Church bombings
At least 11 dead and dozens
wounded in Indonesia
WORLD, PAGE 12
MONDAY, May 14, 2018
China’s first domestically designed aircraft carrier, which displaces 50,000 metric tons, leaves the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry’s ship-
yard in Liaoning province on Sunday. LI GANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
First carrier designed
in China begins sea trial
Tests will focus on reliability, capability
of new vessel’s propulsion systems
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s first domestically
designed aircraft carrier set
out its maiden sea trial on
Sunday morning, indicating it
might not be long before it is
delivered to the Chinese Navy.
The colossal vessel, which
displaces 50,000 metric tons,
left the Dalian Shipbuilding
Industry’s shipyard in Liaon-
ing province about 7 am amid
thick fog with the assistance of
several tugboats before navi-
gating into the sea under its
own power.
The People’s Liberation
Army Navy said in a statement
the trial aims to demonstrate
the reliability and capability of
the ship’s propulsion systems,
adding its construction has
been proceeding well.
Hu Wenming, chairman of
China Shipbuilding Industry
Corp, parent of Dalian Ship-
Beijing to uphold Iran nuclear deal; Teheran still on board
By WANG QINGYUN
and ZHOU JIN
China said it will maintain
communication and coordi-
nation with parties including
Iran and continue its efforts
to uphold the Iran nuclear
deal in an objective, just and
responsible manner.
State Councilor and For-
eign Minister Wang Yi made
the remark during his talks
with Iranian Foreign Minis-
ter Mohammad Javad Zarif
on Sunday.
China firmly upholds
multilateralism and is com-
mitted to maintaining inter-
national treaties, Wang said.
The Iran nuclear deal is a
hard-won fruit of multilat-
eralism which helps safe-
guard the international
nonproliferation regime as
well as peace and stability
in the Middle East, Wang
said, adding that China, an
important party to the deal,


building and chief of the new
carrier program, told China
Central Television that the
new vessel is one of the
advanced carriers in the world
and its construction has
strengthened the country’s
research and development
capability regarding aircraft
carriers.
The new carrier’s name and
hull code remain unknown, as
the PLA usually only makes
public such information
when a ship is commissioned.
According to the Navy, the
commander of the new carrier
is Senior Captain Lai Yijun.
Lai is reported to have been
captain of CNS Lianyungang
guided-missile frigate, com-
mander of a frigate flotilla and
then executive officer of CNS
Liaoning aircraft carrier.
The ship, the largest and
most sophisticated naval ves-
sel in China, was designed and
built by the nation on its own.
has invested much effort in
reaching and implement-
ing the deal.
Zarif praised China’s stance
over the deal, and empha-
sized that Iran will continue
its communication and coor-
dination with parties sup-
porting the deal.
Iran believes that it’s a
responsibility and duty
shared by all parties to ensure
the deal’s lasting, comprehen-
sive and effective implemen-
tation, the Iranian foreign
minister said, adding that
Iran will make its own efforts
in this regard.
The two foreign ministers
also voiced the importance
they attach to bilateral ties and
their hope to cooperate under
the Belt and Road Initiative.
China is the first stop for
Zarif’s trip to have talks with
parties remaining in the Iran
nuclear deal, days after the
United States withdrew. The
trip also includes Russia and
Shanghai
orchestra
season begins
LIFE, PAGE 20
Its construction began in
November 2013, and work in
the dry dock began in March
2015. The carrier was
launched — moved into
water — in April 2017. By now
its outfitting — during which
engineers installed and fine-
tuned all interior equipment
and weapons — has been
completed.
Gao Zhuo, a military ana-
lyst in Shanghai who follows
China’s aircraft carrier pro-
grams, said that after the first
sea trial, more trials will fol-
low to verify the carrier’s
maximum speed, resistance
to different sea conditions,
electronics and weapons sys-
tems as well as the compati-
bility of aircraft and aviation-
support devices.
He said the vessel will be
better than China’s other
aircraft carrier, the CNS
Liaoning, when it comes to
deploying and supporting
fighter jets in combat
thanks to designs by Chi-
nese engineers.
Cui Yiliang, editor-in-
chief of Modern Ships maga-
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday. Wang said
China will uphold the Iran nuclear deal in an objective, just and
responsible manner. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY
some European countries,
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Geng Shuang said in a state-
ment on Saturday.
Zarif said he hopes the trip
will map out a clear future for
the deal.
US President Donald
Not a problem
Hearing- and speech- impairedd
people deliver warm food CHINA,, PAGE 7
zine, said the new carrier’s
sea trials will be like those of
the Liaoning, and the total
time needed for the trials
may be slightly shorter than
the Liaoning’s because Navy
personnel have had experi-
ence obtained through the
Liaoning’s operations.
The Liaoning was original-
ly a Soviet-era vessel and was
extensively refitted at the
Dalian shipbuilder. The ves-
sel conducted 10 sea trials
starting in August 2011
before going into service in
September 2012.
The new carrier has a con-
ventional propulsion system.
Like the Liaoning, it will use a
ramp to launch J-15 fighter
jets, the spearhead of China’s
carrier battle group. The ship
also will carry several types of
helicopters.
The new carrier has more
than 12,000 pieces of equip-
ment that were made by 532
Chinese enterprises, includ-
ing many private firms,
according to officials from
See Carrier, page 3
Trump announced on Tues-
day that his country will
withdraw from the deal and
resume sanctions on Iran,
sparking concerns and
opposition by the other par-
ties to the deal.
The deal, or the Joint
m
10 years on, president hails
post-quake reconstruction
By HOU LIQIANG in Beijing
and HUANG ZHILING
in Chengdu
China’s earthquake rescue
capability has increased by
more than 200 percent in the
past 10 years and an early
earthquake warning system
now covers most of the popu-
lation in areas prone to tem-
blors, and President Xi
Jinping called on the nation
this weekend to enhance dis-
aster-prevention capabilities
to guarantee people’s safety
and property.
Xi said that under the
strong leadership of the
Communist Party of China,
the areas hit by the powerful
quake had reached “remark-
able achievements in resto-
ration and reconstruction
work, providing useful expe-
rience and inspiration for
the international communi-
ty in post-disaster recon-
struction work”.
His praise came in a letter
to the International Confer-
ence for the Decade Memory
of the Wenchuan Earthquake
and the fourth International
Conference on Continental
Earthquakes, which opened
in Chengdu, Sichuan prov-
ince, on Saturday.
Further reform, opening-up
to better serve global growth
Four decades after its
reform and opening-up, Chi-
na retains its allure as a vast,
growing market and an
investment destination while
becoming a big source of
investment.
This is expected to enable
the world’s second-largest
economy to remain an engine
of global growth as well as
contribute more to globaliza-
tion and free trade by creat-
ing new growth points and
business opportunities.
Such an outlook has found
support in China’s first-quar-
ter economic and trade data
on top of steps taken this year
to broaden market access as a
way to further open up in a
shift toward a high-quality
growth.
Increased investor confi-
dence can be seen as an indi-
The Iran nuclear deal
is a hard-won fruit of
multilateralism which
helps safeguard the
international
nonproliferation
regime as well as
peace and stability
in the Middle East,
Wang said.
Comprehensive Plan of
Action, was made between
Iran and six major countries
— the US, Britain, France,
Russia, China and Germany
— plus the European Union
in 2015. It limits Iran’s
nuclear program in
chinadaily.com.cn
On May 12, 2008, the mag-
nitude 8 quake hit Wen-
chuan, Sichuan province,
killing nearly 70,000 people
and leaving nearly 18,000
people missing and millions
more homeless.
“There is no end to the
human understanding of
natural laws. Disaster pre-
vention and reduction, and
disaster relief are the eternal
topics for people’s survival
and development,” Xi said in
the letter.
“Scientifically understand-
ing the laws of disasters,
effectively reducing disaster
risks and achieving a harmo-
nious coexistence between
humans and nature requires
the joint efforts of the inter-
national community.
“China will adhere to the
people-centered development
philosophy and pay attention
to disaster prevention and
relief work while treating pre-
vention as a major task.”
He called on the delegates
to actively participate in the
seminar, which is focused on
the theme “Living with Seis-
mic Risk”, and to contribute
to promoting international
cooperation to reduce the
risk of natural disasters and
build a community with a
cator of how China’s further
reform and opening-up has
affected the economy.
The investor confidence in
China’s economic perform-
ance was recently showcased
by the J.P. Morgan Chase’s
Global China Summit held in
Beijing on May 8 and 9 and
attended by 2,200 investors
and corporate executives from
50 countries and regions.
“Investors from around the
world are moving to add
investment here in prepara-
tion for opportunities to
emerge in the future,” said
Jing Ulrich, managing direct-
or and vice-chair of the New
York-based bank’s Asia Pacif-
ic region.
For example, an invest-
ment facilitation policy
adopted in late April in Chi-
na’s financial sector, which
exchange for the lifting of
sanctions imposed by the
international community.
Trump, however, has been
expressing dissatisfaction
and threatening to withdraw
from the agreement since the
2016 presidential campaign.
Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani said on Tuesday, “If
the remaining five countries
continue to abide by the
agreement, Iran will remain
in the deal despite the will of
America,” Reuters reported.
He said that he had asked
the Iranian foreign minister
to initiate negotiations with
the European partners as well
as China and Russia over
measures regarding the fate
of the deal.
Xinhua contributed to this
story.
Contact the writers at
wangqingyun@
chinadaily.com.cn

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shared future for mankind.
When the Wenchuan
earthquake struck, China
only had 4,200 earthquake
rescuers with 27 official
teams across the country,
including a national team
and 26 provincial teams.
By March, China estab-
lished a four-level official
rescue team system down to
the county level, which has
more than 250,000 mem-
bers. There also are 11,000
civilian rescue teams with
694,000 volunteers, accord-
ing to the Ministry of Emer-
gency Management.
Chinese International
Search and Rescue Team,
the national earthquake res-
cue team with 480 mem-
bers, has won international
recognition and passed the
International Search and
Rescue Advisory Group’s
external classification.
“The team is capable of
conducting rescues in nine
different locations with com-
plicated conditions simulta-
neously,” the ministry said.
It also said China had
established a world-leading
digital seismological obser-
vation network that consists
See Quake, page 5
licenses foreign investors to
set up securities trading firms
with holding status, has trig-
gered swift market reactions.
J.P. Morgan Broking (Hong
Kong) Ltd has made such an
application, planning to hold
51 percent of the stakes.
Japan’s largest securities
trader Nomura has released a
plan to set up a holding firm
in China.
Considered a milestone in
the internationalization of
China’s capital market, global
index provider MSCI will list
a number of China A-shares
in its market indexes begin-
ning June.
The measures provide new
channels for global investors
to share in the big cake of Chi-
na’s strong growth.
See Growth, page 5
INSIDE
Forests,
seaside and
wetlands
make Jinzhou
a hot getaway
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Looking ahead
Candid camera: Dog days before summer
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Foreign minister to begin gather on Monday and Tuesday in Houston,

nine days of diplomacy
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang
Yi will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’
meeting in Argentina, and officially visit
France, Spain, Portugal and Argentina over
nine days beginning on Wednesday, accord-
ing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During
the G20 meeting, Wang will detail China’s
proposals on three topics: the role of the G20
mechanism, multilateralism and global gov-
ernance, as well as realizing fair and sustain-
able development. Wang will also meet and
exchange views on bilateral ties and major
international issues with the foreign minis-
ters of the countries concerned.
Innovation summit unfolds
this week in Houston, Texas
About 500 investors, inventors, corporate
executives and government officials from
China and the United States are expected to
Texas, for the US China Innovation and
Investment Summit. The conference’s core
program, the InnoSTARS competition, is con-
ducted year-round, with screenings of prom-
ising innovations. Winners are taken on road
trips in China to directly pitch their ideas to
potential investors. InnoSTARS has seen
cooperative projects emerge in healthcare,
artificial intelligence and nanotech.
China Import Expo shows
strength of host city
The China Import Expo will be held in Kun-
shan, Jiangsu province, from Wednesday to
Friday. The expo, which will be held at Kun-
shan’s Huaqiao International Expo Center,
will showcase the city’s strength in the elec-
tronics industry and provide platforms for
global companies to seek out more business
opportunities. The event — one of China’s
most important professional trade shows
for imports — was launched in 2012.

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the world’s biggest aircraft rent crossover edition has sold out, but
L’Oreal claims that the brand is always open
to opportunities to extend collaboration
Seems like every day is Mother’s Day here
with the museum or other partners.
Perhaps it’s just another of trayed dads as bumbling idi- watching them. the room: Chinese fathers
Tech: Chinese scientists China’s inexplicable (to a for- ots, incapable of much more Whether trying their hand need to suck it up and take a
eigner) cultural quirks — like than paying bills or serving at fishing, riding camels much more active role in rais-
make fire-detecting wallpaper dressing up tiny dogs to look as chauffeurs. through the western deserts ing their kids.
Chinese scientists have developed a fire-re- like Elton John or snapping Sadly, that doesn’t seem far or selling vegetables to earn Granted, it’s easy to judge
sistant wallpaper that can not only with- selfies with plates of food. from the truth — which might bus fare home from the from the outside looking in,
stand flames but also detect fires and Still, from a Western per- also explain the ongoing popu- wilds of Yunnan province, but from a Western vantage
The Russian Antonov An-225 cargo plane is
trigger an alarm. The wallpaper was spective, the apparent lack of larity of Hunan Television’s the dads come across as … point it seems obvious that
the world’s biggest aircraft. The plane,
designed by researchers at the Chinese meaningful interaction reality series Where Are We well … incredibly dopey. most of the grunt work
which is 84 meters long, 89 meters wide
Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of between Chi- Going, Dad?, in which five In one episode, a father involved in raising Chinese
and 18 meters tall, can transport cargo
Ceramics. It can withstand temperatures as nese fathers celebrity fathers from urban was close to tears because he children is done by the
weighing up to 250 tons. The freight space
high as 1,000 C. It is made of an inorganic and their China accompany their young- didn’t know how to braid his mothers, while the main role
is equivalent to the entire fuselage of a Boe-
fire-resistant hydroxyapatite nanowire kids only sters on 72-hour treks to the daughter’s hair. In another, of the typical urban father is
ing 737. The aircraft was designed by the
paper and a graphene oxide temperature lends cre- countryside, competing as the dad had to survive three to skulk around the periph-
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Education: China continues the metal wire as an electrode. Zhu Yingjie, Second mothers have wide variety of backgrounds “I’ve only been taking care Put down your damn cell-
to dominate university ranking the team leader, said that although the wall- Thoughts to work twice and professions — entertain- of my son for three full days, phone once in a while and
China’s domination of the elite Times High- paper is still in the early research phase, the as hard to be ers, actors, former Olympic and I feel like breaking pick up a ball or a picture book
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one in every five positions of the 2018 table home in several TV commer- spent enough quality time can’t imagine how my wife Do it now.
released last week. The annual ranking Culture: Beijing Dance Festival cials leading up to Mother’s with their offspring. As part managed to do this for the Before you know it, the
includes more than 350 universities —
expanded from 300 last year — from 42
a sizzling treat in midsummer Day. Most of the spots high- of China’s burgeoning mid- past six years.” opportunity will be gone for-
lighted the indispensable dle class, they’ve supposedly Beyond the easy laughs, the ever.
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nents. With 94 Chinese institutions repre- ing the family running ern child-rearing techniques Going, Dad? is that it doesn’t Contact the writer at
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emerging economies globally. The perform-
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ronment); research (volume, income and
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reputation); citations (research influence);
international outlook (staff, students and badminton’s top team com- the 2012
For 10 years running, the Beijing Dance Fes-
research); and industry income (knowledge petitions, were held in Kun- London
tival has been one of the biggest summer years
transfer). shan, Jiangsu province. Olympics, it
celebrations of contemporary dance in the
Chinese capital. Every July, it brings more on China defended its 14th won five
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based on the classic through July 31. The defeating England 5-0 in semifinals in New Dehli, helped fuel badminton’s pop- land.
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toric Chinese beau- dance education week Read was captured in a photo pub- Korea defeated China 3-1 in Nearly 20 provinces and pic champion, Chen Long,
ties: Zhao Feiyan, from July 20 to 26, fol- more on lished in China Daily. the quarterfinals of the 2016 regions field professional are included on the men’s
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stellar results. In May 2016, Team China won four gold continues to grow. the London Olympics, is list-
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7/20 Beijing 17/34 S 22/31 C Shanghai 21/31 C 24/33 C
12/15 10/13 Changchun 17/29 C 18/31 Sh Shenyang 16/28 C 17/29 C
10/19 Changsha 24/34 S 26/34 S Shenzhen 25/32 C 26/33 S
Chongqing 22/35 C 24/33 C Shijiazhuang 19/32 C 21/31 C
17/34 Dalian 13/24 S 14/21 S Suzhou 21/27 D 25/33 D
22/31 Fuzhou 23/32 T 24/35 C Taipei 24/31 C 25/31 C
13/26 Guangzhou 24/32 T 25/32 C MONDAY
Taiyuan 13/31 S 14/31 C
17/28 Guilin 23/30 Sh 25/30 Sh Tianjin 19/35 S 22/33 C TUESDAY
18/27
17/26 Guiyang 19/27 C 19/28 S Urumqi 12/15 D 10/19 C
18/31 Haikou 25/33 C 25/34 C Wuhan 20/33 C 24/34 C
20/33 21/31
24/33 Hangzhou 22/32 C 24/33 C Xi'an 18/33 C 21/31 C
26/40 Harbin 16/29 C 14/25 C Xiamen 23/31 C 23/33 C Abu Dhabi 29/38 S 27/39 S BuenosAires 12/18 O 13/17 D
26/41 24/31 Hefei 24/32 C 24/32 C Xining 6/29 S 7/26 S
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25/32 Hohhot 14/32 S 16/31 S Yantai 17/31 C 18/27 C Colombo 26/31 R 26/31 D Chicago 8/16 St 15/15 D
23/34 Hongkong 26/32 C 27/32 S Yinchuan 17/34 C 17/33 C Dubai 29/37 S 28/39 S Houston 24/28 C 24/27 O
26/32 Jinan 26/35 S 24/33 C Zhengzhou 22/34 C 25/34 C
24/35 27/32 Hanoi 24/34 D 25/35 S Las Vegas 18/26 S 21/28 C
Kunming 14/24 C 14/27 S Zhuhai 25/31 C 25/31 C Islamabad 20/33 C 20/35 C Los Angeles 14/15 D 15/16 C
Lanzhou 14/32 C 15/31 S Jakarta 25/32 D 24/32 D Mexico city 19/19 D 19/20 D
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27/35 Karachi 28/37 S 27/38 S New York 12/14 D 13/20 D
Lijiang 11/23 D 12/25 C Kuala Lumpur 24/33 D 25/33 D Ottawa 10/16 S 12/19 S
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25/34 25/32 25/36 Manila 25/36 O 27/35 D
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25/35 Nanjing 21/32 C 24/34 C Athens 16/29 S 18/29 C
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 CHINA DAILY Monday, May 14, 2018
TOP NEWS
Ethiopia ties enter ‘new stage’
Li tells leaders in
Addis Ababa of
hopes to expand
cooperation
ADDIS ABABA — China’s
top legislator, Li Zhanshu,
made an official visit to Ethio-
pia from Wednesday to Satur-
day to promote bilateral ties
between the two countries.
In Addis Ababa, the capital,
Li, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National
People’s Congress, met with
Ethiopian President Mulatu
Teshome and Prime Minister
Abiy Ahmed on Friday.
During his meeting with
Mulatu, Li conveyed President
Xi Jinping’s appreciation of
the Ethiopian president’s con-
tribution to China-Ethiopia
friendship.
Ethiopia was the first stop of
Li’s first overseas visit since he
assumed office in March,
which, as Li said, showed the
great importance that China
attaches to the development of
the ties between the two coun-
tries as well as China-Africa
relations. He will later visit
Mozambique and Namibia.
“The relationship between
China and Ethiopia has
entered a new stage of com-
prehensive strategic partner-
ship of cooperation, and the
forthcoming Beijing summit
of the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation in September will
open up new space for cooper-
ation between the two coun-
tries,” Li said.
The top Chinese legislator
said China is willing to work
with Ethiopia to deepen mutu-
al political trust, strengthen
practical cooperation and con-
stantly elevate friendship and
cooperation between the two
nations.
Expressing Ethiopia’s grati-
tude for China’s support, Mula-
tu said the bilateral ties are
now in their best period yet.
Abiy and Li exchanged views
TEST DRIVE
Timetable for the new carrier
November 2013
Construction begins Work begins in the dry dock
Bulbous bow
Besides China, there are seven countries operating a total of 18 aircraft carriers:
United States
Sources: CHINA DAILY, Modern Ships
Carrier: Ship differs from predecessor in several ways, from size to mission
From page 1
China Shipbuilding Industry
Corp. They said the vessel has
more than 3,600 cabins, not-
ing that during construction,
there would be at least 3,000
workers from across the
Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, meets with Thomas Kwesi Quartey, deputy chair-
person of the African Union Commission, during his visit to the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday. LIU WEIBING / XINHUA
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on China’s political system and
path of development, and Li
briefed Abiy on China’s govern-
ance experience and practices
as well as the 18th Communist
Party of China National Con-
gress and the CPC Central
Committee with Comrade Xi
Jinping at its core.
Li said that five years ago,
President Xi put forward the
principle of sincerity, real
results, affinity and good faith,
along with the notion of
upholding justice while pursu-
ing shared interests when
advancing cooperation with
Africa.
The president also said that
China should combine its own
development with supporting
Africa’s development while
being a sincere friend and relia-
China's first domestically built aircraft carrier set out from a dock at Dalian Shipyard,
Liaoning province, for sea trials on Sunday morning. The trials will mainly test the
reliability and stability of the carrier's power system and other equipment.
March 2015 April 2017
The ship is launched
Ski-jump ramp
places the aircraft at a slight
upward angle for takeoff
Italy
country working on the ship
each day.
According to sources from
the Navy, several aspects on
the new carrier are different
from those on the Liaoning —
the new ship’s island (the tow-
ering section of the ship) is
ble partner for Africa.
The top Chinese legislator
voiced his expectation that Chi-
na and Ethiopia should contin-
ue strengthening cooperation
within the Belt and Road Initi-
ative and the framework of the
Forum on China-Africa Coop-
eration. They should give full
play to the role of the Addis
Ababa-Djibouti railway as an
economic “main artery,” active-
ly construct economic corri-
dors along the railway’s route,
boost cooperation in the crea-
tion of industrial zones and the
development of oil and gas
resources, and develop new
areas of cooperation.
Li invited Ethiopia to partici-
pate in the first China Interna-
tional Import Expo in
Shanghai in November.
Abiy said that the friendly
relations between Ethiopia
and China are as solid as a
rock. He said President Xi’s
thoughts on governance are
May 13, 2018
Sea trial begins
Takeoff section
of the flight deck from
which the carrier's
fixed-wing planes take off
HHQ-10 air-defense
missile launcher
United Kingdom
shorter than that of the Liaon-
ing; it has three aircraft
arresting wires (brakes)
instead of four on the Liaon-
ing; and the landing section is
longer than the Liaoning’s,
among other differences.
Experts have said that the
an important guide and ref-
erence for the development
of Ethiopia and African
countries in general.
During the talks with Mufer-
iat Kamil, speaker of the Ethio-
pian House of People’s
Representatives, and Keria
Ibrahim, speaker of the Ethio-
pian House of Federation, Li
briefed the two speakers on
China’s political system, the
National People’s Congress and
its standing committee.
Muferiat and Keria said Ethi-
opia values cooperation with
the NPC and that the African
country is ready to learn from
China’s development experi-
ence and work with China to
step up trade cooperation as
well as people-to-people
exchanges.
In another development, the
top legislator called for closer
China-Africa cooperation
while meeting with Thomas
Kwesi Quartey, deputy chair-
The island
is usually on the starboard side of
the flight deck and houses the
air-traffic control and the bridge
Z-9 search-and-rescue
Jet blast deflector helicopter
Russia France
new carrier will have mis-
sions that differ from those of
the Liaoning, which is mainly
tasked with testing equip-
ment and weapons and train-
ing personnel. The new
vessel, by comparison, will
focus on what a genuine air-
person of the African Union
Commission at the AU head-
quarters in Addis Ababa.
During the meeting on Fri-
day, Li said China and Africa
are a community of common
destiny as they share deep-
rooted friendship and the same
pursuit of development and
prosperity.
Li envisaged the huge poten-
tial for cooperation as China
works to achieve its “two cen-
tenary goals” while Africa is
also pushing for the realization
of its Agenda 2063.
Quartey welcomed Li’s visit
to the AU headquarters, whose
office building, he said, is the
embodiment of high-level
cooperation between Africa
and China.
Africa’s Agenda 2063 is high-
ly compatible with the Belt and
Road Initiative, Quartey said,
calling for joint advancement.
XINHUA
The J-15
twin-engine fighter er jet was developed
by Shenyang Aircraft
Aviation Industry Corp of China. It can be armed with anti-ship,
air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles and precision-guided bombs.
Military experts say it has comprehensive capabilities, comparable
to those of Russia’s Su-33 and the US’ F/A-18 Hornet.
India Thailand
craft carrier is supposed to
do: run combat-ready patrols
and safeguard the nation’s
maritime sovereignty and
interests.
Zhang Junshe, a research-
er with the PLA Naval Mili-
tary Studies Research
China condemns
Myanmar violence,
calls for restraint
China is working to
ensure the safety of lives and
property of people living
along the country’s border
with Myanmar after fighting
broke out between the
armed forces and militia in
northern Myanmar on Sat-
urday.
A statement from the Chi-
nese embassy said some
Myanmar people in the bor-
der area had fled into Chi-
nese territory and some
stray bullets had been fired
into Chinese territory.
The Ruili city government
in Yunnan province said it
would activate emergency
plans on Saturday to help
accommodate Myanmar
people.
China has no report of
causalities, according to the
city government. It calls for
the suspension of any social
activities near the border
region. People who need to
cross the border should
strictly comply with related
laws and border security
inspections.
The Chinese embassy in
Myanmar called on Saturday
for the parties to exercise
restraint and immediately
cease fire and take concrete
and effective measures to pre-
vent the situation from wor-
sening.
Condemning the violence
and saddened by the injuries
and deaths of innocent peo-
ple, the embassy statement
urged the parties to ensure
lives and property safety of
residents of the border area.
It said the parties con-
cerned in Myanmar are pre-
paring for the third meeting
of the 21st Century Panglong
Peace Conference and China
has been providing assist-
ance.
The statement voiced
firm opposition to any
attempt to undermine
craft Corp, a subsidiary of
Landing section
of flight deck is where the
carrier’s fixed-wing planes land
Steel arresting
wires
Z-18 early-warning Optical landing
helicopter system
LI XINLEI AND LI XIAOTIAN / CHINA DAILY
Institute, said the Chinese
Navy needs at least three air-
craft carriers. When it has
that many, one can be on
duty, one can train personnel
and the third can take on
maintenance, he said.
Besides China, seven coun-
3
peace and stability along
the China-Myanmar border
and any act deliberately
obstructing the Myanmar
peace process.
It called on all parties to
enhance dialogue, promote
mutual trust and move for-
ward together to play a con-
structive role in promoting
national reconciliation and
the Myanmar peace process.
China is working
to ensure the
safety of lives and
property of peo-
ple living along
the country’s bor-
der with Myan-
mar after fighting
broke out
between the
armed forces and
militia in north-
ern Myanmar.
At least 19 people includ-
ing a police officer, four mili-
tia personnel and 14
civilians were killed and 27
others injured in attacks on
Saturday morning by armed
groups in Muse township,
part of Myanmar's Shan
state, according to a release
from the office of the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the
Defense Service of Myan-
mar.
The attacks targeting
three areas were launched
by a combined force of the
Kachin Independence Army
and Ta’ang National Libera-
tion Army.
CHINA DAILY - XINHUA
Close-in weapon
system
tries — the United States, Rus-
sia, Britain, France, Italy,
Thailand and India — operate a
total of 18 aircraft carriers. The
US is the largest operator, with
11 nuclear-powered carriers,
each having a full-load displace-
ment of about 100,000 tons.
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Monday, May 14, 2018
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Suspects grilled by police after
frozen meat is stolen from pit
By LI YINGQING
in Jinping, Yunnan
and HOU LIQIANG in Beijing
Police are grilling seven sus-
pects in connection with the
theft of hundreds of tons of
smuggled frozen meat that
authorities had buried under
concrete. They say residents in
Yunnan province dug up the
meat and took it away, proba-
bly to sell it.
A total of 249 metric tons of
frozen meat, including beef,
tripe and chicken feet, was
buried 5 meters deep and
sealed with concrete at a gar-
bage disposal plant in Jinping
county after it was seized
between April 8 and 12.
About 100 police officers
guarded the site for more than
three days, until the concrete
was fully set. After they left,
however, the plant was over-
whelmed by hundreds of resi-
dents, who broke through the
concrete and took the meat,
probably with the intent to sell
it, Xu Yang, deputy head of
Honghe prefecture, which has
jurisdiction over Jinping, said
on Saturday.
Yunnan TV, which exposed
Bay Area cultural links promoted
By ZHOU MO in Shenzhen
sally@chinadailyhk.com
Cross-border cultural
cooperation will open a big-
ger market for Hong Kong
and Macao culture-related
businesses and help ease dis-
harmony in Hong Kong, offi-
cials said on Friday.
The report given in Octo-
ber to the 19th National Con-
gress of the Communist Party
of China by General Secretary
Xi Jinping and this year’s
Government Work Report
delivered in March by Pre-
mier Li Keqiang both said the
Chinese mainland, Hong
Kong and Macao should
deepen exchanges and coop-
eration in various fields,
Xiang Zhaolun, vice-minister
of culture and tourism, noted.
Cultural industries in the
three areas should take advan-
tage of development opportu-
nities created by the new era
and use their strengths in
tourism, the arts and cultiva-
tion of young artistic talent to
contribute to the development
of the Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
and promote Chinese culture
to the world, he said.
Xiang made the remarks at
a forum held on the sidelines
Shanghai aims to increase its financial power
By SHI JING in Shanghai
shijing@chinadaily.com.cn
Shanghai officials released a
detailed guideline recently for
further opening-up in the finan-
cial sector, responding to Presi-
dent Xi Jinping’s speech at last
month’s Boao Forum for Asia.
Xi said during his speech on
April 10 that China will carry
out a number of important pol-
icies to open up further. The
the incident on Thursday, said
the problem is not a new one.
Every time the anti-smuggling
office has buried smuggled
food in landfills in the past
couple of years, residents have
dug it up.
Xu, who also heads the
Honghe public security
bureau, said seven suspects
were detained after authori-
ties sought information on the
whereabouts of the vehicles
that transported the meat. The
suspects allegedly sold sub-
standard food.
“An emergency meeting was
held on Thursday night to dis-
cuss what to do. A leading
group headed by the county’s
Party secretary was estab-
lished,” said Wu Huahao, head
of the Jinping government.
After a preliminary investi-
gation, police have some leads
on the whereabouts of some of
the stolen meat, he said.
He added that authorities
have been combing markets
for illegal sales of frozen meat
and have confiscated 3 tons of
meat found without proper
paperwork.
A total of 22,000 square
meters at the garbage plant’s
of the 14th China (Shenzhen)
International Cultural Indus-
tries Fair on Friday.
Lau Kong-wah, secretary
for home affairs of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative
Region, said this year marks a
development milestone —
the opening of big cross-bor-
der infrastructure projects,
including the Hong Kong-
Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and
the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-
Hong Kong express rail link.
“The door has already
opened. It will surely bring
more exchanges to cultural
industries and people on the
two sides. This is a trend,” he
said.
Lau said the Hong Kong
government supports cross-
border cultural cooperation,
saying that the administra-
tion has reserved funds over
five years for supporting
activities by local arts groups
in the Bay Area.
Hong Kong lawmaker Ma
Fung-kwok said the dishar-
mony in Hong Kong in recent
years is rooted in culture.
“The disputes have no
direct connection with eco-
nomic development but are
the result of a deeper issue
that has something to do
with cultural coexistence and
next day, Yi Gang, governor of
the central bank, announced
12 opening-up policies, five of
which will be implemented
over the next few months.
According to Shanghai’s
financial services office, efforts
will be made in fields includ-
ing banking, securities, insur-
ance, financial markets and
free trade accounts, as well as
touching on entry policies for
bank-card clearing institu-
disposal site have been disin-
fected, he said.
The police have been asked
to root out and strongly crack
down on those responsible for
smuggling frozen meat and
taking meat that has been
seized.
Honghe shares 848 kilome-
ters of border with Vietnam,
including 502 kilometers in
Jinping county.
Xu said smugglers have
been making full use of the
natural conditions, with no
barriers in the border areas, to
smuggle rice and frozen meat
into China in recent years.
County head Wu vowed the
authorities would maintain a
tough stance with regard to
meat smugglers. More meas-
ures will be taken to prevent
such meat from crossing the
border into China, including
additional patrols to seize ille-
gal meat, he said.
Wu added that the county
has plans to bring in factories
that can safely dispose of ani-
mal products.
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people’s concepts,” he said.
“In this sense, in the long
term, we need to deal with
the culture issue well to tack-
le Hong Kong’s problem.”
He said the Bay Area will
open more opportunities to
Hong Kong’s cultural indus-
tries. Hong Kong now has
more than 20 art centers, and
there are more than 60 in the
Bay Area.
Mok Ian Ian, director of the
cultural affairs bureau of the
Macao Special Administra-
tive Region, said cultural
cooperation between Macao
and the mainland has entered
a new phase thanks to a range
of cooperative agreements.
Macao, a place where Chi-
nese and Western cultures
converge, occupied a strate-
gic position on the ancient
maritime Silk Road and is
also an important bridge
between China and Portu-
guese-speaking countries,
she said.
Macao is building a Chi-
nese-Portuguese cultural
exchange center and organiz-
ing high-level cultural meet-
ings, forums and exhibitions.
It also will establish a regular
mechanism to promote cul-
tural exchanges with the
mainland, Mok said.
Mother
love
A daughter hugs her mother at
an event honoring mothers in
Xingan, Jiangxi province, on
Sunday, which was Mother’s
Day in China.
LI FUSUN / XINHUA
tions and nonbank payment
institutions.
Under the new guideline,
foreign banks will be allowed
to set up branches and subsid-
iaries in Shanghai. Commer-
cial banks will be able to set up
financial asset investment
companies and wealth man-
agement companies with no
foreign capital limit.
Meanwhile, foreign-con-
trolled securities companies,
Masterful display
Yang Zhigang, a master of the Shajiamen Martial Arts House in Cangzhou, Hebei province, demonstrates a kung fu stance to foreign stu-
dents on Saturday. The students are members of a group that visits various clubs to learn about Chinese kung fu. FU XINCHUN / XINHUA
Didi driver’s body recovered
after flight attendant killed
Police say man leaped from bridge in
likely suicide; ride service under fire
By LUO WANGSHU
luowangshu@chinadaily.com.cn
The body of a Didi Chuxing
driver who was suspected of
killing an airline flight attend-
ant was recovered from a river
in Zhengzhou, Henan prov-
ince, on Saturday, as critics
accused the ride-hailing app’s
“social function” of putting
female passengers at risk.
Police authorities in
Zhengzhou said the suspected
killer — identified only as Liu
— is believed to have commit-
ted suicide by jumping off a
bridge.
Liu picked up a woman sur-
named Li through Didi’s
“hitch” service on May 5. The
service, one of 13 offered
through Didi’s mobile app,
allows private drivers to pick
up passengers going in the
same direction. Drivers partic-
ipating in other Didi services
are subject to a more rigorous
vetting process.
The 21-year-old flight
attendant ordered the “hitch”
service at 11:53 pm, aiming to
travel from a hotel near
Zhengzhou Xinzheng Interna-
tional Airport to the city’s train
station. Liu instead took her to
a deserted area about 15 kilo-
meters from the airport where
police say he killed her.
Li’s body was found on May
8, a day after her father report-
ed her missing.
No details about how the
victim died have been
released. On Sunday, authori-
ties said five people, including
investment funds and futures
companies will be allowed to
establish operations in Shang-
hai to provide brokerage and
consulting services.
Foreign insurance services
will be expanded to include
both insurance agencies and
assessment services. In addi-
tion, foreign-controlled life
insurance companies will be
allowed to operate in the city.
Financial markets will be
The door has already opened. It will surely
bring more exchanges to cultural industries
and people on the two sides. This is a trend.”
Lau Kong-wah, secretary for home affairs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
In this case, some
inappropriate
comments may
induce people to
commit crimes.”
Zhu Wei, researcher at China
University of Political Science
and Law
a police support officer, had
been detained for sharing
photos online of the victim’s
body taken at the crime scene.
According to the police, 10
minutes after picking up the
woman Liu deleted the
account and drove immediate-
ly to the site where her body
was found. He stayed there for
26 minutes and then headed
south for about 10 km before
stopping the car on a bridge.
Surveillance footage shows
someone jumping into the
water near the city’s West
Third Ring Road. Police recov-
ered a body from the water on
Saturday and said DNA test-
ing had confirmed it was Liu.
According to Didi, Liu was
using his father’s account on
the night of the killing. His
father had passed the full veri-
fication process and criminal
background check, the compa-
ny said. Also, the father’s facial
recognition information was
on file, as required for all driv-
7.6
trillion yuan
Direct financial settlements
in Shanghai last year
further opened to overseas
investors. Innovative compa-
nies from overseas will be
encouraged to issue Chinese
depositary receipts to trade in
the Chinese A-share market.
The scale of Panda bonds —
referring to yuan-denominat-
er’s before their first pickup.
But some media reports
quoted the father as saying he
didn’t know he was registered
as a driver.
Using another person’s
account is a violation of its
contract terms, the company
said. However, it conceded
that its “night safety system”,
which requires users to log in
using facial recognition, was
“defective”.
Didi said it had received a
complaint of verbal sexual
harassment against the driver
registered with the account
before the killing, but its cus-
tomer services department
had been unable to reach him
by phone after trying five
times, so no action was taken.
It did not say how Liu came to
be using an account in his
father’s name.
The killing sparked public
outrage, prompting Didi to
suspend its hitch service
nationwide for a week on Fri-
day to complete a background
review of its drivers.
The platform’s social inter-
action function has been criti-
cized as a safety hazard for
passengers. The hitch service
is designed for budget travel-
ers and allows registered car
owners to accept rides on
routes they regularly travel.
The company has encour-
aged the social function. In
earlier interviews, Didi Presi-
dent Liu Qing has said the idea
came from her time studying
in the United States, when she
could thumb for a lift and talk
to and laugh with strangers en
route to a destination. That is
not common in China, and the
hitch service was aimed at
making it happen, she said.
ed bonds issued in the Chinese
mainland market by an over-
seas entity — will be expanded.
The free trade account,
which was launched within
the China (Shanghai) Pilot
Free Trade Zone in 2014, will
see its function and range of
applications expanded to the
Yangtze River Delta region to
facilitate the internationaliza-
tion of the renminbi. The
financing and investment
functions of free trade
accounts will be further
explored, the guideline said.
In addition, restrictions on
Before the service was sus-
pended, drivers and passen-
gers could post comments
about each other, such as
whether a driver or passenger
was good. However, com-
ments have often featured vul-
gar descriptions of females.
Drivers can see passengers’
information before taking an
order, and vice versa.
A registered hitch service
driver in Beijing who declined
to be named said on Sunday
that he preferred to pick up
“good-looking” women when
he takes orders. He sometimes
takes orders on his way to or
from work.
“I don’t take orders for mon-
ey, but just to have some com-
pany on the way,” he said. “As a
man, I find it pleasing to chat
with pretty girls.”
The social function of online
businesses is a double-edged
sword, according to Zhu Wei,
deputy director of the Com-
munication Law Research
Center at China University of
Political Science and Law.
“The advantage is obvious,
including attracting custom-
ers and providing customers
with information about prod-
ucts,” he said. “However, in
this case, some inappropriate
comments may induce people
to commit crimes.”
He suggested limiting the
comment choices in some
apps to a grade and details
such as timeliness and cleanli-
ness, but not a passenger’s
gender.
Given the safety issues, the
sacrifice of some information
is worth it, he said.
Ma Si contributed to this
story.
credit rating services provided
by foreign financial compa-
nies will be relaxed.
Li Jun, deputy director of
the Shanghai financial servi-
ces office, said the changes will
make Shanghai an important
crossroads for domestic and
foreign capital.
Direct financial settlements
in Shanghai last year amount-
ed to 7.6 trillion yuan ($120 bil-
lion), more than 85 percent of
the national total. About 30
percent of the financial insti-
tutions registered in Shanghai
were foreign-backed.
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Quake:
Early
warnings
now used
From page 1
of more than 3,000 stations.
And 13,000 shelters have
been established across the
country.
China began developing
early earthquake warnings
after the Wenchuan quake
and became the third country
with an early earthquake
warning system after Japan
and Mexico.
Relying on cellphones,
TV, radio, government
micro blogs and special
receiving terminals, the
early warning network,
installed by the Institute
of Care-Life in Chengdu,
covers 660 million people
in areas prone to earth-
quakes, accounting for 90
percent of the population
in these areas, according
to Wang Tun, head of the
institute.
Since 2011, the system has
successfully sent early warn-
ings immediately after more
than 40 destructive earth-
quakes, including two magni-
tude 7 earthquakes in
Sichuan, one in Lushan coun-
ty in 2013 and one in Jiuz-
haigou county in 2017.
A real-time system pro-
viding warnings seconds
after an earthquake occurs
can save lives because the
warnings are transmitted
via radio, which move faster
than seismic waves. Radio
waves travel at 300,000
kilometers per second,
while seismic waves travel
at 3 to 6 km/s.
People who get warning
messages may be able to
escape before the seismic
waves arrive, according to
Chen Huizhong, a research
At the site of Xuankou Middle School, people gather on Satur-
day for a memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of the
Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan province that killed nearly
70,000 people. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
fellow at the Institute of
Geophysics, China Earth-
quake Administration.
Before the first anniversa-
ry of the magnitude 7.8
earthquake in Nepal that
killed 8,699 people in 2015,
Wang’s institute also helped
Nepal install the system,
making the country the
fourth in the world with an
earthquake early warning
system. The system covers
one-third of Nepal’s territo-
ry and half of its population.
On May 3, the Institute of
Care-Life announced that it
would provide early earth-
quake warnings through tele-
vision to an additional 5
million people in 11 cities and
counties in Sichuan. The
move brought the number of
people in the province cov-
ered by early earthquake
warnings via TV to 5.3 mil-
lion.
Wang Zhiguo, head of Bei-
jing earthquake prediction
research center, said, “China
is the only country in the
world with official research
on earthquake prediction
and also the only one that
once successfully predicted
an earthquake.”
The country successfully
predicted the magnitude 7.3
earthquake in Haicheng,
Liaoning province, in 1975
and dozens of other earth-
quakes, he said.
He said that while China
has made some achieve-
ments in conducting medi-
um- and long-term
prediction for earthquake, it
has yet to be capable of pre-
dicting the exact time, loca-
tion and magnitude of
earthquakes, which is a
global difficulty.
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Growth: Imports will add Hainan
to world’s economy, Xi says invites
From page 1
Steps to open up further
Manufacturing is another
key sector to reduce restric-
tions on foreign investment.
Regarding trade, China
called off import tariffs on
anticancer drugs beginning
this month and will signifi-
cantly lower tariffs on vehi-
cles and other goods.
They are among the con-
crete measures outlined by
President Xi Jinping at the
annual conference of the
Boao Forum for Asia in April
in Hainan province.
“We have a genuine desire
to increase imports and
achieve greater balance of
international payments
under the current account,”
Xi said in the keynote speech.
The first China Interna-
tional Import Expo sched-
uled for November in
Shanghai is expected to help
increase imports.
In addition, Hainan island
will become a pilot free-trade
zone and, eventually, a free-
trade port, Xi said during an
inspection tour there after
attending Boao gathering.
The moves reaffirmed a
strong political will and a
road map to deepen China’s
reform and opening-up that
began at the 19th National
Congress of the Communist
Party of China in October.
Support from data
China reported year-on-
year GDP growth of 6.8 per-
cent in the first quarter, the
11th quarter in a row with a
growth rate between 6.7 per-
cent and 6.9 percent.
Consumption contributed
77.8 percent, more than last
year’s average of 58.8 percent,
continuing an uptrend that
began five years ago.
In 2018, China’s total retail
sales of consumer goods are
30 percent
of global economic growth
in the past five years was
contributed by China, the
World Bank says.
estimated to reach 40.5 tril-
lion yuan ($6.4 trillion),
replacing the United States as
the world’s largest retail mar-
ket, said Wang Changlin, an
economic expert with the
State Development and
Reform Commission.
Services accounted for 61.6
percent of the first-quarter
growth, consolidating a lead-
ing role that marks an eco-
nomic structural
transformation, the National
Bureau of Statistics said,
attributing this partly to
changes in China’s consump-
tion structure.
“Rapidly growing per capi-
ta disposable income and a
high employment rate will
sustain robust consump-
tion,” J.P. Morgan Chase’s
Ulrich said.
Today, China is the major
trading partner of over 120
countries and regions. In the
first quarter, customs data
recorded a 21.8 percent drop
in China’s trade surplus, with
imports rising 11.7 percent
and exports 7.4 percent.
A country of net capital
outflows since 2015, China in
the first quarter has main-
tained for five months an
increase in its outward for-
eign direct investment,
reaching a total volume of
$25.5 billion in 140 countries
and regions.
Engine for global growth
According to the World
Bank, China has maintained
an annual growth rate of 7.1
percent during the past five
years, contributing over 30
percent of global economic
growth, more than the contri-
bution made by the US, the
Eurozone countries and
Japan combined.
Xi voiced China’s staunch
support for free and inclusive
trade at the Boao conference,
saying globalization is in line
with the common interests of
all countries.
“We will continue to safe-
guard international order
and rules and support free
trade and the liberalization
and facilitation of trade and
investment,” Xi said at the
four-day meeting.
“The international com-
munity should abandon the
Cold War mentality and
advocate working together to
build a community with a
shared future for mankind,”
he said.
To make globalization
more inclusive so that its ben-
efits can be shared more
extensively, Beijing has
launched the Belt and Road
Initiative and is asking others
to join it.
Proposed by Xi in 2013, the
initiative aims to achieve pol-
icy, infrastructure, trade,
financial and people-to-peo-
ple connectivity along and
beyond the ancient Silk Road
trade routes, building a plat-
form for international coop-
eration to create new growth
drivers.
“China’s pledge to continue
to deepen reform and open-
ing-up by liberalizing market
access and reducing trade
barriers sends a clear signal
that it wishes to not only
improve itself, but to inclu-
sively share the benefits
derived from China’s devel-
opment model,” Jon R. Taylor,
a US political science profes-
sor at University of St. Thom-
as in Houston, told Xinhua in
April.
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CHINA 5
global
talent
By MA ZHIPING in Haikou
mazhiping@chinadaily.com.cn
Hainan province announced
a plan on Sunday to woo top-
tier talent to help the island
develop into a pilot interna-
tional free trade zone.
From this year until 2025,
Hainan will implement a
recruitment action plan that
will invite a million talented
individuals from home and
abroad, Li Jun, deputy Party
secretary of Hainan, told a
news conference in Haikou,
the provincial capital.
The plan will offer preferen-
tial policies, including loans
and free housing, to support
talented individuals coming to
the tropical island province.
Master-level talent and out-
standing professionals will be
welcome in such fields as
space science and technology,
deep-sea research, seed breed-
ing and tropical agriculture.
All recruits can choose to live
anywhere in Hainan and will
enjoy the same policy treat-
ment as local residents when
buying a house.
The plan is one of the meas-
ures announced by the provin-
cial government to implement
central government directives
to provide a welcoming envi-
ronment for talented individ-
uals who can contribute to
making Hainan an interna-
tional pilot free trade zone.
Last month, while celebrat-
ing the 30th anniversary of
Hainan being made a prov-
ince and a special economic
zone, the central government
unveiled plans to build it into
a pilot international free trade
zone and gradually explore
the building of a free trade
port with Chinese characteris-
tics.
6 CHINA
Disaster
The quake that shook China to its core
The deadly event
forced the country
to improve the
emergency rescue
system, as
Hou Liqiang
reports from
Beijing with
Liu Kun in Wuhan.
T O
he 2008 Wenchuan
earthquake, one of
the deadliest natural
disasters in China’s
history, marked a watershed
in the country’s approach to
emergency relief. In the 10
years since the temblor, which
claimed more than 69,000
lives and left nearly 18,000
people missing, there has
been a 200-fold rise in the
number of State-backed and
volunteer rescue groups.
Meanwhile, the equipment
used to find survivors and
save lives has become increas-
ingly sophisticated.
Many of those who took part
in the Wenchuan relief effort
spoke later of the heartbreak
of seeing trapped people dying
but being unable to help
because of a lack of equipment
allied to poor rescue skills. The
experience was the start of
China’s efforts to upgrade the
country’s disaster response
capabilities, especially in the
establishment of volunteer
rescue teams.
While even 10 years ago res-
cue work was mainly con-
ducted with shovels and
ropes, today it is common to
see volunteer teams using
unmanned aerial vehicles, or
drones, and thermal-imaging
equipment to pinpoint the
location of survivors trapped
in rubble.
When the Blue Sky Rescue
Team, the country’s first regis-
tered nonprofit volunteer out-
fit, took part in the Wenchuan
relief operation, its members
were untrained outdoors
enthusiasts. Team leader
Zhang Yong described the
outfit as a scratch team with
huge enthusiasm but limited
experience and almost no
equipment.
Recalling the rescue a dec-
ade later, he said the words
that sprung to mind were “sad”
and “powerless” because, lack-
ing equipment and skills, the
team could only help to trans-
port relief materials.
“Often we knew someone
was buried in the rubble near-
by, but we were powerless to
help,” he said, recalling a man
who was pinned down in a
gap between fallen rocks.
Zhang and his team were able
to pass a rope to the man, who
tied it around his waist. How-
ever, he was wedged so hard
that it was impossible to pull
him free. Despite 10 hours of
efforts to rescue him, the man
died. To make matters worse,
his mother and brother were
at the scene, constantly
appealing to Zhang and his
team for help.
While the members of the
team were badly affected by
their “failure”, the incident
made them determined to
develop their skills. In the
Experts call for improved management of volunteer groups
By HOU LIQIANG
houliqiang@chinadaily.com.cn
China must strengthen the
management of volunteer res-
cue teams to ensure their
orderly development and reg-
ulate their participation in
disaster relief operations,
insiders have said.
While volunteer outfits
have provided essential assist-
ance in emergency situations
in recent years, a lack of coor-
dination and poor communi-
cations have occasionally
hampered emergency efforts.
For example, in August
2014, when a magnitude 6.5
earthquake hit Ludian coun-
Volunteers from the Blue Sky Rescue Team undertake a practice drill in Xingtai, Hebei province, on Friday.
Members of the Clouded Leopard Rescue Team at work during the relief efforts after the Nepal
earthquake in April 2015. TANG HUAMING / FOR CHINA DAILY
years that followed, Zhang
and his fellow leaders orga-
nized regular training ses-
sions that focused on a variety
of rescue techniques and the
use of professional equip-
ment. The voluntary organi-
zation now has about 30,000
members who form 419 teams
across the country.
“If a disaster strikes within
China, one of our teams can
be at the scene in about four
hours,” Zhang said.
In addition to domestic
operations, the team has tak-
en part in at least eight relief
missions overseas, including
the Nepal earthquake in April
2015. The first batch of Blue
Sky members arrived at the
affected area just one day aft-
er the quake, fully trained to
deal with a variety of tasks.
Using thermal-imaging
apparatus and state-of-the-art
lifting and securing equip-
ment, the team, including Blue
Sky experts, spent 15 days in
ty, Yunnan province, Li Feng,
head of the Green Boat Emer-
gency Rescue, assessed the
level of damage with senior
colleagues and then dis-
patched a 15-strong team to
the affected area.
However, when the team
members arrived in Ludian,
they found the county square
was packed with volunteers,
many of whom were unsure of
the role they were expected to
play.
“There were more rescuers
than victims,” Li recalled.
Having liaised with the local
government, Li’s team knew
exactly where it was needed,
but many volunteers
Nepal searching for survivors,
restoring water supplies and
providing medical services to
more than 2,000 people.
“More than 70 internation-
al rescue teams participated
in the Nepal earthquake oper-
ation and found 178 bodies.
Our 84-member team found
24 of them,” Zhang said.
Newcomers
Since 2008, the handful of
rescue teams in existence
before Wenchuan, such as
Blue Sky, have been joined by
a raft of newcomers, all dedi-
cated to providing assistance
in the face of adversity.
According to the recently
established Ministry of Emer-
gency Management, before
Wenchuan there were 27
State-backed earthquake res-
cue teams in China — one
national team and 26 provin-
cial outfits — that employed
4,200 people.
However, as of March, the
remained in the square.
Eventually, Li’s team com-
mandeered a group of volun-
teers who joined the members
in an isolated village in Qiaojia
county, providing emergency
relief for several days.
According to Li, similar sce-
narios are not unusual, given
the rapid rise in the number
of volunteer relief organiza-
tions since the 2008 Wen-
chuan earthquake in Sichuan
province — the recently estab-
lished Ministry of Emergency
Management puts the num-
ber at nearly 11,000 civilian
rescue teams with about
694,000 members.
She recalled how volun-
number of employees had
rocketed to more than
250,000, and the earthquake
rescue system had evolved into
a four-tier organization reach-
ing down to the county level. At
the same time, there were
11,000 volunteer rescue teams
with 694,000 members.
Xiang Dong from Wuhan,
capital of Hubei province,
founded a volunteer rescue
team in 2009 after friends
told him how frustrated they
had been during the Wen-
chuan relief operation.
Xiang named the team
“Clouded Leopard”, after the
big cat renowned for its
climbing abilities.
Xiang’s team, which has
more than 300 members, is
equipped with 16 drones —
including ones that can detect
poisonous gases, and others
designed specifically for res-
cue operations on water or in
high-rise buildings — a com-
mand vehicle and thermal-
teers’ vehicles jammed roads
vital to the transportation of
survivors and medical sup-
plies in Ludian, even though a
temporary headquarters had
been established for civilian
teams.
More recently, the govern-
ment had to call on volun-
teers to stop pouring into the
area around Jiuzhaigou fol-
lowing a magnitude 7 quake
in the mountainous area of
Sichuan in August.
However, there is no doubt
that volunteer teams can
complement the work of offi-
cial rescue teams. In Ludian,
for example, Li’s team
worked with a group of sol-
ZHU XUDONG / XINHUA
If disaster
strikes within
China, one of
our teams can
be at the scene
in about four
hours.”
Zhang Yong,
leader of the Blue Sky
Rescue Team, China’s
first registered nonprofit
volunteer group
11,000
Number of volunteer
rescue teams in China,
with 694,000 members
imaging equipment.
“Our high-tech devices can
guarantee to search an area of
more than 100 square kilome-
ters, and can provide an effec-
tive means of finding
survivors, missing people and
escape routes in dark, densely
smoky and foggy environ-
ments in forests and ravines,”
he said.
When he traveled to Nepal to
assist with relief efforts after
the 2015 earthquake, Xiang led
a team of three that pulled two
seriously injured people from
the rubble during their four
days in the country.
He said members of India’s
official rescue team were
astonished to discover that a
voluntary team from China
had access to thermal-imag-
ing equipment when they
diers, using rope skills to
access damaged buildings so
they could be demolished,
thus helping to alleviate the
danger posed by the unsafe
structures.
While Li is concerned that
resources will be wasted if the
government fails to oversee
the activities of volunteer res-
cue teams, the China Social
Welfare Foundation has
called for industry-style regu-
lations to ensure that teams
become more professional,
with certain outfits specializ-
ing in specific aspects of relief
work.
The foundation has partici-
pated in disaster alleviation
Monday, May 14, 2018 CHINA DAILY
worked together to search a
collapsed building. “Only one
or two in every 20 teams were
equipped with that sort of
equipment,” he added.
The demands on those who
want to join the team are
high. In addition to being in
excellent physical condition,
members must be fluent in
English. “We conduct rescues
with high-tech devices, many
of which we have imported
from overseas. The members
need to know English to read
the instruction manuals,”
Xiang said.
Growing recognition
In keeping with its long his-
tory, the Blue Sky Rescue Team
has been making efforts to win
international recognition and
support. In May, Zhang invited
two senior Swiss experts from
the International Search and
Rescue Advisory Group, or
Insarag, a network of more
than 80 countries and organi-
zations that operates under
the United Nations umbrella,
to spend three days evaluating
the team and giving lectures.
The team is working to
ensure it will pass the Insarag
External Classification
appraisal procedure. If suc-
cessful, Blue Sky will become
the 52nd team in the world to
pass the appraisal and only the
second in China, after the Chi-
nese International Search and
Rescue Team, the national
earthquake rescue team.
“China is a strong country.
Our volunteers have gained
deep rescue experience and
have the ability to go beyond
China to shoulder the coun-
try’s international responsi-
bilities, so we are making the
effort to learn and improve,”
Zhang said.
Contact the writers at
houliqiang@
chinadaily.com.cn
since the Wenchuan quake.
Its official team, registered in
2103, can mobilize 300 to 500
volunteers, and has partici-
pated in 12 major rescues at
home and overseas, including
the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
In a statement to China
Daily, the foundation said all
volunteer teams should be
officially registered and
should only participate in
emergency relief efforts
under government guidance.
“They will only provide the
government with effective
assistance when they are able
to carry out orderly opera-
tions that do not add to the
existing problem,” it stated.
FIRST PERSON
We have
definitely
made a lot
of progress
since 2008
Liang Jian, 50, director of the
neurosurgery department at
Wuhan Central Hospital, Hubei
province.
n May 12, 2008, I
was lying on my
bed resting after a
long morning of
surgery when the building
began to shake. It was an
earthquake.
Soon after, I was called
and told to leave immediate-
ly for Wenchuan, Sichuan
province, with the Hubei
provincial rescue team. The
damage from the earth-
quake was widespread, and
on the first day of our
deployment the local airport
had been damaged so our
plane was unable to land. It
was quickly repaired,
though, so we arrived on the
second day and started oper-
ations.
Though it’s been 10 years,
the memories are fresh. We
were dispatched to Shifang
city, and the devastation could
be seen everywhere. For doz-
ens of square kilometers, not
one building remained intact.
In fact, most of them had col-
lapsed.
Though we brought as
many medical supplies as we
could carry, we only had a
limited number of disposable
items, so we had to disinfect
the equipment frequently.
The lack of water and no pow-
er supply made our work
extremely difficult.
We worked in a simple tent.
In the evening, when patients
were sent to us, most of the
doctors had to stop work and
hold flashlights so that one
doctor would have enough
light to assess and treat the
injured.
The patients poured in con-
tinuously, but we also provid-
ed treatment in the field. The
situation was chaotic because
of a lack of equipment, and
there were few nurses to
assist us. There were so many
patients that we had no
option but to concentrate on
treating the most seriously
injured.
In the past 10 years, the
medical sector nationwide
has made strenuous efforts to
improve its capabilities as
China works to establish a
complete emergency response
system. For example, my hos-
pital regularly holds training
sessions on the provision of
emergency care.
Meanwhile, we have gained
experience and learned les-
sons from taking part in a
number of disaster relief
efforts, which means the
country’s medical rescue
capabilities have improved
greatly.
Now, we are well-equipped
when we take part in rescue
operations. In addition to hav-
ing enough equipment and
materials, including charging
facilities and apparatus such
as defibrillators, the doctors
are assisted by an adequate
number of nurses. When
injured people are sent to us,
we can concentrate on check-
ing and treating them while
the nurses deal with fluid
infusions and other proce-
dures.
As a member of the Cloud-
ed Leopard Rescue Team in
Wuhan, capital of Hubei pro-
vince, I have regularly provid-
ed training for other team
members before they headed
to disaster zones, including
the 2015 Nepal earthquake. I
have also shared the lessons I
learned during the Wenchuan
earthquake.
Since 2008, China has
made great progress in terms
of emergency medical rescue.
Liang Jian spoke
with Liu Kun.
 CHINA DAILY Monday, May 14, 2018
Disabled workers warm diners’ hearts
Bakery employees use notebooks,
sign language to communicate
with each other — and customers
Despite being full of cus-
tomers at breakfast, the bak-
ery Luo Yanan works at is
quiet but for the clicking and
clacking of high heels and cash
registers.
Greeting every customer
with a big smile and a friendly
gesture, Luo is among the 18
employees who can neither
hear nor speak at the Silent
Cake bakery in Guangzhou,
Guangdong province.
At the entrance are signs
that explain: “Most employees
in this bakery are hearing- and
speech-impaired, so it may
take a little longer for you to
order and pay. Please be
patient.”
Instead of verbal communi-
cation, employees use sign
language or write things down
on notebooks.
Before placing an order,
Luo, who is in her early 20s,
takes out the menu and a note-
book to let the customer write
down the order and payment
method. She packs the takeout
orders.
“We haven’t had any com-
plaints since we opened in
March,” said the bakery’s
co-founder, Zeng Nan. “The
customers are friendly and
always wait patiently, and
some even help clear tables.”
Many of the employees are
graduates of Zeng’s culinary
school.
Silent Cake has become
well-known by word-of-
mouth and through social
media. Its 40 seats are often
Around China
JIANGXI
Wooden house to
become museum
A wooden house more than
200 years old in Yichun is to
be made into a museum
showcasing the beauty of the
rare phoebe wood used in its
construction. Local authori-
ties will also list the property
as a historic relic. Located in a
back alley in Yifeng county,
the building from the Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911) covers
1,000 square meters and fea-
tures more than 70 phoebe
crossbeams and columns esti-
mated to weigh more than 40
metric tons. All are in good
condition.
JIANGXI NEWS
SICHUAN
Grandma, 78, starts
online job search
A 78-year-old woman has
become an internet sensation
after applying for many jobs
advertised online in Santai
county. Ding Yuqiong, dubbed
“the granny of employment”,
said she wanted to find a job
to ease the burden on her
family. In her applications she
said the family had been hav-
ing financial problems since
her four children lost their
jobs. Ding said some employ-
ers had invited her to inter-
views.
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full at noon, with long lines of
customers. On busy days, it
serves more than 500 diners.
“I started the bakery
because many of our physical-
ly challenged graduates had
difficulty finding jobs. But the
success is totally beyond my
imagination,” Zeng said.
“It may take an apprentice
with a disability three months
to finish what’s usually a
monthlong course because the
baker must teach them one by
one. But they are all excellent
and professional.”
Zhang Xubiao is one such
student. He is adept at making
soft rolls but also enjoys think-
ing of fresh ideas for new
products. His “constellation”
series of 12 different creative
breads is popular with young-
er customers.
To give the workers a sense
of accomplishment, Zeng
offers each employee a stake in
the business.
“Opening the shop would
have been impossible without
them,” Zeng said.
A second Silent Cake fran-
chise will open soon in
Guangzhou, serving pastries,
drinks and set meals. It will be
five times bigger than the first.
“All the employees here are
strong and brave. They smile
through their difficulties and
stand on their own two feet.
They are my role models,” said
Fan Xiaoyan, a customer with
disabilities.
XINHUA
FUJIAN
Fraudster fails to
repay 140m yuan
A 27-year-old businessman
has been convicted of fraud
and is awaiting sentencing in
Fuzhou after he failed to
repay 140 million yuan ($22.2
million) in debts. Shi Hualin,
who was branded in court as
a dishonest person, once
owned five companies that
sold automobiles and parts
across Fujian province. He
and his companies were taken
to court twice this year, in
January and March, and
ordered to repay their debts.
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BEIJING
Workers fill in man’s
secret basement
A property owner who illegal-
ly dug a two-level basement
under his apartment was
detained in Xicheng district
on May 4 on suspicion of
endangering public safety. An
investigation found that the
man, surnamed Deng, had
secretly dug out more than
400 cubic meters of earth for
a basement over the course of
five years. The unauthorized
basement had damaged the
structure of the building and
could cause it to subside, local
experts said, adding that
there could also be other hid-
den safety concerns. It took
workers 14 hours to fill in the
basement, which was sealed
with concrete.
BEIJING DAILY
HUBEI
Bureau apologizes
for retiree’s distress
Hongan county’s social secu-
rity bureau has apologized
after local media revealed
that a 90-year-old retiree,
Clockwise from top left: A worker hands coffee to a customer at Silent Cake bakery in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, where most of the 22 employees are hearing- and
speech-impaired. A customer communicates in writing with cashier Yan Ning. A chart at the bakery shows how to convey meaning in sign language. Two customers learn sign
language with bakery worker Gu Xiaofeng (right) when she is off work. PHOTOS BY CHEN HUI / NANFANG METROPOLIS DAILY
who no longer lives in the
county, had to be carried to a
third-floor office for his annu-
al social security review.
Wuhan resident Bai Ni com-
plained to the media that she
had to drive her father, now
living with her in the city,
back to Hongan after the
bureau ordered him to return
for the annual review. Bai had
to hire three people to carry
her wheelchair-bound father
to the third-floor office
because there was no lift in
the old building. After the
review, the man had to be car-
ried back to the car.
CHUTIAN METROPOLIS DAILY
Itchy holiday
tattoo regrettable
A tourist is regretting having
his right arm tattooed while
visiting Indonesia during the
May Day holiday. Wang Wei’s
right arm became itchy, red
and swollen after he returned
home to Wuhan, and his skin
started peeling. Doctors diag-
nosed contact dermatitis
caused by the tattoo dye. They
said there might be no scar-
ring on his arm after treat-
ment, but the pigmentation
could not be removed. Wang
said he had been told the hen-
na tattoo would fade auto-
matically in two weeks and
that the dye was natural and
would not cause skin prob-
lems.
WUHAN EVENING NEWS
GUANGDONG
Driver flashes knife
after bad review
A driver surnamed Mai, who
worked for Didi Chuxing, the
ride-hailing service, has been
detained for investigation
after allegedly brandishing a
knife and forcing a passenger
in Zhaoqing to delete a nega-
tive review posted on May 5.
Footage by a passer-by
showed a highly agitated Mai
pull a kitchen knife and
threaten to stab the customer
if he refused to replace the
negative review with a posi-
tive one. Negative reviews
posted by passengers can
hurt a driver’s ability to get
business. A Didi Chuxing
spokesperson said Mai has
been suspended.
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JIANGSU
Teacher accused of
hot water torture
Police are investigating alle-
gations that a kindergarten
student was forced to drink
scalding-hot water as punish-
ment for talking during class
in Yangzhou. The teacher has
been suspended, the school
said. The boy’s mother, sur-
named Li, said her son
returned home from school
reluctant to eat dinner one
day last month, complaining
that his throat hurt. A doctor
found the boy’s throat was
swollen and blistered, making
it difficult to swallow. Li
approached the school to
demand an explanation after
her son said he had been
forced to drink scalding-hot
water after talking with class-
mates during class.
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ZHEJIANG
Surgery secret ends
engagement plans
A woman, surnamed Yun, has
been ordered by a court to
return engagement gifts val-
ued at 150,000 yuan ($23,550)
to her fiance, surnamed Hai,
after he found a scar on her
abdomen and learned she had
removed an ovary without
telling him. Hai retracted his
marriage proposal and filed a
lawsuit, saying Yun’s father
had said his daughter’s scar
was the result of an appen-
dectomy. A court in Huzhou
ruled in favor of Hai after a
public hearing.
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CHINA 7
Grandpa packs a punch
as custodian of culture
He shops in vegetable mar-
kets and takes care of his
grandson in his spare time, but
when Huang Zhenjiang puts
on his kung fu attire, he is
strictly a martial arts master.
Huang, 68, is officially recog-
nized as an inheritor of Cai Li Fo
boxing, a style of martial arts.
He is also head of Hongsheng
Hall, a kung fu club established
in 1851 in Foshan, a city in
Guangdong province known for
its martial arts culture.
Cai Li Fo was created by
Chen Xiang. Legend has it that
Chen, a native of Guangdong,
created the style by combining
Cai and Li styles with a form of
boxing named for the Buddha,
or Fo in Chinese.
The kung fu system is being
heavily promoted by the city
government, with textbooks
on the art distributed to 11 kin-
dergartens in Foshan recently, Master Huang Zhenjiang at the entrance of his kung fu club,
according to the city’s sports Hongsheng Hall, in Foshan, Guangdong province. CAI YANG / XINHUA
bureau.
Huang started learning Cai
Li Fo when he was a teenager. cise routine featuring fans. The “I have taught students from
“My grandpa used to tell me all “fan dance” combines Cai Li Fo Spain, the Czech Republic,
about the heroic stories of the boxing and gymnastics, and Argentina and Chile,” he said.
masters,” he said. “I decided I makes the learning process “Many of them came to Foshan,
wanted to be like them.” “more interesting”, he said, rented houses and found jobs
With the help of his grandfa- adding that “the exercise is teaching English while taking
ther, Huang managed to meet good for their health”. time to learn boxing here.”
some Cai Li Fo masters. He Huang noted that his stu- Huang vividly remembers a
would practice for three hours dents sometimes perform their Spaniard who came to him in
every night. In the 1970s, life dance routines during the 2008 after having practiced Cai
was hard and Huang did not opening ceremonies of Asian Li Fo boxing in Spain for nine
want to waste money on kung kung fu competitions. years. “He said he wanted to
fu shoes. So he practiced bare- In addition to schools, learn the original kung fu here,
foot. Huang also goes to communi- and I was happy to teach him,”
Years of effort transformed ties in Foshan to teach Cai Li Fo he said.
him into a kung fu master. boxing, particularly in Chan- There may be many admir-
Hongsheng Hall reopened in cheng district, where Hong- ers of Cai Li Fo boxing, but
1998 after being closed for dec- sheng Hall is located. Huang teaches only those who
ades, and Huang was asked to The classes usually begin learn the art to strengthen their
teach Cai Li Fo boxing. In 1999, during the summer and winter bodies, rather than those who
he was elected head of the hall, holidays, when eager students want to fight.
and that’s when he saw an from the community flood the “There has been a rule at
opportunity to revive the glory hall to learn from “Master Hongsheng Hall since the
of the traditional martial art. Huang”, who teaches them free. beginning: We never teach Cai
He began to bring Cai Li Fo As the hall is too small to Li Fo boxing to bad people,” he
boxing to students in Foshan, host hundreds of students, said. “Morals are important.”
to pass the style on to young community authorities have When it comes to passing on
locals. turned a local field into a prac- the martial art, Huang said the
“I teach boxing to them on Fri- tice venue for the students. government has taken a variety
day and Saturday nights,” said “They practice one to two of measures in recent years to
Huang, whose sessions last two hours a day,” Huang said. support its development.
hours. “Sometimes we practice Besides his Chinese stu- “Cai Li Fo boxing is our tradi-
at schools, and sometimes they dents, Huang also has some tional culture,” he added. “We
come to classes at the hall.” foreign apprentices who have must try to pass on our culture.”
To make boxing more popu- come to Foshan out of admira-
lar, he has even created an exer- tion for the kung fu master. XINHUA
8 Monday, May 14, 2018
COMMENT
EDITORIALS
Mutual understanding
key to trade talk success
C
hina and the United States have agreed to start
fresh talks in Washington “at an appropriate time”,
which is a positive development to avert an all-out
trade war. Now the two need to think thoroughly
how to achieve more consensus in the talks to push
forward the healthy development of bilateral trade
relations.
The key principle the two sides have to abide by should be
mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual benefits,
which is in the interests of both countries and without which the
talks risk being deadlocked.
The China-US trade differences have been brought to the brink
of a dangerous trade war by Washington’s unilateral actions,
despite China repeatedly expressing its commitment to solving
their disputes through dialogues. But since coercion has not
worked, it has now softened its stance.
The US should draw lessons from its previous dealings with
China. It should bear in mind that the outcomes of dialogue
should be mutually beneficial and China will not accept its inter-
ests being damaged.
China, meanwhile, will continue to take a pragmatic approach
to the talks and is willing to take measures to ensure progress is
made to promote the healthy development of China-US trade
relations, so long as its core interests are not jeopardized and the
US respects the principle of equal-footed consultation in the talks.
China has always taken a constructive approach in opening up
its economy to share with the international community its devel-
opment opportunities. It has recently vowed to open up its multi-
trillion-dollar financial sector, for example, and increase imports
from other countries to contribute to global growth.
At a time when global growth is showing an initial trend of sta-
ble growth, but with its future sustainability remaining question-
able, China’s new opening-up moves will play a vital role in
maintaining global growth and are in stark contrast with the
“America first” approach adopted by Washington.
The Trump administration, ever since its inauguration, has
shown an entrenched trend of protectionism, which has led to a
series of offensive steps that risk ruining the existing global trade
and economic order, triggering widespread concern over the
destructive role of unilateralism.
Having suffered setbacks in dealing with China over trade
issues after it threatened to impose tariffs on Chinese products
worth $150 billion, the US should be aware that it must become
more cooperative and constructive in the trade talks with Chi-
na.
It should cast away its unilateral mentality so that the two
sides can make efforts to find a solution to bilateral trade fric-
tions.
Carrier’s sea trials show
navy ‘stands up in the East’
A
lthough, as the navy said, the trial is only to test the reli-
ability and capacity of its propulsion system, the maid-
en sea trials of China’s first domestically designed
aircraft carrier on Sunday morning stirred the emotions
of many Chinese.
Since its doors were forced open from the outside by Western
navies in the late 19th century, it has been a dream for China to
have a strong navy, so that there will be no repeat of the gunboat
diplomacy and seaborne humiliations of the past.
Although it is not the latest-generation carrier technology,
"Type 001A", as the vessel is currently known, is endogenously
designed and built. Expected to be commissioned by 2020, it
embodies both China’s self-reliance, the industrial and technolog-
ical progress it has made, and the degree to which its naval capa-
bilities have progressed.
As President Xi Jinping said last month when conducting a
review in the South China Sea, notable progress has been made in
modernizing the country’s navy. The new carrier reinforces his
message that the Chinese navy has “stood up in the East” with a
brand new image. However, it still has a long way to go.
But that does not mean, as the sniping of some would have peo-
ple believe, that the carrier is intended as a means with which to
grab overseas interests. Rather, it is a means to prevent China’s
national interests from being encroached upon.
Although the Chinese navy has developed rapidly in both size
and quality over the past five years, the abuse and menace that
are regularly directed the country’s way means it would be remiss
for it not to have the means to urge caution.
Nor should the expanded role the navy is being asked to play be
dismissed. As well as the inshore defense that has been its mis-
sion for decades and the safeguarding of the country’s territorial
integrity, it also has to be able to protect the country’s develop-
ment interests including its trade routes and Chinese citizens
working overseas.
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is taking increas-
ing responsibility for maintaining world peace and protecting the
world economy. This also requires the country to have a strong
navy, which will enable it to do whatever it can to respond to any
humanitarian and rescue emergency.
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OPINION LINE
Better China-Japan ties shot in
the arm for regional cooperation
ALTHOUGH IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Tokyo last week has brought
the estranged relations between China and Japan back onto the right track, Li’s visit, the first by a Chinese
premier in eight years, was of practical importance in helping the two countries begin to rebuild their long
lost mutual trust. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
In his speech marking the 40th anniversary of
the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty, Li
expressed his anticipation that the two countries
will advance their cooperation by taking advan-
tage of the the opportunity presented by the
progress that has been made toward resolving the
Korean Peninsula situation.
The consensus reached at the summit of the
three countries on advancing their economic coop-
eration paves the way to push forward their long-
anticipated trilateral free trade agreement, which
will also give a shot in the arm to efforts to promote
the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner-
ship.
This is a different tune to that being sung by
Washington, which is following a unilateralist
score that has been building to a protectionist cre-
scendo.
The potential of the three Asian neighbor’s coop-
eration and collaboration is huge, and it is this that
Car-hailing firm may be liable in killing
DIDI CHUXING, a car-hailing service company headquartered in Beijing, has suspended its car-hail-
ing operations for a week to conduct thorough rectification after a 21-year-old flight stewardess, was alleg-
edly murdered by the driver of a car she ordered in Zhengzhou, Henan province, last week. Beijing News
comments:
According to reports quoting his neighbors, the
driver of the vehicle hailed by the woman was driv-
ing a car registered under his father’s name on the
Didi Chuxing platform that night, breaching the
company’ rules. The company said the father had
passed the verification process and criminal back-
ground checks required by the company.
Yet despite having a facial recognition system
for its drivers, the company had no idea who was
driving the car until the police found it and made
inquiries, and even though the victim complained
of the driver’s verbal sexual harassment to the cus-
tomer service department of the company before
her death, the company failed to contact the driv-
er, and did nothing to address the woman’s con-
cerns.
The police found that the suspect was not quali-
HOT WORDS
“Shanghai Service” brand
Shanghai has issued a three-year action
plan that includes 13 special campaigns in
such fields as finance and shipping with the
aim of establishing a “Shanghai Service”
brand for the city.
The action plan aims to improve the city’s
capabilities as a hub for the distribution of
global resources as well as its abilities to serve
national strategies such as the development of
EDITORIAL • OPINION
will guarantee the sustainability and vitality of
their cooperation.
That the trade with each other only accounts for
20 percent of their foreign trade, and their capacity
in cooperation on industries, environmental pro-
tection and energy saving, among other things, is
yet to be tapped speaks volumes about the prospec-
tive benefits that could be realized through a trilat-
eral free tade agreeement.
Also, the memorandums of understanding
between China and Japan on strengthening their
service trade and cooperation in third countries,
which is closely related to the Belt and Road Initia-
tive, and their agreements on the building of sea
and air liaison mechanisms and restarting negotia-
tions on a currency swap agreement all indicate the
two neighbors have made the first strides toward
greater economic cooperation.
Now is the time to carry on the momentum and
materialize these consensuses.
fied to drive a hail car, but he had in fact earned his
living in the business for more than two months.
Something the company was unaware of.
Also female passengers have frequently com-
plained about the obscene remarks of male car-
hailing drivers. So the company must know about
the problem. Yet, it has done nothing about it.
The company needs to stem the loopholes in its
mode of operations to prevent any such tragedies
happening again.
But although the driver drowned himself in a riv-
er after the case — his body was found in the river
on Sunday — that still should not put an end to the
case. The woman’s family or the public security
organs have every reason to sue the company and
the culprit’s family for civil compensation, if the
court confirms the driver was the killer.
the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
The plan aims to make “Shanghai Service”
synonymous with being innovative and highly
efficient. The Shanghai authorities hope to
build “Shanghai Service” into a well-known
brand that equals to quality service. To
achieve that goal, Shanghai will enhance its
role as an economic center city, improve its
service economy, and satisfy people’s demand
for high-quality services.
The metropolis has made great progress in
the construction of free trade zone, technolog-
ical innovation, government function trans-
formation as well as regional coordination. It
has promoted reproducible experiences and
system design in terms of green development,
China Daily
chinadaily.com.cn/opinion
Meat scavenging
exposes loopholes
in disposal system
VILLAGERS living near a landfill in
Jinping county, Southwest China’s Yunnan
province, have been collecting and selling
the expired or shoddy meat products that
the authorities have disposed of there. The-
paper.cn commented on Sunday:
It is estimated the villagers recovered
and sold nearly 250 tons of meat products,
ranging from beef to chicken’s feet, until a
post revealing the practice went viral on
social media and the county government
put a stop to it last week.
Once a new load of meat had been
dumped in the landfill, hundreds of local
villagers would rush to the site and start
working around the clock to gather as
much of it as possible.
This reportedly had been going on for
years with most of the meat finding its way
to roadside eateries and countryside food
workshops. And the operation has been
going on openly for several years.
To prevent it from happening again, the
country government is now mixing caustic
soda and cement among the meat products
before dumping them.
But it would not have been difficult for
the government to discover the dirty trade.
Yet it did nothing to stop it.
Even without the scavenging, to bury
hundreds of tons of meat products in one
place without any processing measures
beforehand, not only violates the rules for
the disposing of meat products, it also pos-
es a serious risk to the local ecology and
environment, contaminating the soil and
water.
These expired meat products can be
turned into organic fertilizers and bio-fuel
for power plants.
Now is the time to track down the indus-
trial chain and hold relevant officials,
including those in the food safety and com-
merce administration departments, and
the sellers responsible, as their dereliction
of duties and dirty business have constitut-
ed a huge threat to food safety and public
health.
The case should ring the alarm bells
nationwide for the authorities to strength-
en their supervision of the processing of
refuse, especially in the countryside.
which has contributed to the coordinated
development in this region.
Shanghai has established an all-round, three-
dimensional innovation collaborative system
along with Jiangsu, Zheji-
ang and Anhui provinces,
in order to achieve trans-
regional technological
transformation to improve
the technological resource
distribution in Yangtze
River Delta region. By
2020, Shanghai will build
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Chen Haiming
Tariff barriers will lead nowhere
T
he threat of a full-
fledged trade war
between China and the
US might have receded
thanks to the recent Sino-US
trade talks. But many still fear
China would suffer a bigger blow
if a trade war indeed breaks out
because it relies heavily on the
US to keep its enormous export
operation going.
The facts are different. Despite
China exporting more products
to the US than the US exports to
China, there is no reason why
Washington would emerge win-
ner in a trade war. Since many
US companies could lose access
to the Chinese market and prod-
ucts in the event of a trade war,
US citizens in general would have
to not only pay more for consum-
er products, but also face pay
cuts or lose their jobs.
Worse, since farmers in the
United States would be caught in
the middle of a trade war, as their
agricultural produce exported to
China could be one of the main
retaliation targets for Beijing.
And regardless of Trump’s claim
that trade wars are “good, and
easy to win” — which was imme-
diately criticized by many Ameri-
cans — the US would suffer huge
losses in a trade war. In fact, the
tit-for-tat retaliation would be
beneficial to neither the US nor
China.
Besides, a trade war will have a
damaging effect not only on the
US and China, but also on global
trade and thus the world econo-
my. Tariff barriers will retard
GDP growth for both countries,
which in turn would slow down
the global economy even before it
has fully recovered from the
impact of the global financial cri-
sis.
China’s won’t be the only econ-
omy to be affected by US tariff
barriers, because a wide network
of value chains feed different
materials, components and sub-
components into the global man-
ufacturing and assembly base
that is China. Many other econo-
mies could suffer, as many of the
manufacturing companies oper-
ating in China are registered in
other countries, including in the
US. And with the retaliatory tar-
Alfred Schipke and Longmei Zhang
Good but uncertain times: a time to prepare
O
ur Regional Economic
Outlook suggests a
strong global and
regional growth
momentum. But there are also
clouds on the horizon for which
all need to prepare and now is
the time to do it. China’s reforms
have stabilized the economy and
progress has been made in finan-
cial deleveraging. Key will be to
stay the course.
As we note in our recently
released “Regional Economic
Outlook”, the Asia-Pacific region
remains the main engine of the
global economy, and near-term
prospects have improved since
our report of October 2017. But
there are many risks on the hori-
zon, including a tightening of
global financial conditions, a
shift toward protectionist poli-
cies, and an increase in geopoliti-
cal tensions. In addition, over the
longer run, Asian economies will
face major challenges from aging
population and slowing produc-
tivity growth, as well as the rise
of the digital economy, which
could yield huge benefits but also
bring major disruptions.
Given these uncertainties,
macroeconomic policies in the
region should be conservative
and aimed at building buffers
and raising resilience, while tak-
ing advantage of strong econom-
ic conditions to implement
structural reforms to promote
sustainable and inclusive growth.
Regional growth is expected to
remain strong at 5.6 percent in
2018 and 2019 — up about 0.1
percentage points from our pre-
vious forecast — supported by
strong global demand and favor-
able financial conditions.
As in other regions, inflation in
Asia has largely remained sub-
dued despite the pickup in
growth. We project that inflation
will remain at 1.4 percent on
average in advanced economies
and 3.3 percent on average in
iffs having a ripple effect,
going all the way back to the
suppliers across the world,
many third countries
could also suffer collateral
damage.
Trump’s trade policy is
a reflection of mercantil-
ism. Viewing global
trade as a “zero-sum
game”, it favors protec-
tionism in order to
derive maximum profits,
when the fact is, interna-
tional trade is a win-win
game that benefits all par-
ticipants.
Trump should realize
that the US’ trade deficit
with China is not a result of
China adopting unfair policies.
Instead, it is a result of many fac-
tors, such as different compara-
tive advantages, the US’
restrictions on the export of high-
tech, low savings rate of Ameri-
cans, and the US dollar being a
global currency. So it is unfair to
discriminate against Chinese
products, by accusing China of
practicing unfair policies.
Building tariff barriers as part
of a trade policy is, to some
extent, unilaterally declaring a
war against multilateralism,
and pitting protectionism
against free trade, which is fla-
grant violation of the cardinal
principles of the World Trade
Organization.
The US for long saw it self as
the beacon of non-discrimina-
tion, fair competition, free trade,
openness and rule-based multi-
lateralism. But under Trump’s
leadership, the US seems hell-
bent on violating the very princi-
emerging markets. Among the
larger economies, growth in
Japan has been above potential
for eight consecutive quarters
and is expected to remain strong
this year at 1.2 percent. And in
India, after temporary disrup-
tions caused by the currency
exchange initiative (called
“demonetization” in India) and
the rollout of the new Goods and
Services Tax, growth is expected
to recover to 7.4 percent, making
it once again the region’s fastest
growing economy.
For China, 2018 is projected to
ease growth to 6.6 percent from
6.9 percent last year, as financial,
housing and fiscal tightening
measures take effect and net
exports contribute less. Such a
slowdown is necessary and will
benefit China in the long run, as
it reflects the economy’s transi-
tion from a focus on quantity to
quality of growth. Inflation is
expected to rise from 1.6 percent
in 2017 to 2.5 percent in 2018, but
remain moderate and in line
with the regional trend.
Complex factors
influence outlook
Risks to near-term growth are
balanced, but downside risks
prevail over the medium term.
On the upside, the global recov-
ery could again prove stronger
than expected. The new Compre-
hensive and Progressive Agree-
ment for Trans-Pacific
Partnership and the successful
implementation of the China-
proposed Belt and Road Initia-
tive, assuming debt sustainability
and project quality are main-
tained, could support trade,
investment and growth.
Asia, however, remains vulner-
able to a sudden and sharp tight-
ening in global financial
conditions, while extended peri-
ods of easy financial conditions
could risk a buildup of leverage
ples on which it was established
as a nation. Besides, Trump’s
“America First” policy is against
the rules of the WTO.
Protectionism will cause tangi-
ble losses to the US economy. It
will also cause intangible losses
to its soft power and world lead-
ership. And mercantilism, which
promotes the building of tariff
barriers to global trade, not only
causes damage to the rule of law
in international trade, but also
harms global and regional peace.
The author is director of the Cen-
ter for Global Governance, Xia-
men University of Technology.
In the longer run,
Asia’s growth
prospects could be
heavily affected by
demographics,
slowing productiv-
ity growth, and
the rise of the dig-
ital economy.
Aging populations
are an important
challenge, as
many economies
face the risk of
“growing old
before they grow
rich” ...
and financial vulnerabilities.
More inward-looking policies in
major global economies, as high-
lighted by recent tariff actions
and announcements, could dis-
rupt international trade and
financial markets and have a
substantial impact on Asia,
which has benefited so much
from economic integration.
Finally, geopolitical tensions
could have serious financial and
economic repercussions.
In the longer run, Asia’s
growth prospects could be heavi-
ly affected by demographics,
slowing productivity growth, and
the rise of the digital economy.
Aging populations are an impor-
tant challenge, as many econo-
mies face the risk of “growing old
before they grow rich”, and the
adverse effect of aging on growth
and fiscal positions could be sub-
stantial. A second challenge is
slowing productivity growth.
Besides, the global economy is
becoming increasingly digital-
ized, and while some recent
advances could be truly trans-
formative, they also come with
challenges, including those relat-
ed to the future of work. Asia in
aggregate is embracing the digi-
tal revolution, but the degree
varies significantly across the
region.
Strong forecasts
help build buffers
The current strong economic
outlook provides a valuable
opportunity to focus macroeco-
nomic policies on building buff-
ers, increasing resilience, and
ensuring sustainability. In many
countries in the region, contin-
ued fiscal support is less urgent
given the strong economic per-
formance, and policymakers
should focus on ensuring that
debt remains under control.
Some countries should also focus
on revenue mobilization to cre-
ate space for infrastructure and
social spending and to support
structural reforms.
As for monetary policy, the pol-
icy stance can remain accommo-
dative in much of the region
given that inflation is generally
still muted. Nonetheless, central
banks should be vigilant, since
our analysis suggests that much
of the undershooting of inflation
targets in Asia has been
explained by temporary, global
factors, such as commodity pri-
ces and imported inflation,
which could reverse.
Therefore, tailored measures
are needed to boost productivity
and investment, narrow the gen-
der gap in labor force participa-
MA XUEJING /
CHINA DAILY
tion, deal with the demographic
transition, address climate
change, and support those affect-
ed by shifts in technology and
trade. And to reap the full bene-
fits of the digital revolution, Asia
will need a comprehensive and
integrated policy strategy cover-
ing information and communica-
tions technology, infrastructure,
trade, labor markets and educa-
tion.
In China, reforms in the past
two years have contributed to a
reduction of near-term risks and
stabilized the economy. In partic-
ular, progress has been made in
financial deleveraging, which
should continue. Recently issued
regulation on asset management
products and new liquidity rules
are welcome and should help fur-
ther unwind risks accumulated
in the financial sector; key how-
ever, will be steadfast implemen-
tation.
It will be important to further
slow credit growth and improve
credit allocation efficiency, which
should go hand-in-hand with
State-owned enterprise reforms
and more forceful exit of zombie
companies. Fiscal policy that fos-
ters consumption, while curtail-
ing excessive investment
especially at the local level,
would facilitate rebalancing and
contribute to higher quality of
growth.
And these reforms should be
accompanied by further
strengthening policy frame-
works, for example, giving Peo-
ple’s Bank of China more
operational independence to
implement monetary and
exchange rate policy, and allow-
ing the market to play a more
decisive role.
Alfred Schipke is IMF senior resi-
dent representative for China,
and Longmei Zhang is IMF dep-
uty resident representative for
China.
VIEWS 9
Cai Hong
The author is China Daily Tokyo bureau
chief.
caihong@chinadaily.com.cn
Abe may not be
able to revise
Constitution
next year
O
n May 3, Japan observed the 71st
anniversary of its Constitution
that went into effect in 1947.
Despite strong opposition from
people at home and abroad, Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe is eager to amend the
Constitution that, in his words, was
imposed by the United States on Japan after
the end of World War II.
An opinion poll conducted by Kyodo
News in Japan last month showed 61 per-
cent of the respondents were opposed to
any constitutional revisions while Abe is in
office, compared with 38 percent in favor.
On May 3 last year, Abe gave a call for
specifying the Self-Defense Forces in the
Constitution, arguing that the lack of refer-
ence to Japanese armed forces in the Consti-
tution leaves room for them to be seen as
“unconstitutional”.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has
come up with a proposal on how to amend
the Constitution in line with Abe’s wishes.
Under the LDP’s plan, the first paragraph of
Article 9 which renounces war and the sec-
ond paragraph which prohibits Japan from
possessing any “war potential” would be
retained, but a new clause stating the provi-
sions of the preceding paragraphs do not
preclude the country from taking “necessa-
ry” self-defense measures would be added.
To make the new clause in Article 9 rele-
vant, the Japanese government has defined
the SDF as an organization with strength
“below war potential”. And Abe has claimed
that the proposed revision of Article 9 will
bring “no change” to the role and nature of
the SDF.
Opinion polls show no
clear rise in popular
support for constitu-
tional revision.
The Abe administration has already sub-
stantially eased the constitutional limits on
the “armed forces”. Japan’s Constitution
allows the SDF to act only in self-defense,
but the national security legislation that
took effect in 2015 allows Japan to respond
to attacks on its allies as well. Japan will
now expand its role in United Nations
peacekeeping operations, increase contin-
gency planning with the US, and explore
new areas of defense cooperation with “like-
minded states”.
Still, the Japanese government is consid-
ering arming the SDF with highly aggres-
sive weapons, moving further away from
the country’s defense-only policy. It is mul-
ling modifying its largest helicopter destroy-
er, the Izumo, so that US stealth fighters F-
35B can land on and take off from its flight
deck.
And US defense contractor Lockheed
Martin Corp., according to Reuters, plans to
offer Japan a stealth fighter design based on
its export-banned F-22 Raptor and
advanced F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The
proposed aircraft is said to combine the
F-22 and F-35 and “could be superior to
both of them”.
Japanese lawmakers in favor of a consti-
tutional revision have two-thirds majority
in both houses of parliament, a threshold
for initiating an amendment to the Consti-
tution. However, they may lose this advan-
tage.
The election to the upper house is sched-
uled for the summer of 2019, when half of
its 242 seats will be contested. Currently,
the LDP, Komeito and two small parties
that favor constitutional revision hold the
necessary two-thirds majority in the upper
house.
Since 69 seats held by LDP members will
be up for grabs, it has to win something
close to this number to hold on to the two-
thirds advantage. And wining a number of
seats in the mid-sixties range will be no easy
task for the LDP, which won only 55 in the
most recent upper house election in 2016.
With this in mind, Abe may well push to get
a set of amendments approved by the Diet
before the summer 2019 election.
Abe wants the amendment to be adopted
in 2020. But he may find it difficult to set a
date for a national referendum because of a
series of big events next year, from Emperor
Akihito’s abdication to the G20 Summit and
the Rugby World Cup.
Opinion polls show no clear rise in popu-
lar support for constitutional revision. So
even if a set of amendments is approved by
the Diet, it is not certain they will be ratified
in the referendum.
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New railway opens
new era in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA — Yusuf
Abera still remembers his
trips on Ethiopia’s old rail-
way during its last years in
active service. They were
hardly pleasant journeys, as
trains were slow, noisy and
often disrupted by mechani-
cal glitches.
“It often broke down in the
middle of a trip, and we had
to wait for hours until it was
repaired,” said the 47-year-
old.
It was only in 2018 when
Abera switched back to
trains, this time thanks to the
opening of the Addis Ababa-
Djibouti railway, or Ethiopia-
Djibouti Standard Gauge
Rail, the first transnational
electrified railway in Africa.
Waiting in the spacious,
modernized hall of the Lebu
Station in Addis Ababa, Abe-
ra compared the Chinese-
built new railway with the
almost defunct old rail line
and other travel options like
bus and airplane.
“It (the new railway) is
safe and you don’t have to
worry about accidents or any
other inconveniences,” he
said. “The comfort is almost
similar to airplane service ...
and it is financially more
convenient than flight.”
The 752-kilometer railway
links Ethiopia’s capital Addis
Ababa and the Red Sea
nation of Djibouti. It is one of
the many infrastructure pro-
jects built and funded by
China that have sprung up
on the African continent in
recent years.
Ethiopia’s travelers are
Song star
Israel’s Netta Barzilai receives her award after winning the
Eurovision Song Contest at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal,
on Saturday. The 25-year-old beat 25 other contestants with
her uptempo song Toy. PEDRO NUNES / REUTERS
Time travelers welcome at Hawking’s memorial service
LONDON — The public bal-
lot for tickets to Professor Ste-
phen Hawking’s thanksgiving
service opened on Saturday —
with visitors from the future
welcome to apply.
The theoretical physicist who
captured the imagination of
millions around the world died
on March 14 at the age of 76.
quick to relish the new rail-
way’s comfort and reasona-
ble fees. According to China
Railway Group Limited, one
of its builders and operators,
the line transported 11,600
passengers in April, up from
4,400 in January when it
commenced commercial ser-
vice, suggesting its fast-
growing popularity among
Ethiopians.
Landlocked Ethiopia
relies on the seaports of Dji-
bouti for 95 percent of its
import and export commod-
ities. The railway is expected
to reduce Ethiopia’s import
costs and expand its exports.
The railway is also at the
center of Ethiopia’s industri-
alization drive, as the gov-
ernment hopes to attract
investment to the industrial
parks along the line and
boost their production by
offering more efficient trans-
portation.
Mertneshi Desta, who lives
in Addis Ababa, now takes
the train to visit her husband
working in Djibouti.
Desta is excited about the
new train service, which
charges 2,000 Ethiopian birr
(about $72) for a round trip
to Djibouti. In comparison,
the cheapest round-trip
flight to Djibouti costs about
3,400 birr.
“In the past, I flew to meet
my husband once every
three months. ... Since the
train service started, I’ve tak-
en the train every month to
visit him.”
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His ashes are being interred
on June 15 at London’s West-
minster Abbey, by the graves
of fellow scientific giants Isaac
Newton and Charles Darwin.
The world-renowned cos-
mologist’s three children Rob-
ert, Lucy and Tim are offering
up to 1,000 free tickets to the
public through a ballot sys-
Hollywood stars walk the red carpet in protest at the lack of female filmmakers honored throughout the history of the festival at the
screening of Girls of the Sun during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday in Cannes, southeastern France. AFP
Hollywood stars call for
equal pay at Cannes festival
82 protesters represent top award
contenders by female directors
CANNES, France — Holly-
wood stars including Cate
Blanchett, Kristen Stewart
and Salma Hayek called on
Saturday for equal pay in the
cinema industry and beyond
in a red-carpet protest at the
Cannes film festival.
Eighty-two actresses, film-
makers and producers
marched arm and arm to
demand equality and “a safe
workplace”, seven months aft-
er the world was shaken by
the #MeToo movement.
“We demand that our
workplaces are diverse and
equitable so they can best
reflect the world in which we
live,” said Blanchett in a state-
ment read out with the leg-
endary 89-year-old French
director Agnes Varda.
Blanchett, a double Oscar
winner, said they wanted “a
world that allows all of us in
front and behind the camera
to thrive shoulder to shoulder
with our male colleagues”.
tem, run by the Stephen
Hawking Foundation.
Applicants need to give their
birth date — but eagle-eyed
fans of the man who dedicated
his life’s work to unraveling
the mysteries of the universe
spotted that it can be any day
up to December 31, 2038.
London travel blogger Ian-
With Cannes under fire for
its dearth of women directors,
the world’s top film festival
hoped to fend off some of the
fierce criticism with the march.
The number of protesters
was highly symbolic as it rep-
resented the 82 films by
female directors who have
competed for the top Palme
d’Or prize since 1946 — a
number dwarfed by the near-
ly 1,700 male contenders.
The star-studded group
stopped halfway up the stairs
to the Palais des Festivals to
mark the obstacles they face
in trying to reach the top.
‘Let’s climb’
“The stairs of our industry
must be accessible to all. Let’s
climb,” Blanchett declared,
with some of the rally’s partic-
ipants visibly moved.
The protest was held ahead
of the premiere of French film-
maker Eva Husson’s Girls of
the Sun, which is about a
Visits was among those who
noticed the quirk that allows
people born more than 20
years into the future to apply.
“Professor Hawking once
threw a party for time travel-
ers, to see if any would turn up
if he posted the invite after the
party,” he wrote.
“None did, but it seems per-
Kurdish battalion of women
soldiers. Husson is one of
three female filmmakers out of
the 21 movies in competition
for the Palme d’Or this year.
The other two — Nadine
Labaki’s Capernaum, and
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as
Lazzaro — are to premiere
next week.
The protest comes at the
first Cannes festival since the
cinema industry was engulfed
by the spiraling sex abuse alle-
gations against Weinstein.
In response, the festival set
up an anti-harassment hot-
line this year.
The number has already
received “several calls” since
the festival’s launch on May 9,
said French Equality Minister
Marlene Schiappa.
Cannes “must be a safe
space for women”, she said.
‘Disturbing’ depictions
Blanchett has criticized Can-
nes for once again failing to
invite more female directors.
“There are many women on
the jury but I wish there were
more in competition,” the
fect that the memorial website
allows people born in the
future to attend the service.
“Look out for time travelers
at the abbey.”
Potential applicants — from
the future or otherwise — are
forewarned not to apply if they
cannot arrange their own trans-
port and any necessary visas.
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Australian-born star told
French radio earlier this week.
The 48-year-old
emerged as a key figure in
has
Hollywood’s fight against sex-
ual misconduct.
One of the first women to
call out Weinstein, Blanchett
co-founded the “Time’s Up”
movement to support abuse
victims.
Her comments echo those
of fellow actress Jessica Chas-
tain who served on the jury
last year and lambasted Can-
nes for its “disturbing” depic-
tion of women.
Chastain caused a stir on
Thursday when she revealed
that she planned to make
Hollywood’s first big budget
all-female blockbuster with a
cast including Penelope Cruz
and Lupita Nyong’o.
Only 7 percent of Holly-
wood blockbusters were
directed by women in 2016.
France has the best ratio
among the major film-pro-
ducing countries with 23 per-
cent of films directed by
women.
AFP—AP
The service is set to be
attended by Hawking’s family,
friends and colleagues.
“We are so grateful to West-
minster Abbey for offering us
the privilege of a service of
thanksgiving for the extraor-
dinary life of our father and for
giving him such a distin-
guished final resting place,”
said Lucy Hawking.
Westminster Abbey will also
be open to the public free of
charge after the service so
Queen gives
formal
consent to
wedding
LONDON — Britain’s Queen
Elizabeth has given her formal
consent to the marriage of her
grandson Harry to US actress
Meghan Markle in a historic
document made of vellum that
is decorated with symbols rep-
resenting the lives of the couple.
Reading “Now know ye”, the
handwritten Instrument of
Consent carries the Queen’s
signature, “Elizabeth R”, and is
sealed with the Great Seal of
the Realm, which is attached
to the foot of the document by
woven cords.
Prince Harry, the sixth in
line to the throne, and Markle,
best known for her role in US
TV drama Suits, are due to
marry next Saturday at Wind-
sor Castle, home to kings and
queens for nearly 1,000 years.
“NOW KNOW YE that We
have consented and do by these
Presents signify Our Consent to
the contracting of Matrimony
between Our Most Dearly
Beloved Grandson Prince Hen-
ry Charles Albert David of
Wales, K.C.V.O., and Rachel
Meghan Markle,” it reads.
The 92-year-old queen gave
her blessing for the marriage
in accordance with the 2013
Succession to the Crown Act,
and the elaborately illuminat-
ed document incorporates ref-
erences to the couple who met
in 2016.
The design to the left of the
text incorporates the red drag-
on of Wales along with the UK’s
floral emblems. It also includes
three tiny red escallops from
the Spencer family Arms, the
family of Harry’s mother, the
late Princess Diana.
Representing Markle, the
design to the right of the text
includes the rose, the national
flower of the United States,
while two golden poppies are
the state flower of California,
where Markle was born.
The document, which will
be given to the couple after the
wedding, is drafted by the
Crown Office and illuminated
on vellum, a fine parchment
made from the skin of a calf
that is only used for important
state documents.
REUTERS
people can pay their respects
at his grave.
John Hall, the Dean of West-
minster, said: “The service of
thanksgiving for the life and
work of Stephen Hawking will
celebrate not only his remark-
able achievements as a scien-
tist, but also his character and
endurance through his years
living with a devastating ill-
ness.”
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Demonstrators march in a public sector workers protest, organised by the Trades Union Congress, as part of its ‘A New Deal for Working
People’ campaign, in central London on Saturday. TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS
British workers suffering worst wage
squeeze for 200 years, London rally told
LONDON — Workers in
Britain are suffering the worst
pay squeeze for two centuries,
the head of the Trades Union
Congress told a major rally in
London’s Hyde Park on Satur-
day.
Tens of thousands of work-
ers from across the country set
off from the Embankment
alongside the Thames across
Trafalgar Square, to Piccadilly
Circus, and then to Hyde Park
in the “New Deal for Working
People” rally.
The marchers came from a
wide range of professions and
jobs, including teachers, nurs-
es, office workers, paramedics
and ambulance drivers as well
as civil servants and office
cleaners.
WHO chief takes stock of Ebola crisis
GENEVA — The World
Health Organization warned
on Saturday that stopping the
latest Ebola outbreak in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
will be a serious, tough and
costly challenge.
WHO Director-General Doc-
tor Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey-
esus was scheduled to travel to
DR Congo over the weekend to
take stock of the situation and
direct the continuing response
in support of the national
health authorities.
“WHO staff were in the
team that first identified the
A health worker is sprayed with chlorine after visiting the isolation
ward at Bikoro hospital in DR Congo on Saturday. REUTERS
US diplomat banned from leaving Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani
authorities have barred a US
diplomat involved in a fatal
traffic accident from leaving
the country, forcing a military
aircraft flown in for his
departure to leave without
him, local media reported on
Saturday.
The move came a day after
Pakistan said it would restrict
the movements of all United
States diplomats in the coun-
try in response to Washing-
ton’s similar restrictions on
Pakistani embassy staff.
A spokesman for the US
embassy in Islamabad
declined to comment on either
development in the uneasy
alliance with Pakistan.
At Hyde Park they were
addressed by Frances O’Grady,
general secretary of the TUC,
who told them British workers
are suffering the longest
squeeze on real wages in mod-
ern history.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of
Britain’s main opposition
Labour Party, told the rally
that his party would create a
government ministry to guar-
antee worker’s rights.
“This demonstration today
is about workers rights, it is
about collective endeavor, but
above all, it’s a declaration
that we’re around to campaign
as long as it takes, to bring
about that social justice and
that decency in society,” said
Corbyn, who also criticized
outbreak. I myself am on my
way to the DRC to assess the
needs first-hand,” said Doctor
Ghebreyesus.
“I’m in contact in the minis-
ter of health and have assured
him that we’re ready to do all
that’s needed to stop the
spread of Ebola quickly. We
are working with our partners
to send more staff, equipment
and supplies to the area.”
An outbreak of Ebola in Bik-
oro health zone, Equateur
Province, was declared four
days ago. The location is 250
kilometers from Mbandaka,
The country is a crucial link
to supplying US troops fight-
ing the Taliban in neighboring
Afghanistan. But Washington
has long claimed it actually
shelters the Taliban’s leaders,
and President Donald Trump
has cut off military aid in an
effort to pressure Pakistan,
which vehemently denies the
accusation.
The latest blow to relations
came on Saturday, when Paki-
stani authorities banned a US
military attache from leaving
as planned, Pakistan’s The
Nation and Express Tribune
newspapers reported.
A day earlier, an Islamabad
court had ruled his diplomatic
immunity may not apply in
Theresa May’s Conservative
government over a lack of
wage growth and cuts in
spending on public services.
New research by the TUC
said that 10 years on from
the financial crisis real wages
are still worth $33 a week
less than in 2008, and wages
are not forecast to return to
their pre-crash level until
2025.
O’Grady told the rally: “UK
workers are suffering the
worst pay squeeze for two cen-
turies. It’s taking wages longer
to recover from this crash than
from the Great Depression
and World War II.
“This means families are
struggling to get by. Millions of
kids are growing up in poverty
capital of Equateur Province
in an area of the country that
is that is very hard to reach.
As of Friday, 34 Ebola cases
had been reported in the area
in the past five weeks, includ-
ing two confirmed, 18 proba-
ble (deceased) and 14
suspected cases. Five samples
were collected from five
patients and two have been
confirmed by the laboratory.
“This is the country’s ninth
Ebola outbreak and there is
considerable expertise
in-country,” said Doctor Mat-
shidiso Moeti, WHO regional
director for Africa. “However,
any country facing such a
threat may require interna-
tional assistance.”
The current response plan
to the outbreak includes sur-
veillance, case investigation,
and contact tracing; commu-
nity engagement and social
mobilization; case manage-
ment and infection preven-
tion and control; safe and
dignified burials; research
response including the use of
ring vaccination and antivi-
rals; and coordination and
operations support.
“It is too early to judge the
extent of this outbreak,” said
the April 7 traffic accident in
which the US attache’s vehicle
hit a motorcycle, killing the
22-year-old driver, both
papers reported.
As a result, a US Air Force
C-130 flown in to Pakistan’s
Nur Khan air base outside
Islamabad was forced to leave
without him on Friday, Geo TV
and the two newspapers
reported.
Separately, Pakistan’s For-
eign Ministry said it would
apply travel restrictions to all
US diplomatic staff similar to
those applied by Washington,
according to a notification
sent to the US embassy.
The new US rules require
diplomats to obtain permis-
despite having parents in
work.
“That’s why tens of thou-
sands are marching today for a
new deal for working people.
We need great jobs in every
region and nation of the UK,
and higher wages for all work-
ers, not just the bosses.”
A TUC spokesperson added:
“Not since the beginning of the
18th century, has it taken so
long for real wages to recover
from a slump.”
The TUC estimates that as a
result of pay not keeping pace
with the cost of living, by 2025
the average worker will have
lost out on around $25,000 in
real earnings.
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Doctor Peter Salama, WHO
deputy director-general for
Emergency Preparedness and
Response.
“However, early signs
including the infection of
three health workers, the geo-
graphical extent of the out-
break, the proximity to
transport routes and popula-
tion centers, and the number
of suspected cases indicate
that stopping this outbreak
will be a serious challenge.
This will be tough and it will
be costly. We need to be pre-
pared for all scenarios.”
For now the WHO has listed
the risks to surrounding coun-
tries as moderate, and has
already alerted those coun-
tries and is working with them
on border surveillance and
preparedness for potential
outbreaks.
The WHO, however, does
not at this time advise any
restrictions on travel and
trade to DR Congo.
The Ebola epidemic hit Afri-
ca between late 2013 and 2016,
causing more than 11,000
deaths in nearly 30,000 cases,
according to UN statistics.
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sion to travel more than 40
kilometers from their stations,
the Dawn newspaper report-
ed.
A spokeswoman for the US
State Department on Saturday
confirmed the new restric-
tions on its employees in Paki-
stan but declined to comment
further.
US-Pakistani relations have
deteriorated significantly
since the beginning of the
year, when Trump abruptly
announced in a tweet a cutoff
of military aid to Pakistan,
which he said had treated the
US with “nothing but lies and
deceit” for 15 years.
REUTERS
Polls close in first
post-IS election
Record low
turnout but
Iraqis hope for
‘better lives’
BAGHDAD — Millions of
Iraqis headed to polling sta-
tions across the country on
Saturday to vote for the next
parliament, with hopes that
the election can make a dif-
ference to their lives after
unrelenting chaos, violence
and poor governance since
the US-led invasion in 2003.
Although the election saw
a record low turnout of just
over 44 percent of the eligible
24 million voters, those who
did cast their ballot hoped
the new parliament would
bring peace and an end to
what they perceive as govern-
ment corruption.
Kamil Khudir, who cast his
vote in the Salhiyah neigh-
borhood in downtown Bagh-
dad, said: “I hope the vote
will bring better lives for our
people. Young people are job-
less and we need public servi-
ces. We need everything.”
Om Ghassan, an elderly
disabled woman, headed to a
polling center in Mansour
neighborhood in western
Baghdad with the help of her
daughter.
“I want peace for my
grandsons. I want to hold
those who have squandered
the wealth of the country
accountable,” Ghassan said.
“We had enough oppres-
sion and violence. We have to
do something, at least by
choosing the right people,
because we need a profes-
An woman prepares to cast her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on Saturday. ARI JALAL / REUTERS
Turkey to receive F-35 fighters
despite objection from senators
ANKARA — Turkey is set to
receive its first F-35 aircraft,
the world’s most advanced
fighter jet, despite an initia-
tive launched by United
States senators to block the
delivery amid faltering rela-
tions between the countries.
Defense sources close to
the project said that the first
F-35 will be delivered to the
Turkish Air Force on June 21
in the US, where a ceremony
will take place.
“This plane will be
deployed at Eglin air base in
Florida for a year, where
Turkish pilots will get train-
ing,” said Ozgur Eksi, a senior
analyst with the Istanbul-
based C4 defense magazine.
Further batches are expect-
ed to be delivered gradually
until 2022.
The F-35 is being devel-
oped and built by US defense
contractor Lockheed Martin
for the US, Britain, Australia,
Italy, Norway, Turkey, the
Netherlands, Denmark and
Canada in a project worth
about $400 billion, making it
the world’s most expensive
weapons program.
A total of 3,000 F-35 jets
are to go into service around
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We had enough
oppression and
violence. We have
to do something,
at least by choos-
ing the right
people.”
Om Ghassan, retired teacher
sional leadership that could
end our suffering.”
The retired teacher attrib-
uted her voting enthusiasm
to the diminished sectarian-
ism in the country.
“The sound of sectarian-
ism was clear (in 2014), but in
this election sectarianism is
much less, and security situa-
tion has much improved aft-
er the defeat of the Islamic
State group,” Ghassan said.
Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi — who took office as
IS rampaged across Iraq in
2014 — is angling for a new
term, claiming credit for
defeating the jihadists and
seeing off a Kurdish push for
independence.
But competition from
within his Shiite community,
the majority group dominat-
ing Iraqi politics, will likely
splinter the vote and spell
lengthy horse-trading to
form any government.
His chief rivals were
former prime minister Nouri
al-Maliki and Hadi al-Amiri,
who heads the powerful,
$400b
Estimated value of Lockheed
Martin’s F-35 fighter jet
project
the world in coming years.
Two Turkish Air Force
pilots will receive special
training in the US, Anadolu
Agency reported citing
defense sources.
After the training is com-
pleted and another warplane
is delivered, the F-35s are
scheduled to be brought to
Turkey in September 2019.
The trained pilots will fly the
two jets accompanied by a
refueling plane.
However, a number of US
congressmen have urged the
White House to suspend the
procurement because of Tur-
key’s decision to buy Russian
S-400 advanced air defense
systems.
“If they take such a step at a
moment when we are trying
to mend our bilateral ties,
they will definitely get a
response from Turkey,” Turk-
Iran-backed Badr Organiza-
tion, which participated in
the war on IS. Abadi was also
opposed by the influential
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a
staunch nationalist who has
railed against US and Iranian
influence in Iraqi politics.
“Iraq is strong and unified
after defeating terror,” Abadi
said after voting.
Iraq’s election commission
expects the results within 48
hours.
For most Iraqis, fighting
widespread corruption and
comprehensive reforms are
essential to building an
accountable government and
forging a strong country.
Many, however, admit that
it will take time and patience
for the democratic process to
achieve its goals.
“With the democratic
change in the country, we
reject the presence of corrupt
people, and we have come to
vote for hope that change can
come true,” Hameed al-Mo-
sawi, a journalist, said after
he and six of his family mem-
bers cast their votes.
There are 329 parliament
seats at stake, with nearly
7,000 candidates from doz-
ens of political alliances.
Iraq’s constitution allows
lawmakers more than three
months after the ratification
of the election results to form
a government. But many
expect the process to drag on
for much longer if there is no
clear winner, as dozens of
political parties attempt to
cobble together a political
bloc large enough to hold a
majority of seats in parlia-
ment.
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ish Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu told private
broadcaster CNN Turk in an
interview last week.
The dispute further strains
ties between the allies, which
have soured dramatically
over rival stances on the war
in Syria and Washington’s
refusal to extradite cleric Fet-
hullah Gulen to Turkey over
his alleged role of master-
minding the failed coup in
2016.
Experts believe that block-
ing delivery of the F-35s will
eventually cause the collapse
of the whole project because
important parts of the air-
craft such as the central fuse-
lage are manufactured in
Turkey.
“The US will shoot itself in
the foot, it would definitely
harm the entire project,” said
Ozgur Eksi.
Observers have argued that
if the US administration
imposes military sanctions
on Turkey, it would enhance
the country’s already exten-
sive cooperation with Russia
and push Ankara toward
Moscow’s sphere of influence.
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13 dead in
Indonesian
bombings
Attackers from family of six that
included two young children
SURABAYA, Indonesia —
Suicide bombers who car-
ried out deadly attacks on
three churches in Indone-
sia’s second-largest city on
Sunday were a family of six
that included two young
children, police said, as the
world’s most populous Mus-
lim nation recoiled in horror
at one of the worst attacks on
its Christian minority.
At least 13 people, includ-
ing all six family members,
died in the attacks in Suraba-
ya and at least 41 were
injured, according to police,
in acts that Indonesia’s
president condemned as
“barbaric”.
The bombings were the
worst to target churches in
Indonesia since a series of
attacks on Christmas Eve in
2000 killed 15 people and
wounded nearly 100. Reli-
gious minorities in Indone-
sia, especially Christians,
have been repeatedly target-
ed by militants.
National police chief Tito
Karnavian said that the
father exploded a car bomb,
two sons aged 18 and 16 used
a motorcycle for their attack,
and the mother was with
daughters aged 12 and 9 for
her attack.
Karnavian said the family
had returned to Indonesia
from Syria, where until
recently the Islamic State
group controlled significant
territory.
The extremist group
claimed responsibility for
Sunday’s attacks.
The first attack struck the
Santa Maria Roman Catholic
Church in Surabaya, police
Police are seen outside the Immaculate Santa Maria Catholic
Church following a blast, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on
Sunday. REUTERS
Briefly
SIERRA LEONE
Envoy attends
inauguration
Chinese President Xi Jin-
ping’s special envoy Wang
Zhigang attended the inau-
guration ceremony of Sierra
Leonean President Julius
Maada Bio on Saturday.
Wang, also minister of sci-
ence and technology, went
to Sierra Leone’s capital city
of Freetown at the invitation
of Bio, said Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesperson
Geng Shuang.
UNITED KINGDOM
‘Olympic Games’
minister dies at 70
Tessa Jowell, a former British
government minister who
was instrumental in bringing
the Olympic Games to Lon-
don in 2012, died on Saturday
after a brain haemorrhage,
her family said. Jowell, who
spokesman Frans Barung
Mangera told reporters at
the scene. That blast was fol-
lowed by a second explosion
minutes later at the Chris-
tian Church of Diponegoro
and a third at the city’s Pan-
tekosta Church, Mangera
said.
A witness described the
woman’s attack at the Dipon-
egoro church, saying she was
carrying two bags when she
arrived.
“At first officers blocked
them in front of the church-
yard, but the woman ignored
them and forced her way
inside. Suddenly she hugged
a civilian then (the bomb)
exploded,” said the witness, a
security guard who identi-
fied himself as Antonius.
Mangera said three unex-
ploded homemade bombs,
two at the Pantekosta church
and one at the Diponegoro
church, were detonated by a
bomb squad.
Meanwhile, police killed
four terror suspects in West
Java province’s Cianjur
regency early on Sunday,
saying they had planned to
undertake attacks in capital
Jakarta and Bandung.
The suspects were killed
in a gunfight with officers in
a Cianjur bus terminal. It
was unclear if the shootout
was related to the church
attacks.
“Police confiscated fire
arms, bullets, bows and
arrows,” Indonesian police
headquarters Spokesperson
Setyo Wasisto told a news
conference.
AP—XINHUA
was 70, was diagnosed with
brain cancer in May last year.
Prime Minister Theresa May
said: “The dignity and cour-
age with which Dame Tessa
Jowell confronted her illness
was humbling and inspira-
tional.”
POLAND
Two more missing
miners found dead
Rescuers searching for three
Polish miners trapped
almost a kilometer under-
ground since a tunnel col-
lapsed eight days ago have
found two bodies, taking the
death toll from the incident
to four, coal company JSW
said on Sunday. One man is
still missing at the Zofiowka
mine in southern Poland,
which was struck by an
earthquake on May 5, ini-
tially trapping seven miners.
XINHUA—REUTERS—AP
Color photo
A man takes a photograph of himself and his child at the ’Color Run’, a 5-kilometer race attracting more than 3,000 participants in Toronto, Canada,
on Saturday. XINHUA
Paris stabbings claimed by IS
PARIS — A knife-wielding
assailant killed a 29-year-old
man and injured four others
in a lively neighborhood near
Paris’ famed Opera Garnier
before he was killed by police
on Saturday night. The Islamic
State group claimed the
attacker as one of its “soldiers”.
Counterterrorism authori-
ties took charge of the investi-
gation, and President
Emmanuel Macron vowed
that France would not bow to
extremists despite being the
target of multiple deadly
attacks in recent years.
Paris police officers evacuat-
ed people from some build-
ings in the Right Bank
neighborhood after the attack,
which happened on rue Mon-
signy at about 9 pm. Bar pat-
rons and opera-goers
described surprise and confu-
Mahathir bars predecessor from emigrating
KUALA LUMPUR — Malay-
sia’s new leader Mahathir
Mohamad said he barred his
predecessor and his wife from
leaving the country to prevent
them from fleeing from possi-
ble prosecution over a mas-
sive corruption scandal.
A leaked flight manifesto
showed that Najib Razak and
his wife Rosmah Mansor were
planning to leave on a private
jet on Saturday to Indonesia’s
capital, Jakarta, fueling
rumors that he was bolting
the country days after a
shocking electoral defeat that
ended his coalition’s 60-year
grip on power.
“There are a lot of com-
plaints against him, all of
which have to be investigat-
ed,” Mahathir told a news con-
ference.
“We have to act quickly
because we don’t want to be
saddled with extradition from
other countries.”
Mahathir said the investi-
gations would take some time
because investigators need to
contact authorities in other
countries and gather evi-
dence. He has said Najib will
“face the consequences” if any
wrongdoing is found.
Najib said on social media
that he was planning to take a
short vacation to spend time
with his family. The Immigra-
tion Department, which ini-
tially said there was no travel
ban, later issued a statement
that the former prime minis-
ter and his wife were black-
sion in the immediate area.
Beyond the police cordon,
however, crowds still filled
nearby cafes and the city’s
night life resumed its normal
pace soon after the attack.
The unidentified attacker
targeted five people and then
fled, according to Paris police
and a witness. A 29-year-old
man was killed, and four oth-
ers were injured. When police
officers arrived minutes later,
he threatened them and was
shot to death, according to
police union official Yvan Assi-
oma.
Authorities are working to
identify the assailant and any-
one who might have helped
him, Interior Minister Gerard
Collomb told reporters.
Prosecutor Francois Molins
said counterterrorism author-
ities are leading the investiga-
Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia, speaks at a news
conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. SHEN JIZHONG / XINHUA
listed from leaving Malaysia.
Mahathir confirmed that
he prevented Najib from
departing. He said there was
sufficient evidence to investi-
gate Najib over the corruption
scandal involving the 1MDB
state fund that’s being investi-
gated in the United States and
other countries. US investiga-
tors say Najib’s associates
stole and laundered $4.5 bil-
lion from the fund, with some
$700 million landing in
Najib’s bank account and
around $30 million used to
buy jewelry for his wife. Najib
has denied any wrongdoing.
Najib responded swiftly,
saying he respects the Immi-
gration Department’s ruling
and will remain in the coun-
try with his family. He also
said he was committed to
“facilitating a smooth transfer
of power”.
Later on Saturday, Najib
tion on potential charges of
murder and attempted mur-
der in connection with terror-
ist motives.
“At this stage, based on the
one hand on the account of
witnesses who said the attack-
er cried ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is
great in Arabic) while attack-
ing passersby with a knife, and
given the modus operandi, we
have turned this over to the
counterterrorist section of the
Paris prosecutor’s office,”
Molins told reporters from the
scene.
The Islamic State group
claimed that the assailant car-
ried out the attack in response
to the group’s calls for sup-
porters to target members of
the US-led military coalition
squeezing the extremists out
of Iraq and Syria.
France’s military has been
told a news conference that
he was stepping down as pres-
ident of the United Malays
National Organization and as
chairman of the National
Front coalition to take
responsibility for Wednes-
day’s election debacle.
The announcement came
after strong calls emerged
from the UMNO, the linchpin
of the coalition, for Najib to
resign.
active in the coalition since
2014, and Islamic State adher-
ents have killed more than 200
people in France in recent
years, including the 130 who
died in the coordinated
November 2015 attacks in Par-
is.
“All my thoughts are with
the victims and the wounded
of the knife attack perpetrated
this evening in Paris, as well as
their relatives. On behalf of all
the French, I salute the cour-
age of the police officers who
neutralized the terrorist,”
French President Emmanuel
Macron tweeted on Saturday
night.
“France pays once again the
price of blood but does not
give an inch to the enemies of
freedom.”
AP—XINHUA
Malaysian police rejected
reports claiming that an
apartment unit owned by a
relative of Najib was raided in
an operation to protect evi-
dence.
Kuala Lumpur police chief
Mazlan Lazim told local
media that the police have not
conducted any raids as
claimed by several media
organizations.
“We are in the midst of
checking the veracity of some
of these reports and are gath-
ering information according-
ly. The so-called raid at
Pavilion Residences tonight
(Saturday) is not true,” he was
quoted as saying.
It was earlier reported that
police and plainclothes law-
enforcement officers raided
an apartment in Kuala Lump-
ur on Saturday to search for
sensitive documents that the
newly elected government
fears may be taken out of the
country.
AP—XINHUA
DPRK
details
nuclear
site plan
SEOUL/WASHINGTON
— The Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea has
scheduled the dismantle-
ment of its nuclear bomb
test site for between May 23
and 25 in order to uphold its
pledge to discontinue nucle-
ar tests, DPRK media
reported on Saturday a
month ahead of a historic
summit.
The DPRK’s Korean Cen-
tral News Agency said dis-
mantlement of the
Punggye-ri nuclear test
ground would involve col-
lapsing all of its tunnels
with explosions, blocking its
entrances, and removing all
observation facilities,
research buildings and
security posts.
“The Nuclear Weapon
Institute and other con-
cerned institutions are tak-
ing technical measures for
dismantling the northern
nuclear test ground ... in
order to ensure transparen-
cy of discontinuance of the
nuclear test,” KCNA said.
“A ceremony for dismant-
ling the nuclear test ground
is now scheduled between
May 23 and 25,” depending
on weather, the DPRK For-
eign Ministry said, adding
that journalists from the
United States, the Republic
of Korea, China, Russia and
the United Kingdom will be
invited to witness the dis-
mantling.
KCNA said journalists
would be invited to cover
the event, to “show in a
transparent manner the dis-
mantlement of the northern
nuclear test ground to be
carried out”. The exact date
of the closure will depend
on weather conditions, the
agency said.
The ministry said the
DPRK will continue to “pro-
mote close contacts and dia-
logue with the neighboring
countries and the interna-
tional society so as to safe-
guard peace and stability on
the Korean Peninsula and
over the globe”.
US President Donald
Trump and DPRK leader
Kim Jong-un will hold talks
in Singapore on June 12, the
first-ever meeting between
a sitting US president and a
DPRK leader.
Trump’s Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said on Friday
that the DPRK can look for-
ward to “a future brimming
with peace and prosperity”
if it agrees to quickly give up
its nuclear weapons.
Trump welcomed the
DPRK’s announcement.
“Thank you, a very smart
and gracious gesture!” he
said in a post on Twitter.
The ROK’s presidential
office echoed the sentiment
on Sunday, saying it shows
Pyongyang’s willingness to
denuclearize through
actions beyond words.
Kim Eui-kyeom, spokes-
man for ROK President
Moon Jae-in, said it was an
expression of the DPRK’s
willingness to keep to the
promise that Pyongyang
made during the inter-Kore-
an summit on April 27.
REUTERS—XINHUA—AP
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RETURN OF STABILITY
Talking Business

Decades pass, yet

Residential property gathers speed in lower-tier cities even as metros withstand curbs, higher prices
By WANG YING in Shanghai
wangying@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s lower-tier cities are
stealing the residential proper-
ty market thunder from bigger
places as home prices continue
to rise, thanks to fewer restric-
tions on purchases there.
But realty industry experts
said first-tier cities, which
have seen curbs to prevent
overheating amid speculative
investments, will stay resilient
and stable in the longer term.
Contracts were struck
online for some 360 apart-
ments in first-tier cities during
the first two days of the May
Day holiday. The figure more
than halved year-on-year,
according to data from prop-
erty consultancy Centaline.
Yet, the housing market in
major cities saw steady per-
formance in March and April.
But the transaction volume
has not returned to peak days
seen before policy-tightening
late last year, said Zhang
Dawei, chief analyst at Cental-
ine Property Agency Ltd.
According to data from the
National Bureau of Statistics,
prices of new homes in top-tier
cities edged down 0.6 percent
year-on-year in March; while
in the secondary market, resi-
dential property prices slid 0.1
percent from a year ago, the
first such drop in recent years.
Liu Jianwei, a senior statisti-
cian at the NBS, attributed the
return of stability in the residen-
tial property market to meas-
ures by local governments as
well as the continuity in the pro-
vincial-level housing policies.
The macro-level policies
that took effect in the past year
have been effective, and home
prices in first-tier cities will be
stable throughout this year,
said Zhou Jing, head of project
sales, JLL Shanghai, an inter-
national real estate consultan-
cy.
“First-tier cities were some
of the earliest to implement
(market-)cooling measures
and continue to have some of
the toughest restrictions,
while also having some of the
highest prices,” said James
Macdonald, senior director of
Savills China research, anoth-
er international real estate
consultancy.
A report from the Shanghai
University of Finance and Eco-
nomics or SUFE had a similar
conclusion, suggesting both
new homes and pre-owned res-
idential properties are showing
a downward trend, the China
Youth Daily reported.
By analyzing NBS data on
China’s major 70 cities
real(i)ty bites hard
By WANG YING in Shanghai
7.4 percent
wangying@chinadaily.com.cn
About a decade ago, a TV
series called Woju (meaning compound annual
a narrow dwelling, like that growth rate of Shang-
of a snail) became a huge hit hai’s immigrants from
among Chinese audiences. 2000 to 2017
The series depicted how
hard it is for young people
working and living in big cit-
ies to buy an apartment in house to lease it to more ten-
such places. ants.
The series’ popularity can “The development of
be attributed to many rea- long-term rental housing is
sons. One of the most impor- supported by such factors.
tant reasons was that most The population inflow into
of the houses were indeed big cities in East China is
unaffordable for young peo- boosted by the expansion of
ple. So, the series struck a service industries and
chord. robust leasing demand.
Aspects like having to save Such demand is caused by
every yuan possible toward the unaffordability of home
making the down payment purchases in first- and sec-
for a house first, followed by ond-tier cities.
allocation of a major part of “Another reason is prefer-
income for monthly mort- ential policies by the central
gage payments, reflected the government. There are now
reality of the day. principles like same rights
In order to repay housing for home leasing and pur-
loans, people became risk- chases, and that homes are
averse and couldn’t muster for living in, not speculative
courage to change jobs. They investments,” said Chen
sacrificed their life quality to Tiedong, director of Colliers’
save more. They were nick- East China research divi-
named house slaves who sion.
abandoned their dreams. As at the end of 2017,
I wonder sometimes if the Shanghai’s permanent pop-
situation now is any differ- ulation of immigrants from
ent. elsewhere in China reached
The key reason for decid- 9.73 million, having grown
ing to buy an apartment is to at a compound annual
overcome factors like unpre- growth rate of 7.4 percent
dictability and uncertainty from 2.87 million in 2000,
that shroud home rentals. according to Colliers
An acquaintance was once research.
Home sweet (and pricy) home forced out of a rented flat in
the middle of the night. She
During the period 2000-
17, the annual net popula-
M-o-m change in prices of new homes in first-tier cities over an eight-month period was sharing the flat with two tion inflow was about
other girls. As it turned out, 400,000. The large size of
Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shenzhen she was ejected by the land- the immigrant population
100 100 99.3 99.6 100.3 99.8 100 100 99.9 99.8 100.2 100.3 99.7 99.8 100.2 99.6 99.6 100 100.1 100.2 100.2 99.9 lord who illegally changed
99.8 99.9 99.5 100 99.8 99.9 99.7 99.8 99.6 99.4
the internal structure of the See RENTAL page 14
Aug-17 Sep-17 Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17 Jan-18 Feb-18 Mar-18
Y-o-y change in prices of new homes in first-tier cities over an eight-month period
113.3
Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shenzhen
109.4
107.7 106.6
105.5
105.6 103.7 103.1
103.2 100.5 100 100.8
99.8 99.7 99.7 98.8 98.8 99.7
99.7
98 99.9 99.7 99.8 96.6 99.4 99.4
96.2 96.8
96.7 97 97.5 97.7
Prospective homebuyers look at a model of a residential
Aug-17 Sep-17 Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17 Jan-18 Feb-18 Mar-18 project of Country Garden in Yichang, Hubei province, on Nov
19, 2017, YUAN TIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
M-o-m change in prices of pre-owned homes in first-tier cities over an eight-month period
99.8 100 99.8 100.2 99.9 100.3 99.7 100.4 100.1 100.1
Beijing

100.4
Shanghai

100.1 99.9
100.9
Guangzhou

100.2 101.3
Shenzhen

99.8 99.4 100.2

100.7
Market turns fluid
between the second half of 99.4 99.9 99.5 99.5 99.7 99.6 99.9 99.6 99.4 99.5 99.6
2017 and February this year,
the SUFE report found that
these cities’ new home prices’
99.1

amid big churn

growth rate declined signifi-
cantly from the first half of
2017, and most of the growth
was contributed by second-
and third-tier cities.
Sales revenue growth of
new homes in first-tier cities
also slumped from nearly 20
percent in the first quarter of
2017 to a decline of 1 percent in
the first quarter of this year.
According to Macdonald,
factors like tough restrictions
on home purchases and high
home prices will continue to
weigh upon these markets.
“Weak volumes and softer
pricing does not necessarily
represent a lack of demand
but an inability to convert that
demand into a sales transac-
tion. Markets remain general-
ly stable and the future
direction will be largely deter-
mined by changes to existing
policy frameworks as well as
monetary policy,” he said.
Prices and transaction vol-
umes of pre-owned homes in
both Beijing and Shanghai
declined. In the capital, an
Aug-17
Y-o-y change in prices of pre-owned homes in first-tier cities over an eight-month period
118.3
107.8
103.4
100.9
Aug-17
Source: Shanghai Lianjia
average home transaction
took 30-odd days in April 2017
but extended to nearly 80 days
in February, with homes trad-
ed at a lower price level than
that of January 2017.
In Shanghai, 492,900
square meters of newly built
homes were traded in March
this year, up 143 percent from
February, the month of week-
long Spring Festival, but
dropped 31 percent from a
Sep-17 Oct-17
114.7
112.5
101.4 100.1
99.9 99.9
99 99.8
Sep-17 Oct-17 Nov-17
year ago, according to Chinese
residential property agency
Shanghai Lianjia.
Although the transaction
volume in Shanghai’s new
home market was approach-
ing a six-month high, this is
still the lowest transaction vol-
ume for March since 2012,
Shanghai Lianjia said.
“We project new home trad-
ing in Shanghai in 2018 will
outperform the previous year,
By WANG YING in Shanghai growth in contracted sales
wangying@chinadaily.com.cn by reaching 550.8 billion
yuan, followed by China
Nov-17 Dec-17 Jan-18 Feb-18 Mar-18 The financial perform- Vanke’s 529.88 billion yuan
ance of Chinese property and Evergrande’s 500.96 bil-
developers has been under- lion yuan.
going massive changes since In addition to their glitter-
Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shenzhen
last year. ing performance, these mar-
111.7
109.8 Small firms either closed ket leaders also have
107.6
105.5 105 or merged with bigger play- substantial amount of land
101 101.5 102.6 ers as the industry consoli- reserves for securing their
104.7 102.4
99.9 100.3 100.8 98.9
dated or rationalized due to future development.
100.2
99.1 98.4
constant policy changes. Country Garden holds
96.9 95.4 93.2
Also, land supply 280 million square meters of
Dec-17 Jan-18 Feb-18 Mar-18 decreased. Solid growth land as well as about 140
became difficult for develop- million sq m of land in the
CHINA DAILY
ers because the market contract pipeline.
shifted its focus from build- Vanke’s carry-over pro-
and the increase in new supply cies on home-buying, loan ing and selling houses to jects’ sales revenue totaled
is the main driver,” said Zhou requirements, and the developing and leasing 414.32 billion yuan as at the
Jing, head of project sales, JLL increase in land supply since existing projects, experts end of 2017, a year-on-year
Shanghai. the second quarter of last year, said. growth of almost 49 percent.
Zhou said demand contained said the SUFE report. Chinese real estate giants Evergrande’s total floor
in 2017 will be released some- Despite a 142-percent such as Country Garden, area in reserve has reached
what as there are quite a few month-on-month increase in Evergrande Group and Chi- 312 million square meters by
new residential projects that sales volume of pre-owned na Vanke all saw their sales the end of last year, and its
will likely boost supply this year. apartments in March to 17,370 revenue exceed 500 billion land reserve value has
The cooling of first-tier cit- units, the figure remains the yuan ($78.87 billion) for the already nearly doubled to
ies’ home market was attribut- lowest in six years for March, first time in 2017. 1.04 trillion yuan from the
ed to a string of factors, Country Garden reported
including the tightening poli- See BARGAIN page 14 a 78-percent year-on-year See EXPANSION page 14
14 BUSINESS
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Powering up the world with solar
Znshine adds India to its growing
pan-planet photovoltaic footprint
By ZHENG XIN
zhengxin@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese solar photovoltaic
or PV panel manufacturer
Znshine Solar has nailed a
300-megawatt module supply
agreement with India renew-
able energy developer ACME
Cleantech Solutions Private
Limited, responding to grow-
ing market demand in India.
This is another bilateral
agreement reached since the
last year’s cooperation
between Znshine Solar and
several well-known Indian
companies, said Li Qian, pres-
ident of sales and marketing
of the company.
Znshine Solar will provide
ACME with a variety of PV
power output solutions
including graphene-coated
PV modules, also known as
self-cleaning PV modules,
1500-volt modules and decen-
tralized junction box, all of
which will be shipped this
month and are expected to be
delivered by the end of
August, she said.
India’s PV market has pros-
pered and attracted the atten-
tion of the global market,
thanks to the vigorous promo-
tion of the government.
According to the Interna-
tional Renewable Energy
Agency or IRENA, India’s new
solar power generation in 2017
reached 9,628 mW, compared
with 4,251 mW in 2016 and
exceeded the markets of North
America, Europe and Japan.
The Indian government
aims to build 100 gigawatts of
new solar power by 2022.
Already, India is set to emerge
as the world’s second-largest
solar PV market by this year-
end. So, the market potential is
huge, said IHS Markit, an ana-
lytics company.
Josefin Berg, an analyst at
IHS Markit, said he expects to
see 11 gW of solar power gen-
erated in India this year, while
the US would install 10 gW.
In the face of this huge mar-
ket opportunity and relatively
favorable government taxa-
tion, Chinese PV companies,
including Znshine Solar,
Longi Solar and Trina Solar,
are competing with each oth-
er to invest in India’s PV mar-
Bargain: Pre-owned
home prices soften
From page 13
and 7.06 percent lower than
that of last year, according to a
research report from the
Shanghai Existing Property
Index Office.
“We observed pre-owned
home prices have started to
soften, and the wait-and-
watch attitude of homebuyers
gave them more room for bar-
gaining,” said Zhou.
In South China, Shenzhen
saw its new home prices drop
for seven months in a row,
ranking first in the 70 major
Chinese cities with a 2.3-per-
cent decline in March, NBS
data showed.
There is a piece of good
news for senior homebuyers
as Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China confirmed that
it has extended the age limit
for personal property loan
borrowers to 70 from 65. The
policy took effect in the last
week of April, China National
Radio reported.
According to the new policy,
a home loan applicant aged 60
can apply for a 15-year mort-
gage; those aged 55 can apply
for a 20-year mortgage, which
is “really good news for senior
homebuyers,” said a staff
member dealing with home
loans at ICBC’s Chongqing
branch, CNR reported.
Meanwhile, starting from
the third quarter of last year,
many commercial banks have
tightened their home loan pol-
icies with more restrictions
(There is) new
momentum for us
to further explore
the Indian
market.”
Li Qian, president of sales and
marketing of Znshine Solar
ket. They have all invested in
the Indian market in recent
years.
India is already China’s big-
gest export market for solar
products by sales value. Dur-
ing 2017, China’s exports
accounted for 24 percent of
India’s solar products, with
sales growth seen in both cells
and modules.
According to Li, India is a
major overseas market that
Znshine is looking to expand
into. In the second half of 2017
alone, the company has
signed orders for more than
800 mW with companies
including OPG, Aditya, Hin-
dustan, Harsha Abakus and
ACME.
The cooperation with
ACME, the biggest independ-
ent power generator in India,
is a win-win as “we can pro-
vide them with the most-ad-
vanced photovoltaic
manufacturing technology
and professional service from
China, ensuring a profession-
al technological support for
the country’s photovoltaic
power stations”, said Li.
“At the same time, this will
also provide new momentum
for us to further explore the
Indian market.”
As one of the world’s largest
power plant developers and
module manufacturers,
Znshine Solar has been
actively expanding into over-
seas markets.
The company currently has
its PV projects in Japan,
Europe, the Middle East,
Southeast Asia, and some oth-
er countries.
With its power station see-
ing an annual capacity of 1.1
being put on home loan appli-
cations and applicants.
According to Zhou from
JLL, some banks have extend-
ed approval period for loan
applications from a minimum
of one week before to at least
one to two months last year.
She expected the loan applica-
tion process to become more
smooth with more policy clari-
ty expected to emerge this year
compared to a year ago.
A net 400 billion yuan
($63.32 billion) was released in
late April from the central
bank’s reserve of commercial
banks’ deposits, with another
freeing of 900 billion yuan set to
erase lenders’ liability to the cen-
tral bank through the Medium-
term Lending Facility or MLF.
This monetary policy opera-
tion, or a reduction of the
reserve requirement ratio or
RRR by 1 percentage point but
in an innovative way, is expect-
ed to supplement liquidity
especially for small and medi-
um-sized banks without mak-
ing overall monetary policy
too loose, according to
experts.
“The reduction in RRR was
to offset the impact of the
tightening of interbank lend-
ing making sure small banks
have enough liquidity. This is
in keeping with the general
financial de-risking that is tak-
ing place and will unlikely
have a significant impact on
the property market,” said
Macdonald.
Zhou agreed with the pro-
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gw, the company boasts mod-
ule output of 2 gW each year
and completes more than 5gw
of power plant construction
worldwide.
The Indian government
said earlier it was considering
a 70 percent import tax on
Chinese PV manufacturers
that enjoy cheaper costs.
However, developers warn
that imposing import duty on
Chinese manufacturers could
halt the fast-expanding indus-
try in its tracks and increase
Construction workers leave the site of an apartment compound.
Called Fun City, it is being developed by China Vanke in the Fang-
shan district on the outskirts of Beijing. BLOOMBERG
jection, adding that the loan
environment will be tightened
further nationwide this year
compared to a year ago, and it
will further affect total trans-
action volume of the home
market.
Regarding the ongoing
trade friction between China
and the United States, Macdo-
nald said the property market
is unlikely to see any signifi-
cant direct impact. But he also
said, “It could impact business
revenues and profitability.
Therefore, it may encourage
companies that might be
affected to take action”.
According to Macdonald,
possible results include hold-
ing off on large investments,
such as relocation offices and
the associated fit-out costs, tak-
ing on additional operational
costs such as new headcount
(meaning less office expansion
requirements), reducing costs
the cost of all solar installa-
tions, despite the protection
for only a few Indian manu-
facturers.
In addition to India, which
sees trade disputes surround-
ing the manufacture of solar
panels, the European Union
has imposed anti-dumping tar-
iffs on Chinese solar panels in
2013. Before that, the US
imposed duties of up to 165 per-
cent on imports from China,
saying panels were being sold
too cheaply to the US market.
by potentially looking at
decentralized locations if they
need to relocate, as well as
seeking more flexible accom-
modation options such as
co-working or serviced offices.
“If you look at the first-tier
cities as a whole, monthly
price changes were positive
(that is, there was growth) in
both first- and second-hand
markets, and individual cities
might have recorded minor
declines.”
All in all, the residential
property sector in Chinese big
cities will remain resilient as
China’s economy as a whole
will continue to be positive,
said experts.
Since third- and fourth-tier
cities are taking the heat of
home price growth, the SUFE
report projected that home
prices in first-tier cities will
likely stabilize throughout
2018.
The situation has driven
many Chinese manufacturers
to the Indian market, with
exports increasing more than
1,100 percent between 2012
and 2016.
According to Wang Dong,
technical and quality general
manager of Znshine Solar, the
key to continuous success in
the solar power sector lies in
manufacturing innovation
and technology.
Seeding a next generation
of technology, identifying
Expansion: Real estate firms
see rapid growth of revenue
From page 13
original cost of 533.6 billion
yuan.
Not only the top develop-
ers, almost all the listed real
estate companies are experi-
encing a rapid expansion,
Hong Shengqi, research
director of E-House (China)
Holdings Ltd, was quoted as
saying by China Construc-
tion News.
Sales revenue of China’s
top 10 property developers
accounted for 24 percent of
the nation’s total in 2017, up
5.8 percentage points from a
year ago, according to data of
China Real Estate Informa-
tion Corp or CRIC.
China’s top 100 real estate
companies’ accumulated rev-
enue accounted for 55.55 per-
cent of the country’s total, up
10.7 percentage points from a
year ago and exceeding half
for the first time, CRIC said.
But the cash-flush develop-
ers should prepare for the
future by voluntarily lowering
their debt and seeking a
healthy capital flow, said Yan
Yuejin, research director at the
E-House China R&D Institute.
James Macdonald, senior
research director of Savills
China, a real estate consult-
ancy, said the way to stay
competitive is by deleverag-
ing — that is, by paying down
expensive debt commit-
ments; ensuring steady cash
flow to ensure debt servicing
and continued operations;
Monday, May 14, 2018 CHINA DAILY
promising technologies and
scaling them up are of
essence, he said.
Founded in 1988, the Jiang-
su province-based Znshine
Solar was jointly developed
with the University of Science
and Technology of China. It
has come up with a series of
independently developed gra-
phene-coated PV modules,
which allow light to pass
through more easily and thus
convert more light into elec-
tricity.
“No developer
is going to
completely
turn away
from
development
for sales.”
James Macdonald,
senior research director
of Savills China
24 percent
share of the sales revenue
of China’s top 10 property
developers in the nation’s
total in 2017
continuing to diversify reve-
nue streams from sales into
rental and management
income streams; exploring
opportunities; and develop-
ing competencies in nontra-
ditional asset classes like
housing for the elderly, data
centers and student housing.
Developers are reinventing
their role, changing from
Rental:
Tenants’
age down;
market is
growing
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has become a major source of
demand in the rental housing
market.
First-time homebuyers’
average age has increased
from 30 in 2013 to 34 in 2016,
according to a survey on Bei-
jing and Shanghai’s leasing
market by Chinese residential
property agency Homelink. It
projected the Chinese leasing
market scale will expand from
1.1 trillion yuan ($173.5 billion)
now to 2.9 trillion yuan in
2025, and further grow to
more than 4.6 trillion yuan by
2030.
But the housing industry’s
current business model is yet
to prove its profitability, said
Zhou Jing, head of project
sales, JLL Shanghai.
According to Zhou, the
annual rent a landlord
receives for an average apart-
ment is merely between 1 per-
cent and 2 percent of the
apartment’s selling price in
Shanghai.
“The biggest challenge will
be competition from new sup-
ply given the relatively limited
pool of demand in the short
term which may affect the
operators’ profit margin. An
additional factor would be the
scaling up of asset manage-
ment staff capable of operat-
ing residential
accommodation,” said James
Macdonald, senior research
director of Savills China, a real
estate service provider.
“The opportunities are that
this is a relatively new territo-
ry with no large incumbents.
So, new entrants are looking
to wrest market share and
build reputation. The possibil-
ity is also there to grow into
other related niche segments
such as student housing and
senior housing from a residen-
tial management perspective.”
If I were one of the millen-
nials, I’d probably rent an
apartment on a long-term
basis, so that I can pursue my
dreams without the burdens
of home maintenance and
housing loan repayments on
my back.
pure property developers
into more diversified players
due to factors like the exis-
tence of more pre-owned
homes, tightening policies
for the home market in major
cities, and less available land
in first- and second-tier cities.
Vanke has expanded into
long-term rental apartment
brand Port Apartment,
acquired SCPG Holdings Co, a
leading shopping mall owner,
developer and operator in Chi-
na, from Blackstone as well
as led a consortium to acquire
GLP (Global Logistic Proper-
ties Ltd), a warehouse opera-
tor. The company also stepped
into other sectors like indus-
trial towns, snow resorts,
nursing homes and education.
Major Chinese cities
including Beijing, Shanghai,
Guangzhou and Shenzhen
have already launched their
renovation projects for urban
infrastructure, presenting
new opportunities for prop-
erty developers to build vari-
ous properties, said Chen
Fangyong, head of the City
Renewal Real Estate Institute
in Shenzhen, in an interview
to National Business Daily.
“No developer is going to
completely turn away from
development for sales. How-
ever, some have made signifi-
cant strides toward
development of asset man-
agement capabilities and
either built up or acquired
income-producing portfoli-
os,” said Macdonald.
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Making machines for Chinese health On the move

Derek Chang to lead NBA Aristeguieta, CEO of Citi

Paul Dawson drives British technology firm Dyson’s R&D to customize appliances for the local market
By REN XIAOJIN
renxiaojin@chinadaily.com.cn
Every time he visits China,
Paul Dawson, wonders about
the umpteen lower-tier Chi-
nese cities that Dyson, the Brit-
ish technology company, is yet
to serve.
As vice-president of Dyson’s
health- and beauty-related
products division, Dawson
sees growth opportunities in
China’s consumption upgrade
and efforts to tackle environ-
mental issues.
Dyson launched its new gen-
eration of air purifying fans in
China in April. Its products —
noiseless, cordless vacuum
cleaners, bladeless fans, air
purifying fans, humidifiers,
hand dryers, heaters, hair dry-
ers and lighting systems — are
already popular in metro cit-
ies. Its next targets are China’s
provincial capitals and lower-
tier cities.
Dawson said of Dyson’s mis-
sion in China: “It’s a combina-
tion of providing immediate
solutions to the problems at
hand. In our case, high-per-
formance purification
machines and addressing issues
like energy usage, thus making
products more efficient.”
Zhao Ying, a researcher at
the Beijing-based Institute of
Industrial Economics, said,
“Even though the prices of for-
eign brands are higher than
domestic ones, well-known
brands such as Dyson com-
mand loyal fans in China.”
Zhao said the major demo-
graphics can be divided into
two categories: the mid-earn-
ing class and the young who
fancy high-tech products like
sophisticated air purifiers.
It is a segment that topped
20 billion yuan in 2017 sales,
according to a report from the
Qianzhan Industry Research
Institute.
Paul Dawson, Dyson’s VP for health- and beauty-related products division, gives a presentation at Dyson
Pure Cool Beijing launch event in April. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
16.6
percent
The average annual
growth rate of air purifiers
in China between 2016-18
A report from China Market
Monitor, a Beijing-based mar-
ket research company, said the
air purifier market has been
growing at a steady pace since
2016. The average annual
growth rate from 2016 to 2018
is expected to be 16.6 percent,
given Chinese consumers’
growing concerns over air
quality and implications for
health and well-being.
Dyson entered the segment
in 2015, in response to the
increasing global problem of
indoor air pollution. China is
its largest market for air puri-
fiers, a category where Dyson
is known for using the tech-
nology of bladeless fans.
“Health-conscious consum-
ers in China are looking for
good-quality products that
can deliver good value — prod-
ucts that can do something
different and better than oth-
ers,” said Dawson.
Referring to group founder
James Dyson’s knowledge of the
science of airflow and how to rid
air of pollutant particles, Daw-
son said, “In the past 25 years,
we’ve been developing products
relating to the airflow and filtra-
tion. These are our advantages.
We’re passionate about airflow
and we want to apply what we
have learnt in this field. That’s
why we combine our airflow
strenghts with the filtration
expertise, to make sure we can
have whole room purification.”
With China marking the 40th
anniversary of its opening-up
policy this year, foreign compa-
nies such as Dyson will deepen
their commitment to drive local
growth by starting to design
products for Chinese consum-
ers, he said.
“We make sure that we know
first what’s happening at Chi-
nese homes, what are the prob-
lems and needs of consumers,
before we start to design a bet-
ter product.”
With smart home appliances
becoming increasingly popular
in China, Dyson will enhance
intelligent features of its prod-
ucts, Dawson said. “When you
buy a new Dyson product, it’ll
know exactly what it needs to do
without you having to tell it. We
will offer products that will allow
the consumer to relax and
accomplish tasks with minimal
interaction.”
Dawson admitted Dyson
has faced some problems in
recruiting qualified engineers.
“We have so many ideas we
would like to work on, we sim-
ply don’t have enough engi-
neers to work them out. We
keep thinking about lots of dif-
ferent ideas, that’s why we
keep investing on the talent.
Dyson now has 3,500 engi-
neers and scientists globally.”
On a personate note, Dawson
often sets himself new learning
challenges, most recently exper-
imenting with electronics and
software in his spare time.
He joined Dyson in 2000 as a
design engineer and has worked
across all stages of product
development, from engineering
to product category roles.
The father of young twins
goes on many business trips to
global markets where Dyson
has a presence. But no market
is more important than China
now, he said during his latest
visit.
China to new heights
National
Basketball
Association
Inc or NBA
appointed
Derek Chang
(pictured) as
the CEO of NBA China. Chang
will be in charge of the
league’s basketball and busi-
ness development in China,
and will report to Mark
Tatum, COO of NBA. Chang
said that NBA has done a tre-
mendous job growing its fan
base in China, and he looks
forward to lead the league to
greater heights. Prior to join-
ing NBA, Chang served
Scripps Networks Interactive
as the head of international
lifestyle channels and was
responsible for its business
expansion.
Deutsche Bank names
Lubig to key China role
Deutsche Bank has
appointed Dirk Lubig as head
of global transaction banking
China as well as head of cor-
porate cash management
Greater China. Dirk joined
Deutsche Bank’s group strat-
egy department in 2013.
Since 2016, he led the global
footprint rationalization pro-
gramme and was instrumen-
tal in the successful execution
of this critical cross-divisional
strategic initiative. Before
joining Deutsche Bank, Lubig
worked as a partner at Bain &
Company and held responsi-
bility for various international
growth projects in commer-
cial banking in multiple inter-
national banks.
Citibank elevates Yin-yee
to CEO of HK, Macau unit
Citibank appointed Angel
Ng Yin-yee as its CEO of
Hong Kong and Macau oper-
ations, effective May 1. Ng
took over from Weber Lo,
and will report to Francisco
Asia-Pacific. In her new role,
Yin-yee will lead the compa-
ny’s overall business develop-
ment and business strategy
in Hong Kong and Macau. She
is also working to maintain
strong relationships with the
company’s shareholders. She
joined the group in 1998, and
served as head of consumer
banking in Hong Kong before
her elevation.
Chen to drive ViewSonic’s
local operations
US-based visual display
product manufacturer View-
Sonic Corp appointed Wayne
Chen as the general manager
for its Chinese operations.
Chen joined ViewSonic in
2010 and was the deputy
head of sales for a key depart-
ment. In his new role, Chen
will be in charge of business
operations and strategic
development, and will report
directly to Bonny Cheng, pres-
ident of ViewSonic China. Zhu
Jialiang, chairman and CEO of
ViewSonic, said the company
will eye more business devel-
opment in China, and he looks
forward to a better business
performance under Chen’s
leadership.
Expanding Buy Quickly
hires Liu Kai as president
Shanghai Buy Quickly
E-commerce Inc appointed
Liu Kai, former vice-presi-
dent of Fossil China, as its
president. Liu will be in
charge of Buy Quickly’s
operations and business
strategy, and will report to
Liu Zhicheng, CEO. Liu Zhi-
cheng said Liu Kai’s joining
is essential to the company’s
goal of going global for
growth. After graduating
from Tsinghua University, Liu
gained work experience in
areas like technology,
e-commerce and sales.
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Lifestyle hotel The Sukhothai Shanghai exudes ethos of excellence

By TANG ZHIHAO
tangzhihao@chinadaily.com.cn
The Sukhothai Hotels & Resorts, a
luxury hotel group owned by Hong
Kong-listed property developer Hong
Kong Resort International, began its
journey in China on April 28 with the
opening of The Sukhothai Shanghai,
a contemporary lifestyle hotel in the
glittering coastal metropolis.
Located in the business and tour-
ism hotspot of Nanjing Xilu in Jing’an
district, the new Shanghai market
player is the second Sukhothai-brand-
ed hotel in the world.
The first Sukhothai opened in
Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, in
1991. The word Sukhothai means
dawn of happiness in Sanskrit. It
is also the name of the first capital
of Thailand during a thriving era in
the country’s history.
The new hotel, a member of the
celebrated list of Small Luxury
Hotels of the World, comprises 170
guest rooms and 31 suites. Ranging
from 44 to 172 square meters, its
rooms are among the largest in the
city, according to the hotel.
Its design, created by Shanghai
design firm Neri&Hu Design and
Research Office, draws inspiration
from the concept of “a place apart” —
reflecting a reconnection with nature,
amid the hustle and bustle of city life,
according to hotel management.
Characterized by originality, sim-
plicity and functionality, the hotel’s
decor features an alluring collection
of materials and textures such as
natural stones, fine woods, delicate
silks and polished brass, a well-bal-
anced yet stylish color scheme, and
meticulously designed details, while
incorporating sustainable practice
in architectural design and in the
selection of materials to reduce
environmental impact.
Natural materials, such as envi-
ronmentally friendly diatom-sili-
ca clay walls, are used to create a
healthy and peaceful environment to
satisfy the preferences of urbanites.
“Every Sukhothai in the world
should be individually designed, based
on the character of the destination,”
said Marcel N.A. Holman, general
manager of The Sukhothai Shanghai.
The Sukhothai Shanghai, designed by Shanghai design firm Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, draws inspiration from the concept of “a place apart”.
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Every Sukhothai in
the world should be
individually designed,
based on the character
of the destination.”
Marcel N.A. Holman, general
manager of The Sukhothai Shanghai
“The Sukhothai Shanghai has a
unique, individual character inspired
by the dynamics of the city, authen-
tically reflected in the design and
amenities thoughtfully crafted by
our dedicated team,” Holman said.
The hotel features five inspiring
lifestyle dining venues and well-being
facilities. In addition, some 30 art-
works created by artists from both
home and abroad — in digital, painted
and handmade form — are scattered in
every corner of the complex to reflect
the modern character of Shanghai.
Crafted for important social and
corporate events, conferences and
exhibitions of all sizes, the Grand
Shanghai Ballroom and six multi-
purpose rooms occupy a spacious 450
sq m area on the hotel’s second floor.
The design of The Sukhothai
Shanghai is not a copy of the first
hotel opened in Thailand. But
its personalized quality services,
a hospitality philosophy that has
been promoted since the original
establishment, represent a con-
tinuing of the ethos of excellence
in Shanghai, according to Holman.
He said the hotel will create “tai-
lor-made experiences” to differenti-
ate itself from its competitors in
Shanghai.
“People nowadays come for an
experience. The real travelers do
not look for how big a hotel is, they
look for experiences,” Holman said.
“The experience itself is the peo-
ple, the way we do things and our
attention to details.”
Five bamboo-framed bicycles
allow guests to glide through and
explore a city shaped by modernity,
while also exploring its beauty and
tradition.
The hotel reached out to the local
community by collaborating with
the Raffles Design Institute Shang-
hai, to design uniforms for its staff
members. Local students from the
institute were invited to participate
in the design project with real work-
ing life concerns such as deadlines
and budgets.
“I believe that it is a way to give
back to the local community and
to give opportunities to the future
leaders,” Holman said.
Holman stressed that the hotel
takes a service style “approachable”.
In The Sukhothai Shanghai, staff
offer welcome drinks as guests wait
to check in. The bar menu will be
changed frequently to satisfy peo-
ple’s varying tastes.
Looking ahead, Sukhothai has a
positive attitude towards its devel-
opment.
“We are fortunate; Shanghai is a
powerhouse globally. The occupan-
cy is healthy and it is still growing,”
Holman said.
“The business influx is still there.
I think what we need to do is to
make sure we constantly surprise
people, constantly innovate and do
things differently.
“I am confident The Sukhothai
Shanghai will become ‘a place apart’
in the energetic city of Shanghai,”
he added.
The Sukhothai Hotels & Resorts
will continue to expand its foot-
print in China and Asia. It is look-
ing for locations in cities such as
Hangzhou, in the eastern province
of Zhejiang.
An inspiring
place for foodies
The Sukhothai Shanghai,
which features five inspiring
dining venues, is set to deliver
enriching culinary experiences
and become one of Shanghai’s
most sought-after destinations
for foodies.
Alongside Michelin-starred
master chef Theodor Falser,
chef de cuisine Stefano Sanna
takes the helm of urban Italian
restaurant La Scala, serving fresh-
to-order contemporary Italian
cuisine with seasonal ingredients,
paired with a fine selection of
Italian boutique wines.
Urban Cafe, an all-day-dining
restaurant within the hotel,
indulges guests with authentic
Southeast Asian, Western and
Oriental cuisines under the
leadership of executive chef
Marcus Ng.
In addition, Urban Lounge
offers a sophisticated collection
of premium gins and an herb
trolley with over 15 infused fresh
herbs to be served with premium
teas, all complemented by live
jazz in the evenings.
The Zuk Bar is the best location
to enjoy simple modern Nordic
cuisine by day and artisanal
cocktails by night, alfresco.
The Beans & Grapes cafe
serves a healthy selection of
quality light fare and beverages
during the day, and Asian-
inspired tapas paired with wine
by the glass from sundown.
The Sukhothai Shanghai
features five inspiring dining
venues.
16 BUSINESS
Trade tensions with
China make US
farmers fear losses
WAUSAU, the United States
— Luck has not been on the
side of American farmers in
the midwest this year.
Having endured a record
blizzard that swept through
the region in mid-April, they
now face another potentially
more damaging threat — the
China-US trade disputes trig-
gered by the Trump adminis-
tration that, among other
things, put soybean farmers’
income in jeopardy.
In early April, President
Donald Trump proposed to
slap tariffs on $50 billion
worth of Chinese imports. Chi-
na countered it by planning to
levy duties on US exports to
China, including soybeans, the
main moneymaker for farms
in Wisconsin.
“I’m already looking at a loss
this year,” Brad Kremer, a
farmer in Pittville, told Xinhua
in a recent interview.
Farmers in the region grow
a mix of crops, including corn,
soybean and wheat. Dairy
products are also a source of
income, but with milk prices
tanking in recent years and
corn barely breaking even,
farmers rely solely on soy-
beans for profit, thanks to
strong demand from China.
According to Don Lutz, a
former statistician from the
US Department of Agriculture
or USDA, who has been run-
ning a farm in Scandinavia,
Wisconsin, since retirement,
the US exports some 60 per-
cent of its soybean products.
Kremer said he did not grow
soybean when he started
farming two decades ago. Lat-
er on, when he saw the Ameri-
can soybean, known for its
high oil yield, gradually gain
popularity in China, he includ-
ed the legume on his farm-
land.
According to USDA data,
soybean plantation in the US
has witnessed a significant
uptick since the mid 1990s,
when it entered the Chinese
A fruit-picker at work in an orchard in the state of Washington.
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HR consultants foresee smaller raises due to GDP factor
By CHEN MEILING
chenmeiling@chinadaily.com.cn
Salaries of employees in
China are expected to grow
at about 6 percent this year,
compared with about 9.4
percent back in 2012, when
the economy’s focus shifted
from rapid growth to high-
quality development, experts
said.
“We have studied the fluc-
tuation trend of salaries
worldwide for decades, and
found it is highly linked to a
country’s GDP, whose influ-
ence may take one or two
years to show,” said Huang
Xian, senior director of Korn
Ferry Hay Group, a human
resources consulting firm.
Data from the National
Bureau of Statistics showed
China’s GDP grew 6.9 per-
cent last year. The corre-
sponding figure was 9.5
percent in 2011.
The growth rate of wages
nationwide was 8.5 percent in
2013, 7.2 percent in 2014, 7.3
percent in 2015, 6 percent in
2016 and 5.8 percent in 2017,
KFHG data showed.
“The salary fluctuation will
keep stable along with the eco-
$ 10.12
level of soybean futures for
September
market. Over the next two dec-
ades, the total acreage bal-
looned from about 25 million
hectares to over 36 million
hectares.
Kremer said farmers are
hoping that soybean will trade
above $10 per bushel so that
they can earn $50-100 from
each acre (2.47 acres equal 1
hectare or 10,000 sq m).
Soybean futures for Septem-
ber, the usual harvest season,
is $10.12, meaning farmers
would have expanded their
soybean acreage, had it not
been for the potential tariff
from China following the US
government’s threat of puni-
tive measures.
“Farming is a volatile busi-
ness,” Kremer said. “To make
things worse, most farms are
heavily in debt.”
With about $3 million
worth of idle equipment,
Kremer said he has already
lost track of how much he
owed the bank.
The prospect of agriculture
subsidy promised by Trump is
unappealing to farmers, who
worry that any relief from the
federal government will be
unsustainable.
Lutz said any agriculture
subsidy will have to pass tough
legislative hurdles as conserv-
ative lawmakers would dig in
their heels to oppose any legis-
lation that will increase feder-
al deficits.
The farmers interviewed by
Xinhua said when they voiced
their concerns to lawmakers,
the latter told them it is up to
the executive branch to handle
the trade deals.
XINHUA
nomic performance in the fol-
lowing years, but the data will
keep higher than that of devel-
oped countries,” Huang said.
The growth rate of wages in
western Europe was estimat-
ed to reach 2.3 percent in 2018
and that of North America was
seen reaching 2.8 percent,
while Africa would reach 8.5
percent, the company said.
The group studied wages in
more than 25,000 companies
in over 110 countries and pub-
lished an annual report based
on its findings.
Internet-based, financial
and real estate industries
boast greatest potential for
high salaries, while manufac-
turing, chemical, oil, gas and
other traditional industries
will offer generally lower sala-
ries, led by either booms in
certain industries and
declines of others, according
to KFHG.
Information provider East-
money studied annual reports
of over 3,000 A-share compa-
nies, showing that high annu-
al salaries were mainly seen in
financial, securities, banking
and real estate industries last
year, which may surpass
500,000 yuan ($78,578).
Automobile plant staff assemble an engine at a factory in Weifang, Shandong province. Charles-Edouard Bouee said he believes the
automotive industry will be among those whose business model will change due to AI. WANG JILIN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Expert says automation
will spin long-term gains
Rolang Berger CEO sees rapid growth
of several industries, emerging fields
By ZHONG NAN
zhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn
Industrial automation on
the back of the Made in China
2025 strategy will generate
huge growth momentum for
businesses such as industrial
electronics, semiconductors,
data analysis and telecom-
munications in the long run,
said the head of a global con-
sulting firm.
Charles-Edouard Bouee,
CEO of Roland Berger Strat-
egy Consultants, a Germa-
ny-headquartered company,
said many opportunities
come from the country’s
ongoing policy reform, the
fast-growing artificial intel-
ligence or AI field and 5G
technology.
“It’s worth differentiating
between two major trends
in the Chinese economy.
China sets out improving
and upgrading industries to
a high degree, and the econ-
omy is developing an
increasingly changing com-
plex business environment
on the onset of disruptive
innovation,” said Bouee,
whose firm employs 2,400
staff in 34 countries and
regions.
Given the tremendous
investment in research and
development by the Chinese
government, the emerging
industries like biotech, life
Staff of a brokerage address investor queries at a financial expo in
Beijing. The financial services industry is among those with high
annual salaries, said HR consultants. WU CHANGQING / XINHUA
The lowest salaries were
seen in textiles and garments,
light manufacturing, farming,
forestry, animal husbandry
and fishing companies, whose
average level was about
90,000 to 100,000 yuan per
year.
Though the wage gap in dif-
ferent industries was large, the
future of some industries at
the top of pyramid was not as
glamorous as the public imag-
ined, Eastmoney said.
sciences, imaging, new
material, semiconductors
and 5G telecommunication
technology are likely to
experience high growth, he
said.
China will completely
open up its general manu-
facturing sector, and access
to sectors such as high-tech
industrial products, tele-
communications, medical
services, education, elderly
care; and new energy vehi-
cles will be expanded,
according to the annual gov-
ernment plan announced in
March.
Policies that support the
Made in China 2025 strategy
are applicable to all kinds of
businesses, and domestic and
foreign-funded companies
are treated equally, under the
government plan.
Bouee said production
safety and environment pro-
tection have been identified
as two key industries that are
in need of improvement.
Therefore, there are opportu-
nities in each industry for
professional suppliers of safe
production solutions and
environment protection, he
said.
“Of course, the oil and gas,
mining, refinery, chemical,
pipeline, energy and utility
industries are of particular
interest. Overall, technology
and service providers will
For example, average annu-
al salaries of stock market
experts decreased from
639,500 yuan in 2015 to
411,100 yuan in 2017. Banking
remained at around 340,000
to 370,000 yuan in the last two
years, Eastmoney said.
“Traditionally, companies
would decide the salary level
by judging the value of posi-
tion (job-title), the person’s
competence and working per-
formance, as well as supply of
Made in
China 2025
brings equal
opportunities to
... companies.”
Tu Xinquan, director of the
China Institute for WTO Studies
at the University of International
Business and Economics, Beijing
find huge market opportuni-
ties.”
Agreed Tu Xinquan, direct-
or of the China Institute for
WTO Studies at the Universi-
ty of International Business
and Economics in Beijing.
“The Made in China 2025
strategy brings equal oppor-
tunities to foreign and
domestic companies and will
strengthen the role of the
market.”
As high-tech products like
industrial chips or automo-
bile engines are critical to a
country’s industrial develop-
ment, Tu said China will
deploy more resources to
boost core manufacturing
innovation activities such as
intelligent manufacturing,
green manufacturing and
high-end equipment innova-
tion projects.
Bouee said he believes AI
will emerge as a leading
industry, and will greatly
similar talent in the market,”
said Huang.
That’s why, although the
growth rate of wages is slow-
ing in China, it may not neces-
sarily decrease the cost of
human resources for compa-
nies, because the competition
for a limited pool of employees
with global prospects, innova-
tive thinking, high adaptabili-
ty and multiple skills is even
fiercer.
Driven by government-led
campaigns such as the Belt
and Road Initiative, Made in
China 2025 and Internet Plus,
many companies are scram-
bling for top-end talent on the
way to digitalization, transfor-
mation, technology upgrade
or going global, Huang said.
“For instance, human
resources personnel should
not only know how to recruit
people or calculate KPI (key
performance indicators), but
have a deep understanding of
the company’s business and its
future development strategy.”
Agreed Felix Lee, head of
executive search and recruit-
ment services of KPMG China,
a global consultancy service
provider.
“Those with strong digital
Monday, May 14, 2018 CHINA DAILY
improve consumer electron-
ics and data analytics. Ulti-
mately, AI will change
business models in telecom-
munication, media, financial,
retail, transportation, insur-
ance, consumer goods, auto-
motive and education
sectors, he said.
“The telecommunication
industry is transforming
from 4G to 5G technology,
largely supported by the Chi-
nese government, and brings
opportunities to the semicon-
ductor industry too. But it
should be combined with oth-
er technologies, which will be
decisive in the AI era,” said
Bouee.
To further compete with its
global rivals, the Ministry of
Industry and Information
Technology announced earli-
er this year that China will set
up a Made in China 2025
National Demonstration
Zone, nurture several world-
class advanced manufactur-
ing industry clusters and
promote integrated develop-
ment of the manufacturing
sector and internet.
A group of key landmark
programs and projects have
already been launched or
notably developed across the
country.
In priority areas such as
large passenger aircraft, inte-
grated circuits, new material,
aircraft engines, gas turbines,
5G and new energy vehicles,
encouraging results have
already been achieved,
according to government
documents.
knowledge and who are able
to leverage their expertise to
streamline work processes or
procedures will be highly
sought after. Consequently,
such professionals will have
the most room for a larger pay
rise,” Lee said.
Professionals who are
adaptable, good at problem-
solving and have strong inter-
personal skills will also thrive,
he said.
The pressure for human
resources is even higher when
the domestic labor market is
shrinking amid an aging pop-
ulation and a growing number
of young middle-class profes-
sionals with more flexible
choices for working or not to
work, Huang said.
Charlie Li, head of human
resources at KPMG China,
said though remuneration is
not a key motivator for great-
er performance, uncompeti-
tive remuneration will drive
people less motivated to per-
form.
“From this perspective,
compensation should reach
the level that can make talents
feel comfortable and happy to
join, stay, and get engaged,” he
said.
Perfect to
expand
digital fun
portfolio
By OUYANG SHIJIA
ouyangshijia@
chinadaily.com.cn
Perfect World Co Ltd, a
Chinese movie and gaming
company, is targeting digi-
tal-savvy younger genera-
tion with products
protected by intellectual
property or IP rights.
Its products span the
genres of anime, comics,
games or ACG, movies and
TV dramas.
Lu Xiaoyin, chief opera-
tion officer of Perfect
World, said the younger
generation, particularly
those born in the 1995-2000
period, are unlike their par-
ents, and demand a differ-
ent kind of entertainment
content.
“Today, most of the game
players are young people
under 30,” Lu said. “They
usually prefer fair games,
the specific culture embod-
ied in the game and shared
gaming experiences. And
they also will pay close
attention to the application
of the latest technology to
the game.”
According to Lu, Perfect
World will further expand
game categories, including
female-oriented gaming,
ACG, e-sports, sandbox
games, simulation games
and card games.
A recent joint report from
the Game Publishers Associ-
ation Publications Commit-
tee, Gamma Data Corp and
International Data Corpora-
tion showed that mobile
gaming is growing stronger
in China as the millennials’
purchasing power increases.
The report noted that
mobile gaming accounted
for 57 percent of the total
game sales and reached
116.1 billion yuan ($18.5 bil-
lion) in 2017.
Currently, China has 583
million gaming players,
mostly those born in the
1990s and 2000s, and those
born in the 2000s are more
active in the gaming mar-
ket.
As of 2016, nearly 10 per-
cent of mobile gaming play-
ers were teenagers born in
the 2000s.
Last year, Perfect World
launched a new mobile
game called Mengjianji to
target female and ACG
users and has reportedly
made it to the top four
among the most download-
ed apps on Apple’s iPhones.
Now, the company wants
to move forward, claiming
it will continue to innovate
its key IP rights-protected
products to cater to the
younger generation’s diver-
sified and personalized cul-
tural needs.
Tong Qing, senior vice-
president of Perfect World,
said the digital entertain-
ment industry has become
a key driver of economic
growth in China, and the
gaming segment has played
a significant role in the
overall market.
“There is a growing trend
of spinoff from hot IP rights
related to games and other
forms of entertainment
products.
“Based on our key copy-
righted games, such as
Mengjianji, Perfect World
will develop more deriva-
tive works in the form of TV
dramas, movies, comics
and novels in the future.”
Wang Xu, chief analyst at
Gamma Data Corp, said as
the demographic dividend
is disappearing, game devel-
opers need to seek new ways
to keep the momentum
strong, and the IP rights-
protected products will help
cut the cost to attract users.
In March, the Beijing-
based company reported its
2017 revenue surged 29 per-
cent to 7.93 billion yuan.
And 5.65 billion yuan came
from the gaming sector,
accounting for more than
70 percent of the total.
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Budget hotels upgrade

Unicorn boom on horizon
Revised regulations
favor funding for
startups through
equity investments
By CHEN JIA
chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese investors are betting big
on a golden decade for unicorns as
a boom is foreseen on the back of
revised regulations that encourage
financing through equity, accord-
ing to market players.
A unicorn is a startup that proves
successful and enjoys a valuation of
$1 billion or more.
In recent years, unicorns have
been highly regarded by the Chi-
nese capital market as policymak-
ers appear to approve such
startups’ listing on domestic stock
exchanges.
Such listings would herald a
break from recent investment pat-
terns.
China has witnessed two waves
of investment in the past 20 years.
One targeted foreign trade and the
other property. This also resulted in
debt expansion and fast growth of
money supply.
“Chinese investors are consider-
ing to shift their investment philos-
ophy and focus more on high-tech
and innovative companies, corre-
sponding to the country’s high-
quality development blueprint,”
said Hu Tianxiang, founder of
Shanghai SuXiang Investment
Consulting Co Ltd, an investment
consulting and asset management
company.
Unicorns, which are mainly con-
centrated in high-tech or emerging
strategic areas like internet-based
businesses, big data, cloud comput-
ing, artificial intelligence, software
and integrated circuits, “are expect-
ed to attract more funding through
direct equity investment”, Hu said.
Li Yang, director of the National
Institute for Finance and Develop-
ment, which is part of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, called
the coming decade as a “golden peri-
od” for equity investment in China.
Policymakers are keen on restruc-
turing the multi-level capital market
and encouraging direct financing
instead of bank lending, he said.
Equity investment, including pri-
vate equity and venture capital, is a
A mom helps her daughter watch a short film on a multi-sensory viewer that can emit aromas, scents and smells
related to the content, at the 2018 High-tech Unicorn Enterprise Exhibition held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on
April 29. Products like high-tech video viewers distinguish China’s unicorns. LIN YUNLONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Chinese investors are
considering to shift
their investment phi-
losophy and focus
more on high-tech
and innovative com-
panies, corresponding
to the country’s high-
quality development
blueprint.”
Hu Tianxiang, founder of Shanghai
SuXiang Investment Consulting Co Ltd
major way to raise funds for uni-
corns and support their public lis-
tings.
The country also announced a
pilot program on March 30 to sup-
port innovative companies’ domes-
tic listings and issuance of Chinese
Depositary Receipts or CDRs, a
form of equity that will allow Chi-
nese investors to gain exposure to
foreign-listed shares.
Unicorns, especially tech start-
ups, have fewer opportunities to
raise funds domestically so tend to
list overseas, due to existing legal
and technical barriers to listing on
the A-share market, including
restrictions on weighted voting
rights, or dual-class shares, and
mandatory requirements like IPO
applicants’ profitability.
That is also one of the reasons
why China’s capital market has
been dominated by traditional
industries such as property devel-
opment, finance and industrial
materials.
According to the country’s top
securities watchdog, the China
Securities Regulatory Commission,
the CDR pilot program will apply to
overseas-listed firms that operate
the Chinese mainland with a mar-
kete capitalization of no less than
200 billion yuan ($31.7 billion).
“China is creating mega unicorns
at a fast pace, and some of the lead-
ing companies are now as big as
comparable US firms. For example,
Tencent is as big as Facebook,” said
Harry Man, a partner and founding
member of Matrix Partners China,
a venture capital company founded
in 2008.
According to Matrix data, the
total market capitalization of Chi-
na-based large-cap technology
companies, which form a large part
of the Chinese unicorn universe,
has reached $1.94 trillion by the
end of 2017, compared with $23 bil-
lion a decade ago.
The venture capital company has
invested in 35 unicorns in China,
and 27 of them have made IPOs.
Matrix is now running four US dol-
lar-denominated funds and six
yuan-denominated funds, with
total assets under management
worth more than 20 billion yuan.
services for the future
By CHEN MEILING
chenmeiling@chinadaily.com.cn
Business transformation and
product upgrades are key to the sur-
vival and future growth of budget
hotels that are in decline — and BTG
Homeinns Hotels Group, whose
first-quarter profit surged over 116
percent year-on-year to 75.39 mil-
lion yuan ($11.8 million), is a good
example, experts said.
Sun Jian, general manager of BTG
Homeinns, said the budget hotel
operator renovated or refurbished
100 hotels since 2017 with new
chairs, lamps, sofas and walls. It also
set up areas for tea breaks and buf-
fets, and introduced more fashiona-
ble design, to make customers feel
at home, the company said. “Budget
hotels cannot sell (their products
and services) for 10 years without
any change,” Sun said.
Budget hotels in China saw a rap-
id growth from 2005 to 2010. By Jan
1, there were 32,444 such hotels
operating in China. Back in 2005,
there were only 522, according to
the China Hospitality Association.
However, such hotels faltered
when the emerging middle-income
consumer group began to demand
tailor-made services and better
experiences, a CHA report said.
Rise of rentals, aging of facilities
and competition from mid- to high-
end hotels and bed-and-breakfast
facilities also posed a challenge to
budget hotels.
Industry experts said the proper-
ty management and human resour-
ces costs of budget hotels have
grown sharply since 2007 with
three-star hotels even posting loss-
es. Huazhu Hotels Group said it
closed 10 budget hotels in the first
quarter of this year and opened 81
new mid-range hotels.
“Budget hotels will be eliminated
from the market sooner or later,
because their mission to solve the
accommodation problem has been
almost accomplished,” said Zhang
Tao, former general manager of a
five-star hotel in Chongqing in
Southwest China. “Costs are rising
rapidly while room rentals remain
as low as 100 yuan to 200 yuan per
night. So, how could you count on
this to make a profit?” he said.
After working in the hotel indus-
try for more than 20 years, Zhang
quit his job and founded his own
24-hour bed-and-breakfast brand
Dimi in Chongqing in 2016, whose
net profit margin last year was said
to be 40 percent.
A few five-star hotels can post 25
to 30 percent of total revenue as net
profits, while budget hotels can
barely make 8 to 10 percent of total
revenue as net profit, he said.
A Dimi room sells for 800 yuan to
1,000 yuan per night, more expen-
sive than local five-star hotels, yet,
its occupancy rate was 95 percent
last year, Zhang said.
Dimi has a name for each of its
guest rooms. The names are
inspired by classic Chinese poems
of the yore. It also offers guests a
yard full of flowers, a library for free
and training classes for tea brew-
ing, ikebana and incense-making.
Zhang invested 2 million yuan to
open the bed-and-breakfast facility
with 14 guest rooms, which broke
even in less than two years.
Yao Weichan, a government offi-
cial in a county of Hunan prov-
ince, said she used to choose
budget hotels, ranging from 120
yuan to 220 yuan per night, when
she first began work, in order to
save money.
“Once I arrived in another city
late and had to spend one night in a
room without window. The corri-
dors were dark and the air quality
wasn’t good. I’d rather pay more to
live in some place better now.”
Yao said she favors hotels that
have comfortable beds and are well
lighted, and would welcome addi-
tional features like flower decora-
tions, green plants and other
innovative surprises like welcome
drinks, birthday gifts, customized
stationery and travel assistance.
“Once, I stayed at a high-end hotel
during a business trip to Yunnan. I
found a towel folded in the shape of
a small elephant and roses on my
bed, which really touched me.”
A Homeinns branch in Nanjing,
Jiangsu province.
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315 E Fund CSI 300 510310 1.64 2.43
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Motoring CHINA DAILY

Increase in sales steers China’s Rolls-Royce enters fierce

auto market in the right direction
Demand for
vehicles grows
across the
board in world’s
biggest market
By LI FUSHENG
lifusheng@chinadaily.com.cn
China sold 2.32 million
cars in April, up 11.5 per-
cent on the same month last
year, according to the China
Association of Automobile
Manufacturers.
The association said the
figure was as much to do
with the unusually low
sales of 2.08 million cars in
April 2017, than of a surge.
The April sales brought
total sales in the first four
months to 9.5 million cars,
up 4.8 percent on the same
period last year.
CAAM added that the
rate of growth is picking
up speed compared with
the first quarter of this year,
which was 2.8 percent year-
on-year, and shows the
market is in good form.
In the first four months,
passenger car sales, which
accounted for the bulk of
total car sales, reached
8 million, up 4.5 percent
year-on-year.
In April, their sales were
1.91 million units, surging
11.2 percent year-on-year.
A salesperson shows a visitor a vehicle interior at Auto China 2018 in Beijing.
WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
The growth was mainly
the result of SUV sales,
which grew 12.9 percent
year-on-year to 3.47 mil-
lion units.
Despite a slower growth
rate compared with previ-
ous years, it was the only
segment that saw a double-
digit growth.
In the same period, sedan
sales totaled 3.79 million
units, up 3.1 percent year-
on-year, and still remains
the largest segment by size.
Sales of multi-purpose
vehicles fell 12 percent,
and that of minivans saw
a 36.9 percent slump in
the same period. Cars with
smaller engines were popu-
lar choices, with statistics
from the association show-
ing that sales for those with
engines no larger than 1.6
liters totaled 5.43 million
units from January to April,
accounting for 67.4 percent
of passenger car sales in the
period.
Cars bearing Chinese
marques accounted for 44.5
percent of total passenger
car sales, half a percentage
point lower than the same
period last year.
They were followed by
German brands, which
had a 20.8 percent market
share, 1 percentage point
higher than the same peri-
od in 2017.
Japanese brands saw
their market share stay
the same, while the market
share of American carmak-
ers dipped in the period.
New energy cars, which
consist of electric cars,
plug-in hybrids and fuel-
cell cars, saw solid growth.
A total of 82,000 units
were sold in April, surg-
ing 138 percent year-on-
year. Sales in the first four
months reached 225,000
units, a 149 percent growth
year-on-year.
The association said it
is confident in new energy
cars and expects sales this
year to exceed 1 million
units. China sold 777,000
such cars last year.
The country overtook the
United States as the world’s
largest new energy car mar-
ket in 2015.
Charging networks for
such vehicles have also
been growing rapidly, with
a total of 262,058 public
charging poles built by the
end of April, according to
the China Electric Vehicle
Charging Infrastructure
Promotion Alliance.
The number of private
charging poles in the coun-
try totaled around 412,283
as of last month.
Commercial vehicles,
including buses and trucks,
also recorded a decent sales
performance.
In April, 404,000 vehi-
cles were sold, a 13 percent
rise on the same month last
year. That brought sales in
the first four months to 1.49
million units, up 6.6 per-
cent year-on-year.
Of these, bus sales were
137,000 units, up 4.6 per-
cent from the same period
last year and truck sales
stood at 1.35 million units,
a 6.8 percent growth year-
on-year.
luxury SUV segment
By HAO YAN
haoyan@chinadaily.com.cn
British super-luxury car brand
Rolls-Royce is dipping its toe into
the booming sport utility vehicle
market.
The model is called Cullinan, which
also happens to be the name of the
largest gem-quality diamond ever
found, and it was unveiled on Thurs-
day to the world’s largest auto market.
Orders are now being taken for the
million-yuan Cullinan, which comes
with highly bespoke services for exclu-
sive individuality.
“We are setting a new standard
by creating a new class of motoring
and motor car for customers who are
well-connected, highly mobile and
have a global perspective,” said Peter
Schwarzenbauer, chairman of Rolls-
Royce and a member of the board of
the BMW AG.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars found its
customers expect to go everywhere
in luxury, effortlessly and without
compromise, conquering the most
challenging terrain to enjoy life’s most
enriching experiences, according to
the company.
“Our customers’ sense of adventure
and daring demands a ‘go-anywhere
in ultimate luxury’ motor car that will
both take them to and meet them at
the pinnacle of life. Cullinan is that
The Cullinan is seen as an attempt by Rolls-Royce to increase its profits by entering the
super-luxury SUV segment.
motor-car,” he said. Torsten Mueller-
Oetvoes, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor
Cars, said the new model is “incom-
parable and dramatically evolves the
parameters of super-luxury travel,
translating Rolls-Royce’s ethos of
‘effortlessness’ into physical capability,
anywhere in the world. Cullinan will
simply take the world in its stride.”
The automaker says it built this
new model on its latest “Architec-
ture of Luxury”, referring to an
all-aluminum space-frame archi-
tecture designed for small-volume
manufacture that will underpin
every future Rolls-Royce beginning
with the new Phantom, which was
launched on the market in the sec-
ond half of last year.
The Cullinan is seen as an attempt
by Rolls-Royce to increase its prof-
its by entering the super-luxury SUV
segment.
The model makes it only the third
of its kind in the segment, after
Bentley Bentayga and Lamborghini
Urus, according to an analyst at a
major securities firm. Since Bentley
started delivering Bentayga in 2016,
the Chinese luxury SUV market has
been turning that potential into pur-
chases.
Mueller-Oetvoes said, “Our cus-
tomers will buy all of the cars they
like, and pay in cash most of the
time.”

Legendary German brand Borgward offers best in safety, technology

By LI FUSHENG
Borgward, a German brand
owned by Chinese carmaker
Foton, has shaken off its secrecy
and repositioned itself as part
of efforts to rev up its perfor-
mance in the competitive Chi-
nese market.
“We are a German brand
backed by Chinese capital,”
said Jason Yang, president of
Borgward Group, at the 2018
Borgward Day ceremony held
on Wednesday in Beijing.
“We spent little on acquiring
the brand, and we invest heav-
ily in building teams, research
and development centers and
manufacturing plants, so we
can find the fastest curve to that
(which) will enable the Chinese
to go global,” said Yang, a for-
mer Nissan veteran who joined
Borgward in February.
Established in 1919, Borg-
ward was one of the first auto-
makers to introduce automatic
gears; the company also invent-
ed the compact sedan and was
once Germany’s largest car
exporter.
Its acquisition has helped
the carmaker to attract a
large number of professionals,
who then fueled Borgward’s
momentum in development
and manufacturing.
It now has more than 2,000
engineers and technicians from
12 countries, accounting for
some 40 percent of Borgward’s
staff. Some of them previously
held senior posts at major car-
makers including GM, BMW
and Rolls-Royce.
“Our state-of-the-art technol-
ogies are in the heads of those
brilliant engineers,” Yang said.
Borgward defines itself as
a brand with the engineering
spirit and aspires to offer the
safest models to its customers.
“We not only build cars but
also deliver a sense of safety,”
Yang said, adding that the core
of the brand is “Courage Driven
by Borgward”, or CDB for short.
Yang said the models’ unique
The latest range of Borgward models are displayed at the 2018 Borgward Day Ceremony.
A brand with the engineering spirit, Borgward defines itself as
aspiring to offer the safest models to its customers.
selling proposition is “Borg-
ward Safety Time Space”, which
includes a series of functions
including four-wheel drive,
emergency calling ability, a high
proportion of ultra-strength
steel in car bodies and an elec-
tric “fence” that will prevent
cars from being stolen.
These are fruits of the work
performed by its global research
teams and state-of-the-art man-
ufacturing facilities, according
to the carmaker.
Borgward now has three
major research and develop-
ment centers, which each have
their own tasks while working
in unison to achieve synergy.
According to the carmaker,
the team in Beijing, which is
the core of the three, is respon-
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
A Borgward BX6 attracts attention during the 2018 Borgward Day
Ceremony.
sible for work related with
chassis, car bodies and engines,
as well as architecture and col-
lision tests. The Beijing team
also undertakes overall plan-
ning and management about
research and development.
Staff based in Stuttgart pri-
marily works on design and
styling, ensuring Borgward’s
German design style and engi-
neering quality. The team in
the Silicon Valley, which was
established earlier this month,
is expected to play an important
role in autonomous driving.
Borgward also owns a state-
of-the-art manufacturing plant
in Beijing, which Yang said “is
built in accordance with similar
standards as in Audi plants.”
The plant is recognized by
the Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology as an
exemplar of Sino-German coop-
eration in intelligent manufac-
turing.
“We have a very flexible pro-
duction line, which is capable of
producing eight different mod-
els at the same time, including
electric ones,” Yang said.
He said Borgward models
meet five global standards and
are produced in accordance
with the EU standards, which
are the strictest in the world.
Borgward has also released
a strategy called “Energy of
Twins”, which means it will
work on both gasoline cars and
electric models.
Its BXi7, which was unveiled
at the same event, is also the
country’s first mass delivery
four-wheel-drive electric SUV.
The carmaker also debuted its
latest gasoline car, the BX6.
The electric SUV has a mile-
age of 375 km and a top torque
of 390 Nm. It has a top speed
of 195 km/h and can accelerate
from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.9 sec-
onds. The BX6 is equipped by
a 2-liter turbocharged engine,
which has a maximum output
of 165 kW and a top torque of
300 Nm. It comes with a six-
speed automatic/manual gear-
box and consumes 7.1 liters of
fuel per 100 km in comprehen-
sive road conditions.
With their addition, Borg-
ward now has a lineup of five
models, with its BX7, BX7 TS
and BX5 SUVs having been in
the market for a while.
“We will focus on gasoline
Our state-of-the-art cars but actively explore the
future of electric ones,” Yang
technologies are in said. Borgward has demonstrat-
ed its navigation system, with
the heads of those an accuracy that come within
brilliant engineers.” a meter both horizontally and
vertically.
Jason Yang, president of Believed to be a milestone in
Borgward Group its autonomous driving cam-
paign, the system will start to
appear in Borgward models
starting in 2019, the carmaker
said.

The section is sponsored by Borgward.

 CHINA DAILY Monday, May 14, 2018
Sinotruk puts its weight behind
expanding overseas revenues
Chinese truck
manufacturer’s
tailor-made
solutions give it
edge abroad
By LI FUSHENG
lifusheng@chinadaily.com.cn
China National Heavy Duty
Truck Group Corp is betting
big on the overseas market,
with the expectation that half
of its total sales will come
from outside of China by 2020,
according to the company.
The Shandong province-
based manufacturer, also
known as Sinotruk, sold 33,700
heavy trucks overseas in 2017,
some 11 percent of its total sales
for the year.
Thanks to rising demand in
Africa and countries involved
in the Belt and Road Initiative,
it had received orders of 19,356
heavy trucks in the first quarter
this year, an increase of nearly
19 percent year-on-year.
“This is a good start, and we
are optimistic about our sales
goal of 40,000 units this year,”
said Yang Zhengxu, president
of Sinotruk International, a
subsidiary dedicated to its over-
seas operations.
Sinotruk was one of China’s
first heavy vehicle manufactur-
ers to begin exploring overseas
markets.
“We made it a corporate
strategy to go global as early as
2004, and we have been China’s
largest heavy truck exporter for
13 years in a row, totaling more
than 300,000 units,” Yang said.
Sinotruk has offices in some
70 countries and is selling its
trucks to around 110 countries
and regions.
All-new Lexus ES puts discerning customers ‘Comfortably in Control’
By HAO YAN
haoyan@chinadaily.com.cn
In response to its Chinese cus-
tomers’ highly valued demands,
luxury automaker Lexus show-
cased its Comfortably in Control
philosophy with the world pre-
miere of its all-new Lexus ES at
Auto China 2018 in Beijing.
The April 25 debut expressed
the brand’s continued commit-
ment to its design direction and
to crafting vehicles with height-
ened excitement, emotion and
passion, expanding the brand’s
future vision.
“We listen to customers’ aspi-
rations and empathize with
their passions. This has helped
Lexus grow into a truly global
luxury lifestyle brand,” said
Tokuo Fukuichi, chief branding
officer of Lexus International,
at the all-new Lexus ES’ world
premiere.
“We not only build amazing
cars, but also push beyond the
boundary of expectations,” he
said.
The all-new Lexus ES is a
more spacious, quieter and
safer executive sedan than ever
before, and customers will expe-
rience dynamic performance,
class-leading safety technology
and a level of craftsmanship
rarely found in this segment.
The research and devel-
opment that went into the
model took Chinese custom-
ers’ demands into full consid-
eration, as the market is one
of the most significant for the
brand globally.
Hitoshi Otake, executive vice-
president of Lexus China, said:
“Chinese consumers are young-
er and more demanding, with
diverse needs.
“To better satisfy Chinese
customers, the all-new Lexus
ES has an extended wheelbase
and offers a splendid driving
dynamic, together with superior
quietness,” he said.
The all-new model is fully
upgraded in terms of design,
performance, tranquility and
A staff member works at the Sinotruck production line in Jinan, Shandong province. The company is one of the country’s first heavy
vehicle manufacturers to tap the overseas markets. GUO XULEI / XINHUA
This is a good
start, and we are
optimistic about
our sales goal of
40,000 units this
year.”
Yang Zhengxu, president of
Sinotruk International
To better satisfy
Chinese customers,
the all-new Lexus
ES has an extended
wheelbase
and offers a
splendid driving
dynamic, together
with superior
quietness.”
Hitoshi Otake, executive vice-
president of Lexus China
safety, bringing an even more
luxury driving experience to
the new generation of Chinese
customers through exceptional
drivability, class-leading safety
technology and the automaker’s
Takumi concept of craftsman-
ship, inspired by Eastern aes-
thetics.
Lexus China is planning to
impress its Chinese audience
with memorable, brave design
elements, beyond-imagination
technologies, Takumi crafts-
manship, and outstanding driv-
ing performance, according to
Otake. “These approaches are
expected to express the unique
glamour of the Lexus brand and
To be tter mee t local
demands, it has also built 15
assembly plants in nine coun-
tries, including the Philippines,
Nigeria, Ethiopia and Vietnam
to offer tailor-made models.
“Every market has its own
features, so it is almost a one-
size-for-one approach,” Yang
said.
In the Philippines, the com-
pany has been producing
lighter vehicles to suit the local
market demand. This is just
one of many examples of how
the company is customizing
its products to suit different
markets across the globe, said
Yang. Besides offering prod-
ucts tailored to specific mar-
kets, Sinotruk is diversifying its
marketing efforts to get better
established overseas.
The all-new Lexus ES 300h and all-new ES 260 F Sport make their world premiere at Auto China 2018 in Beijing.
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
The all-new ES 300h
help build customers’ loyalty to
the Lexus brand,” he said.
“We are expecting the all-
new Lexus ES to achieve better
market performance than the
previous generation’s 60,000
sales last year in China.” The
company plans to strengthen its
brand presence in tier-one cities
such as Beijing, Shanghai and
Guangzhou, in order to keep
target customers informed and
help them gain more under-
standing of the Lexus brand.
At the same time, Lexus’
dealership networks are set to
expand into tier-two and three
cities, after careful research into
The company is also provid-
ing comprehensive solutions
such as car financing and
building its own sales networks
to prevent an overreliance on
local partners. While consoli-
dating its position in Africa
and Southeast Asia, Sinotruk is
making forays into developed
countries, including Ireland,
Australia and New Zealand.
Lan Junjie, general man-
ager of the manufacturer’s
international department, said
Sinotruk has set a firm goal to
increase its presence in devel-
oped countries in the future.
“In five to 10 years, we hope
that we can compete with rivals
like Volvo or Man, technologi-
cally,” Lan said.
Sinotruk has invested heavily
in research and development.
optimizing dealership coverage
in such regions.
New dimension
After six generations of
unprecedented success in the
luxury midsize executive sedan
category, the Lexus ES is known
for its unparalleled comfort,
refinement and luxuriousness.
Now, the seventh-generation
Lexus ES is building on its
strengths with an all-new plat-
form that allows a more dynam-
ic exterior design and even bet-
ter driving performance.
Inspired by the design con-
cept of Comfortably in Control,
The section is sponsored by Lexus.
In China, it has a technological
center that according to Dong
Yang, executive vice-president
of the China Association of
Automobile Manufacturers, is
the best he has ever seen.
Besides traditional models,
Lan added that Sinotruk has
been following the latest trends
in the sector, including new
energy vehicles, connectivity
and autonomous driving.
The company is also prepar-
ing to establish research and
development facilities overseas.
In 2017, Sinotruk acquired
a stake in an electric motor
maker in Denver, the United
States, and the two sides are in
discussions to set up a research
center dedicated to studies
on new energy vehicles, Lan
said.
The all-new ES interior
the all-new ES is the first Lexus
model to be equipped with a
vertical-pattern spindle grille.
Triple projector LED head-
lamps, a longer wheelbase, and
a wider and more streamlined
body profile contribute to a fully
dynamic sedan.
The all-new ES also inher-
its the prestige, elegance and
refined cabin space of former
models, infusing a futuristic
interior with Eastern elements
via the application of natural
materials and Lexus’ signature
Takumi craftsmanship. Power
reclining seats provide rear-seat
passengers with a class-leading
Short Torque
GM, Seoul agree
to $7b bailout
The US auto giant General
Motors and Seoul have
agreed on a multi-billion-
dollar bailout for the firm’s
troubled South Korean unit,
a government minister said
Thursday. GM is the largest
US automaker and one of the
biggest players in the global
industry but its South Korean
subsidiary is loss-making and
has seen production fall by
almost half in the last decade
Earlier this year GM Korea
announced a plan to shut
down Gunsan, one of its four
plants in the country.
US safety agency
reviews Tesla crash
The US National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
said Thursday it was
reviewing a Florida crash
of a Tesla Inc vehicle
last week that killed two
teenagers. A statement said
the administration was
“gathering information
on the tragic crash in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
to understand all of the
facts. The agency will take
appropriate action based
on its review.” The National
Transportation Safety Board
said it was opening a probe
into the crash and sending
four investigators.
Mazda names new
CEO to lead revival
Mazda Motor Corp named
Akira Marumoto its next
CEO to lead a revival in
earnings growth in the face
of a slowing US market and
stiff competition in China.
Marumoto, an executive
vice-president who heads
operations in the US, will
replace Masamichi Kogai after
the change is ratified at an
annual shareholder meeting
on June 26, Mazda said.
Kogai will become chairman
following a five-year tenure in
which he orchestrated deeper
luxury experience.
Built on the all-new Global
Architecture — K (GA-K) plat-
form, the all-new Lexus ES
pushes the limits of design in
the midsize luxury sedan class.
This ES is longer (4,975 mm),
lower (1,445 mm) and wider
(1,865 mm) than before, with
wheels that have been pushed
closer to the corners thanks to a
longer wheelbase of 2,870 mm
and wider tracks both in the
front and rear.
Its stance and proportions
reflect its newfound perfor-
mance capabilities and give
the ES the kind of eye-catching
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ties with Toyota Motor Corp.
Diesel car owners
could join VW class
Around two million diesel
car owners in Germany could
join class action lawsuits to
seek compensation from
Volkswagen. The German
cabinet approved a draft
law last week that paves the
way for class action against
the carmaker, which in 2015
admitted it had used illegal
software to cheat US diesel
emissions tests. The draft
law aims to make it easier for
people to join a legal test case,
thereby avoiding high costs
that might otherwise put
them off bringing legal action.
Toyota reports
improved profit
Toyota Motor Corp reported
last week that its quarterly
profit rose 21 percent as cost
cuts and booming sales in
some markets offset the toll
from higher US incentives.
January-March profit at
Toyota, which makes the
Camry sedan, Prius hybrid
and Lexus luxury models,
totaled 480.8 billion yen ($4.4
billion), up from 398 billion
yen the same quarter the
previous year. Quarterly sales
rose nearly 2 percent to 7.58
trillion yen.
LG signs JV to make
auto batteries
LG Chem, LG Group’s
electric battery making
subsidiary, and China’s
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt
have set up a joint venture
in the city of Wuxi in
eastern China’s Jiangsu
province. According to the
city government, the two
companies signed a contract
for the Automotive Battery
Anode Material Project,
which will be located in
Wuxi’s national high-tech
district.
MOTORING - AGENCIES
appearance that demands a sec-
ond glance. Thanks to the all-
new GA-K platform, the all-new
ES boasts outstanding driving
performance and responsive
control in line with the driver’s
intentions under various driv-
ing conditions.
Various grades of high-tensile
steel reduce its weight com-
pared to previous platforms,
while additional enhancements
— such as an all-new multi-link
rear suspension design, rack-
mounted electric power steer-
ing, a V-brace mounted behind
the rear seat and enclosed chas-
sis — gave the engineers the
flexibility to tune the ES with
beyond-expectation ride quality.
The all-new ES comes with fully
upgraded tranquility through
Active Noise Control as well as
passive noise control technol-
ogy, including Hybrid Acous-
tics, front and rear double-deck
acoustic glass, noise-reducing
wheels, enclosed chassis and
wiper deceleration control.
As a natural result of Lexus’
commitment to developing
exceptional safety technology,
the all-new ES is equipped with
second-generation Lexus Safety
System+, which brings the mod-
el’s safety standard to a whole
new level.
The latest model’s hybrid
edition, the all-new ES 300h, is
powered by a newly developed
Lexus Hybrid Drive system,
including an all-new Atkinson
Cycle Engine with top level
maximum thermal efficiency of
41 percent, all-new PCU, E-CVT
and a redesigned nickel-hydro-
gen battery.
The system not only outputs
ferocious power, but also ultra-
low fuel consumption.
Also making its world debut
at Auto China 2018, was the all-
new ES 260 F Sport, the first F
Sport ES since the model was
first launched 30 years ago, pro-
viding personalized and diversi-
fied options for consumers seek-
ing next-generation intelligent
luxury.
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LIFE
Monday, May 14, 2018
CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/LIFE
A huqin player and a vocalist perform together with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on May 5 to celebrate a new performance season.
NORTHERN HIGHLIGHTS
The Shanghai Chinese Orchestra kicks off its new performance season with a showcase of
traditional musical works from Northwest China. Zhang Kun reports.
T
he Shanghai Chinese
Orchestra celebrated
the opening of its
new performance
season with a concert of music
from Northwest China at the
Shanghai Grand Theatre on
May 5.
A series of new composi-
tions premiered at the concert,
which showcased local and
traditional musical elements
from Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi
provinces, Ningxia Hui auton-
omous region and Xinjiang
Uygur autonomous region.
Vocalists and instrumentalists
from these northwestern prov-
inces and regions took the lead
alongside musicians from the
SHCO.
The concert gave a glimpse
of the mission and style of the
SHCO, said Luo Xiaoci, direct-
or of the company. The SHCO
was founded in 1952, and was
the first large-scale modern
orchestra to feature Chinese
instruments in the country.
Luo summarized the compa-
ny’s mission as “presenting
Chinese music with an inter-
national vision and a contem-
porary style”.
The SHCO has been com-
missioning new compositions
with artists from both home
and abroad. By constantly
bringing out new composi-
tions and music productions,
the SHCO has brought Chinese
folk music to a variety of differ-
ent audiences.
“In the past few years we
have presented heavyweight
productions that reflect the
main theme of our times, as
well as lighthearted chamber
Dance drama pays tribute to
landmark railway project
By CHEN NAN
chennan@chinadaily.com.cn
In 2001, when composer Yin
Qing read the news about the
start of the construction of the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway, he was
very excited and wanted to do
a song on the subject.
The railway, which is 1,956
kilometers long, is the world’s
highest line, and the longest
built on a single plateau. At its
highest point, it is 5,072
meters above sea level.
The railway connecting
Tibet with the rest of world,
links Xining — the capital of
Qinghai province — with Lha-
sa, the capital of the Tibet
autonomous region.
Explaining how the song
concerts that are popular with
young audiences,” Luo says.
Among the highlights for
the 2018-19 season will be a
concert production commis-
sioned from Shanghai-based
composer Huang Lei.
Under the title, The Com-
mon Home, Huang will bring
together signature music
styles and instruments from
around the globe to create a
concert about “the destiny of
all humanity”.
“Social development has
caused serious environmental
issues, and this is a problem we
all face,” Huang says. “We are
all in it together, and I want to
address the topic by combin-
ing traditional Chinese instru-
ments with folk music from all
over the world.”
Together with musicians
from the SHCO, Huang is mak-
ing extensive studies of folk
came about, he says: “I have
traveled several times to Tibet
and I was impressed by the
beautiful scenery and the
local people. It is a magical
and inspiring place.”
The Beijing-based compos-
er, who along with his friend,
lyricist Qu Yuan, Yin wrote a
song, titled Road to Heaven.
And it was later performed by
pop star Han Hong and
became one of Han’s best-
known hits.
In July 2016, when the
National Center for the Per-
forming Arts decided to pro-
duce a dance drama to mark
the 12th anniversary of the
opening of the Qinghai-Tibet
Railway, Yin was invited to be
the music director of the
Top: Bamboo flute and dramyin performers work with the
Shanghai Chinese Orchestra as part of the performance at the
Shanghai Grand Theatre. Above: A suona artist and a ballad singer
perform with the same orchestra.
music from around the world
in an attempt to find musical
elements that would suit being
performed on Chinese instru-
ments, while looking for for-
dance drama. And he then
decided to use song in the
dance drama.
The dance drama, titled
Road to Tibet, will make its
debut at the NCPA over June
30-July 3.
Speaking about the unique
subject of the dance drama,
NCPA’s vice-president Zhao
Tiechun says: “The construc-
tion of Qinghai-Tibet Railway
was a key project of the coun-
try’s 40-year reform and open-
ing-up. And people from
around world have enjoyed
unique culture of Tibet by
traveling on the railway.”
Meanwhile, according to
the show’s director Wang Ge,
the drama is based on real sto-
ries from the construction
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guzheng shares a similar quali-
ty of sound with the sitar, an
instrument used widely in tra-
ditional Indian and Middle
Eastern music.
“A conversation can be
achieved between these
instruments and the music
styles,” he says. “I am working
closely with musicians at the
SHCO to explore all kinds of
possibilities.”
The new production is
scheduled to premiere on Nov
3, during the China Shanghai
International Arts Festival.
Also due to premiere in the
new season is a concert about
Chinese mythology named
Hero, by composer Li Bochan.
“I will create a symphonic epic,
eign instruments that would with each chapter named after
fit well with a Chinese orches- an ancient Chinese hero,” he
tra, Huang tells China Daily. says. “I will work hard to
For example, the traditional present the depth and dignity,
Chinese stringed instrument as well as the exquisite and
Director Wang Ge (third right) and the main cast of Road to Tibet
at a news conference for the dance drama in NCPA in Beijing.
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phase of the railway, especial- Speaking about the change,
ly the friendships between the Wang says: “We visited
construction workers and the people who were involved in
Tibetan people. the construction of the
One thing that is unique railway and listened to their
about this dance drama by stories. And then we realized
Wang is that it has 11 lead roles that it was not enough to just
unlike his earlier shows which have just two or three lead
have fewer lead characters. roles because there were so
gentle side of Chinese national
music, and will find an exclu-
sive sound or expression for
each hero,” he said.
Hero will be performed on
Dec 15, under the baton of
Tang Muhai, chief guest con-
ductor and honorary artistic
director of the SHCO.
“Musicians at the SCHO
view their instruments as if
they are priceless antiques
from the Palace Museum,”
Tang says in a video clip cele-
brating the SHCO’s new sea-
son. “Each sound we make
speaks of the beauty of Chinese
culture — just like our lan-
guage. It’s time for the world to
know about China’s culture,
and China’s music.”
Earlier this year, the SHCO
made a successful European
tour, New Oriental, which fea-
tured the sound of an ancient
flute made from a bone that
dates back 8,000 years, as well
as compositions by contempo-
rary Chinese artists such as
Zhao Jiping and Tan Dun.
Last year, the orchestra pre-
miered a new symphonic pro-
duction Shanghai Odyssey —
The Bund during the China
Shanghai International Arts
Festival, a piece created by Ger-
man composer Christian Jost.
Since then Shanghai Odys-
sey has toured extensively,
performing in Beijing and
Guangzhou.
“It was a great way to intro-
duce Shanghai to other parts
of China,” Luo says.
Contact the writer at
zhangkun@
chinadaily.com.cn
If you go
7:30 pm, June 30 to July 3.
NCPA, No 2 West Chang’an
Avenue, Xicheng district,
Beijing. 010-6655-0000
many stories. People even
sacrificed their lives for the
railway.”
The drama’s creative team
and dancers from the Jilin
Municipal Ensemble of Songs
and Dances, traveled to Qing-
hai and Tibet in August, and
were inspired to use elements
of local Tibetan music and
dances for the dance drama.
Speaking about what he
hopes to project through the
dance drama, Wang says: “We
want not only to showcase
how hard people worked for
the railway, but also to show
the hopes, the beliefs, and the
dreams of the local people.”
Chinese
musicians
enthrall
on tour
BUCHAREST—
Applause and loud cheer-
ing greeted the finale of a
third encore as the audi-
ence in Bucharest’s Athe-
naeum Hall showed their
appreciation for the April
23 performance by the
Hangzhou Philharmonic
Orchestra.
As part of its tour across
southeastern Europe that
includes Greece, Bulgaria,
Serbia and Romania, the
Hangzhou Philharmonic
mesmerized the Romanian
audience with The Flying
Dutchman Overture, The
Butterfly Lovers violin con-
certo and Rachmaninoff’s
Symphonic Dances Op 45.
So enraptured by the
music and the perform-
ance, the audience urged
the recital of three more
pieces from the east China
orchestra: one by Paganini
and two Chinese classical
compositions.
A combination of touch-
ing solos by violinist Ning
Feng and a powerful
orchestral performance,
conducted by Yang Yang,
held the audience in thrall.
The Butterfly Lovers vio-
lin concerto was particu-
larly well received.
Although the love story it
depicts is sad, the music
was acclaimed by some in
the audience as “marvelous
and breathtaking”.
Artists of Hangzhou Phil-
harmonic Orchestra perform
on April 23 in Bucharest,
Romania. LIN HUIFEN / XINHUA
“This concert has been
medicine to my soul, they
are exceptionally good and
it’s amazing that such a
young orchestra, only nine
years since its creation, is so
skillful,” says Romanian
musician, conductor and
professor of music, Nicolae
Racu, who has been playing
Chinese classical music for
the past 40 years.
Racu adds that the
young Chinese orchestra
has already garnered a ven-
erable reputation due to its
depth of talent.
During the concert,
exclamations of “bravo”
and “incredible” could be
heard emanating from vari-
ous areas of the hall, with
one concertgoer, 50-year-
old biologist, Mariana,
describing the perform-
ance as “powerful and awe-
some,” adding that she was
impressed with “the Chi-
nese sensitivity” for the
music.
Yang says: “We came to
southeastern Europe
because we know the region
has a very rich tradition of
classical music and the reac-
tion of the audience con-
firmed my expectations.”
Violinist Ning notes that
one of his inspirations is his
Romanian counterpart, the
late Ion Voicu.
“It’s an honor for me to
come here, because when
we studied music, we were
deeply influenced by the
music from southeastern
Europe.”
XINHUA
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36 When people occasionally an expert will cities to attract more talents have put pressure on first-
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port. But he then made an ed to a heart, but South won 北京提出建立优秀人才引进的绿色通道(a “green
excellent choice, continuing with dummy’s king and led a channel” for outstanding talents) ，可在聘用单位的集体
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partner a choice of games, trick and returned a heart,
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guaranteed five spades. In a 13-table duplicate, six 予优待(special treatment for high-end talents and their
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The recent Dragon Burn, a satellite

Burning Man event in Anji county, Zhejiang

FEELING
province, draws participants to set up themed
camps and arrange activities that promote
community spirit.
PHOTOS BY TU TU, XIAOFANG SUSKITA AND
PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

THE
BURN
A recent
T
his past May Day holiday, I
found myself hurtling
satellite event in through the undergrowth in
bamboo-blanketed Anji
Zhejiang of the county, Zhejiang province, triple-
checking my seat belt as our bus sped
world-famous along increasingly narrower dirt
roads.
Burning Man A group of Beijing-based friends
and I were making our way to a satel-
lite Burning Man event called Dragon
festival inspires Burn, deep in the heart of the forest. In
the distance we could see the shimmer
Camilla Tenn to of the sunset reflecting off a vast reser-
voir, and knew we were close.
consider attending Colleagues had warned me that poi-
sonous snakes inhabit the wilderness
its US incarnation. there, and someone in the dedicated
WeChat group had created a panic
about leeches. I was not feeling too
confident in the strength of my mos-
quito repellant to protect me from
such foes.
Once we had arrived, however, I felt
in safe hands. The local police were on
hand to register us foreigners — mean-
ing no need to rush off to the local sta-
tion once we’d set up our tents — and
veteran “burners” were handing out
maps directing us further into the wil-
derness.
First held in 2014, Dragon Burn is an
official Burning Man regional event
promoting the “10 principles”, namely:
radical inclusion, gifting, decommodi-
fication, radical self-reliance, radical
self-expression, communal effort, civic
responsibility, leaving no trace, partic-
ipation and immediacy.
At first I wasn’t entirely sure what
that all meant, other than that I need-
ed to take all my trash with me when I
left, and be open to new people and
experiences.
The community spirit of the Burn
meant I was soon caught up.
People strap metal boxes to their
belts to collect their cigarette butts and
scan the campsite to pick up any
debris, regardless of whether or not it
was theirs.
Artists flock from across China to
create interactive installations and
activities that promote community
spirit and the event’s core ideas.
Many artworks this year required
groups of people working together to
activate or experience fully. Some were
hidden in the forest, made just barely
visible from the main path by their
ethereal glow, while others stood
many meters tall and lit up the reser-
voir.
Themed camps put on dozens of
workshops to exchange knowledge,
insights and experiences, from danc-
ercise and meditation classes, to a
cook-off and candle making.
The main event is the Burn itself,
where fire eaters, breathers and danc-
ers perform in front of a colossal drag-
on effigy before it is set alight, to roars
of delight from the crowd.
The culmination of the long week-
end, the Burn reflects on the spirit of
its 10 principles, as the elemental, even
primal, power reminds us of our
innate humanity — a feeling best expe-
rienced when joining together to cele-
brate around a fire.
Determined to see everything, I
must have made dozens of circuits
around the entire camp, which was
the biggest to date. On one of these
tours, I bumped into a top hat and avi-
ator goggles-sporting burner whom
passersby hailed as “Founder”.
Sven Aarne Serrano is indeed a vet-
eran burner, having been involved
with the earliest days of Burning Man
back in the 1980s in San Francisco, as
part of the Cacophony Society.
Life has since moved him to Osaka
and then on to China, where he
became the first China regional con-
tact for the organization in 2011, and
the founder of Dragon Burn.
I asked him about his experiences
pulling together this ambitious event.
“We made a conscious effort to
respect all Chinese laws, make sure the
locals were happy, not wake up the
neighbors with the music and clean up
after ourselves,” he says, adding that
the local authorities were very cooper-
ative.
He says the idea is to pack in and
pack out, as though the event had nev-
er taken place at all.
One of the stated aims of Dragon
Burn is to encourage people to attend
Burning Man in Nevada, where some
60,000 plus burners congregate in
Black Rock City every summer.
“It’s an otherworldly feel. It feels like
you’re on another planet. It’s an inde-
scribable sensation,” Serrano says.
I talked with Kirsten, a US student
studying in Beijing, who has attended
two Dragon Burn events. She says the
experience led her to Black Rock City
last year.
“This was the biggest reason I decid-
ed to go to Burning Man. I realized
that the people were some of the most
open-minded and welcoming crowd
I’ve come across and I knew I could
find that on a bigger scale at the main
event. It also gives you a sense if you
would be able to survive in the desert.”
I’m not sure if I’m there yet.
I’ll admit, the idea of seven days in
the desert without access to running
water intimidates me. But if Dragon
Burn was but a taster of the real deal, I
may start looking into portable-show-
er options for next year.
Contact the writer at
camilla@chinadaily.com.cn

Jinzhou develops themed

itineraries to boost tourism
By YANG FEIYUE
yangfeiyue@chinadaily.com.cn
Jinzhou has launched six
travel routes with such themes
as culture, coastline and edu-
cation.
The city in Liaoning prov-
ince is a popular getaway for
Beijing residents, since the
journey takes about three
hours on the 15 high-speed rail
lines connecting it with the
capital.
Many also make the five-
hour drive for weekend visits,
Jinzhou’s tourism authority
says.
The city has forests, seaside
Two Liao Dynasty (916-1125) pagodas at Chongxing Temple in
Jinzhou, Liaoning province. The city has forests, seaside, wetlands
and historical sites. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
and wetlands, Liaoning pro-
vincial tourism development
commission’s deputy director
Wang Xiaojiang says.
Emperors worshiped at
Yiwulyu Mountain during the
Liao (916-1125) and Qing
(1644-1911) dynasties.
It claims to have Asia’s larg-
est Manchurian red pine for-
est and boasts vast varieties of
flowering reeds.
“Visitors can follow ancient
emperors’ footsteps among
verdant pines and cypresses,
unique rock formations and
serene valleys,” Jinzhou’s tour-
ism development commission
director Jiang Lixin says.
The stone structure Baolin-
lou built on a cliff face is a
major draw.
Many travelers enjoy Jin-
zhou Bay’s sand and swim-
ming.
The beach is connected to
Bijiashan Island by a 2-kilo-
meter stone bridge that
appears when the tide ebbs.
The island contains such his-
torical attractions as the San-
qing Pavilion.
Jinzhou is also celebrated
for its barbecue.
The city of 1.2 million people
hosts two restaurant grills for Beizhen Temple, first built during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) and
every inhabitant, Jinzhou bar- restored by later dynasties, is a well-preserved shrine at the base of
becue association president Li Yiwulyu Mountain. New ways to discover Jinzhou
Zhi says.
“Almost every resident History Health
knows how to grill,” Li says. 1921 to ’49. tourists and serve five or six Beizhen Temple-Yiwulyu Dachaoyang-Qingyan Tem-
The unique style has spread It drew visitors last winter tables during meal rushes,” Mountain-Chongxing Temple- ple-Baolinlou-Laoyeling-Da-
throughout the country and to with temple fairs, dragon says Gao Yuxia, who runs a pri- Guangsheng Temple-Caves at shihu.
such international destina- dances, hot springs and vate family-style eatery. Ten Thousand Buddha Hall- Mountains, forests and caves
tions as Los Angeles, Vancou- sports. Nianpangou’s location west Yizhou Fossil Museum. bring visitors close to nature.
ver and Melbourne, tourism Jinzhou received 3.1 million of Yiwulyu Mountain affords Visitors can see 140-million-
authorities say. visits during the Spring Festi- such outdoor activities as hik- year old fossils, and Liao Dynas- Leisure
The city’s tourism has been val holiday from Feb 15 to 21, ing and rock climbing. ty (916-1125) royal temples and Beiputuo Mountain-Jinling
developing rapidly. generating over 1.14 billion Tourism authorities have towers. Reservoir-Guta Park-Antiques
Over 5,000 visitors attended yuan ($180 million) in tourism teamed up with major tourism City-Jinzhou cultural heritage
an international antiques fes- income, the local tourism agencies. Coastal base and downtown night market.
tival in April, including collec- authority reports. And they’ve launched a pro- Bijiashan Island-Baisha Local cultural experiences,
tors from the United States, Many travel to surrounding gram in which visitors can (White Sand) Bay-World Expo- featuring gourmet food and
Sweden and Japan. areas to enjoy the countryside. share their experiences on the Jinzhou Bay-Dayou wetlands. such folk art as paper-cutting
It featured antiques from The city’s Nianpangou vil- tourism bureau’s WeChat Ocean views and cool sum- tiger motifs.
home and abroad, and items lage has attracted flocks of account and win gifts. mer weather.
from the revolution the Com- travelers since January. It seems the routes offer YANG FEIYUE
munist Party of China led from “We’ve recently got lots of new material for them to post.
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BASKETBALL
Left to right: James Harden and Chris Paul of the Houston Rockets will face Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors in a hotly anticipated Western Conference finals series, beginning on Monday.
WARRIORS, ROCKETS READY FOR
MOUTH-WATERING MATCHUP
Champions Golden State expected to be tested to the limits against Harden-inspired Houston in Western Conference finals
T
he buildup for this series
truly began in February,
with some pointed com-
ments from Golden State’s
Draymond Green.
Or in October, when Houston
won at Golden State on ring night.
Or in June, when the Rockets
landed Chris Paul.
Whenever it started, however it
started, it’s clear that this is the
series that the NBA-watching world
wanted. Western Conference finals,
Golden State versus Houston, Game
1 on Monday on the Rockets’ home
floor. Series winner to the NBA
Finals, series loser will undoubtedly
feel like they let a championship
ring slip away.
“They got us. We got them,” Green
said. “Got to go out there and play.
We’ll see who better.”
After more than 10 months of
playing, posturing and some pontif-
icating, it really is that simple.
This Rockets team was assembled
— the key being the trade for Paul
last summer — with hopes of
WINTER SPORTS
Ice queen Yang still a real cool customer
By XINHUA
Yang Yang went from being an
ordinary little girl in Northeast
China to a short-track speed-skat-
ing world champion who won the
nation’s first ever Winter Olym-
pics gold medal.
The 41-year-old, addressed an
audience of young people at Xin-
hua News Agency’s “New Youth
2018 Summer Speech” recently,
revealing the secrets of her success
and calling on China’s youth to
illuminate the future with their
dreams.
“People fail to realize their
dreams, not because they lack tal-
ent, but because of an absence of
courage to face failure and to insist
on commitments,” said Yang,
recalling her first Winter Olym-
pics in Nagano, Japan in 1998.
“The only medal I won at the
1998 Winter Olympics was the
women’s 3,000m relay silver. I
was extremely disappointed. I
trained so hard, but the result
unseating the reigning champion
Warriors from their perch atop the
NBA. So far, so good. Houston set a
franchise record with 65 wins in the
regular season, went 2-1 against the
Warriors in games that were hyped
at the time though seem meaning-
less now, and has the likely MVP in
James Harden.
But how this Houston season will
be remembered hinges largely on
the outcome of this series.
“Everybody at the beginning of
the year thinks they’ve got a chance
to be here,” Houston’s PJ Tucker
said. “Everybody talks about win-
ning. Everybody talks about fighting
for a championship. We really
believed it. We’re really fighting to
get there. This is not a game. Every-
body takes their job serious.”
He’s right on all counts, particu-
larly on the talking.
And the talking will most definite-
ly continue over the next few days.
With five full off days between the
Warriors’ and Rockets’ respective
second-round clinchers on Tuesday
was disheartening.”
That failure proved to be a pivot-
al moment in the career of Yang
Yang A – so called to differentiate
from a similarly named teammate.
“I felt like I was standing on the
edge of the cliff every day and
could fall off easily without hard
work. When I stepped down from
the podium, I had to find a way to
improve,” Yang told her young
audience.
Improve she certainly did. From
1997 to 2002, the Heilongjiang
native won six straight individual
world titles and sped into the his-
tory books as China’s first Winter
Olympic champion by claiming
golds in the 500m and 1,000m at
the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
At the 2006 Games in Turin, she
had the honor of being China’s
flag-bearer before bagging one
more Olympic medal — bronze in
the 1,000m.
Yang stressed that studying her
opponents was an integral part of
her preparations, revealing she
Everybody talks about winning.
Everybody talks about fighting for
a championship. We really believed it.
We’re really fighting to get there.”
PJ Tucker, Houston Rockets forward
and Game 1 of their series, a lot of
people will be saying a lot of some-
things.
“I think it’s going to be a great
series,” said New Orleans coach
Alvin Gentry, whose Pelicans fell in
five games to the Warriors in the
West semifinals.
“I think it will be very entertain-
ing. I think the people will have a
great time watching that series,
because you have great players out
there. I’m looking forward to it.”
often tried to picture herself as a
rival’s coach and would regularly
watch videos of races to figure out
opponents’ strategies.
Yang also cited mental tough-
ness as key to her Salt Lake City
success. She had initially finished
fourth in the 1,500m — an event
she had not lost in five years — at
those Games before dusting her-
self down and bouncing back to
claim her milestone 500m gold.
“Stand up from where you fall,”
she said, summoning the spirit of
those heady days. “I still remem-
ber after the race, when I was
interviewed by reporters, the only
sentence I said was, ‘I’m Yang Yang
A.’ I couldn’t say anything else,
because at the time that was the
only sentence in my mind.”
In 2010, Yang was elected an
International Olympic Committee
member — a term which has just
come to an end.
Now she chairs the Athletes’
Commission for the Beijing 2022
Games.
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Shaquille O’Neal said in his role as State will have to play Game 1 on the
an analyst on TNT. road.
The three Warriors-Rockets “Every series you play, it gets harder
games were about as anticipated as and harder and harder,” said Warriors
any in the regular season: Golden guard Stephen Curry, who is seeking a
State lost two of the three, and the fourth straight trip to the NBA Finals
final combined score of those and third ring in four years. “So fol-
matchups was Warriors 353, Rock- lowing that trend for sure.”
ets 352. The verbal jousts between the
“That was so long ago,” Warriors Warriors and Rockets go back to the
forward Kevin Durant said. “I think
both teams are different and playing
preseason, with Green questioning
Houston’s commitment to defense.
better. So you know, I try not to look And after Houston beat Golden
at those games but we kind of know, State 122-121 on opening night of the
they know what we do and they season, that prompted Rockets
He’s hardly alone. know what we do.” coach Mike D’Antoni to turn that
For as great as LeBron James has It’s the second time in four years phrase back around on Green.
been, again, the West matchup is that Houston and Golden State have It picked up in January, when the
going to overshadow the East finals met in the West finals; the Warriors teams split a pair of games. And in
between Cleveland and Boston. ousted the Rockets in five games in February, Green told Sports Illustrat-
That’s no disrespect to the East; 2015 on their way to the NBA title. ed that he knew the Rockets were
that’s just reality given the seasons Golden State was the No 1 seed that focused on knocking the Warriors off.
that the Warriors and Rockets have year, Houston was No 2. The seeds “Noted. Great. We’ll see y’all
had, and the collision course that are flipped this time, after Houston soon,” Green said then.
seemed so inevitable for either to finished the regular season with the “Soon” now has a definitive date.
avoid. league’s best record. Soon is Monday.
“The whole world’s been waiting This is the first time since 2014 —
for this matchup,” Hall of Famer a span of 15 series — where Golden ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Beijing 2022 attaches great
importance to the Athletes’ Com-
mission and arranges specific
tasks for our commission, which is
a huge recognition for us,” she said
of her new role.
“The Games are athlete-cen-
tered, and we therefore need to
understand the demands of ath-
letes. From sports organization to
event operation, athletes’ opinions
should be taken into considera-
tion.”
Yang also established the Cham-
pion Foundation, a charitable
organization which provides play-
ground facilities and physical-ed-
ucation teachers for kids, and
gives retired athletes the chance to
further their education.
She also opened the Feiyang
Skating Center in Shanghai to
encourage more Chinese people to
participate in winter sports.
“The dream enables us to see the
future, motivates us to move for-
ward, and constantly surpass our- Yang Yang attends the CCTV Sports Personality Awards in 2007, and (below)
selves,” Yang said. speeds to 500m gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. XINHUA
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Monday, May 14, 2018
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BOXING
Lomachenko digs
deep to seal place
in history books
NEW YORK — Vasiliy
Lomachenko had been down
on the canvas and was down
on the scorecards.
The tough test the Ukrain-
ian craved, the one he said
would force him to finally
unleash all his skills, had
finally arrived.
Moments later, he ended it.
Lomachenko stopped
Venezuelan Jorge Linares in
the 10th round of their light-
weight championship fight
on Saturday night, winning a
title in his third weight class
in just his 12th pro bout.
No man has claimed titles
in three divisions faster, with
Australian Jeff Fenech doing
so in his 20th bout and
greats such as Oscar De La
Hoya (22 fights), Floyd May-
weather (34) and Manny
Pacquiao (41) needing longer
to achieve the feat.
Lomachenko landed a
hard left to the body during a
flurry of precision punches
that sent Linares to his
knees. Linares finally got up
just as the count was reach-
ing 10 but referee Ricky
Gonzalez called an end to the
fight at 2:08 of the round.
Afterward, Lomachenko
credited his father and train-
er Anatoly for the win.
“I prepared for the last few
rounds, and my father told
me, ‘You need to go to the
body,’“ Lomachenko said.
Linares knocked down
Lomachenko in the sixth and
the fight was even after nine
rounds before Lomachenko
(11-1, 9 KOs) put an end to his
first fight at 135 pounds, add-
ing that title to his belts at
126 and 130 pounds.
Linares (44-4, 27 KOs)
hadn’t lost since 2012 and
used his size advantage to do
some damage, but in the end
Lomachenko did more in an
exciting Madison Square
Vasiliy Lomachenko (right) bolstered his pound-for-pound cre-
dentials with a scintillating knockout of Jorge Linares on Satur-
day night at Madison Square Garden. GETTY IMAGES
TENNIS
Li extends role as
Wuhan ambassador
WUHAN — Retired tennis
superstar Li Na has extended
her ambassadorial role with
her hometown Wuhan Open
until 2019.
The two-time Grand Slam
champion was first appoint-
ed to the post in 2016, and
has signed a two-year con-
tract extension to continue
working with the WTA Pre-
mier 5 tournament in the
central Chinese city.
“Li Na has made extraordi-
nary contributions to pro-
moting Wuhan
internationally as a city of
tennis and a tourist destina-
tion,” the Wuhan Open orga-
nizing committee said in a
statement.
Li, 36, said: “My home-
town is where I started my
tennis career. Enabling every
member of the public to play
Garden match.
Each fighter was ahead
86-84 on a judge’s card,
while Julie Lederman had it
85-all after nine rounds.
“The fight was getting
interesting,” Linares said.
“It was very close, but he
did surprise me with that
body shot. I wanted to con-
tinue. I wanted to keep work-
ing, but the ref stopped the
fight.”
The fighter widely known
as Vasyl said this week he
prefers to use Vasiliy, his
legal name.
And now he can be called
lightweight champion after
picking up the WBA’s version
of the belt in front of a crowd
of 10,429 that chanted
“Loma! Loma!” as he made
his ring walk and waved
blue-and-yellow Ukrainian
flags for much of the night.
It was the 30-year-old’s
eighth straight victory by
stoppage, but this one was
much tougher than a recent
stretch of clinics in which his
last four fights ended when
his opponents’ corners
wouldn’t let them take more
punishment.
Lomachenko had joked he
should be called “no mas
Chenko” for his habit of
making opponents quit, but
Linares made him earn this
victory.
The 32-year-old was on a
13-fight winning streak and
was giving the two-time
Olympic gold medalist the
test he wanted, one that he
said would bring out the best
in what many already con-
sider the most skilled fighter
in the world.
“Thank you to Jorge Linar-
es for giving me one more
lesson in this interesting
sport,” Lomachenko said.
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and enjoy tennis will in some
way extend my tennis career
and fulfill the original inten-
tion of the Wuhan Open.”
During the 2016 and 2017
tournaments, Li attended
the opening ceremonies and
a series of promotional activ-
ities.
Born and raised in the
Hubei provincial capital, Li
helped to put Chinese tennis
on the map with her victo-
ries at the French and Aus-
tralian Opens in 2011 and
2014.
The Wuhan Open, won
last year by France’s Caroline
Garcia, replaced the Pan
Pacific Open held in Tokyo
and made its debut in Sep-
tember 2014 just as Li
announced her retirement.
XINHUA
China’s Su Bingtian, flanked by Britain’s Chijindu Ujah and American Justin Gatlin, powers to a second-place finish in the men’s 100m
final at the 2018 IAAF Diamond League meet at Shanghai Stadium on Saturday. ALY SONG / REUTERS
ATHLETICS
Super Su spurred on by
his Shanghai surprise
Chinese ace fends off illustrious
rivals for morale-boosting 100m
result at Diamond League meet
By ALYWIN CHEW
in Shanghai and
SUN XIAOCHEN in Beijing
Su Bingtian has set his
sights on going one better on
American soil after his sur-
prise second-place finish at
Saturday’s Shanghai Dia-
mond League meet.
Although failing to defend
his title in the rain, the Chi-
nese star bettered last year’s
winning time to cross the line
in 10.05 seconds, just 0.01 sec
behind shock winner Reece
Prescod of Britain.
Su’s compatriot Xie Zhenye
was third in 10.17, with Ameri-
can world champion Justin
Gatlin only managing sev-
enth and Canada’s 2016
Olympic bronze medalist
Andre De Grasse eighth.
“It is just a start,” said Su,
who will next compete at the
league’s Eugene race in the
United States on May 26. “I
hope I can be better and bet-
ter in the future.
“I have told my coach that I
wanted to showcase my best
form in Eugene, even just a
little progress.
“I think my performance
today exceeded my expecta-
tions. I was just aiming to
slightly better my time from
ICE HOCKEY
Jets soar into lead against rusty Knights
WINNIPEG, Manitoba —
The Winnipeg Jets were in
rhythm and the Vegas Golden
Knights looked rusty.
Or, maybe the Jets are just
that good.
Dustin Byfuglien scored
about a minute after the puck
dropped and Winnipeg built
a three-goal lead early in the
first period and went on to
beat Vegas 4-2 on Saturday
night in Game 1 of the West-
ern Conference finals.
While the Jets played at
home less than 48 hours after
advancing past top-seeded
Nashville on the road, the
Golden Knights were off for
nearly a week after eliminat-
ing San Jose in the second
round.
“We didn’t have much of a
rest,” Byfuglien said. “We’re
still in game mode.”
last year, so to be able to get
this result is really good
although the rain made it
tough to hang on there for a
quick dash in the last 30
meters.”
The conditions favored
22-year-old Prescod, who was
seventh at last year’s world
championships in London.
“I train in the East Mid-
lands (of England) and it’s
always raining there so I’m
used to it,” said Prescod. “The
temperature where I train is
usually about four or five
degrees, so having it rain on a
hot and humid day like today
was nice.”
With Gatlin attracting the
spotlight, Su drew the loudest
cheer from the stadium,
where he clocked 10.09 sec
last year to win his first Dia-
mond League 100m race.
The rise of Su, the first Chi-
nese to break the 10-second
mark, has filled the void left
by retired hurdler Liu Xiang,
who won China’s first men’s
Olympic gold medal in 110m
hurdles at the 2004 Athens
Games.
Saturday’s result continues
Su’s impressive season after
the 28-year-old set an Asian
60m record of 6.47 at an
indoor meet in Karlsruhe,
Patrik Laine and Joel
Armia had goals 46 seconds
apart to put the Jets up 3-0.
Mark Scheifele gave Winni-
peg a 4-1 lead midway on a
power play through the sec-
ond period with his 12th goal
this postseason.
Brayden McNabb scored
midway through the first and
William Karlsson had a pow-
er-play goal late in the second
period to pull Vegas within
two, but the expansion team
couldn’t get closer.
“We were chasing the game
all night,” Golden Knights
coach Gerard Gallant said.
Winnipeg’s Connor Helle-
buyck made 18 saves.
Marc-Andre Fleury
stopped 22 shots for the Gold-
en Knights, whose Stanley
Cup-winning goalie has given
up at least three goals for the
I think my
performance
today exceeded
my expectations.”
Su Bingtian,
Chinese sprint star
Germany in February.
The other highlight of the
evening was a star-studded
men’s 110m hurdles, which
reigning world and Olympic
champion Omar McLeod of
Jamaica won in a world-
leading 13.16 sec to complete
a hat-trick of wins in Shang-
hai.
Cuba-born Spaniard Orlan-
do Ortega took second in a
season-best 13.17 while Rus-
sian Sergey Shubenkov was
third. Jamaican Hansle
Parchment and American
Aries Merritt finished sixth
and seventh respectively.
McLeod joked that his per-
formance was a result of “eat-
ing all that Chinese fried rice
before the race”. The 24-year-
old, who pulled out of the
Diamond League’s Doha
opener earlier this month
because of an adductor inju-
ry, said he was pleased to start
his season with a win.
“I’m really happy with the
start. I didn’t know what to
fifth time in six games.
“He’s the best goalie in the
playoffs as far as I’m con-
cerned,” Gallant said.
The Golden Knights will
have to be at or near their best
when the Jets host Game 2 on
Monday before the series
shifts to Las Vegas.
“Next game, no excuses,”
Golden Knights center Jonat-
han Marchessault said.
“Everybody needs to be ready
to play our best game of the
playoffs. We’re going to show
what kind of team we are.”
Winnipeg started strong
and fast. Vegas, meanwhile,
didn’t appear anything like
the team that took the league
by storm in its record-break-
ing inaugural season.
The Jets had 114 points this
season and trailed only the
Predators’ league-high total
expect coming out here. I got
hurt a few months ago and
this is the first race of my sea-
son. I just had to remind
myself that I’m the world and
Olympic champion and put
on a show,” he said.
“I really love this meet, and
this is especially because of
the love the Chinese show for
hurdles here, thanks to Liu
Xiang. I always make it a
point to come here and put on
a show.”
China’s reigning world
champion Gong Lijiao threw
a world-leading 19.99 meters
to win the women’s shot put
ahead of Jamaican Danniel
Thomas-Dodd (18.70m) and
Raven Saunders of the US
(18.63m).
Gong, though, was slightly
disappointed with her win-
ning distance.
“I was hoping to break the
20m mark today so it’s a pity I
didn’t manage to. But I’ve had
my fair share of injury prob-
lems this year so I’m happy I
got the win,” she said.
“I probably won’t compete
in every Diamond League
meet this year so I will try to
get as many points as possible
in the ones I do attend.”
Lyu Huihui won the wom-
en’s javelin for China. The
28-year-old world silver med-
alist broke her own meet
record with a winning throw
of 66.26m.
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win@chinadaily.com.cn
by three. Their success has
carried over into the postsea-
son, winning all three Game
1s and never trailing a series.
The Jets put the Pacific
Division champions on their
heels right from the start and
didn’t relent.
“We did take advantage of
being game ready,” Winnipeg
coach Paul Maurice said.
Face-offs
The last time two teams
were in the NHL conference
finals for the first time was
2003 when Anaheim swept
Minnesota ... Scheifele has
four more goals than any
player in the postseason ...
Fleury has four shutouts this
postseason and has allowed
four goals in three games.
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Mississippi coaching
great Brewer dies
Billy Brewer, the former
Mississippi football star who
went on to coach the Rebels to
eight Egg Bowl victories over
rival Mississippi State, died on
Saturday. He was 83.
Ole Miss released a state-
ment confirming Brewer’s
death in Memphis following a
brief illness. Family friend
Chuck Rounsaville said the
former coach had been in poor
health for a few months after
suffering a stroke this year.
Brewer coached Ole Miss for
11 seasons from 1983 to 1993,
finishing with a 67-56-3
record. He took the Rebels to
five bowl games and had a 3-2
record in the postseason, win-
ning the Liberty Bowl twice
and the Independence Bowl
once.
SOCCER
Kiwi amateurs on
brink of World Cup
Amateur New Zealand side
Team Wellington is on the
verge of qualifying for FIFA’s
Club World Cup after thrash-
ing Fiji’s Lautoka 6-0 in the
first leg of their Oceania
Champions League final on
Sunday.
Substitute Jack-Henry Sin-
clair scored a second-half
brace, with Ross Allen, Andy
Bevin, Mario Barcia and Taylor
Schrijvers also netting at Wel-
lington’s David Farrington
Park.
The second leg takes place
in Lautoka next Sunday.
Mexican side Guadalajara,
which beat Toronto for the
CONCACAF title last month,
has already qualified for the
Club World Cup, which will
take place in the United Arab
Emirates from Dec 12-22.
Alves doesn’t want
pity after Russia KO
Brazil fullback Dani Alves
has asked fans not to pity him
after he was ruled out of the
World Cup in Russia because
of injury.
The 35-year-old collapsed
after feeling a sharp pain in his
right knee while playing for
Paris Saint-Germain in its 2-0
French Cup final victory over
Les Herbiers on Tuesday.
On Friday, Brazil’s medical
staff said Alves would need
surgery to repair a detached
anterior cruciate ligament,
which would take six months
to recover from.
“Maybe my ego is a bit hurt
right now, but my soul is at
peace because I always tried to
do my best,” Alves wrote on
Instagram. “I believe that this
team can win the trophy.
Brazil coach Tite is expected
to name a provisional World
Cup squad on Monday.
UFC
Nunes fends off
friend to keep crown
Amanda Nunes of Brazil beat
American Raquel Pennington
in Rio de Janeiro early on Sun-
day to retain her UFC bantam-
weight title for the third time.
The heavily favored Brazilian
won by technical knockout in
the fifth round.
Nunes said winning against
her friend Pennington was the
hardest challenge she has faced
in her career.
“I respect this woman so
much,” the Brazilian said with
tears in her eyes after her victo-
ry. “This was the hardest thing I
did in my career. I had to do it
to defend this belt, defend my
biggest dream.
“We will have some beers as
friends later tonight.”
American Pennington hadn’t
fought since November 2016
because of injuries. The pair
were scheduled to clash in
December, but Pennington
broke her left leg in a quad-bike
crash.
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