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THURSDAY, May 10, 2018
China remains committed to
Iran deal despite US pullout
By WANG QINGYUN in
Beijing and ZHAO HUANXIN
in Washington
China said on Wednesday
it “regrets” the decision by
the United States to pull out
of the Iran nuclear deal, and
Beijing will continue its
commitment to safeguard
and implement the deal, the
Foreign Ministry said.
The agreement, known as
Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action, was reached among
multiple parties and approved
by the United Nations Security
Council, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Geng Shuang said
in a daily news conference. All
parties involved should carry it
out with seriousness and safe-
guard its integrity, Geng said.
Doing so will help maintain
the international nonprolifera-
tion regime, promote peace
and stability in the Middle East
and serve as an example of
solving hot spot issues through
political means, Geng said.
“China calls on all parties
to ... stick to the direction of a
political and diplomatic set-
tlement, handle their differ-
ences properly and come
back to the right track of
implementing the deal as
soon as possible,” Geng said.
China will maintain talks
with all parties, he said.
Commemorating victory in WWII
Russian troops participate in a Victory Day military parade in Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday. Russia
marked the 73rd anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. AFP
See story, page 11
Planned supercomputer would be
10 times faster than today’s No 1
By CHENG YU and
LU HAOTING in Shenzhen
The National Supercom-
puting Center in Shenzhen
plans to build a next-genera-
tion supercomputer that will
be 10 times faster than the
world’s current speed cham-
pion, a senior executive said.
“The investment is likely to
hit 3 billion yuan ($470.6 mil-
lion), and key technologies
for the supercomputer are
expected to be developed
independently,” Wang Zheng-
lu, director of the project
management department of
the center told China Daily.
The supercomputer will be
“exascale”, meaning that it will
be capable of making a quintil-
lion (1 followed by 18 zeros)
calculations per second, much
faster than the current No 1
supercomputer, Sunway Tai-
huLight, Wang said. The new
supercomputer is expected to
be developed by 2020.
The exascale supercom-
puter will play an important
role in promoting the devel-


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Comment > p9
US President Donald
Trump announced in a
speech on Tuesday that his
country will withdraw from
the deal and reinstate its
sanctions on Iran, and that
Iran is “going to want to make
a new and lasting deal”.
Trump’s announcement
has also sparked concerns
and opposition from the oth-
er parties to the deal.
In a joint statement issued
by the British Prime Minister’s
office, the leaders of France,
Germany and Britain said
they took note of Trump’s deci-
sion “with regret and concern”.
The deal was struck
between Iran and the US, Brit-
ain, France, Russia and China,
plus Germany and the Euro-
pean Union, in Vienna in 2015.
The deal asks Iran to limit
its nuclear program in
return for the lifting of eco-
nomic sanctions the interna-
tional community imposed
on the country.
In a statement on Tuesday,
the Russian Foreign Ministry
said it was “deeply disap-
pointed by the decision of US
President Donald Trump to
unilaterally refuse to carry
opment of the Guangdong-
Hong Kong-Macao Greater
Bay Area, especially in cloud
computing, big data and arti-
ficial intelligence, he said.
Supercomputers are a new
driving force in China’s com-
puter innovation and are
important for the nation’s
information security. China
has established six supercom-
puting centers, in Tianjin,
Guangzhou, Wuxi, Changsha,
Jinan and Shenzhen.
China is now at the van-
guard of supercomputer
development, having raced
ahead of the United States
and Japan. The latest biannu-
al ranking of the world’s 500
fastest supercomputers
showed China’s Sunway Tai-
huLight and Tianhe-2 are the
world’s fastest and second-
fastest machines, with Titan
from the US in fifth place.
The Shenzhen center,
founded in 2009, has focused
on high performance com-
puting and cloud computing.
It maintains leading posi-
tions in a variety of areas like
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out commitments under the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action,” according to AFP.
Iran President Hassan Rou-
hani said on Tuesday that the
Islamic Republic will remain
in the nuclear deal with other
signatories without the US.
“From this time on, the
nuclear deal is an accord
between Iran and five coun-
tries,” Rouhani said in live
speech broadcast from state TV.
Ruan Zongze, vice-presi-
dent of the China Institute of
International Studies, said
the US is sending the “wrong
signals” by quitting the Iran
nuclear deal, as such moves
will undermine future efforts
to solve issues in the Middle
East through talks.
Emma Ashford, a research
fellow with the Cato Institute,
a think tank in Washington,
said in an analysis on Tues-
day that by leaving the nucle-
ar deal without offering any
clear strategy or plan for an
alternative, “Trump is open-
ing Pandora’s box, increasing
the risks of escalation and
bringing us gradually closer
to conflict with Iran.”
Xinhua contributed
to this story.
Contact the writers at wang-
qingyun@chinadaily.com.cn
weather forecasting and dis-
aster prevention.
The center’s work in
detailed exploration and
large-scale data processing
has helped a domestic petro-
leum company reduce petro-
leum exploration costs.
The growing shortage of
cloud computing resources
led the center to recently pur-
chase 420 more rack-mounted
servers, 10 graphics process-
ing servers and a group of stor-
age systems to expand its
computing resources.
China has an edge in hard-
ware, but more efforts are
needed to develop tailor-
made software for supercom-
puters to widen their
application, Wang Gang, an
associate professor at the Col-
lege of Computer Science and
Technology at Jilin Universi-
ty, said in an earlier interview.
Zhang Zhihao contributed
to this story.
Contact the writers at cheng-
yu@chinadaily.com.cn
Shining stars
Nation’s cinema has big presence
at Cannes Film Festival LIFE, PAGE 20
Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in take questions from jour-
nalists after the seventh leaders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday. LI TAO / XINHUA
Li: Three nations should
push region’s integration
Premier says Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul need to stand behind multilateral system
By HU YONGQI in Tokyo
huyongqi@chinadaily.com.cn
China, Japan and the
Republic of Korea should
accelerate negotiations to
establish a free trade area and
reach agreements on the
Regional Comprehensive Eco-
nomic Partnership as soon as
possible to achieve regional
integration, Premier Li Ke-
qiang said on Wednesday.
At the seventh China-Japan-
ROK leaders’ meeting in Tokyo,
the premier said development
Vice-premier will head trade team
By ZHONG NAN
and REN XIAOJIN
Vice-Premier Liu He will lead
a Chinese delegation to the
United States to discuss eco-
nomic and trade issues at an
appropriate time, following Chi-
na’s receipt of an invitation from
US Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin, the Ministry of Com-
merce said on Wednesday.
A spokesperson from the
ministry confirmed that Chi-
nese officials and officials in
the administration of US Presi-
dent Donald Trump have been
talking about the visit.
This would be the second
high-level meeting since a bilat-
eral trade dispute escalated in
March. The first talks took
place in Beijing on May 3 and 4.
Experts predicted that offi-
cials from both sides would
discuss how to avoid the pro-
posed tariff on $150 billion of
China’s exports. China has
warned that $50 billion in US
goods are targeted for tariffs
and vowed to fight to the end.
Customs on hunt for imports of illegal exotic pets
By WANG XIAODONG
wangxiaodong
@chinadaily.com.cn
Entry-exit inspection and
quarantine authorities across
the nation have intercepted an
increasing number of alien
species and exotic pets that
can pose serious risks to safety
and environmental integrity,
e
of the three countries has bene-
fited from free trade, and they
should firmly stand together to
safeguard the rule-based mul-
tilateral trading system and
fight against protectionism
and unilateralism.
The regional partnership is
a proposed free trade agree-
ment between the 10 members
of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations and six other
countries, including China,
Japan and the ROK.
Li called on these neighbors
to manage their differences
“Even though the Trump
administration proposed steep
tariffs on Chinese imports
worth $50 billion with its first
list in late March, we have
noticed that the US govern-
ment endeavored to avoid put-
ting daily necessities and
household goods on the list to
minimize the impact on its peo-
ple’s daily lives,” said Mei Xinyu,
a senior researcher at the Minis-
try of Commerce’s Chinese
Academy of International Trade
and Economic Cooperation.
Mei said the two economies
are intensely interdependent
and intertwined and it is inevi-
table that any protective trade
measures will hurt their econ-
omies and global value chain.
Other issues, including
technology transfers, invest-
ment environment, exchange
rate, talent flows and intellec-
tual property protection, may
also be discussed, said Chen
Wenling, chief economist at
the China Center for Interna-
tional Economic Exchanges.
The fast growth of China’s
China’s top authority for
entry-exit inspection and
quarantine said.
Authorities are remaining
alert for illegal entry of such
animals as spiders, tortoises
and snakes, which are sent to
China mostly through mailed
parcels. They said they will
take more measures to tighten
supervision and hold law vio-
chinadaily.com.cn
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Editorial > p8
using their wisdom and achieve
a higher level of cooperation.
He said the countries should
strengthen cooperation in six
key areas: trade liberalization,
production capacity and invest-
ment, infrastructure and con-
nectivity, finance, sustainable
development and people-to-
people exchanges.
Li said the three countries
middle-income earners has
become the biggest consump-
tion market for the US. Healthy
China-US business ties will not
only bring benefits to both
countries, but also to econo-
mies in the Asia-Pacific region
and the world, said Jiang Shan,
former director-general of the
Ministry of Commerce’s
Department of American and
Oceanian Affairs.
“China’s development will
not challenge the current world
order, and the US shouldn’t see
China as a strategic opponent,”
Jiang said. “Only dialogue can
resolve the problems.”
Lyu Xiang, a researcher at
the Institute of World Econom-
ics and Politics at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences,
said as pillar industries of the
US and European Union are
less complementary than those
of the US and China, the next
target of the Trump adminis-
tration might be the EU.
Contact the writers at zhong-
nan@chinadaily.com.cn
lators accountable, according
to the General Administration
of Customs.
Banned animals, plants and
their products were found in
more than 42,000 mail and
parcel deliveries at ports last
year, and harmful species were
spotted in 5,147 of them, the
administration said.
Although most banned

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should work to explore
fourth-party markets using
the model of “China-Japan-
ROK plus X” to quicken
regional development. There
are disparities in the develop-
ment levels of Asian coun-
tries, so China, Japan and the
ROK should combine their
advantages in equipment,
capital and technologies for
joint projects in production
capacity, poverty alleviation,
disaster management and
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remember
big quake
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products intercepted were
meat, dairy, seeds and sprouts,
illegal mailing of live animals
became more rampant,
spurred by the booming popu-
larity of exotic pets in China,
the administration said.
The variety of such animals
intercepted at ports increased
See Customs, page 3
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2 PAGE TWO
Looking ahead
Candid camera: Center of attention
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Media briefing to highlight development of motor race in China, and

become a major spectacle.
developments in nursing
The National Health Commission will hold
a media briefing in Beijing on Thursday to
Disaster-prevention day to
introduce the latest development in the focus on readiness
country’s nursing sector. Officials of the Saturday
commission, the Shanghai Municipal marks
Health Commission and Peking Union China’s
Medical College Hospital will attend. 10th
National
Disaster
Formula 4 gets into top gear Preven-
for latest international event tion and
On Sunday, the first stop of the Internation- Educa-
al Automobile Federation Formula 4 Chi- tion Day,
nese Championship will be held in Ningbo, which is aimed at raising public awareness
Zhejiang province. There will be six stops in of disaster preparedness and prevention.
the tournament in four cities — Ningbo, The day was established in 2009, following
and Zhuhai in Guangdong province, a devastating earthquake that hit Sichuan
Chengdu in Sichuan province and Shang- province on May 12, 2008, and left more
hai. Since 2014, the event has fueled the than 80,000 people dead and missing.

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Lifestyle: Gift ideas for a also host the exhibition. Among the high-
lights are several major programs, such as A boy in traditional monk’s attire attracts the attention of passers-by near a subway station in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on May 1.
Mother’s Day surprise the Exhibition of Creative Products Inherit- ZHU JIANGUO / FOR CHINA DAILY
Sunday
ed from the Palace Museum.
marks
Mother’s
Day, a day Forum: Survey to help foreign
dedicated to
honor and
celebrate the
students work in China
In order to attract more foreign expertise,
China wants to make it easier for interna-
Fitness is not part of a trendy fashion cycle
heroic tional students to stay, and work after their How often have you made, the first intrepid journey to utterly free of charge, and is very fashionable or cool to
women in study, in the country. Our survey hopes to or heard that one of your the gym, but perhaps the that’s the fitness option, in be seen there.
our lives. If gauge the willingness of international stu- friends has made, a New sight of the many experi- Beijing and most other Well, in my opinion, the
you are out dents to pursue job opportunities in China Year resolution to get fit? It’s enced gym goers will put you urban locations in China, “grannies” and “aunties”
of ideas when it comes to presents, our web- and will give an insight into their hopes and often due to a guilt trip fol- off. that is literally (for most resi- seem to be the only ones
site recommends a wish list that will make ambitions. The survey link is: lowing the gluttonous excess If you feel unable to get to dents) a hop, skip or a jump with any sense, as they know
your mother smile. Whether she is a health www.ccgccg.wjx.cn/m/22002947.aspx of the Christ- grips with life at the gym, or from their home. a good thing when they see
foodie, a busy homemaker, an exercise mas and New feel intimidated by the I am talking about the it. They come from a genera-
enthusiast or a fashionista, there should be Biz: Apple denies claims it is Year festive atmosphere, don’t give up all basic fitness equipment that tion which had little enter-
something here that will fit her tastes.
overcharging for in-app deals season. hope, and please don’t ditch is located in most residential tainment and little money to
Tech giant Now we your noble intention to get areas, much it of financed spend, so they had to make
Rankings: Top 10 countries for Apple has are well into in shape, as an alternative from China’s sports lottery. the best of what they had. I
renewable energy investment denied 2018, how probably lies virtually on Here you may find equip- admire that generation for
Global investment in renewable energy rose that it is Ian many of your doorstep. ment such as a simple cross- their sense of resourceful-
2 percent to $280 billion last year, according taking Morrison these good I am from Scotland, and as trainer, a rudimentary ness. They younger genera-
to a key report. Last year was the eighth in a advantage Second intentions you may know, my country- rowing machine or parallel tion could learn a lot from
row that global investment in renewable of cus- Thoughts have already men have a reputation for bars, to name but a few. them.
energy exceeded $200 billion, according to tomers in melted away being “careful” with money. And speaking of few, what Keeping fit isn’t a question
UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UN- China and long ago, like the last snows That doesn’t mean that we has often confounded me is of fashion, about going to
EP Collaborating Center and Bloomberg over- of winter, with all that are tightfisted, it simply simply how few people I ever some fancy expensive gym or
New Energy Finance. China became the charging remains of these noble wish- means that we perhaps don’t seem to see using such wearing the latest styles in
leading destination for renewable energy them for in-app purchases. It follows cus- es being perhaps a gym care to waste our hard- equipment. sportswear, it is something
investment in 2017, accounting for $126.6 tomer complaints in China that subscribing membership card lying for- earned cash, and look for Most people I mention much more practical than
billion or 45 percent of global investment. A for services, including online videos, and gotten in a desk drawer, or a things that are value for this to generally say that that.
record 98 gigawatts of solar power capacity calling for a taxi through apps, costs more pair of training shoes gather- money. these facilities are only used
was installed worldwide last year, with Chi- through the iOS platform, unique to Apple, ing dust in your wardrobe? Well, you can’t get much by “grannies” or “aunties”, so Contact the writer at
na contributing 53 gigawatts, or more than than Android. Many enterprises and app Often people may make more “value for money” than they seemingly don’t think it ian@chinadaily.com.cn
half. Visit our website to have a look at the developers blame the 30 percent commis-
top 10 countries for renewable energy sion they pay Apple for the price difference.
investment in 2017. Apple has stressed that the pricing rights This Day, That Year
for in-app purchases are controlled com-
Culture: Cultural treasures get pletely by the developers.
an uses her card to enter the Many cit-
to shine in Beijing and overseas subway station (inset). ies, including
Trend: Report reveals younger years Paper monthly passes had Shanghai,
people’s priorities in life on been used for decades. Hangzhou in
The McKinsey 2017 China Consumer Report Within five years, the Zhejiang
studied the behavior of post-90’s consumers Editor’s Note: This year number of smart cards province and
and categorized them into five groups. The marks the 40th anniversary issued reached 60 million. Wuhan in
largest group, at 39 per- of China’s reform and open- With technological devel- Hubei pro-
cent, prioritizes happi- ing-up policy. opment and the popularity of vince, have
ness. The next biggest smartphones, mobile wallets adopted
group puts success at the On May 10, 2006, an inte- are starting to grab the public mobile pay-
top of their ambitions, grated circuit card system transportation market, which ment for the
A major cultural event is set to kick off at accounting for 27 per- went into operation in could become a multibillion public transport sector. UnionPay, or Alipay, and
the Palace Museum in Beijing and overseas. cent. In your eyes, what Beijing, which saves time for dollar business by 2020. In January, passengers in have fees deducted every
China Week: Inheritance and Innovation does China’s young gen- passengers and raises the On April 29, Beijing Shanghai were able to board time they take a ride. Other
will open to the public in the capital on eration value or what Scan it! efficiency of public transpor- Subway announced a trial underground trains by payment providers, such as
Thursday and run until June 30. Focusing does the young genera- Read tation. project allowing smartphone tapping their smartphones WeChat Pay and Apple Pay,
on creative products, various activities, tion value in your coun- more on The item from China Daily users to pay for subway through an app called Metro. will be included later.
including exhibitions and forums, will be try? Share your opinion chinadaily. shows commuters outside journeys by swiping their Passengers can choose to Shanghai has the world’s
held. Overseas China cultural centers will on our website. com.cn Xizhimen subway station on gadgets, the latest instance link their accounts to all longest metro network that
the first day of the introduc- of making mobile payment a bank cards issued by China’s has an average weekday rid-
tion of the system as a wom- default way of life. card payment processor ership of 11 million.

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TOP NEWS
Japan ties to include currency trades
Premier announces 200b yuan
for foreign exchange investments
By CAI HONG
and HU YONGQI
Premier Li Keqiang
announced in Tokyo on
Wednesday that China has
agreed to grant a quota of 200
billion yuan ($31.4 billion) to
be used in the renminbi quali-
fied foreign institutional
investor mechanism by Japa-
nese investors.
During his meeting with
Japanese Prime Minister
Customs: Scorpions,
snakes among exotic
pets caught at border
From page 1
last year compared with 2016.
Most alien species were
bought by individuals or pet
business owners from sources
in other countries, or through
exchanges, the administration
said.
Major alien species inter-
cepted by quarantine authori-
ties last year included
tortoises, spiders, scorpions,
snakes, frogs and various
types of insects, it said. The
creatures came from almost
all of China’s major trading
partners, and were found at all
major ports on the Chinese
mainland, the administration
said.
“In general, alien species
have strong reproductive abil-
ities, and are strongly adapta-
ble to different environments,”
it said. “They may have no nat-
ural enemies in China, so they
are likely to reproduce in great
numbers and pose serious
threats to indigenous species
and will damage China’s ecolo-
gy, biodiversity and agricultur-
al production if they are not
properly taken care of and are
set free.”
Many of these animals are
also carriers of diseases that
could cause outbreaks among
plants and animals in China, it
said.
In addition, some species,
such as the Brazilian killer
scorpion, poison dart frogs
and other poisonous frogs can
be dangerous to the public and
may even be used by terrorists,
the administration said.
All live animals except dogs
and cats are banned from
being carried by passengers or
sent via mail services to the
mainland, unless approved by
authorities and accompanied
by official quarantine certifi-
cates from their country,
according to Chinese regula-
tions.
Among pets, only dogs and
cats can be carried to China,
and each passenger can only
carry one cat or one dog each
time. The dog or cat must be
quarantined after arrival,
according to the regulations.
Keeping track of the flow of
exotic pets has been a chal-
lenge for authorities as most
are light and are mailed from
abroad in small amounts, the
administration said.
“Tricks to evade supervision
are constantly being refined,
and in most cases the parcels
containing the pets are dis-
guised as other items in vari-
ous forms, posing great
difficulties in inspections,” it
said.
To make the situation
worse, booming cross-border
e-commerce has resulted in a
rapidly increasing amount of
mail and parcels each year,
forcing inspection and quar-
antine authorities in many
places to work 24 hours a day,
the administration said.
Zhu Shuifang, a senior
researcher at the Chinese
Academy of Inspection and
Quarantine, said with intensi-
Shinzo Abe, Li also said China
supports Japanese financial
institutions investing in the
Chinese capital market and
has a positive attitude toward
setting up a bank in Tokyo for
renminbi clearing.
At a joint news conference
with Abe on Wednesday, Li
said China and Japan have
reached consensus in princi-
ple to sign a bilateral currency
swap agreement as soon as
possible.
fied globalization and more
frequent international ex-
changes, cargo and mailed
parcels have increased rapidly,
posing great challenges in
ensuring biosafety while
allowing swift entry of goods.
“With so many goods, it is
not possible to inspect every
parcel,” he said. “Advanced
technologies can play a more
important role in improving
efficiency in inspection of
harmful species to prevent
loss in trade, agriculture,
health and ecology.”
The rapidly developing big
data technology can be better
applied in this regard, he said.
More government
investment is need-
ed to spur techno-
logical research and
utilization in entry-
exit inspection and
quarantine.”
Zhu Shuifang, senior researcher
at the Chinese Academy of
Inspection and Quarantine
“For example, big data anal-
ysis can help single out pas-
sengers, cargo and mailed
items that are more likely to
bring in or contain banned
items,” Zhu said. “More gov-
ernment investment is needed
to spur technological research
and utilization in entry-exit
inspection and quarantine.”
The administration has tak-
en a series of measures to
improve supervision and law
enforcement, including install-
ing 37 advanced computerized
tomography machines at key
inspection sites for mail and
express parcels, it said.
The administration will also
improve cooperation with oth-
er government departments
such as border control, tour-
ism, agriculture and forestry
to establish a mechanism for
joint prevention and control of
illegal entry of banned items
to ensure biosafety and
national security, it said.
Individuals who have car-
ried or mailed banned ani-
mals, plants or their products
to the mainland and tried to
evade quarantine two or
more times within a year will
face criminal investigations
by police or prosecution
authorities in China, accord-
ing to an amended regulation
adopted in April 2017 by the
Supreme People’s Procura-
torate and the Ministry of
Public Security in an effort to
check violations.
Violators face penalties of
up to three years in prison and
fines in serious cases, such as
when violations result in
widespread disease out-
breaks, according to China’s
Criminal Law.
China and Japan signed 10
agreements on a wide range of
areas, such as social security,
culture and agriculture.
Li invited Abe to visit China
at an appropriate time, and
Abe accepted the invitation.
The premier also said the
two countries should abide by
the four political documents
and the consensuses they
have reached and restore
their ties to a normal track.
The two countries should
consolidate the political
foundation and expand coop-
eration, Li added. They
should undertake practical
actions to prove they are part-
Guests from member states attending the tourism ministers’ conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Wuhan,
Hubei province, visit the dock of Zhiyin, a large-scale thematic performance ship, on Wednesday. ZHOU DI / FOR CHINA DAILY
SCO members agree to enhance tourism
By CHENG SI in Wuhan
chengsi@chinadaily.com.cn
Tourism ministers from
member states of the Shang-
hai Cooperation Organiza-
tion will further enhance ties
related to travel product
development, tourist security
and research on high-tech
tourism management to
build a “smart tourism” sys-
tem, according to a draft
action plan issued on
Wednesday.
The tourism ministers’
conference of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
opened on Wednesday in
Wuhan, Hubei province.
It was the first meeting of
SCO tourism ministers since
the organization was estab-
lished in 2001 in Shanghai.
The delegation leaders
passed the draft of their 2019-
20 Joint Action Plan for
Satellite to monitor air, water
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
China launched the Gaofen 5
high-resolution Earth obser-
vation satellite on Wednes-
day to assist in the nation’s
environmental protection
efforts.
The satellite blasted off
atop a Long March 4C carrier
rocket at 2:28 am at Taiyuan
Satellite Launch Center in
Shanxi province. It was the
274th flight mission by a
Long March rocket, accord-
ing to the State Administra-
tion of Science, Technology
and Industry for National
Defense, which oversees the
program.
The satellite was developed
and produced by the Shang-
hai Academy of Spaceflight
Technology, a subsidiary of
China Aerospace Science and
Technology Corp, and will be
used mainly by the Ministry
of Ecology and Environment,
the Ministry of Natural
ners rather than threats to
each other.
The healthy development of
ties between the two coun-
tries, which are neighbors and
important economies, are in
line with the interests of both,
and with regional and global
peace and stability, the pre-
mier said.
This year marks the 40th
anniversary of the signing of
China-Japan Treaty of Peace
and Friendship, and the bilat-
eral ties are at an important
stage for further improve-
ment, Li said.
Abe said the two countries
should join hands to help
implementing an outline of
tourism cooperation among
SCO member states.
The draft will be submitted
to the SCO summit for official
signing, which will be held in
Qingdao, Shandong prov-
ince, in June.
“International cooperation
in the area of tourism is
promising, which has
received more agreement
than disagreement from the
member states involved,” Li
Jinzao, vice-minister of cul-
ture and tourism, said. “Tour-
ism exchange thus should be
regarded as one of the key
parts in bilateral or multilat-
eral cooperation.”
Li said the SCO has become
a more comprehensive
regional organization since
India and Pakistan joined the
organization in 2017.
“The total population of
SCO member states amounts
Resources and China Meteor-
ological Administration.
Tong Xudong, chief design-
er of the Gaofen series at the
science administration, said
Gaofen 5 is the first China-de-
veloped satellite that can
monitor air pollution and
that it has the highest spectral
resolution among Chinese
remote-sensing satellites. It
can detect the state of air pol-
lution in China through the
monitoring of air pollutants,
greenhouse gases and aero-
sols, he said.
The satellite weighs 2.8
metric tons and carries six
instruments — two for land
observation and four to moni-
tor air. It is expected to oper-
ate in a repeating sun-
synchronous orbit at an
average altitude of 705 kilo-
meters for at least eight years.
Wang Qiao, director of the
Ministry of Ecology and Envi-
ronment’s satellite applica-
tions center, said Gaofen 5
will provide detailed data for
their non-governmental orga-
nizations cooperate in third-
party markets.
Also, Li announced on
Wednesday that China will give
Japan two crested ibises as a gift
and symbol of China’s friend-
ship with the Japanese people.
The gift is the first of its kind
in 11 years. China last offered a
pair of crested ibises, Huayang
and Yishui, in 2007 when
former premier Wen Jiabao
visited Japan and had talks
with Abe, who was in his first
term as Japanese prime minis-
ter. Crested ibises are native to
Japan, where they are called
toki, but were declared extinct
to nearly half the world’s pop-
ulation. The rich tourism
resources in these countries,
no matter the natural scenery
or distinctive cultures, will
unleash the potential of tour-
ism development and high-
light the countries’
importance in the world tour-
ism landscape,” Li said.
Tourism delegations of
SCO member states, includ-
ing India, Kazakhstan, Kyr-
gyzstan, Pakistan, Russia,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,
have introduced their coun-
tries’ tourism development
and proposed deepening
cooperation on tourism
exchanges with other mem-
ber states.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch,
deputy chief of mission of the
Pakistan Embassy, said that
SCO member states are con-
nected in areas such as of his-
tory, culture and civilization.
a wide range of environmen-
tal efforts, such as water
monitoring, ecological dam-
age assessment, pollutant
source inspection and envi-
ronmental law enforcement.
He said the spacecraft will be
able to help in natural resour-
ces exploration and disaster
prevention and mitigation.
China launched the Gaofen
project in May 2010 and list-
ed it as one of the 16 national
important projects in science
and technology. The program
aims at forming a space-
based, high-resolution Earth
observation network by
about 2020.
The first in the system,
Gaofen 1, was sent into space
from the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center in April 2013.
By now, seven Gaofen satel-
lites, including the latest one
and Gaofen 8 and 9, have
been launched.
China will launch the Gao-
fen 6 and 7 in the near future,
according to Tong.
in 2003 after the sole remain-
ing bird died in Sado, Niigata
prefecture. The crested ibises
now living in Sado and on the
mainland of Japan are
descendants of five crested
ibises presented by China.
The visit to Japan is Li’s first
since he became premier in
2013 and the first for a Chi-
nese premier in eight years.
“Through my visit, I want to
promote a sound and stable
development of our bilateral
relationship for the long
term,” he said.
Contact the writers at Hu-
yongqi@chinadaily.com.cn
Tourism cooperation among
member states will bring
more opportunities for Paki-
stan’s economic develop-
ment.
She said sports and medi-
cal tourism are new areas in
which Pakistan will seek
cooperation with China and
other countries. The country
also will seek cooperation in
travel products related to tra-
ditional Pakistani festivals
and galas to bring prosperity
both to Pakistan and coun-
tries involved in exchanges.
Aziz Nosirov, SCO deputy
secretary-general, said,
“Developing tourism is an
important way to enhance
the friendship among differ-
ent countries, which is also a
way to help people under-
stand different cultures.
Tourism cooperation will pro-
mote the cultural exchange of
countries involved.”
Eyes have it
A Chinese ophthalmologist examines the eye health of a local
students at the Duon Hoa School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on
Tuesday. Several Chinese ophthalmologists are taking part in
the weeklong eye-care event started by the China Public Diplo-
macy Association, which entered Cambodia on Sunday.
HUANG YAOHUI / XINHUA
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Regional:
Timing of
meeting
called
beneficial
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environmental protection, he
said.
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe said the three
countries support free trade
and open markets as major
traders and should propose
trading rules with high stan-
dards. They should also boost
personnel exchanges and
enhance cooperation in edu-
cation and tourism for a more
open and inclusive develop-
ment, he said.
Li also called for continued
dialogue and negotiations to
achieve denuclearization and
peace in the Korean Peninsu-
la, saying China supports all
relevant parties in conduct-
ing dialogues in all forms. Li
also met separately with
Republic of Korea President
Moon Jae-in on Wednesday
afternoon.
The three leaders also deliv-
ered speeches at a sideline
event, a China-Japan-ROK
business summit of 200 busi-
ness executives.
“In the past few years, as far
as trilateral relations and their
impact on both overall econom-
ic and individual company per-
formances are concerned, our
mutual feeling is that openness
and cooperation are conducive
to economic development for
us all,” said the chairman of Chi-
nese company Sanpower
Group, Yuan Yafei, who spoke at
the summit.
Focusing on retail and
healthcare, the Nanjing-based
company has 40,000 overseas
employees and seeks new
market opportunities in Japan
and the ROK.
“We very much look for-
ward to a more open and
inclusive business environ-
ment, in which companies
can ‘go global’ ... with reassur-
ance among the three coun-
tries as a result of improved
exchanges and collaboration
made possible by this sum-
mit,” Yuan said.
The trilateral meeting was
held at the right time, when
the world is confronted with
rising anti-globalization senti-
ment and protectionism, said
Xu Liping, a researcher at the
National Institute of Interna-
tional Strategy at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences. It
also will inject new energy
into the global economy and
free trade, as well as confi-
dence into economic develop-
ment in East Asia as long as
the three countries carry out
pragmatic cooperation, Xu
added.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
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City in Tibet
was treeless,
but no more
Official says 98 percent of new
trees survive despite harsh climate
By DAQIONG in Lhasa
and ZHANG YI in Beijing
Garma Rinchen didn’t see
trees until he was 15, when his
father took him to visit Lhasa,
capital of the Tibet autono-
mous region.
“When my father pointed
out the bus window at the
green trees and explained
what they were, I was amazed
— as if the air was sweeter and
cleaner. I wondered when my
hometown would get trees,”
said Garma Rinchen, 53.
He comes from Nagchu,
Tibet, China’s sole treeless city.
At an average altitude of 4,500
meters and with frequent
extreme cold, the city knows
only blizzards and frozen
ground from October to May.
Migmar Tsering, head of the
Nagchu Forestry Bureau, said
the growing season for plants
is May to August, and the nat-
ural conditions are difficult.
However, Garma Rinchen’s
teenage wish came true: The
city recently planted some
alpine trees, which can survive
the extreme weather, along a
1,200-meter street in down-
town Nagchu.
Some 600 trees were plant-
ed — 20 species, including
spruce and sea buckthorn,
which were selected because
of their resistance to cold,
drought and alkaline soil —
according to Migmar Tsering.
“It is the first time that we
have grown plants for green
space on city streets,” he said.
“It is a ‘green’ gift for local res-
idents.”
He added that the launch is
also a celebration of the historic
day when Nagchu was officially
upgraded from a prefecture to
a city. That was on Monday.
Garma Rinchen described
the scene: “The day they plant-
ed trees along the street, people
gathered, feeling both surprised
Egyptians get glimpse
of Xinjiang at seminar
CAIRO — A cultural delega-
tion from the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region attended a
seminar at the Chinese embassy
in Cairo on Monday to enhance
mutual understanding.
Xu Guixiang, vice-secretary-
general of the Chinese Over-
seas Friendship Association
and head of the delegation,
briefed attendees on Xin-
jiang’s history and customs
and on government’s econom-
ic, social, ethnic and religious
policies for Xinjiang.
Xu said the visit was intend-
ed to promote understanding
of Xinjiang to Egyptians and
to enhance cultural and peo-
ple-to-people exchanges.
Xinjiang is a multiethnic,
multicultural and multireli-
gious region, where different
religious groups live in peace-
ful coexistence with equal sta-
tus, he said.
“However, extremist
thoughts — the basis of separa-
tism and terrorism — have
caused great damage to Xin-
jiang. These thoughts must be
uprooted according to rele-
vant laws,” he said.
Xu dismissed untrue reports
about Xinjiang, saying they
were written and disseminat-
ed by people unfamiliar with
ECOLOGY
ACTION IN A NEW ERA
Newly planted trees on
Nagchu’s Zhejiang West Road.
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and curious. The green is pleas-
ing and enjoyable for us. I also
like to take my two daughters
there.”
Although the plantings end
Nagchu’s dubious honor of
being the country’s lone tree-
less city, residents worry about
the survival of the trees in
harsh winters, said Garma
Rinchen. “Some elders even
pray for these precious plants
to have long lives,” he said.
Migmar Tsering said, “To
bring some green to the life of
locals involves years of effort
from many scientists and for-
esters. Since 2008, we have
planted about 300 trial trees,
and they have grown from
about 1 meter to 3 meters, with
a survival rate of 98 percent.
“One secret is the soil, which
is a mixture of several kinds of
soil in a certain proportion,
including alpine meadow soil,
nutrient soil, sand and fer-
mented sheep manure.”
The forestry bureau also
hired 20 people from poverty-
stricken households to take
care of the newly planted trees.
One of them, Achong,
moved to Nagchu in February
for a job with the trees.
“When I heard of the project,
I applied for the vacancy. It is a
glorious job,” he said.
Contact the writers at
zhangyi@chinadaily.com.cn
Extremist thoughts
— the basis of sepa-
ratism and terror-
ism — have caused
great damage to
Xinjiang.”
Xu Guixiang, vice-secretary-
general of the Chinese Overseas
Friendship Association
Xinjiang. He encouraged peo-
ple to better understand Xin-
jiang through communication
and visits.
Mansour Abo Alazzm, man-
aging editor of the Arabic
Al-Ahram daily and a member
of the Egyptian-Chinese Friend-
ship Association, shared his
experiences during a 2015 visit.
In Xinjiang, he said, he saw
for himself the Chinese govern-
ment’s efforts to protect reli-
gious rights and the region’s
development.
XINHUA
Honing their skills
Medical workers practice procedures during a mock natural disaster in Wenchuan, Sichuan province, on Wednesday. More than 4,800
people and two helicopters participated in the exercise, which focused on mobilization of rescuers, handling of hazardous chemicals
and resettlement of affected people. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
Land mine clearing effort pays off
By CHINA DAILY
A brigade that cleared
unexploded mines from more
than 6 hectares of land in
Yunnan province handed the
area over to the local govern-
ment on Monday, China
National Radio reported.
The commander of the
Yunnan mine clearance bri-
gade’s fourth unit, which was
in charge of the mission, said
it had found and defused
about 8,200 mines and explo-
sives, as well as 7 metric tons
of metal fragments in a five-
month operation.
The edge of the minefield,
near the port of Tianbao, in
Malipo county, which borders
northern Vietnam, was less
than 100 meters from the res-
idences.
It was the scene of fierce
fighting during the border
Beijing targets mosquitoes to cut dengue risk
By WANG XIAODONG
wangxiaodong@
chinadaily.com.cn
Beijing’s top health authori-
ty will launch a mosquito-
control campaign in mid-May
to guard against the increas-
ing risk of dengue fever, the
Beijing Municipal Commis-
sion of Health and Family
Planning said on Wednesday.
During the campaign, which
will run until August, health
authorities will focus on clean-
ing public places to remove
excessive water and prevent
mosquitoes from breeding, Liu
Zejun, a member of the com-
mission in charge of disease
control and prevention in the
city, said at a news conference.
Health authorities will
Former high official admits taking bribes
By XIN WEN
xinwen@chinadaily.com.cn
Sun Huaishan, a former
senior political adviser, plead-
ed guilty to taking bribes of
39.75 million yuan ($6.23 mil-
lion), the intermediate peo-
ple’s court in Hulun Buir,
Inner Mongolia autonomous
region, announced on
Wednesday.
Sun, 65, was formerly a
member of the Standing
Committee of the Chinese
People’s Political Consultative
Conference National Com-
mittee and head of the Com-
mittee for Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan Compatriots and
Land mines and explosives are displayed at a ceremony marking
the end of a mine-clearing mission in Malipo county, Yunnan province,
on Monday. YANG MENG / FOR CHINA DAILY
conflict between China and
Vietnam in 1979. It was Yun-
nan’s most complex and dan-
gerous minefield.
Because of the proximity of
14 percent
of mosquitoes in Beijing
last year were Aedes
albopictus, a kind of
mosquito that is the major
medium for transmission
of dengue fever.
mobilize the public to remove
pools of water from places
such as public restrooms, res-
idential areas, parks, con-
struction sites and garbage
recycling stations, he said.
Other steps to control mos-
quitoes include releasing mos-
quito-eating fish in lakes and
ponds and applying pesticides
Overseas Chinese of the
CPPCC National Committee.
Sun is accused of taking
advantage of his posts to seek
profits for certain businesses
and individuals. He helped
secure land-use rights,
approvals for business opera-
tions, project approvals and
promotions of personnel
while serving as director of the
General Office of the Central
Committee of the Communist
Youth League, deputy secre-
tary-general and Standing
Committee member of the
CPPCC National Committee
and member of Communist
Party of China Central Com-
mittee from 1994 to 2016,
It is the first time that we have grown
plants for green space on city streets.
It is a ‘green’ gift for local residents.”
Migmar Tsering, head of the Nagchu Forestry Bureau, the Tibet autonomous region
the mines to people’s homes
and the dense vegetation
that had grown over them,
the unit had to be particular-
ly careful during removal.
in areas where removing
water is difficult, such as
underground sewage systems,
he said.
The Beijing Municipal Com-
mission of Health and Family
Planning has trained 16 pro-
fessional mosquito elimina-
tion teams to help with the
work, he said.
Studies by disease control
and prevention experts have
found that the density of Aedes
albopictus, a kind of mosquito
that is the major medium for
transmission of dengue fever,
has been increasing in Beijing
for several years, said Zeng
Xiaopeng, deputy director of
the Beijing Center for Disease
Prevention and Control.
In 2013, they accounted for
3.5 percent of all mosquitoes
according to the
indictment by
the Hulun Buir
people’s procu-
ratorate.
Sun accepted
large amounts
Sun
of money and
Huaishan
property direct-
ly or through
family members between
2000 and 2016.
Sun responded to evidence
presented by prosecutors,
and both he and his attorney
were cross-examined and
were able to fully express
their opinions, the court
said.
After delivering a final
Jiang Yunxiu, who lives
near the cleared field, suf-
fered shrapnel injuries when
a grenade exploded when
she was 7 years old. “I’ve
been scared ever since,”
Jiang said. “Knowing that
the soldiers have cleared the
minefield, I am relieved at
last.”
The Malipo government
announced at the handover
ceremony that the newly
cleared land will be the site of
a new hospital.
The successful mission was
part of a larger mine-sweep-
ing initiative launched in
November 2015 that has
cleared a total of 2,300 hec-
tares. Another 1,500 hectares
are expected to be cleared this
year.
Wang Xiaoyu contributed to
this story.
in Beijing, but the proportion
rose to 14 percent last year.
That means a higher risk of
dengue fever, which can cause
death in serious cases, he said.
Dengue fever outbreaks
have occurred in some areas
of South China, but sporadic
imported cases have been
spotted in recent years in
northern areas, including Bei-
jing, due to the spread of the
virus, Zeng said.
Mosquitoes become more
active with rising tempera-
tures, and their density peaks
in July and August in Beijing,
he said.
Health authorities are pre-
pared for outbreaks of infec-
tious diseases including
dengue fever, and emergency
plans are ready, he said.
statement, Sun admitted
guilt and expressed remorse.
The court said more than
60 people attended the trial,
including members of the
National People’s Congress,
CPPCC, media and the pub-
lic.
The court said Sun’s sen-
tence will be announced at a
later date.
Sun was expelled from the
CPC and dismissed from pub-
lic office in June for corrup-
tion and violating the Party’s
code of conduct, according to
China’s anti-corruption
watchdog, the Central Com-
mission for Discipline
Inspection.
Briefly
BEIJING
Xi’s speech on
Marx published
A booklet of President Xi
Jinping’s speech delivered
at a recent conference
marking the 200th anniver-
sary of the birth of Karl
Marx was published on
Wednesday by People’s Pub-
lishing House. Xi, who is
also general secretary of the
Communist Party of China
Central Committee and
chairman of the Central
Military Commission, spoke
at a gathering held at the
Great Hall of the People in
Beijing last week. He elabo-
rated on how to learn from
Marx, saying Marx’s theo-
ries still shine with truth.
Only by adhering to and
developing socialism with
Chinese characteristics can
the country achieve the
great rejuvenation of the
Chinese nation, he said.
Crackdown on
solid waste begins
The Ministry of Ecology
and Environment launched
a targeted crackdown on
Wednesday on solid waste
pollution in the wake of fre-
quent cases in which harm-
ful materials were dumped
illegally in several regions.
The ministry will send 150
teams to regions in the
Yangtze River economic
belt to inspect the illegal
discharge of solid waste
through the end of June.
NINGXIA
Snow leopard
population thriving
The number of snow leop-
ards in the Sanjiangyuan
area — headwaters of Chi-
na’s major rivers — now
exceeds 1,000, experts have
estimated. According to Lyu
Zhi, biology conservation
professor at Peking Univer-
sity, infrared cameras have
produced more than 50,000
pictures of snow leopards
over an area of 5,000 square
kilometers since 2011, when
the population monitoring
program started. Research-
ers identified individual
snow leopards to rule out
duplicate pictures, said
Zhao Xiang, director of the
Sanjiangyuan project at the
Beijing Shanshui Conserva-
tion Center. The count also
relied on other research and
laboratory analysis.
HUNAN
5 killed in mine
gas explosion
Five people were killed ear-
ly on Wednesday when a
methane gas explosion
ripped through a coal mine
in Hunan province, local
authorities said. The blast
occurred at about 3:10 am
in tunnels of the Hunan
Baodian Qunli Mining Co
in Shaodong county. Offi-
cials of the provincial work
safety authority and the
county government went to
the site to coordinate rescue
efforts.
SHAANXI
26 sickened at
funeral banquet
Twenty-six people were
sent to the hospital on
Wednesday with suspected
food poisoning, local
authorities said on
Wednesday. The outbreak
occurred after a funeral
banquet on Tuesday after-
noon in Yulin’s Qingjian
county. The residents had
symptoms including nau-
sea and vomiting, accord-
ing to the local publicity
department. As of Wednes-
day at noon, two residents
were in critical condition
and another 24 were stable
but still under observation.
XINHUA—CHINA DAILY
 CHINA DAILY Thursday, May 10, 2018
Race to the finish
Liu Lei, the only male student in his master’s degree class at Huazhong University of Science and Technology’s School of Education in
Wuhan, Hubei province, leads classmates during a photo shoot on Tuesday. As the graduation season approaches, many students go to
iconic places on campus to take photos commemorating their youth.
MIAO JIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
China’s antipollution work
a useful model, NGO says
Countries in Belt and Road Initiative
are ‘a good place to share’ experience
By ZHENG JINRAN
zhengjinran@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s efforts against air
pollution have made steady
progress since 2013, and the
accumulated experience is
valuable around the world, a
regional head of a New York-
based NGO said.
“The record of achieve-
ments that have been deliv-
ered in the past five years is
amazing. Everybody living in
Beijing can feel the differ-
ence in air quality,” said
Zhang Jianyu, chief repre-
sentative for the Environ-
mental Defense Fund in
China.
“China managed to turn
mission impossible into a
systematic success,” Zhang
said, adding that progress
has been observed in aspects
such as mapping the sources
and movement of pollutants,
and adopting technologies to
reduce and monitor emis-
sions.
From policy design to
implementation and enforce-
ment, both at the central and
local levels, China’s system
has improved, he said.
Beijing saw a dramatic
decline in air pollution last
year and in January reported
the best air quality in the past
Guangzhou aims to raise bar on auto emissions
By ZHENG CAIXIONG
in Guangzhou
zhengcaixiong@
chinadaily.com.cn
The city government of
Guangzhou, Guangdong prov-
ince, is considering a ban on
sales of new vehicles that do
not meet the National VI emis-
sion standards.
According to a draft plan
published on the Guangzhou
Bureau of Environmental Pro-
tection website, the ban would
start on Jan 1.
The bureau is soliciting
public opinion on the draft
until May 17, aiming to reduce
vehicle emissions and combat
worsening air pollution in the
city.
If the draft is adopted,
Guangzhou will become the
first city in the province, and
likely in the country, to intro-
duce the National VI emission
standard.
The city will also be four
years ahead in implementing
The low-
hanging
fruit is gone. More
challenges are in
front of us, and it’s
just the beginning.”
Zhang Jianyu, chief representa-
tive for the Environmental
Defense Fund in China
five years. The average con-
centration of PM2.5 — haz-
ardous airborne particles —
dropped to a record-low 34
micrograms per cubic meter,
according to the municipal
environmental protection
bureau.
The reduction targets set
by the central government in
the national air pollution
campaign were reached on
schedule in most cities,
including Beijing, said Li
Ganjie, minister of ecology
and environment.
The bluer skies were not
easily won.
Beijing and neighboring
2.8 million
Number of registered vehicles
in Guangzhou, Guangdong
province
the strict emission standard,
which environmental protec-
tion authorities ordered to be
adopted across the country by
2023.
Under the draft, the require-
ments also apply to vehicles
sold outside Guangzhou. Vehi-
cles registered in the city
before the end of year will be
exempt.
Peng Peng, vice-chairman of
the experts committee of the
Guangdong-based South Non-
governmental Think-tank,
said the draft plan would cer-
tainly help reduce emissions
and ensure better air quality
in Guangzhou.
regions, including Hebei
province, have made aggres-
sive moves against pollution
through strict controls — clo-
sures of highly polluting fac-
tories, a shift to clean energy
for winter heating and
improvements to the indus-
trial structure.
“One of the major break-
throughs — starting from last
year, in particular — was cur-
tailing the use of coal and
controlling small- and medi-
um-sized emission sources,
which in the past were
beyond measurement range,”
he said.
The Ministry of Ecology
and Environment has
assigned 5,600 inspectors for
a year to 28 major cities in
the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region since March, its larg-
est campaign to date. More
than 62,000 polluting plants
have been shut down.
The bluer skies have also
come at a price. The short-
term actions such as shutting
down plants and changing
fuels have significantly
affected some parts of socie-
ty.
But it’s necessary to help
the governments buy the
time and space needed to let
long-term measures — tech-
nologies, policies and laws —
take hold, Zhang said.
After setting up offices in
China in 1998, the NGO has
participated in projects with
governments and institutes
“Vehicles are being required
to reduce their emissions
around the world,” Peng told
China Daily. The new meas-
ures will also help spur the
development of Guangzhou’s
automobile industry, he said.
Peng urged government
departments to introduce con-
crete and effective measures
to gradually eliminate vehicles
that fail to meet the country’s
emission standards.
“As the provincial capital,
Guangzhou should take the
lead in introducing even
stricter emissions standards,”
he added.
Cheng Fangming,
Guangzhou driver, said he is in
favor of the new draft plan
because vehicles are a major
culprit in air pollution.
“The new draft plan will
help ensure an even better air
environment and ease traffic
jams when no new vehicles
that fail to meet stricter emis-
sions are allowed to operate in
the city,” he told China Daily.
to help China establish mar-
ket-based incentives for trim-
ming emissions
strengthening the enforce-
and
ment of environmental laws.
To date, more than 43,000
environmental officers have
received training from its
programs.
Daily cumulative fines
with no upper limit — a pow-
erful tool in deterring and
regulating polluters — were
adopted in the Environmen-
tal Protection Law based on
the experience of the United
States, Zhang said. China’s
law took effect in 2015. He
added that the permit system
is also a major step in pollu-
tion control.
It’s time, he said, to “sum-
marize and understand what
China has gone through, and
we can help to share that
experience with other coun-
tries that are in the middle of
this, or that are going to face
it soon”.
For example, India is suf-
fering severe air pollution,
and China’s experience in
creating countermeasures
could help.
“Countries participating in
the Belt and Road Initiative
are a good place to share Chi-
na’s accumulated experience
— or at least to reference it,”
Zhang said.
“The low-hanging fruit is
gone. More challenges are in
front of us, and it’s just the
beginning.”
The draft has little effect on
those who purchased a car
before January, he added.
But the regulations may
also result in higher prices for
cars in Guangzhou, said Hou
Guobing, a local office worker.
According to data from local
traffic police, Guangzhou has
more than 15 million people
and about 2.8 million regis-
tered vehicles. It began limit-
ing car registrations in 2012
and plans to restrict the grow-
ing number of vehicles from
outside the city later this year.
According to the Rules on
the Management of Non-
a Guangzhou Registered Vehi-
cles, vehicles from outside the
city will be banned from oper-
ating on the city’s roads for
four days after being in the city
for four days.
The rules are expected to
take effect before the end of
the year.
Luo Yongshi contributed to
this story.
After-school classes come
under eye of inspectors
By ZOU SHUO
zoushuo@chinadaily.com.cn
Seven teams will be sent to
all of China’s provinces and
autonomous regions to eval-
uate how well education
authorities are regulating aft-
er-school training institu-
tions for primary and
secondary school students,
the Ministry of Education
said on Wednesday.
The inspectors, sent by the
Ministry of Education, the
Ministry of Civil Affairs and
the State Administration for
Market Regulation, will also
make random checks on
tutoring institutions as well
as on primary and middle
schools, according to a notice
on the education ministry’s
website.
Parents and students will
be interviewed, it said.
Many tutoring institutions
focus on teaching pupils how
to perform well in exams,
rather than aiding the wider
educational development of
the child, according to a state-
ment issued by the ministry
and three other central gov-
ernment departments at the
end of February.
“They have given addition-
al heavy homework to stu-
dents and increased the
financial burden on families,”
the statement said. “Teachers
who lure or pressure students
to attend after-school train-
ing classes will be dealt with
seriously or even stripped of
their teaching credentials.”
University in Shanghai launches
driverless bus service on campus
By CAO CHEN in Shanghai
caochen@chinadaily.com.cn
Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni-
versity has launched a trial
run of a driverless minibus
service on its campus in
Shanghai’s Xuhui district.
The service, for on-campus
commuting, uses an eight-
seat vehicle developed jointly
by the university’s Research
Institute of Intelligence Vehi-
cles and a company specializ-
ing in automatic driving
systems research and pro-
duction.
Guided by a map stored in
the cloud, the bus can pick up
passengers and take them to
the stop they select by scan-
ning a QR code.
There are currently four
stops on the university’s
Xuhui campus. While on
board, passengers can use a
touch screen or speak to an
interactive voice system to
change their destination.
“It’s really convenient for
us to commute by bus on this
expansive campus,” said
Yuan Wei, a doctoral stu-
dent.
The three campus buses
have carried more than 1,000
passengers safely at a maxi-
mum speed of 15 km per hour
since May 2, according to
Yang Ming, director of the
institute. A monthlong test
run was carried out earlier
on the school’s Minhang
campus.
“We installed sensors on
the bus and used a special
positioning and navigation
system developed by the
institute that can detect
everything happening
around the bus and manage
After-school train-
ing institutions
should only play a
supplementary
role in China’s
education system.”
You Sen, deputy secretary-gen-
eral of the Chinese Society
of Education
They are not allowed to
organize graded examina-
tions or conduct competi-
tions for primary and
secondary school students. In
addition, the results of train-
ing from these institutions
cannot be used as criteria for
future enrollment in primary
or middle school, the state-
ment said.
Last month, the ministry
released a further rule
requiring local education
authorities to release
detailed plans by the middle
of April that will reduce stu-
dents’ excessive academic
burden. The plans should
include timetables for specif-
ic measures, names of the
people in charge and hotlines
for the public to report mis-
conduct.
In April, the Guangzhou
Bureau of Education con-
A passenger steps into a driverless minibus at Shanghai Jiao
Tong University on Tuesday. The bus is able to pick up passen-
gers and take them to a stop they select by scanning a QR code.
WANG GANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
it intelligently to avoid colli-
sions,” Yang said.
“It’s unlike driverless vehi-
cles that rely on a real-time
satellite positioning system,
which can be affected by the
surrounding environment
and severe weather.
“The bus is also equipped
with a core sensor that allows
it to work properly even on
rainy and snowy days, when
people need the vehicle more
than in good weather. A
recharge of five to six hours
can ensure a full day of oper-
ation.”
To ensure safety during
the trial run, a security offi-
cer on the bus can press a
stop button if needed, even
though he usually doesn’t
have to do anything. An
emergency button is also
available on the exterior of
the bus.
Yang said the cost of devel-
oping the driverless vehicles
is one-fifth to one-tenth the
CHINA 5
ducted secret inspections of
91 tutoring institutions.
Eighty-two institutions were
found to have engaged in
misconduct, including safety
hazards, exaggerated adver-
tising and operating without
proper permits.
Fifty-one institutions were
given one month to make cor-
rections, while 31 were closed
and fees were refunded to
parents.
About 160 after-school
training institutions signed
an agreement at a China
Association for Non-Govern-
mental Education conference
in Zhengzhou, Henan prov-
ince, to avoid teaching
beyond the syllabus, exam-
oriented tutoring, mock
exams or academic competi-
tions.
They also agreed to avoid
connections with teachers in
public schools or to use exag-
gerated advertising to lure
students into after-school
tutoring programs.
You Sen, deputy secretary-
general of the Chinese Socie-
ty of Education, said the
guidelines are intended to
increase the threshold for the
sector and shut down sub-
standard institutions.
“In the long term, after-
school training institutions
should only play a supple-
mentary role in China’s edu-
cation system, focusing on
offering individualized edu-
cational services and promot-
ing students’ all-around
development,” You said.
price of those developed in
Europe, which can cost sev-
eral million yuan.
“The bus is commercial
and intelligent, but its sys-
tem still needs development
to operate around cars or
other traffic,” he said.
Su Yuezeng, Party secre-
tary of the university’s elec-
tronic information and
electrical engineering school,
said the bus represents the
effort the university made to
combine talent training, sci-
entific research and indus-
trialization.
“We will continue with
research and the cultivation
of talent in the field of low-
speed driverless minibuses
and logistics systems,” Su
said.
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Liuliqiao subway station in
Beijing, which has been
redecorated with a theme of
cleanliness and integrity. The
decor, which was also adapted
to a subway train, uses lotus
flowers — traditionally
considered a symbol of
cleanliness and honesty.
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6 CHINA
Disaster
QUAKE VICTIMS RECALL DA
A
Ten years ago this week, a small county in Sichuan province was the epicenter of one of the most deadly and devastating earthquaa
the 10th anniversary approaches, China Daily reporters have been talking to some of those affected by the disaster to hear how t
Left: Xue Xiao’s request for Coke made him famous.
HE CHUAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Right: Xue this year. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
‘COKE BOY’ LOOKS
FORWARD TO A
LIFE WITH FIZZ
By CAO YIN
and HUANG ZHILING
in Chengdu
In recent weeks, Xue
Xiao, aka “Coke Boy”, has
been busy guiding a grow-
ing number of people on
tours of the World of Coca-
Cola in Chengdu, capital of
Sichuan province.
“I am happy with the
work; it suits me and could
help me take part in more
charity activities,” said Xue,
a survivor of the 2008
Wenchuan earthquake who
got his nickname after tell-
ing emergency workers he
wanted a Coke as he was
being pulled from the rub-
ble.
When the quake hit the
province a decade ago, Xue,
then 17, was buried beneath
the ruins of a collapsed
PUBLIC DUTY
TRIUMPHS OVER
PRIVATE GRIEF
By WANG KEJU
and CUI JIA in Chengdu
Only two things worry
Jiang Min these days;
whether her 7-year-old son
will sleep well in his own
bedroom, and working out
the best primary school for
him to attend.
Zheng Jing is not Jiang’s
first child, but it is the first
time the 38-year-old has
dealt with this sort of par-
enting problem. She feels as
inexperienced as any other
greenhorn mother.
“I always felt it was too
early for him (to sleep on his
own) and was worried that
he would be reluctant. But
on the contrary, I’m unable
to sleep well without him,”
she said.
Jiang, a police officer in
Sichuan province, lost 10
relatives, including her
2-year-old daughter and her
mother, in the magnitude 8
earthquake whose epicenter
was Wenchuan in May 2008.
Despite knowing about her
loss, Jiang insisted on work-
ing on the frontline in Bei-
chuan county, helping to
rescue survivors. She worked
until she fell to the ground
exhausted.
Every year, during Tomb
Sweeping Day or Spring Fes-
school building. As he was
pulled free three days later,
the teenager called out, “I
want a Coke, an icy one”.
The comment was broad-
cast nationwide, bringing
relief and amusement amid
the deep sorrow.
Eighty hours after the
quake, Xue’s right arm was
amputated, and a year later,
he was admitted to Shang-
hai University of Finance
and Economics without
having to take the entry
exam.
In April 2013, as a univer-
sity senior, Xue worked as
an intern at Coca-Cola Chi-
na in Shanghai, and after
graduation, he decided to
return to the company’s
branch in Sichuan to work.
“At first, I was in charge of
emergency public relations
for the branch, but after a
Left: Jiang Min in 2008. XIAO CHUN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Right: Jiang plays with her son. JU YANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
tival, Jiang brings her family
to Beichuan to pay their
respects to their loved ones.
“As the years pass by, the
shadow of the earthquake is
fading. Now I am learning to
simply accept whatever life
gives me,” she said.
In 2009, Jiang was trans-
ferred from her home in
Pengzhou to the Chengdu
police bureau. She works as
an administrator for the anti-
terrorism squad, dealing with
the welfare of grassroots offi-
cers.
“It’s been my dream to be a
police officer since high school
when I saw a movie about a
brave female who saved a
whole city. The movie has had
a huge influence on me ever
since,” she said.
Following the implementa-
tion of the Counterterrorism
Law of the People’s Republic
of China in 2015, Jiang was
post rotation, I found I was
more fascinated by the
drink and its production,”
he said.
April and May are the
busiest seasons for the
27-year-old, who receives
more than 2,000 visitors a
month. He explains the his-
tory of the beverage and
guides the guests on a tour
of the production line.
“The most important
thing is that the job allows
me to organize and partici-
pate in a lot of charitable
activities,” he said. “That’s
what I most wanted to do
after I was saved in the dis-
aster.”
For example, last year,
Xue visited Gansu province
to talk to students and
explain survival methods
they should adopt in the
event of an earthquake. He
selected to oversee a new
media platform, “Counterter-
rorism in Chengdu”, last year.
“Counterterrorism is a
completely new field for me. I
have had to equip myself with
all kinds of relevant informa-
tion from every possible plat-
form in my spare time, and
make sure people can learn
the basics of how to protect
themselves on our platform,”
she said.
Relatives from their home-
town have told Zheng Jing
that he once had an older sis-
ter, and the boy has asked
Jiang several times about the
sibling he never met. In
response, she simply
explained that his sister died
in an accident.
“He’s just a small kid full of
happiness and brightness. I
don’t want the scars of this
catastrophe to affect him too
much at such an early age. I
also helped the company
deliver drinking water to
Jiuzhaigou, a national park
in Sichuan that was severely
damaged by an earthquake
in August.
“My goal is just to do bet-
ter in my work for ‘Coke
World’ and live a free life,”
he said. “Compared with
people who didn’t go
through the (Wenchuan)
quake, I’m not afraid of diffi-
culties and I can overcome
them better.”
Soon, he plans to travel
overseas with friends, and is
looking forward to visiting
France, his dream destina-
tion.
“I want to learn about
romance from French peo-
ple, because it could play a
big role in dating girls. After
all, it’s time to find my Miss
Right,” he said, with a laugh.
will tell him everything when
he grows up. For now, I have
only taught him how to sur-
vive in an earthquake, which
is all he needs,” she said.
Jiang is not planning any-
thing special to mark the 10th
anniversary of the Wenchuan
earthquake, which will fall on
Saturday. Instead, she will
stay at home to conduct
research about local primary
schools and cook dinner for
her son and husband.
“For people who did not go
through the earthquake, the
10th anniversary may be a
special time to hold a memo-
rial ceremony. But for me,
every year matters. People
may forget it in 20 years. I
can’t. I will remember it for
the rest of my life,” she said.
Contact the writers at
wangkeju@
chinadaily.com.cn
My goal is
just to do
better in my
work for
‘Coke
World’ and
live a free
life.”
Xue Xiao
“Now I am
Left: Lang Zheng salutes his rescuers as he is lifted clear of the rubble in 2008. YANGG
learning to Right: The 13-year-old displays his basketball skills at his home. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAI
simply
accept
whatever THE SALUTE THAT M
life gives By CAO YIN saluting the army squad. At school, L
me.” in Mianyang, Sichuan In the years that followed, tory and biolo o
caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn Lang was besieged by the of working in h
Jiang Min media, but his teachers and logical researcc
At the age of 3, Lang Zheng classmates, who are all famil- Picking up t
became an icon of the earth- iar with his story, have never famous salutee
quake in Beichuan county, treated him as a celebrity. said he and h
Sichuan province, when he He dislikes having his photo been thinking g
saluted the soldiers who res-
cued him from the rubble.
Now, at 1.73 meters tall,
taken, but he puts up with it
because his parents have
pointed out that it’s a tribute
tographer, Yan
The photo
n
a
died of liver ca
almost the same height as his
father, Lang is a grade-one
from the public who still
appreciate his gesture.
bond between
Yang often visii
n
“I want
middle school student.
The 13-year-old can’t
remember the moment the
Although he is shy and even
diffident when talking about
the salute, he becomes confi-
in the years a
shot was takeen
Lang Hong g
quake hit and buried him dent and talkative when the Zheng’s fatherr
under the rubble, but he subject turns to basketball, his son to join thee
him to be knows he was rescued the fol- favorite sport. brate Spring F
optimistic lowing day. All his memories
of the disaster come from his
Asked which NBA team and
player he likes most, he imme-
“Last mon
visited Yang
nt
g
and look parents, along with a press diately replied “Golden State remember h
photographer’s photos of him Warriors and Klay Thompson”. Sweeping Day ay
ahead.”
Wu Xiaohong, FIRST PERSON
Lang Zheng’s mother
THE PHOTO THAT ALTERE
E
Yang Bo, 28, is the son of the 30-minute trip. We were visit Beichuann
Yang Weihua, who took the “similar strangers”. again to use hii
“salute” photo of Lang Zheng I didn’t understand my record the cou u
as he was pulled from the father’s work until he took and the peoplee
rubble in wake of the Wen- me to Beichuan county in after the quakk
chuan quake. August 2008, three months In 2015, as p
after the massive quake. The celebrating Ch h
M
y father was a place was full of debris. Year, my fathee
photographer As we passed one large cancer. He wass
with Mianyang pile of rubble, he told me photographic
Evening News. that it had been the kinder- Beichuan stop p
The most famous picture he garten where he had heard moment.
took was that of Lang Zheng Lang call for help and had Earlier this y
saluting the soldiers as he photographed the moment up thousands
was rescued in Beichuan the kid saluted the soldiers It was the firstt
county. The photo not only during his rescue. looked throug g
changed Lang’s destiny, but He said the photo was just body of work.
also my father’s. an instinctive act — he nev- In one photo o
My father had been far er thought it would place ered in blood a
from me because my par- him and Lang in the public piled in one pll
ents divorced when I was eye. another, the saa
very young and I lived with My father told me, “The covered by thee
my mother. When they first photo made me feel guilty yellow flowerss
broke up, he drove me to because I won honor them, I sudden n
school every weekend, but through other people’s pain.” why my fatherr
we both stayed silent during That feeling forced him to the county so t
 Thursday, May 10, 2018

C H I N A DA I LY

AY THEIR LIVES CHANGED

akes of modern times. About 80,000 people lost their lives or were reported missing in the magnitude 8 quake. As
they survived and rebuilt their lives.

The photo
made me Left: Tang Xuemei in 2008. WANG SHEN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Right: Tang this year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
feel guilty
because I
won honor FROM AMPUTEE
through TO NATIONAL
other
people’s TEAM ATHLETE
pain.” By ZHANG YI tated below the knee. beginning, but she left the is that I love the sport very
Zhangyi1@chinadaily.com.cn Undeterred, she began national squad in 2013, long- much. I realized that it would
Yang Weihua, playing sitting volleyball the ing to try a new venture in a be a pity to stop playing at
who took the photo of Ten years ago, when she following year, when a coach different environment. such a young age. Many
Lang Zheng’s famous was 14, Tang Xuemei lost a for the Shanghai Disabled In 2014, she moved to teammates are still practic-
salute leg in the Wenchuan earth- Persons’ Sports Training Cen- Hainan province because she ing in their 30s,” she said,
quake, but that didn’t stop ter realized that Tang’s height liked the island’s tropical cli- adding that friends gave her
her from following her and long arms suggested mate, and opened a badmin- a lot of encouragement.
dreams. great sporting potential. ton center with a number of Early this year, she left her
“When I look back, I feel Although she had never friends. badminton center in good
“The sport grateful and lucky. The disas- played the game before 2009, “Until I began running the hands in Hainan and trav-
G WEIHUA / FOR CHINA DAILY ter made me stronger in Tang’s tough, undaunted center, I didn’t realize that eled to Wuxi, Jiangsu pro-
LY brings me a adversity and changed my spirit quickly saw her make management was such hard vince, to join the provincial
world totally. Without it, I the national sitting volleyball work. It requires a lot of volleyball squad.
lot of wouldn’t have the life I have squad and represent China knowledge and experience, “At this moment, my goal is
now,” the 24-year-old athlete many times. as well as the ability to deal to get back into the sport as
happiness.
MADE A BOY A STAR The shadow
said.
Born to a rural family in
Qingchuan county, Sichuan
As the youngest player in
the squad, she played in the
2010 Asian Para Games in
with many things at the same
time,” she said.
“I read a lot in my spare
quickly as possible and make
a breakthrough. I also spend
a lot of time reading and

Lang enjoys his- dong said. a lottery worth 5 million yuan

cast by the province, Tang had never left
her home village until the
Guangzhou, Guangdong
province, and the 2012 Lon-
time to fill the gap in my
knowledge that was left after
studying to improve myself,”
she said.
ogy, and dreams Looking at the photo, the ($788,000),” he said. earthquake magnitude 8 earthquake don Paralympics. The Chinese I failed to study hard during “When I look at the new-
historical or bio- 43-year-old was taken back to Wu Xiaohong, Lang destroyed the remote moun- team won gold at both events. my years as an athlete. I feel I comers in the team, I see
ch later in life. the events of May 12, 2008. Zheng’s mother, was luckier; has almost tain settlement. “The sport brings me a lot have become more inde- myself many years ago, cher-
the photo of his When the quake hit, he was at she was able to hold her son Tang’s school collapsed in of happiness. The shadow pendent and calm in the face ishing the opportunity and
from a table, he a police station in Beichuan, on the evening on May 13, vanished.” the quake, and she was cast by the earthquake has of difficulties.” striving to realize my poten-
his parents have about 50 kilometers from his shortly after he was rescued. trapped under concrete almost vanished,” she said. After learning a life lesson tial.”
g about the pho- son’s kindergarten. “It was like a dream,” the Tang Xuemei slabs. “The hard work and opti- through her new adventure Away from the sporting
ng Weihua, who “I worried about my son 40-year-old said. Although she was res- mism of my teammates, who and experiencing a different arena, she has set herself one
ancer in 2015. and wife, but the damaged To ensure that Lang Zheng cued after 28 hours, her left also lost legs, have deeply world, Tang decided to start more goal — to settle down
has formed a roads and poor mobile signal could live a normal, happy leg was so severely dam- influenced me.” playing volleyball again. and start a family. She will
n the families. meant we had no way to con- life, his parents have rarely aged that it had to be ampu- Volleyball gave Tang a new “The most important thing succeed, no doubt.
ited Lang Zheng nect,” he said. “The buildings spoken about with him the
after the famous in Beichuan were so shabby a quake. “I want him to be opti-
n, and this year
gdong, Lang
r, invited Yang’s
decade ago that I assumed
my son was dead.”
It was seven days before he
mistic and look ahead,” Wu
said.
“After all, time can alleviate “Just being REPAYING A DEBT
e family to cele-
Festival.
learned that his son had sur-
vived, and that his salute had
and cure everything. We
should cherish what we have
alive is the AT CLINIC THAT
th, our family
g’s grave to
him on Tomb
made him a “superstar”.
“You can’t image how excit-
ed I was at that moment. I
right now.”

Huang Zhiling contributed to

happiest
thing for
SAVED HER LEGS
ay,” Lang Hong- was happier than if I had won this story By TAN YINGZI
me.” in Chongqing
tanyingzi@chinadaily.com.cn
Heng Yonghong
Heng Yonghong, 27, a sur-

ED MY FATHER’S DESTINY vivor of the devastating mag-

nitude 8 earthquake that
struck Wenchuan, Sichuan
Left: Heng Yonghong learns to walk again in 2008.
Above: Heng in Chongqing this year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

province, on May 12, 2008,

n again and now works in the accounts “She was so young. We center in Chongqing treated
is camera to department of the medical knew that even if we saved Heng as a family member,
unty’s rebirth center where she was treated one of her legs, her life would especially Shi, who not only
e’s prospects after the disaster. be changed forever,” he sponsored her college tuition
ke. “My job is to organize the recalled. fee but has also encouraged
people were receipts. It may sound boring Fortunately for Heng, the her in the years since the dis-
hinese New to many people, but I really treatment she received and aster.
er died of liver like it,” she said, with a big her will to survive saw the “As a doctor, knowing that
s just 51. His smile. “Just being alive is the 17-year-old return home to I saved Heng’s legs and
recording of happiest thing for me,” she pulled her out of the col- Beichuan just two months helped her to grow up is the
pped at that said, referring to the earth- lapsed classroom, her legs later. Both her legs had been proudest achievement of my
quake that left about 80,000 were so badly injured that saved. life,” he said.
year, I tidied people dead or missing. everyone assumed they This tragedy made Heng He noted that his former
of his photos. Heng, who has a younger would have to be amputated. much stronger. She contin- patient still keeps in touch
t time I had brother, was born into a poor She was quickly trans- ued to study with her class- with the volunteers who
gh his entire farming family in Beichuan, ferred to the nearby Chong- mates at a temporary helped her in Chongqing.
a county in the southwestern qing Emergency Medical campus, and took the nation- In 2014, Heng passed the
Photographer Yang Weihua chats with Lang Zheng in 2013.
o, bodies cov- province. Center to receive advanced al college entrance exam in hospital’s recruitment test.
HUO YAN / CHINA DAILY
and dust are When the quake struck, treatment from a team of 12 2010. She and a colleague share a
lace, while in she was a first-grade student experts that had been assem- Because she regarded rented apartment near the
ame location is During Spring Festival this were still alive, he would at Beichuan High School. bled to treat survivors. Chongqing as her second hospital, and she enjoys play-
e blossoms of year, I visited Beichuan and have brought his camera to Only 25 of the 60 children in Shi Ruofei, who was direct- hometown, she applied to ing table tennis and practic-
s. Looking at visited Lang’s family. As I the county without any hesi- her class survived. or of the center and led the study accountancy at Yang- ing yoga.
nly understood watched Lang and his father tation. She spent more than 30 earthquake medical team, tze Normal University in the “I am so glad I was able to
r took photos of play basketball, I became hours trapped under rubble, was determined to save city. return to my second home-
tenaciously. lost in thought. If my father Yang Bo spoke with Cao Yin. and when a rescue team Heng’s legs. The team at the medical town,” she said.
8 Thursday, May 10, 2018

COMMENT
EDITORIAL • OPINION
China Daily
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EDITORIALS

Trump again disregards Cai Meng

international consensus

D
espite the calls of the overwhelming majority of
the international community for the United
States to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, US Presi-
dent Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that
he will withdraw the US from the pact and reim-
pose sanctions against Teheran. His decision is
not only a blow to the agreement itself, it also
renounces the multilateral efforts that secured the compact.
In July 2015, after two years of tough negotiations, Iran and six
world powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the
US, plus the European Union — reached a deal, in which Iran
would freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for the US
and the EU lifting sanctions.
Since the deal went into effect on October 18, 2015, the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation’s nuclear watch-
dog, has confirmed ten times that Iran has fully complied with
the obligations set out in the deal.
Trump withdrawing the US from the deal puts the multilateral
deal in jeopardy, which in the worst-case scenario, as some have
already warned, could lead to war with Iran.
However, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have all
staunchly defended the deal, saying they are committed to it.
That they are not willing to follow the US’ lead this time offers
hopes that the deal may survive without the US.
But whatever happens to the deal itself, Trump’s move has
immediately thrown US-Iran relations into confrontation again.
Something that will not help to calm the turmoil in the Middle
East. Especially, as the move seems intended to accelerate the
forced regime change in Teheran that Washington and its Middle
East allies seem to be seeking.
It also sends the wrong message to the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea at a crucial moment.
This is not the first time that Trump has torn up a multilateral
deal. From the Paris climate change pact to the Trans-Pacific Part-
nership trade agreement, Trump’s “America First” doctrine has OPINION LINE
proved to mean the US will not be beholden to its promises.
While it is natural that the US leader should want to put his coun-
try’s interests first, those interests do not exist in a vacuum. In today’s
interconnected world, the butterfly wings of even minor decisions
Universities’ budget rankings not Age rating cartoons
could stop copycat
can result in significant and unforeseen consequences elsewhere.
And those in their turn also have their own butterfly effects.
Trump wants to improve the US’ fortunes, which is all very
well. But he is not a fortuneteller. Nor is anyone else in his admin-
an indicator of how good they are acts by youngsters
istration. Not even whatever algorithms they might be using can
help them predict every eventuality. FOLLOWING THE REQUIREMENT of the Education Ministry, 75 universities directly under its ON APRIL 15, a 6-year-old girl jumped
The deal was working; that much is known. It would have been administration have disclosed their budgets for this year. Beijing-based Tsinghua University tops the list off the sixth floor of a building with an
much better to leave it alone. with an annual budget of 26.95 billion yuan ($4.23 billion), 10 billion yuan more than Zhejiang University umbrella in hand in Wuhu city, East China’s
(15.47 billion yuan), which ranks second on the list. China Education Daily comments: Anhui province. Fortunately, she was only
lightly injured. Procuratorate Daily com-
Three neighbors give added Some media outlets have commented that the
universities’ budgets directly reflect their educa-
earning capacities of universities strong in sci-
ence and technology are markedly higher than
ments:

tion quality and research level. In fact, that is not
impetus to regional progress necessarily the case. For instance, Peking Universi-
ty’s budget ranks sixth on the list. But it remains
the most difficult university to enter for high
the universities of liberal arts. But that does not
mean that the arts and humanities are less impor-
tant than science and technology, or science uni-
versities more important than arts and
Reports suggest the girl might have been
imitating something that she had seen in a
cartoon. If true, that’s not the first case of its
kind.

A
lthough ties have been strained in recent times by their
territorial and historical disputes, leaders of Japan, Chi-
na and the Republic of Korea struck a more harmoni-
ous note in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Which is not surprising as the trilateral summit came hard on
the heels of the positive progress that has been made in efforts to
bring the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in from the cold.
And the efforts Beijing and Tokyo had been making to build on
their shared interests to kick-start their stalled relations.
Indeed, when Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and ROK President Moon Jae-in sat down for talks,
the portents for joint efforts to promote regional peace and stabil-
ity and greater economic integration were the most promising
they have been for years.
The fact that they reached a consensus on the need for complete
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the permanent estab-
lishment of peace shows that there is common ground to be found.
And there is much the three neighboring countries could achieve if
they could shelve their differences and work together. Certainly in
trade, where a tripartite free trade agreement is long overdue.
For despite the fact that their combined markets account for
more than 20 percent of the global gross domestic product, intra-
regional trade among the three is only 20 percent of their total
trade. Clearly there is much potential to be tapped.
And tapping that potential has become even more urgent in the
face of the United States’ protectionist stance on trade.
Reports that they have agreed to work toward finalizing an FTA
and the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner-
ship with Southeast Asian nations hopefully mark progress
toward realizing what would give significant boosts to the region-
al economy.
However, as Premier Li said on Wednesday, China-Japan ties
are at a crucial stage for improvement, as this year marks the
40th anniversary of the signing of the bilateral treaty of peace
and friendship. That opportunity should not be wasted. The two
countries should uphold the principles of the four basic docu-
ments that form the foundation for better ties.
The meeting shows that where there is conviction and certainty
in the goals to be achieved, the three countries can find words of
shared resolve. Now the three should ensure their conduct is in
accordance with their expressed intentions.
school graduates. It makes more sense to judge a
university by its minimum enrollment marks in the
national college entrance exam than how much it
spends each year.
It is noteworthy that government funds account
for an increasingly smaller share in the universities
incomes, as an increasingly larger share comes
from their earnings for their training and research
activities.
That the authorities make it a compulsory
practice for the universities to disclose their bud-
gets is intended to enhance their transparency of
how they use public money, not to provide socie-
ty with an indicator of their educational and
research rankings.
It is understandable that the spending and
Dating sites offer easy pickings for scammers
REPORTEDLY, it only costs 30 yuan ($4.71) to buy everything you need to register with someone
else’s identity for use on matchmaking websites. People’s Daily commented on Wednesday:
People can purchase all they need to register on
matchmaking websites, a new name, ID card num-
ber and home address, which are all real but
belong to someone else. To make the fake identity
appear even more realistic for his or her targets,
one only needs to spend another 108 yuan to pur-
chase dozens of photos and video clips to perfect
the subterfuge. What enables this illegal practice is
the dating websites ignoring their legal obligation
to verify their users’ identities, as well as the weak
supervision of such websites.
The websites’ profits mainly come from the
users’ registration fees, and some of them pass the
buck to the users to double check each other’s iden-
tity, shirking their own responsibilities as service
platforms and information providers.
Some fraud cases exposed by the public have
shown the dangers of such “masked” dating, which
humanities universities.
Ranking the educational capabilities of universi-
ties according to the size of their budgets is neither
fair nor rational. For example, Renmin University
of China in Beijing, which is a leading university
for studies of philosophy, economics, law, manage-
ment and politics, should not be deemed a medio-
cre university because its budget is only one-third
that of some science and technology institutes. It
has proved to be a cradle for many successful law-
yers, economists, thinkers and politicians, and
remains one of the most difficult universities to
enter nationwide.
Thus, the media should pay more attention to
how the universities spend the money rather than
how big their budgets are.
has provided the fraudsters with tremendous
opportunities to scam people.
But the dating websites and even the dealers of
the identity information wash their hands of any
responsibility for the crimes, and only those fraud-
sters that are caught are brought to justice for the
wrongdoing.
The authorities urged the dating websites to
strictly implement the real-name registration sys-
tem and strengthen the protecting of their custom-
ers last September. But that has not yet been
translated into concrete actions.
The dating websites must verify that people are
who they say they are. It is necessary that the
authorities take immediate measures to address
the issue as the scams have caused increasingly
broader negative social influences, particularly
among young people.
In March last year, a 5-year-old girl in
Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous
region, jumped off the 11th floor of a build-
ing with an umbrella in hand She was seri-
ously hurt.
In other cases, in April 2013, an 8-year-
old boy in Lianyungang city, East China’s
Jiangsu province, tied two playmates to a
tree and set them on fire because he hoped
to imitate a wolf who roasted sheep in a
cartoon. And in March 2016, a 10-year-old
girl scarred her younger sister’s face with
an electric saw as she had seen a character
in a cartoon do.
All these call for a classification system
for animations. Of the cartoon movies cur-
rently shown on TV and online, too many
contain violence, verbal abuse, and other
improper scenes. In a popular TV series,
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, the goat is
put into a pot for cooking purposes 839
times and the wolf inflicts an electric shock
on it 1,755 times. If any child tries to imitate
these, that could prove deadly.
To prevent this, many scholars and experts
have long been calling for classification of
cartoons, so that audiences under a certain
age limit won’t see the ones with improper
content. Actually, that is a common practice
in developed countries. For example, in
Japan, animated movies are divided into
those suitable for full ages, 12 and above, 15
and above, 18 and above, and the cartoons
for children are prohibited from containing
sex, violence, and verbal abuse.
The classification will not only regulate
the market, but also help parents. Many
parents think cartoons are good for chil-
dren, without realizing which cartoons are
suitable for their child’s age. A classification
system will help them allow their children
to watch cartoons suitable for their age.

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 CHINA DAILY Thursday, May 10, 2018
Zhang Yan
Xi’s thought a development of Marxism
A
t a conference to mark
the 200th birth anni-
versary of Karl Marx in
the Great Hall of the
People in Beijing on May 4, Presi-
dent Xi Jinping said Marx’s theo-
ries shine with the brilliance of
truth even after the profound
changes in human society. The
most valuable and influential
asset that Marx has left us with is
Marxism, which “illuminated the
path of humanity’s exploration of
the law of history, and humani-
ty’s search for their own libera-
tion”.
In his speech, Xi summarized
the characteristics of Marxism
saying it is a people-centric scien-
tific theory, which creatively
reveals the law of social develop-
ment. As such, Marxism is the
theory of the people, aimed at
building a system based on ideol-
ogy to strive for liberation of
humanity. Marxism is also a
practical theory, which guides
people’s action to change the
world. Marxism is a continuously
Many lessons learnt from Wenchuan quake
Editor’s note: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 8.0-mag-
nitude earthquake that devastated Wenchuan and other areas in Sich-
uan province on May 12, 2008. Among other things, the Wenchuan
earthquake taught China to take more precautionary measures to
deal with natural disasters. In fact, the country has made remarkable
progress in this regard over the past decade. Three experts share their
views with China Daily’s Yao Yuxin on the earthquake and its after-
math. Excerpts follow:
Advance quake warning
system can save lives
Early warning of an earth-
quake can save many lives and
prevent many secondary disas-
ters. The warning system taken
by the Insitute of Care-Life has
been coworking with other agen-
cies across China, covering 2.2
million square kilometers, the
largest expanse in the world, and
covers schools, communities,
nuclear power plants and chemi-
cal factories.
Wang Tun,
director of the
Institute of
Care-Life in
Chengdu, Sich-
uan province
The EEWS has already become
a part of the local residents’ daily
life for almost 10 years. With the
help of local broadcasting agen-
cies, it has issued earthquake
warnings about 40 times, includ-
ing that for the 7.0-magnitude
Lushan earthquake in Sichuan
province in 2013 that helped to
significantly reduce the number
of casualties. Local residents can
use “Internet Plus” to download
an app for earthquake warning
on their mobile phones to get
firsthand information and early
warning against quakes.
Besides, as the third country —
after Mexico and Japan — to
establish an EEWS, China can
use the experience to help the
countries along the Belt and
Road to issue early warning for
quakes. Actually, an EEWS has
been already installed in Nepal,
which covers one-third of the
Ma Xiaolin
US leaving Iran nuclear deal a reckless act
U
S President Donald
Trump pulled out of
the Iran nuclear deal
on Tuesday and reim-
posed sanctions on Teheran.
Trump’s unilateral action and
some other developments sug-
gest the Iran deal, formally
known as the Joint Comprehen-
sive Plan of Action and signed by
the Barack Obama administra-
tion in 2015, has been all but
scrapped. The deal’s future
became uncertain also because
the seven countries (Iran and the
US, Britain, France, Russia, China
and Germany) that signed it had
become increasingly divided.
Previously, French President
Emmanuel Macron and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel failed
to persuade Trump to not with-
draw from the nuclear agreement
and to desist from reimposing
sanctions on Iran. Macron even
echoed Trump’s appeal to work
out a new nuclear deal, which
developing open system as well,
which has always stood at the
forefront of the times.
Marx’s profound exploration of
the world may have been based
on the existing systems and con-
ditions during his times, but it
goes beyond his times in terms of
spirit and philosophy. It is the
essence of the spirit of those
times as well as all times, includ-
ing the present and the future.
Therefore, Marxism is trans-gen-
erational universal truth, but it
has to be developed so that it can
be applied to the reality of mod-
ern times.
The Communist Party of China
has followed Marxism since its
establishment and has been
developing the philosophy in
practice. It has used Marxism as
a spiritual weapon for China’s
revolution, construction and
reform. Xi Jinping Thought on
Socialism with Chinese Charac-
teristics for a New Era is the lat-
est development of Marxism with
Chinese characteristics, which is
country’s territory and half of its
population.
Trauma victims in need
of institutional guarantee
Wang Bin, an
associate profes-
sor at the Law
School of South-
west University
of Science and
Technology
Residents suffering from post-
earthquake trauma receive ther-
apy under a treatment program
established with policy, financial
and technical support from the
government, and some nonprofit
organizations, local communities
and individual psychiatrists.
Some trauma patients could
need such treatment for up to 20
years before they can fully reinte-
grate into society.
Mental health problems such
as post-traumatic stress disorder
caused by disasters have got
increasing attention nationwide,
especially after the Wenchuan
earthquake. Immediate interven-
tion could heal the invisible psy-
chological injuries of the quake
survivors and eliminate the pos-
sible social risks associated with
such trauma.
Thanks to the growing num-
ber of professional psychiatrists,
the country can now better deal
with the rising demand for psy-
chotherapy. In particular, the
attitude of the people in the
earthquake-affected region has
helped the authorities, psychia-
trists and medical practitioners
to keep the ill effects of post-trau-
matic stress disorder in China at
would have included Iran’s long-
range missile program, during his
last visit to the United States.
Apparently, Macron was trying to
appease the Trump administra-
tion to consolidate its alliance
with the US while averting the
dismantling of the non-prolifera-
tion regime at the expense of
Iran’s interests.
Trump considered the Iran
nuclear deal a bad bargain for the
US when he began campaigning
for presidential campaign and
had vowed to pull out from the
deal once he was elected US pres-
ident. To be fair, the US Congress
had not approved the deal, which
meant its legal status was weaker
than an agreement or communi-
qué in Americans’ eyes. This fact
was being used as an excuse by
conservatives in both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties to
censure Iran at regular intervals,
and by Trump to threaten to
scrap the deal.
Xi’s thought
develops the prac-
tical aspects of
Marxism. It
combines
Marxism’s funda-
mental principles
and China’s actual
practice ...
the form of Marxism practiced by
China in the new era.
The CPC inherited the scientif-
ic essence of Marxism. Based on
the scientific understanding of
the general rules of human socie-
ty according to Marxism, espe-
a much lower level than that in
some developed countries.
However, there is a need to
expedite the construction of a
stronger system to provide psy-
chotherapy and social support
for trauma patients in hard-to-
reach mountainous areas. Also,
adequate funds should be made
available to ensure continuous
assistance for such people in the
coming decade.
Therefore, social awareness
about the importance of psycho-
therapy should be raised, so that
more post-traumatic stress disor-
der patients seek treatment. In
addition, institutional and finan-
cial guarantees are needed to
continue the ongoing assistance
program for trauma patients.
Government should support
civil groups in rescue work
Private assistant groups, which
Israel and Saudi Arabia, which
are traditional US allies in the
Middle East, have been voicing
their worries over Iran’s so-called
westward expansion and rising
influence in the region. The two
countries have apparently
aligned to suppress Iran, and
even attempted to sway Trump’s
Middle East policies by, among
other things, purchasing US
arms and military equipment in
bulk and lobbying the pro-Israel
politicians in Washington.
In addition, Trump also plans
to pull out its “forces” from Syria,
which will create more maneu-
vering space for Russia and Iran.
Thus containing Iran’s projection
of power and ensuring the securi-
ty of its allies in the Middle East
by negotiating new terms have
become a priority for Trump.
Despite the International
Atomic Energy Agency’s reitera-
tion that Iran has been abiding
by the nuclear deal and strong
cially historical materialism, the
Party has carried out China’s
social development and its own
socialist construction.
Xi’s thought develops the prac-
tical aspects of Marxism. It com-
bines Marxism’s fundamental
principles and China’s actual
practice, opening up a series of
plans and paths that are in
accordance with China’s actual
national conditions. Xi’s thought
also shows the way to deepen
reform in an all-round way,
injects new vitality into the
development of social productive
forces by adjusting the relations
of production and improving the
superstructure to meet the devel-
opment demand of the economic
base.
Xi’s thought reflects Marxism’s
people-centric philosophy. It
regards people’s happiness as its
essential mission, sticks to the
fundamental purpose of serving
the people, establishes deeper
connection with the people and
continuously strides forward to
Deng Guosheng,
a professor at
the School of
Public Policy
and Manage-
ment, Tsinghua
University
complement government rescue
and relief agencies, are usually
the first to arrive in earthquake-
hit areas in Japan. In China, too,
more and more non-governmen-
tal organizations are providing
humanitarian relief for the peo-
ple in disaster-hit areas. In fact,
some Chinese civil groups can
now offer more timely, flexible,
professional and innovative res-
cue methods than they did in the
past.
But management disorder in
objections from the other five
countries that negotiated and
inked the Iran nuclear deal in
2015, Trump had managed to
split the permanent members of
the UN Security Council and put
the future of the deal in danger.
From the point of maintaining
trans-Atlantic relationships on a
larger scale, the Trump adminis-
tration moved to kill the Iran
nuclear deal regardless of the
opposition of China, Russia, Brit-
ain and Germany. Moreover, Chi-
na and Russia alone cannot save
the deal if the US, Britain, France
and Germany reach a consensus
to scrap it.
Iran faces a tough choice —
either to confront the Trump
administration and suffer from
economic, trade and financial
isolation, or give in to the US and
abandon its massive investment
and compromise its geographical
advantage, while significantly
reducing its strategic combat and
help the people to achieve com-
mon prosperity. In addition, it
advances to build a community
of shared future for humankind.
Xi’s thought also manifests the
openness of Marxism, while
applying Marxist principles to
contemporary China. Besides,
Xi’s thought keeps pace with the
times during the process of
deepening reform and opening-
up.
In contemporary China, guid-
ed by Xi Jinping Thought on
Socialism with Chinese Charac-
teristics for a New Era, the scien-
tificity and truthfulness of
Marxism has been fully tested, its
people-oriented approach fully
implemented, and its openness
and epochal character fully man-
ifested. Xi’s thought therefore is a
development of Marxism, which
is applicable to today’s China.
The author is a researcher at the
Marxism School, Party School of
the Communist Party of China
Central Committee.
SHI YU / CHINA DAILY
the first few hours of emergency
relief, volunteers high on enthu-
siasm but low on organizational
support can disrupt normal res-
cue work. Therefore, it is neces-
sary to promote closer
cooperation and coordination
among different government
departments and individuals,
and other organizations to
ensure smooth rescue and relief
work.
Although individuals and non-
profit organizations in China are
developing fast, the training and
management of their volunteers
and equipment are still not as
professional as their counter-
parts in developed countries.
Therefore, the government needs
to provide such civil rescue for-
ces with more policy and finan-
cial support to make them truly
professional.
deterrence capabilities. Either
way, Iran is staring at disaster.
On the other hand, Iran has
been as uncompromising as
Trump. Earlier, Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani said: “If America
leaves the nuclear deal, this will
entail historic regret for it.” Teher-
an has even threatened to prompt-
ly restart the uranium enrichment
program once the US pulls out of
the multiparty nuclear deal.
Now that the US has with-
drawn from the deal decades of
hard work by the international
community could go to waste,
and the non-proliferation regime,
along with the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weap-
ons, might be disabled. And a
new round of nuclear and con-
ventional arms race could follow,
putting the hard-won transient
peace in the Middle East at stake.
The author is a professor at Bei-
jing Foreign Studies University.
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Zhao Huanxin
The author is deputy editor-in-chief
of China Daily USA.
huanxinzhao@chinadailyusa.com
More women
taking part in
economy means
higher returns
T
here is a lucrative charm in advanc-
ing women’s equality: countries in
the Asia-Pacific region could add
$4.5 trillion to their combined annu-
al GDP by 2025, a 12 percent increase over the
business-as-usual trajectory. In particular,
China’s economy could increase by $2.6 tril-
lion — 13 percent above the business-as-usual
course — if it pursues gender parity, according
to a McKinsey research report issued last
month.
The 240-page report that analyzes the high
gender inequality in the Asia-Pacific and
details deliverable ways of change is a lauda-
ble public service by McKinsey, a global man-
agement consulting firm.
Asia-Pacific is a global engine of growth.
Women can help, and are helping, to power
this engine, and contribute to the region’s
growth, which in turn will lift more people out
of poverty, said Jonathan Woetzel, director of
the McKinsey Global Institute and his nine
colleagues who prepared the report. Yet large
gaps remain in many countries in the region
in terms of gender equality both in workplace
and in social life, says the report titled “The
Power of Parity: Advancing Women’s Equality
in Asia-Pacific”.
Indeed, the economic divi-
dend from advancing gen-
der equality is attractive
for China and the other
Asia-Pacific countries.
“From an economic perspective, trying to
grow without enabling the full potential of
women is like fighting with one hand tied
behind one’s back,” the report says.
The report focuses on seven countries —
Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the
Philippines and Singapore — which are home
to more than 80 percent of the region’s female
population and account for 90 percent of the
estimated additional $4.5 trillion GDP oppor-
tunity in the 18 Asia-Pacific economies.
In addition to examining the status quo of
gender inequality in these countries, the
research is valuable in that it investigated the
issue of women in leadership positions in
businesses, and has suggested measures to
help raise the number of women in compa-
nies.
The report looks at gender equality in four
dimensions: work; healthcare, education, and
financial and digital services; legal protection
and political voice; and physical security and
autonomy. And the discussions in the report
are of particular significance to China, which
it says accounts for 35 percent of the region’s
female population, and women contribute an
above-average 41 percent to its GDP.
In his speech to the 19th National Congress
of the Communist Party of China in October,
General Secretary Xi Jinping said: “We must
adhere to the fundamental national policy of
gender equality and protect the legitimate
rights and interests of women and minors.”
The McKinsey Global Institute compiles a
“gender parity score” to measure the distance
a country has traveled toward parity, which is
set at 1.0. China scores 0.61, the same as the
global average, but slightly higher than the
Asia-Pacific’s average of 0.56. McKinsey says
China does well on female labor-force partici-
pation, but it should improve its share of
women in leadership, which stands at 0.2,
meaning only one woman for every five men
in leadership roles.
In the United States, the share of woman
CEOs of Fortune 500 companies topped 5 per-
cent for the first time in the first quarter of
2017, according to a Pew Research Center
release. To improve gender parity in the Asia-
Pacific, the report asks policymakers, compa-
nies and NGOs to focus on higher female
labor-force participation in quality jobs as a
priority to boost economic growth, while
improving women’s representation in busi-
ness leadership positions.
The report also says the authorities should
strive to improve women’s access to digital
technology. For China, the report suggests the
country build on its emerging strength in
women’s entrepreneurship in the e-commerce
and technology sectors, in order to encourage
more women to enter professional and tech-
nological fields, and rise up to leadership posi-
tions.
Indeed, the economic dividend from
advancing gender equality is attractive for
China and the other Asia-Pacific countries.
Moreover, the benefits of realizing gender
equality will not be confined to any one coun-
try’s economy. It will help unfold a whole new
world.
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Voting ends in
Malaysian election
By CHINA DAILY
Polling stations closed in
Malaysia on Wednesday at
the end of a cliffhanger elec-
tion that pitted Prime Minis-
ter Najib Razak’s long-ruling
coalition against a resurgent
opposition led by 92-year-
old former leader Mahathir
Mohamad.
The ruling Barisan
Nasional coalition had met a
fierce challenge brought by
the opposition alliance —
Pakatan Harapan, or the Alli-
ance of Hope.
The BN coalition had bet
on generous handouts and
the “proven track record” of
the government to seek a
third term, while Mahathir is
calling for a change.
Though most political ana-
lysts had favored the BN to
win, the opposition seemed
to have managed to raise con-
cerns among voters on cer-
tain issues such as increasing
living costs, adding uncer-
tainties to the election.
The Election Commission
said that 69 percent of the
roughly 15 million registered
voters had cast their vote as
of 3 pm, two hours before
polls closed.
Around 85 percent voted
at the last election in 2013.
Most results are expected
before midnight but the
count may spill into the early
hours of Thursday.
A simple majority of 112
parliament seats will pro-
duce a winner.
On Wednesday, people
swarmed to polling stations
in the capital city of Kuala
Lumpur and around the
country, which have been dec-
orated with campaign posters
and flags bearing the symbols
of various political parties.
At a polling station of Titi-
wangsa constituency in Kua-
A woman votes during the general election in Alor Setar,
Malaysia, on Wednesday. LAI SENG SIN / REUTERS
New evacuations as
volcano erupts again
PAHOA, Hawaii — The Kil-
auea volcano erupted again
on Tuesday, spewing toxic
gases out of two new vents
and prompting authorities to
call for an immediate evacu-
ation of residents from a sec-
ond neighborhood on the Big
Island.
The County of Hawaii Civil
Defense Agency issued an
emergency bulletin ordering
residents of the Lanipuna Gar-
dens area on the east side of
the island to leave their homes.
“Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory confirms 2 new
vents. All Lanipuna residents
must evacuate now,” the
agency said in its bulletin,
adding that the two vents
had opened near two road
intersections and were
“actively erupting”.
Earlier on Tuesday, resi-
dents of the hardest-hit area,
known as Leilani Estates,
drove through clouds of sul-
fur and over cracked roads to
make desperate and possibly
last visits home before anoth-
er eruption by Kilauea, which
has already destroyed 35
homes and other structures.
David Nail, who recently
sold his business and moved
to Lelani Estates from
Orange County, California,
after his wife was diagnosed
with Parkinson’s disease,
said a 6-meter wall of lava
blocked him from getting
close enough to see if his
house had been destroyed.
“All we could do was sit
there and cry,” Nail said.
la Lumpur, voter Ahmad
Fizal said he hoped the can-
didate who wins could take
the responsibility of the wel-
fare of the area.
“I hope the candidate
could help on the welfare of
the people and the welfare of
the region, no matter it’s
financial assistance, eco-
nomic assistance or any oth-
er assistance,” he said.
Another voter, Syed Hasa-
nuddin Bin Syed Abdullah,
said he hoped the next gov-
ernment could do more to
improve the society.
“We do tend to have a lot of
issues, politically and in our
social imbalance, we have
ethnic diversity so I hope
with this vote we will not
have any differences between
Malays, Chinese and Indians,
that’s a main thing,” he said,
referring to the three major
ethnic groups in the country.
The 11-day campaign peri-
od culminated on Tuesday.
“If BN were given a new
mandate, we will make
Malaysia even greater,” said
Najib, adding: “BN is the
party of the future, BN is the
party for the future.”
The BN has won every
election since the country’s
independence in 1957.
The pre-election survey
published by independent
pollster Merdeka Center on
Tuesday said BN was set to
win 100 parliament seats
nationwide and the opposi-
tion 83. With these num-
bers, neither camp would
have the 112 seats required
to rule and the result would
hinge on 37 seats it said were
too close to call.
Xinhua and Reuters
contributed to this story.
Online
See more on www.chinadaily.com.cn
Earlier in the day, US Army
veteran Delance Weigel, 71,
collected some of his prized
possessions as steam and sul-
fur dioxide gas rose out of
cracks in the street.
“The way it looks now, I
thought I’d try one more time
to get my things out,” Weigel
said. “Whether we lose our
home or not, we’ll see. But
we’re definitely going to be
cut off. You move to paradise,
then this happens.”
Fountains of lava
No deaths or major injuries
have been reported since Kil-
auea, which has been in a
state of nearly constant erup-
tion since 1983, began a series
of major explosions on Thurs-
day, spewing fountains of lava
as high as 90 meters into the
air and deadly volcanic gas up
through cracks in the earth.
New areas could be subject
to evacuation as fingers of the
fissure system slowly spread
eastward, threatening neigh-
borhoods that until now had
been considered safe.
On Friday, the southeast-
ern corner of the island was
rocked by a powerful magni-
tude 6.9 earthquake on the
volcano’s south flank, the
strongest since 1975, and
more quakes and eruptions
have been forecast, perhaps
for months to come.
Hawaii’s Big Island
accounts for nearly a fifth of
the state’s tourism.
REUTERS
Sprinting spouses
Brides and grooms-to-be run past Westminster Abbey in London during the Pimm’s Spritz Wedding Dash on Tuesday. The prize for the
winning couple was a wedding directory package worth £8,000 ($10,800). PA WIRE / PA IMAGES
May suffers defeat on
key Brexit legislation
Unelected upper chamber votes
to remain in EU’s single market
LONDON — Britain’s upper
house of parliament on Tues-
day inflicted another embar-
rassing defeat on Prime
Minister Theresa May’s gov-
ernment on Tuesday, chal-
lenging her plan to leave the
European Union’s single mar-
ket after Brexit.
May, who has struggled to
unite the government behind
her vision of Brexit, has said
that Britain will also leave the
European Union’s single mar-
ket and customs union after it
quits the bloc next March.
That stance has widened
divisions not only within her
own Conservative Party but
also across both houses of
parliament, which like Brit-
ons at large, remain deeply
split over the best way to leave
the EU after more than four
decades of membership.
By a vote of 245 to 218, the
Masters’ paintings fetch record sums at auction
By ZHANG RUINAN
in New York
ruinanzhang@chinadailyusa.com
Paintings by Henri Matisse,
Claude Monet and Pablo Picas-
so sold for tens of millions of
dollars on Tuesday at an auc-
tion at Christie’s in New York.
The artworks were part of
the 2,000 pieces in the sprawl-
ing personal collection of the
late billionaire David Rocke-
feller and his wife Peggy.
The auction was expected to
be the most lucrative for a sin-
gle-ownership collection.
The opening night featured
19th and 20th century art.
A 1923 Matisse canvas, Odal-
isque couchee aux magnolias,
sold for $80.75 million, more
unelected upper chamber, the
House of Lords, supported an
amendment to her Brexit
blueprint, the EU withdrawal
bill, requiring ministers to
negotiate continued member-
ship of the European Econom-
ic Area, meaning that it would
remain in the single market.
“The time has come over
Brexit, really, for economic
reality and common sense to
prevail over political dogma
and wishful thinking,” said
Peter Mandelson, a member
of the House of Lords from
the main opposition Labour
Party, who backed the
amendment.
His comments drew criti-
cism from pro-Brexit peers,
including Conservative mem-
ber Michael Forsyth, who
described the amendment as
part of an attempt by “a num-
ber of people in this house
than $10 million above esti-
mates and a record price for a
piece by the French master.
Monet’s Nympheas en fleur
(Water Lilies in Bloom), which
provisionally priced between
$50 million and $70 million,
went for $84.69 million and
also set a record for the artist.
Picasso’s 1905 Fillette a la
Corbeille Fleurie, a piece from
the artist’s Rose Period that
depicts a pale, nude teenage
girl holding a basket of red
blossoms, fetched $115 million.
The sale, conducted by
Christie’s online and at auction
rooms in Rockefeller Center in
Manhattan, totaled 44 items.
The auction was scheduled
to run through Thursday and
was expected to bring in
who wish to reverse the deci-
sion of the British people”.
Those proposing the amend-
ment deny the charge.
This is the 13th time in
recent weeks that the govern-
ment has been defeated in the
House of Lords on the draft
legislation that will formally
terminate Britain’s EU mem-
bership.
No fixed date?
The votes can be over-
turned by the more powerful
lower house, the House of
Commons, where May’s party
has a slim majority with the
support of a small Northern
Irish party, but could embold-
en lawmakers who hope to
derail her plans to forge a new
relationship with the EU.
Earlier, opposition parties
in the Lords and rebels in
May’s Conservative Party
inflicted another defeat on the
government, voting to strip
out the fixed timing for Britain
to leave the EU at 11 pm on
March 29 next year.
between $500 million and $1
billion. It should surpass the
current record set by the Yves
Saint Laurent collection, which
generated $443 million in 2010.
The Rockefellers’ vast per-
sonal art collection was gath-
ered during their world travels
and handed down from previ-
ous generations.
The auction’s proceeds will
be distributed to more than a
dozen charities, including the
American Farmland Trust,
Harvard University, the Muse-
um of Modern Art and the
Stone Barns Restoration Corp,
which was supported by the
Rockefeller family.
Bloomberg contributed to this
story.
The government
already set the clock ticking
has
in a two-year exit process
hampered by her gamble on a
snap election last June which
cost her party its majority in
parliament. It also remains
unclear what the final divorce
deal will look like.
Some lawmakers criticized
the government’s plan to
impose a specific date for Brit-
ain leaving the EU, saying it
would create significant diffi-
culties if negotiations with
Brussels went down to the
wire.
The upper house of parlia-
ment also voted on Tuesday in
favor of an amendment
whereby Britain would con-
tinue to participate in EU
agencies after leaving the bloc.
After the Lords, the bill will
return to the House of Com-
mons. Both houses have to
agree on the final wording of
the bill before it can become
law.
REUTERS—XINHUA
Claude Monet’s Nympheas en fleur (Water Lilies in Bloom)
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Russia
open to
dialogue
for peace
By REN QI in Moscow
renqi@chinadaily.com.cn
Russia is open to dialogue
with other countries on all
issues in order to maintain
global peace and stability,
Russian President Vladimir
Putin said on Wednesday.
In a speech at a military
parade marking the 73rd
anniversary of the victory
over Nazi Germany in
World War II, he said Rus-
sia is ready for a construct-
ive and equal partnership
for the sake of global har-
mony, peace and progress.
“This is a holiday which
has always been, is now,
and always will be sacred
for every family,” Putin said,
greeting a watching crowd
including veterans decked
out in medals on a bright
sunny morning.
Behind new
threats are the
same ugly traits:
Egotism, intoler-
ance, aggressive
nationalism
and claims to be
unique.”
Vladimir Putin,
Russian president
War is a challenge to life
and Russia remembers the
tragedies of the two world
wars, Putin said, adding
that the current security
threats in the world are
serious and peace is fragile.
Referring to the current
political situation, Putin
said: “Behind new threats
are the same ugly traits:
Egotism, intolerance,
aggressive nationalism and
claims to be unique.”
The annual military
parade on the Red Square
involved more than 13,000
troops, 159 pieces of mili-
tary equipment and 75 air-
craft this year.
Among the more than 70
aircraft was a pair of Sukhoi
Su-57 stealth fighter jets.
Besides, the Kinzhal hyper-
sonic missile, which was
revealed earlier this year,
carried by the MiG-31 super-
sonic interceptor fighter,
also made its debut this year.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu was
among those invited to
watch the military parade.
In the morning, Netanya-
hu met Putin over the cur-
rent crisis in Syria.
It came hours after Syri-
an media said Israel carried
out an attack on a military
base south of Damascus.
On Monday, Putin was
sworn in for his fourth term
as Russian president.
Xinhua contributed to this
story.
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Pompeo in Pyongyang as
diplomatic dance speeds up
Trump says
DPRK has
released three
US detainees
By CHINA DAILY
US Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang
on Wednesday, landing at the
center of a whirlwind of diplo-
macy ahead of a planned sum-
mit between US President
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-
un, top leader of the Democrat-
ic People’s Republic of Korea.
In a sign of further progress
between the sides, Trump said
that the DPRK had released
three US detainees, who would
be returning with Pompeo.
“I am pleased to inform you
that Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo is in the air and on
his way back from North
Korea (the DPRK) with the 3
wonderful gentlemen that
everyone is looking so for-
ward to meeting. They seem
to be in good health,” Trump
wrote in a post on Twitter.
Trump added that Pompeo
and Kim had a “good meeting”.
Pompeo was dispatched on
the visit — his second in weeks,
but first as US top diplomat —
to secure a framework for the
leaders’ meeting, the US
Department of State said in a
news release on Tuesday.
“Today we’re hoping to nail
some of those down to say — to
put in place a framework for a
successful summit” between
Trump and Kim, he was quot-
ed as saying to the media on a
plane flying to the DPRK.
Kim was quoted as saying
on Monday by Xinhua: “I hope
to build mutual trust with the
US through dialogue.”
He added that a political
resolution of tensions on the
Korean Peninsula and denu-
clearization should proceed
in stages, with all sides mov-
ing in concert.
Pompeo’s trip had not been
publicly disclosed when he
flew out of Washington under
cover of darkness on Monday
aboard an Air Force 757.
Trump announced the mis-
sion on Tuesday afternoon.
As for the specific date and
location of the Trump-Kim
meeting, Pompeo remained
ambiguous, although Trump
said last week that the date
and location had been set.
When the flight arrived on
Wednesday in Pyongyang,
DPRK officials were on hand
to greet Pompeo.
The rapid detente on the
Korean Peninsula triggered by
the Winter Olympics is a
marked contrast from last
year, when Trump and Kim
traded insults and threats of
war over Pyongyang’s nuclear
and ballistic missile programs.
“Plans are being made,
River ride
relationships are building,
hopefully a deal will happen
and with the help of China,
South Korea (the Republic of
Korea) and Japan, a future of
great prosperity and security
can be achieved for every-
one,” Trump said as he
A tourist vessel sails past the Rhine Falls, the largest falls in Europe, during sunny spring weather in the
town of Neuhausen, Switzerland, on Tuesday. ARND WIEGMANN / REUTERS
announced Pompeo’s visit.
At a historic meeting
inside the Demilitarized
Zone on April 27, Kim and Briefly
ROK President Moon Jae-in
reaffirmed their commit-
ment to a “common goal” of DR CONGO GERMANY AUSTRALIA
“complete denuclearization” New outbreak of Plans approved for Five more MPs
of the peninsula.
Trump has said that with-
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drawing US forces from the Seventeen people in the coun- The government on Wednes- Five more lawmakers were
ROK is “not on the table”. try have died from Ebola, the day approved a draft law forced from parliament on
There are 28,500 US forces health ministry said on Tues- allowing US-style class action Wednesday in an ongoing
based in the nation, a military day, describing the fresh out- lawsuits, opening the door for legal wrangle over a 117-year-
presence which came as a break as a “public health drivers to seek compensation old constitutional ban on dual
result of the Korean War end- emergency with international over Volkswagen’s diesel citizens standing for election.
ing in 1953 with an armistice impact”. The worst Ebola out- emissions cheating scam Dates for the by-elections have
rather than a peace treaty. break started in December 2013 before the case expires. The not been set officially but
in Guinea before spreading to Justice Ministry said on could be as early as mid-June.
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MACROECONOMY
Mainland
Go green for to grow
at 6.6%
sustainable in 2018,
says IMF
expansion By EDITH LU
in Hong Kong

Development based on sacrificing edithlu@chinadailyhk.com

environment is outdated, says Zhou The International Monetary

Fund raised its forecast for eco-
nomic growth on the Chinese
By ZHENG XIN financing, including offer- mainland in 2018 to 6.6 per-
zhengxin@chinadaily.com.cn ing interest subsidies cent from 6.5 percent, but
through refinancing and warned that the simmering
As China needs to invest 2 professional guarantees, as Sino-US trade dispute would
to 4 trillion yuan ($310 bil- well as setting up a nation- negatively affect global eco-
Chinese passengers pose for photographs at London’s Heathrow Airport, after the direct air route opened on Monday between Xi’an,
lion to $630 billion) annual- al green development fund. nomic growth and investment.
Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, and London. ZHANG PING / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
ly in the next five years in It also announced plans to “The Chinese mainland
order to counter the impact set up pilot zones for green economy is transiting from an
of pollution and climate finance last June to support
change, the nation
needs to come up
with a green financ-
the nation’s indus-
trial upgrading and
antipollution cam-
Opening-up to ‘benefit UK, the world’ export-oriented economy to
domestic consumption.
Growth of the new digital econ-
omy and new service sector are
ing mechanism to paign, according to By LEI XIAOXUN in London GDP has rocketed, ties will further bene- era” relations have entered a quite higher,” said Changyong
facilitate its transi- plans issued by the leixiaoxun@chinadaily.com.cn from $175 billion in fit foreign businesses new stage, Liu said, adding Rhee, director of the IMF’s
tion to sustainable People’s Bank of Chi- 1977 to $12 trillion in enjoying opportuni- that the UK remains China’s Asia-Pacific Department at a
growth, said Zhou na. China’s deepening reform 2017, registering a ties brought by the second-largest trading part- media briefing on Wednesday.
Xiaochuan, former China issued a and ongoing opening-up is 68-fold increase at Chinese market and ner in the European Union. He added the IMF has seen
governor of the total of $37.1 billion set to generate new opportu- an average annual by the China-pro- The fact that China also many new growth engines for
People’s Bank of Zhou Xiaochuan, green bonds in 2017, nities for the shared develop- growth rate of 9.5 posed Belt and Road stands as the UK’s second- the mainland economy.
China. former governor an increase of 4.5 ment of China and the United percent. Initiative. largest trading partner out- In the first quarter of this
China should of the People's percent year-on- Kingdom, and for the wider China’s share of Liu Xiaoming, “We will imple- side the EU has prompted the year, the mainland economy
further encourage Bank of China year, 22 percent of world, China’s ambassador to the world’s GDP has China’s ambassa- ment the opening- ambassador to call for a bet- grew at a faster-than-expected
capital into green the world’s total, the UK said on Tuesday. also increased from dor to the UK up measures in ter dovetailing of both 6.8 percent, well above the
sectors and stem said Zhou, who is Addressing British and 2 percent in 1977 to banking, securities, nations’ development strate- government’s target of 6.5 per-
investment that might pol- also a former vice-chairman Chinese representatives from 15 percent in 2017. insurance and other gies. cent for the full year, the
lute the environment, of China’s top political advi- business and media enter- Meanwhile, a total of 700 parts of the service sector,” he He urged both nations to National Bureau of Statistics
Zhou told the 2018 annual sory body, the National Com- prises at a convention in million Chinese people have said, adding that the Chinese remain committed to inter- announced last month.
conference on sustainabil- mittee of the Chinese Bloomberg’s European head- been lifted out of poverty, government will also raise national trading systems and According to the IMF, it
ity jointly held by the Paul- People’s Political Consulta- quarters, Liu Xiaoming reaf- thanks to the reform policies the limit on foreign owner- to uphold globalization, expects economic growth on
son Institute and the tive Conference. firmed China’s commitment that have now entered what ship of joint-venture compa- while opposing protection- the mainland to moderate to
China Center for Interna- However, despite its solid to further open up its econo- the ambassador called the nies in the automobile, ism. Both Beijing and Lon- 6.4 percent in 2019.
tional Economic development, China’s green my to foreign investors, and “deep water zone”. shipbuilding, and aircraft don need to work together for The Fund is also optimistic
Exchanges in Beijing on financing still faces limita- to ease restrictions on enti- He said China’s economic sectors. steady and sustainable Chi- about the economic outlook
Wednesday. tions in green financial prod- ties doing business with Chi- development has been The Shanghai-London na-UK relations, he said. for Asia-Pacific and anticipates
Demands for green ucts and services, as well as na. achieved in an open market, Stock Connect will be Liu also suggested the UK’s the region will continue to be
financing keep growing as the lack of a sound third par- Underlining the pivotal and its future development launched by the end of the industries better harness the most dynamic of the global
China enters a critical peri- ty assessment system, said role of China’s reform and requires an even greater year, the ambassador said, their expertise and talent in economy — accounting for
od of economic restructur- Zhou. opening-up policy, which was openness of markets, so Chi- reiterating China’s commit- finance, banking, fintech and more than 60 percent of global
ing. Zhou said To further boost the adopted 40 years ago, Liu na will open even wider to the ment to further open its other areas to tap into the growth. But risks such as geo-
development based on sac- development of green said the policy has enabled outside world. financial industry to foreign “huge potential in economy political tensions and a poten-
rificing the environment is financing, China should China to embrace the rest of He said more open-market companies and institutions. and trade between China and tial trade war are still ahead.
outdated and it requires continuously develop the world with open arms. access and more import facili- Robust China-UK “golden the UK”. “The region remains vulnera-
substantial capital to green credit, green bonds ble to a global risk-off event,”
achieve sustainable devel- and green credit asset the report said.
opment. securitization, in addition
Paulson Institute Chair- to consolidating green
man Henry M. Paulson, Jr financial infrastructure
Ministry plans steps to boost bond deals Trade has been the major
engine of global economic
growth, especially in the Asia-
said the development of and institutional improve- Pacific region, said Koshy Mat-
green finance has become a ment, he said. By CHEN JIA the first time, and they could local government bonds, 838.9 billion yuan ($131.66 bil- hai, deputy division chief of the
top priority for China, and Zhou also called for more chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn purchase the instrument while only 1.99 percent were lion) of local government IMF’s Asia-Pacific Department,
the institute is willing to international cooperation in through a trading system held by insurance companies, bonds will expire this year, a fig- and therefore, trade disputes
work to help China achieve green financing. The Ministry of Finance is under the Shanghai Stock and 1.03 percent by securities ure which will increase to 1.32 between the Chinese mainland
low-carbon economic Wang Gang, a senior trying to expand the pool of Exchange. companies. trillion yuan by 2019, and more and the United States is a big
growth, while strengthening financial researcher at the investors in local government This year, all types of finan- “The large amount of than 2 trillion yuan in 2020. concern for the area.
US-China financial and com- Development Research Cen- bonds, as it seeks to tackle cial institutions, including bonds held by commercial In addition, the ministry has The IMF was worried about
mercial ties. ter of the State Council, said potential liquidity stress commercial banks, securities banks compared with the clarified for the first time that the escalation of the Sino-US
The Chicago-based think green finance will boost Chi- amid tightening financial and insurance companies, very small proportion held by bonds newly issued this year trade disputes, Mathai said.
tank and research institute na’s transition toward a sus- regulation. and individual investors, are non-banking financial insti- could be used to pay back the He explained that in the
established a green finance tainable economy while The ministry is planning to being encouraged to invest in tutions has tempered the principle of expired debt, by a Chinese mainland exports to
center on Tuesday to sup- improving the country’s allow commercial banks to bonds issued by local govern- vitality of bond trading in the way of a “rollover”, to reduce the US, there is about 30 per-
port China’s development financial system. sell local government bonds ments, said the ministry. secondary market,” said Qiu. the financing costs of indebted cent added value representing
of a robust green finance He said China has shown over the counter to non-finan- Some “eligible” cities and The ministry’s measures to local governments. influences from other coun-
market. leadership in advancing its cial institutions and retail provinces can issue bonds in enlarge the pool of investors Zhang Ming, a researcher tries. So levying tariffs on
Despite some uncertain- role in creating a green investors, according to a pilot free trade zones, such as could improve the liquidity of with the Chinese Academy of mainland exports will also
ties and trade tension financial system, but there is guideline highlighting the Shanghai, to attract foreign the bond market and prevent Social Sciences, said that affect global supply chains.
between the two countries, room to expand China’s poli- government’s key measures in financial institutions potential default risks when a along with the world’s major “A trade war does not just
Paulson said what’s more cy support system for green 2018 to manage bond issu- involved in the bond under- large amount of local govern- economies’ monetary policy affect the US and the Chinese
important is a more bal- finance. ance, published by the Minis- writing process, according to ment bonds mature over the normalization process, the mainland given the complicat-
anced, secure and produc- While it is clear that there try of Finance late on Tuesday. the guideline. next three years, according to overall level of interest rates is ed trading relationship, global
tive Sino-US relationship. are limitations in the current Less than a year ago, invest- Qiu Zhixin, a researcher at experts. expected to rise, adding to the value chains and global supply
China has come up with development of green ment in local government China Securities, said that by According to Shanghai- pressure of debt repayment chains. There will not be any
supportive policies since finance, the foundations bonds was opened to domes- the end of 2017, commercial based financial information especially for counties with winners coming out of this
2016 to promote green have been laid, he added. tic individual investors for banks held 95.11 percent of service provider Wind Info, higher financial leverage. kind of tension,” Mathai said

Nomura seeks nod for securities joint venture

By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn
Nomura Holdings Inc,
Japan’s biggest brokerage and
investment bank, has applied
to set up a securities joint ven-
ture with a majority stake in
China, becoming the latest for-
eign firm to take advantage of
China’s pledge to further open
its financial sector.
The China Securities Regu-
latory Commission said on
Tuesday night that it has
received the application from
Nomura and it will start the
approval process in accord-
ance with the laws and regula-
tions.
Nomura sent out a press
statement confirming the
application. “We have applied
to set up a securities joint ven-
ture in China. We are currently
discussing the details with the
relevant parties and are una-
ble to comment further at this
stage,” it said.
The move by the Japanese
firm underscored the rising
interest of global financial
institutions of expanding their
presence in China.
Swiss bank UBS Group AG
became the first global bank to
submit an application for
acquiring a majority stake in
its Chinese JV. Other banks
such as Goldman Sachs Group
China is an
important market
for Nomura ...”
Toshiyasu Iiyama, Nomura’s
executive chairman
Inc and Morgan Stanley have
also expressed interest in hav-
ing majority stakes in their
local incorporations. Credit
Suisse Group AG is also
reportedly interested in boost-
ing its stockholding in its Chi-
nese JV.
Nomura has appointed Lu
Ting as its new chief China
economist to lead its research
team in China that forecasts
the country’s economic trajec-
tory and drives thought lead-
ership on macroeconomic
themes shaping the country.
Prior to joining Nomura, Lu
was the global head of
research and chief economist
at Chinese brokerage Huatai
Securities Co Ltd for two years.
Before that, Lu worked at
Bank of America Merrill
Lynch as head of China eco-
nomics.
“China is an important mar-
ket for Nomura, and Lu Ting’s
appointment is further evi-
dence of our commitment to
building up our China expert-
ise,” said Toshiyasu Iiyama,
Nomura’s executive chairman,
Asia ex-Japan, and head of
China Committee in a state-
ment.
On April 28, China’s securi-
ties regulator issued detailed
guidelines on the qualifica- A pedestrian walks past the headquarters of Nomura Securities
tions for foreign shareholders Co, a unit of Nomura Holdings Inc in Tokyo, Japan. BLOOMBERG
to set up securities joint ven-
tures and conduct securities business scope in China. and it will bring healthy com-
business in China. Liu Li, an analyst at Shanxi petition and help introduce
The new rules allow for- Securities Co Ltd, said the mature experiences and
eign firms to have a majority move is an important step of expertise from overseas insti-
stake in their Chinese JVs further opening China’s secu- tutions to the domestic indus-
and it also expands their rities sector to foreign players try.
14 BUSINESS
What’s news
GOVT AND POLICIES
Bulk commodity
market grows
China’s bulk commodity mar-
ket grew steadily in April with
stable expansion in supply and
sales, industrial data showed.
The China Bulk Merchandise
Index, a gauge of domestic
bulk commodity market
growth, stood at 104.8 percent
in April, up 1.7 percentage
points compared with March,
according to the China Federa-
tion of Logistics & Purchasing.
This marked the second con-
secutive month of CBMI
growth, pointing to an improv-
ing business environment in
the bulk commodity sector.
Both the sub-indices for bulk
commodity supply and sales
expanded compared with the
previous month.
Central bank
injects liquidity
China’s central bank on
Wednesday injected funds into
the banking system via open
market operations to maintain
liquidity. The People’s Bank of
China conducted 60 billion
yuan ($9.4 billion) of seven-day
reverse repos and 40 billion
yuan of 14-day reverse repos.
The interest rates for the sev-
en-day and 14-day operations
were 2.55 percent and 2.70 per-
cent, respectively. A reverse
repo is a process by which the
central bank purchases securi-
ties from commercial banks
through bidding, with an
agreement to sell them back in
the future.
April smartphone
shipments fall
China’s smartphone shipments
continued to fall in April,
industrial data showed on
Wednesday. Shipments of
smartphones totaled 32.667
million in April, down 15.3 per-
cent year-on-year. Total ship-
ments of mobile phones
reached 34.251 million in April,
down by 16.7 percent year-on-
year. The drop narrowed by
11.2 percentage points com-
pared with March. Fewer new
mobile phone models were
rolled out last month. Only 55
new mobile phones entered
the market in April, down by
53.8 percent year-on-year.
Mobile phone shipments
dropped 23.7 percent year-on-
year in the first four months of
2018.
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
Yuan weakens
against US dollar
The central parity rate of the
renminbi, or the yuan, weak-
ened 59 basis points to
6.3733 against the US dollar
on Wednesday, according to
the China Foreign Exchange
Trade System. In China’s
spot foreign exchange mar-
ket, the yuan is allowed to
rise or fall by 2 percent from
the central parity rate each
trading day.
Google invests in
Ireland data center
A groundbreaking ceremony
for the expansion of Google’s
data center in Ireland was held
in Dublin on Tuesday, accord-
ing to the Irish Department of
Business, Enterprise and Inno-
vation. The 150-million-euro
($178 million) expansion
project will bring to 1 billion
euros the total investment of
Google in Ireland since it first
opened an office in Dublin in
2003, said the department in a
news release. Construction of
the project will take 16 months
and the project will create
about 400 temporary jobs at its
peak during its construction
and around 40 jobs after its
completion, said the news
release.
BP signs Alaska
gas sale deal
British multinational oil and
gas giant BP plc has signed a
binding agreement with
Alaska’s pipeline develop-
ment agency, the Alaska Gas
Development Corp, to sell
gas to Alaska’s gasoline
project, a media report said
on Tuesday. BP is the first
international oil and gas pro-
ducer to sign such a deal,
inked last Friday, with AGDC
on gas sales in what is called
“a historic milestone” in the
decades-long effort to con-
struct a natural gas pipeline
in Alaska, said the Anchor-
age Daily News.
Walmart set to
acquire Flipkart
Global retailer Walmart is
likely to announce its much-
anticipated deal to buy a 70 to
75 percent controlling stake in
Indian e-commerce player
Flipkart on Wednesday. The
deal, valued at $15 billion, is
likely to be Walmart’s biggest
acquisition of a business.
Alphabet, Google’s parent
company, will get a 15 percent
stake. Sachin and Binny Ban-
sal, both former Amazon
employees, founded Flipkart
in 2007, and like their US
rival, began by selling books.
The Flipkart Group now
includes fashion portals Myn-
tra-Jabong, payments unit
PhonePe and logistics firm
Ekart.
Petrobras sees
good first quarter
Brazilian national oil compa-
ny Petrobras registered net
profits of 6.961 billion reals
($1.96 billion) in the first
quarter, up 56 percent year-
on-year and the best first
quarter results for the com-
pany in five years. Announc-
ing the results on Tuesday,
Petrobras CEO Pedro Parente
said: “With this result, we are
consolidating Petrobras’ path
to recovery.” This result is the
best since Petrobras’ reputa-
tion was tarnished in 2014
when Operation Lava Jato
(Car Wash) discovered a mas-
sive corruption ring within
its ranks, with executives,
politicians and contractors
embezzling billions of dol-
lars.
AROUND THE WORLD
EBRD says B&R to
boost global trade
The European Bank for Recon-
struction and Development
said on Tuesday that China’s
Belt and Road Initiative is a
great move to boost global
trade. “This is a very important
initiative to enhance global
trade, drive growth and
enhance financial connectivi-
ty,” said Jurgen Rigterink, first
vice-president of the EBRD. He
added that China is one of the
top providers of investment in
regions where the EBRD
invests.
Lithuania expects
new opportunities
Lithuania expects new
export opportunities and
bilateral business contacts
with China following the
16+1 Agriculture Ministerial
and Economic & Trade
Forum to be held on May 25
in Vilnius, Bronius Markaus-
kas, Lithuania’s outgoing
minister of agriculture, said
on Tuesday. “A big Chinese
business delegation is com-
Towering above the rest
A view of the Changsha International Finance Square, which opens on Monday in Changsha,
Hunan province. The main tower, with a height of 452 meters, is the highest building in Hunan
and the 10th highest in China. XU XING / FOR CHINA DAILY
ing to Lithuania which
includes importers, traders,
as well as representatives of
the food industry. It is not
the first Chinese delegation
to visit Lithuania, however,
new contacts and opportuni-
ties are being launched dur-
ing each of these visits,”
Markauskas was quoted as
saying by local media.
China stays major
import source
China remains the Philippi-
nes, biggest source of
imports with a 15.3 percent
share in March, the Philip-
pine Statistics Authority said
on Wednesday. Import bills
from the top 10 countries for
imports in March amounted
to $6.14 billion or 75.6 per-
cent share of the total, the
PSA said. “China was the
Manufacturers dominate
top 100 valuable brands
By HE WEI in Shanghai
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
Companies involved in
manufacturing claimed more
than half of China’s top 100
valuable brands, according to
a survey released on Wednes-
day, indicating the strong
momentum fueled by a slew of
policies to bolster and upgrade
the sector.
Eight out of the top 20 Chi-
nese brands fall into the cate-
gory of manufacturing,
according to the Bund Rank-
ing-Top 100 Most Valuable
Chinese Brands, a local list
compiled by Fudan Universi-
ty’s School of Management
and the Shanghai Institute of
Corporate Culture and Brand,
a nonprofit organization.
SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, Hua-
wei Technologies Co Ltd and
household appliance maker
Midea Group Co Ltd are
among awardees in the manu-
facturing sector, according to
the ranking that entered its
second year, with 13 manufac-
turers becoming new entrants
to the list.
“The results reflect that the
government’s efforts to
uphold the development of
the real economy are starting
Thursday, May 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY
country’s biggest source of
imports with 15.3 percent
share in March 2018. Import
payments to China stood at
$1.24 billion, posting a
decrease of 12.0 percent
from $1.41 billion in March
2017,” the PSA said.
API reports drop in
US oil inventories
The American Petroleum
Institute reported on Tuesday
a draw of 1.85 million barrels
to US crude oil inventories
for the week ending May 4.
Last week, the API reported a
large build of 3.427 million
barrels of crude oil. The insti-
tute also reported a draw in
gasoline inventories for week
ending May 4, to 2.055 mil-
lion barrels, a much larger
draw than the analysts had
expected.
The results reflect that the
government’s efforts to uphold
the development of the real economy are
starting to pay off.”
Jiang Qingyun, a marketing professor at the School of
Management at Fudan University
to pay off,” said Jiang Qingyun,
a marketing professor at the
School of Management at
Fudan University.
The calculation of brand
value factors in a company’s
profitability and spending on
research and development, as
well as the synergies between
R&D and marketing, Jiang
noted.
The ranking utilizes public
disclosures from more than
16,000 enterprises listed on
bourses across the Chinese
mainland, Hong Kong and
New York. It excludes compa-
nies in the financial sector as
they require different arith-
metic models incurred by the
varying nature of the business.
Technology, media and tele-
communications is still the
most eye-catching sector,
securing six spots among the
Spain plans $5.3b
treasury bill sale
The Spanish treasury on
Tuesday placed treasury bills
worth 4.5 billion euros ($5.3
billion) on the market. A
total of 4.075 billion euros
worth of 12-month treasury
bills carried an average
interest rate of -0.414 per-
cent, the treasury said. The
remaining 425 million euros
worth of six-month treasury
bills fetched an average
interest rate of -0.49 percent.
The auction took place in a
context when Spain’s risk
premium stood at around 70
points while rating agencies,
such as S&P, Moody’s and
Fitch, have recently upgrad-
ed Spain’s sovereign debt
rating.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
top 10 players. Alibaba was
rated second on the chart,
thanks to its dynamic business
portfolio that ranges from
e-commerce and financial ser-
vices to logistics and cloud
computing.
Enterprises dealing with
commodities are largely
dragged down by fluctuating
raw material prices. Real
estate is also losing luster, with
top-performing property
developer China Vanke Co Ltd
taking only the 15th spot.
The city of Shanghai has
implemented a three-year
action plan to become a world
leading manufacturing hub by
2020. The metropolis aims to
establish two world-class indus-
trial clusters and have added
value of strategic emerging
industry to account for more
than 20 percent of its GDP.
 C H I N A DA I LY Thursday, May 10, 2018
Tourism booms as visitors flock
to historic Yongzhou
Clear sky reflects on the surface of river in Xiangling Mountain, a scenic spot in Yongzhou.
BY YUAN SHENGGAO
Booming tourism centered
on traditional Hunan prov-
ince’s heritage and culture
has breathed new life into
the historical city of Yong-
zhou and helped it to foster a
vibrant local tourism indus-
try.
Yongzhou, located in the
south of Hunan province,
has an enviable history that
stretches back more than
2,100 years, and is reputed as
one of the most famous and
influential counties of the
Han (206 BC-AD 220) and
Tang (618-907) dynasties.
Because of its historical
importance, Yongzhou is
home to many important
relics from ancient times,
including the village of
Shanggantang, the Lingling
Zhou family courtyard and
the Xintian Long family
courtyard.
Popular historic sites in
and around the city have led
to a large increase in visitors
in recent times. In 2017, more
than 49 million people vis-
ited Yongzhou, generating
tourism revenue of 40.67 bil-
lion yuan ($6.38 billion), an
increase of 17.67 percent and
78.24 percent respectively on
the previous year.
Ancient towns flourish
Attracting large numbers
of visitors from both home
and abroad is the village
of Goulanyao in Jiangyong
town, which is home to a vast
number of ancient dwellings.
The biggest draw in Gou-
lanyao is the Shuilong ances-
tral shrine, which is decorated
with delicate and colorful fres-
cos that are among the largest
and oldest in southern China,
according to Hu Binbin, a
Chinese specialist in ancient
towns from Central South Uni-
versity.
The village is popular with
tourists because it takes them
on a journey back in time to
a period when pastoral living
was the only way of life in a
land surrounded by moun-
tains and clear water, said
Ouyang Mingjun, chief of
Goulanyao.
He added that the stone slab
road that passes through the
village is the remains of the
Xiaohe ancient road, one of
the main travel routes that
connected the central areas
of China, such as Guangdong
province and Guangxi Zhuang
autonomous region, in ancient
times.
The rise in tourism has
brought with it more oppor-
tunities for local people to
prosper in the service indus-
try with many establishing
homestays, restaurants and
local specialty shops.
“A large number of tourists
want to stay overnight in the
village,” Ouyang said. “We are
going to build 17 wooden hous-
es near the valley. So far, we
have finished the construction
of their foundations.”
Investment in the local ser-
vices industry has also led to
the improvement in the liveli-
hoods of many of the people
living in these areas.
“We earned more than
Local service industry flourishes as visitors pour in to explore
great wealth of Hunan heritage and culture
Clockwise from top: Party Secretary of Yongzhou Li Hui(center) visits Tongzi’ao scenic spot in the city. The Yao ethnic group in
Jianghua county celebrate at a bonfire party. Liuzi Temple in Lingling ancient town has become more and more popular among visitors.
Li Hui visits an optoelectronics industrial park in Guide in the city. The former home of Zhou Dunyi,a philosopher in the Northern Song
Dynasty (960-1127) . PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
10,000 yuan last year by sell-
ing our local snack Suozi-
baba cake, and we hope this
year the business will be
even better,” said Tian Duo-
hua, a Goulanyao local.
Creative projects
Zhou Dunyi, a famous phi-
losopher during the Northern
Song Dynasty (960-1127), was
born in Daoxian county in
Yongzhou. His masterpiece,
Ode to the Lotus Flower, is
still well known today.
Taking advantage of Daox-
ian county’s strong asso-
ciation with lotus flowers,
Lianxi Jinfeng Agriculture
Group is building what it
calls its “lotus town” project.
General manager of the
company, Peng Weicheng, a
Daoxian county local, said he
looks forward to turning the
iconic lotus into a cultural
heritage asset of the county.
Lianxi Jinfeng Agriculture
Group has cooperated with
the local government since
2015, and the “lotus town” is
beginning to take shape.
“This year we introduced
more than 300 lotus variet-
ies to the town. The lotus-
es will bloom from May to
December. In half a month’s
time, the town’s ponds will
be filled with lotus flowers,”
Peng said.
“More than 27 hectares
of lotus have been planted
throughout the land rented
from local villagers, and I
will continue to expand the
planting scale in the follow-
ing years. This place will
gather the most complete
lotus varieties around the
world,” he added.
It’s not just locals that are
benefitting from Yongzhou’s
tourism boom, more and
more investors from across
the country are taking an
interest, according to city
officials.
The investors are being
attracted by the city’s wealth
in unspoiled natural land-
scapes as well as its heri-
tage and culture, which is
another factor in why so
many people are choosing
to visit Yongzhou.
The city’s eight nation-
al-level forest parks, four
national nature reserves and
eight national-level wetland
parks make it one of the
most ecologically diverse
cities in southern China.
T here are more than
3,000 species of wild ani-
mals and plants recorded in
Yongzhou, which has a for-
est coverage of 64.7 percent
— which is around 40 per-
centage points higher than
the national average.
To exploit this natural
advantage, city officials have
said they are expanding the
tourism industry across the
board to include forest, cul-
ture, leisure, healthcare and
even science tourism.
“All-for-one” tourism
Aiming to speed up the
industrial transformation
and upgrade in its tourism
industry, Yongzhou recently
released a guideline for “all-
for-one” tourism.
The core value of all-for-
one tourism is a partial shift
from scenic spots tourism to
cater to the region’s grow-
ing demand for tourism
products and services, said
a local official.
To carry out the develop-
ment plan, Yongzhou has
created a route to better
utilize tourism resources
around its central town
area, Lingling ancient town,
Jiuyi Mountain, Xiaoshui
River and its north, central
and south regions.
Officials from the Yong-
z h o u To u r i s m Fo r e i g n
Affairs Bureau said that by
2020, the number of tour-
ists arriving from home
and abroad will exceed 50
million, and will generate
more than 50 billion yuan
in revenue.
Favorable policies lure
firms to settle down
in well-connected city
BY LI YOU
liyou@chinadaily.com.cn
Investment in Yongzhou
is expected to make great
strides in the years to come,
thanks to a rollout of poli-
cies aimed at making it much
easier for businesses to settle
in the Hunan province city,
according to local officials.
One such enterprise that
has sought to take advantage
of the favorable policies and
investment environment is
Guangzhou Jiuheng Group,
which established a manu-
facturing base in Yongzhou’s
economic development zone
in 2013.
The group, which special-
izes in producing customized
barcodes, printing and pack-
aging materials, was able to
get itself up and running in
just four months.
“The factory in Yongzhou
started operation in April
2014, taking just 120 days
before our first batch of
products were ready,” said
Yin Jianping, vice-president
of Jiuheng Group.
Jiuheng’s speedy estab-
lishment came about due
to the local government’s
focus on streamlining appli-
cations and procedures for
business establishment and
registration. However, the
group’s initial interest in
Yongzhou stemmed from
its location.
Situated in the south of
Hunan bordering the south-
ern bank of the Xiangjiang
River, Yongzhou is nestled
strategically between Guang-
dong province and Guangxi
Zhuang autonomous region,
providing it with excellent
transport links.
The location and favorable
policies for new businesses
encouraged Jiuheng Group
to increase its investment in
Yongzhou, Yin said.
Jiuheng Group is just one
example of how the current
economic climate in Yongzhou
is focused on opening-up.
In recent years, the city has
sought to expand its coastal
industry as well as its trans-
portation network domesti-
cally and overseas, but most
important of all it has target-
ed fostering a good environ-
ment for starting businesses
and attracting investment.
One of the most significant
factors that drive people to
invest in Yongzhou is that
there is no need to run all the
administrative examinations
and approval procedures in
person, said Yu Gui, chair-
man of the Guide Group, a
company that has invested in
Yongzhou’s optoelectronics
industry.
The administrative depart-
ment simply releases a list
of required documents and
Workers at Andengli Electronics Group in Jiangyong county.
Guangzhou Jiuheng Group established a manufacturing base in
Yongzhou’s economic development zone in 2013.
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We must work in
an interactive way,
sticking to the
current situation
in the economy. ”
Li Hui, Party secretary of
Yongzhou
guides investors to finish
the procedures in time, Yu
added.
Party Secretary of Yong-
zhou Li Hui said that Yong-
zhou is the only prefecture-
level city in Hunan that has
the strategic advantage of
connecting Guangdong and
Guangxi.
“We should not just con-
struct good traffic facilities,
but more importantly, we
must work in an interactive
way, sticking to the current
situation in the economy.
“We should carry out the
opening policy in ever y
aspect of our work, using an
open mind to treat all busi-
nesspeople who invest in
Yongzhou well,” Li said.
Besides streamlining the
administrative procedure,
the city has also focused on
international trade.
Relying on major projects
initiated by the local govern-
ment and companies, some
of the economic develop-
ment zones in Qiyang, Jiang-
hua, Lengshuitan, Dong’an,
Ningyuan, Daoxian, Lanshan
and Lingling have generated
10-billion-yuan industrial
clusters.
In the past two years, a
large number of industrial
giants have established oper-
ations in Yongzhou, includ-
ing telecommunications
group Huawei and China
State Construction Engineer-
ing Corp, both of which are
listed as Fortune 500 com-
panies.
S u c h b i g n a m e s h av e
brought with them greater
global trade. As of the end
of 2017, there were 171 enter-
prises that operate import
and e xpor t business in
Yongzhou, an increase of 46
fromthe previous year.
In 2018, Yongzhou will
continue to improve its
investment environment
through a series of promo-
tion conferences such as
the promotion week with
Shanghai, the north Hunan
promotion conference, grow-
ing a larger-scale industrial
cluster and more incentive
policies, according to the city
government.
16 BUSINESS | Markets Thursday, May 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY

E-COMMERCE
Alibaba acquiring
JD to focus on logistics, R&D big online retailer
As growth slows the company’s history, accord- drones and unmanned sorting clients, but its logistics infra-
in southern Asia
amid competition,
ing to its quarterly earnings
released on Tuesday night.
Its net profit was 1.5 billion
$16 billion centers to increase efficiency.
Apart from its investment in
logistics, Liu said the company
structure in rural areas is
insufficient.
“The spending on establish-
By HE WEI in Shanghai

company seeks yuan, compared with 298.8 mil- JD’s net income in the first will open 20 to 25 7Fresh — ing intelligent delivery net-
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn

quarter of 2018, up 33.1

new investment
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
The country’s second-larg-
est e-commerce player JD will
continue to increase its invest-
ment in logistics, offline retail
and research and develop-
ment, amid stiff competition
with its archrival Alibaba
Group Holding Ltd.
JD’s net income reached
100.1 billion yuan ($16 billion)
in the first quarter of 2018, an
increase of 33.1 percent year-
on-year, the slowest growth in
lion yuan for the same period
last year. Though it has
achieved profit for eight consec-
utive quarters, it was still lower
than analysts’ expectations.
Moreover, the investment in
R&D continued to increase to
2.4 billion yuan, a rise of 87.2
percent from a year earlier.
The company’s shares were
down 4.6 percent to close at
$36.94 on the Nasdaq stock
market on Wednesday.
The e-commerce giant
plans to establish a logistics
real estate fund this year to
boost more logistics and ware-
house construction, said Liu
Qiangdong, founder and CEO
percent year-on-year
of the company in a confer-
ence call.
Liu added for JD Logistics,
the logistics arm of JD, the
orders from third-party seller
platforms will surpass JD’s
self-owned orders in the next
five years.
As of March 31, JD operated
515 warehouses covering an
aggregate gross floor area of
10.9 million square meters in
China. It has invested heavily
in advanced automation tech-
nologies, including robotics,
JD’s fresh food stores — in Bei-
jing this year, with an aim to
open more than 500 stores
within five year, eyeing the
opportunities emerging from
the fresh food retail sector.
“JD has to seek new busi-
ness growth points as it is
approaching a bottleneck.
Although the company is
exerting more effort in the
clothing, luxury goods and
fashion industry, the result is
not satisfactory,” said Lu Zhen-
wang, CEO of Wanqing Con-
sultancy in Shanghai.
Lu added JD hopes to make
money by offering delivery
services to more third-party
work and developing
advanced automation tech-
nologies is very high.”
JD and Alibaba are compet-
ing aggressively on offline
retail, unmanned stores, luxu-
ry services and retail in South-
east Asia.
JD’s annual active customer
accounts increased by 27.6
percent to 301.8 million in the
12 months ended March 31.
It expects net revenues for
the second quarter to be
between 120 billion yuan and
124 billion yuan, representing
a growth rate of 29 percent to
33 percent compared with the
second quarter of 2017.
Alibaba Group Holding
Ltd is spreading its wings The Belt and
further into South Asia by
acquiring the region’s largest Road Initiative
e-commerce platform.
The buyout of Daraz impacts almost all
Group, for an undisclosed
amount, will make the com- crucial markets
pany a wholly owned unit of
Alibaba, following in its
where Alibaba is
footsteps of recent purchas-
es in shopping portals and
making strides
digital wallets across the into ... ”
region.
“We are excited for Daraz Li Chao, iResearch analyst
to become a part of the Ali-
baba ecosystem,” said Ali-
baba Chief Executive youth has presented a great
Officer Daniel Zhang. opportunity for Daraz, with
“Together with Daraz, we the market projected to
can now empower entre- grow 8.2 percent a year

Xiongan to host preneurs to better serve

consumers in the region
through our technology
and expertise.”
through 2021 amid rising
disposable incomes, accord-
ing to data from Euromoni-
tor International.

next cashierless Zhang said the Daraz

team is a natural fit, sharing
Alibaba’s values and beliefs
that long-term economic
Alibaba is also penetrating
into Southeast Asia, after
topping up investment in
Lazada that gives it control

fresh food market development in the region

By FAN FEIFEI in Beijing and
ZHANG YU in Shijiazhuang
China’s second-largest
e-commerce site JD plans to
open its second unmanned
supermarket in Xiongan New
Area, after it opened a 246
square-meter cashierless
store, the firm’s first project in
the area, during the past Labor
Day holiday.
The store updates the retail
experience by adding digital
price tags that can provide
updated price discounts in
real time, and allowing cus-
tomers to check out without
the need to reach for their wal-
lets by adopting facial recogni-
tion technologies, JD said.
So far, JD has opened more
than 10 such supermarkets in
cities including Beijing, Tian-
jin, Yantai, Dalian, Suqian,
Xi’an and Changchun.
In October, the e-commerce
behemoth began testing its
unmanned convenience store
solution at its headquarters in
Beijing. It also linked up with
leading real estate developer
China Overseas Land & Invest-
ment Ltd in December, with a
goal of opening hundreds of
unmanned convenience
stores.
Chen Kai, manager of the
supermarket, said the store is
still in trial operation, and “it
will take only 20 seconds for
customers to check out, no
matter how many products
they buy” when the store offi-
cially starts operating.
“The shopping process is
very simple as you can pick up
items and head for the exit
directly; the payment will be
automatically deducted from
your account,” said Yu Chang-
jiang, a customer from Shenz-
Customers wait in line to scan a QR code for payment at a cashierless supermarket in the Xiongan
New Area in Hebei province on May 4. HAN BING / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
hen, Guangdong province,
adding that it is very high-
tech.
Based on the latest plan for
Xiongan New Area, Xiongan
will develop into a modern city
that is green, intelligent and
livable, with relatively strong
competitiveness and harmo-
nious human-environment
interaction by 2035.
Tech heavyweights such as
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd,
Tencent Holdings Ltd and Bai-
du Inc have established a pres-
ence in Xiongan. Alibaba will
cooperate with the govern-
ment of Xiongan in artificial
intelligence, fintech and intel-
ligent logistics.
Tencent also signed strate-
gic cooperation agreement
with local authorities to set up
a financial technology lab and
to digitize public medical ser-
vices, while Baidu aims to
build the area featuring smart
transportation in line with its
ambition to develop self-driv-
ing vehicles.
Contact the writers at fanfei-
fei@chinadaily.com.cn
will depend on a technology-
enabled commerce ecosys-
tem.
Founded in 2012, Paki-
stan-based Daraz sells an
array of products from con-
sumer goods to electronics
online. The retailer offers
multiple payment options
including cash-on-delivery,
and is active in Bangladesh,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka and
Nepal.
“Together with Alibaba,
we are ready to empower
entrepreneurs in the region
and to fulfill our promise to
offer our customers the best
selection of products with a
high level of convenience,”
said Daraz Co-CEO Jonat-
han Doerr.
Daraz said its acquisition
by Alibaba would help drive
further growth in its key
markets, home to 460 mil-
lion people, 60 percent of
them younger than 35.
Pakistan’s burgeoning
of the well-known Southeast
Asian online shopping plat-
form.
Ant Financial Services
Group, Alibaba’s financial
arm, also struck deals earli-
er this year to back Paki-
stan’s fintech firm Telenor
Microfinance Bank, as well
as team up with Bangla-
desh’s payment platform
bKash.
“Alibaba’s strings of
acquisitions are a vote of
confidence in the region,”
said iResearch analyst Li
Chao.
“The Belt and Road Initia-
tive impacts almost all cru-
cial markets where Alibaba
is making strides into, and
it’s likely that businesses will
benefit from the invest-
ments now,” he noted.
Alibaba’s revenue from
international business,
which includes Lazada and
AliExpress, grew 94 percent
year-on-year in the fiscal
year ended March 2018.

Daily Stock Market Performance Gainers

Gainers
and and
Losers
Losers International Stock Markets
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Index Close % Chg % Chg GAINERS Close % Chg LOSERS Close % Chg Close % Chg –8% 0% +8%
Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index 3159.15 –0.1 –4.5 Hang Seng Index 30,536.14 0.4
Shanghai Stock Exchange
3600 Hang Seng China Ent Index 12,185.44 0.3
ZhejiangSunriverCultre 6.88 10.08 Aurora Optoelectronics 11.41 –10.02
3490 Jiangsu Jiangnan Water 5.25 10.06 Shanghai Laimu Electr 19.49 –5.98 TAIEX Taiwan Stock Index 10,703.35 0.1
3380 SuzhouXingyeMatrl Tech 19.45 10.01 Zhejiang Chimin Pharma 10.46 –5.77 Nikkei 225 22,408.88 –0.4
QingdTnhInstttChmstryE 11.10 10.01 HunanCopote Sci & Tech 19.21 –5.56 Sensex 35,319.35 0.3
3270
XinjngWnkTmsDprtmntStr 13.96 10.01 GuizhouChangzhngTnchng 4.81 –5.13 KOSPI 2,443.98 –0.2
3160 S&P/ASX 200 6,108.02 0.3
Qingdao Copton Tech 17.26 10.01 ShanghaiFukngIntrctEnt 5.82 –5.06
3050 ShanghaiPutailaNwEnTch 43.65 10.01 Lawton Development Co 5.26 –5.05 New Zealand 50 Gross Index 8,619.83 0.3
JiangsuSeagullColngTwr 26.32 9.99 YinduKitchen Equipment 15.38 –4.29 Straits Times Index STI 3,548.54 0.2
Zhejiang Dibay Electr 24.57 9.98 NanjingCentralEmporium 8.97 –4.27 Bangkok SET Index 1,756.90 –0.2
ShanghaiWondertek Sftw 18.74 9.98 FujianKuncaiMaterilTch 12.69 –4.23 Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index 1,846.51 1.0
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index 10,689.07 –0.2 –3.2
VN-Index 1,056.97 –0.3
11,700 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Dow Jones 24,360.21 0.0
11,200 LandOcean Energy Svcs 7.22 10.06 CEFC Anhui Intl 3.20 –5.04
Shenzhen Sunway Comm 35.38 6.28 ShijzhngChngshnBMngTch 8.10 –4.26
10,700 CangzhouMingzhuPlastic 8.16 6.25 ShenzhenHuaqingIndstry 21.47 –4.15 Commodities
10,200 Tibet Mineral Dev 13.44 5.00 Shaanxi J&R Optimum En 3.65 –3.95 Daily YTD % Chg
ZhejiangWanfengAutoWhl 9.85 4.01 Henan Senyuan Electric 17.96 –3.44 Close % Chg –25% 0% +25%
9700 Oriental Energy Co Ltd 11.92 3.56 Nanjing Hanrui Cobalt 145.14 –3.37 Brent Crude Oil (USD/bbl.) 76.73 2.5
BeijingE-HualuInfoTech 35.75 3.53 Ciwen Media Co Ltd 33.70 –3.27 Gold (USD/t oz.) 1313.70 0.0
HebSlhrEnvrPrtctnHghte 19.85 3.39 Tahoe Group Co Ltd 26.28 –3.06 Silver (USD/t oz.) 16.47 –0.1
InnerMnglMGrssEclgy&En 9.63 3.33 Digital China Info Svc 15.08 –2.96 Copper (USD/lb.) 3.06 –0.6
Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index 3871.62 –0.2 –4.0
Zhejiang Runtu Co Ltd 22.00 3.24 China Greatwall Tech 8.87 –2.95 Aluminum (USD/MT) 2384.75 0.5
4400 Corn (USD/bu.) 4.03 0.6
Hang Seng Wheat (USD/bu.) 5.15 0.6
4000 PetroChina Co Ltd 5.95 4.39 China Resources Power 14.94 –2.23 Soybeans (USD/bu.) 10.20 0.9
Wharf RealEstate Invst 59.70 3.29 WH Group Ltd 7.93 –1.00 Coffee (USD/lb.) 1.19 –0.3
3600 CNOOC Ltd 13.52 2.27 Sino Land Co Ltd 13.20 –0.90 Sugar #11 (USD/lb.) 0.12 –0.4
China Petroleum & Chem 7.88 2.20 Sands China Ltd 45.90 –0.86 Palm Oil (MYR/MT) 2381.00 –0.1
3200 Want Want China 7.08 2.16 Galaxy Entertainment 67.90 –0.80

Cross Currency Rates ETFS

Shanghai B-Share Stock Price Index 320.91 –0.1 –6.1 Daily %
USD EUR CNY HKD GBP KRW BRL RUB JPY INR CAD EQUITY ETFs Ticker Close Change
365
USD 1.186 0.157 0.127 1.354 0.001 0.280 0.016 0.009 0.015 0.773 China 50 510050 2.71 –0.11
355 China AMC CSI 300 Index 510330 4.18 –0.24
EUR 0.843 0.132 0.107 1.142 0.001 0.237 0.013 0.008 0.013 0.652
345 China CSI 500 510500 6.34 –0.39
335 CNY 6.373 7.558 0.812 8.630 0.006 1.788 0.101 0.058 0.095 4.926 China SME 159902 3.51 –0.06
HKD 7.850 9.311 1.232 10.630 0.007 2.202 0.124 0.072 0.117 6.068 China Universal CSI Consumer Staples Index 159928 2.29 –0.39
325
GBP 0.738 0.876 0.116 0.094 0.001 0.207 0.012 0.007 0.011 0.571 E Fund ChiNext Price Index 159915 1.75 –0.23
315 E Fund CSI 300 510310 1.64 –0.18
KRW 1080.900 1280.210 169.610 137.696 1461.220 302.689 17.056 9.851 16.053 834.020
E Fund CSI 300 Financials ex Banks Index 512070 1.87 –0.43
BRL 3.563 4.228 0.559 0.454 4.826 0.003 0.056 0.033 0.053 2.757 E Fund Hang Seng China Enterprises Index 510900 1.25 0.24
Shenzhen B-Share Stock Price Index 1095.11 –0.3 –5.9
RUB 63.259 75.037 9.925 8.059 85.672 0.059 17.743 0.577 0.940 48.903 E FUND SZSE100 INDEX FUND 159901 4.76 –0.13
1260 Fortune SGAM Xianjin Tianyi Money Market 511990 100.01 0.00
JPY 109.660 130.070 17.207 13.970 148.501 0.102 30.774 1.734 1.629 84.767
Guangfa CSI 500 510510 1.68 –0.24
1210 INR 67.333 79.874 10.566 8.577 91.182 0.062 18.888 1.064 0.614 52.047 Guotai Shanghai Stock Exchange 180 Financial Index 510230 5.99 –0.33
1160 CAD 1.294 1.534 0.203 0.165 1.752 0.001 0.363 0.020 0.012 0.019 Harvest CSI 300 Index 159919 4.21 –0.21
Huatai-Pinebridge CSI 300 510300 3.87 –0.28
1110 Shanghai SSE180 510180 3.30 –0.12
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M J J A S O N D J F M A Yinhua Traded Money Market Fund 511880 101.57 0.00
 C H I N A DA I LY Thursday, May 10, 2018 IP special 17

Chinese courts get

tough on copycats
A brand can take years to
build, but just days to be cop-
ied. Chateau Lafite found itself
in such a situation in 2015.
The French winemaker dis-
covered that a Shanghai-based
firm had been importing and
selling wine labeled Chateau
Moron Lafitte, similar to its
own registered trademark
Lafite.
In order to remedy what it
saw as a blatant trademark
infringement, Chateau Lafite
turned to the Shanghai Intel-
lectual Property Court.
In February this year, the
court ordered the Shanghai-
based company to stop its
trademark infringement and
compensate Chateau Lafite
to the tune of 2 million yuan
($317,000).
“We are glad to see China
is working to set up a great IP
system and to equally protect
rights of brands from China
A tech company showcases its solutions for digital copyright protection at the China Content Broadcasting Network exhibition in Beijing last year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY and abroad,” said Jean-Guillau-
me Prats, CEO of Les Domaines
Barons de Rothschild (Chateau
set to match the market value
of the IP, sometimes breaking
the statutory upper limit pro-
vided in related laws, accord-
ing to Yang.
“Violators should pay the
price they deserve,” he said.
In a series of typical IPR cas-
es the Beijing court announced
in late April, two tech compa-
nies violating a software patent
were required to pay compen-
sation of 3 million yuan, higher
than the 1 million statutory
compensation cap stipulated
by China’s patent law.
The court passed its judg-
ment based on the fact that
the profit the two companies
made from illegally using the
software had far exceeded 1
million yuan.
In another case involving
German software corporation
SAP SE, handled by the Shang-
hai IP court, the judge decided
that a Chinese training agency
had used SAP SE software and
textbooks for commercial pur-
poses without authorization.

Copyright issues addressed in light

Lafite), at a recent meeting.
From 2014 to 2017, Shanghai
courts received 1,244 and con-
cluded 1,219 civil first instance
IP cases involving foreign par-
The compensation was set at
1.55 million yuan, higher than
500,000 yuan, the statutory
upper limit for compensation
provided in copyright law.

of emerging tech, business models ties, accounting for 3.3 percent

Experts attend recent forum, call for greater protection across industry sectors
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Amid new emerging busi-
ness models and the rise in
the application of new tech-
nologies, experts called for
increased copyright protec-
tion at a recent forum in Bei-
jing.
Technologies such as arti-
ficial intelligence, cloud com-
puting and big data pose
challenges to copyright pro-
tection, said Yu Cike, director-
general of the copyright man-
agement department at the
National Copyright Admin-
istration.
To deal with the chal-
lenges, the authorities need
to employ various means
to increase efficiency in
enforcement, improve ser-
vices to encourage creativity
and enhance international
exchanges to benefit innova-
tion, he said.
Gong Yu, founder and chief
executive of video streaming
company iQiyi, said copyright
protection has enabled inter-
net video streaming and digi-
tal publication businesses in
China to boom.
His company issued its
initial public offering on the
Nasdaq stock exchange in
late March. It generated 4.9
IP scene
BEIJING
Report tracks capital’s
trademark applications
A total of 264,853 trademarks
were registered in the capital
in 2017, together with 320,933
trademark applications, according
to a report released by the Beijing
Administration for Industry and
Commerce on Tuesday. The top
five sectors among the registered
trademarks were advertisement
sales, electronic apparatus,
education and entertainment,
skill services, and communication
services, contributing 39.74 percent
of the city’s new trademarks in
2017. The administration set up
service windows in five districts in
the city for companies to register
and collateralize trademarks as
well as to take part in related
consultations.
BEIJING EVENING NEWS
HENAN
Children learn shadow
puppetry art form
The province’s cultural department
hosted an event at a local
kindergarten recently where
intangible cultural heritage
inheritors demonstrated a number
of items, including Chinese shadow
puppetry, to the children, as well
as teaching them some of the art
of total civil IP cases handled.
Yang Jing, deputy director
of the administration office of
the Beijing IP Court, said, “IPR
“We are very impressed with
the Shanghai IP Court’s unbi-
ased respect for a multination-
al company’s IPR, as well as
the determination to protect
trials create fair market com- IPR in China,” said Karen Wil-
petition for both Chinese and liams, vice-president of SAP’s
foreign companies.” anti-piracy department, in a
In 2017, Chinese courts con- letter of gratitude to the court.
billion yuan ($769.6 million) research institute at Chong- market was worth 5.73 billion cluded more than 200,000 IPR Lawmakers in China are
in revenue in the first quarter qing University, said block- yuan last year, with the fig- cases, increasing 40 percent modifying IPR protection laws
of this year. “Without copy-
right protection, we cannot
5.73 chain has the advantages of
low costs and high data secu-
ure projected to top 30 billion
yuan in 2020.
year-on-year, according to the
Supreme People’s Court.
to raise the compensation cap.
“The State Intellectual Prop-
reach where we have gone so billion yuan rity so it helps traders lacking As more and more short “China is increasingly using erty Office will actively push
far,” Gong said. mutual trust to sign deals. video content is being pro- legal tools to help stimulate to raise the compensation
the short video content
Xiong Xiaoge, board chair- “The technology can duced, it is creating a grow- innovation,” said Yang Boyong, limit, and introduce penalties
market scale in China last
man of IDG Capital, said ensure the control and safety ing number of challenges chief judge of a tribunal in the to significantly raise the viola-
year
like other sectors, the music of products’ distribution pro- for copyright protection, Beijing High People’s Court. tion costs,” said Shen Changyu,
industry cannot become cess, and thus guarantee the particularly with short vid- In recent years, compensa- commissioner of SIPO.
stronger if piracy issues are interests of copyright own- eos which may contain some tion for IPR violation has been XINHUA
not resolved. technology helps to increase ers,” Qi said. copyrighted content, experts
“The best weapon to fight data credibility and facilitate At the forum, the National at the forum said.
piracy is blockchain technol- transactions in the movie Copyright Administration’s Whether a short video with
ogy,” Xiong said. His opinion market, he added. copyright management copyrighted content con-
was echoed by other experts After AI-based research department, the Copyright stitutes piracy needs to be
participating in the event. technology is employed, it Society of China’s copyright judged from the perspectives
Yu Jianing, head of an will be easier to distinguish monitoring center and Chi- of its creation and distribu-
industrial and economic pirated products and authen- na Mobile Communications tion, said Pan Wei, assistant
research institute at the Min- tic ones whose key data have Corp’s subsidiary Migu signed presiding judge of the intel-
istry of Industry and Infor- been stored in the block- an agreement on cooperation lectual property division of the
mation Technology, said chain, said Yu, adding that in online protection. Beijing High People’s Court.
blockchain technology, which the use of the technology will Ergeng, a company found- Wang Yong, senior partner
features decentralization and advance copyright business ed three years ago special- of JT&N law firm in Beijing,
greater credibility, can be to reach a highly automated izing in the creation of video said that as an emerging
used widely in the creation and intelligent level. content, rolls out an average business, the short video sec-
and management of content To date, blockchain tech- 5,000 original short videos tor needs to make full use of
such as movies. nology has been applied to annually. Li Ming, its director new internet technologies,
The first step to affirm the some domestic markets of and president of its internet including remote notaries, to
ownership of a movie is to copyrighted content, and business, said he has a head- resolve piracy issues. Classic cartoon images on display attract visitors at a Doraemon-
prove its copyright, Yu said. telecommunications giant ache dealing with unauthor- He suggested punitive themed exhibition in Shanghai in 2016. SU YANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
A key feature of blockchain Huawei and retail portal JD ized use of the company’s damages for repeated or
is that the information in the
chain cannot be falsified and
thus it can provide convinc-
have begun to expand their
intellectual property portfolio
in the sector, China Intellec-
products for adaptation, cita-
tion and compilation.
Data from iResearch, an
malicious infringements. “At
the same time, the public’s IP
awareness needs to be further
Rights to Doraemon
ing evidence using electrical
information, he noted.
Furthermore, blockchain
tual Property News reported.
Qi Aimin, head of an inter-
net and big data strategy
online data analysis and con-
sulting company, show that
China’s short video content
increased,” Wang said. “That
is a fundamental solution and
we still have a long way to go.”
image ruled in Beijing
By YUAN SHENGGAO The court found that the
graphic part of the trademark
The Beijing Intellectual owned by Jiqimao constitut-
Property Court upheld the ed “substantial similarity” to
Trademark Review and Adju- Doraemon, which is a copy-
forms’ techniques. “Intangible intangible cultural heritage items recently founded in Lanzhou dication Board’s decision over righted image.
cultural heritage is a vague concept — Daoming bamboo weaving Vocational Technical College. the rights to popular Japanese Evidence presented in court
cartoon image Doraemon at a showed that the Doraemon
for the kids and so the on-site and Huaiyuan rattan weaving. Major studies can be undertaken
display and interactions made It will also aim to improve other in thangka, traditional Tibetan recent trademark hearing. copyright was created before
them realize the heritage can be traditional handicrafts in Chengdu, Buddhist painting, cultural relic Doraemon is a popular the disputed trademark was
seen and touched,” said Cui Mei, such as Sichuan embroidery and repair and paper cutting among character in the Japanese granted.
head of the kindergarten, adding lacquer art, in the hope that they others. The institute will act as manga and animation series Thus the Shanghai com-
that the event helped the children can provide a greater impetus for an important training center of the same name, which pany, as the authorized party,
learn about heritage protection. economic development. for related inheritors in Gansu, became a hit in China after it had the rights prior to Jiqi-
HENAN BUSINESS DAILY SICHUAN ECONOMICS DAILY representatives from the college was introduced in the 1990s. mao. Without its permission,
said. The institute will also offer Jiqimao, a children’s shoe- Jiqimao’s trademark registra-
FUJIAN XINJIANG modern apprenticeships and maker in Jinjiang, Fujian tion infringed the prior copy-
lectures as well as establishing province, filed an application right, according to the court.
Just-launched customs Geographical indication an intangible cultural heritage with the then State Adminis- Meanwhile, the court found
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Dental events offer reason to smile
Global oral health
program plans
to involve 3,000
children in China
By LIU YUKUN in Beijing and
LI YINGQING in Kunming
liuyukun@chinadaily.com.cn
A series of educational oral
health events will be
launched in China as a part of
the global dental care pro-
gram Smile Around the
World, and more than 3,000
children will be involved, said
the organizers at the opening
ceremony in Kunming, Yun-
nan province.
The project was initiated by
the FDI World Dental Federa-
tion, organized by the China
Stomatological Association
and supported by global man-
ufacturing and production
company 3M.
Speaking on Mar 20 — the
World Oral Health Day—
Gerhard Seeberger, head of
the FDI World Dental Federa-
tion, explained that the aim is
to increase awareness among
children around the world to
prevent dental caries, and
also help parents to better
guide their children.
“The risk of dental caries
can be largely reduced with
proper prevention and treat-
ment, and that is our pur-
pose,” said Seeberger.
The same day as the pro-
gram’s opening ceremony, an
oral health lecture was held at
the Primary School Affiliated
with Yunnan Normal Univer-
sity.
During the lecture, chil-
dren read pamphlets pro-
duced by the FDI World
Dental Federation. They also
Wind project
set to energize
rural Guizhou
By ZHENG YIRAN in Beijing
and YANG JUN in Guiyang
Beijing Tianrun New Ener-
gy Investment Co Ltd has
invested 1.35 billion yuan
($212 million) in a wind pow-
er project in Guizhou prov-
ince, in a bid to promote local
economic transformation.
The whole project involves
three phases. Construction of
the first phase, with a maxi-
mum capacity of 50 mega-
watts, began recently in
Qiaojia town of Yanhe county
in Tongren city, with an
investment of 450 million
yuan from Beijing Tianrun.
The project began wind
tests in 2016 and was official-
ly launched two years later.
When the whole project is
completed, it will become a
supplemental source for the
local electricity network and
even be able to supply power
to the grid in Tongren.
“Our company has long
been devoted to the nation’s
poverty alleviation undertak-
ing. Yanhe county is an
impoverished area, but it is
rich in wind power. That is
why we chose to invest here,”
said Wu Peng, program
director at Beijing Tianrun.
According to Wu, Yanhe
county has extensive mead-
ows and the wind speed
there reaches 5 meters per
second.
“Usually a wind speed of 6
m/s is required to build a
wind farm, but the low-wind-
speed generating units we
developed can make full use
of the wind power resource
here. After the wind farm is
built, the estimated return
rate of investment is 8 to 10
percent a year,” he said.
In addition, Beijing Tian-
run has established an
800,000-yuan poverty-allevi-
ation fund, aiming to pro-
mote infrastructure
construction in Yanhe and
assist the local agriculture
industry.
Gerhard Seeberger, head of the FDI World Dental Federation, interacts with students at the Primary School Affiliated with Yunnan Normal University on March 20.
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practiced brushing their teeth
under the guidance of teach-
ers and volunteer dentists.
“We are working on the
design of educational events
that are interesting and
engaging to students, so we
can empower children to pri-
oritize their oral health and
offer parents guidance to sup-
port them on this journey,
thus preventing oral diseases
from an early age,” Seeberger
added.
Yanhe county is
an impoverish-
ed area, but it
is rich in wind
power.”
Wu Peng, program director
at Beijing Tianrun
1.35b yuan
amount invested by Bei-
jing Tianrun in a wind
power project in Guizhou
province
Han Fei, deputy chief of
Yanhe county, said “the local
area mainly relies on agricul-
ture and industrial develop-
ment is relatively weak. The
wind farm, which is environ-
mentally friendly, will pro-
mote the economic
development of the county”.
“The establishment of the
wind farm will contribute to
government revenue. More-
over, there is a chance to
develop some tourism pro-
grams. We may take the
opportunity to combine local
agriculture with tourism, lift-
ing local people out of pover-
ty,” he said.
In recent years, the county
has optimized the industrial
structure to increase resi-
dents’ incomes through the
construction of agricultural
parks. The wind power
project will be a push for
future development.
Zhao Yandi contributed to
the story. Contact the writer
at zhengyiran@
chinadaily.com.cn
A series of similar events
will be held in Shaanxi prov-
ince and the Ningxia Hui
autonomous region from
March to June.
Yu Guangyan, president of
the Chinese Somatological
Association, said: “Tooth
decay in Chinese children is
becoming more common, and
it is getting worse in rural are-
as compared with cities.
“Therefore, strengthening
oral health education efforts
The first second-generation Valemax,Yuan He Hai , docks at the Tubarao port in Brazil for the first time on Feb 25.
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Vale Sustainability Report: New ore
carrier world’s most efficient vessel
By ZHENG XIN
zhengxin@chinadaily.com.cn
Brazilian mining conglom-
erate Vale SA says its second-
generation Valemaxes, used
to transport iron ore from
Brazil to China, are the most
efficient vessels ever built in
terms of greenhouse gas
emission reductions.
The company’s new sus-
tainability report says the
new vessels, also known as
VLOCs, have a capacity of up
to 400,000 metric tons dead
weight and emit 41 percent
less carbon dioxide than the
Capesizes used in 2011, which
had a capacity of 180,000 tons
and served as the basis for the
first generation of Valemaxes
launched that year.
Because of the close coop-
eration with Chinese part-
ners in various areas,
Valemax vessels are designed
in China, with most of them
constructed and financed in
China, as well.
“Vale uses natural resour-
ces in its operations. There-
fore, we must account to
society with a specific report
and helping children have
good hygiene from an early
age is imperative.”
According to a report from
the World Health Organiza-
tion, dental decay is the most
common issue affecting chil-
dren’s health. About 60 to 90
percent of school pupils in
industrialized countries have
caries.
Yu added that by last Sep-
tember, about 70.9 percent of
five-year-old children in Chi-
on socio-environmental
issues,” said Alberto Ninio,
director of the company’s
new, 11th edition of its sus-
tainability report.
“This year, we have further
advanced by aligning our
actions to the structure of the
2030 Agenda and the Sus-
tainable Development
Goals.”
Though it has some of the
highest quality reserves in
the world, Vale has a geo-
graphic disadvantage com-
pared with its competitors,
including Rio Tinto Group
and BHP Billiton Ltd; it must
travel some 14,247 kilometers
more than the other two.
The new vessels are part of
the miner’s efforts to mini-
mize the geographical advan-
tage of its Australian peers in
shipping ore to China.
The Rio de Janeiro-based
company’s cost-reduction
strategy partly depends on
the use of newer ships, Fabio
Schvartsman, CEO of Vale SA
previously said.
Shipbuilders are con-
structing a total of 32 such
vessels for Vale’s shipping
na were found to have dental
caries, a 5.8 percentage points
increase than that of ten years
ago. For 12-year-old children,
the number was 34.5, a 7.8
percentage points increase.
“The number is still rising,”
Yu said. “We look forward to
more cooperation from com-
panies and organizations in
different fields.” Yu added.
“In that way, we can fully
utilize each other’s strengths
and better promote dental
41 percent
less carbon dioxide was
emitted by Vale SA’s new
vessel compared with its
first-generation vessels
launched in 2011
partners; 30 of them will be
delivered by Chinese ship-
yards from the beginning of
2018 through the last quarter
of 2019 and two will be deliv-
ered by Japanese shipyards
from the end of 2019 through
the first quarter of 2020.
Four Chinese companies
— China Ore Shipping Pte
Ltd, a subsidiary of China
COSCO Shipping Corp Ltd,
China Merchants Energy
Shipping Co, Ltd, ICBC
Financial Leasing Co Ltd and
Bank of Communications
Finance Leasing Co, Ltd —
purchased 19 VLOCs from
Vale since 2015, with the total
value of these ships reaching
$1.94 billion.
Vale’s sustainability report,
Thursday, May 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY
care in China.”
3M announced at the open-
ing ceremony that it will
donate preventive medical
products for caries and other
oral diseases to the program.
Shen Ning, general manag-
er of 3M Healthcare Business
Group in China, said the com-
pany is making efforts to offer
better dental products and it
is hoping to see more active
awareness of oral disease pre-
vention among the public.
which provides information
about the company’s per-
formance in 2017 in econom-
ic, social, and environmental
areas, follows the guidelines
of the Global Reporting Initi-
ative, an institution that
established the international
standard of corporate socio-
environmental reports, it
said.
The document is divided
into five main themes: Peo-
ple, Planet, Prosperity, Peace
and Partnerships.
In 2017, the company also
invested $487.3 million in
environmental protection
and conservation, with its
percentage of reuse of water
for industrial processes
reaching 82 percent and iron
ore tailings dams audited
with confirmed stability con-
dition reaching 100 percent,
it said.
It has also invested $14
million through its Vale
Foundation in 52 projects in
65 cities in Brazil, related to
the themes of work and
income generation, health,
education, culture and
sports.
Briefly
Remote areas enjoy
digital education
Suning Mobile Classroom
Public Welfare Activity, a van
transformed into a multime-
dia classroom, arrived last
week in Harbin, Heilongjiang
province, and brought digital
media education to local
classrooms. The activity cov-
ers six areas including virtual
reality and artificial intelli-
gence. Initiated by nonprofit
organization Adream Founda-
tion and electric appliance
provider Suning.com, the
activity will travel across the
nation from this month
through November , bringing
digital media education to
remote places. Ma Kang, vice
president at Suning, said the
activity has been ongoing for
four years and has been focus-
ing on balancing educational
resources among different
regions.
Study: Rural China
short of kids’ books
A reading report that targets
children from rural areas in
Central and East China,
where many poverty-stricken
areas are located, was
released on May 2 by Amazon
China, The China Foundation
for Poverty Alleviation and
The China Philanthropy
Research Institute under Bei-
jing Normal University. The
report says that nearly 74 per-
cent of the children surveyed
read fewer than 10 books per
year, and more than 36 per-
cent of children read fewer
than three. Moreover, more
than 71 percent of families
surveyed have fewer than 10
books in their homes, and
nearly 20 percent of children
have no books to read outside
of their textbooks.
Volunteers plant
trees in Beijing
A planting event that pro-
moted environmental pro-
tection was held on April 28
in Miyun, Beijing, by local
governments and The AEON
Group Environmental Foun-
dation. The event attracted
more than 800 volunteers
from China and Japan, and
participants planted about
8,000 trees. Takuya Okada,
honorary chairman and
adviser at AEON Co Ltd, said
he looks forward to more
cooperation between Chi-
nese and Japanese volun-
teers to better protect the
environment. Since 1991, the
foundation has been focus-
ing on environmental pro-
tection and planting events,
and has cooperated with
neighboring countries to
promote its events to a wider
audience.
Dream Classroom
offers insight
Nissan Group of China and
China Council for the Promo-
tion of International Trade
announced recently that they
will cooperate to further pro-
mote Nissan’s “The Dream
Classroom” program to more
car exhibitions. During Chi-
na’s three-day May Day holi-
days, the program recruited
40 elementary school stu-
dents to Nissan’s car exhibi-
tion at the China
International Exhibition Cen-
ter for a theoretical and prac-
tical learning experience in
the automotive field. From
2013 to 2017, the program has
benefited more than 75,000
students across China.
Weibo to support
panda habitat
Panda Guardians, a Weibo
account that aims at gaining
more support for the giant
panda’s habitat protection,
announced on April 17 that it
will launch a bamboo plant-
ing project in Shaanxi prov-
ince. The project was a
follow-up to a game on Wei-
bo, one of China’s most popu-
lar platforms for social
media. In the game, users
can feed their virtual pandas
by growing virtual bamboo
through points they get from
such actions as posting on
Weibo and inviting friends to
the game. Game users’ efforts
will be calculated by Weibo.
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ANIMATED AMBITIONS
A string of Academy Awards is helping to put an Irish animation studio on the map.
Xu Fan looks at how its films may be received by Chinese audiences.
I
rish director Nora
Twomey believes her
new animated movie
may resonate with Chi-
nese because of its similarities
with the story of Hua Mulan,
the brave daughter who dis-
guises herself as a young man
to take her father’s place in the
emperor’s army.
Indeed, her new film, The
Breadwinner, which is set in
Afghanistan, resembles the
Chinese ballad first tran-
scribed 1,500 years ago, she
explains during the 14th Chi-
na International Cartoon &
Animation Festival in Zheji-
ang’s provincial capital,
Hangzhou.
The animator-director
shared some of the film’s
behind-the-scenes stories at
the event.
When it comes to animated
movies, most Chinese people
would expect their favorite
flicks to hail from Hollywood
or Japan.
But thanks to glowing word-
of-mouth reviews from a
growing group of Chinese
moviegoers, Irish animated
films have steadily been gain-
ing recognition for their cul-
turally distinctive features in
movies such as The Secret of
Kells, Song of the Sea and The
Breadwinner.
While it might seem like a
coincidence that all three of
these films received a nomi-
nation for best animated fea-
ture at the Academy Awards
in 2009, 2015 and 2018,
respectively, it may come as
no surprise that these mov-
ies were all produced by Car-
toon Saloon, an animation
studio based in Kilkenny, a
town in southeastern Ire-
land.
Twomey, who co-founded
Cartoon Saloon with two
friends in 1999, recalls the
inspiration for The Breadwin-
ner, which was adapted from
New Detective Dee film set to thrill mystery fans
By XU FAN
In the real world, Di Renjie
was a seventh-century politi-
cian in the court of Chinese
empress Wu Zetian of the Tang
Dynasty (618-907).
But he has evolved into a
Chinese version of Sherlock
Holmes in the 18th-century
novel Di Gong An by an anony-
mous writer.
Dutch writer Robert van
Gulik translated the ancient nov-
el in the 1940s as the Celebrated
Cases of Judge Dee, making Di
known in the West as Dee.
Now, the famous character
— who has inspired a series
of screen productions in
recent years — will return to
The new animated film, The Breadwinner, is set in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001, and centers
on Parvana, an 11-year-old girl who cuts off her hair to disguise herself as a boy to help support her
family and seek a way to rescue her father. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
the 2000 children’s novel of
the same name, and was origi-
nally penned by Canadian
author Deborah Ellis.
“Ellis is an incredible wom-
an. She’s interested in the
rights of children around the
world. When I read her book, I
was very inspired,” recalls
Twomey, during an interview
on the sidelines of the event
with China Daily.
Set in Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan in 2001, the
94-minute film centers on
Parvana, an 11-year-old girl
whose father is arrested by the
Taliban. Since women are not
permitted to leave their
homes without a male escort
or even earn a living under
Taliban’s rule, Parvana cuts off
her hair to disguise herself as a
boy to help support her family
and seek a way to rescue her
father.
“Parvana is just a normal lit-
tle girl who goes through nor-
mal little girl stuff, but she’s
also incredibly brave while liv-
ing through an extraordinary
time,” says Twomey.
Memories formed at a
young age can often fuel a cre-
ative passion, and for the
46-year-old director, the
big screen in the upcoming
period-action film Detective
Dee The Four Heavenly Kings.
Taiwan actor Mark Chao is
again playing Detective Dee
in the third installment of
Hong Kong director Tsui
Hark’s Detective Dee fran-
chise.
The new movie will hit Chi-
nese theaters on July 27, seek-
ing to tap into the lucrative but
fiercely contested summer
box-office season.
The first film, Detective Dee
and the Mystery of the Phan-
tom Flame (2010), featured
Andy Lau as Dee, while Mark
Chao appeared in the second
installment, or prequel, Young
Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea
If animators focus
too much on the
box office, they
may lose heart.”
Nora Twomey, Irish director
Taiwan actor Mark Chao plays Detective Dee in the upcoming
Detective Dee The Four Heavenly Kings.
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impression left by the conflict
in the Northern Ireland as she
was growing up in the 1970s
and 1980s is indelibly etched
on her mind.
“We know how vulnerable
peace is and how difficult it is
to maintain peace. That gives
me a special interest in the
subject,” she explains.
“It’s also the fact that we are
independent filmmakers. We
have the opportunity to tell a
story which might not other-
wise be told … And as a moth-
er, I believe Afghan children
deserve the peace that my chil-
dren have,” adds Twomey, who
has two boys.
She also reveals that her
youngest son, who is now
almost 8 years old, per-
formed the voice-over for one
of the young characters in the
movie.
When asked if the political
background might appear too
complicated for young view-
ers, Twomey says she hopes
children will discuss the mov-
ie with their parents and have
their questions answered in
the future.
“I look at Parvana the way a
mother does. There are also
other characters in the film
that I identify with. The more
you identify with the charac-
ters that you are portraying,
the deeper the characters will
become,” says Twomey.
A coproduction of Ireland,
Luxembourg and Canada, the
movie gathered together
around 300 people from all
over the world to work on set
painting and voice casting.
Hollywood giant Angelina
Jolie, who has traveled to
around 50 countries to sup-
port refugee families, also
came on board as the movie’s
executive producer.
“I didn’t believe she would
be involved in the film, until I
got a call to meet her in Los
Angeles,” recalls Twomey, who
was so nervous she got lost in
the building as soon as she
arrived.
Jolie, who has funded girls’
education programs in
Afghanistan, offered a great
deal of guidance and encour-
agement to the cast and crew,
adds Twomey.
Speaking about the key to
making a successful film,
Twomey says: “If animators
focus too much on the box
office, they may lose heart.
Audiences always respond to
the truth and the heart of films
and TV shows.”
The Breadwinner garnered
screenings at both the recent
8th Beijing International
Film Festival and the 14th
China International Cartoon
& Animation Festival in
Hangzhou.
Beijing-based China Nebu-
la Picture Film & Television’s
Tianjin subsidiary has pur-
chased the rights to distrib-
ute The Breadwinner on the
Chinese mainland, and
hopes to have the movie on
general release over the sum-
mer.
Contact the writer at
xufan@chinadaily.com.cn
Dragon (2013).
The latest film sees the
return of Feng Shaofeng, Lin
Gengxin and Carina Lau as a
general, a genius doctor and
empress Wu, respectively, as
well as newcomer Ma Sichun.
“When I finished filming for
the (second) Young Detective
Dee movie, I was asked if I
would like to act in the third
sequel,” Chao says. “I said ‘yes’.
But I had to wait a very long
time and was once worried I
might be replaced by someone
else.”
Speaking about the fran-
chise, which weaves together
history and mystery, Chao says
the new story is about the
darkness of humanity.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Friend works
toward Cameron’s
manga dream
By FRANKIE TAGGART
in Los Angeles
Agence France-Presse
Before James Cameron
turned Avatar into the high-
est-grossing movie in history,
he was working on a new kind
of cinematic heroine with the
film adaptation of manga
series Battle Angel Alita.
The director behind The
Terminator, Aliens and
Titanic, the second-biggest
hit of all time, had a franchise
planned for Yukito Kishiro’s
graphic novels about a cyborg
discovered on a garbage heap.
The runaway success of
Avatar — $2.8 billion in
worldwide ticket receipts —
has led to four sequels being
green-lit, so Cameron decid-
ed to give his 600-page Alita
script to friend Robert Rod-
riguez.
“I totally bought into his
version of it and I wanted to
help him get it to the screen. I
wanted, as a fan, to see that
movie,” Rodriguez, 49, said at
the recent CinemaCon indus-
try convention in Las Vegas.
“So that was my approach
to it, not to go and take it and
turn it into something else,
but help Jim finish what he
had started out to make.”
Alita: Battle Angel — the
title was flipped, in keeping
with all of Cameron’s films
since the early 1980s begin-
ning with a T or an A — is set
hundreds of years in the
future.
The unconscious Alita is
found in a scrapyard by Ido,
a doctor who realizes that
somewhere in her aban-
doned cyborg shell is the
heart and soul of an extraor-
dinary young woman.
He tries to shield Alita
from her mysterious past as
the corrupt forces that run
things come after her and
she discovers she has unique
fighting abilities.
Rosa Salazar, known for
the Divergent and Maze Run-
ner teen franchises, leads an
all-star cast featuring Jenni-
fer Connelly, Mahershala Ali
and Christoph Waltz, all
Oscar winners.
Rodriguez, who befriended
Cameron a quarter century
ago, rose to fame with the
release of his widely
acclaimed 1992 low-budget
El Mariachi, about a Mexican
musician who takes up arms
against a gang of outlaws.
This led to a diverse career
that has included the seminal
vampire thriller From Dusk
Till Dawn, the dark action
film Sin City and the child-
friendly Spy Kids franchise,
as well as Mexican-set action-
ers Machete and Desperado.
Rodriguez didn’t so much
rewrite Cameron’s Alita
script as edit it down to a
manageable length, suggest-
“The movie features a very
complex case which involves a
lot of people. Dee will face his
most powerful enemies,” says
Chao, 33.
The upcoming film, based
on one of the unsolved puzzles
from the previous two films,
will continue the timeline of
the second film.
Hark says that the new film
will have more twists, and that
he frequently had to ask play-
wright Chang Chia-lu to
rewrite the script.
In the film, Ma, who shared
the Taipei Golden Horse’s best
actress award with Zhou
Dongyu for Soul Mate in 2016,
will play a character who
wears a mask.
19
ing some additional photog-
raphy and dialogue, and
moving the action to South
America.
“If I wrote (Cameron) a
question he’d send back a
whole very long, broken
down, analyzed, easy-to-di-
gest-and-learn-from
answer,” Rodriguez says.
“And he’s very generous,
very much a mentor and, at
the same time, ‘Make this
your own, you know, Robert
— you make this your own.
Here’s what I think but make
your own decision’.”
Cameron and longtime
coproducer Jon Landau
(Titanic, Avatar) haven’t
ruled out a franchise, but first
the movie, due on Dec 21, will
need to overcome misgivings
about the look of Alita.
Director Robert Rodriguez
doesn’t so much rewrite
James Cameron’s Alita script
as edit it down to a managea-
ble length. AFP
When an early trailer land-
ed, some critics complained
that the preternaturally
large-eyed heroine, an
entirely computer-animated
character superimposed on
Salazar’s motion-capture
performance, looked kind of
creepy. It is a reaction encap-
sulated by the “uncanny val-
ley”, a hypothesis that human
replicas that appear almost,
but not quite, like real people
elicit feelings of revulsion.
“Not being funny: I just
don’t like looking at Alita. For-
get the uncanny valley, this is
uncanny Marianas Trench,”
tweets Scott Wampler of the
pop-culture website
Birth.Movies.Death.
The precedents for big-
budget, effects-saturated,
manga-based blockbusters
with female leads aren’t par-
ticularly encouraging either.
Ghost in the Shell opened
poorly in the United States
and sank without a trace
amid scathing reviews and a
backlash against the white
Scarlett Johannson being
handed the starring role.
But Rodriguez has always
believed in Cameron’s vision of
a CGI cyborg that appears
every bit as real in soul, if not in
appearance, as the young
women who will see the movie.
“A lot of the time, manga-
type material is unrelatable
to an audience because it’s
just so far out. It’s all specta-
cle and not enough emo-
tion,” he says. “And that’s the
opposite of what Jim does.”
Hong Kong director Tsui
Hark’s new Detective Dee movie
will hit Chinese theaters on July
27.
20 LIFE | Film & TV
SUBTLE TOUCH OF
THE READERS PROVES A HIT
The slow pace
and soft focus of
a CCTV literary
show seem to be
appealing to
viewers. Wang
Kaihao reports.
F
ormer NBA superstar Yao
Ming is taking to a new
kind of stage.
Unconventionally, the
man, who is probably one of the
best recognized Chinese athletes on
the international arena, is showing
people another side to his personal-
ity with The Readers, a TV program
produced by China Central Televi-
sion.
He is reading a Chinese transla-
tion of True Nobility, a work of
prose written by American novelist
Ernest Hemingway.
“To regret one’s errors to the
point of not repeating them is true
repentance,” he reads. “There is
nothing noble in being superior to
your fellow men. True nobility lies
in being superior to your former
self.”
He explains the chapter is devot-
ed to people who love sports.
The new show revolves around
words, but it goes far beyond what
is read.
Last year, the first series of The
Readers broke the mold and taught
Chinese TV audiences that a talk
show does not have to simply be
about amusement. Now, with its
second series, the show returns
with its trademark slow pace, warm
touch and mesmerizing vocal
rhythms set in an intimate atmos-
phere. The first episode of season
two aired on Saturday and is set to
run weekly.
In each episode, several guests —
celebrities, famous scholars or ordi-
nary people with touching personal
stories — are invited to read aloud
passages from their favorite literary
works, which usually selected from
classic poems or novels. This fol-
lows a short interview where the
guests share meaningful moments
from their lives.
For Yao, who is now head of the
Chinese Basketball Association, his
experience in conquering continu-
ous injuries seems to echo with the
concept of “true nobility” advocat-
ed by Hemingway.
Dong Qing, producer, director
and anchor of the show explains
that the aim of the program is to
arouse people’s memories of litera-
ture and allow them to cast a retro-
Cannes festival sees growing interest in Chinese cinema
By XU FAN
xufan@chinadaily.com.cn
The 71st Cannes Film Festival has
a strong Chinese presence this year
with many Chinese stars seen on
opening night and director Jia
Zhangke’s latest movie Ash is Pur-
est White shortlisted for the Palme
D’Or .
Meanwhile, Taiwan actor Chang
Chen — who has had nine films
nominated or screened in Cannes
over the past two decades, is on
the nine-member juror panel pre-
sided by Cate Blanchett.
Speaking about the things he
plans to do at Cannes, Chang says
he will help the other jurors under-
stand Asian cinema better, and
that he will not treat the four nomi-
nated Asian films differently.
Besides Jia’s Ash is Purest
White, the other Asian films select-
ed for the official competition are
South Korea director Lee Chang-
dong’s Burning; Iranian director
Jafar Panahi’s Three Face and Japa-
nese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s
Shoplifters.
Ash is Purest White is defined by
its director as a romance which
spans 17 years from 2000.
The film, starring Zhao Tao, Jia’s
wife and Liao Fan, a Berlin Interna-
tional Film Festival’s best actor
winner for Black Coal, Thin Ice, will
have its world debut in Cannes on
Friday.
Dong Qing (left) interviews author Jia Pingwa in season two of China Central Television’s literary talk show The Readers.
spective eye over their developing
attitudes toward life.
And the subtle touch that The
Readers has brought to the chat
show format seems to have worked
wonders. On Douban, a popular
Chinese film and TV rating plat-
form, the first season of the show
scored 8.6 points out of 10. Accord-
ing to Dong, clips from last season
were heard some 580 million times
on ximalaya.com, a major online
radio station.
Despite the success last year,
Dong wanted to add something new
into the mix for this new season.
“Topics for this season will be
more wide-ranging and varied,” she
says at a recent premiere for the
second series in Beijing.
“The warm key words like ‘love’
and ‘family’ will continue, but we
will expand this to other social
issues with a global interest like
environmental protection and
organ donation,” she explains.
She says more serious works oth-
er than best-sellers will be read
onstage during season two. Many of
the guests, including Yao, had never
appeared in a literature-themed
show before.
In the first episode, Xue Qikun, a
physicist and an academic at the
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
recalls his days of painstaking
study in Japan, when he joked
about his “7-11” schedule — where
Clockwise from left: Actor Chang Chen (second right ) is on the jury panel at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival; Chinese stars Zhao Tao (left) and Liao Fan headline Jia Zhangke’s latest directorial film Ash
is Purest White; an image from director Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night; and Ash is Pure White recounts a romance spanning 17 years. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Ash’s cast also includes actor-di-
rector Xu Zheng, known for the
blockbuster Lost franchise; and
Feng Xiaogang, a pioneer who has
reinvented Chinese commercial
films.
The film, which was shot in four
months in Datong, Shanxi prov-
ince, and the Three Gorges Dam
area and the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region, has some ele-
ments from Hong Kong gangster
movies and martial arts films.
Jia was not on Cannes’ red car-
pet, but his film’s stars Zhao and
Liao appeared in the spotlight. And
Former NBA superstar Yao Ming (left) and entrepreneur Zong Qinghou are
among guests to be invited to read passages on the talk show.
he arrived at his laboratory at 7 am
and left at 11 pm. He read a chapter
from Great Learning, a Confucian
classic dating back more than 2,000
years, to honor his Chinese prede-
cessors in the field of physics.
Xu Zhuo, a third-generation con-
servationist for the red-crowned
cranes of Heilongjiang province,
read a passage from writer Zhang
Kangkang’s work Hometown of the
Big White Birds to reveal her emo-
joining them were singer-actress
Li Yuchun, actresses Ma Sichun
and Fan Bingbing, also a juror at
last year’s 70th Cannes festival.
Separately, Chinese director Bi
Gan has Long Day’s Journey into
Night selected for the Un Certain
Regard competition of the festival.
The film, starring Tang Wei, Syl-
via Chang, Huang Jue, Lee Hong-
chi and Chen Yongzhong, is about
a man who returns to his home-
town to seek a mysterious woman
whom he spent an unforgettable
summer with more than a decade
earlier.
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
tions toward the precious bird spe-
cies that occupy the local wetlands.
Zong Qinghou, an entrepreneur
and founder of Wahaha Group, who
only began his business at the age
of 42, chose a work of prose written
by late linguist and historian Ji
Xianlin to express his expectations
for the younger Chinese genera-
tions.
In the upcoming episodes, actor
Hu Ge will prove his acting skills
Tang, the Chinese star who shot
to prominence for Ang Lee’s Lust,
Caution, says she is privileged to
be part of Bi’s work.
Bi shot to fame with his directo-
rial debut Kaili Blues (2016), an
arthouse feature set in the young
director’s hometown in Guizhou
province.
As for the other Chinese links in
Cannes, the Spanish psychological
thriller Everybody Knows featuring
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem —
which is the festival’s opening title,
has a Chinese investor backing it.
Xu Bin, the co-founder of the
Thursday, May 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY
through his rendition of a passage
from Hamlet. And a Chinese animal
conservationist working in Africa,
who earned a bachelor’s degree
from Columbia University and gave
up an enticing offer from a Wall
Street firm, will join British zoolo-
gist Jane Goodall to read a piece
together.
Dong, who hosted the first series
but did not take up the position of
director until season two, confesses
the role has brought many new
pressures — but has also given her
added impetus.
“One guest told me he had visited
many European countries and
found that many people there had a
habit of reading in public but it
seems to be rarer in China,” Dong
recalls.
“He told me it was never too late
to make up for it. His words really
cheered me up one of the weariest
days of production.”
And for Dong, when her produc-
tion team nearly broke down under
the punishing work schedule, read-
ing also provided a way to calm
down a heated atmosphere and fig-
ure out new solutions.
“When we need to relax, each of
us will just pick up our favorite
book to read,” she says. “It’s a good
way for all of us to forget our troub-
les for a while.”
According to Dong, reading aloud
and expressing emotions in public
Beijing-based film company Hish-
ow Entertainment, says the com-
pany decided to finance the film as
they’ve always admired the Irani-
an director Asghar Farhadi, a two-
time Oscar winner for best
picture.
The movie is planned to be
imported into China.
The increasing Chinese influ-
ence in Cannes, the world’s top
movie event, is being sensed by
visitors there.
Among them is actor Matthew
Knowles, who has starred in Chi-
nese film Asura, which made it to
The Readers connects
with many ordinary
people’s aspirations
through the power of
reading.”
Li Jingze, deputy head of China Writ-
ers’ Association
may not come naturally to many
Chinese people, but she hopes the
show will help to change all that.
So-called “reading kiosks” were
installed in 12 cities around China
for ordinary people to record them-
selves reading aloud. The minia-
ture studios have also enabled
readers to upload their clips to the
internet through a phone app
called The Readers.
“The show introduces literature
in a unique form, but it still retains
many Chinese characteristics,” says
Li Jingze, deputy head of the China
Writers’ Association.
“The Readers connects with many
ordinary people’s aspirations
through the power of reading, and
helps to comfort and enlighten peo-
ple emotionally,” he explains.
“That’s why it’s popular.”
Solid cultural elements have add-
ed into the formats of many Chi-
nese variety shows since 2017, says
Lang Kun, chief adviser on variety
shows with CCTV. He cites National
Treasure, a CCTV show that fea-
tures cultural relics that recently
sparked a fad for museums, as one
such example.
“When season one of The Readers
was aired, we didn’t expect it to lead
to a trend toward culturally rich
variety shows nationwide,” Lang
says. “More shows should be look-
ing to strike a better balance
between the wider market, main-
stream values and youth appeal.”
And The Readers has also expand-
ed its horizons.
At the MIPTV Media Market in
April, a major global expo for TV
content held in Cannes, The Read-
ers was one of the highlights of orig-
inal Chinese TV programs on offer.
And negotiations between the Chi-
nese production team and a French
TV station about adapting it into a
French TV show are underway.
“We’re not aiming to sell formats,”
Dong says. “But what matters is that
we stick to our original style while
creating a resonance with audien-
ces.”
Contact the writer at
wangkaihao@chinadaily.com.cn
the cover of Variety magazine.
Speaking about the mood at the
Cannes festival — which began on
Tuesday and ends on May 19 — he
says: “The interest in Chinese cin-
ema is growing. There is definitely
a strong Chinese presence here. I
hear Chinese everywhere I go.”
Knowles’ film, made for 750 mil-
lion yuan ($118 million), is about a
mythical realm.
Knowles, who is in Cannes to
strike deals for future projects, says
it’s interesting to see ordinary peo-
ple on the French Riviera getting
interested in seeing Chinese films.
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Crossword Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
Apply your skills to accommodate new trends or look for diverse
ways to use your services and attributes. Offering something
unique will drum up interest and opportunity.
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Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)
Today we must buy a television set.
Don’t let anyone talk you into taking on too much or coax you
into doing something that is not good for you. Bad habits will be
difficult to break.
对。今天是周末，说不定会有促销活动。
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Use your imagination when it comes to money matters. An
opportunity to invest in something unique will result in personal
gains and growth. Someone close to you will be evasive or disap- Yes. It is the weekend. Perhaps there are some sales pro-
point you. motions.

Aries (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

Don’t get angry when you should get moving. It’s up to you to 我还是喜欢长虹的，毕竟是专门生产电视的厂家，质
take care of your responsibilities and to protect your position and 量信得过。
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Gather as much information as possible. Knowledge is power, I still prefer Changhong TV. It is quite a specialized pro-
and being able to use what you learn to your advantage will bring ducer. Its quality can be trusted.
you closer to the success and respect you deserve.
DVD多少钱一张？
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Get your facts straight before you voice your opinion. An emo-
tional situation will escalate if you let someone from your past How much is one DVD?
interfere in your personal life. Truth matters.

Cancer (JUNE 21-JULY 22) 新片儿16元，老片儿10元。

Share your insight and offer suggestions. Getting involved in !,-  ",- 
activities or events that will expand your association with people Sixteen yuan for new movies and 10 for old ones.
sharing your beliefs or heading down a similar path will be
advantageous.
我想给儿子买点钢琴曲，再给他买点英文的
动画片，然后咱们自己买点故事片就成了。
Leo (JULY 23-AUG. 22)
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31 Eyes, to bards from frozen at Ft. Meade I think I’ll buy some piano music and some English-version
5 Vehicles with cartoons for our son. Then we can buy some feature films
medallions 32 Pothook shape grapes 22 “___ luck!” Virgo (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)
9 Partner of cir- 33 Count in music 59 ___ the finish 25 Log construc- for us.
Travel, conferences, trade shows and communications are all
cumstance 35 Lowest-voiced (having poten- tion favored. Let your intuition guide you when dealing with peers or
13 Result of a sock choir members tial to win) 27 Parks of the people you can learn something from. Someone you least expect
in the eye 37 Drink often 60 Peppers milder civil rights will disappoint you. 今天我的几个年轻的同事约我去跳舞，我就不回家吃
15 Colorful, warm- served with a than habaneros movement 饭了。
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accessory 39 Vehement 64 Is in the hole 43-Down you, and criticism and demands will lead to a dispute. Take a
17 Tomorrow, in rejection 65 Ill-gotten goods 35 Cheers break, relax and focus on personal growth. Today several young colleagues of mine asked me to go
43-Down 42 Prefix with vio- 66 Attaches, as a setting dancing with them, so I won’t come home for dinner.
18 Mexican presi- let or violent carnation 36 Change with Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)
dent Enrique 43 Mo. when the 67 Soak up the the times
Sign up for something artistic, unusual or entertaining. The
20 Pavlov with a N.F.L. season sun 37 Okra units diversion will do you good and give you plenty to think about. Be 好吧。你很久没跳舞了，当心，别累着。
starts 68 Theater, dance, 38 Forrest Gump’s
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46 Gave the open to trying something new. "1% 
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21 Biceps and etc. C.O.
go-ahead 69 Roald who 39 Profile-altering
hamstrings Sagittarius (NOV. 23-DEC. 21) All right. You haven’t gone dancing for a long time. Be
47 Outfield-patch- wrote Fantastic plastic surgery
23 “Buy It ___” careful, don’t make yourself too tired.
ing need Mr. Fox A change will do you good. Make plans with a good friend or get
(eBay option) 40 Pacific battle
48 Cola wars com- together with colleagues to talk shop. Networking and focusing
24 Word after site of 1945 on getting ahead is encouraged.
petitor Down 其实，我不太会跳舞。可是，今天正好是一个同事的
motion or lie 50 Naps south of 41 Parts of hypo-
1 Bic or Gillette dermics 生日，本来我说不去了，可他们非拉我去凑热闹。那
26 “Puh-lease!” the border 些年轻人，体力好着呢。
28 Persona ___ 54 Devices that
offerings 43 Language that Bridge *  $ "$.2 
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3 How butterflies 44 43-Down, in good your bidding was if you
might be 43-Down "
caught do not make your contract.
Yesterday’s solution 45 One of eight in
4 Highest point a V-8 This was an excellently bid Actually, I’m not good at dancing but today is my col-
value for a 49 Greek poet who slam during the World league’s birthday. I said I wouldn’t go but they insisted
Scrabble tile wrote The Youngster (under 20) Pairs that I join in. Those young guys are very energetic.
5 He placed the Distaff in Lyon, France, last August.
sun at the cen- 51 Message left on It was also nicely played by From Shopping Talk, by Sinolingua.
ter of the uni- a hotline, per- Jean-Baptiste Laine from
verse haps France (South). How did he
6 Tiptop 52 Northeast Cor- handle six clubs after West BETTER ENGLISH
7 Bathrooms, in ridor express led the diamond three?
43-Down train The bidding had a modern 北大报告：33城臭氧浓度大幅上升
8 Tuned too high 53 Mister, in slant. The two-diamond reb-
9 Air pump fig. 43-Down 4月10日，北京大学统计科学中心和北京大学光华管理
10 Beer drinkers’ id by Martin Nataf (North)
55 Ooze 学院环境统计课题组发布了《 “2+31”城市2013-
utensils 58 “Wow!,” was an artificial game-force, slam, led his singleton.
11 Basketball Hall- in internet- the XYZ convention. North’s Laine won with dummy’s 2017年区域污染状况评估》，报告分析了京津冀及周
of-Famer Dik- speak four-club continuation ace and drew two rounds of 边地区33个城市六种常规污染物浓度变化趋势。
embe ___ 61 Set, as a price promised excellent club sup- trumps, believing that East’s The concentration of hazardous ozone in the Beijing-Tian-
12 Exceptional 63 Tupperware port and slam interest; four jack indicated an initial dou- jin-Hebei region and surrounding areas has been increas-
ability topper hearts was a control-bid; four bleton. (In contrast, see ing, even though other major air pollutants have been
no-trump was Roman Key tomorrow’s column.) Declar- declining, according to a report published on April 10.
Card Blackwood; five hearts er correctly left the last
Comics showed two key cards (as trump outstanding and 4月10日发布的报告称，京津冀及周边地区的有害臭氧
North knew, two aces) and played a diamond. East took 浓度持续上升， 其他主要污染物浓度有所下降。
DILBERT 这里提到的六种常规污染物包括， PM2.5、PM10、二氧
denied the club queen. North that trick and shifted to a
settled for six clubs, having heart. South won with his 化硫(sulfur dioxide)、二氧化氮(nitrogen dioxide)、
no way to find out if his part- ace, played a club to dum-
一氧化碳(carbon monoxide)和臭氧(ozone)。报告中绝
大部分城市年均臭氧浓度(average ozone concentra-
ner had king-doubleton of my’s queen, ruffed a dia-
tion)一致上升且幅度较大。京津冀地区和晋鲁豫20市
diamonds without going mond in his hand and 8小时臭氧浓度整个夏季的平均值基本都超过了中国
above six clubs. (Several pairs claimed, stating that he 和世界卫生组织100微克/立方米的标准。报告指出，
played in six diamonds, would cash the spade ace, 除张家口、晋城外，其余城市PM2.5浓度从2014年至201
many doubled by East.) ruff something on the board 7年总体下降趋势明显(the density of PM2.5 has seen a
West, hoping his partner and run the diamonds. noticeable decline from 2014 to 2017)，北京、天津、廊坊
had an ace because North Plus 1,370 was worth 60 的改善幅度最大。
had not investigated a grand matchpoints out of 64.
F-MINUS 臭氧浓度过量会引发呼吸道刺激(respiratory tract irri-
tation)、破坏身体免疫系统(damage the body’s immune
Kakuro system)并影响肺功能(affect lung function)。报告认
为，夏季臭氧污染(ozone pollution)已经成为京津冀大
气污染的一个突出问题。报告建议， 对京津冀地区乃
至全国主要污染区域设定臭氧改善的具体数值目标
(set a target for ozone concentration)，以便采取有力措
施及时遏制其增长的趋势、 有效降低臭氧浓度，避免面
临颗粒物和臭氧污染双重污染的局面(avoid the simul-
taneous occurrence of particulate matter pollution and
ozone pollution)。
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可吸入颗粒物 inhalable particulates
工业粉尘 industrial dust
建筑扬尘污染 dust pollution
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Chris Paul (left) and James Harden of the Houston Rockets celebrate after Tuesday’s 112-102 series-clinching victory over the Utah Jazz in Game 5 of their Western Con-
ference semifinal at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. ANDREW D. BERNSTEIN / GETTY IMAGES / AFP
Paul stands tall for Rockets
Career night for starry point guard
drives stake through Utah’s heart
HOUSTON — Chris Paul
didn’t want to talk about his
postseason failures, not after
Houston’s win over Utah on
Tuesday finally got him into
the Western Conference final.
“For us it was ... they were
in the way,” Paul said. “So we
were just trying to get anoth-
er win.”
Paul’s Rockets teammates
saw it a little differently. They
were eager to talk about his
dominant performance,
including a playoff career-
high 41 points, in a 112-102
victory in Game 5 that elimi-
nated the Jazz.
“He went out there and
took over the game, to have an
opportunity that he’s never
had before,” said Houston
captain James Harden.
“He put us all on his back
and said ‘I got us.’”
Paul drained eight 3-point-
ers and had 10 assists and sev-
en rebounds without a
turnover.
He’s the first player in play-
off history to have at least 40
points and 10 assists without
a turnover since turnovers
became an official statistic in
1977-78, according to the Elias
Sports Bureau.
“The performance that
‘Unleashed’ Curry sends Pelicans packing
OAKLAND, California —
Stephen Curry is back doing
everything with fire and flair
— and without fear after
impatiently spending six
weeks on the sidelines.
Curry played his most min-
utes since being sidelined
with a knee injury, finishing
with 28 points and helping
the Golden State Warriors
advance to the Western Con-
ference final for a fourth
straight year by dismantling
Anthony Davis and the New
Orleans Pelicans 113-104 in
Game 5 on Tuesday night.
“I think coach did a great
job of just giving him a little
bit here and there and tonight
really just letting him go,”
Kevin Durant said. “You see
when you let the dog off the
leash what happens.”
Durant scored 24 points
and Klay Thompson added 23
for the Warriors, who with a
15th straight home playoff
win tied Chicago for the NBA
record. The Bulls did so from
April 27, 1990 to May 21, 1991.
Davis had 34 points and 19
rebounds for a Pelicans team
that overcame the loss of
DeMarcus Cousins to a sea-
son-ending torn Achilles ten-
don three months ago to
make this strong run.
The Pelicans shaved the
lead to seven points with two
Chris put out there — if he
didn’t make it out this time,
something’s wrong,” coach
Mike D’Antoni said.
It will be Houston’s second
trip to the Western Confer-
ence finals in four years and
the first ever for Paul. The
point guard, who is in his 13th
NBA season, has been panned
for failing to get past the sec-
ond round in his nine previ-
ous trips to the playoffs.
While he wouldn’t talk
about finally getting over the
second-round hump, Paul
had no problem discussing
how much he’s enjoying this
season.
“It’s just fun,” he said. “It’s
not about the points or any-
thing like that. It’s about the
process.”
Houston will meet Golden
State in the conference final,
beginning on Monday night
at home.
Paul is a nine-time All-Star
in his first season with Hous-
ton after an offseason trade
from the Los Angeles Clip-
pers. His previous career-best
in the playoffs was 35 points,
which he accomplished three
times.
Star rookie Donovan
Mitchell had 22 of his 24
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors reacts to eliminating the New Orleans Pelicans in Game
5 of their Western Conference semifinal on Tuesday in Oakland. EZRA SHAW / GETTY IMAGES / AFP
minutes left on a basket by
Davis before Draymond
Green’s turnaround fadeaway
moments later.
The Warriors advance to
play the top-seeded Houston
Rockets in what has long
been an anticipated Western
Conference final matchup.
The series starts on Mon-
day night in Houston. The
teams didn’t meet during the
2017 postseason, but the War-
riors won a five-game series
in the first round of the 2016
playoffs. Houston eliminated
Utah in its Game 5 earlier on
Tuesday.
Curry, who returned for
He went out there
and took over the
game, to have an
opportunity that
he’s never had
before.”
James Harden, on teammate
Chris Paul’s performance
points for Utah in the third
quarter before leaving with
about seven minutes left with
an apparent left leg injury.
The Jazz didn’t provide an
update on his condition after
the game, but he was wearing
a walking boot on his left
foot.
“Unhappy with the results,
but happy with everybody as
a whole,” Mitchell said.
Houston returns to the con-
ference final for the first time
since 2015. It’s the second
straight season the Jazz lost in
this round after being swept
by Golden State last season.
The top-seeded Rockets led
by eight points after a 3-point-
er by Paul with about six min-
utes left.
The Jazz scored the next
Game 2, knocked down an
open 3-pointer midway
through the third and raised
his hands to get the crowd
going, then made another less
than two minutes later.
He converted three free
throws at the 6:25 mark fol-
lowing a hard foul by Jrue
Holiday.
In the second quarter, Holi-
day shoved Curry into the
basket, enraging the two-time
MVP, who let the officials
know how upset he was by no
call on the play.
Holiday contributed 27
points and 11 assists, but even
with better shooting, New
seven points, highlighted by a
3-pointer from Royce O’Nea-
le, before Paul made eight
quick points to push Hous-
ton’s lead to 105-96 with
about three minutes left.
Joe Ingles made a basket
for Utah before Paul made it
107-98. The crowd began
chanting “CP3” repeatedly as
Paul dribbled down the court
on the next possession.
Utah was without Ricky
Rubio and Dante Exum
because of hamstring inju-
ries. Rubio missed the entire
series with his injury, and
Exum was injured in the third
quarter of Game 5.
PJ Tucker scored a playoff
career-best 19 points, and
Harden added 18 points on a
night he was “under the
weather”, according to
D’Antoni.
Mitchell’s huge third quar-
ter left the Jazz up by 3 to
begin the fourth. Derrick
Favors made a layup for Utah
to start the final quarter
before Paul and Tucker hit
consecutive 3-pointers to put
Houston back on top 81-80
with about 10 minutes left.
Utah regained the lead on a
basket by O’Neale before
Houston used an 11-5 spurt,
with the first five points from
Gerald Green, to take a 92-87
lead with about seven min-
utes left.
Harden capped the run
Orleans couldn’t stay with
deep, score-at-will Golden
State.
“No matter what the score
is, no matter the time, what-
ever it is, we play desperate,”
Holiday said.
The defending champions
are serious about a repeat title
and took one step closer to
that goal.
So far this postseason, with
Durant and Green leading the
way, the Warriors have admi-
rably defeated the slower San
Antonio Spurs and now the
imposing, push-the-pace Peli-
cans.
Green had another superb
with a dunk after stealing the
ball from Mitchell, who was
injured on the play and grab-
bed his left leg. He had to be
helped to the bench and was
quickly taken to the locker
room.
Tip-ins
Jazz: Alec Burks scored 22
points off the bench ... Rudy
Gobert finished with 12
points, nine rebounds and
five blocks ... Mitchell finished
9 of 17 on field goals ... O’Neale
had 17 points.
Rockets: Houston made 18
3-pointers to give the team 10
or more 3-pointers in an NBA
playoff-record 16 straight
games ... Clint Capela finished
with five blocks ... The Rock-
ets had 10 steals on Tuesday
for their fourth game in the
series with 10 or more.
They said it
Mitchell on what coach
Quin Snyder’s message was to
the team after the loss: “I was
so upset I wasn’t listening. I’m
not going to lie to you.”
Great present
D’Antoni turned 67 on
Tuesday and said this game
was the best present he’s ever
received.
“Without a doubt,” he said.
“Especially at this age.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
all-around night at both ends
of the court with 19 points, 14
rebounds, nine assists, three
steals and two blocked shots.
The Warriors came out of
halftime with a 10-0 run over
the opening 1:54, forcing two
New Orleans timeouts and
taking control for the rest of
the game.
Thompson hit back-to-
back 3-pointers midway
through the first to put Gold-
en State up 17-10, the second
right in front of his own
bench as teammates erupted
in celebration.
He began 6 for 9 and had 14
points by the 4:10 mark of the
first. Thompson was also a
tower of power defensively,
with a steal and six rebounds.
Durant became irate when
Nikola Mirotic made a late,
hard bump on a 3-point try
with 5:23 left in the first — a
play that was reviewed and
Mirotic received just a com-
mon foul.
As Durant took free throws,
Green tried to listen in on the
Pelicans’ huddle before offi-
cial Josh Tiven pulled him
away.
“I don’t have a reaction, that’s
Draymond,” New Orleans
coach Alvin Gentry said.
“Should that surprise me?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, May 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY
MOTOR SPORTS
NASCAR needs
new owner to
get back in gear
A potential sale of NASCAR
could be just the ticket the
American auto racing circuit
needs to return to its former
glory after struggling for years
with declining ratings and rev-
enues, according to sports
industry analysts.
NASCAR’s jaw-dropping
speed and collisions once
attracted fans in droves, but
they have been racing away
from the sport even faster over
the past decade for a variety of
reasons, including the failure
to appeal to millennial
viewers.
The France family, which
owns NASCAR, is now explor-
ing options that include a sale
of a majority stake of the sanc-
tioning body.
A sale could prove to be a
much-needed positive step
forward for stock car racing’s
premier circuit.
“The current ownership is
maybe not the most forward
thinking, maybe not the quick-
est to respond,” Bob Dorfman,
a sports marketing expert at
Baker Street Advertising in
San Francisco, said in a tele-
phone interview.
“Maybe it would be a good
time for somebody new to be
in there and try some new
ideas and be a little edgier and
see if there are ways to capture
a younger market and try to
make up for all the older folks
that are going away.”
A little over 10 years ago
NASCAR was dubbed “Ameri-
ca’s Fastest Growing Sport” by
Fortune given the mix of soar-
ing TV ratings, packed stadi-
ums and sponsors who flocked
to make their brands visible
on race cars.
But a slew of factors, includ-
Empty seats are now commonplace at NASCAR races, which is
proving a major disappointment for sponsors. AFP
SOCCER
Hands off Griezmann,
Atletico warns Barca
MADRID — Atletico Madrid
chief Miguel Angel Gil Marin
on Tuesday blasted Barcelona
over its pursuit of highly
prized striker Antoine Griez-
mann, saying he was “fed up”
with the Catalan club’s atti-
tude.
Marin issued the rebuke
hours after a Spanish radio
station reported that Barcelo-
na was poised to pay the
French international’s $119
million release clause.
The Atletico CEO said the
club’s stance was very clear.
“Not once have we negotiat-
ed for Griezmann nor do we
have any intention to do so,” he
said in a statement issued on
the team’s official website.
“A few months ago, I person-
ally expressed to Barcelona’s
president that our player isn’t
for sale nor are we going to sell
him,” he continued.
“At the same time, I let him
know that his inappropriate
conduct was against the integ-
rity of the competition.”
The uncertainty over Griez-
mann’s future could not have
come at a worse time for Atlet-
ico as it prepares for next
week’s Europa League final
against Marseille in Lyon,
France.
“We’re fed up with Barcelo-
na’s attitude,” Marin added.
“That a president, player
and a board member speak
the way they’ve done about
the future of a player with an
existing contract and just a
ing high ticket prices, a steady
stream of top drivers retiring,
and rule changes that alienat-
ed the older fanbase and failed
to capture the interest of new
fans, saw the once growing
sport hit a roadblock.
Empty seats
Attendance declined so
much that grandstands built
to accommodate the gathering
masses were razed to avoid
depressing images of swaths
of deserted stands.
“We’ve seen the price for US
pro sports franchises skyrock-
et, but NASCAR’s fortunes
have not been as good as the
other sports leagues,” said Vic-
tor Matheson, a specialist in
sports economics at the Col-
lege of the Holy Cross in Mas-
sachusetts.
“As recently as 10 years ago,
we were starting to talk about
maybe NASCAR as the fifth
major league in the United
States, but nowadays no one is
talking like that anymore.”
Despite the struggles, ana-
lysts say NASCAR remains a
strong brand that could enjoy
better days if a suitable buyer
with a vision surfaces.
And they say the France
family should not shoulder all
the blame, suggesting part of
NASCAR’s struggles are sim-
ply due to the younger genera-
tion having many more
entertainment options.
“Part of it is the times,” said
Dorfman. “And part of it is
maybe a little cooler, hipper
ownership could make a dif-
ference.”
NASCAR declined to com-
ment for this story.
REUTERS
few days before contesting a
European final, is an absolute
lack of respect towards Atleti-
co.”
He said Atletico would be
demanding compensation
from Barca should “the player
exercise his right to nullify his
contract due to their pressure
throughout the season”.
Marin finished off by declar-
ing “enough is enough”.
“I hope this statement
serves its purpose and that us
Atletico fans can enjoy this
moment and prepare our-
selves for a final like we
should,” he said.
Marin’s plea followed a
report by Cadena Cope radio
station that “Barcelona has
told Atletico Madrid it is going
to pay Griezmann’s get-out
clause, and Atletico knows the
player will be leaving at the
end of the season”.
That came after Atletico
president Enrique Cerezo
refused to clarify Griezmann’s
future after domestic media
suggested he had met the
player for dinner in a bid to
persuade him to stay with the
promise of a more lucrative
new contract.
Cerezo has denied meeting
Griezmann for talks but the
Atletico president was not
definitive on the future of the
27-year-old, who has also been
strongly linked with Manches-
ter United in recent seasons.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
 CHINA DAILY Thursday, May 10, 2018 SPORTS 23
SOCCER Digest

Chinese kids feel Wembley roar BASEBALL

Nine lucky youngsters savor mascot experience with Kane and crew at recent Tottenham match
By CHINA DAILY
Walking out on the Wem-
bley turf on a match day is a
thrill reserved mostly for FA
Cup finalists and internation-
al players.
However, nine lucky Chi-
nese youngsters will forever
remember the famous Wem-
bley roar after being led, hand
in hand, by Tottenham Hot-
spur players onto the pitch as
mascots for the Premier
League match against Wat-
ford on April 30.
The iconic London venue
has been Spurs’ home during
the rebuilding of their White
Hart Lane stadium.
The kids were selected by
Spurs sponsors AIA and the
China Youth Development
Foundation, from five provin-
ces and cities.
The group started prepar-
ing for their dream trip two
months ago, drawing and
writing messages on plain
white shirts that were later
presented as gifts to Spurs
players, including Harry
Kane, Hugo Lloris and
Heung-min Son.
One of those shirts was
autographed by the Spurs
players and will be auctioned
in China, with proceeds going
to the China Youth Football
Development Program.
The mascots and their par-
ents also met Spurs players
and officials at the club’s
training center two days
before the match.
“As the global principal
partner of Spurs, we have
been able to create more
unparalleled opportunities
for our customers, agents and
employees’ children,” said
Celia Ling, AIA China CCO.
“The idea is to let them
know more about AIA and
our ‘Healthy Living’ program
during the activities. It’s also
about encouraging them to
participate in sports actively,
helping them feel the charm
of sports, developing a
healthy lifestyle.
“AIA has been committed
to helping people lead a
healthy and active life, and to
spread the soccer spirit by
developing our Youth Foot-
ball Development Program —
E-SPORTS
Spurs have locat-
ed two of their
elite coaching staff
permanently in
Asia. The coaches
have enabled AIA
to expand its com-
munity coaching
program.”
Stuart Spencer, AIA CMO
especially to bring the joy of
sports to children from
remote areas.”
AIA CMO Stuart Spencer
also attended the ceremony.
“AIA began to sponsor
Spurs in 2013, and following
the expansion of the partner-
ship, we have reached global
cooperation, especially with
the China Youth Football
Development Program,” said
Spencer.
“At present, Spurs have
located two of their elite
coaching staff permanently
in Asia. The coaches have
enabled AIA to expand its
community coaching pro-
gram. We have seen more
than 250 separate football-re-
lated activations across 15 of
AIA’s markets.
“Our partnerships enable us
to bring to life AIA’s brand
promise, helping people to live
healthier, longer, better lives.”
Meanwhile, the linkup is
helping Spurs gain a foot-
hoold in the Chinese market.
“We are working with AIA
on the global coaching, aim-
ing to deliver more programs
to get kids doing more sports,”
said Spurs executive director
Donna-Maria Cullen.
“We also had our players
cooking with Asian chefs,
using really healthy ingredi-
ents from Asian markets, and
then producing broadcasts on
social media around the
world to tell people to pick up
the healthy habits.”
Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (front) and striker Harry Kane lead a group of young Chinese mascots onto the Wembley
pitch before the London club’s Premier League match against Watford on April 30. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Q&A
Stuart Spencer, AIA CMO
What is the significance of
the company’s involvement
with Tottenham Hotspur?
Playing sport helps people
lead a healthy and active life.
We believe that soccer can
bring the positive values of
teamwork, discipline and
sportsmanship to the com-
munities in which we oper-
ate. According to our AIA
Healthy Living Index, 56 per-
cent of people understand
that taking regular exercise is
one of the important drivers
of healthy living. Despite this,
only 26 percent of people
exercise regularly. We know
that parents are concerned
about how active children are
– 51 percent of parents believe
that their children are not
getting enough exercise. We
want to provide opportuni-
ties for children to be active
through our partnership with
Spurs and instill healthy hab-
its at an early age.
Donna-Maria Cullen,
Spurs executive director
What are your plans for the
Chinese soccer market?
We will spend more time in
China on all kinds of activi-
ties. Youth soccer develop-
ment is a priority for us, and
it’s wonderful that AIA has
facilitated it. Now it’s a part of
the partnership. Next season
will be very exciting for us
because we will go to the new
stadium. It’s going to have an
From left: Six-year-old mascot Shi Shang from Beijing poses with amazing atmosphere for
AIA China CCO Celia Ling, AIA CMO Stuart Spencer and Tottenham players and spectators, and
legend Gary Mabbutt before Spurs’ Premier League match against we look forward to welcom-
Watford at Wembley Stadium on April 30. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY ing fans from China.
GOLF
No-no Canada!
Paxton slays Jays
James Paxton of the Seattle
Mariners became the first
Canadian to pitch a no-hitter
in his home country, shutting
down the Toronto Blue Jays
5-0 on Tuesday night.
Paxton joins Dick Fowler of
the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics
as the only Canadians to throw
a no-hitter in MLB.
Paxton, who is from subur-
ban Vancouver, pointed to a
giant tattoo on his right fore-
arm of a maple leaf — a
national symbol of Canada —
as he celebrated to a standing
ovation at Rogers Centre.
“Of all places, to do it in
Toronto, it’s pretty amazing,”
he said. “The fans were great.
They were giving me some
trouble in the seventh inning,
but once I got past that, they
started kind of cheering me
on. It was cool.”
Coming off a career-high 16
strikeouts in his last start, Pax-
ton (2-1) was electric once
again, hitting 100 mph on his
final pitch.
Red Sox, Yankees
to play in London
The Boston Red Sox and the
New York Yankees, two of base-
ball’s iconic franchises, will
bring one of sport’s greatest
rivalries to Europe with two
regular-season games at Lon-
don Stadium next summer,
Major League Baseball
announced on Tuesday.
Boston will play as the home
team in the first MLB games to
be staged in Europe, on June
29-30, 2019.
London Stadium, situated in
the east of the English capital,
was the main venue for the
2012 Olympic Games but is
now the home of Premier
League soccer club West Ham
United. MLB also said it is com-
mitted to playing in London in
2020 as it tries to “establish a
long-term footprint in the city.”
SOCCER
Guardiola in no
hurry to negotiate
Pep Guardiola has yet to
conclude contract negotiations
over a new deal with Premier
League champion Manchester
City, but said on Tuesday there
is no urgency to do so.
The Catalan has led City to
the title in his second season
in charge and is now two-
thirds of the way through the
initial three-year contact.
It means Guardiola, 47, has
now won the league title in all
three of the major European

Allen gets Cao following the Li-der countries in which he has

managed, following success in
Spain with Barcelona and in
Germany with Bayern Munich.

bitten by By CHEN XIANGFENG

chenxiangfeng@
chinadaily.com.cn
with South Korea’s Todd
Baek and 2015 No 1 Bryden
MacPherson of Australia,
ICE HOCKEY
Brind’Amour takes
gaming’s Cao Yi admitted to being
inspired by China’s No 1 Li
who both qualified for the
Web.com Tour in previous
years.
Hurricanes reins
The Carolina Hurricanes

intensity Haotong as the Beijing-

By SHI FUTIAN
shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn
Ray Allen showed he’s still
got game at the University
Cyber League finals in Suzhou,
Jiangsu province, last Sunday.
The two-time NBA champi-
on and 10-time All Star shot
on-screen hoops against the
winner of the Super NBA cate-
gory at the inaugural e-sports
tournament, where students
from 16 universities battled for
supremacy.
“I enjoyed it and it’s really
easy to play,” said Allen, whose
opponent also won a ticket to
the NBA Finals.
Allen compared the intensi-
ty of e-sports to that of MMA,
with the former Milwaukee
Bucks and Boston Celtics star,
42, just the latest high-profile
athlete to endorse gaming.
Many prominent Chinese
athletes are avid gamers, with
Olympic speed-skating gold
medalist Wang Meng a big
League of Legends aficionado
and sprinter Su Bingtian a
King of Glory devotee.
The crossover is gaining
e-sports more mainstream
acceptance, as Sunday’s event
illustrated.
Organized by Tencent
Sports and the Federation of
Former NBA star Ray Allen acknowledges the crowd at the Univer-
sity Cyber League national finals in Suzhou, Jiangsu province on
Sunday. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
University Sports of China
(FUSC), the 2018 University
Cyber League featured cham-
pions of the north, south, east
and west divisions, competing
in five game categories: Super
NBA, FIFA Online 3, Cross-
Fire, League of Legends and
King of Glory (won by Central
South, Tongji, Beihang, Zheji-
ang and Wuhan universities
respectively).
As the only e-sports tourna-
ment approved by the FUSC,
the UCL attracted teams from
32 colleges battling for their
share of a total prize fund of
1.35 million yuan ($212,100).
“The UCL has provided
e-sports-loving students with
a platform to display their tal-
ent and creativity,” said Wang
Gang, FUSC vice-president.
“We also hope that the posi-
tive attributes needed to suc-
ceed at e-sports, such as
teamwork, can have a good
influence on students’ daily
study and lives.”
This year’s UCL boasted an
online viewership of over 60
million, with 10 million watch-
ing the national finals alone.
But the league has much
bigger ambitions.
“For Tencent Sports, the
inaugural UCL is still at the tri-
al stage,” said Tim Shi, director
of Tencent Sports Event
DevOps.
“This year, the scale of the
UCL, meaning the cities and
universities that were
involved, was still at a primary
stage. We want to expand to
more cities and universities in
the future.”
Whether or not the UCL will
become a pathway to profes-
sional gaming careers for
some students remains to be
seen. However, King of Glory
star Xiao Minhui warned the
wannabes that the pro scene is
not for the faint-hearted.
“With the development of
e-sports in our country, being
a professional e-sports athlete
is also a life choice,” said Xiao,
aka Meng Lei.
“But, no matter what you
choose, it is very important
that you have to work hard
and fight hard. There’s no
turning back. If you merely
want to have fun, I think you
should not choose to be a pro
gamer.”
based 27-year-old continues
his bid to qualify for the
Web.com Tour at this week’s
Haikou Championship, the
fourth event of this year’s
PGA Tour Series-China.
The top five on the money
list at the conclusion of the
14-event Tour will punch
tickets to next year’s
Web.com Tour.
Li won the inaugural PGA
Tour Series-China order of
merit in 2014 to become the
first Chinese member of the
Web.com Tour, a route fol-
lowed two years later by
Dou Zecheng and Zhang
Xinjun.
Li later earned his status
on the international stage
with a win at the 2016 Volvo
China Open and a third
place in last year’s British
Open, which made him the
first Chinese male golfer to
break into the world’s top
50.
Cao is currently fourth in
the order of merit, having
won the Chongqing Cham-
pionship in March. The top-
ranked Chinese on the
money list said he has bene-
fited from friendly advice
from the high-flying Li,
who is competing in The
Players Championship this
week.
“A lot of Chinese players
look up to him, including
Cao Yi
myself. Li has given me a lot
of advice over the years and
I think that gives me a little
bit of an advantage,” said
Cao, who has played in all
four seasons of the PGA
Tour Series-China and also
competed on the Mackenzie
Tour — PGA Tour Canada in
2016-17.
“The level in China has
definitely improved a lot.
You can see that a lot of Chi-
nese players have a chance
and are playing in the last
group in the final rounds,
which you normally
wouldn’t see that often. It
proves that Chinese players
can play.”
Cao is among the top local
hopes at the Haikou Cham-
pionship at Sunac Haikou
3KM Golf, where he will
play the first two rounds
After securing his first pro
title in Chongqing, Cao is
excited about his chances in
Hainan and hopes to put
himself in a position to win
once again after missing the
cut at last week’s Changsha
Championship.
“I really like the course
even though a lot of players
say it’s kind of tough and
kind of narrow, but I think
it’s pretty straightforward,”
said Cao, who’s just 43,200
yuan behind money leader
Jeffrey Kang of the US.
“The course is pretty short
and there are not many
holes where you have to hit a
driver off the tee.
“It’s basically like a wedge
competition or a putting
competition this week,
which suits me.”
Haikou-based Jin Daxing,
16th on the order of merit,
said he has also been
inspired by Li’s remarkable
achievements.
“Li has inspired my will to
fight; he is the benchmark
for Chinese golf and we are
all working towards him,”
said Jin, who trained and
played with Li on China’s
national team from 2011-15.
“I am full of hope for the
Haikou Championship this
week. I have adjusted my
mental state and my physi-
cal fitness, and I am going to
try my best to do well.”
hired former captain Rod
Brind’Amour as their head
coach on Tuesday, hoping the
“greatest leader” in franchise
history can end a nine-year
playoff drought.
One of the team’s most deco-
rated players, Brind’Amour
captained the Hurricanes’ only
Stanley Cup championship
team in 2006.
“Rod is the greatest leader in
the history of this franchise,
and has earned the opportunity
to take charge of our locker
room,” said team president Don
Waddell.
Brind’Amour has been a Car-
olina assistant since 2011.
BASKETBALL
New Knicks coach
stresses flexibility
David Fizdale is taking a
flexible approach to his new
job as the New York Knicks’
head coach.
The former Memphis Griz-
zlies head coach was intro-
duced to the New York media
on Tuesday. He emphasized he
will have an open mind
regarding the role of the team’s
franchise player, Kristaps Por-
zingis.
Asked where Porzingis
would play, Fizdale said: “Why
limit it? Why put a ceiling on
it? I just see so many different
ways to use him.”
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