-
isfied.
Martinsen would surf the
online forums where Liu
would go, many years before
they even met, and is known
for appreciating contempo-
rary Chinese literature.
Martinsen got a taste of the
Chinese language in high
school. After getting a bache-
lor’s in mathematics from Uni-
versity of Maryland, he lived in
Jilin province for three years
before moving to Beijing and
enrolling in Beijing Normal
University.
He took a job at a media-in-
telligence company, before quit-
ting and devoting himself fully
to the translation of literature
and, sometimes, film subtitles.
Besides Liu’s novels, he has
translated the work of Zhang
Wei and Han Han.
“I feel familiar with many
scenes depicted in Ball Light-
ning — the streets in Beijing and
even the top of Taishan Moun-
tain,” Martinsen notes, adding
that the challenges lie in the ren-
dering of the scientific terms
and phrases with precision.
Liu considers himself a “sci-
times feel that she is the real
character, because she believes
in herself. That’s why she’s a
good actress — she knows all
the acting techniques, but she
doesn’t show them.”
Yeslyamova faced up to the
challenges of having no expe-
rience of working in factories
or childbirth with her pas-
Friday, October 26, 2018 CHINA DAILY
Q&A
China Daily sat for a Q&A
with Joel Martinsen, translator
of Liu Cixin’s novel, Ball Light-
ning, as well as the interna-
tionally best-selling The Dark
Forest, the second book of the
Three Body trilogy. Martinsen
refers to Liu as Da Liu, meaning
big Liu, just like the author’s
Chinese fans.
How did you get started with
Ball Lightning?
I read it when it was first pub-
lished in 2004, and it stayed
with me. The opening of the
novel is really well done and
exciting. I translated it first for
my own entertainment — back
then I just wanted to translate
something interesting and
longer than what I had done pre-
viously. The translation ended
up online and the website is still
getting traffic after many years.
It’s said that Liu removed
some of the cross-references
to Ball Lightning in The
Three Body Problem when it
was published in English.
At the time Three Body
Problem was published, Ball
Lightning was not. Liu did
that for the better understand-
ing of the English readers. He
did write 10,000 characters for
an additional section of flash-
backs as a memory of events
that happen in Ball Light-
ning, which was not used in
the final edition.
There were discussions about
the characters Liu creates
and depicts. How do you see
Joel Martinsen, translator of Liu Cixin’s novel Ball Lightning,
and The Dark Forest, the second book of the Three Body
trilogy. MEI JIA / CHINA DAILY
fi fan turned writer”. He
majored in hydropower engi-
neering at North China Uni-
versity of Water Resources and
Electric Power, before working
as an engineer in a power plant
in Yangquan, Shanxi province,
for 30 years. He left the plant in
2014 to join the local federation
of literary and art circles.
In a place “that was the first
place to get internet access in
the whole province”, as Liu says,
his imagination went wild. He
sion for acting.
“We spent two weeks train-
ing in a factory, with two real
workers who were also on
screen,” Yeslyamova says of a
scene in Ayka that involves
plucking a chicken.
“This is a very hard role to
play, requiring a lot of time
and effort. But if you love act-
them and the writing and lan-
guage style he uses?
In Ball Lightning, the story
is told in the first-person, mak-
ing it very personal and easy to
follow. We see two major char-
acters driven by PTSD, and the
psychology of what indeed
drives people do things. It’s
finely crafted and well-ob-
served, and affects me in a way
unlike Da Liu’s characters in
other books.
As to language, his writings
are very functional. The criti-
cism for him of not having very
beautiful writing is probably
true, but that’s fine, because
that’s not the focus. When he is
really excited about a certain
element of the story, he can
describe that beautifully, like in
the beginning of Ball Light-
ning, among other examples.
Why did you choose The Dark
Forest instead of the other
two books to translate?
One thing I like about the
novel is the sociological con-
cepts it addresses. What I like
about it is to see what the
crowds do, to see how they
swing easily. It reminds me of
Liang Xiaosheng’s novels.
What were the challenges of
translating Ball Lightning?
I’ve been trying to sort out
the logical relationship to the
many Chinese clauses in a long
sentence. I might add in some
connective words. Also, the sci-
entific parts and references
take a lot of time.
MEI JIA
created his own worlds “to tell
the romantic legends that have
unfolded between man and the
universe”.
“I’ve always felt that the
greatest and most beautiful
stories in the history of
humanity were not sung by
wandering bards or written by
playwrights and novelists,” he
says, “but told by science.”
Contact the writer at
meijia@chinadaily.com.cn
ing, if you love films, then it’s
not so complicated.”
This film features coopera-
tion between Russia, Kazakh-
stan, China, Germany and
Poland.
Wang Luna and Zhu Li from
its Chinese distributers, Juben
Pictures, decided to invest in
Ayka after watching only the
first 15 minutes of the film.
“At first, we were simply
overwhelmed by the talent of
the director. The story itself
also has realistic implications,
for the dilemma of Ayka may
resonate with young people
struggling in first-tier cities (in
China),” Wang says.
“Then, we went a bit further
than others, with not only
investment but also coopera-
tion in its production.”
Dvortsevoy says Chinese
producers made the film pos-
sible.
“I’m open for this collabora-
tion mode and even thinking
about making films here in
China.”
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5 Scottish Wedding” 50 Parlays 12 A.D. part others access to your whereabouts or plans.
29 Like a racehorse 53 Third set of cir- 13 Like some ** (
delicacy
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stimulant 35 Its motto is 58 Verb for a diet- 19 Tibia connec- May I ask how many people are dining?
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14 ___ list “Our liberties er tors often. The discussions you have will be informative. Love and
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cled letters 40 About 1,400 of set of circled 33 Range located Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)
20 Like some syn- them is the letters along the 60th 几点钟？
record for a 65 River through meridian You can take the pressure off by simplifying your life. Tackle few-
thetic colorants er projects and refuse to let your emotions dictate what you do,
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maybe 42 Attic construc- 66 “Rogue ___” 36 Like the num-
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anyone can
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set of circled 45 Yadda yadda 68 Mannerly man 38 Mesh for secur- forward.
letters yadda 69 Pick up ing items in a
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played on car bungee jump, 71 Delta 88, e.g., 41 Lacking sauce?
informally 44 1983 Woody Seven o’clock.
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3 “The Complete whose funding said, "Self-help must precede Good. Could I ask for your surname?
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series) 51 Commit a court often you help yourself after !
4 Shipping unit violation an opponent has helped you
5 Golfer Walter 52 Baseball posi- -- provided you with the key My name is Li.
with 11 major tion, informally piece of information.
championships 54 Take in How does that apply in From Communicate in Chinese 3, by Popular Science Press.
6 Smithereens 55 Pan-fry
56 Hyper this deal? How should South
7 Searching plan the play in four spades
blindly 57 Lets
58 All atwitter after West leads the club BETTER ENGLISH
8 Subj. of a
Kaplan prep 59 Pointer for a king to declarer's bare ace? to the heart nine, which was
course meteorologist? In the old days, West ducked around to dummy's
9 Eastern Med. 63 Rapper ___ would have passed over one queen. Declarer ruffed a club
land Rida spade. To overcall at the two- and ran the diamond nine. 中国影视明星社会责任研究报告出炉有两人得“0”分
10 Commercial 64 Scale notes level required opening Disaster! East took that trick
interest 65 Past count. Now, though, one bids and led his second heart, giv- 近日，由北京师范大学新媒体传播研究中心和中国社
with the faintest of excuses. ing the defenders two dia- 科院企业社会责任研究中心指导，中国社会责任百人
Here, two hearts takes up monds and two hearts. 论坛与责任云科技联合主办的“中国社会责任百人
Comics considerable bidding space, South grumbled about bad 论坛暨《中国影视明星社会责任研究报告（2017-
DILBERT perhaps making responder's luck, but North knew better. 2018）》正式公布。
life difficult if he does not He had noticed that when
have spade support. East led the heart nine, South, The 2017-2018 China Film and Television Star Social
When the dummy knowing East was short in Responsibility Report ranks Chinese celebrities according
appeared, declarer thought hearts, should have played to three criteria: professional work, charitable actions and
he was in clover. Surely one of his king. West would have personal integrity.
the diamond finesses was won with the ace and contin-
winning, and he could take at ued with the heart jack, but 《中国影视明星社会责任研究报告（2017-2018）
》对
least six spades, one heart, he could not have gotten in to
国内明星的评价有三个维度：专业作品、 公益慈善行动
以及个人品行。
three diamonds and one cash a second heart winner.
club. So, he drew trumps and South would have taken six 《报告》通过辨析我国100名影响最大影视明星履行社
ran the diamond 10. East spades, one heart, two dia- 会责任的相关情况指出，2018年影视明星社会责任指
won with the jack and shifted monds and one club. 数（social responsibility index ）平均得分仅为29.9分。
F-MINUS

徐峥以78.08分的指数得分位列第一，而范冰冰和陈赫
Kakuro 则以0分垫底。
Only nine celebrities were deemed to be socially responsi-
ble enough, however, with a pass requiring a score of more
than 60 percent.
按百分制60分算及格的话，仅有9位明星达到社会责任
指数及格线。
《报告》还指出一些明星履责的阶段性特征：
PEANUTS
“90后”、“00后”的年轻明星责任指数表现突出out-
standing performance in social responsibility；有12部
网络综艺及网络电视剧入选负责任影视作品responsi-
ble film and television works，所占比例最高，成为中坚
力量backbone force；中生代演员middle-aged actors
参演负责任影剧作品，年青偶像young idols 主攻负责
任综艺节目variety shows。

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CHINA DAILY

22 MOSAIC
Bankruptcy a sad footnote for Sears, the Amazon of its day
For at least a century, Sears over the weekend from a stores. Consumers have many ly run for many years, and it’s Sears, which has not been in has lent Sears $1.6 billion over
was the go-to retailer for the teacher in California who had other options, not only from a shame.” profit since 2011, set up $300 the past two years — had
American shopper. Whether it read about Sears’ bankruptcy e-commerce giants such as Sears listed $6.9 billion in million in debtor-in-posses- insisted the company was
was Craftsman tools, Diehard filing in our North American Amazon and eBay but also assets and $11.3 billion in lia- sion financing to operate and serious about a turnaround.
batteries, Kenmore washers edition. physical stores like Walmart bilities in documents filed in pay workers during its “Sears could have main-
and dryers or “I used the thick Sears cata- and Home Depot. Eighty per- US Bankruptcy Court in New restructuring attempt. tained pre-eminence and, in
Kings Road log to learn English,” she cent of Sears stores are within York. Last year, Sears sold its The bankruptcy filing came the digital era, elbowed out
slacks, Sears wrote. “When I was a child in a 15-minute drive of competi- iconic Craftsman tool brand more than 130 years after Amazon and other retailers.
provided. The Vietnam during the war, tors Home Depot, Lowe’s and to Stanley Black & Decker for Richard Sears moved his busi- Some companies do preserve
goods weren’t somebody gave me a Sears Best Buy, and 71 percent of $900 million. ness to Chicago, where the and build on success through
flashy, but catalog because I love to read Kmart stores — owned by The filing follows a decade former watch company would reinvention. Look at McDo-
they were — I didn’t know the catalog’s Sears’ parent company — are of falling revenue, store clo- become a world-class retailer. nald’s,” Chicago Tribune said
William affordable and purpose was for ordering located within 15 minutes of a The Willis Tower, formerly the sures and deals by hedge fund In 1973, Sears moved its in an editorial.
Hennelly made to last. merchandise. I used it to learn Walmart supercenter. Sears Tower, seen in 2009. billionaire Eddie Lampert in headquarters to the Sears Amazon, if you’re listening,
Second The bulky English. It was very effective “Once you lose your cus- DANIEL SCHWEN / FOR CHINA DAILY an attempt to revive the com- Tower, Chicago’s most famous Sears has plenty of brick-and-
Thoughts Sears catalog, with pictures. Oh, how I love tomers, once they’re not in the pany he acquired in 2005 for building, which for more than mortar buildings in good loca-
which debut- that thick Sears catalog.” store anymore, it’s the end of US President Donald $11 billion. Lampert said two decades was the world’s tions that could serve as
ed in the 1890s, was revered But with Sears’ bankruptcy the game,” James Schrager, a Trump said: “For somebody of Sears would close 142 more of tallest. It was sold in the mid- distribution centers.
by shoppers, who couldn’t filing on Oct 15, that catalog is professor at the University of my generation, Sears Roebuck its 700 stores near year-end, 1990s and was renamed Will-
wait for it to show up in the a relic, as the realities of the Chicago’s Booth School of was a big deal. … Sears has not counting the 46 it already is Tower in 2009. Contact the writer at
mail. In fact, I received a mes- internet age have set in. Sears Business, told Chicago Trib- been dying for many years, it plans to shutter. Now based in Lampert — who with his williamhennelly@
sage on my LinkedIn page can’t get enough people in its une. has been obviously improper- Hoffman Estates, Illinois, hedge fund ESL Investments chinadailyusa.com

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ing at the edge of a cliff or on 据《华盛顿邮报》报道，
top of a waterfall, think twice 印度新德里医学研究所对
before snapping a selfie. It 自拍意外死亡案例进行了
could be the last thing you do. 整理和研究。研究表明，
Selfie-related injuries and 在2011年10月到2017年
deaths are frequently 11月期间，全球共有137
reported. 起自拍致死事件，共造成
当你想在风景如画的悬崖 259人死亡。
边或瀑布顶自拍时，请三
思而行，因为你很可能因 Although women generally
此丧命。近年来，有关自 take more selfies than men,
拍导致伤亡事件的报道层 researchers found that men
出不穷。 were more likely to take
risks — standing at the edge
In July, a 19-year-old tourist of a cliff, for example — to
from the United States died capture a dramatic shot. The
after falling off a cliff in Aus- study found 72 percent of
tralia while taking a selfie. the reported selfie deaths
今年七月，一名19岁的美 were men.
国游客在澳大利亚因自拍 虽然女性比男性爱自拍，
坠崖而死。 但男性却更爱冒险，比如
为了得到一张吸睛的照片
In January, an Indian man 而站在悬崖边缘自拍。数
XINHUA was hit by a train while he 据显示，自拍致死的案例
was trying to pull off a stunt 中男性占72%。
A moment in time: by posing in front of the
oncoming vehicle. The research showed that
Learning is fun 今年一月，一名印度男子 the most deaths occurred in
冒险在行驶而来的火车前 India, followed by Russia,
自拍，结果被撞重伤。 the US and Pakistan.
Girls attend a dance class in Shanghai in 1979. In
研究表明，全球范围内，
the past 40 years, the number of businesses offer- Last year, a 16-year-old girl 因自拍导致死亡最多的国
ing extracurricular activities for students has sig- in Texas was thrown from a 家依次为印度，俄罗斯、
car and killed in a crash sec- 美国和巴基斯坦。
nificantly increased across China. Today, children onds after taking off her
can enjoy a diverse range of after-class activities, seat belt to take a selfie. Researchers at Carnegie Mel-
去年，一名16岁的德州女 lon University in the US
such as the students from Xinle, Hebei province, 学生为自拍摘下安全带， coined the term “killfie” to
in the photo on the right. In addition to dancing, 瞬间在车祸中身亡。 describe when someone falls
to their death while taking a
their community center offers classes in calligra- selfie.
All the other children in the
phy and taekwondo. car had their seat belts fas- 美国卡内基・梅隆大学的
tened and survived with only 研究者们将自拍致死称为
minor injuries. “自杀式自拍”。
而车上的其他学生因为系
了安全带全部生还，只受 CNN reported that some
了点轻伤。 countries have already taken
actions to prevent “killfies”,
JIA MINJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY such as India and Russia.
Another tragedy occurred in
India last year when eight 美国有线电视新闻网报道称
men all went to the same side 一些国家已采取措施以减少
The newspaper and beyond of a boat to take selfies and 自拍死亡事件发生的概率，
videos, causing the vessel to 比如印度和俄罗斯。
capsize. All of them died.
India has set up more than a
On our Sina Weibo On chinadaily.com.cn 去年的另一起自拍悲剧发 dozen “no selfie zones” to
生在印度。八名男子为了 prevent casualties.
自拍录视频聚在船的一侧
Researcher hailed for his explosive career People: Explorer named founded nationwide in the past travel destinations for 2019. The 导致船体倾斜，八名男子 印度设立了十多个“禁止
During his more than six decades as a researcher, Wang Zeshan, most traveled man three years. travel guide company said Sri 溺水身亡。 自拍区”，以此限制人们
82, has made many contributions to the field of propellants and Babis Bizas, a 64-year-old Greek Lanka came top primarily 的自拍行为，防止悲剧的
explosives technology. In January, the so-called King of Explosives explorer, has been entered into because getting around on the In 2014, a young man in 发生。
won China’s most prestigious research prize, the State Pre-eminent the Guinness Book of Records island has become much easier Mexico City accidentally
Science and Technology Award, for his achievements in extending as the most traveled person in since its civil war ended in 2009. killed himself while posing After a spate of selfie-relat-
the firing range of Chinese artillery as well as breakthroughs in det- the world. He has visited all 195 Germany was second on the list, with a gun. ed fatalities in 2015, police
onators. countries numerous times in the with Zimbabwe third. in Russia put out a brochure
2014年，一名墨西哥男子 urging people to take “safe
past 40 years. Bizas’ journeys 持枪自拍时不慎走火，导
Vast cave found in Guangxi sinkhole have led him from one side of Rankings: Banks are
selfies”.
致死亡。
Deep in the misty valleys of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous the world to the other. In 1996, most profitable firms 在经历了2015年的一系列
region, a gaping sinkhole leads the way to a vast “world-class” cave he participated in an expedition Banking remains the most profit- Police said he did not know 自拍致死事件后，俄罗斯警
hall. This month, the cave was explored for only the second time by to the North Pole — and in 2014, Society: A home from able sector in China, with the top the gun was loaded. He was 方制作了一个指导人们“安
a team from China and the United Kingdom. The BBC reported that he landed in the South Pole. home, on wheels 10 highest-earning companies all waving it around when it 全自拍”的小册子。
the team lowered themselves into the newly discovered cave hall A folding house on wheels banks this year, according to a suddenly went off, fatally
using a single 200-meter rope and began to explore the cavern, Tech: LandSpace to report released by the China shooting him in the fore- The two-page guide contains
recently rolled into Hangzhou,
which has a volume of 6.7 million cubic meters. launch carrier rocket Enterprise Confederation. Indus- head. infographics that warn about
Zhejiang province, priced at potential dangers, most of
The first private carrier rocket nearly 2 million yuan trial and Commercial Bank of Chi- 警察说死者不知道枪已上
Apple iOS update to fix ‘Beautygate’ bug
which are based on real inci-
built in China is due to be ($288,000). The house, built by na took top spot with profit of 膛。他在挥舞着手枪时， dents.
Apple has said it plans to fix the “Beautygate” bug that affects the launched next week. The three- a company in Shanghai, is 12 286.05 billion yuan ($41.28 bil- 枪意外走火，子弹射中前
quality of selfies taken with the iPhone XS and iPhone XR. Since stage rocket has been designed meters long, 4 meters high and lion), followed by China Construc- 额造成致命伤。 这本两页的小册子用画图
the iPhone XS was released, there’s been criti- and manufactured by Land- tion Bank (242.26 billion yuan) 的形式提醒人们有哪些危
10.5 meters wide, and at full
cism of its front camera — specifically, that it Space, a private aerospace com- and Agricultural Bank of China According to The Washing- 险的自拍情形，其中很多
stretch becomes a 60-square- 是根据真实案例改编的。
overly smooths skin. The issue was dubbed pany founded in 2015. The meter suite. A balcony can be (192.96 billion yuan). ton Post, a study by
“Beautygate” in reference to Samsung-style launch will send a microsatellite added if needed. researchers at the All India
beautification filters, which Apple insists it does into a sun-synchronous orbit. As Online Institute of Medical Sciences Online
not use. The US tech company said iOS 12.1 will Online the nation’s long-insulated Travel: Sri Lanka tops Scan to read in New Delhi found that 259 Scan for
fix a bug in its smart HDR camera system that Scan to read space industry has opened to best destinations list more on people worldwide had died
more bilingual
results in smoother-looking photos taken by the more on our private participants, about 10 Sri Lanka has claimed No 1 spot chinadaily. in 137 selfie-related acci-
news
front camera on those units. Sina Weibo page rocket companies have been in Lonely Planet’s list of the best com.cn dents between October 2011
 CHINA DAILY Friday, October 26, 2018
SOCCER
Resurgent Salah
doubles down
on his doubters
Egyptian magician’s brace should
silence slump talk, declares Klopp
LIVERPOOL — Liverpool
manager Jurgen Klopp hopes
talk of Mo Salah’s early-sea-
son slump will be quashed by
a brace in Wednesday’s 4-0
Champions League win over
Red Star Belgrade at Anfield,
which took the Egyptian’s
career tally for the club to 50
goals.
Salah ended a four-game
scoring drought with the
winner at Huddersfield on
Saturday and looked more
like his old self in netting
either side of halftime.
Roberto Firmino and
Sadio Mane were also on tar-
get as the prolific front three
that led Liverpool to the
Champions League final last
season all scored in the same
game for the first time this
campaign.
“He was great, and it’s good
that we can maybe stop talk-
ing about that a little bit,”
Klopp said of Salah.
“I was not in doubt, he was
not in doubt, but if you are
constantly asked about it, you
think something is up.”
Salah has reached his half-
century quicker than any oth-
er player in Liverpool history
after just 65 appearances for
the Reds.
“It’s great, I’m happy to
score my 50th goal,” said
Salah despite his muted cele-
brations.
“We know how to play with
each other and know our
qualities,” he added of his
Tuchel wants more from PSG
PARIS — Paris Saint-Ger-
main coach Thomas Tuchel
accepted that his side has to
improve in Champions
League after requiring an
injury-time Angel Di Maria
goal to draw 2-2 with Napoli
on Wednesday.
PSG looked beaten until Di
Maria curled home in the
third minute of stoppage
time, salvaging a point from a
game in which the French
giant was second-best for
long spells.
Prior to that it looked as
though goals from Lorenzo
Insigne and Dries Mertens,
either side of a Mario Rui
own goal, would give Carlo
Ancelotti’s Napoli the victory
in the French capital.
Instead, the biggest benefi-
ciary was surely Liverpool,
which moved top of Group C
after easing to a 4-0 win over
Red Star Belgrade in the
night’s other game.
PSG sits third, a point
behind Napoli with a trip to
Italy up next before Liverpool
visits Paris next month.
That means there is a real
risk that a club with ambi-
tions of winning the Champ-
ions League could be sent
Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Results of the Game Two of the MLB World Series
on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
BOSTON 4 LA Dodgers 2
(Boston leads best-of-seven series 2-0)
BASKETBALL
Results of the NBA games on Wednesday (home
team in CAPS):
Brooklyn 102 CLEVELAND 86
ATLANTA 111 Dallas 104
TORONTO 112 Minnesota 105
MIAMI 110 New York 87
CHICAGO 112 Charlotte 110
Utah 100 HOUSTON 89
Indiana 116 SAN ANTONIO 96
MILWAUKEE 123 Philadelphia 108
LA Lakers 131 PHOENIX 113
SACRAMENTO 97 Memphis 92
GOLDEN STATE 144 Washington 122
ICE HOCKEY
Results of the NHL games on Wednesday (home
team in CAPS):
Toronto 4 WINNIPEG 2
Florida 3 NY ISLANDERS 2 (OT)
Tampa Bay 1 COLORADO 0
Mo Salah salutes the crowd
while holding a gift from a fan
after Liverpool beat Red Star
Belgrade 4-0 on Wednes-
day. REUTERS
combination play with Firmi-
no and Mane.
Liverpool is now back on
top of Group C after Paris
Saint-Germain and Napoli
drew 2-2 in the French capi-
tal, but all three remain sepa-
rated by just two points.
“We are not through yet.
This group obviously stays
exciting until the end, I think
that was clear from the draw,”
added Klopp.
“But you cannot do more
than win your own matches.”
Liverpool had struggled for
goals in recent weeks with a
new-found defensive stability
instead keeping it tied with
Manchester City at the top of
the Premier League.
packing in the group stage.
“We can improve, it’s not
possible to make errors
because the opposition are
very strong,” said Tuchel, who
has been showered with
praise after his side won all 10
its opening Ligue 1 games, a
record-breaking start to a
French season.
“I have lots of respect for
the teams in this group. I
knew before it would be real-
ly complicated, and in my
opinion we are not the favor-
ites. This group is really diffi-
cult and we can’t be
surprised.”
Doubts had already been
raised about PSG’s true capa-
bilities at this level when it
performed poorly in losing
3-2 to Liverpool at Anfield,
and once again it was
exposed, with Ancelotti revel-
ing in his latest return to the
French capital.
It was an accomplished
away performance from
Napoli, but PSG’s all-star
attack of Neymar, Kylian
Mbappe and Edinson Cavani
toiled for much of the even-
ing, which was a world away
from the strolls they so often
enjoy domestically.
Vancouver 3 VEGAS 2 (SO)
SOCCER
UEFA Champions League
Results of third round of group games on Wednes-
day:
Group A
At Bruges, Belgium
Club Brugge (BEL) 1 (Wesley 39) Monaco (FRA) 1
(Sylla 31)
At Dortmund, Germany
Borussia Dortmund (GER) 4 (Witsel 38, Guerreiro
73, 89, Sancho 83) Atletico Madrid (ESP) 0
Group B
At Eindhoven, Netherlands
PSV Eindhoven (NED) 2 (Lozano 30, De Jong 87) Tot-
tenham (ENG) 2 (Lucas 39, Kane 55)
At Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona (ESP) 2 (Rafinha 32, Alba 83) Inter Milan
(ITA) 0
Group C
At Paris
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) 2 (Rui 60-og, Di Maria
90+3) Napoli (ITA) 2 (Insigne 29, Mertens 77)
At Liverpool, England
Liverpool (ENG) 4 (Firmino 20, Salah 45, 51-pen,
Mane 80) Red Star Belgrade (SRB) 0
Group D
At Moscow
Klopp tinkered with his
preferred 4-3-3 system by
moving Salah into the middle
as the focal point of a 4-2-3-1
and his decision to hand
Xherdan Shaqiri a start paid
off as the Swiss added some
much-needed creativity in
midfield.
Shaqiri’s pass played Andy
Robertson in behind the Red
Star defense and his cross
was converted by Firmino for
his first goal in eight games to
get Liverpool off the mark.
Salah then took center
stage to push his tally for the
season to six despite a slow
start that sparked concern he
might fall considerably short
of the standards of his incred-
ible 44-goal debut campaign
at Anfield.
He fired home from anoth-
er neat touch by Shaqiri to
give Klopp’s men breathing
space before halftime and
then from the penalty spot
after German referee Daniel
Siebert awarded a very soft
spot-kick for Filip Stojkovic’s
challenge on Mane.
Klopp then withdrew
Salah before Liverpool’s sec-
ond penalty of the night to
rob him the chance of bag-
ging a hat-trick when Milos
Degenek handled inside the
area.
Mane missed his opportu-
nity in Salah’s absence as
Milan Borjan turned the pen-
alty onto the crossbar.
However, the Senegalese
made amends 10 minutes
from time by stabbing home
a Daniel Sturridge pass.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
“It is always complicated
against an Italian team
because of the culture they
have,” said Tuchel.
“We are not an Italian side,
we are not Atletico Madrid,
we are PSG and we have
another style.
“They have been together
for years, and we have been
together for just 11 weeks, but
we must improve, that is
clear.”
Ancelotti coached PSG to
the Ligue 1 title in 2013
before leaving for Madrid,
and he first returned to Parc
des Princes a year ago in
charge of Bayern Munich
only to be fired by the Ger-
man giant after a chastening
3-0 defeat.
This time his Napoli team
was excellent for long spells,
fresh from beating Liverpool
in its last European outing.
“We played well, and I
think we would have
deserved the victory for our
efforts, but that is what play-
ing PSG is all about, they have
players of such quality,” said
Ancelotti, who coached Di
Maria at Real Madrid.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS) 1 (Miranchuk 38) Porto
(POR) 3 (Marega 26-pen, Herrera 35, Corona 47)
At Istanbul, Turkey
Galatasaray (TUR) 0 Schalke (GER) 0
Played Tuesday
Group E
At Athens
AEK Athens (GRE) 0 Bayern Munich (GER) 2 (Marti-
nez 61, Lewandowski 63)
At Amsterdam
Ajax (NED) 1 (Mazraoui 90+2) Benfica (POR) 0
Group F
At Kharkiv, Ukraine
Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 0 Manchester City (ENG) 3
(D. Silva 30, Laporte 35, B. Silva 71)
At Sinsheim, Germany
Hoffenheim (GER) 3 (Kramaric 33, 47, Joelinton
90+2) Lyon (FRA) 3 (Traore 27, Ndombele 59, Depay
67)
Group G
At Rome
Roma (ITA) 3 (Dzeko 30, 43, Under 50) CSKA Mos-
cow (RUS) 0
At Madrid
Real Madrid (ESP) 2 (Benzema 11, Marcelo 55) Vik-
toria Plzen (CZE) 1 (Hrosovsky 79)
Group H
At Bern
Young Boys (SUI) 1 (Hoarau 55-pen) Valencia (ESP)
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Turkish tussle Digest
BASKETBALL
Lakers’ Walton
fined for ref rant
Los Angeles Lakers head
coach Luke Walton was fined
$15,000 by the NBA on
Wednesday for public criticism
of officiating.
Walton spoke out against
perceived foul disparity fol-
lowing the Lakers’ 143-142
overtime loss to the San Anto-
nio Spurs at home on Monday,
which dropped the team to 0-3
for the season.
The Lakers have had fewer
chances at the foul line in each
of their past two games.
Walton’s rant came a day
after Lakers players Brandon
Ingram and Rajon Rondo
received suspensions from the
NBA in response to an
on-court fight on Saturday
against the Houston Rockets.
Ingram was banned for four
games without pay, and Rondo
three games without pay.
Morris paying for
grabbing shorts
Washington Wizards for-
ward Markieff Morris has been
fined $15,000 for unsports-
manlike conduct for grabbing
an opponent’s uniform.
NBA executive vice-presi-
dent of basketball operations
Schalke’s Breel Embolo (left) and Galatasaray’s Mariano Filho vie for possession during their Cham- Kiki VanDeWeghe announced
pions League Group D scoreless draw in Istanbul on Wednesday. OSMAN ORSAL / REUTERS the fine on Wednesday.
It stems from the final play
of the fourth quarter of the
Wizards’ 125-124 overtime win
MOTOR SPORTS against the Trail Blazers on
Monday.
Morris, who was out of the
High-altitude chase won’t make game after scoring 28 points,
twice grabbed Portland guard
Seth Curry’s uniform while
contenders vanish into thin air
Curry was playing.
SOCCER
MEXICO CITY — Lewis who last weekend punched a Ozil adamant about
Hamilton faces a nerve- hole in a wall after being
wracking scrap in Mexico’s forced into retirement, will be
supporting Germany
power-sapping altitude this determined to secure a final Arsenal midfielder Mesut
weekend before completing victory before he leaves for Ozil has pledged his support
the apparent formality of Renault next season. for the German national team
claiming his fifth Formula despite bitterness from both
One world title. No choice sides over his retirement from
Just a week after a tough All of this suggests a fierce international soccer.
loss in Texas, where a resur- battle lies ahead with Vettel, “I’ve been supporting the
gent Ferrari out-performed who had the speed to win last DFB Team since my childhood
them at the United States weekend, and has no choice and I’ve still got many friends
Grand Prix, Hamilton and but to attack. playing for the German
Mercedes have licked their The German can only keep national team,” Ozil said in a
wounds in readiness for an his title dream alive by win- Twitter Q&A session on the eve
even bigger test.
“We have a battle on our
hands,” said Mercedes team
ning all three final races
while Hamilton fails to score
five points.
of Arsenal’s Europa League
clash with Sporting Lisbon.
“Of course I’m still support-
ing the team!”
boss Toto Wolff. “But it pro- Hamilton, however, knows
Ozil, born in Germany to
vides us with an opportunity
to learn and come back
The United States he can cruise to finish sev-
enth and still take the title Turkish parents, had been tar-
stronger.”
That view is shared by
Grand Prix con- whatever else happens
around him.
geted with xenophobic com-
ments and singled out for
33-year-old Briton Hamilton, firmed what we Last year, he took his criticism by angry fans.
and the entire Mercedes fourth championship by fin-
team, as it seeks to recover said before the ishing ninth after being Alonso signs new
performance to retain both lapped by Verstappen.
the drivers’ and constructors’ race — this year’s “Our guys will do great
deal with Chelsea
championships. analysis and then we’ll come Spain defender Marcos
“We will have to keep push- championship fight back stronger,” he said after Alonso has signed a new con-
tract with Chelsea that runs
ing to win both (team and
driver) titles,” said Wolff.
is far from over.” Sunday’s demise in Austin.
He will be aware, also, that until 2023, the London club
“The United States Grand his Mercedes teammate Valt- announced on Wednesday.
Toto Wolff, Mercedes team boss The 27-year-old helped the
Prix confirmed what we said teri Bottas, without a win this
before the race — this year’s year, can hand him the title if Blues win the 2017 Premier
championship fight is far he is victorious. League title and claim the FA
from over.” seven, to catch. Red Bull, however, will not Cup last season.
Given that Hamilton has For Mercedes to seal a fifth be easy to beat. “I am so happy to stay here
won six of the past eight races consecutive team title, it “The thin air helped us last longer and to keep playing for
and has a 70-point lead over must outscore Ferrari by 20 year and we hope it will be one of the best teams in the
fellow four-time champion — a more difficult task that the same this time,” said team world,” he told Chelsea’s web-
Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari will be complicated by the chief Christian Horner. site.
with three races remaining, likely speed and belligerence “Realistically, we know it’s “It’s been a very good two
the outcome may look of Red Bull. our last shot at winning a seasons and I am looking for-
inevitable. Max Verstappen won last race this year.” ward to more.”
Mercedes leads Ferrari by year’s race at the Autodromo As always, a passionate Alonso, who has 15 goals in
66 in the teams’ title race. Hermanos Rodriguez, where atmosphere will be generated 92 appearances for the Blues,
On paper, Hamilton the thin air at 2,200 meters by a Mexican crowd backing has come to be recognized as
requires only five points to above sea level reduces home hero Sergio Perez, of one of the best leftbacks in the
draw level with the legend- engine effectiveness and pla- Force India. world since arriving at Stam-
ary five-time champion Juan ces a greater premium on a The team is chasing down ford Bridge from Fiorentina in
Manuel Fangio in the record car’s aerodynamic perform- McLaren for sixth place in the August 2016.
books with five world cham- ance. championship.
pionships, leaving only Verstappen’s Red Bull TENNIS
Michael Schumacher, with teammate Daniel Ricciardo, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Win over Haase
lifts Zverev to 50
Alexander Zverev became
the first man to reach 50 wins
on the ATP Tour this season by
1 (Batshuayi 26) Results on Wednesday: beating Robin Haase 6-4, 7-5
At Manchester, England 2nd rd
Manchester United (ENG) 0 Juventus (ITA) 1 (Dyba- Taylor Fritz (USA) bt Henri Laaksonen (SUI) 6-2,
on Wednesday in the first
la 17)
7-5; Marius Copil (ROU) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x3) 7-5, round of the Swiss Indoors in
7-6 (7/2)
English Championship 1st rd
Basel.
Result on Wednesday: The German moved to
Ernests Gulbis (LAT) bt Jack Sock (USA x5) 7-5, 6-4;
Bristol City 1 Hull 0 Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP x8) bt Joao Sousa
Leeds 2 Ipswich 0 (POR) 6-4, 6-3; Dusan Lajovic (SRB) bt Adrian Man-
50-16 in a year that has
Preston 4 Brentford 3 narino (FRA) 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 6-2; Alexander Zverev brought three titles, including
Bolton 0 Nottingham Forest 3 (GER x2) bt Robin Haase (NED) 6-4, 7-5; Stefanos
West Brom 1 Derby 4
the Madrid Masters.
Tsitsipas (GRE x4) bt Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-2, 7-6
(7/3). Zverev converted all four of
Spanish La Liga his break points while saving
Result on Wednesday: ATP Vienna
Rayo Vallecano 1 (Pozo 23) Athletic Bilbao 1 (Muni- Results on Wednesday: eight of the 10 held by the
ain 66) 2nd rd 47th-ranked Dutchman.
Marton Fucsovics (HUN) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA x7)
TENNIS 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Kevin Anderson (RSA x2) bt Jurgen Haase used a between-the-
Melzer (AUT) walkover; Borna Coric (CRO x6) bt legs lob to force a break in the
Singapore WTA Finals Lucas Pouille (FRA) 4-6, 6-0, 6-4
Results on Wednesday (x-denotes seedings): 1st rd second set that Zverev
Red group Kyle Edmund (GBR x8) bt Diego Schwartzman retrieved with his own ’tween-
Sloane Stephens (USA x5) bt Kiki Bertens (NED x8) (ARG) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3); Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Steve
7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 6-3; Angelique Kerber (GER x1) bt Johnson (USA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Karen Khachanov er into the net.
Naomi Osaka (JPN x3) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. (RUS) bt Dennis Novak (AUT) 6-3, 7-5; Mikhail
Kukushkin (KAZ) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x3) 6-4,
Basel ATP 4-6, 6-4. AGENCIES
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BASKETBALL
No sweat for Steph

Streetballers getting
shot at Olympic glory
Revamped national 3x3 tourney
will provide deeper talent pool
By SUN XIAOCHEN
sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn
Boasting upgrades in orga-
nization and promotion, the
national 3x3 basketball
championships are paving
the way for China’s best
streetballers to share the
Olympic spotlight.
Still basking in the glow of
the national team’s amateur-
driven success in 3x3 at the
Asian Games, the Chinese
Basketball Association has
pledged to expand the talent
search with a revamped
championships format to
help grassroots ballers shine
on the international stage.
The National 3x3 Basket-
ball Challenge, which was
launched last year, has been
expanded to a yearlong pro-
gram this season, starting
with local preliminaries that
open in 29 provinces and
municipalities next month.
Regional finals from the six
conferences will be played
next summer.
All conference winners in
men’s and women’s open and
youth groups will slug it out
at the national finals in Octo-
ber 2019 to compete for spots
on China’s 2020 Tokyo Olym-
pics team and fight for a total
prize pool of 10 million yuan
($1.4 million).
The 3x3 half-court version
of basketball is attracting
more and more participants
around the world, drawing
mainstream attention for its
fast-pace transition play and
emphasis on individual skills.
The format has been
accepted as an official event
for the Tokyo Games, where
the world’s top eight men’s
and women’s teams, includ-
ing host Japan, will compete
for medals.
The new national chal-
lenge is expected to boost par-
ticipation as it channels
ordinary fans from street
courts to the Olympics show-
case, said CBA secretary gen-
eral Bai Xilin.
“The tournament is of
great significance in explor-
ing new approaches to identi-
fy talents and promote
basketball at the grassroots
level,” Bai said in Beijing on
Thursday. “The way we draft
talent for national represent-
atives through the tourna-
ment reflects the mass-
participation spirit of 3x3.”
Having been approved by
world governing body FIBA
as an Olympic ranking event,
the challenge offers points
based on the number of
games and stages teams play
throughout the season.
The more FIBA points the
winning team’s players accu-
mulate collectively, the higher
China ranks in qualification
for the Tokyo Games.
“The result at the Asian
Games has proved the new
tournament a great success,
and the pathway to Tokyo will
for sure stimulate even great-
er enthusiasm,” said Chai
Wensheng, director of CBA’s
3x3 department.
After the inaugural season
of the national challenge,
which lasted six months, the
CBA built its four-player
national squad for the Asiad
based on the men’s champi-
onship squad.
Huang Wenwei, Xiao Haili-
ang and Zeng Bingqiang, all
amateurs on last year’s
national champion team
from Dongguan, Guangdong
province, led China to the Asi-
ad title in August.
“Never in my wildest
dreams did I imagine wearing
the national team uniform on
top of the podium in my favor-
ite sport,” said Huang, a teach-
er at Guangzhou Sports
University.
“The tournament made it a
reality and I would love to see
more ballers like me make it
to the international stage.”
Last season’s champion-
ship attracted more than
8,400 teams involving more
than 32,000 players, making
it a marketable event that
appeals to sponsors and
broadcasters nationwide,
said Infront China, CBA’s pro-
moting partner.
“The market potential of
the tournament is underesti-
mated,” said Zhao Feng, man-
aging director of Infront
China.
“With the new season
engaging more participants,
thus more families and more
neighborhoods, we are confi- Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry looks at players on the Washington Wizards bench after scoring
dent it will attract more busi- during the second half of the Warriors’ 144-122 victory in Oakland, California, on Wednesday. Curry
ness partners and generate became just the fourth NBA player in the past 10 years to score 50 or more points in the first three
more TV hours.” quarters (51) in leading the charge. BEN MARGOT / AP

BOXING

Zhang’s tallest test could be a huge step up the ladder

By MURRAY GREIG
murraygreig@chinadaily.com.cn
Zhang Zhilei is aiming to
punch higher than ever to
earn a shot at the world heavy-
weight championship.
For the first time in his pro-
fessional career, the 6-foot-6,
260-pound southpaw from
Zhoukou, Henan province,
will face an opponent who can
look down at him when he
defends his WBO Oriental title
in a 10-rounder against
6-foot-8, 280-pound Alexan-
der Ustinov of Russia on Nov
24 in Monaco.
The 35-year-old Zhang, who
won a silver medal for China at
the 2008 Beijing Olympics,
extended his perfect record to
20-0 and notched his 16th
knockout with a third-round
stoppage of American Donald
Haynesworth last month in
Changsha, Hunan province.
Ustinov, 41, owns a record of
34-2, with 25 KOs. His last out-
ing was a distance loss to Ger-
many’s Manuel Charr for the
then vacant World Boxing
Association title 11 months
ago.
With Zhang currently
ranked No 6 by the WBO and
Ustinov No 9 by the WBA, the
winner of their bout will be
squarely in the mix to chal-
lenge either WBC champ
Deontay Wilder of the US or
Britain’s Anthony Joshua, who
owns the WBA, IBF and IBO
belts.
Zhang Zhilei
Wilder is set to defend his
crown against Britain’s Tyson
Fury on Dec 1 in Los Angeles.
Joshua defeated Zhang 11-5
in the quarterfinals at the 2012
London Olympics, but before
the Chinese slugger known as
“The Big Bang” can start
dreaming of a rematch, he has
to get past the massive
Ustinov.
“This is a big step up in com-
petition for Zhang and if he
does what we expect him to do
on Nov 24, he will definitely be
in line to fight for the world
title in 2019 and make history
as China’s first pro heavy-
weight champion,” said New
Jersey-based Dino Duva, who
promotes Zhang for Roc
Nation Sports.
Ustinov, a former kickbox-
ing world champion, switched
to regular boxing in 2005, at
age 29. He reeled off eight
straight KOs en route to win-
ning the European Boxing
Federation championship in
2009 and was unbeaten in 28
consecutive bouts before
being KO’d by Bulgaria’s top-
10 ranked Kubrat Pulev.
Ustinov’s biggest win was a
decision over former world
No 3 David Tua in 2013, after
which Tua announced his
retirement. Ten months later
the Russian was scheduled to
fight Fury as a late replace-
ment for the injured Dereck
Chisora, but Fury pulled out of
the bout due to illness.
While Ustinov holds a wide
edge over Zhang in pro rounds
— 181 to 45 — the Chinese slug-
ger has the better KO percent-
age, 80 to 69. Ustinov has been
12 rounds three times and has
been past round 9 five times.
Zhang’s longest fight has been
six rounds (twice).
Still, former light heavy-
weight contender Shaun
George, who serves as Zhang’s
trainer/manager, isn’t overly
concerned about the disparity
in pro experience.
“He’s a sponge,” George said
of his prize pupil in a recent
interview with ringtv.com.
“What it comes down to is
being mentally prepared, and
Zhang shows that every day in
the gym with his willingness
to learn. If there’s something
he doesn’t understand, he
keeps working on it.
“He lost to Joshua at the
Olympics, but he’s a much dif-
ferent fighter today — a real
hungry, aggressive, smart
fighter. He’s ready right now.
Give me any of the top five
contenders in the world, and
Zhang beats them all.”
Should Zhang score a con-
vincing win in Monaco and
move closer to challenging
Wilder or Joshua, a likely
strategy in the interim would
be a defense of his WBO Orien-
tal title against Japan’s
32-year-old Kyotaro Fujimoto,
who is 20-1 with 12 KOs.
The WBO rankings for Octo-
ber list Zhang at No 6 and Fuji-
moto at No 7, marking the first
time two Asian heavyweights
are among the world’s top 10.
And such a fight would greatly
expand both fighters’ global
profile.
“I have a very big hope that
the whole world is going to see
me, and everyone’s eyes are
going to focus on me,” Zhang
told ringtv.com. “I am a giant
man from China!”