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Li: Tokyo, UN chief ‘impressed’ by peacekeeper training

Beijing can
put ties on
right track
By ZHANG YUE
zhangyue@chinadaily.com.cn
China and Japan should
work with commitment and a
long-term vision to create a
favorable atmosphere for high-
level exchanges between the
two countries and put the bilat-
eral relationship back on the
track of steady development,
Premier Li Keqiang said.
Li made the remark as he
met with the visiting delega-
tion of the Japanese Associa-
tion for the Promotion of
International Trade at the
Great Hall of the People in Bei-
jing on Monday afternoon.
The delegation was led by
Yohei Kono, president of the
association and former speak-
er of the Japanese House of
Representatives.
“Signs of improvement have
been seen in China-Japan rela-
tions lately and interactions
between the two countries
have also increased, which is a
good thing. Yet we should also
note that relations between
our two countries still face
challenges,” Li said.
Saying that this year marks
the 40th anniversary of the
signing of the Treaty of Peace
and Friendship between Japan
and China, Li said the two
countries should cherish the
current momentum of develop-
ment in bilateral ties, and he
urged Japan to work with Chi-
na to meet each other halfway.
It is important for both
countries to honor the spirit
and the agreements reached
in the four key China-Japan
political documents while
looking at the interests of both
countries so as to move Sino-
Japanese ties in the right
direction, he said.
China will support and safe-
guard multilateral trade and
advocate facilitated invest-
ment and liberal trade against
the backdrop of the complicat-
ed and changing international
context, Li said. He added that
China will press ahead with
reform and open its door even
wider, and lend more efforts to
maintaining steady and
improving economic growth.
China welcomes investors
from overseas, including Japan,
to invest in China and jointly
create new opportunities for
development, the premier said.
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Kono told Li as this year also
marks the 40th anniversary of
China’s reform and opening-up
policy, industrial and commer-
cial circles in Japan look forward
to seeing continued improve-
ment in Sino-Japanese ties, and
Japan is willing to contribute to
friendly bilateral relations. He
added that they expect Li to
make an official visit to Japan.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks with peacekeeping police officers during a visit to a training center in Langfang,
Heibei province, on Monday. Guterres later tweeted that he was “deeply impressed” by the training center. PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Nation is willing to share the fruits of
development, head of publicity affirms
By PAN MENGQI
in Sanya, Hainan
panmengqi@chinadaily.com.cn
China is willing to continue
to collaborate on innovation
and share the fruits of devel-
opment with Asia and the
world, said Huang Kunming,
head of the Publicity Depart-
ment of the Communist Party
of China Central Committee.
Huang, who also is a mem-
ber of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee,
made the remark in his
opening speech at the 2018
Media Leaders Summit for
Asia, which was held on
Monday in Sanya, Hainan
Technology transfers not forced, experts assert
By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn
Technology transfers have
been voluntary commercial
ments between Chinese and by China have distorted the
transactions between Chinese
and US companies and the US
accusation of transfers being
forced by China is groundless
and violates international
trade principles, Chinese
experts said.
The United States has
accused China of using share-
holding restrictions and
administrative permissions to
province. The theme of the
meeting is “A New Era of
Media Cooperation in Asia —
Interconnectivity and Inno-
vative Development.”
Huang pointed out that
this year is the 40th anniver-
sary of China’s reform and
opening-up push. In that
time, China’s reform and
development has benefited
from Asia, and also contrib-
uted to Asia and the world.
President Xi Jinping has
proposed a series of important
ideas concerning the future of
humankind in today’s chang-
ing world. His thought sys-
tematically clarified China’s
global outlook on governance,
force US firms to transfer
their technology to Chinese
partners. The issue has been
used as a justification by the
Trump administration for its
panies have set up their global
trade fight with China under
Section 301 of the US Trade
Act of 1974, which permits a
response to trade practices
deemed unfair, unreasonable
or discriminatory.
Chinese experts said tech-
nology transfers between Chi-
nese and foreign companies
are done through commercial
contracts and are conducted
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security, development and glo-
balization, providing China’s
wisdom and solutions to glob-
al issues and promoting peace,
development and prosperity
to the world, Huang said.
He emphasized that an
innovative Asia and a pros-
perous world will provide
media from all over the globe
with greater opportunities
and a broader arena.
Media should serve as the
voices for the people. Media
from Asia should promote an
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on an equal and voluntary
basis.
Zhang Yalin, a member of
the National Manufacturing
Strategy Advisory Committee,
said foreign companies’ ties
with Chinese firms have been
driven by business interests,
and they have helped them
innovative spirit and dialogue
among civilizations and
spread the voices of Asian
people’s innovation, diligence
and cooperation between
countries, Huang said.
At the opening ceremony,
media representatives from
China and other Asian coun-
tries signed cooperation
agreements. A panel discus-
sion about dialogues between
Asian civilizations was held
afterward.
More than 140 mainstream
media leaders from 40 Asian
countries, as well as more
than 300 Asian cultural schol-
ars and related parties attend-
ed the opening ceremony.
gain access to the Chinese
market and abundant labor.
“Technology transfers have
been based on mutual agree-
foreign companies,” Zhang
said, adding that in many cas-
es they have been carried out
in the form of a paid license
for usage and have not
involved transfers of technol-
ogy ownership.
“Technology offerings have
been a means for foreign com-
panies to obtain market share
and investment returns in
Lam urges
promotion of
Bay Area plan
CE says HK contributions to the project
to include creativity, global connections
By YANG HAN and
WEN ZONGDUO
in Boao, Hainan
Imminent release of a gener-
al plan for the Guangdong-
Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay
Area project requires govern-
ments from the three regions
to improve public understand-
ing of the Bay Area, Chief Exec-
utive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-
ngor said on Monday.
Lam, attending the Boao
Forum for Asia Annual Confer-
ence 2018 in Hainan province,
said governments of the three
regions were working on co-or-
ganizing Bay Area promotion
events at home and abroad.
She said Hong Kong could
make important contributions
to the Bay Area through its cre-
ativity and connections.
“The principle of ‘one coun-
try, two systems’ is itself an
innovation to become a unique
advantage of the Bay Area,” she
said.
Hong Kong can introduce
international companies into
the Bay Area and help Chinese
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor addresses a panel dis-
cussion at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 in Hainan
province on Monday. The panel focused on developing the Guangdong-
Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
China. Many of the technolo-
gies were no longer core,
advanced ones and had
almost no application
prospects in their home mar-
kets,” Zhang said.
Zhang said accusations of
forced technology transfers
fact that seeking ties with Chi-
nese companies and setting
up joint ventures in China are
rational, profit-driven deci-
sions by foreign companies.
The Trump administra-
tion’s trade frictions with Chi-
na have been seen by many
experts as a move to target
Beijing’s Made in China 2025
initiative.
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mainland enterprises go over-
seas.
“We will provide the best con-
ditions to facilitate the flow of
people, goods, capital and infor-
mation and to attract talented
professionals,” she added.
Ma Xingrui, governor of
Guangdong province who
attended the same forum with
Lam, said the forthcoming Bay
Area plan would accelerate a
roll-out of concrete measures
to encourage a free flow of tal-
ents, goods, capital and infor-
mation in the region.
The guideline will set goals
and create strong impetus for
regional development, Ma
added.
See Forum, page 3
Chinese experts argued
that the initiative is aimed at
upgrading China’s industrial
and high-end manufacturing
capability and it offers win-
win results for Chinese and
foreign companies.
“Many multinational com-
R&D centers in China to take
full advantage of local high-
quality labor and innovative
resources. It has helped boost
their own business develop-
ment,” Zhang said.
Xiong Meng, executive
vice-chairman of the China
Federation of Industrial
See Transfers, page 3

CHINESE NGO HELPS ELDERLY FIND A WAY TO A WILL

With people becoming wealthier, efforts are being made to avoid inheritance disputes
By LI LEI
lilei@chinadaily.com.cn
Li looked reassured as he
held his certificate from the
INSIDE
China Will Registration Cen-
Pyongyang marathon draws ter, a charity organization that
offers free advice to people
foreigners as talks readied over 60 looking to avoid family
World, p11 inheritance disputes by mak-
ing a will.
© 2018 China Daily , All Rights Reserved , Vol. 22 — No. 6534 The document proved the
A member of the 83-year-old had deposited his
Asia News will at the center’s Beijing
Network branch. His heirs will be able
to retrieve it only after his
death, and they will have to
abide by its instructions
regarding their inheritance.
Until then, Li is the only per-
son with access to the will, and
he can make changes to it any-
time.
Though silver-haired, he
looks hale and hearty, as do
most of the elderly at the cen-
ter.
“I have no cardiovascular
diseases or Alzheimer’s, and
therefore thought little about
X
making a will,” said Li, who
asked not to be fully identi-
fied. “But after reading about
the free service at the center, I
changed my mind and decid-
ed to finish the task while my
mind is still clear. Otherwise,
my children would have to go
through a lot of trouble after
my wife and I become less
aware.”
Since the 18th National
Congress of the Communist
Party of China in 2012, the cen-
tral leadership has repeatedly
called for increased nongov-
ernment involvement in social
governance, including the
welfare of the elderly.
Raindrop, an NGO in Jinan,
Shandong province, initiated
a program in 2016 to help tack-
le “empty-nest elderly” issues
— which arise with parents
whose children have left their
hometowns — by organizing
activities such as sports meets
for the elderly.
Others noticed the seniors’
legal needs. The China Social
Welfare Foundation launched
a program in 2015 to provide
free will-making consultations
for seniors in Beijing.
But the China Will Regis-
tration Center, founded in
2013, went a step beyond that.
Chen Kai, who started the
project, said that besides con-
sultations, it also handles the
drafting and safekeeping of
wills — essential to avoiding
legal disputes.
See Wills, page 6
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Looking ahead
Candid camera: Let’s face it
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Belt and Road forum to Guangdong, Guangzhou province. From

highlight investment
The Belt and Road Trade and Investment
Forum will be held in Beijing on Thursday.
Organized by the World Chambers Federa-
tion, the China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade and the China Chamber
of International Commerce, the forum will
attract more than 600 participants from 70
countries and regions. Last year, trade vol-
ume between China and countries along the
Belt and Road amounted to 7.4 trillion yuan
($1.2 trillion), up 17.8 percent year-on-year,
according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Media briefing to explain IP
dispute court procedures
The Beijing Intellectual Property Court will
hold a media briefing in the capital on
Wednesday to explain how the court han-
dles IP disputes involving foreign compa-
nies. China has three IP courts, all at
intermediate level, in Beijing, Shanghai and
2013 to 2017, courts across the country con-
cluded 683,000 IP disputes, 405,000 more
than the previous five years, according to
the Supreme People’s Court.
Creator Awards enter final
stage with Shanghai leg
The final leg in the Creator Awards, orga-
nized by global co-working space service
provider WeWork, will be held in Shanghai
on Thursday. Winners of the China compe-
tition will go to the final in New York next
year. The awards cover four categories: new
ventures, performing arts, nonprofit work
and community carers. Winners will be
granted prizes, working space and a mem-
bership at WeWork. Cash prizes range
between $18,000 and $360,000. WeWork
has brought the awards — open to entrepre-
neurs, performers, startups and nonprofit
organizations — to China this year to
address the country’s call for greater inno-
vation and entrepreneurship.

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80,000 handmade goods
Zhu Qing-
ling owns
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year. Visit our website to find out more. Man and machine can work together
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store at variety of excellent food. The coastline pro- that they are not only suc- an impact on the world all at have impacted the world in nology glitches, and to
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the world’s largest wholesale market for wandering near the shore. grabbed a chance to catch up knowledge and self-aware- to everyday problems in the perfect initially, but in
small consumer goods. Her store displays with Vivian ness are the most valuable past few months. today’s fast-moving tech
more than 80,000 types of handmade Art: China Orchestra Festival Chan, the tools necessary for creating a But what makes Vivian’s scene it’s all about how fast a
accessories. In 2005, Zhu began to produce founder and successful startup. “Being efforts noteworthy is that company can learn and
accessories for overseas markets, especially
opens on high note in Beijing
The curtain chief execu- aware of your own strengths Sparrho leverages AI to improve on their mistakes,”
Europe and the United States. Her plant tive officer of and weaknesses is key for make it as easy as possible she added.
was raised
has an annual turnover of 20 million yuan London- finding a suitable co-founder for everyone to discover, Dispelling my pessimistic
on Friday
($3.2 million). based Spar- and building a team of understand and share the view that AI would reduce
on the bien-
nial China Ullattil rho, a science equally passionate, comple- science that matters to them. human intervention
Rankings: Cities make mark Orchestra Manranjith discovery mentary people. But most “We are now seeing a lot espoused in one of my earlier
in global property growth Festival at Second platform that importantly, an aspiring more new technological pro- articles, Vivian said a human
Property price growth remained the fastest the Nation- Thoughts helps to entrepreneur must cultivate jects and spaces being dedi- presence is as relevant as
in the world last year, according to the Hurun al Center ensure wider persistence and a willingness cated to social good, such as ever, as the interaction
Report, a key property sector analysis. Seven for the Performing Arts, with nine domestic access to science for people to listen and learn,” she said. the AI For Good foundation: between humans and
Chinese cities, including Wuxi, Jiangsu symphony orchestras presenting 35 classi- at every level of education Vivian said that China is including those based out of machines is enabling a two-
province; Hefei, Anhui province; Guangzhou, cal and new symphonic works. The 23-day across the world. “clearly on the cutting-edge China such as Voxelcloud, a way conversation. “Today,
Guangdong province; Xiamen, Fujian festival, the sixth since its inception in My interest in meeting Vivi- of the tech scene — so much startup using AI to solve dis- humans are building
province; and Zhengzhou, Henan province, 2008, is themed “Ode to the 40th Anniver- an, a former investment bank- fascinating innovation is tak- parities in China’s healthcare machines that think and act
ranked in the world’s top 10 for fastest grow- sary of Reform and Opening-up”. In the er, had nothing to do with the ing place across China all the system. These technologies like humans. Our objective
ing property prices. Hong Kong is the only past decade, more than 40 domestic sym- fact that she is at the top of her way from inception to indus- have the potential to make a should be to find and main-
Chinese city listed in the top 50 cities with phony orchestras have appeared at the cen- league, but more to do with try, which is incidentally massive impact wherever tain a synergy between
the highest global property ROI (return on ter, staging nearly 100 concerts featuring the fact that she is one of the showing interesting geo- they’re deployed, so as entre- humans and tech, rather
investment). The ROI is the sum of prices, Chinese symphonies. few entrepreneurs who has graphical specialization — preneurs it’s our duty to than one or the other having
rental returns and local currency measured successfully blended emerg- and is therefore attracting a ensure that we build socially dominance”
against the renminbi, the report said. ing technologies and entre- lot of international attention, responsible products,” she
Travel: Turkey eyes greater preneurship. investment and intellectual said. Contact the writer at
number of Chinese tourists “Entrepreneurship offers a collaboration’’. Coming back to entrepre- ullattil@chinadaily.com.cn
Education: Program to train This year marks Turkey Tourism Year in
teachers and students in AI China. Abdulkadir Emin Onen, Turkey’s
A govern- ambassador to China, said more flights This Day, That Year
ment pro- between the two countries are necessary.
gram will More than 350,000 Chinese visited Turkey
train 500 last year and the country has set the goal of hai’s urban construction So far,
university attracting 1 million entering a new stage. With the Nation-
teachers and Chinese travelers a year. years 16 lines in operation, Shang- al Develop-
5,000 stu- With more than 1,000 on hai has the world’s longest ment and
dents in arti- China-invested projects Metro network of 666 km. Reform
ficial now in Turkey, the coun- Editor’s Note: This year This year, another 41 km of Commission has approved ering 574 km, in operation.
intelligence. The program, organized by the try welcomes more marks the 40th anniversary track will be laid in the city. 43 projects. The total length China’s railway companies
Ministry of Education, Peking University Chinese investment in a of China’s reform and open- Last month, driverless of urban rail transit in opera- have also been helping
and Innovation Works, an incubator in Bei- wide range of sectors, ing-up policy. trains were tested on a new tion is expected to reach upgrade subways abroad.
jing, will last five years. Course teachers but especially in technol- Scan it! metro in Shanghai. 8,600 km by 2020. China Railroad Rolling
include computer scientist John E. Hop- ogy, focused fields such Read The 16.1-kilometer Shang- In the past two decades, In Beijing, new subway Stock Corp, the largest rail-
croft from the United States, a recipient of as research and develop- more on hai Metro Line 1 opened to China has witnessed a sub- lines or additional sections of car manufacturer, has won
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TOP NEWS
Five pacts
signed with
Mongolia
Li, visiting prime minister find
more ways to strengthen ties
By HU YONGQI
huyongqi@chinadaily.com.cn
Five agreements were
signed on Monday to promote
China-Mongolia cooperation
in fields such as production
capacity, cross-border trade
and environmental protec-
tion.
The agreements were wit-
nessed by Premier Li Keqiang
and visiting Mongolian Prime
Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh.
“You have visited our coun-
try many times and attach
great importance to China-
Mongolia relations,” Li told the
Mongolian Prime Minister.
“This is your first visit to China
since taking office and I
believe it will inject new
momentum and vitality into
bilateral ties.”
China would like to
strengthen the Belt and Road
Forum:
Guangdong
to enhance
cooperation
with HK
From page 1
“With solid basis and huge
potential, we are fully confi-
dent to build it into a world-
class Bay Area,” he said.
Guangdong will enhance
cooperation with Hong Kong,
he said. Authorities will focus
on removing obstacles to coop-
eration between the two sys-
tems, letting them tap the
advantages each gives.
Macao Secretary of Econo-
my and Finance Leong Vai-tac
said that in jointly turning the
Bay Area into a global tourist
destination, the city will use its
potential in tourism adminis-
tration and training and coop-
erate with other Bay Area cities
to upgrade tourism services.
“Macao will also tap its ties
with European Union to pro-
mote Bay Area cooperation in
scientific research, talent culti-
vation and health services
related to traditional Chinese
medicine,” he said.
In addition to key govern-
ment officials within the Bay
Area, experts on economic
development also presented at
the forum sharing their
thoughts on pressing ahead
Bay Area development.
Antony Leung Kam-chung,
chief executive of Nan Fung
Group and former financial sec-
retary of Hong Kong, stressed
the importance of everyday con-
venience for professionals.
“Time is what the talented
people need most!” he said. “If
a certificate is introduced in
the Bay Area and the latest
technology applied, facial iden-
tification can be used for
speedy customs clearance and
greatly save time.”
Fan Gang, director of the
National Economic Research
Institute, emphasized the
potential of free trade in the
area.
“If only the Bay Area can set
up a league of free trade
zones!” he told the forum. “In
that case, the three experi-
mental zones for free trade in
Guangdong can be matched
with the two free trade regions
of Hong Kong and Macao.”
Contact the writers at
kelly@chinadailyapac.com
Initiative’s alignment with
Mongolia’s development strat-
egies and accelerate a feasibili-
ty study of a free-trade zone,
the premier said. Both coun-
tries should speed up coopera-
tion in investment, man-
ufacturing of agricultural and
animal husbandry products,
energy and minerals and cross-
border transport, he said.
Li also called for projects
related to people’s livelihoods
to be carried out. Among them
were shantytown renovation,
pollution control and added
infrastructure in urban areas
and key ports, which will bring
real benefits to local people.
China has been Mongolia’s
biggest trading partner during
the past decade. China and
Mongolia announced the goal
of forging a comprehensive
strategic partnership when
President Xi Jinping visited the
Asia media leaders work for better cooperation
By PAN MENGQI
in Sanya, Hainan province
panmengqi@chinadaily.com.cn
The 2018 Media Leaders
Summit for Asia, with its
theme of “A New Era of Media
Cooperation in Asia-Inter-
connectivity and Innovative
Development”, has drawn
widespread discussion on
issues related to increasing
connectivity under media
cooperation.
Carrying forward the spirit
of the previous Media Leaders
Roundtable, those at the
media summit are discussing
how Asian media organiza-
tions can work together to
transcend cultural differences
and create a new era of coop-
eration and growth through
interconnectivity and innova-
tive development.
Asia is the region of the
world with the most vitality
Beijing calls on UK to halt
auction of looted bronze urn
By BO LEUNG in London
boleung@
mail.chinadailyuk.com
Calls are mounting for the
return of a 3,000-year-old
bronze water vessel that was
likely looted from Beijing’s
Yuanmingyuan, or Old Sum-
mer Palace, in 1860.
The Western Zhou Dynas-
ty (c. 11th century-771 BC)
relic is set to be auctioned at
Canterbury Auction Galler-
ies in London on Wednes-
day, with an anticipated
selling price of 120,000
pounds to 200,000 pounds
($168,000-$280,000).
Documents found by the
United Kingdom auction
house suggest Royal Marines
Captain Harry Lewis Evans
(1831-83), who fought in the
Second Opium War between
1856 and 1860, could have
looted the so-called Tiger
Ying when the Old Summer
Palace was destroyed and
sacked by British and French
troops in 1860.
Cheng Xiaohe, an associ-
ate professor of international
relations at Renmin Univer-
sity of China, said the issue is
of importance to the Chinese
people because the “burning
of Yuanmingyuan has been a
symbol of shame for Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang escorts visiting Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
The two observed several agreements being signed. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY
neighboring country in 2014.
Li paid an official visit to Mon-
golia and attended the 11th
Asia-Europe Meeting Summit
in Ulaanbaatar in July 2016.
Li said China appreciates
the Mongolian government’s
firm adherence to the one-Chi-
na policy and would like to
continue respecting each oth-
er’s core interests and major
concerns while making
exchanges of high-ranking offi-
cials, legislators and parties.
and potential for develop-
ment, said Zhou Shuchun,
publisher and editor-in-chief
of China Daily. Zhou said
Asian media are a vital force
internationally and China’s
new era will bring more
opportunities for the conti-
nent and also will help Asian
media boost cooperation.
“The Belt and Road Initia-
tive promotes common devel-
opment, prosperity, and win-
win cooperation. The op-
portunities brought by the
Belt and Road Initiative
belong to the entire world
and the media of Asian coun-
tries,” Zhou said as he chaired
a panel discussion.
Subash Jayawardan, chair-
man of Sri Lanka Rupavahini
TV Corp, said the 21st Centu-
ry Maritime Silk Road links
China’s coastal cities with
Africa and Europe through
the Indian Ocean, connecting
people for many years”.
“The Tiger Ying was taken
by the British soldier, who is
a real historical figure.
Therefore, this act of plun-
der is an eternal pain in the
hearts of the Chinese peo-
ple,” Cheng said.
“The evidence that the
Evans family illegally pos-
sessed the relic is a strong
support for China to claim
it back,” he said, noting
that if it were returned to
Beijing, the act would
enhance Sino-British rela-
tions.
But legal experts in the UK
said China has little or no
legal claim in international
courts because it was taken
more than a century ago.
Ian Fox-Williams, deputy
head of the School of Law at
Birmingham City University,
said China has been trying to
secure the return of looted
items of national impor-
tance ever since the first
international treaty dedicat-
ed to fighting illegal traffick-
ing in cultural property was
introduced in 1989.
“However, whilst it did sign
the 1970 UNESCO conven-
tion concerning the protec-
tion of world cultural and
natural heritage, China as a
country can only seek the
Closer communications
between the two countries
should be boosted to promote
ties and regional peace and
prosperity, the premier said.
Next year will mark the 70th
anniversary of establishing
bilateral diplomatic ties. Li
said people-to-people
exchanges in culture, media
and tourism should be
enhanced to celebrate such
important moments.
Khurelsukh congratulated
Sri Lanka and re-establishing
the country as a new trade
center in the Indian Ocean.
“China has already invested
$8 billion in Sri Lanka and will
invest $24 billion in the future.
This was what our Prime Min-
ister Ranil Wickremesinghe
had said during his attend-
ance at the Belt and Road
Forum for International Coop-
eration,” Jayawardan said. The
forum was held last year.
Shafqat Jalil, director-gener-
al of Pakistan Broadcasting
Corp, also said China had
made monumental achieve-
ments in many aspects, includ-
ing poverty alleviation and
improving global connectivity.
Shafqat said the Belt and
Road Initiative is unprece-
dented, creating links among
nations and providing neces-
sary infrastructure by laying
a foundation for sustainable
growth, reducing distances
return of artifacts illegally
exported after it joined the
convention,” Fox-Williams
said. “Under English law, the
innocent purchaser of the
Tiger Ying vessel ... will be giv-
en priority over rights to the
vessel.”
Fox-Williams suggested
that another possible solu-
tion in such situations could
have been found under the
1995 International Institute
for the Unification of Private
Law Convention, which
requires prospective buyers
of artifacts to perform due
diligence before buying
items. But China did not
sign that convention until
1997.
“The quickest and easiest
way of returning the Tiger
Ying home to China will
depend upon the wishes of
the highest bidder,” he said.
The urn is not the first relic
to be auctioned in Britain
that likely came from the Old
Summer Palace.
In 2011, an imperial gilded
metal box turned up at an
auction in Salisbury with an
inscription inside the lid that
said “Loot from the Summer
Palace, Pekin, Oct. 1860.
Capt. James Gunter, King’s
Dragoon Guards”. It sold for
400,000 pounds.
Li on his second term. He
said his country firmly
adheres to the one-China pol-
icy and its commitment will
remain unchanged that Tai-
wan and the Tibet autono-
mous region are inseparable
parts of China.
Khurelsukh said that Mon-
golia is ready to start the feasi-
bility study of a free-trade zone
this year and expand pragmat-
ic cooperation in fields such as
trade, tourism, production
and improving connectivity.
Proposed in May, the Belt
and Road Media Cooperation
Alliance was one of the fruits
of the Belt and Road Forum
for International Coopera-
tion. At Monday’s forum in
Sanya, 59 media representa-
tives from China and 31 other
countries reached a consen-
sus on jointly promoting the
Belt and Road News Cooper-
ation Alliance.
They issued a declaration
saying the alliance will fur-
ther support its media mem-
bers in conducting joint
interviews to cover the Belt
and Road Initiative’s story
and increase mutual recogni-
tion of the countries.
The declaration said that
news and information coop-
eration and sharing will be
enhanced with a new process
whose design is based on
respecting and protecting the
Remembering WWI heroes
Chen Wenxiong, better known as Buon-Huong Tan (second from the right), a member of France’s Parlia-
ment, and a senior French army official, pay their respects on Sunday at the tombs of Chinese workers
killed in France during World War I at the Chinese Cemetery Nolette in Noyelles-sur-Mer. Some 884 Chinese
rest at the largest burial site for Chinese killed during World War I in France. LONG JIANWU / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Transfers: Nation’s upgrades are
providing big market for others
From page 1
Economics, said China’s
industrial upgrades provide
an immense market for
developed countries’ high-
end manufacturing equip-
ment, spare parts and
capacity, mining, agriculture
and animal husbandry and
transport.
Before their meeting, Li
hosted a ceremony to welcome
Khurelsukh.
The Mongolian prime min-
ister also met with Li Zhanshu,
chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National
People’s Congress, before
heading to Hainan province to
attend the Boao Forum for
Asia annual conference.
copyrights of news works. The
alliance will provide free
media content uploading and
sharing services for members.
As one of the sections
under this year’s Boao Forum
for Asia Annual Conference,
the Media Leaders Summit
emphasized the role of media
in promoting cooperation
and globalization. Long
Yongtu, former secretary of
the Boao Forum, said that
media and forums are “natu-
ral friends”. Long said the
forum provides new ideas
and new information while
the media promotes the
influence of the forum and
spreads it to the world.
“We hope that the Asian
media will take concrete
steps to strengthen Asian
interconnectivity and make a
contribution to globalization,
which has become more rele-
vant today,” Long said.
advanced materials.
Like the US plan to revital-
ize its manufacturing sector,
the Made in China 2025 is
China’s vision to boost its
manufacturing capability and
to attract investment in tech-
nological innovation, and it
3
China
rebukes
US arms
sale to
Taiwan
China said on Monday it
opposed the United States sell-
ing weapons to Taiwan, after
the Trump administration
approved the marketing
license required for US manu-
facturers to sell technology to
Taiwan that would allow for
building submarines.
The Defense Ministry,
responding to a journalist’s
question in an online state-
ment about the issue,
demanded that the US “halt
all forms of military links
between the United States
and Taiwan, as well as all
forms of weapon sales to Tai-
wan”.
“China’s military has the
ability and determination to
defeat all attempts to separate
our country, and it will adopt
all necessary measures to res-
olutely defend national sover-
eignty, security and territorial
integrity,” ministry spokes-
man Wu Qian said.
Last month, US President
Donald Trump signed a bill
that encourages visits
between the United States
and Taiwan at all levels, which
China strongly opposed.
According to
reports, new US national
media
security adviser John Bolton
is expected to visit Taiwan in
June.
In response to Bolton’s pos-
sible visit, Geng Shuang,
spokesman for Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, said the one-
China policy is the basis for
the Sino-US relationship, and
China opposes official con-
nections between the US and
Taiwan, or the US selling
weapons to it.
“That stance has been
coherent, clear and firm,” he
said. “We urge the US to halt
any official connections and
any move to enhance sub-
stantial relations with Tai-
wan. The US should also cut
military connections with
Taiwan and stop selling weap-
ons to it so as to avoid damage
to the Sino-US relationship
and cross-Straits peace and
stability.”
CHINA DAILY—REUTERS
does not involve any forced
rules and regulations, Xiong
said.
China has increased its tech-
nological competitiveness
through growing investment
in its own research and devel-
opment, he added.
4 INTERVIEW
‘End one-party rule’ calls ‘may violate Constitution’
HK’s NPCSC deputy Tam warns those advocating
such moves could be barred from elections in city
By JOSEPH LI in Hong Kong
joseph@chinadailyhk.com
Pe o p l e w h o a d v o c a t e
“ending one-party rule” may
infringe the revised national
Constitution and could be
barred from joining elections
in Hong Kong, warned Tam
Yiu-chung, the city’s Nation-
al People’s Congress Stand-
ing Committee deputy.
In an exclusive interview
with China Daily, Tam said
he made the comments after
taking an objective view of
the Constitution. It was up to
returning officers to decide
whether such people were
qualified for elections.
Tam first made these state-
ments in an interview dur-
ing the NPC annual meeting
in Beijing last month. His
remarks sparked a storm
within the opposition camp,
with several people speaking
out against him.
During the interview, Tam
said he only targeted people
who wish to participate in
elections — not all Hong
Kong people.
Tam said he only made his
point in reply to questions
raised in the other interview
and brushed aside specu-
lation he was “testing the
water” for central govern-
ment authorities.
“At this NPC annual meet-
ing, the Constitution was
amended to affirm the lead-
ership of the Communist
Party of China.
“ T he amendment had
By-election victory ‘significant’, Tam says
By JOSEPH LI in Hong Kong
joseph@chinadailyhk.com
The outcome of the Legis-
lative Council by-election on
March 11 was significant for
Hong Kong’s pro-establish-
ment camp, said Tam Yiu-
chung, the city’s newly elected
National People’s Congress
Standing Committee member.
The former chairman of the
Democratic Alliance for the
Betterment and Progress of
Hong Kong made the remarks
after the pro-establishment
camp won two of the four
seats.
To ny Ts e Wa i - c h u e n
regained his seat in the Archi-
tecture, Surveying, Planning
and Landscape functional con-
stituency.
More importantly, DAB
rising star Vincent Cheng
Wing-shun broke new ground
by overcoming an opponent
who was largely backed by the
opposition camp to secure the
Kowloon West geographical
constituency.
Cheng’s triumph was very
significant, Tam said.
...President Xi Jinping has made
it clear that apart from continu-
ation of the principles of ‘one
country, two systems’, Hong Kong people
governing Hong Kong and a high degree
of autonomy, Hong Kong must be gov-
erned in strict accordance with the Con-
stitution and the Basic Law.”
Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress
Standing Committee
a bearing on Hong Kong
because of the Basic Law,
which is a constitutional doc-
ument and supreme law of
Hong Kong, originates from
the Constitution,” he noted.
“People who shout the
slogan may have the inten-
tion of overthrowing the
leadership of the CPC. They
have been shouting this for
many years. Since the revi-
sion of the Constitution, it
is wrong if they shout this
again; it may be a problem
for those who wish to run in
elections.”
He a d d e d t h a t i t a l l
depends on returning offi-
cers’ calls. “I have not said if
they are qualified or unquali-
fied for elections because I
do not have the authority to
allow or disallow them. It is
for the returning officers to
handle this,” Tam said.
“It is only my objective
descriptions of the fact after
the Constitution is amend-
He is the first pro-establish-
ment candidate to win a by-elec-
tion in a geographical constitu-
ency. His victory also ensures
the pro-establishment camp
outnumbers the opposition in
both geographical and function-
al constituencies in LegCo.
“We knew it was a very tough
battle. In Kowloon West alone,
our voter base was smaller
than the opposition’s by about
50,000 votes,” said Tam.
“The turnout rate for by-
elections is usually lower. But
our camp not only maintains
more or less the same num-
ber of votes but also manages
a growth of several thousand
votes, while the rival camp suf-
fered a bigger loss of votes.
“We were very united and
worked very hard, demonstrat-
We were very united and
worked very hard, demonstrat-
ing a strong fighting spirit and hoping
for a breakthrough.”
Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress
Standing Committee
ed,” he added.
Respect Constitution
Some people argue that
they only swear to uphold
the Basic Law and swear alle-
giance to the Hong Kong Spe-
cial Administrative Region,
Tam noted. “Yet they should
clearly note the wording of
the oath says the ‘Basic Law
of the HKSAR of the People’s
Republic of China’ and the
‘HKSAR of the PRC’.”
“Moreover, in regard to
Hong Kong affairs, President
Xi Jinping has made it clear
that apart from continua-
tion of the principles of ‘one
country, two systems’, Hong
Kong people governing Hong
Kong and a high degree of
autonomy, Hong Kong must
be governed in strict accor-
dance with the Constitution
and the Basic Law,” Tam said.
Tam praised Chief Secre-
tary for Administration Mat-
thew Cheung Kin-chung for
ing a strong fighting spirit and
hoping for a breakthrough.”
Tam went on to criticize the
rival camp’s strategies.
“They looked down upon
our candidate, but Vincent is
a better candidate in terms of
quality and appearance. He
has been a district councilor
for 10 years in that area, forg-
ing close ties with residents
and performing solid district
services.
“The opponent had done no
district work and advocated
only political issues. He had
the misfortune of being a
‘disqualified lawmaker’, while
scandals also surfaced from
their primary election,” Tam
commented.
“As he focused on online elec-
tioneering, he was therefore
Hong Kong’s newly elected deputy to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee Tam Yiu-chung urges people in the city to
respect the Constitution as the foundation of the Basic Law. He also notes that the SAR will be governed in line with the Constitution and
Basic Law. EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY
his unequivocal remarks.
Cheung told reporters people
should respect the Constitu-
tion as the foundation of the
Basic Law.
Fellow Hong Kong NPC
deputy Raymond Tam Chi-
yuen has suggested prin-
cipal government officials
also swear allegiance to the
Constitution; he believes the
wording of the oath should
be amended accordingly.
Tam Yiu-chung said:“This
Electoral Affairs
Commission Chairman
Barnabas Fung Wah
(second right) and Secretary
for Constitutional and
Mainland Affairs Patrick
Nip Tak-kuen (second left)
open a ballot box in the
counting station at Jockey
Club Government Secondary
School in Kowloon.
EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY
desperately ‘off the ground’, not
knowing that many residents
were grassroots people and
elderly,” he added.
Many pro-establishment
members had wanted to take
leave from the two sessions
meetings in Beijing to come
back to vote. Yet discipline was
very strict this year.
Some Chinese People’s Politi-
cal Consultative Conference
National Committee delegates
came back to vote because
March 11 was a day off for
them. All 36 NPC deputies did
not return to Hong Kong.
Tam said March 11 was an
unsuitable date because it
clashed with NPC and CPPCC
meetings, and the NPC depu-
ties wanted to apply for per-
mission to return but it hap-
pened to be the day for voting
on the revised Constitution.
“Many of us are also unhap-
py that two by-elections,
instead of only one, would be
held. As you know, two by-
elections not only cost more
money and we also have to do a
lot more electioneering work,”
Tam added.
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is a reasonable proposal,
knowing that principal offi-
cials are appointed by the
central government.”
Discussing whether alle-
giance to the Constitution
should be included in oaths
for government officials and
lawmakers, he said this was
up to the government.
LegCo luncheon
Wang Zhimin, director
of the Liaison Office of the
NPCSC membership great
honor, responsibility: Tam
By JOSEPH LI in Hong Kong
joseph@chinadailyhk.com
Newly elected as Hong
Kong’s sole National Peo-
ple’s Congress Standing
Committee deputy, Tam Yiu-
chung feels “honored” to be
in the post.
He vows to “serve as a
bridge” between the people
of Hong Kong and the cen-
tral government by reflect-
ing the city’s people’s views
at a national level.
Tam, 69, served as mem-
ber of the nation’s top politi-
cal advisory body — the
National Committee of the
Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference —
for three terms; 15 years.
A new rule requiring
CPPCC members aged 68
or older to retire led Tam to
focus on the NPC election
last year.
After being elected as
one of the 36 Hong Kong
deputies to the NPC, peo-
ple encouraged him to aim
higher — the NPCSC.
Tam retired as chairman
of the Democratic Alliance
for the Betterment and
Progress of Hong Kong, the
city’s biggest political party
in terms of membership
and number of lawmakers,
in 2015; he left the legisla-
ture a year later. Tam said
he has more time to devote
to national affairs.
“As a CPPCC member, the
workload was not heavy
because it was mainly an
advisory role. Yet accord-
ing to the new age rule, I
had to go and so I joined
the NPC election,” he told
China Daily.
“This is a great honor
and at the same time comes
a huge responsibility to
become a member of the
NPCSC, as there are totally
Central People’s Government
in the HKSAR, will attend a
luncheon at the Legislative
Council on April 23. This is
at the invitation of LegCo
President Andrew Leung
Kwan-yuen.
In Tam Yiu-chung’s opin-
ion, the luncheon is a good
opportunity for him to com-
municate with lawmakers,
especially opposition mem-
bers, in a relaxed atmosphere.
He cited a similar arrange-
175 NPCSC members and
Hong Kong has only one
seat.
“Under the leadership of
President Xi Jinping, China
practices a type of socialism
with Chinese characteristics
and is pursuing its goals of
‘Two Centenaries’.
“It is very meaningful to
be part of the process as we
are at the turning point of
China’s development in a
new era.”
Tam said NPCSC mem-
bers’ work is quite demand-
ing as it covers legislation,
law amendments, moni-
toring the government,
appointment of officials and
interpretations of Basic Law
provisions.
He also has other commit-
ments; apart from media
interviews, he has received
more invitations to join
or officiate at public func-
tions. People from business,
cultural and social-welfare
sectors want to talk to him
about the Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao Greater Bay
Area plan.
“Some mainland mem-
bers of the NPCSC are
eager to know more about
Hong Kong’s current affairs.
Therefore, I need to prepare
well and reflect the views of
Hong Kong people to the
NPCSC,” he said.
Tam speaks highly of pre-
decessor Rita Fan Hsu Lai-
tai, who held the post for
the past 10 years. When he
was appointed to the NPCSC
on March 19, they met the
media and shook hands to
mark the handover.
Fan’s tenure saw such
controversies as interpreta-
tion of the Basic Law provi-
sions and the “August 31”
(2014) constitutional frame-
work by the NPCSC.
“The central government
ment to host former director
Zhang Xiaoming in 2013.
Zhang had made a brief
speech before the lunch but
what he said was not explo-
sive, Tam recalled. He was
seated at the head table with
the then LegCo president Jas-
per Tsang Yok-sing and repre-
sentatives of political parties.
Zhang had wanted to be
host in return but the oppo-
sition refused out of fear of
it being hijacked by radicals.
Some
main-
land members of
the NPCSC are
eager to know
more about Hong
Kong’s current af-
fairs. Therefore,
I need to prepare
well and reflect
the views of Hong
Kong people to
the NPCSC.”
Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong
deputy to the National People’s
Congress Standing Committee
is reluctant to interpret the
Basic Law and will only
do so to help Hong Kong
resolve problems it can’t
solve,” he explained. “As
for the August 31 decision,
it was never implemented
because Hong Kong’s Leg-
islative Council vetoed the
electoral reform package,
defying over 50 percent of
public support.
“Society must first reach
a consensus on whether
to accept the August 31
framework in order to
reopen electoral reform,”
he stressed.
“If there is a consensus in
society and among various
political parties, they may
inform the SAR government
who will in turn propose
to the central government,”
Tam said.
“Yet, I don’t see this will
happen because those who
opposed it have not said
openly they will back it
now.”

CHINA
CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
Disease
entering
its peak
season
By JIANG CHENGLONG
jiangchenglong@
chinadaily.com.cn
Hand, foot and mouth
disease is spreading in Chi-
na, with the number of cas-
es reported in March
doubling that of February,
a senior disease control
official said on Monday.
“The incidence of hand,
foot and mouth disease this
year is expected to be worse
than last year,” said Mao
Qun’an, the National
Health Commission’s
director of disease control
and prevention.
“More than 28,000 cases
of the infectious disease
were reported in March,
twice the number found in
February,” he said. “And it
has been rising, which
means the disease is enter-
ing peak season.”
The Chinese Center for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion said hand, foot and
mouth disease is a common
viral infection among chil-
dren. Its symptoms include
fever, oral ulcers and skin
rashes on the feet and
hands. Complications can
seriously threaten the health
of children under 5 and in
rare cases can be deadly.
2.06
million
Average number of
cases of hand, foot and
mouth disease per year in
China since 2010
People can become
infected through being in
close contact with an infect-
ed person’s excrement,
including feces and saliva,
or daily items such as a tow-
el, toys and feeding bottles.
Incidence usually peaks in
spring and summer.
“Since 2010, the number
of cases per year on average
has hit 2.06 million and it’s
ranked among the top five
infectious diseases that can
cause death,” Mao said.
“Considering that most
deaths and severe cases
resulted from infection of
Enterovirus 71, known as
EV71, we urge local govern-
ments to expand vaccina-
tions to protect people.”
According to the Chinese
CDC, the vaccine that can
stop EV71, which was devel-
oped by China, entered the
market in 2016 and is the
only effective one available
on the global market. In Chi-
na, payment for the vaccine
is shouldered by individuals.
It can effectively prevent
EV71-related infections.
However, Zhang Jing, a
researcher at the CDC, said
the vaccination rate in Chi-
na was not high.
Vaccination rates in some
areas are only 10 percent,
but even a vaccination rate
above 50 percent can’t stop
the virus from spreading,
she said.
To prevent and control
the disease, Mao called for
cooperation between local
health departments and
education organizations.
“Schools should be aware
of their students’ health
conditions,” he said. “They
should check students
every morning and report
cases to health authorities
immediately.”
“Children should avoid
crowded places during the
peak period,” Mao said. “If
they come down with
symptoms, they should stay
quarantined at home.”
Eye in the sky
A solar halo appears over Kunming, Yunnan province, at noon on Monday, prompting people to pause for a look and even photograph
the spectacle. Such halos are an optical phenomenon produced by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
ZHAI JIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Jiangsu shows heritage at carnival
By CARRIE QIU
in Hong Kong
carrieqiu@chinadailyhk.com
Hong Kong people will soon
witness a billion-dollar jade
Chinese cabbage sculpture —
when it leaves the mainland
for the first time for a three-
day festival of Jiangsu culture.
Co-organized by the Jiang-
su provincial government,
Federation of HK Jiangsu
Community Organizations
and Jiangsu Residents (HK)
Association, the debut Jiangsu
Cultural Carnival will be held
in Victoria Park from April 20
to 22, with free admission.
The people of Hong Kong
will also be able to enjoy Jiang-
su’s theatrical performances,
intangible cultural heritage
exhibition and authentic deli-
cacies from all around the
province.
The highlight of the intangi-
ble cultural heritage display —
the Chinese cabbage sculpture
made from jade — is leaving
the mainland for the first
time, said Yiu Mau-lung, exec-
utive vice-chairman and sec-
retary general of the
Federation of HK Jiangsu
Community Organizations,
on Monday at a press confer-
ence to launch the carnival.
The treasure chest showcas-
ing fine traditional handcraft
techniques from Yangzhou, a
city in Jiangsu, is worth bil-
lions of Hong Kong dollars,
Sisters reunite after 79-year separation
NANNING — Que Bamei
wept as she tightly held her
older sister. They had lost
contact 79 years ago amid the
turmoil of the Japanese inva-
sion of China.
Que, 87, was born into a
large family in Qinzhou in the
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous
region. When the Japanese
invaded in 1939, 8-year-old
Que had to part with her eight
siblings and followed other
family members fleeing to
neighboring Guangdong
province.
She was adopted by a fami-
ly in Zhanjiang, Guangdong,
and never returned to her
hometown or met with any
relatives since.
Decades later, Que’s memo-
ries of Qinzhou had faded to a
few blurred pictures — “a big
courtyard with a pool in
front, ... and grandfather’s
grave”.
However, the desire to
revisit and see relatives stayed
rooted in her heart, growing
stronger as time passed.
Henry Tang Ying-yen — president of the Federation of HK Jiangsu Community Organizations and
former chief secretary for administration — and actress Samantha Ko Hoi-ling share dumplings at
the opening ceremony of the Jiangsu Culture Carnival on Monday. The event opens to the public
from April 20 to 22 at Victoria Park. PARKER ZHENG / CHINA DAILY
said Yiu. Insurance for the
“cabbage” alone for this trip
cost more than HK$1 million.
In charge of the intangible
cultural heritage exhibition at
this carnival, Yiu said the exhi-
bition was not limited to jade
sculpture. It will also include
embroidery, paper-cutting
and olive-stone carving.
“Jiangsu has a rich cultural
heritage but Hong Kong peo-
ple might not be familiar with
all of them,” said Henry Tang
Ying-yen, a member of the
In February, Que had gall-
stone surgery and frequently
talked about returning to her
hometown.
Realizing there was no time
to waste, her 33-year-old
grandson Huang Guangpeng
decided to help his grand-
mother fulfill her dream. He
used the online charity plat-
form baobeihuijia.com, which
is dedicated to helping lost
relatives reunite.
With limited information
from Que, volunteers on the
platform found it extremely
difficult to locate her vil-
lage, not to mention her lost
relatives.
Que, who can’t read or write,
was unclear about the exact
character for her family name
and initially gave it as “Ji”. But
the volunteers were informed
that there was no one with that
name in the area.
After searching for a while,
the volunteers found a house-
hold with the family name
“Que”, which bears a similar
pronunciation to “Ji” in the
National Committee of the
Chinese People’s Political Con-
sultative Conference and
chairman of the Federation of
HK Jiangsu Community Orga-
nizations.
To promote Jiangsu culture,
the organization has held a
number of cultural events in
Hong Kong, including a pur-
ple sand teapot exhibition last
November.
But none of them show-
cased Jiangsu culture in such
a comprehensive way, said
local dialect, and there were
matches to Que’s description.
The volunteers investigat-
ed further and confirmed
that Que was born at Dashigu
village, Shabu town, Qinnan
district. Her father, Que
Mingguang, was a military
officer who died in battle.
Her five brothers were lost in
the war.
However, Que’s three sis-
ters were later married in
Qinzhou, though two had
died. But her half-sister Que
Qijie was alive.
Before meeting in person,
the sisters spoke over video
chat. Amid tears they promised
to meet as soon as possible.
On March 29, accompanied
by her children, Que Bamei
arrived at Dashigu village aft-
er a four-hour ride from home.
Even though the dense
bamboo, orchards and old
houses had changed, child-
hood memories came flood-
ing back, and her eyes turned
red with tears.
Anxious to reunite with her
Patients can have access to new drugs and equipment
from overseas at lower prices, so I believe they will
spend much less in the hospital than going overseas for treatment.”
Li Lanjuan, president of Boao Super Hospital
Tang, also former chief secre-
tary for administration.
He expected the number of
visitors to reach five figures
“but it’s hard to estimate as
this is the first edition”, Tang
added.
He also encouraged local
gastronomes to join the carni-
val and try traditional Jiangsu
delights. These include xiao-
longbao, Chinese steamed
bun, and jicai tuanzi — a
dumpling stuffed with vegeta-
bles called shepherd’s purse.
sister, Que Qijie had been sit-
ting in front of her house and
waiting long before Bamei’s
arrival.
When Bamei arrived, neigh-
bors set off firecrackers in cele-
bration. The two sisters held
each other and cried for a long
time without uttering a word.
“Finally I have met you
again,” Que Bamei murmured
in an unfamiliar Qinzhou dia-
lect.
“Thanks to the conve-
nience offered by the internet
and the efforts of volunteers,
my grandma and her sister
now have one less regret in
life,” said Huang Guangpeng.
Huang said his grandmoth-
er used to be a silent person,
but has become much more
talkative after the reunion,
telling stories from her child-
hood and the family history
she learned from her sister.
The two sisters plan to
meet again soon to make up
for lost time.
XINHUA
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Hospital on
fast track to
high level
Facility in Boao will get speedy OKs to
import advanced equipment, medicine
By WANG XIAODONG
in Beijing and
MA ZHIPING in Haikou
A new hospital in Hainan
province is expected to
become an alternative to top
overseas hospitals.
Medical institutions at the
Boao Lecheng International
Medical Tourism Pilot Zone in
Boao, where the Boao Super
Hospital is located, can get
speedy approvals from the
Hainan provincial government
to import sophisticated medi-
cal equipment that is urgently
needed, according to a state-
ment released on Sunday by the
State Council, China’s Cabinet.
In all other areas on the Chi-
nese mainland, the importa-
tion of sophisticated medical
equipment under current reg-
ulations requires lengthy pro-
cedures, inspections and
approvals from the national
drug supervision authority.
A demonstration project
launched in 2013, the Boao
Lecheng Pilot Zone enjoys sev-
eral other preferential poli-
cies, such as simplified
procedures for importing
medicines and medical tech-
nologies and reduced tariffs
for some imported medicines
and equipment.
“Patients can have access to
new drugs and equipment
from overseas at lower prices,
so I believe they will spend
much less in the hospital than
going overseas for treat-
ment,” said Li Lanjuan, presi-
dent of Boao Super Hospital
and a member of the Chinese
Academy of Engineering.
Medical workers from Boao Super Hospital transport a patient
from a helicopter during a drill in Hainan province in March.
SHI YAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
Briefly
Poverty relief book
by Xi goes online
The English and French e-book
editions of President Xi Jinping’s
book Up and Out of Poverty
went online on Monday to read-
ers worldwide. The book, pub-
lished by Foreign Languages
Press, contains 29 of Xi’s speech-
es and articles from the 1988-90
period, when he was Party secre-
tary of Ningde, Fujian province.
The book focuses on how to help
the eastern area of Fujian over-
come poverty and gear up devel-
opment, offering a slew of
concepts, ideas and methodolo-
gies. It also provides a record of
Xi’s two years of work in the city.
Algerian satellite
begins operations
Algeria’s first communications
satellite, which was developed
and built by China, was put
into full service this month,
according to China Great Wall
Industry Corp, the contractor.
An in-orbit delivery ceremony
for the Alcomsat 1 was held at
5
“The hospital will not only
meet demand from Chinese
patients but also some inter-
national patients, such as
those from Southeast Asian
countries,” Li said.
More than 10 patients
underwent surgery at the hos-
pital during its first week, Li
said, after the facility opened
on March 31. It has 150 beds.
About 600,000 people from
China traveled overseas for
medical treatment in 2016 due
to the unavailability of the latest
drugs and equipment, Hainan
Governor Shen Xiaoming said
at a news conference in March.
Over the past 10 years,
patients on the mainland have
had to wait five to seven years
longer for some major new
drugs than patients in Europe
and the United States because
of lengthy approval proce-
dures, according to the China
Drug Administration.
Of 433 drugs approved for
sale in developed countries
between 2001 and 2016, only
30 percent are available on the
Chinese mainland, it said.
This has caused an increas-
ing number of people to buy
drugs through the internet
and from overseas, which has
many potential risks, it said.
More medical institutions
in the Boao Lecheng Pilot
Zone will promote the devel-
opment of medical tourism in
the province, according to the
city government of Qionghai,
which governs the zone.
Contact the writers at
wangxiaodong@
chinadaily.com.cn
the Algerian Space Agency’s
headquarters in Algiers earlier
this month. The Alcomsat 1
was launched in December on
a Long March 3B carrier rock-
et at the Xichang Satellite
Launch Center in Sichuan
province. It is the ninth tele-
communications satellite Chi-
na has exported and also the
first space cooperation pro-
gram between China and
Algeria.
321 pig farms
closed in 2017
Beijing shut down 321 pig
farms last year to clean the
environment and save water.
The survey office of the Nation-
al Bureau of Statistics in Beijing
said on Sunday that the city
produced 2.42 million hogs for
slaughter in 2017, down 12.1
percent year-on-year. The city
has banned pig farming in
regions totaling more than
5,200 square kilometers, nearly
one-third of the city’s area.
XINHUA—CHINA DAILY
6 CHINA Tuesday, April 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

Wills: NGO
helps to head
off rows over
inheritance A China Will Registration Center staff member explains its procedures at its Beijing branch. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY

From page 1 Filling the gap

“During the will-making process, we adopt
measures such as video recording and facial recog-
nition to guarantee the will’s validity,” Chen said.
“By keeping the will at the center and confidential,
aging parents can avoid family disputes before
death. In extreme cases, children have been known
to coerce their parents to make changes to wills.
“After a parent dies, heirs can take their par-
ent’s ID card and death certificate and come to
the center to see if they have preserved wills at
the center. The center also cooperates with the
courts and can provide evidence if legacy dis-
putes do occur.”
Chen, a 41-year-old lawyer, said a legally binding
will has to fulfill a series of requirements including
the format and content, which are nearly impossi-
ble for elderly people with limited means to han-
dle. “When disputes arise, wills with loopholes
would be rendered invalid,” he said.
To deposit his will at the center, Li called to make
an appointment for a consultation, where he had a
face-to-face talk with his counselor. He was then
given a computer-generated will in accordance
with his desires that he then transcribed by hand
to another piece of paper.
Finally, his handwritten will had to go through a
review process, which normally takes two months
at most, and he had to have a mental examination,
either at the center or at a qualified hospital, to
prove the will was made with his knowledge. The
center has contracted the mental examination ser-
vice out to a qualified organization, the Beijing
Hexie Heritage Service Center, which charges 480
yuan ($75).
Funding for the center’s other services mainly
comes from two charities, the China Aging Devel-
opment Foundation and the Beijing Sunny Senior
Health Fund, and government subsidies.
Shifting trend
As Chinese become richer and the number of
inheritance disputes rises, experts say people are
becoming increasingly aware of the significance of
legally binding wills.
Yuan Xin, a professor at Nankai University who
studies aging and development, said China has
seen an economic boom in the past few decades
and people now have much more disposable
income.
“Surveys show more than 85 percent of the coun-
try’s elderly own real estate, which is a huge
amount of wealth, especially in first-tier cities like
Beijing,” he said.
The increased wealth, along with a soaring
divorce rate, had led the educated elderly to seek
legally binding protection of their legacies, he said.
Chen echoed Yuan’s comments. “I have seen a
decline in cases involving children failing to sup-
port their aging parents in recent years,” he said.
“But cases involving inheritance disputes have ris-
en.”
A report based on 80,000 wills registered at the
center shows the percentage of will-makers aged
between 60 and 70 has increased steadily in the
past five years, from less than 30 percent in 2013 to
43 percent in 2017, whereas the percentage of those
older than 70 has declined.
Real estate appeared in more than 99 percent of
wills, making it the most common type of inherit-
ance, the report said. Bank savings followed, but
only appeared in 17 percent.
Almost all the wills specified that the inherit-
ance was intended for their children and was not
the joint property of their children’s marriage,
meaning their children’s spouses would get noth-
ing in the event of a divorce.
The UN predicts the number of Chinese over the
age of 60 will double by 2050, reaching 480 mil-
lion, while those over 80 will triple, reaching 110
million. That scenario means 25 percent of the
world’s elderly population will be living in China
by then.
The idea for the center came to Chen in 2007,
when he was on an exchange program at a law firm
in Australia. He was surprised to find most Austra-
lians had made their wills in their 30s or 40s,
whereas ordinary Chinese, even the wealthy, did
not take the making of wills seriously.
Two years later, when he became the legal advis-
er at the China Aging Development Foundation,
Chen found that as Chinese become richer, the
thorniest issues faced by the elderly are no longer
domestic violence or children failing to support
their parents, but inheritance disputes.
“At first I was thinking about launching a legal
assistance program helping senior citizens who
want to make wills, but soon I realized it would not
work. Because while the elderly penned their wills
when they were conscious, their children would
still fight over the inheritance and that would
affect their parents’ lives.”
That is when the prototype of the China Will
Registration Center formed in his mind.
Chinese people make and execute wills, Chen A worker at the center’s Beijing branch helps a woman deposit a will. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY
said, but there are usually years, even decades
between the two steps, during which time many
problems can arise, such as disputes over a will’s
authenticity, whereas registering or entrusting a
will with a third-party custodian was common
practice in the West.
He said the will registration center can fill the
gap. The elderly can use it to seek legal advice, and
it can also help them preserve their wills with con-
fidentiality. That means those making wills can
avoid family disputes while they are alive, and
their will’s authenticity can be guaranteed.
“The center uses methods including finger-
prints, video recording, facial recognition and
exclusion of heirs in the registration process to
make sure the will reflects the will-maker’s wishes,”
he said.
“It is nonprofit and as a third party it does not
represent either party involved in an inheritance
dispute, which is different from hiring an attorney.
The center’s nonprofit nature enhances its trust-
worthiness and the will’s validity.”
When a will’s validity is unquestionable, those
claiming an inheritance will not resort to legal
action. “Nobody wants to lodge a suit that is des-
tined to lose,” Chen said. “Compared with paying
the legal costs, the claimants would rather sit down
for a negotiation, and the legal resources are thus
saved.” Elderly clients display their certificates after registering their wills at the center’s branch in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
Yin Yanhe, director of the center’s Beijing PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
branch, said that to cover as many senior citizens
as possible, it only serves those able to read and
write — because they need to transcribe the com-
puter-generated wills — and has upper limits on
the assets involved.
“We don’t provide a free service to will-makers
with more than two properties, bank cards or secu-
rities accounts,” she said, adding the threshold can
help the center exclude extreme cases and improve
its efficiency.
“Those with special requirements — such as
will-makers with mental diseases or with a large
amount of assets — should seek paid service
from organizations such as a notarial office,” Yin
said.
The center can serve 20 to 25 people wanting to
make a will on an average day, she said, compared
with a maximum of two in most notarial offices.
Chen said the center has seven branches, includ-
ing in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and is still
expanding. By 2024, it wants 600 million Chinese
to better understand the need to make wills at an
early age.
But he is candid about the difficulties ahead.
“The importance of will registration has not
been recognized by Chinese laws or policymakers,”
he said. “Though the center has been well received
by the elderly, we need more marketing personnel
to raise the center’s awareness among younger
groups as well.”
Chen Kai (right) outlines the procedures for depositing a will to 68-year-old Gong Jinhua, at the China Will Registration Cen-
Contact the writer at lilei@chinadaily.com.cn ter’s branch in Shanghai. GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY

FIRST PERSON

Elderly woman’s grief steels center director for daily challenges

W
hen the project started in
2013, we had very limited per-
sonnel and people wanting to
make wills were standing in
lines hundreds of meters long outside the
branch’s office. Some who did not know the
center well even called the local govern-
ment to lodge a complaint.
Though the elderly are increasingly
aware of the importance of wills, many of
them still regard conversations about death
as a taboo.
Yin Yanhe
28, director of the China Will Regis-
tration Center’s Beijing branch
In the past five years, I have seen many
cases where will-makers got angry after the
branch’s employees asked questions about
posthumous arrangements. To avoid such
conflicts, we need to think very carefully
about our wording, which makes the job
difficult.
When the center was set up, many
would-be will-makers were hesitant about
depositing their wills here. Because of that,
one 92-year-old woman surnamed Chen
was left in great financial trouble.
Chen had been in a good relationship
with her husband, but after his death, their
daughter produced a will from her father
that allocated all of his wealth to the daugh-
ter and left Chen nothing.
The elderly woman believed the will was
fabricated but could not find proof. When
she was going through the things left by her
husband, she found a reservation ticket
from the center. Then she immediately
came here and asked for help.
I had the impression that such a man
once came to the center to learn about the
service, but after learning he had to under-
go a mental examination to deposit a will
he hesitated and left.
I wasn’t sure if he came back again. After
checking the registration system, we didn’t
find a record of his will.
Upon hearing this, Chen burst into tears.
I can hardly imagine an elderly woman in
her 90s crying after surviving all the hard-
ships of her entire life. That must be huge
grief. I thought to myself why didn’t I try to
persuade her husband to deposit his will
here at the time. If I’d tried, such things
would have been avoided.
Yin Yanhe spoke with Li Lei.
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POLICY RESPONSE

Measures to ring in the changes VAT, tourism

for traveling mobile internet users
Service charges, including broadband for businesses, to be slashed in bid to boost quality growth
By ZHANG YUE
zhangyue@chinadaily.com.cn
Tomb Sweeping Festival saw
many people travel across the
country and mobile internet ser-
vice fees increase. But the situation
will change this year.
The State Council’s executive
meeting on April 4, chaired by Pre-
mier Li Keqiang, approved a series
of measures to further speed up
broadband connectivity as well as
cutting costs for mobile internet
use.
It was decided during the meet-
ing that internet data roaming
charges will be canceled starting
from July 1, and the cost of mobile
internet services and household
broadband will be cut by 30 per-
cent. Internet services for small
and medium-sized enterprises will
also be reduced by 10 to 15 percent.
Dong Jie, 27, working at an inter-
net-based startup in Beijing, said
she was both surprised and happy
about the set of newly issued poli-
cies.
“I feel that the government has
been trying to reduce the cost of
the internet and telecommunica-
tions in recent years. Yet, I was still
surprised that incentives in fur-
ther reducing costs and fees came
much faster than I expected,” she
said.
Efforts to press on with reforms
to boost innovation and increase
the quality of economic growth
were a priority for Li when he
delivered the Government Work
Report on March 5.
In the report, Li told deputies
that providing internet access on
airplanes was important while
more free Wi-Fi networks will be
installed in hotels, airports and
railway stations.
The report also said that the gov-
ernment will do more to speed up
broadband and bring down inter-
net rates to boost the development
of a “Digital China”. Li said in the
report that domestic data roaming
charges will be abolished and the
rates for mobile internet services
will be cut by at least 30 percent, to
promote the transformation and
upgrading of the real economy.
Dong said her job in sales meant
she travels between Beijing and
Shandong province every two
months, and the use of mobile
internet service is essential.
Improving the service and
reducing its cost have been fre-
quent topics of State Council exec-
utive meetings, and they were also
included in the Government Work
Report for two consecutive years.
The April 4 meeting also decid-
ed on a slew of measures, such as
promoting high-speed broadband
to reach more urban and rural are-
as, and making 98 percent of villa-
ges accessible through fiber optics
by the end of this year. It was also
decided at the meeting that roam-
ing charges for international — as
well as Hong Kong, Macao and Tai-
wan mobile internet use — will
further decrease.
At the meeting, Li stressed that
reducing costs will not only benefit
people, but also accelerate eco-
nomic upgrades. With the tele-
communication industry at the
forefront of the new technological
revolution, he said that the core of
the Made in China 2025 strategy
lies in intelligent manufacturing,
“which is based on telecommuni-
cation”.
Zhang Baohua, a professor from
the Beijing University of Post and
Telecommunications, said reduc-
ing mobile internet costs not only
helps reduce the financial burden
for household internet users. More
important, it will ease cost bur-
dens on small businesses as well as
startups, especially as it was decid-
ed at the meeting that internet
lines for small and micro-sized
businesses will be reduced by
10 to 15 percent.
“Broadband costs for run-
ning a company are much
higher than household users,
and this, in most cases, is a
very heavy burden for small
business startups. Reducing
such costs will help many
businesses get started,” she
said.
and farming
among issues
addressed
VAT to be lowered in key areas
Value-added tax on sales will be low-
ered to 16 percent from 17 percent, with
10 percent VAT to be paid by importers,
said a notice released by the Ministry of
Finance and the State Administration of
Taxation.
VAT will be deducted at 10 percent for
buyers of agricultural goods, from the
previous 11 percent, the departments
said. The notice will take effect on May 1.
Agriculture to reap more funds
More fiscal funds will be allocated
into the agriculture sector as part of
preferential policies to boost the sector
and improve livelihoods in rural areas,
said the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs and the Ministry of
Finance.
A total of 37 measures were released
by the two ministries, including subsi-
dies to farmers and other moves to sup-
port business startups, industrial
integration and the promotion of green
and efficient technologies.
Subsidies will be given to farmers
growing corn and soybeans in Liaoning,
Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and
the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Provincial-level governments will
decide on the specifics of where and
how to subsidize farmers, the ministries
said. However, soybean growers will
enjoy higher subsidies than those culti-
vating corn.
To protect the interests of farmers,
rice growers in major producing provin-
ces will also be subsidized. Funds allo-
cated by the central government will be
distributed by provincial governments,
the ministries said.
A system of professional, expert farm-
ers will be established, focusing on agri-
cultural entrepreneurs, young owners
of modern farms, professional manage-
ment, and key groups in poverty allevia-
tion, the two ministries said. About 1
million farmers will be trained in pro-
fessional techniques.

Surge in festival travel

During the Tomb Sweeping Festival

SHI YU / CHINA DAILY
holiday, 101 million trips were made by
travelers, an increase of 8.3 percent
from the same period last year, accord-
ing to figures released by the Ministry of
Culture and Tourism.

HU YONGQI

Policy digest

Regulation released to
manage scientific data
Research institutes and producers of scien-
tific data should build a database and quali-
ty control system based on relevant
standards, according to a new State Council
regulation released on April 2.
The State Council, China’s Cabinet, wants to
better manage data in fields such as natural
sciences, engineering and technology.
It said local authorities should set up
detailed rules and regulations when imple-
menting national policies regarding scientif-
ic data. Research centers should be created
by qualified institutions to explore insight
into scientific data under the supervision of
relevant governmental departments. These
centers will collect, classify, process and ana-
lyze the data.
Reports are required by scientific data cen-
ters before data produced in government-
funded research projects is needed and used
for academic purposes and before being
published in foreign academic journals.
Data generated in privately funded research
projects, if involving State secrets, national
security and public interest, also should be
reported to the authorities.
Data produced through government funding,
apart from those involving State secrets,
national security, commercial secrets and indi-
vidual privacy, should be open to the public.
Users of scientific data must abide by regula-
tions on intellectual property rights and give
credit to original producers.
The government and research institutes
should strengthen security management on
scientific data from the moment they are
generated, such as the authorization and
authentication for downloading, the regula-
tion added.
Boundaries of four nature
reserves to be adjusted
The State Council approved adjustments to
boundaries of four national nature reserves
in a notice issued on April 2.
The reserves are East Dongting Lake in
Hunan province, Jinfo Mountain in Chong-
qing, Baima Snow Mountain in Yunnan
province, and Mount Qomolangma (also
known as Mount Everest) in the Tibet
autonomous region.
According to the notice, the adjusted size,
coverage and function of each nature
reserve will be announced by the Ministry of
Ecology and Environment.
Related departments and local government
are required to clarify the land ownership
of each newly adjusted reserve and set
their boundaries in accordance with the
approval. They are also urged to strength-
en leadership, supervision and coordina-
tion to build high-standard national nature
reserves. Management of nature reserves
should also coordinate with local economic
developments, the notice added.
Some administrative
regulations to be amended
China will make a number of adjustments to
some administrative regulations, including
18 that will be amended and another five to
be abolished, said a notice recently released
by the State Council.
The move ends provisional regulations on
private enterprises, rules to enforce laws on
prevention and control of water pollution,
regulations on administration of geological
exploration qualifications, regulations on
the administration of breeding, livestock
and poultry, and provisional measures for
rehabilitation through labor that had been
abolished years ago.
The adjustments came into force on
Wednesday.
Research and supply of
generic drugs to be boosted
China will promote research and accessibili-
ty of generic drugs, and improve their quali-
ty to better meet public demand and reduce
healthcare costs, according to a State Coun-
cil notice released on April 3.
Drugs, which are indispensable for clinical
treatments and in short supply, will be
encouraged to go generic, especially for
those needed in treating major infectious
diseases, rare diseases, pediatric patients
and in public healthcare incidents.
Lists of encouraged generic drugs will be
published regularly by healthcare and medi-
cal authorities. Research projects on key
drugs will be included into national pro-
grams.
Intellectual property rights protections of
generic drugs will be enhanced to balance
the interests of patentees and the public.
Antitrust legislation was also emphasized to
prevent infringement of intellectual proper-
ty rights.
Evaluations on quality and effectiveness
consistency for generic drugs will be pro-
moted. Hospitals, universities, academic
institutes and private evaluation institutions
will all be encouraged to participate.
Quality standards for drugs and packaging
materials will be modified to promote new
materials and techniques. By doing so,
patients will no longer depend on imports
for some materials.
Reforms should be deepened in the evalua-
tion and approval regime for drugs. Permits
for generic drugs will be issued on a strict
basis regarding the consistency of quality
and effectiveness between generic and
brand-name drugs.
A quality management and tracing system
will be established as well, which covers the
life-span process of generic drugs, ranging
from research, production and distribution
to use.
Generic drugs will be placed on lists of offi-
cial procurements and in interchangeable
lists with brand-name drugs. The drugs will
be given priority when it comes to treating
patients with AIDS and tuberculosis.
Preferential policies will be adopted in taxa-
tion and prices, along with incentives in the
system of basic healthcare insurance, the
notice added.
HU YONGQI
8 Tuesday, April 10, 2018

COMMENT C H I N A DA I LY H O N G KO N G E D I T I O N

Lin Wei
TO T H E P O I N T

Tunnel-bridge islands
S TA F F W R I T E R

Concerns about bridge safety unfounded

standing firm in sea
Engineering and environmental considerations led
designers to place dolosse at random, while the rest
were regular, leading to media scare, Lin Wei writes
Editor’s note: A major designer of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-
Macao Bridge explains the technical details of the bridge’s
artificial islands and refutes media accusations that their
structures have been damaged.
A batch of aerial photos origi-
nally posted by a Facebook group
of drone users have prompted
concerns among quite a few Hong
Kong people about the safety of the
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
The pictures show that interlock-
ing concrete blocks (known as a
dolosse) placed around the edges
of an artificial island, which con-
nects the Hong Kong section of
the bridge to a tunnel in mainland
waters, have been randomly scat-
For the head part and waters tered.
Indeed, it is both natural and
above the tunnel connecting to understandable that Hong Kong
ters, and reduce the travel time to
within half an hour.
But the case in question is in
no way warranted as concerns
about the bridge’s safety are totally
unsubstantiated. They arose merely
because some “experts” interpreted
those pictures based only on their
own “experiences” and immedi-
ately jumped to a conclusion —
without first going through and
analyzing any formal blueprints
of the structure — not to mention
that many of those “experts”, or
rent-a-quotes in many cases, are
hardly qualified to comment on the
design, which had been thoroughly
inspected and approved as meeting
the required standards, the author-
ity said in a statement.
The media has gained notoriety
for having a special fondness for
“rent-a-quotes” because they are
always handy. That is understand-
able; they make journalists’ jobs
much easier by readying comments
or opinions on virtually any topic.
But our experts should really be
careful when offering their com-
ments lest they risk damaging their
own reputation, and turning them-
selves into cheap rent-a-quotes.

T
he Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge features four artificial
islands — two standing in the sea
and two on the shore. Those in the
sea were built by China Commu-
nications Construction on a con-
struction and design contract.
The sea islands connect the bridge sections
which run above the water with the submarine
tunnel. To achieve this link we invented the
“deep-insert steel cylinders” technique to build
the islands, ensuring the bridge could open for
traffic according to schedule. This new technique
piles 120 steel cylinders — 22 meters in diameter
and more than 50 meters long — one by one 30
meters into the seabed. The innovation short-
ened construction time of the islands from three
compaction pile of high replacement ratio to
strengthen the soft soil in the foundation. Natural
people pay great attention to issues
it, the blocks appear irregular concerning the safety of the bridge
because most are submerged — as it is the world’s longest sea
bridge. And predictably, it will soon
under water and appearance become the favored route for many
is not significant. Moreover, Hong Kong passengers, particu-
larly commuters who need to travel
irregular arrangement allows between Hong Kong and the west
bank of the Pearl River Delta. Once
more permeability, forming a it opens the bridge will shorten the
fish reef, and reduces uneven distance from Hong Kong to Macao
and Zhuhai from 160 to 30 kilome-
loading on the tunnel top.
Made for walking
safety of the bridge, although they Of course, some anti-China
are experts in other fields. media outlets have been keen to
It turns out the structure of the play up the so-called bridge safety
breakwater blocks is working as issue this time. These China-bash-
intended, as the Hong Kong-Zhu- ing media outlets have never failed
hai-Macao Bridge Authority has
clarified. The dolosse were delib-
to exploit any chance to discredit
the country just to fit their politi-
erately arranged to be submerged cal convictions. They wouldn’t be
in a “random manner” to alleviate reluctant to make up stories to
pressure on the undersea tunnel, smear the country and have the
and the contractor built the proj- audacity to refuse to apologize
ect in strict accordance with the when their stories are exposed.
Share your photos by tagging #hk24hr at Instagram!
We’ll choose the best ones to publish in the newspaper.

years to just seven months and let builders avoid
large-scale seabed dredging, which protected the
maritime ecosystem and diminished the bridge’s
impact on the Chinese white dolphins’ habitat.
This new technique is like planting trees in the
sea, so the islands could be firmly rooted.
The underwater tunnel is connected to an
island at each end, its top elevation being above
the surrounding seabed. To lower the risk of ship
collisions we adopted the submerged breakwater
design, with a 120-meter-wide breakwater protect-
ing the tunnel. It is this submerged breakwater
that has led to what Hong Kong media have
claimed to be evidence of the islands having shift-
ed and been damaged.
Blocks of armor protection surrounding the arti-
ficial islands and above the tunnel have to be sta-
bilized in place and must not be moved by waves
or currents. Taking into consideration possible
adverse weather and sea conditions in this region
within the next 120 years, we hired professional
research units to create design standards. When
considering the type of armor protection, we
compared accropode, dolosse and rock. After con-
firming the initial plan, we hired research units
again to conduct physical-model tests under wave
attack to formulate the final plan. We used dolosse
of five and eight tons respectively as the blocks of
armor protection. The artificial island at nearby
Hong Kong port is certainly not subject to the
same intensity of wave impacts so blocks of just
two tons are used there. The stability of dolosse
depends not only on their weight but also on inter-
locking. Compared with other kinds of protection
armor, the permeability of dolosse is the best. That
is why the dolosse could form a very good fish reef
and an excellent habitat for white dolphins. When
the bridge is in operation, whether the protection
blocks are in good condition could be judged by
visual observation.
To minimize tunnel subsidence, we used a sand
sea sand is used in the process, creating minimal
impact on the environment. Furthermore, before
putting the tunnel in place, 1.4 million tons of
gravel were used as ballast to compact the founda-
tion in advance. The weight was about 120 percent
of the total weight of the tunnel when in operation
in future. As expected, measurement figures show
the current subsidence of the tunnel is controlled
at the best level.
When building two islands and a tunnel in the
sea, the best design should respect nature on one
hand while maintaining safety, environmental
protection and beauty on the other. The dolosse
arrangement for instance could be either regu-
lar or irregular. For the two sides and tail of the
island this arrangement is “regular” since most
of the blocks appear above sea level; a regular
pattern looks good. For the head part and waters
above the tunnel connecting to it, the blocks
appear irregular because most are submerged
under water and appearance is not significant.
Moreover, irregular arrangement allows more
permeability, forming a fish reef, and reduces
uneven loading on the tunnel top. Typhoon Hato’s
attack last year was the most severe test on the
project as well as our seven years’ work. Readers
could compare photographs before and after the
typhoon attack and I guarantee you they won’t
find any damage.
Hong Kong is an international city that has
undertaken the world-renowned infrastructure
projects of the Tsing Ma Bridge and the Stonecut-
ters Bridge. During the 20 years after the special
administrative region’s return to the motherland,
the Chinese mainland’s engineering capabilities
have made immense progress. This bridge — con- A shoe vendor
structed with the cooperation of Hong Kong, Zhu- bears a rack of
his goods down a
hai and Macao — is the most challenging engineer- street in Yau Ma
ing project in the world so far. That we have been Tei. @RAY_IN_HK /
able to accomplish it within seven years is some- INSTAGRAM
thing all Chinese people should take pride in.

should be strictly forbidden. In case of

Benny Tai, Die Hard,

seditious forum in a professional capacity.
This is clearly out of bounds, as Tai doubt, look at the fate of Carles Puigde-
should not be there in the first place. He mont, leader of the Catalonia indepen-
was there, like everybody else as a political dence movement in Spain.

still remains at large Lau Nai-keung

The author is a veteran current affairs
activist. So what do political activists do
in such a forum? They do not just theorize
in the abstract but discuss road maps and
action plans, to say the least.
Hong Kong is part of China and is gov-
erned by its Constitution and the Hong
Kong Basic Law. Tai has clearly violated
the spirit and letter of both but it seems

B
enny Tai Yiu-ting should have
been in jail long ago because of
planning and inciting “Occupy
Central” in 2014 but he wasn’t.
He should again be locked up for rig-
ging the 2016 Legislative Council election
through the “ThunderGo Project” but he
was still at large.
Recently Tai went to a meeting of Chi-
nese separatists in Taipei and advocated
“nation building” for Hong Kong. He has
again crossed the line. Many people want
him kicked out of the University of Hong
Kong where he is tenured associate profes-
sor of law. Some want him to be prosecut-
ed for advocating “Hong Kong indepen-
dence”. Some even demand him to hand
over his People’s Republic of China (Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region)
passport because he is not qualified to be a
Chinese citizen.
For his seditious actions, Tai has been
roundly condemned by the Hong Kong
and Macao Affairs Office of the State
Council, the Liaison Office of the Central
People’s Government in the HKSAR and
the chief executive of the HKSAR. Even
the People’s Daily has an editorial blasting
him. Yet Tai is still teaching in the Uni-
versity of Hong Kong, still holds his PRC
(HKSAR) passport and still walks freely,
talks freely all over town.
This is Benny Tai, Die Hard, and he is
now elevated to be a hero of Hong Kong’s
separatist movement.
Some pundits noted that Hong Kong is
a free society and the freedom of speech
is very much championed. To them, Tai
was just exercising his freedom of speech
in Taipei, analyzing a scenario of Hong
Kong’s future. Judging from its context,
this was clearly not the case.
It was above all a Chinese separatists’
forum and Tai was presenting his forecast
about what would happen in China and
a proposal of “Hong Kong independence”.
commentator.
Tai should not be there
in the first place. He was
there, like everybody else
as a political activist. So
what do political activists
do in such a forum? They
do not just theorize in
the abstract but discuss
road maps and action
plans, to say the least.
Tai is a law professor, not a political sci-
entist. So he was not participating in this
With other Chinese separatists pres-
ent, these people are not discussing only
“Hong Kong independence”, but coordinat-
ing separatist movements of the entire
country. With a little stretch of imagina-
tion, this could amount to a conspiracy to
carve up the country. That is why the cen-
tral government is so uptight about it.
This separatist forum took place in
Taiwan, and the central government can-
not do anything about it for the mean
time. But the Hong Kong participant, Tai,
should at least be questioned about it. In
other countries, the police or some secret
service agents will come knocking at Tai’s
door.
We know Tai was not the only Hong
Kong participant in the forum but so far
no one has been touched. Because there
was no accusation about what they said
in the forum, it does not mean that their
participation is legal. Like Tai, they should
not be there either. Sedition of any form
that there is nothing we can do about it.
The university says they cannot fire him.
No authority wants to snatch his passport,
nor arrest him. All the strong condemna-
tions from central government and the
SAR officials seem just empty words. Some
may wonder, who is in charge here?
Some people start to raise the question
of national security legislation under Arti-
cle 23 of the Basic Law. Two decades after
Hong Kong’s return to China, the SAR gov-
ernment still does not have a timetable for
it. Looking back, the original thinking of
this legislation is clearly outdated and can-
not cope with current developments in the
SAR and the modern and more encom-
passing concept of national security, which
in Chinese mainland legislation covers 11
categories.
The urgency of national security legisla-
tion is now heightened especially after this
Tai saga. For without it, legally there is not
much we can do about it.

COMMENT
EDITORIALS
US should match Trump’s
friendlier tone with deeds
T
weeting about his country’s trade spat with Chi-
na, US President Donald Trump softened his tone
on Sunday, claiming that “taxes will become
reciprocal and a deal will be made on intellectual
property”, forecasting a “great future for both
countries”.
While China will hope he is doing more than
just reading the tea leaves and that his conciliatory tone is in ear-
nest, it will be aware that few are able to honor a friend who has
prospered without envy and without wishing them at least some
small misfortune.
And since the ongoing trade frictions between the world’s two
largest economies have been triggered by the Trump administra-
tion’s obsession with the United States’ trade deficit with China,
which it seems to regard as a barometer of China’s competitive
economic prowess, and that the US’ shortfall remains colossal, it
is hard to place too much faith in Trump’s fortune-reading skills
and his prediction that everything is going to be hunky-dory
unless he starts matching his words with actions.
The tit-for-tat threats of tariffs have been promises of a similar
blow in exchange for a blow, and any kind of deal will require the
US to give if it wants to take.
While statistical errors and US companies operating in China
account for a large part of the deficit, the US’ one-sided trade poli-
cies are also responsible for the huge bilateral trade gap.
For example, the US has long imposed a strict restriction on
normal high-tech exports to China to prevent the latter from chal-
lenging it as a technological powerhouse. If it relaxed its restric-
tions on high-tech exports to China, that would soon significantly
reduce the deficit.
To be “reciprocal”, the US should also give national treatment to
Chinese companies investing in the US. Currently, it commonly
resorts to national security excuses to block Chinese companies’
investment in the US, a stance that is in stark contrast with China’s
welcoming stance toward foreign companies, including US ones.
It should also recognize China’s progress in building a market
economy, for by refusing to respect its market economy status, the
US can conveniently adopt the surrogate approach when waging
anti-dumping investigations against Chinese companies.
If his administration refuses to make any progress on those, it’s
hard to see how Trump’s auspicious words can be given sub-
stance.
And China will take its cue not from words but deeds.
Boosting confidence that
development can benefit all
D
uring his meeting with visiting UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres on Sunday, President Xi Jinping said
that people, not just in China but throughout the
world, should have confidence that their expectations
to live fulfilling lives will be met, and that all countries, both big
and small, should work together to give more people the assur-
ance they can enjoy a better future.
In doing so he once again expressed his conviction that coun-
tries can cooperate and collaborate to build a global community
to address common risks and pursue shared prosperity.
That many people in the world have found themselves on the
outside looking in while a few have enjoyed most of the fruits of
global openness and trade has sparked a populist backlash against
the big bang of globalization and prompted fears it may collapse
as a more insular mindset has started to prevail in some places.
To prevent this condition being aggravated and becoming conta-
gious requires earnest efforts to convince those who currently feel
left behind by the train of globalization that they too have a stake in
what they perceive to have been a gold mine accessible only to a few.
Speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday, Xi will surely
inject a new dose of confidence in more inclusive development by
reaffirming that China is willing to play its part in providing just
such a pick-me-up.
For as well as reassuring the world that China is open for busi-
ness, he will assure it that reform will be deepened and opening-
up expanded so that more countries and people can benefit from
China’s development opportunities and experiences.
In introducing these changes at home, China is also looking
beyond its doorstep and seeking common development momen-
tum with other countries, not least through tapping the synergies
between its Belt and Road Initiative and other countries’ develop-
ment strategies.
As a Chinese saying observes, a single thread cannot become a
cord, and a single tree does not make a forest. By embracing open-
ness and innovation with China, and by striving to make the
region one for all, Asia can become the first incarnation of a com-
munity with a shared future.
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OPINION LINE
Law in works to put personal data Fears killer bots
under better virtual lock and key on the way that
THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY has recently published a draft regulation on internet secu-
rity supervision for public opinions. The draft stipulates that the internet service providers face a penalty of
up to 1 million yuan ($159,000) if they are found to have engaged in the illegal transaction of personal infor-
mation, even if their action does not result in any crime or yield a cent in illegal gains. Legal Daily comments:
The leaking of personal information is a chron-
ic disease of the information age. Even leading
global players are not immune to it, with Face-
book in the spotlight recently over users’ data
being harvested for political purposes without
their knowledge.
It has become a conventional practice for app or
software providers to require users give them con-
sent to access their personal information before
allowing them to use their products.
In fact, at least five laws in China, including
the Constitution and the Criminal Law, have spe-
cial clauses on the protection of citizens’ privacy,
and the judicial authorities have also published
legal explanations on internet privacy infringe-
ment cases.
Although the draft regulation is only a depart-
Workers’ return sign of inland areas progress
STATISTICS FROM THE ANHUI, Hubei and Sichuan provincial governments indicate the
three provinces, all large exporters of migrant workers in the past have seen marked declines in the
outflow of workers and obvious influxes of people increasing their populations. Beijing Youth Daily
comments:
The inflow of new residents and returning
migrant workers speaks volumes about the three
provinces’ economic vitality.
Although there remains a gap between the bet-
ter-off coastal regions and these inland provinces,
the central government’s support has prompted
many enterprises to relocate from the eastern
coastal region to the central and western inland
regions.
The economic growth in Chongqing, and Hubei,
Anhui and Guizhou provinces has remained mark-
edly above the national average in recent years.
Another apparent draw is, as long as there are
job opportunities, most of the working age pop-
ulation in these areas prefer to work nearer
their hometowns, as it is easier for them to take
care for their children and elderly parents, even
if their wages are lower than they could earn in
HOT WORDS
Sea rice experimental planting
Sea rice is a new type of rice with saline-al-
kaline tolerance that was developed through
crossbreeding and ordinary breeding technol-
ogies by Chinese plant-breeding experts. The
Sea Rice Research and Development Center in
Qingdao, Shandong province, told the media
that this year its plant-breeding base in Hain-
an has selected 176 sea rice samples from
*%("öLö%&$%$
ment rule, it is easier to be implemented, and its
suggested penalties, harsher than those set out in
the Criminal Law, directly target the internet ser-
vice providers. This hits the nail on the head, and
gives it greater effectiveness in checking the
increasingly pervasive personal data mining and
trade in personal information that has evolved
into an almost quasi-open business online.
Hopefully, after a finalized regulation takes
effect, the public security departments can act
more promptly and be more responsive to internet
users’ appeal and complaints about their personal
information being misused. This will immediately
make the internet companies behave better and
take the initiative in fulfilling their legally bound
duties to be the primary guardians of their cus-
tomers’ personal information.
the coastal regions.
The local governments in the inland regions
should pay special attention to making good use of
the experienced and skilled workers coming back
from big cities, as they can play key role in poverty
alleviation and the development of their home-
town villages.
And the authorities in these areas should offer
more well-targeted training to the migrant work-
ers, as the quality of labor force is of vital impor-
tance to the economic upgrading of these inland
areas, which will predictably focus more on the
quality than the speed of growth after their econo-
mies reach a certain size.
Also, the local governments should attach more
significance to providing migrant workers’ children
with quality education, in a bid to enhance the life
quality of the whole population in the long run.
among thousands and it is piloting planting
nationwide. It is expected millions of hectares
of saline-alkaline land in China will be turned
into cultivable land.
According to Zhang Guodong, deputy
director of the Sea Rice Research and Devel-
opment Center, China has 10 million hectares
of saline-alkaline land nationwide with differ-
ent weather conditions. This year the plant-
breeding experts will launch the experimental
planting of sea rice in five major saline-alka-
line areas nationwide to test the yield and
quality of 176 sea rice samples. It is expected
that after the trials at least one type of sea rice
will be planted nationwide.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9
China Daily Hong Kong Edition
may wipe us out
ON WEDNESDAY, over 50 artificial
intelligence researchers reportedly
co-signed a letter announcing that they will
be boycotting a university in the Republic of
Korea until it pledges to refrain from devel-
oping AI weapons without “meaningful
human control”. Beijing News commented
on Monday:
According to reports, a laboratory,
co-sponsored by Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology and an unidenti-
fied enterprise, plans to develop AI-based
weapons.
It should be noted that the AI researchers
opposed “autonomous weapons”, but many
media outlets have mistaken that for “smart
weapons” in their reports. Actually, there is
a deep redline between the two, and that
redline should never be crossed.
Smart weapons have long been in exis-
tence. For example, a smart missile launch-
er might be able to automatically locate its
target, a military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
might identify its route with the help of sen-
sors and positioning systems.
However, no matter how smart they are,
they are still under human control. It is a
person that decides when to pull the trigger.
Autonomous weapons are different. Just
like the researchers said in their open let-
ter, such weapons “lack meaningful human
control” and it is the AI that decides
whether to launch a strike upon a military
target.
That is, of course, extremely dangerous.
Most military targets are humans or have
humans inside, and it is deep violation of
human dignity if a machine is empowered
to decide a human fate.
Worse, AIs lack moral or ethical obliga-
tions. In case a total war breaks out, they
might totally destroy humankind. That’s
why the majority of AI researchers oppose
the development of autonomous weapons.
Armed conflicts might not be totally elimi-
nated, but at least that bottom line should
not be crossed.
Sea rice breeding is of great significance to
China's food production and food security.
According to Yuan Longping, an academician
of the Chinese Academy of
Engineering, if the plant-
ing of sea rice is expanded
to cover 666,667 hectares,
it will increase rice produc-
tion by 30 billion kilograms
a year based on the mini-
mum output of 4,500 kilo-
grams per hectare, equal to
the annual output of rice Online
in Hunan province, which Scan it for
can feed 80 million people. more hot words.
10 VIEWS
Mei Xinyu
China should call Trump’s trade bluff
U
S President Donald
Trump added a new
twist to the trade dis-
pute on Sunday by
seemingly softening his stance
and tweeting: “President Xi and I
will always be friends, no matter
what happens with our dispute
on trade. China will take down its
trade barriers because it is the
right thing to do…”
However, Trump has not
changed his position. He has only
attempted to cool down the heat-
ed war of words between the
United States and China, by talk-
ing about his good relations with
President Xi Jinping. But Xi
remains committed to protecting
global free trade.
In fact, Trump continues to bar-
gain that “China will take down
its trade barriers” and “taxes will
become reciprocal and a deal will
be made on intellectual property”.
For global investors, the US used
to be an ideal investment destina-
tion because it offered stability and
security to their assets. But the
unstable leadership of Trump has
put international capital in the US
Xiong Meng
US misreading Made in China 2025 by design
A
s a drafter of the Made
in China 2025 plan, I
feel the US report on
the investigation under
Section 301 of the Trade Act of
1974 is biased. For instance, the
report says the Chinese govern-
ment provides funds for enter-
prises to invest in and purchase
US companies in a bid to acquire
core technologies, when the fact
is that Chinese enterprises have
decided on their own to expand
globally because of the rapid
increase in their competitiveness
and power.
That Made in China 2025 is a
development plan, not an indus-
trial policy, shows the govern-
ment’s encouraging attitude
toward — not its eagerness to
provide funds for or offer any
other concrete support to — com-
panies engaged in global compe-
tition. Plus, the “technology road
map” mentioned in the Section
301 investigation report is actual-
ly a research report compiled by
some experts, not a government
document, and it is definitely not
related to any policy or fund.
Made in China 2025 has, over
the past three years, not only
helped stabilize China’s economic
development and restructuring,
but also greatly boosted global
economic recovery. Besides, the
government is likely to continue
to promote the upgrading of the
manufacturing industries,
because it is vital to China’s sus-
tainable development, which is
closely linked to the United
Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sus-
tainable Development.
An important part of Made in
China 2025, which the Section
301 investigators have deliberate-
Wang Yiwei
A true community of equality and prosperity
T
he changing pattern of
global economic devel-
opment has given rise to
new proposals of inter-
national relations and coopera-
tion. From Davos to Boao, a
community with a shared future
for humankind is China’s propos-
al as it develops into an influen-
tial global power amid historic
changes. China’s proposal has the
potential to promote global devel-
opment in a more equitable and
fair manner.
According to President
Xi Jinping’s report to the 19th
National Congress of the Com-
munist Party of China, the Party
seeks happiness for the Chinese
people and the progress of all
humankind. Thanks to the
greater say it enjoys in interna-
tional relations today for its dec-
ades of arduous endeavors and
remarkable achievements for
the betterment of humankind,
China made the proposal to
ensure that all countries jointly
determine the future of the
world and, together, they make
international rules, manage
world affairs, and share the
at risk and made investors in the
US market nervous.
Trump’s tweet, along with the
proposal to impose additional
tariffs on $100 billion of Chinese
goods, is more of a carrot-and-
stick game.
But there is no need to worry
about the additional tariffs now,
as Trump has only directed the
US Trade Representative to con-
sider whether such additional
tariffs would be proper, which is
different from preparing a
detailed list of Chinese products
for imposing additional tariffs.
As a businessman, Trump
believed in frightening his
“rivals” to win negotiations,
which also helped him create an
image of a “strong personality”
among his voters. With the US
mid-term election scheduled for
November, it is not surprising
that Trump is resorting to such
old tricks.
Opinions differ on whether
Trump’s $100 billion refers to the
amount of tariffs to be collected
or the volume of goods upon
which to impose the tariffs. But
ly ignored, is the aim to build
“responsible” manufacturing
industries in China so that enter-
prises abide by laws, rules and
ethics, and fulfill their corporate
social responsibilities. The enter-
prises are expected to become
more efficient in the use of
resources, including energy, mini-
mize the environmental impact of
their production process, adhere
to the human-first principle and
strive for win-win cooperation.
They are also expected to coordi-
nate their growth with the eco-
nomic and social development of
the economies they operate in.
To make the enterprises act
more “responsibly” is the main
objective of Made in China 2025.
That the enterprises are also
expected to incorporate innova-
tion, coordination, eco-friendly
practices, transparency and shar-
ing into their development plans
has been intentionally ignored by
the Section 301 investigators,
who ironically say the plan’s
objective is to steal technologies
from US companies.
The Made in China 2025 plan
urges the enterprises to intensify
research and development in
technology, strengthen brand
building and improve after-sales
services, in order to meet the ris-
ing demands of consumers and
boost supply-side structural
reforms. The fact that a consider-
able part of the Made in China
2025 plan underscores the
importance of green manufactur-
ing — which the Section 301
investigators have ignored —
means the enterprises will use
environmentally friendly tech-
nologies at almost every step of
their operations, in order to
fruits of global development.
To guarantee the principle is
effective, all countries should
negotiate on an equal footing,
following the standards of shar-
ing, win-win cooperation, mutual
learning, and green development
to build a peaceful, secure, pros-
perous, open, and beautiful
world.
The advancement or regression
of peace and development
depends on whether or not all
countries agree to build a com-
munity of a shared future. Henry
Kissinger, former United States
secretary of state, said that
throughout history, peace could
be maintained in a region but
never worldwide. So, all countries
should work together to create
mutual demand and prosperity in
order to counter the anti-globali-
zation and protectionist voices in
some economies and make the
entire world a peaceful and
secure place.
The US alone did not solve the
development problem because
the obstacles to development
are different in developing
countries and developed coun-
Trump is an old
hand at playing
psychological
games. But he and
his team are rather
bad at handling
trade frictions,
which is good news
for China.
considering his personality, it is
highly possible that he did so to
make bigger headlines.
Some media outlets have also
noted that Trump’s team mem-
bers gave statements different
from his. Soon after Trump
announced the latest tariff pro-
posal, the US secretary of com-
develop a circular economy
marked by minimum pollution
and maximum recycling.
The plan is also aimed at
reducing the emission of the
main pollutants by 20 percent in
some polluting industries by
2020, and cutting energy and
resource consumption by the
manufacturing industries to the
level of the advanced world. But
the US investigators have conve-
niently omitted this significant
fact. Actually, after the Made in
China 2025 plan was implement-
ed in 2015, the energy consump-
The world needs a
new order which is
fairer, accords equal
respect to all coun-
tries and promotes
cooperation. These
are times of peace-
ful and friendly
communication
and negotiation,
not confrontation—
of partnerships, not
alliances.
tries — developing countries
need to fight poverty, while
developed countries have to nar-
merce, the USTR, and the White
House economist all mentioned
the possibility of negotiations.
According to one analysis, they
were trying to pacify the markets
and prevent US stock prices from
falling further, but we cannot
expel another possibility: that
they were using different tactics
to achieve the same result.
It is possible that the senior US
officials seemingly softened their
posture because they are optimis-
tic about the Chinese market. So,
if the Trump administration does
actually impose the proposed tar-
iffs, there will be maximum psy-
chological pressure on the
participants in the Chinese mar-
ket. Trump is an old hand at play-
ing psychological games. But he
and his team are rather bad at
handling trade frictions, which is
good news for China.
The US’ proposed list of tariffs
on $50 billion worth of Chinese
imports covers about 1,300 kinds
of Chinese goods. China responded
by proposing tariffs on US imports
worth $50 billion, but China’s list
contains only 106 kinds of US
tion per unit of industrial added
value in medium- and large-scale
enterprises has dropped by 17
percent.
China is the leading producer
of more than 200 kinds of indus-
trial products, so it occupies an
important position in the global
industrial chain. That’s why the
Made in China 2025 plan attach-
es great value to cooperation,
encourages Chinese enterprises
to cooperate with their foreign
partners and take part in the
world market to sharpen their
competitive edge.
row the wealth gap.
But China found a new road to
economic development, becom-
ing a new driver of emerging
markets, and helping increase the
say of developing countries in
global governance and rule-mak-
ing. Chinese culture played a vital
role in that development because
it attaches high value to harmoni-
ous co-existence and sharing.
China is sharing those experien-
ces through the Belt and Road
Initiative, which allows countries
to negotiate as equals, and share
resources to co-build infrastruc-
ture, and share the benefits of
cooperation.
The rise of protectionism and
populism in some economies
poses a challenge to globaliza-
tion, and could lead to confronta-
tion. To nip this devastating
nascent trend in the bud, China
has been supporting openness
and win-win cooperation, as it
knows only through cooperation
can humankind truly progress.
China has been trying to promote
stable development and mutual
prosperity through cooperation
projects, including those in
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
goods. This means for each kind of
US product on the list there are 12
kinds of Chinese goods. In other
words, the US products on China’s
list will suffer more than the Chi-
nese goods on the US’ list, that is,
US companies will suffer more
heavily from the blow than their
Chinese counterparts.
Besides, Trump released the
information on additional tariffs
on Chinese goods worth $100 bil-
lion on Thursday during China’s
four-day Tomb Sweeping Day
holiday, which lessened the pres-
sure on Chinese stock markets.
Therefore, we can safely con-
clude that Trump and his team
are very good at hyping up dis-
putes but rather unprofessional
at handling trade frictions.
Therefore, China must firmly
fight back the US’ unilateral and
unfair trade moves, and should
be confident of winning any trade
war because truth is on its side.
The author is a researcher at the
International Trade and Eco-
nomic Cooperation Institute of
the Ministry of Commerce.
MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY
The plan also welcomes foreign
enterprises to operate in China,
and the government has been
making unswerving efforts to
provide an equal, transparent,
fair and rule-based business envi-
ronment for foreign companies
and investors. In other words, the
Section 301 investigation report
has come to a startlingly wrong
conclusion on Made in China
2025.
The author is vice-chairman of
China Federation of Industrial
Economics.
building infrastructure facilities.
In contrast, the Cold-War men-
tality forces countries to join alli-
ances or divide the international
community into friends and foes,
a concept that deserves to be con-
signed to the dustbin of history.
The world needs a new order
which is fairer, accords equal
respect to all countries and pro-
motes cooperation. These are
times of peaceful and friendly
communication and negotiation,
not confrontation— of partner-
ships, not alliances.
The Belt and Road Initiative is
aimed at building a community
of shared future for humankind,
President Xi said at the CPC in
Dialogue with World Political
Parties High-Level Meeting in
November last year. This princi-
ple has been approved by the
international community and
included in a United Nations res-
olution, which speaks volumes of
the importance of China’s propos-
al.
The author is director of the Insti-
tute of International Affairs, Ren-
min University of China.
Fu Jing
The author is deputy chief of China Daily
European Bureau.
fujing@chinadaily.com.cn
International
community
must prevent
a trade war
T
he world will pay special attention
to President Xi Jinping when he
addresses his speech to almost
2,000 politicians, and business,
media leaders and scholars from across the
world at the annual Boao Forum for Asia in
South China’s Hainan province on Tuesday
amid the escalating Beijing-Washington
trade dispute.
Since US President Donald Trump took
office in January 2017, the world has been
concerned about his governance strategies
and tactics. In contrast, China has been
acting as a responsible world power. Last
year, China exhibited its goodwill when Xi
met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago resort in
the US state of Florida. That meeting was
followed by Trump’s state visit to China
last November and the Xi-Trump meeting
at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany,
in July.
But those high-level dialogues did not sof-
ten Trump’s determination to ignite a trade
war with China. Even the visits of Yang Jie-
chi and Liu He, both members of the Politi-
cal Bureau of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee, to the US to show Chi-
na’s sincerity in addressing the key issues of
mutual concern through negotiation didn’t
have any effect on Trump.
Instead, Trump said on Thursday that he
is considering additional tariffs on Chinese
goods of $100 billion. This would be in addi-
tion to the tariffs on $50 billion worth of
Chinese goods and those on Chinese steel
and aluminum exports earlier. China has
taken resolute countermeasures against US’
unilateral move to safeguard its interests
and the global trade system.
Xi’s speech will most like-
ly be a continuation of his
message to the outside
world — of closely inte-
grating China with the
world through closer
win-win cooperation.
Against this background, Xi will deliver
his speech at the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia.
When he wrapped up his first visit to
Western Europe as China’s president in ear-
ly 2014, Xi proposed that China and the
European Union forge a partnership on
peace, growth, reform and civilization while
respecting diversity of cultures and tradi-
tions. He delivered another memorable
speech at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland, in January last year,
urging the international community to
adhere to free trade, globalization and mul-
tilateralism. This prompted former EU
president Herman von Rompuy to label the
two speeches as “historic addresses”.
Xi’s address at the Boao Forum on Tues-
day is likely to become another historic
speech, especially because amid the deterio-
rating global situation, Xi is expected to
inject confidence and courage into the
international community by announcing
China’s new reform and opening-up which
will further boost global growth. China has
already contributed almost 30 percent of
the annual global economic growth during
the last decade.
Xi’s speech will most likely be a continua-
tion of his message to the outside world —
of closely integrating China with the world
through closer win-win cooperation.
Over the past four decades, China has
immensely benefited from open-door and
free trade policies, while the rest of the
world has also shared the benefits in equal
measure. So it is expected that Xi’s mes-
sage to the world will again make it clear
that China is a peace-loving country that
abides by international rules. But it will
also emphasize China is vehemently
opposed to the rule of the jungle, as it
advocates global justice and fairness. Xi
may also warn the international communi-
ty that it should not be complacent about
the looming danger that the global econo-
my could be dragged into another catastro-
phe if protectionism and isolationism,
which Trump is promoting, gain the upper
hand in world trade.
The recent dramatic fluctuations in glob-
al markets because of the US’ trade protec-
tionist measures are already showing
upsetting signs. So the international com-
munity should take concerted action to pre-
vent a full-fledged trade war between China
and the US, because it could have a devas-
tating impact on the global economy.
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Israel blamed for missile strike in Syria
14 people killed;
Lebanon army
says warplanes
violated air space
DAMASCUS — The Syrian
army said Israeli F-15 war-
planes had carried out an
attack on the T-4 air base in
central Syria before daybreak
on Monday by firing missiles
from Lebanese airspace,
according to state television.
The Israeli warplanes fired
several rockets from inside
Lebanon and targeted the air
base in Homs province.
The Syrian air defenses
responded to the attack,
destroying several rockets but
Ex-envoy puts
trade dispute
in perspective
By HONG XIAO in Boston
xiaohong@chinadailyusa.com
A former US ambassador
to China said he believes that
the bilateral relationship,
which has been built on nego-
tiation for decades, will not
be easily affected by the cur-
rent tit-for-tat trade dispute.
“The trade dispute
between the US and China is
just a trade dispute,” said J.
Stapleton Roy, also and a
former US assistant secre-
tary of state, at the closing
ceremony of the Harvard
College China Forum at the
Seaport World Trade Center
in Boston on Sunday.
“We (the United States)
have trade disputes, and we
have traditionally had trade
disputes with our close
friends,” Roy added, offering
as an example the disagree-
ment between the United
States and Japan after the
breakup of the Soviet Union
in the 1980s, and the longtime
rows between the US and
Canada on issues such as the
export of softwood lumber.
“And our relations with
both Japan and Canada are
stable and good,” Roy said.
In his latest tweet about
China on Sunday morning,
US President Donald Trump
wrote: “President Xi (Jinping)
and I will always be friends,
no matter what happens with
our dispute on trade. China
will take down its Trade Bar-
riers because it is the right
thing to do. Taxes will
become Reciprocal & a deal
will be made on Intellectual
Property. Great future for
both countries.”
Roy said Trump’s attitude
“is different from yesterday”.
“He was trying to coerce
China into giving something
on trade and didn’t show
interest in negotiation, but
today, he changed his posi-
tion,” Roy said.
“So we are perhaps seeing
a turnaround in the way we
are going to handle the trade
issue.”
Roy said the dispute is
“problematic because it
involves economic interests
Big day backdrop
A couple poses for their wedding photos as the area of the
redevelopment of the Ataturk Cultural Center is seen in the
background in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Sunday.
YASIN AKGUL / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
a number reached their target.
The Lebanese army said
four Israeli warplanes violated
Lebanon’s air space, flying
from the Mediterranean Sea
over the coastal town of Jouni-
eh and then heading east,
toward the city of Baalbek
near the Syrian border.
A statement from the Leba-
nese Armed Forces said the
warplanes stayed in Lebanese
airspace for about 10 minutes,
starting at 3:25 am on Monday
before leaving it.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry
had no comment when asked
about the accusations.
The attack came before
daybreak on Monday and was
initially thought to have been
carried out by the United
States, which has recently
threatened retaliation against
So we
are per-
haps seeing a
turnaround in the
way we are going
to handle the
trade issue.”
J. Stapleton Roy, former US
ambassador to China
of both countries in a signifi-
cant way”.
“But it doesn’t undermine
the basis for the relation-
ship,” he said.
He emphasized that nego-
tiations built the current
US-China relationship,
going back to the establish-
ment of diplomatic ties
between China and the US in
the 1970s.
“But people in Washington
aren’t even aware of it, in part
because the Trump adminis-
tration does not have a single
person at the senior level who
knows anything at all about
how the US-China relation-
ship was restored,” he said.
China specialists
Ezra Vogel, emeritus pro-
fessor of social sciences at
Harvard University and
author of Deng Xiaoping
and the Transformation of
China (2011), shared a simi-
lar concern.
“One of the problems now
is that many of the best China
specialists in the United
States are not inside the gov-
ernment,” Vogel said.
He said that both countries
have undergone societal
transitions, with disagree-
ment generated in politics
and economics.
“In some way, we are
focusing on the wrong issue.
The trade issue doesn’t
threaten US-China relations
at all,” he said.
the Syrian army over allega-
tions made by the rebels
about the use of chlorine gas
in a recent attack on the Dou-
ma district, the last rebel-held
area in eastern Ghouta.
Earlier in the day, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
said a total of 14 people were
killed in the missile strike.
State media outlets said sev-
eral loud explosions were
heard early on Monday near
the airfield in the eastern coun-
tryside of Homs. It was later
confirmed to be a missile attack
targeting the military facility.
US Pentagon spokesman
Christopher Sherwood denied
the report in a statement, say-
ing the US Department of
Defense “is not conducting
airstrikes in Syria at this time”.
The attack came amid an
Presidential front-runner
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is greeted by a roadside spectator during his visit to Pelabuhan Ratu beach in Sukabumi, Indonesia, on
Sunday. PUSPA PERWITASARI / ANTARA FOTO VIA REUTERS
Lee Myung-bak charged with corruption
SEOUL — Prosecutors of the
Republic of Korea on Monday
indicted former president Lee
Myung-bak on corruption
charges including bribery,
embezzlement and tax evasion.
Lee, who ended his single,
five-year presidency in early
2013, was taken into custody
in March after being ques-
tioned over a series of corrup-
tion charges, all of which he
has denied. He has denounced
the investigation as a “political
revenge”.
If convicted of all the allega-
tions, the septuagenarian
could be jailed for life, Yonhap
news agency reported.
His trial is expected to begin
next month.
The businessman-turned-
politician became the fourth
ROK president to be indicted
by prosecutors. Former presi-
dent Park Geun-hye, Lee’s suc-
US says DPRK ready to discuss denuclearization
By CHINA DAILY
The Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea has told the
United States that it was ready
to discuss the denucleariza-
tion of the Korean Peninsula
at the planned meeting
between the two countries’
leaders, media reports said on
Sunday, citing US officials.
It is believed to be the first
time Pyongyang has conveyed
the message to Washington
directly about such an inten-
tion, seen as a positive step
toward the meeting between
US President Donald Trump
and the DPRK’s top leader Kim
Jong-un, scheduled to take
place by the end of May.
“The US has confirmed that
Kim Jong-un is willing to dis-
cuss the denuclearization of
the Korean Peninsula,” a US
official told The Wall Street
Journal on Sunday.
international wrangling about
the allegations of the use of
chemical weapons by the Syri-
an army in the attack on the
rebels in Douma district.
The pro-rebel Ghouta Media
Center has claimed that nerve
agent sarin and chlorine gas
have been used in Syrian
army’s recent offensive in Dou-
ma, which has caused civilians
to suffocate and choke.
A ‘big price’
The Syrian government has
strongly denied possessing
chemical weapons, saying
such allegations were fabricat-
ed to deliberately frame the
government forces.
Western countries, such as
the US and Britain, have
warned that they would
respond with military action if
cessor, was sentenced to 24
years in prison for corruption
last week.
Park was the first ROK leader
to be impeached before being
arrested about a year ago.
The Seoul Central District
Prosecutors’ Office said in a
statement that it has con-
firmed that Lee is the real
owner of DAS, a local auto
parts manufacturer, through
investigations for the past
three months.
Through DAS, which Lee
allegedly illegally owned under
fake names, the former leader
embezzled about 34.9 billion
won ($32.7 million) and evad-
ed 3.1 billion won in corporate
tax by creating a slush fund
through accounting fraud and
using business credit cards for
personal purposes.
While he was in office for
five years to early 2013, Lee
It was not made known
when or how the message was
delivered, but the official said
on condition of anonymity
that the two countries have
held secret contacts recently.
Tension on the Korean Pen-
insula has thawed in recent
months. In March, Trump and
Kim agreed to meet, but the
timing and place of the high-
profile gathering have not
been announced yet.
Seoul and Pyongyang also
agreed to hold a summit on
April 27, the first meeting
between the leaders of the two
neighbors in 11 years.
Meanwhile, hundreds of for-
eigners joined in the annual
Pyongyang marathon on Sun-
day as recent political tensions
started to ease.
Approximately 400 foreign
amateurs took part this year.
They came from more than
40 countries and territories
the Syrian army is proven to
have used chemical weapons
in its attacks.
US President Donald Trump
on Sunday promised that a “big
price” would be paid for what
he called a chemical weapons
attack on Douma on Saturday.
Douma is the last rebel-held
area in Ghouta. Earlier, the
rebels of the Islam Army in the
area backed down on an agree-
ment they had concluded with
the Damascus t and Moscow on
their evacuation from Douma
and refused to release kid-
napped people from its prisons.
But on Sunday, the Islam
Army agreed to evacuate after a
weekslong military operation
by government forces and
released the first batch of kid-
napped people from its prisons.
Also, buses transporting
$32.7 million
The Seoul Central District
Prosecutors’ Office said
Lee Myung-bak embezzled
funds through DAS, a local
auto parts manufacturer.
instructed senior government
officials to actively support
DAS’s legal action in the Unit-
ed States.
Lee allegedly took about $5.9
million in bribes from Sam-
sung Group, the country’s
biggest family-controlled con-
glomerate, by making Sam-
sung pay the US retaining fee
on DAS’ behalf. Both Samsung
and Lee have denied the allega-
tions as groundless.
He is also believed to have
received millions of dollars in
Runners compete in the Pyongyang International Marathon under
the backdrop of the Arch of Triumph in the DPRK capital on
Sunday. JON CHOL-JIN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
around the world.
Disabled people were
allowed to join in for the first
time. One wheelchair runner
from Singapore and one blind
DPRK runner were in Sun-
day’s race.
This year’s marathon start-
ed in Kim Il-sung Stadium and
Islam Army rebels and their
families have gathered at the
assembly point in the Wafid-
een area northeast of Damas-
cus to prepare to leave for the
rebel-held city of Jarablus in
northern Syria.
Monday’s missile strike is
not the first foreign attack
against Syria, as the US target-
ed the Shayrat air base in the
countryside of Homs in April
last year to punish alleged use
of chemical weapons by the
Syrian army on a rebel-held
area in the northwestern
province of Idlib.
Israel has also carried out
several attacks on Syria air
bases on the pretext of target-
ing positions of the Iranians
and the Hezbollah group.
XINHUA—AP
kickbacks from businessmen
and politicians in exchange
for political and business
favors. The kickback included
a special operation fund for
the National Intelligence Ser-
vice, the spy agency of the
country.
Lee is also accused of illegal-
ly leaking and concealing
3,402 classified presidential
documents at a building in
Seoul, which is believed to be
owned by the former presi-
dent. The leaked documents
included major evidence rele-
vant to Lee’s illegalities.
The prosecution office said
it had charged Lee with brib-
ery, tax evasion, embezzlement
and abuse of power as well as
violations of laws on the presi-
dential archives management
and the political fund.
XINHUA—AFP
wound past Pyongyang land-
marks such as Kim Il-sung
Square and Mirae Street, one
of the DPRK capital’s recent
redevelopment projects.
Thirteen foreign profession-
al runners from African coun-
tries participated in the elite
category of the race.
WORLD 11
Ban
elected
chairman
of BFA
By AN BAIJIE
in Boao, Hainan
anbaijie@chinadaily.com.cn
Ban Ki-moon, former
secretary-general of the
United Nations, was elect-
ed chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Boao
Forum for Asia on Monday.
The General Meeting of
Members of the Boao
Forum for Asia elected the
new board of directors in
the morning, and Ban
replaced Yasuo Fukuda,
former Japanese prime
minister, to become the new
chairman of the 19-member
Board of Directors.
According to a resolution
of the new board, Fukuda,
along with other 10 outgo-
ing members of the previ-
ous board, are invited to the
Council of Advisers.
Ban said while address-
ing a meeting on Monday
that joint efforts are needed
to achieve the goal of sus-
tainable development and
deal with climate change.
He warned that if the
countries failed to make
joint efforts to cope with
common threats, the whole
world will sink.
He called for new type of
multilateral cooperation
to share development
opportunities, achieve
common prosperity, and
boost interconnectivity of
infrastructure.
Zhou Xiaochuan, former
vice-chairman of China’s
top political advisory body
and former governor of the
People’s Bank of China,
replaced Zeng Peiyan as the
chief representative of Chi-
na to the BFA.
According to the BFA
Charter, the chief repre-
sentative of China is the
ex-officio member and the
vice-chairman of the Board.
Li Baodong, vice-minis-
ter of foreign affairs, was
appointed secretary-gener-
al of the board.
Among the 19 members of
the board, 12 are newly elect-
ed, including Ban, Zhou and
Li, and seven are from the
previous board, including
Shaukat Aziz, former prime
minister of Pakistan.
The 12 newly elected
members are political and
business leaders from Asia
and the world, including Glo-
ria Macapagal Arroyo,
former president of the Phil-
ippines and Carlos Gutierrez,
former secretary of com-
merce of the United States.
Eight outgoing members
of the previous Council of
Advisors, including Fidel
Ramos, former President of
the Philippines, and Bob
Hawke, former prime min-
ister of Australia, were hon-
ored with the title of BFA
Honorary Member in rec-
ognition of their outstand-
ing and substantive
contributions to the forum.
The men’s full marathon
was won by DPRK runner Ri
Kang-bom in 2 hours 12 min-
utes and 53 seconds.
The winner of the women’s
full marathon was Kim Hye-
gyong from the DPRK, who
came in at 2 hours 27 minutes
and 24 seconds, with her twin
sister Kim Hye-song narrowly
behind her.
Since the DPRK started
allowing foreign amateurs to
take part in the Pyongyang
marathon in 2014, the event
has become a boost for the
tourism industry.
The International Associa-
tion of Athletic Federations
recognized this year’s event as
a Bronze Label Road Race.
It is also accredited by the
Association of International
Marathons and Distance Races.
Xinhua and AP contributed to
this story.
12 WORLD
Strikes resume as
unions test Macron
Rail workers pledge to continue
action against economic reforms
PARIS — Travellers grap-
pled with another crippling
wave of transport strikes in
France on Sunday, as train
workers protested President
Emmanuel Macron’s eco-
nomic reforms and a standoff
between the government and
rail unions hardened.
Train staff last week began
three months of nationwide
rolling strikes in a dispute
over the government’s
planned overhaul of state-
run railway SNCF, in the big-
gest challenge yet to Macron’s
attempts to modernize the
French economy.
The head of SNCF said on
Monday that the rolling strikes
have cost the company around
100 million euros ($123 mil-
lion). Monday marked the
fourth day of the strikes, which
unions have vowed to contin-
ue until at least June 28 unless
the government backs down
on its reform plan for the debt-
laden operator.
Talks between workers and
A commuter looks at an information board at the Gare Lille
Flandres railway station during a strike by French SNCF railway
workers in Lille, France, on Sunday. PASCAL ROSSIGNOL / REUTERS
ministers have so far hit a
wall. Some unions are stiffen-
ing their resistance, while the
government has dug in its
heels on the main aspects of
its reform, which include the
end of job-for-life guarantees
for rail staff.
“The status quo is not via-
ble,” Prime Minister Edouard
Philippe said in an interview
published in the newspaper
Le Parisien on Sunday. “It’s
urgent, we need to advance,
and everyone should know
we are determined to see this
through to the end.”
Officials at the CGT union
said on Friday strikes could
drag on well beyond June if
nothing shifted, adding train
workers were ready for a
“marathon”.
Strikes have been called for
two days out of every five
until the end of June, and the
shutdown is already causing
havoc for commuters and
holidaymakers at the start of
midterm school vacations.
“This endangers me pro-
fessionally,” said Olivier Cold-
efy, a court psychologist who
works in French Guiana,
whose travel plans fell
through because of the chaos.
“I have work days that I’ve
committed to that I can’t
honor,” Coldefy added on
Sunday morning at Montpar-
nasse train station in Paris,
where groups of tourists were
scrambling to rebook trains
after realizing theirs had
been canceled.
The showdown is one of
the toughest challenges yet of
Macron’s presidency, as well
as a test for unions seeking to
show they still have clout.
Macron came to power in
May on a promise to shake
up Europe’s second-biggest
economy, in a bid to mod-
ernize creaking institutions
and spur jobs growth. He
has so far faced down
unions to liberalize labor
regulations.
The government argues
the overhaul will help trans-
form the heavily indebted
company into a profitable
public service, but workers
have hit back with com-
plaints the SNCF was being
dismantled to pave the way
for privatization.
The SNCF reform has
drawn public support so far,
and 56 percent of French peo-
ple thought the stoppages
were unjustified, according
to an Ifop poll published on
Sunday in the Journal du
Dimanche. But discontent is
also brewing in other sectors.
Students have disrupted
universities in protest at a
planned new selection system
in higher education. Garbage
collectors and other public
workers have also held rallies.
REUTERS—AFP
People dressed in traditional costumes pose for a picture, as interest for historical clothing rises within the country, in Ayutthaya, Thailand,
on Friday. UARAWEE KITTISILPA / REUTERS
Traditional costume fever grips Thailand
BANGKOK — Business is
booming for Siri Seatea’s tradi-
tional dress shop in Bangkok.
“Out of the 30 years I’ve
been running this shop, this is
the peak for us,” 53-year-old
Siri said as she stitched a Thai
sarong for a client.
History fever is gripping
Thailand and a growing num-
ber of Thais are wearing tradi-
tional dress, a phenomenon
encouraged by the govern-
ment and the palace, and
fueled by a popular television
soap opera.
The trend began with a ‘win-
ter fair’ initiated by King Maha
Vajiralongkorn in February.
Among the popular costumes
are those worn during the reign
of former King Chulalongkorn,
known as Rama V, who ruled
from 1868 to 1910 and is credit-
ed with saving Thailand from
Western colonialism.
Television has also played a
part.
Love Destiny, a soap opera
set during the 1656 to 1688
reign of King Narai the Great,
has taken Thailand by storm.
Many Thais are visiting the
ancient capital of Ayutthaya,
north of Bangkok, where
scenes from Love Destiny take
place. They pose for “selfies”
dressed in traditional garb
against the backdrop of the
ruins.
Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha met with cast
members this week at Govern-
ment House and hailed the
series as an example of the
government’s long-standing
policy of promoting ‘Thai-
ness’.
Prayuth’s government has
held some recent meetings in
the traditional dress of a 19th
century elite. He dressed in a
buttoned up silk jacket,
breeches and a wide sash.
In Ayutthaya, 80 kilometers
north of Bangkok, visitor
New measures issued to tackle
stabbings, killings in London
LONDON — A ban on the
sale of the most dangerous
corrosive products to under-
18s and tough restrictions on
online sales of knives were
announced on Sunday by the
Home Office, Britain’s interior
ministry.
The move came as politi-
cians and senior police officials
grapple with a wave of stab-
bings and killings in London,
which so far this year have left
more than 50 people dead.
In the latest incident, police
in London arrested a woman
on suspicion of attempted
murder on Saturday night aft-
er a man was stabbed outside
Highbury and Islington sta-
tion in north London.
The government is to make it
a criminal offense to possess
corrosive substances in a public
place, and publicly consult on
extending controversial stop-
and-search powers to enable
the police to search for and seize
acid from people carrying it in
public without good reason.
Obesity among Asia-Pacific children
a growing health crisis, study says
KUALA LUMPUR — Obesi-
ty rates among children in
Asia-Pacific are rising at a rap-
id rate, and more action is
needed to encourage healthier
lifestyles and ease pressure on
fledgling healthcare systems,
researchers said.
The number of overweight
children under five rose 38
percent between 2000 and
2016 in the region, and the
problem is growing, said Srid-
har Dharmapuri, a food safety
and nutrition officer at the
UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organization in Bangkok.
“The rate of growth in obesi-
ty in Asia-Pacific is higher than
in many other countries,”
Dharmapuri said.
“While the United States
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION
numbers have nearly tripled
since Love Destiny began,
according to officials quoted
by local media.
“It was booming since the
winter fair held by our king and
then this soap opera fueled the
Thai costume fever,” said Chut-
ima Wongchiangkwang, 55, a
costume vendor.
Discount at cinema
Wearing traditional clothes
can get you a discount at the
cinema. The country’s Major
Cineplex Group announced
this week a buy one, get one
free promotion.
Flight attendants for
national carrier Thai Airways
International are also dress-
ing up in national costumes
from the reign of King Rama
V this month to mark the Thai
New Year festival known as
Songkran.
This weekend, Thais flocked
to an event initiated by the
We will consult on
extending stop and
search powers to
include acid.”
Amber Rudd, Britain Home
Secretary
A new Offensive Weapons
Bill, to be brought forward with-
in weeks, would also make it
illegal to possess certain offen-
sive weapons like zombie knives
and knuckle-dusters in private.
The commitment of new leg-
islation will form part of a gov-
ernment Serious Violence
Strategy to be launched on
Monday.
Other measures which the
Home Office intends to bring
forward within weeks include
stopping knives being sent to
leads the way on obesity rates,
the number of overweight chil-
dren in Asia-Pacific is rising rap-
idly, and many countries in this
region are now among the most
health-threatened in the world.”
Adult obesity rates are high-
est in the United States, Mexi-
co, New Zealand and Hungary,
and lowest in Japan and the
Republic of Korea, according
to a report by the Organization
for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
But the rapid rise in obesity
among young people in Asia-
Pacific is worrying because
overweight children are at
higher risk of becoming obese
as adults and then developing
serious health problems like
type 2 diabetes, high blood
king ahead of Songkran —
which for many has become a
rowdy water-soaked affair.
The palace event, over three
days, aims to revive a more
sedate vision of Thailand’s cul-
ture with tribute being paid to
past kings, Buddhist rites and
displays of folklore.
“The public is encouraged to
dress in traditional Thai peri-
od costume, wear Thai cloth-
ing or polite smart casual
attire,” the Thai tourist author-
ity’s news website said. “Water
guns and baby powder pasting
are discouraged.”
Back at the Siriroong Ruang
shop, Maneejan Srilert, 23, an
employee at the Stock
Exchange of Thailand, eyed a
gold and red traditional skirt
to wear to an office party.
“I don’t think of it as a politi-
cal thing,” she said. “For me it’s
just fashion.”
REUTERS
residential addresses after
they are bought online and
banning the possession of a
knife within colleges and fur-
ther education premises.
Also banned will be rapid fir-
ing rifles, and certain powerful
firearms and bump stocks.
Home Secretary Amber
Rudd said: “To tackle violent
crime effectively, robust legis-
lation and powerful law
enforcement must be in place.
That’s why we will introduce a
new Offensive Weapons Bill
that includes a new offense of
possessing acid in public with-
out good reason, prevents sales
of acids to under-18s and stops
knives being sent to people’s
homes when bought online.
“We will consult on extend-
ing stop and search powers to
include acid. Stop and search
is a vital policing tool and offi-
cers will always have the gov-
ernment’s full support to use
these powers properly.”
XINHUA
pressure and liver disease.
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singa-
pore and Thailand are among
the most overweight countries
in Southeast Asia.
The cost to the Asia-Pacific
region of citizens being over-
weight or obese is $166 billion
a year, the Asian Development
Bank Institute said.
Rising wealth levels over the
last 20 years have played a
major role in the rise in obesity
levels, researchers say.
“The region has undergone
economic growth, so food has
become available at a relative-
ly cheaper price,” said Matthi-
as Helble, an economist at the
ADBI in Tokyo.
REUTERS
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BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA
Trade issues
won’t hurt
reform push
China capable of handling challenges
including possible market fluctuations
By CHEN JIA in Boao, Hainan
chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn
Sino-US trade conflicts will
never constrain China’s efforts
to push forward economic
structural reforms, econo-
mists said on Monday at the
Boao Forum for Asia in Hain-
an province.
Last week’s tit-for-tat moves
between China and the US are
a reflection of fundamentally
unbalanced economic devel-
opment, and China should
focus on its long-term inter-
ests, sustainable growth,
restructuring and further
opening up, Fan Gang, direct-
or of the National Economic
Research Institute, told China
Daily in an exclusive interview
during the forum.
With the opening-up expe-
rience in the past decades,
China is in a stronger posi-
tion to deal with risks includ-
ing possible market
fluctuations caused by trade
conflicts, “and that means we
CRRC’s ‘intelligent’ train on track for 2022
By HE WEI in Boao, Hainan
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
CRRC Corp Ltd, one of the
world’s largest rail vehicle
manufacturers, is expected to
roll out an “intelligent” train
during the 2022 Winter Olym-
pic Games, as the company
aims to ascend the smart
transportation hierarchy in
three to five years.
“The prototype train is ‘smart’
in all fields, from technology
and design to automation man-
agement,” Liu Hualong, chair-
man of CRRC, said at a panel
discussion during the Boao
Forum for Asia Annual Confer-
ence 2018 on Monday.
Its smart features and ener-
gy-saving capabilities will out-
perform the Fuxing Bullet
‘US risks future of multilateral system’
By JING SHUIYU
and OUYANG SHIJIA
The United States’ violation
of World Trade Organization
principles could endanger
multilateralism, while China
has been firmly obeying WTO
rules to safeguard the global
trade system, experts said.
Concerns have arisen over
escalating trade conflicts
between the two sides, which
would lead to a situation
where normal trade disputes
are solved by unilateral action
rather than multilateral proce-
dures, they said.
US tariff measures under
Section 301 of US Trade Act of
1974 have violated the rules and
principles of the WTO in three
respects, said Xiao Jin, a part-
ner at King & Wood Mallesons,
a Beijing-headquartered multi-
national law firm.
“First, it is a violation of the
principle of most favored
nation status, as the US
announced additional tariffs
targeting only China but not
any other countries,” he said.
Most favored nation status is
essentially a method of estab-
Rural vitalization efforts to be stepped up p14
Branded restaurants gaining ground in China p15
can open further”, said Fan.
President Xi Jinping will
provide a new policy blueprint
on Tuesday at Boao, when par-
ticipants gathering in the
coastal city are expecting to
hear of more opening-up and
reform measures that the
country will take.
China’s economy has hit the
bottom of the so-called
L-shape growth trend, accord-
ing to Fan, although an imme-
diate rebound is less likely.
“We are in a process of bump-
ing at the bottom, a normal
process of the economic cycle,
which can be seen as an oppor-
tunity to fix China’s own prob-
lems, such as overcapacity and
financial risks, then we can
have a better growth in the
next stage”, he said.
The country’s potential eco-
nomic growth rate could be
between 5 to 6 percent in the
coming years, mainly driven
by domestic consumption
rather than depending on
exports or investment, former
Train, according to the compa-
ny, which shipped metro
trains for the Rio Olympics in
Brazil and operated the sys-
tem for the duration of the
2016 Games.
By 2020, the company will
be on course to unveil a cross-
border high-speed train ser-
vice at 400 kilometers per
hour that can alternate
between different track gau-
ges, facilitating outbound rail
services in Russia and South-
east Asia, Liu said.
Such trains are currently
undergoing testing, he noted.
“In terms of rail transporta-
tion, there is a host of new
offerings in the pipeline over
the next three to five years,” he
said.
Within a span of three years,
lishing equality of trading
opportunity among states by
making originally bilateral
agreements multilateral.
“Second, the announced 25
percent tariffs on Chinese
imports exceed the maximum
rates the US has committed to
under the WTO,” Xiao said.
“Third, under the exclusive jur-
isdiction of the WTO dispute set-
tlement system, any attempt to
seek redress must be made in
the institutional framework of
the WTO only.”
Xiao said the US has been
vetoing the appointment of
new members to the WTO’s
Appellate Body since last year,
which will destroy the dispute
settlement mechanism in the
near future and damage the
multilateral dispute settle-
ment mechanism.
Zhang Xiangchen, China’s
ambassador to the WTO,
agreed. He said in a written
statement that the US has
“gravely undermined the foun-
dation of the WTO and put the
WTO in unprecedented dan-
ger”.
In stark contrast, China has
been firmly defending the mul-
Fan Gang (right), director of the National Economic Research Institute, and former central bank gover-
nor Dai Xianglong at the Boao Forum for Asia on Monday. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
central bank governor Dai
Xianglong said at the forum
on Monday.
Closing more indebted
manufacturers with overca-
pacity is inevitable during the
economic restructuring and
quality-upgrading process,
pushing debt risk manage-
ment, especially for non-finan-
cial enterprises, to be one of
the policymakers’ priorities,
said Dai.
He suggested launching
specific laws on debt restruc-
turing as soon as possible. “I
have confidence on taking
The prototype
train is ‘smart’ in
all fields, from
technology and
design to automa-
tion management.”
Liu Hualong, chairman of CRRC
CRRC plans to launch sample
maglev trains with a speed of
600 kph, which would be fast-
er than any other train cur-
rently in operation, said Liu.
69
number of cases that the
US has lost among the 80
cases for which the WTO
has issued rulings
tilateral system and seeking
redress via WTO procedures to
solve trade disputes.
Shortly after the unilateral
moves by the US, China filed
requests for consultation
under the WTO dispute settle-
ment framework over the US
tariff proposals against China
under the Section 301 investi-
gation and Section 232 of the
US Trade Expansion Act of
1962.
“As the US refused to negoti-
ate in accordance with WTO
rules, China has to initiate the
dispute settlement procedure
to defend its rights and inter-
ests,” China’s Ministry of Com-
merce said in an online
statement.
There have been 137 cases
against the US at the WTO,
market-oriented measures to
tackle debt risks.”
The former central bank
governor stressed the debt-to-
equity swap program and
more capital injection from
the government.
Given the less-developed
financial sector compared
with the globally advanced
level, Dai called for the
strengthening of Chinese
securities companies, a way
to enhance direct financing
and facilitate deleveraging.
He also suggested to contin-
ue encouraging institutional
The high-speed maglev
transportation system is one
of the key projects under the
Ministry of Science and Tech-
nology’s 13th Five-Year Plan
(2016-20) to promote
advanced rail transit systems.
The project would enable
China to have independently
owned technology in the
design, manufacturing,
adjustment and appraisal of
the high-speed maglev trans-
portation system that promis-
es faster speeds and reduced
energy consumption.
In an environmental move,
the company will introduce
high-speed train and subway
cars made of new materials
such as carbon fiber by 2020,
he noted.
The country’s Made in Chi-
accounting for around a
quarter of the total cases
handled by the organization,
according to the statistics
offered by Xiao.
The data showed that, of the
80 cases for which the WTO
has issued rulings, the US lost
69 of them, being held to have
violated WTO rules. This num-
ber is far more than that of
China.
US pursuit of “fair trade”,
which underlines “absolute
fairness”, is parochial, said
Dong Yan, director of the
International Trade Office at
Institute of World Economics
and Politics of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences.
“It not only asks for the
same competitive environ-
ment as other countries for US
producers, but also requires
other economies to impose the
same level of tariffs and
achieve the same level of open-
ing-up as the US.”
Zhong Nan contributed to the
story.
Contact the writers at jing-
shuiyu@chinadaily.com.cn
investors and optimizing a
multi-level capital market
structure.
Zhang Yuyan, director of the
Institute of World Economics
and Politics at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences,
said at the forum that China
proceeds with opening up
measures at its own pace,
which will benefit the regional
economy in Asia, especially
neighboring countries,
although other potential risks
may emerge in Asia, including
the tightening of major econo-
mies’ monetary policy.
na 2025 strategy to beef up
high-end manufacturing has
listed railways as a priority
sector. Operating in more than
100 countries and regions,
CRRC strives to become a glo-
bally competitive firm that
will export domestically devel-
oped technologies.
CRRC is ranked sixth
among the top 10 spenders in
research and development in
China, according to a study
released by consultancy PwC
in 2016.
Liu said the current trade
friction triggered by Washing-
ton has had a very limited
impact on CRRC’s business
with US, since more than 60
percent of the related produc-
tion takes place in the United
States.
Tariff spat may hit American jobs
By ZHENG XIN
zhengxin@chinadaily.com.cn
Escalating trade friction
between China and the Unit-
ed States, initiated largely by
the Trump administration,
will not have a significant
impact on the Chinese econo-
my, said a researcher with a
top government institution
on Monday.
Rather, it will reduce jobs
in the US and weaken the US
dollar, said Wang Changlin,
vice-president of the Acade-
my of Macroeconomic
Research under the National
Development and Reform
Commission, the nation’s top
economic regulator.
China proposed an extra
25 percent tariff on a list of
US products, such as soybean
and pork, last week in
response to the US’ imposing
of steep tariffs on $50 billion
worth imports of Chinese
products.
The tariffs will have limit-
ed impact on China’s domes-
tic job market and consumer
inflation, as the Chinese
economy remains stable with
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wide, official says
By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn
A trade war between China
and United States would dis-
rupt global supply chains,
entailing negative impacts
beyond China-US commercial
relations, a senior Chinese
commerce official warned on
Monday.
Vice-Minister of Commerce
Qian Keming warned that a
trade war would jeopardize
the order and rules of the mul-
tilateral trading system and
have broader impacts that
could affect countries includ-
ing Japan, South Korea and
Southeast Asian nations.
“No one will benefit if a
trade war is waged between
China and the US,” Qian said
at the annual Boao Forum for
Asia in Hainan province. He
reiterated that China does not
want to fight a trade war but is
not afraid of one.
The vice-minister pointed
out that global trade has been
a scapegoat as some govern-
ments have wrongly blamed
domestic problems such as
unfair income distribution on
free trade.
Qian called on countries to
uphold the spirit of free trade
and to address problems in the
existing multilateral trading
system through consultation
and rational communication.
President Xi Jinping is
scheduled to deliver the key-
note speech at the Boao Forum
on Tuesday. His speech is
expected to give participants
and observers at the forum
fresh insights into China’s pol-
icies and the country’s next
round of reform and opening-
up measures amid the uncer-
tainties surrounding the
China-US trade spat.
Fears of an escalating trade
Speaking at the Boao Forum on Monday are, from left, former US com-
merce secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Asian Development Bank Chief Econo-
mist Yasuyuki Sawada, Commerce Vice-Minister Qian Keming and former
New Zealand prime minister Jenny Shipley. XU JINGXING / CHINA DAILY
good momentum for the
moment and in the long
term, said Wang.
According to Wang, the
US tariff package only
accounts for 11.6 percent of
Chinese exports to the US
and 2.2 percent of China’s
overall exports in 2017.
If exports to the US
dropped as a result of the US
tariffs, its impact on China’s
economic growth would be
slight and China can still
achieve its GDP growth tar-
get of about 6.5 percent, job
increase target of more than
11 million, and urban sur-
veyed unemployment con-
trol target of less than 5.5
percent for this year, he said.
China’s urban surveyed
unemployment rate was 5
percent in the first two
months, according to a
statement of the National
Bureau of Statistics on
Monday.
China’s proposed tariffs
on US soybean and pork
will have limited impact on
domestic consumer infla-
tion measured by the con-
sumer price index, he
conflict between Beijing and
Washington intensified after
US President Donald Trump
threatened tariff increases on
an additional $100 billion of
Chinese goods.
Jing Ulrich, vice-chairman
for the Asia Pacific at JPMor-
gan Chase, said that a trade
confrontation between China
and the US would be a “lose-
lose” situation and the tariffs
placed on Chinese machinery
and electronics would damage
supply chains across Asia and
the US.
Ulrich said that based on
statistics on trade in value-
added goods, “one-third of
‘made in China’ goods are cre-
ated in other countries, and
the share of foreign value add-
ed in China’s exports to the US
is even higher in the electrical
and optical equipment com-
modity group, which accounts
for the largest share in China’s
exports to the US.”
On Monday, China’s Foreign
Ministry said that the wrong
measures of the US have
raised the concerns of the
international community.
At the Boao Forum, former
US secretary of commerce
Carlos Gutierrez expressed
concerns about the ongoing
tit-for-tat threatening moves
between China and the US.
“I see tactics … but there
isn’t a strategy of what we
want the world to look like in
commerce and how we can get
there,” Gutierrez said at a pan-
el discussion.
“We have to start thinking
about what will happen after
the fight because there is not
going to be a winner. The best
way to win a trade war is to not
have a trade war,” he said.
Oswald Chan in Hong Kong
contributed to this story.
added. Estimates show
that if domestic soybean
prices rose by 25 percent,
China’s CPI will still be
kept at an average of 2.4
percent, well below the
control target of 3 percent,
for this year. Considering
the fact that China can
import such products from
other countries, the real
effect will be even smaller,
Wang said.
In the mean time, it’s chal-
lenging for the US to find
another country to replace
China to absorb its soybean
supply and if China stops
soybean import from the US,
it will result in reduction of
domestic value-added in
related sectors of up to $12.9
billion and job losses of up to
86,000 people in the US, he
said.
Moreover, the dollar may
further weaken in interna-
tional currency markets fol-
lowing the trade friction
between China and the US as
investors do not expect good
results for the US economy
from the trade tensions,
Wang said.

14
Han Changfu (second from right), minister of agriculture and rural affairs, at a panel discussion during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual
Conference 2018 on Monday. XU JINGXING / CHINA DAILY
Rural vitalization drive gets priority
By HE WEI in Boao, Hainan
hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
China aims to boost rural
entrepreneurship and take up
farming as a decent profes-
sion, as it steps up efforts to
invigorate its vast countryside.
Beijing will establish a “pro-
fessional farmer” system to
lure talents, from rural work-
ers to urban dwellers, to
embark on agricultural-relat-
ed businesses, said Han
Changfu, minister of agricul-
ture and rural affairs.
“We will accelerate the culti-
vation of new types of agricul-
tural entities and bolster
scalable agricultural opera-
tions,” Han told a panel discus-
sion during the Boao Forum
for Asia Annual Conference
2018 on Monday.
“Meanwhile, we should
guide, support and encourage
a variety of talents to return or
BOAO FORUM
come to the countryside and
start their own business,” he
said, adding that concrete
measures are still underway.
The strategy of rural vital-
ization was first proposed as
one of the major aspects of
developing a modernized
economy and lifting its resi-
dents out of poverty by
2020.
“The ultimate goal is to
make ‘farming’ an attractive
and promising profession that
is not placed at an inferior
social ranking,” Han said.
To increase the allure of the
countryside, China will strive
to make the agricultural
industry more efficient and
competitive, by better inte-
grating primary, secondary
and tertiary industries and
strengthening environmental
protection.
To narrow the rural-urban
divide, the government will
rebalance policies to prioritize
the development of infrastruc-
ture building and the intro-
duction of basic social
services.
The private sector has a role
to play in boosting rural entre-
preneurship. China’s leading
agribusiness company New
Hope Group has budgeted 50
billion yuan ($7.9 billion) in
five years to invest in a com-
prehensive network that pro-
duces, sells, and promotes
high-quality agricultural pro-
duce, said its chairman Liu
Yonghao.
Over the same period, the
company also plans to train
over 200,000 farm owners and
agricultural technicians to
equip them with e-commerce
and other technological know-
how to jumpstart and expand
their businesses.
“Some rural areas are over-
urbanized, with young and
fit rural workers leaving vil-
lage homes and towns for cit-
ies thanks to better pay,” Liu
said. “By modernizing agri-
cultural production, we want
to turn ‘farming’ into a name
tag that people are proud of,”
he said.
Through its Rural Taobao
initiative, e-commerce giant
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is
helping to raise living stan-
dards in the countryside by
providing e-commerce access
for millions of poorer resi-
dents through 30,000 local
service centers, according to
Wang Jian, Alibaba’s chair-
man of Technology Steering
Committee.
Besides, the company is
enlisting thousands of mom-
and-pop convenience stores in
counties and townships with
software that uses data analyt-
ics to predict sales and man-
age inventory, he said.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

CH I N A DAI LY H O NG KO N G EDI TI O N
China’s debt levels
to improve soon
Sustained efforts to produce tangible
results in three years, says official
By WANG YANFEI
in Boao, Hainan
wangyanfei@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s debt problems will
see significant improvements
in the next three years, the
department head of a govern-
ment think tank said.
“The nation’s overall debt
levels have not grown to dan-
gerous levels. The govern-
ment is keeping a close watch
on the debt problems, espe-
cially those caused by the
large State-owned compa-
nies,” Li Yang, director of the
National Institution for
Finance and Development of
the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, said during the Boao
Forum for Asia Annual Con-
ference 2018 on Monday.
He added that China
remained confident on dealing
with the debt problems and
major improvements would
be seen within three years.
His comments are in line
with earlier remarks by Vice-
Premier Liu He during the
Davos Forum in Switzerland,
Experts: AI and big data to
create more job opportunities
By MA SI in Boao, Hainan
masi@chinadaily.com.cn
More efforts are needed to
cultivate high-tech talents for
the manufacturing sector, as
artificial intelligence and big
data technologies make fac-
tories smarter and more
automated, senior company
executives said at the Boao
Forum for Asia Annual Con-
ference 2018 on Monday.
Dong Mingzhu, chairwom-
an of Chinese home applian-
ces maker Gree Electric
Appliances, said automation
does not mean fewer job
opportunities for employees
and companies should not
simply lay off workers.
“Instead, the trend reflects
a new pattern in cultivating
manufacturing talents. In the
past, we needed technical
workers who excelled in fas-
tening screws. But now we
desire talents who are quick-
er learners,” Dong said.
“We should not be scared of
a smarter era. We should be
proud of it and step up efforts
to nurture talents that can con-
trol machines,” Dong added.
Currently, Gree has eight
Cooperation can help island
economies cope with challenges
By MA ZHIPING,
LIU XIAOLI and
WEN ZONGDUO
in Boao, Hainan
More open and inclusive
cooperation among island
economies will help the region
and even the world to cope
better with challenges and
prevent systemic risks, accord-
ing to participants at the Boao
Forum for Asia Annual Con-
ference 2018.
The keenly awaited summit
brings together hundreds of
business leaders, industrialists
and experts from the region.
Discussions at the forum are
expected to provide opportuni-
ties for greater regional cooper-
ation and help sustain
economic growth in the region,
according to participants.
“Openness is the lifeline of
economies in the new era,
especially the island econo-
mies”, said Shen Xiaoming,
governor of Hainan province,
that China
has concrete
plans to rein
in its mount-
ing debt.
In the past
few years,
Li Yang, China’s mas-
CASS official sive credit
expansion
had fueled double digit
growth which outpaced that
of many developed countries,
but led to concerns over risks
from debt pileups, with a
large proportion of that debt
arising from State-owned
enterprises.
Since then, the govern-
ment has introduced several
measures to lower leverage
and curb risks.
It has also issued policies to
cool the housing market and
kept a close watch on the steady
growth in household debt.
The measures introduced to
tackle debt problems have start-
ed to bear fruit as seen in the
recent economic data, Li said.
Although China’s debt-to-
GDP ratio continued to
12,000
total number of research
and development employ-
ees at Gree
production bases in China,
most of which are unmanned
factories, and it also boasts
about 12,000 employees
working on product research
and development, she added.
The comments come as
global companies are scram-
bling to embrace technolo-
gies to upgrade their factories
and to boost manufacturing
efficiencies, which has trig-
gered fears of fewer jobs for
human workers.
Richard Bailey, president
of the Asia-Pacific and Japan
Region for the United States
tech company HP, said in the
future, productivity will be
driven by AI, 3D printing, big
data and other technologies,
with different jobs created for
a wide range of industries.
But the change will take
time, and there is room for gov-
at a panel discussion on Mon-
day at Boao. He was address-
ing the 21st-Century Maritime
Silk Road Islands Economic
Cooperation Forum.
The economies should
encourage more interconnec-
tivity, freer flow of elements,
industrial training, and mutu-
al understanding of people in
the new era, Shen said.
Island economies have to
come closer with connections
among industries and people,
speakers said.
Vira Rojpojchanarat, minis-
ter of culture of Thailand, cited
transport as an example of
regional cooperation in the
new era. The Indian Ocean
and the Pacific Ocean can be
joined with cooperation for
mutual benefit, he said.
Chen Xiaodong, China’s
assistant minister of foreign
affairs, said the nation is keen
on working in tandem with
others “to build a community
of shared destiny for island
increase in 2017, it grew at a
slower pace — much slower
than the growth pace com-
pared to 2008, according to Li.
The non-financial corpo-
rate debt over the national
economic output slipped by
1.3 percentage points in 2017
compared to the level in 2016,
a report by the think tank
showed.
Although some worries
still persist on China’s debt
problems, for instance,
banks’ bad loans, the silver
lining comes from China’s
high savings rate and small
amount of external debt,
according to Leslie Maas-
dorp, vice-president of the
New Development Bank.
Looking ahead, the key
for China is to continue
implementing reforms to
achieve high quality growth
and also deal with income
inequality, according to
Massdorp.
Hans-Paul Bürkner, presi-
dent of Boston Consulting
Group, said with a relatively
high savings rate, efforts to
implement economic rebal-
ancing are expected to sup-
port the economy maintain a
robust growth.
ernments and companies to
prepare in advance to cope with
these challenges, Bailey added.
The view is echoed by Allan
Gabor, the Managing Direct-
or of Merck Holding (China)
Co Ltd. He believes that the
solution to the likely dis-
placement of jobs is to train
people collectively on a mas-
sive scale to ensure that
employees can be fully
groomed, so as to pounce on
new opportunities.
The Fourth Industrial Rev-
olution will bring new chal-
lenges, but people can adapt
to the quickly changing land-
scape. More measures need
to be taken to help employees
embrace new technologies
and upgrade themselves into
more advanced skills owners,
Gabor added.
Technologies can be inclu-
sive and not leave people
behind, he added.
Yuan Hui, founder of Chi-
nese robotics company Xiaoi
Robot, said technological
transformation will not lead
to unemployment. Instead, it
will motivate people to move
to more skillful and high-val-
ue-added jobs.
economies”.
Larry A Chan, president of
Liwayway (China) Co Ltd from
the Philippines, said enterpris-
es and communities must cut
and economize the use of plas-
tics for sustainable and green
development.
Jose Chaves Alvarez, gover-
nor of Palawan in the Philippi-
nes, said his province was keen
to partner with Hainan in
mutual development.
Godfrey Baldacchino,
co-holder of the UNESCO
chair in Island Studies and
Sustainability, University of
Malta, said he appreciated
China’s reaching out to Malta
for sustainable development.
Willy Ornebakk, chair of
Troms County Government of
Norway, emphasized green
growth. “The Arctic is our
home for sustainable develop-
ment in the future,” he said.
Contact the writers at maz-
hiping@chinadaily.com.cn
 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Branded restaurants fast gaining in popularity
By ZHENG YIRAN
zhengyiran@chinadaily.com.cn
When it comes to eating out, the
Chinese public is increasingly turn-
ing to branded chains. New research
from the Industry Development
Department of China Cuisine Asso-
ciation, or CCA, shows that consum-
ers are paying growing attention to
food and service quality, and con-
sumption has become more brand-
oriented than price-oriented.
Nothing exemplifies this better
than the serpentine queues of cus-
tomers waiting patiently to enter a
Western restaurant in WF Central, a
high-end shopping mall in Beijing
at 2 pm on any given working day.
Much of that rush was centered
on hungry customers wanting to
enter Cafe Landmark, Jade Garden
and The Cheesecake Factory, the
three restaurants launched simulta-
neously by Hong Kong-based food
What’s news
GOVT AND POLICIES
Online P2P lending
stays tepid in March
Peer-to-peer online lending activities
declined 23.6 percent in March from
the same period a year ago on tighter
regulations, despite showing a recov-
ery on a monthly basis, an industry
report said. Online lending transac-
tions during the period reached 192
billion yuan ($30 billion) in March,
said the report from wdzj.com, a P2P
online lending analysis platform.
P2P online lending balance edged up
1.3 percent month-on-month to
about 1.3 trillion yuan at the end of
last month, led by Beijing, Shanghai
and Guangdong province.
Xinjiang sees 24.2%
growth in foreign trade
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous
region registered a foreign trade of
$3.3 billion in the first two months of
this year, up 24.2 percent year-on-
year. According to the Urumqi Cus-
toms, the region’s exports in the
period hit $2.7 billion, up by 23.1 per-
cent, while its imports were $560
million, up by 29.5 percent. Exports
were mainly machinery and some
labor-intensive products, while
imports were mainly agricultural and
resource products. Imports of agri-
cultural products grew by 39.8 per-
cent from the same period last year.
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
Renminbi weakens
against greenback
The central parity rate of the
renminbi, or the yuan, weakened by
188 basis points to 6.3114 against the
US dollar on Monday, according to
the China Foreign Exchange Trade
System. In China’s spot foreign
China Railway Express brings boom time to German port city
BERLIN — For centuries, river
steamers have plied the Rhine River,
and the sound of their whistles has
been a symbol of the prosperity of
the German city of Duisburg.
Today, the sound of those whistles
converges here with the sirens of
trains coming from thousands of
miles away. Like a cheerful sympho-
ny, new vitality is being brought to
the city.
Duisburg, Germany’s biggest
inland port and one of the impor-
tant slots of China Railway Express,
has witnessed fruitful results of the
Belt and Road Initiative over the
past few years and harvested its own
urban economic growth.
Amelie Erxleben, of DIT Duisburg
Intermodal Terminal, recently con-
ducted a tour of the terminal, where
containers labeled with “China Rail-
way Express” were seen everywhere.
Large equipment machines were
busy loading and unloading.
“About one third of our business
now is related to China,” Erxleben
and beverage company Maxim’s
Group in Beijing. Incidentally Max-
im’s is also popular for its Maxim’s
mooncakes.
“I have been expecting the brand
to launch in Beijing for a long time.
To get seated, my friends and I wait-
ed for one and a half hours. The
dishes and service, which are exact-
ly the same as we had in the United
States, are worth the wait,” said a
consumer who just finished her
meal at The Cheesecake Factory, an
American restaurant that traces its
origins to California in 1978.
“The reason why we introduced
the three brands to Beijing at the
same time is that we want to use the
combination effect of the brands to
set off a craze in the city, attracting
customer loyalty,” said Martin Lee,
chief operating officer of Maxim’s
Caterers Ltd.
The huge queues in front of The
Cheesecake Factory have already
Canine capers
Visitors interact with Shiba Inu dogs from Japan at the 7th Pet Expo in Shanghai. WANG GANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
exchange market, the yuan is
allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent
from the central parity rate each
trading day. The central parity rate of
the yuan against the US dollar is
based on a weighted average of pri-
ces offered by market makers before
the opening of the interbank market
each business day.
CMEC to build solar
power plant in Ukraine
China Machinery Engineering Corp
has signed a contract with Ukraine’s
largest private energy holding firm
Donbas Fuel and Energy Co on build-
ing a solar power plant in Ukraine.
Under the deal, CMEC will build a
said, adding that “around 25 west-
and eastbound CRE trains are
expected here every week”.
DIT, one of the nine large freight
yards, is also a main railway con-
tainer-distribution center in the
region. Only four years ago, DIT
only handled seven to eight CRE
trains weekly.
The soaring business volume
makes DIT appear more crowded
than ever. Even the road in front of
its gate is often congested.
In order to deal with the growth,
management of the terminal has
recently bought an additional
200,000 square meters of land,
according to Erxleben.
Duisburg is on one end of the
Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe rail
line, which started operation in 2011
from the southwest Chinese city of
Chongqing. In recent years, more
and more trains operated by CRE
from Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Yiwu,
Shenyang and other Chinese cities
have been arriving here.
We are confident about the catering
market in China where tremendous
growth potential lies. Therefore, we will contin-
ue to explore more characteristic brands ...”
Martin Lee, chief operating officer of Maxim’s Caterers Ltd
proved the success of the company.
The food and beverage market is
continuously expanding, with brand-
ing being the biggest trend, boosting
the development of the market. Driv-
en by consumption upgrade and the
rapidly evolving city construction, a
growing number of international
brands, such as Starbucks and Japa-
nese ramen restaurant Ippudo, are
now eyeing the local market.
Companies are now laying more
emphasis on building and preserving
brand image, and competition in the
solar power plant with a total capaci-
ty of 200 megawatts of electricity in
Nikopol city in Ukraine’s central Dni-
propetrovsk region.
Samsung springs
earnings surprise in Q1
Samsung Electronics posted an earn-
ings surprise in the first quarter on
brisk sales of semiconductors and
smartphones, the company said. The
preliminary figure for operating prof-
it was 15.6 trillion won ($14.7 billion)
in the January-March quarter, top-
ping the previous quarterly high of
15.15 trillion won tallied in the fourth
quarter of last year. It was up 57.6 per-
cent from a year earlier, beating mar-
Statistics show that 78 Chong-
qing-Xinjiang-Europe trains, a year-
on-year increase of 66 percent, have
been operated since this January.
More than 1,000 trains are planned
this year.
Chen Si, a native of China’s west-
ern province of Sichuan, is exploring
the huge market brought by CRE
trains, together with her husband
Klaus Hellmann, a member of the
supervisory board of the German
logistics company Hellmann.
The transport between Germany
and China takes CRE trains
approximately 14 days, much faster
than by sea and much cheaper than
by air. Therefore, it has certain
comparative advantages, accord-
ing to Chen.
“Last year, the total volume of our
business by rail from Europe to Chi-
na amounted to 160,000 metric
tons, almost equaling the weight of
Cologne Cathedral,” said Matthias
Magnor, chief operating officer of
Road and Rail at Hellmann, during
market has evolved from competition
between product categories to a full-
fledged brand battle, an indication
that the development of the catering
industry has come to a new stage.
According to the latest report by
the National Bureau of Statistics,
China’s total retail sales of consum-
er goods hit 36.6 trillion yuan
($5.80 trillion) last year, with the
income from catering businesses
taking up 10.8 percent, which was
3.96 trillion yuan. With a 10.7-per-
cent year-on-year growth rate, the
ket expectations of about 14.5 trillion
won. Revenue advanced 18.7 percent
over the year to 60 trillion won in the
quarter, surpassing 60 trillion won
for the fourth consecutive quarter.
AROUND THE WORLD
US credit card issuers
ease requirements
Four of the largest US credit card
160,000
metric tons
total volume of Hellman Road
and Rail’s business by rail from
Europe to China
an interview with Xinhua.
CRE trains have made a great con-
tribution to that volume. Mean-
while, the business is growing
rapidly, Magnor added.
Many industries have benefited
from the Europe-China freight
trains.
“For example, the fashion indus-
try — the sales would be very much
affected by seasonal reasons. Before
the operation of CRE trains, it would
take around 40 to 50 days to trans-
port. But now, 14 to 15 days are need-
ed, which will sufficiently ensure the
BUSINESS 15
volume of the nation’s catering sec-
tor ranked just next to that of the
United Kingdom.
The 2017 report by the CCA also
pointed out that the nation’s cater-
ing income has been rising steadily
year-on-year and having a positive
impact on the whole consumer mar-
ket. According to the report, in 2017,
the catering market had an 11.3 per-
cent contribution rate on the con-
sumption market.
According to official statistics
from the provincial statistics
bureaus, first-tier cities such as Bei-
jing, Shanghai and Guangzhou
crawled out of recession in the cater-
ing market. In 2017, the catering
income of Beijing and Shanghai
reached 102.8 billion yuan and 102.5
billion yuan, growing 7.7 percent
and 7.9 percent respectively. Mean-
while, the sales revenue of Guang-
dong’s catering industry rose 5.9
percent to 368 billion yuan, ranking
networks — American Express, Dis-
cover, Mastercard and Visa — will
stop requiring their clients’ signa-
tures for most transactions later
this month. The process will make
signature, an old way of shop own-
ers verifying identity of clients,
gradually disappear. The change
would apply to EMV cards,
so-called “chip cards” originally
created by Europay, Mastercard
and Visa, which set a technical pay-
ment standard. The transition to
EMV technology in the United
States began in 2015, when mer-
chants without EMV readers had to
accept fraud liability for transac-
tions. It triggered widespread com-
plaints that chip transactions were
sales,” Magnor said.
In fact, when Hellmann began its
CRE train business five years ago,
some German companies were not
very optimistic.
“I managed to persuade them that
it is a viable transport option,” Hell-
mann said.
Facts speak louder than words.
CRE trains under the Belt and Road
Initiative have become the “third
pillar” for transportation between
Europe and Asia, besides air and sea
shipping.
In recent years, Duisburg has also
faced the problem of traditional
growth momentum decline and is in
search of new growth engines. And
in this case, the arrival of CRE trains
has been just like an old ship open-
ing a new sail, triggering a new
boom era in Duisburg.
Johannes Pflug, responsible for
China affairs in the Duisburg
municipality, said that the volume of
the Port of Duisburg grew by 30 per-
cent in 2017, making it the fastest
first in the country.
Jiang Junxian, president of the
CCA, said in an interview with Xin-
hua that branding of food and bever-
ages is becoming increasingly
apparent. Apart from the taste, the
environment, service and user expe-
rience of a restaurant have all
become core competitiveness points.
“As people’s living standards rise,
rather than the price, they focus
more on the taste, service quality
and brand culture, which creates
the distinctive character of a brand.
This is why we have been devoted to
building different unique brands,”
said Lee from Maxim’s.
“We are confident about the cater-
ing market in China where tremen-
dous growth potential lies.
Therefore, we will continue to
explore more characteristic brands,
offering more choices for consum-
ers of different consumption levels,”
Lee added.
much slower than the old swipe
method.
UK to come out with
new green aviation plan
The British government has
announced an ambitious plan to
make Britain’s aviation sector the
world’s greenest. A new strategy for
the country’s aviation sector will
include proposals to tackle issues
around noise, greenhouse gas emis-
sions and airspace congestion.
Environmental proposals will see
the introduction of new noise tar-
gets, strengthened noise controls at
airports and improved compensa-
tion for people living near airports,
the Department for Transport
revealed.
Australia may ink free
trade deal with Britain
A leading member of the British
government has said there is a
“very high likelihood” that Britain
and Australia will sign a free-trade
agreement in the near future.
Speaking during a visit to Austra-
lia’s Gold Coast for the opening of
the Commonwealth Games, Gra-
ham Stuart, Britain’s Parliamenta-
ry Under-Secretary of State for
International Trade, said that trade
with Australia would be a priority
for his country as it seeks to leave
the European Union. Bilateral
trade between Britain and Austra-
lia is currently worth A$24 billion
($18.4 billion) annually, a figure
that would grow in a post-FTA
environment.
France’s budget gap
widens in February
France’s budget deficit has wid-
ened to 28.5 billion euros ($35 bil-
lion) at the end of February from
21.5 billion euros a year ago, gov-
ernment data showed. In its
monthly report, the Budget Minis-
try said the widening deficit was
due mainly “to calendar effect”.
February’s public expenditure val-
ued 63.3 billion euros in total, up
from 62.3 billion euros the same
month last year while revenue was
down by 3.5 percent to 48.9 billion
euros, the ministry’s figures
showed.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
growing port in Germany.
CRE trains play an important role
in that growth, and in the more than
6,000 jobs in the area of logistics
that have been created, Pflug said.
In Pflug’s opinion, the CRE trains
achieve a win-win situation for Chi-
na and Europe. Not only Chinese
goods, but also Chinese capital and
companies are attracted to Duis-
burg. More than 100 Chinese com-
panies have so far settled in the
region.
“A Chinese company is construct-
ing an 18-story hotel; Chinese com-
pany Huawei is responsible for the
lighting project of the city,” Pflug
said.
Soeren Link, the mayor of Duis-
burg, said CRE trains have
brought unlimited opportunities
to the city. They bring not only the
development of local logistics, but
also the improvement of support-
ing services.
XINHUA
16 BUSINESS Tuesday, April 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

SenseTime gets $600m funding Investment growth

New financing
lifts valuation of
facial recognition
startup to $4.5b
By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese facial recognition
startup SenseTime Group Ltd
announced on Monday it has
acquired $600 million in its
Series C round of fundraising
led by e-commerce giant Ali-
baba Group Holding Ltd, set-
ting a record for venture
capital funding in the artifi-
cial intelligence sector.
SenseTime will become the
world’s most valuable artifi-
cial intelligence startup, with
its valuation exceeding $4.5
billion after the fundraising.
Other investors include Tem-
asek Holdings and Suning
Commerce Group Co Ltd.
The company said the capi-
tal injection will provide
important impetus to the
buildout of its AI platform,
advancing the company’s
technological innovation and
opening up new business
opportunities.
The latest financing will
also bankroll investments in
the fields such as autonomous
driving, security and surveil-
A visitor looks at a digital product equipped with SenseTime’s human pose estimation at a high-tech
exhibition in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, recently. MAO SIQIAN / XINHUA
lance, intelligent retail,
finance and education.
The move came after the AI
startup completed a $410 mil-
lion financing led by CDH
Investments and Sailing Capi-
tal in July. SenseTime claimed
it to be the world’s largest pri-
vate financing round ever
closed by an AI startup at that
time.
Xu Li, co-founder and chief
executive officer of Sense-
Time, said the company plans
to use the capital to expand its
presence overseas. “The fund-
ing will help us widen the
scope for more industrial
application of AI, thus
increasing the value of Sense-
Time’s global ecosystem.”
“SenseTime is doing pio-
neering work in AI. We are
especially impressed by their
R&D capabilities in deep
learning and visual comput-
ing. Our business at Alibaba is
already seeing tangible bene-
fits from our investments in
AI and we are committed to
further investment,” said Joe
Tsai, Alibaba’s executive vice-
chairman.
This is Alibaba’s second
major investment in a top
Chinese AI company in recent
months. In October, Alibaba’s
financial arm Ant Financial
Services Group joined a $460
million Series C financing
round in another Chinese AI
unicorn, Megvii Technology
Inc, more commonly known
as Face++.
Face++ provides facial rec-
ognition technology to Ali-
pay’s “Smile to Pay” function,
which allows users to pay
using a facial scan on their
smartphones.
Founded in 2014, Sense-
Time focuses on innovative
computer vision and deep
learning technologies, and
has established partnerships
with more than 400 leading
domestic and overseas enter-
prises across security, fintech,
automobile, retail, smart-
phone, mobile internet,
robotics and smart city devel-
opment.
Its partners include global
chip giants Qualcomm Inc
and Nvidia Corp, China
UnionPay, smartphone mak-
er Xiaomi Corp, Huawei Tech-
nologies Co Ltd, Oppo
Electronics Corp and Vivo
Mobile Communication Tech-
nology. It has also partnered
with Honda Motor Co Ltd to
develop autonomous driving
systems.
China has placed great
emphasis on tech develop-
ment, with AI a key area.
The government has laid
out plans to become the world
leader in AI by 2030, with an
aim of making the industry
worth 1 trillion yuan ($158.4
billion).
to see momentum
By REN XIAOJIN
and ZHONG NAN
The growth of China’s out-
bound direct investment We are now seeing
and foreign direct invest-
ment remained stable and more concern from
optimistic during the first
quarter of 2018, the Ministry
the foreign regula-
of Commerce said on Mon-
day.
tors relating to
“The country’s ODI has seen
an uptick for four months in a
Chinese invest-
row, and from January to Feb- ments ...”
ruary the number has
increased by 25.2 percent year- Charles Jacobs,
on-year,” said an official from chairman of Linklaters
the ministry’s Department of
Outward Investment and Eco- firm said in a report released
nomic Cooperation. in March.
The ministry predicted ODI Charles Jacobs, chairman of
will keep growing in the first Linklaters, said Chinese inves-
quarter, further pushing tors need to prepare for for-
industry structure upgrading. eign governments’ growing
China will release the ODI fig- concerns in a number of sec-
ure for first quarter in the mid- tors.
dle of this month. “We are now seeing more
“Eastern regions will concern from foreign regula-
remain active in conducting tors relating to Chinese invest-
overseas investment, while ment, especially those
the areas in western China involving data and cybersecu-
will become new engine to rity,” he said.
power ODI,” the official said. “Working with the right
The investment coopera- partners and the right deal
tion between China and the structures is useful — but get-
economies involved in the ting the timing right is vital,”
Belt and Road Initiative will said William Liu, Linklaters’
count for more of the coun- China unit head.
try’s total overseas invest- “Chinese businesses must
ment. be aware that regulations in
The infrastructure projects the United States and the

Global sommelier contest set to lift Ningxia’s credentials
By LI YOU in Beijing
and GUO SHAOYU
in Yinchuan
An international somme-
lier championship, drawing
the interest of competitors
from around the world, is set
to significantly boost the
already strong credentials of
the Ningxia Hui autonomous
region as a global player in the
wine producing sector,
according to organizers.
Increased international
exposure should grow the
region’s wine producing busi-
ness, expanding its customer
base abroad, they added.
Details about the 2018 Belt
and Road International Som-
melier Championship were
unveiled on Monday in the
region.
Competition organizers
said the growers in Helan
Mountain’s eastern foothills
in Ningxia, where China’s top-
quality wine grapes are to be
found, are paving way to fully
enter the multi-billion-dollar
global market.
Organizers said that in
recent years, the Ningxia wine
industry has pursued the
path of international develop-
ment, benchmarking the
international market and
increasing exchanges and
cooperation with the interna-
32
number of teams participat-
ing in the group competition
and promotional activities of
the international sommelier
championship
tional wine industry.
The championship, which
aims to boost Ningxia’s inter-
national profile as a wine grow-
ing region, has reached the
final draw for its competitors.
To date, 32 sommelier
teams from Asia, America and
Europe have announced they
are participating in the event.
Most of them have previously
won prizes in international
sommelier competitions held
in the other regions, and rep-
resent the highest level
achievements among somme-
liers in their own countries.
The 32 teams will take part
in the group competition and
promotional activities in Sep-
tember across China, in cities
including Shanghai, Cheng-
du, Beijing and Shenzhen.
During the competition,
they will exercise their skills
at “experience centers” and
help to popularize the wine
produced in Helan Mountain
range, voting for wines with
the participation of local con-
sumers.
Organizers said that for the
last phase of the champion-
ship, eight finalist teams
would return to Yinchuan to
battle it out for the first, sec-
ond prize and third prizes.
Helan Mountain is a rising
star among the wine-produc-
ing regions. Located in north-
western China, it cultivates
some 38,000 hectares of
vines, some 25 percent of the
country’s total wine planting
area.
Contact the writers at
liyou@chinadaily.com.cn
in those economies that need
equipment, technology and
services China provides will
enhance bilateral and multi-
lateral business relations,
according to the ministry.
Domestic investors made
$16.82 billion of nonfinancial
ODI in 1,429 overseas busi-
nesses in 135 countries and
regions for January-February,
data from the Ministry of
Commerce show.
Linklaters LLP, the inter-
national law firm, predicted
that China’s outbound
investment is projected to
reach between $1.5 trillion
and $2.5 trillion over the
next decade, despite a back-
drop of increasing regulato-
ry and political concerns
about foreign investment
into sensitive sectors, the
European Union are being
modified and may make
investment more difficult,”
said Li, citing “acquiring auto-
mobile manufacturers or
licensing sensitive technolo-
gy.”
On the other hand, the out-
look for China’s FDI also
proved to be optimistic, as the
Ministry of Commerce fore-
sees a stable capital inflow in
the first quarter of the year
and a rising number in the
newly established foreign-in-
vested companies.
“Foreign investment will
spotlight the high-tech indus-
try,” the ministry said. “Central
and western China will see a
rapid growth in FDI.”
Contact the writers at renxi-
aojin@chinadaily.com.cn

Daily Stock Market Performance Gainers

Gainers
and and
Losers
Losers International Stock Markets
Daily YTD Daily Daily Daily YTD % Chg
Index Close % Chg % Chg GAINERS Close % Chg LOSERS Close % Chg Close % Chg –25% 0% +25%
Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index 3138.29 +0.2 –5.1 Hang Seng Index 30,229.58 1.3
Shanghai Stock Exchange
3600 Hang Seng China Ent Index 12,073.00 0.9
XinjingSlmMdrnAgrcltre 5.45 10.10 TaiyuanLionhead Cement 11.75 –9.96
3490 Hainan Mining Co Ltd 8.31 10.07 Wintime Energy Co Ltd 2.72 –9.93 TAIEX Taiwan Stock Index 10,893.53 0.7
3380 BeijingJingchengMachEl 6.91 10.03 ZhejiangDafengIndustry 22.59 –8.17 Nikkei 225 21,678.26 0.5
GuangdngDcntAtoPartsSt 10.64 10.03 KunshanKersenSci& Tech 23.46 –6.05 Sensex 33,829.90 0.6
3270
IKD Co Ltd 14.37 10.03 Henan Ancai Hi-Tech Co 9.54 –6.01 KOSPI 2,444.08 0.6
3160 S&P/ASX 200 5,808.67 0.3
BGRIMM Technology Co 15.36 10.03 Guang Dong Sitong 10.88 –5.56
3050 ShanghaiGldnBrdgInfTch 20.96 10.03 JonjeeHi-TechInd&CommC 24.33 –5.51 New Zealand 50 Gross Index 8,454.13 0.7
ShanghaiShine-Link Log 23.38 10.02 TianYu Eco-Environment 21.15 –5.37 Straits Times Index STI 3,452.15 0.3
Lanhai Medical Invst 6.37 10.02 SDICZhongluFruit Juice 11.82 –5.36 Bangkok SET Index 1,750.67 0.6
Zhejiang Ausun Pharma 22.30 10.01 Xinjiang Bai Hua Cun 10.19 –5.21 Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index 1,846.30 0.5
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index 10,653.38 –0.3 –3.5
VN-Index 1,204.33 0.4
11,700 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Dow Jones 23,932.76 –2.3
11,200 Chengdu CORPRO Tech 19.77 10.02 Shaanxi J&R Optimum En 5.08 –8.47
BeijingBDStarNavigatin 33.76 10.00 WuhShnrngSnqIntrctEntN 16.15 –7.82
10,700 BeijingUniStrongSc&Tch 21.64 9.85 Unigroup Guoxin Co Ltd 45.98 –5.57 Commodities
10,200 CNPC Capital Co Ltd 14.20 9.82 Valiant Co Ltd 10.47 –5.42 Daily YTD % Chg
BeijingShiji Info Tech 28.25 7.54 Digital China Info Svc 15.19 –5.42 Close % Chg –20% 0% +20%
9700 Zhuhai Port Co Ltd 9.95 6.76 Hengyi Petrochemical 20.47 –5.23 Brent Crude Oil (USD/bbl.) 67.36 0.4
Westone Info Industry 31.70 6.38 Suning.com Co Ltd 13.59 –4.30 Gold (USD/t oz.) 1336.10 0.6
ZhuhOrbtArspcSc&TchCLt 15.66 6.31 Guoxuan High-Tech Co 20.75 –4.29 Silver (USD/t oz.) 16.36 0.0
Guangzhou Haige Comm 11.08 6.23 Jiangxi Zhengbang Tech 4.46 –3.88 Copper (USD/lb.) 3.06 –0.5
Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index 3852.93 –0.1 –4.4
China TransInfo Tech 16.40 6.08 Shenzhen Inovance Tech 33.02 –3.84 Aluminum (USD/MT) 2026.25 1.7
4400 Corn (USD/bu.) 3.97 –0.3
Hang Seng Wheat (USD/bu.) 4.72 1.6
4000 Sunny Optical Tech 151.40 5.87 Want Want China 6.16 –0.16 Soybeans (USD/bu.) 10.45 0.3
Geely Automobile 23.45 5.16 CK Infrastructure 63.10 0.00 Coffee (USD/lb.) 1.18 0.3
3600 China Mengniu Dairy Co 27.45 4.57 PetroChina Co Ltd 5.37 0.00 Sugar #11 (USD/lb.) 0.12 0.0
CITIC Ltd 11.28 3.87 Power Assets Holdings 60.85 0.16 Palm Oil (MYR/MT) 2484.00 –0.8
3200 WH Group Ltd 8.35 3.86 Ind & Comm Bk of China 6.65 0.30

Cross Currency Rates ETFS

Shanghai B-Share Stock Price Index 325.15 –0.1 –4.9 Daily %
USD EUR CNY HKD GBP KRW BRL RUB JPY INR CAD EQUITY ETFs Ticker Close Change
365
USD 1.228 0.158 0.127 1.411 0.001 0.297 0.017 0.009 0.015 0.781 China 50 510050 2.71 0.63
355 China AMC CSI 300 Index 510330 4.17 –0.05
EUR 0.814 0.129 0.104 1.149 0.001 0.242 0.014 0.008 0.013 0.636
345 China CSI 500 510500 6.33 0.16
335 CNY 6.311 7.750 0.804 8.905 0.006 1.873 0.107 0.059 0.097 4.931 China SME 159902 3.49 –0.17
HKD 7.850 9.639 1.244 11.076 0.007 2.330 0.133 0.073 0.121 6.134 China Universal CSI Consumer Staples Index 159928 2.20 –0.63
325
GBP 0.709 0.870 0.112 0.090 0.001 0.210 0.012 0.007 0.011 0.554 E Fund ChiNext Price Index 159915 1.74 0.29
315 E Fund CSI 300 510310 1.64 0.12
KRW 1067.140 1311.140 169.327 135.950 1509.650 317.497 18.196 9.978 16.419 835.990
E Fund CSI 300 Financials ex Banks Index 512070 1.88 0.86
BRL 3.369 4.140 0.534 0.429 4.754 0.003 0.057 0.031 0.052 2.633 E Fund Hang Seng China Enterprises Index 510900 1.23 0.99
Shenzhen B-Share Stock Price Index 1140.02 –0.7 –2.0
RUB 58.794 72.193 9.317 7.490 82.958 0.055 17.451 0.549 0.896 45.942 E FUND SZSE100 INDEX FUND 159901 4.75 –0.88
1250 Fortune SGAM Xianjin Tianyi Money Market 511990 100.04 –0.02
JPY 107.080 131.500 16.968 13.642 151.094 0.100 31.784 1.822 1.648 83.672
Guangfa CSI 500 510510 1.68 0.18
1190 INR 64.996 79.807 10.299 8.280 91.706 0.061 19.292 1.105 0.607 50.785 Guotai Shanghai Stock Exchange 180 Financial Index 510230 5.98 0.34
CAD 1.280 1.572 0.203 0.163 1.806 0.001 0.380 0.022 0.012 0.020 Harvest CSI 300 Index 159919 4.20 0.36
1130 Huatai-Pinebridge CSI 300 510300 3.85 0.13
Shanghai SSE180 510180 3.29 0.18
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A M J J A S O N D J F M Yinhua Traded Money Market Fund 511880 101.32 0.04
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LIFE
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

I
n 744 AD, Li Bai, a poet of the
Tang Dynasty (618-907),
climbed the Wangwu Moun-
tain in today’s Henan prov-
ince. He wanted to meet one of his
old friends, who lived in Yangtai Pal-
ace, a Taoist temple on that moun-
tain. Unfortunately, when he
arrived, Li found out that his friend
had died. The poet then wrote the
25-character calligraphy piece —
Ascending Mount Yangtai (Shang
Yangtai Tie) — to convey his feelings
for the departed.
Li, considered one of the best
ancient Chinese poets, may have left
numerous masterpieces behind, but
this is the only known surviving cal-
ligraphy work inked by him.
Now, thanks to a donation by
Zhang Boju (1898-1982), an antique
collector, the work is being
displayed in public.
Ascending Mount
RARE SHOW
The Palace Museum celebrates the late collector Zhang Boju’s passion for
ancient masterpieces. Wang Kaihao reports.
Yangtai and 30 other pieces, high- Museum, where Zhang worked in
lighting ancient Chinese painting the 1960s.
and calligraphy, which were collect- “Zhang’s devotion to the country
ed by Zhang, are on show at the was unwavering,” Shan Jixiang,
ongoing exhibition commemorat- director of the Palace Museum, says.
ing the 120th anniversary of his “In the years of social upheaval, he
birth at the Palace Museum in Bei- even sold his personal property to
jing, China’s former imperial palace keep our national treasures at
that is also known as the Forbidden home.”
City. Ascending Mount Yangtai was
Born in a rich family, Zhang once consecutively owned by royal courts
served in an army for warlords, but since the Northern Song Dynasty
later became a banker. Other than (960-1127) until it left the Forbidden
being an antique collector, he was City, with the end of monarchy in
also known as a Peking Opera artist. China.
More displayed works at the exhi- In 1937, during the War of Resist-
bition are from collections of the ance Against Japanese Aggression
Palace Museum, the National Muse- (1931-45), many precious treasures
um of China and the Jilin Provincial were sold abroad. But Zhang spent a
huge sum of money to buy Ascend-
ing Mount Yangtai and several oth-
er works from another collector.
Another exhibit, Palace Entertain-
ers in the Kingdom of Shu, a Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644) painting by
Tang Yin depicting court life in a
10th-century kingdom in today’s
Sichuan province, was among the
works purchased by Zhang at the
time.
“It has abundant color, but the
painting doesn’t lose its elegance for
natural transition and comparison
of the colors,” Hao Yanfeng, an asso-
ciate researcher of ancient calligra-
phy and painting at the Palace
Museum, says while introducing the
piece to visitors.
In the late 1940s, Zhang made
plans for the Palace Museum to pur-
chase some former royal collections,
and helped bargain to get them back
at lower prices.
After the founding of New China
in 1949, Zhang kept donating his
collections to public institutions in
the country. In 1956 alone, Zhang
donated eight key calligraphy works
and paintings to the Palace Muse-
um. He gave Ascending Mount
Yangtai to Chairman Mao Zedong’s
office, and Mao transferred it to the
museum in 1958, bringing the lost
treasure back to the Forbidden
City’s premises.
According to Shan, nearly 20,000
cultural relics were donated to the
Palace Museum by 330 individuals
in the 1950s. He says Zhang had set a
good example.
Hao recommends several other
key masterpieces among Zhang’s
donations in the 1950s, which are
also on display in Beijing.
Personally Written Poetry is an
album by Cai Xiang, one of four
most celebrated Northern Song cal-
ligraphers. The work, which
records his monthslong journey
from Fuzhou in today’s Fujian prov-
ince to the national capital city of
Bianliang (today’s Kaifeng, Henan)
reflects his career peak.
“It was hailed as Cai’s finest work
by Zhang,” Hao says. “It greatly
influenced Zhang’s own calligraphy
as well.”
Also on show is the scroll, One
Hundred Flowers, which is believed
to have been painted by a female art-
ist named Yang Jieyu from the
Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279),
and portrays blooms, including
those of lotuses, orchids and sun-
flowers in 17 scenes. It is the only
known painting by Yang.
Nevertheless, rules of the Palace
Museum demand that a paperwork
collection should stay in its ware-
house for at least three years before
every public exhibition. Conse-
quently, some listed works in the
catalog are replaced by replicas if
they have been displayed once in
recent years.
Visitors are also able to view A
Consoling Letter (Pingfu Tie) by Lu
Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty
(265–316), the oldest extant work of
model calligraphy, and Spring
Excursion, an early example of Chi-
nese landscape painting attributed
to Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty
(581–618), through their replicas.
“This exhibition will remind
today’s private collectors of their
social duty,” says Lou Kaizhao,
Zhang’s grandson, who’s co-curator
of the exhibition. “If my grandfather
had kept his collection in an attic,
the general public would have little
idea about such masterpieces.”
Sharing such collections with
more people will help Chinese socie-
ty to build up its cultural confidence,
he adds.
“What Zhang Boju represented is
also the great characteristics of Chi-
nese scholars,” Shan, the museum
director, says. “Keeping the antiques
is the way to prolong the life of our
literary history.”
Shan says 22 calligraphy works
and paintings in the Palace Museum
today were once collected by Zhang,
which enriched the public institu-
tion’s collection.
The ongoing Exhibition Com-
memorating the 120th Anniversary
of Zhang Boju’s Birth also marks the
end of 13 years when the Hall of
Martial Valor (Wuying Dian) in the
western wing of the Forbidden City
was used to display calligraphy pie-
ces and paintings. The new venue
will be the Hall of Literary Glory
(Wenhua Dian) in the museum’s
eastern wing.

An exhibition at the Palace Museum commemorating the 120th anniversary of antique collector Zhang Boju’s birth features ancient poet Li Bai’s calligraphy piece Ascending Mount Yangtai (top center) Contact the writer at
and Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin’s Palace Entertainers in the Kingdom of Shu (top right), among other ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy works. PHOTOS BY JIANG DONG AND YAO YING / CHINA DAILY wangkaihao@chinadaily.com.cn

Taking a deeper look to peer beyond the beauty

By DENG ZHANGYU
dengzhangyu@chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese artist Chen Chunmu uses
various media to express thoughts
and reflections on such social issues
as environmental protection,
urbanization and social develop-
ment — and he wants viewers to
look beyond the beauty of his works.
His solo show, Look Beyond What
We See, at Beijing’s Hongkun Muse-
um of Fine Art, displays over 20
works he has produced in the past
three years, including oil paintings,
installations and mixed-media
works.
“We’re attracted to beautiful
things. But we seldom explore
what’s beneath the beauty,” the Bei-
jing-based artist says.
In his Classic of Grasses and
Woods, Chen paints brightly colored
flowers and worms on three bed
boards to portray migrant workers’
dreams.
Their wishes all come true when
they’re dreaming. But they’re far
away when they awake to live in cit-
ies where they struggle, says Chen,
who moved to Beijing in 2007.
Chen was born in a village in Fuji-
Clockwise from above: Beyond a Relationship With You, Empty Mountain and Spring Follows Winter are among the paint-
ings on show at Chen Chunmu’s solo exhibition at Beijing’s Hongkun Museum of Fine Art. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
an province’s Anxi, where farmers
made their livings growing tea.
Most people have moved to cities,
leaving the elderly, children and
tumbledown houses.
Chen often weaves village life into
his works. Mushrooms, flowers and
worms appear frequently in his art.
He spent his childhood picking
mushrooms and playing in the
woods.
His installation My Weapon
deploys fire spears people in his
hometown use during celebrations.
Villagers fill the tips with gunpow-
der to create loud bangs to beseech
the gods.
Chen views the tradition as a
waste of money and a source of air
pollution.
“People waste lots of money on it,
and it makes no sense. They still
believe in it. It’s very sad,” the
37-year-old says.
Critic Huang Du says Chen finds
his own style in the fertile soil and
folk art of his hometown, combining
plants, animals, wildness and sim-
plicity into his paintings.
“It’s difficult to define what kind
of artist he is. He uses various ele-
ments in his works, such as tea
stains, bed sheets, neon lights and
wood,” says Zhao Mengyuan, execu-
tive director of Hongkun Museum
of Fine Art, a private museum focus-
ing on works by modern and con-
temporary Chinese artists.
Zhao is a longtime friend of Chen.
She says he’s a man of few words.
But Chen expresses himself in his
works. Most of Chen’s pieces are
accompanied by essay-like poems,
either displayed separately or incor-
porated into his works.
He often writes prose that pops to
his head. Sometimes the words read
like modern poetry. Sometimes
they’re nonsense, he explains.
This also goes for the titles of his
works, such as Beyond a Relation-
ship With You and Spring Follows
Winter.
“What I paint and what I write is
not important. It’s the audiences’
interpretations that matter,” he says.
 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Culture | LIFE 19

A WORLD
OF SOUNDS
A recent festival highlights world music’s growing
popularity among Chinese. Zhang Zefeng reports.

T
wo giant stages stand
in the center of a
6,670-hectare
orchard of blooming
pear trees. Performers clad in
ethnic attire sing and dance
under colorful lights.
This is a scene from the
Water and Pear Blossoms
World Music Festival in
Shandong province’s Yangxin
county from April 5 to 7. Twen-
ty-six bands from nine coun-
tries and regions performed.
The festival was organized
by the band Hanggai, which is
known for combining Mongo-
lian folk music with modern
styles.
“This is probably one of the
few festivals in China devoted
to world music,” says Ilchi,
Hanggai’s vocalist and tobshu-
ur (two-stringed lute) player.
“It’s an activity with diverse
cultural concepts.”
World music encompasses
several styles, including tradi-
tional and neo-traditional
music, as well as music that
contains more than one cul-
tural tradition.
It has been gaining momen-
tum in China, as performers
often appear on mainstream
domestic talent shows.
Notable world-music bands
and performers include Hang-
gai, ethnic Yi folk singer Jike
Junyi, ethnic Uygur rocker Per-
hat Khaliq and indie folk band
Shanren from Yunnan province.
They claimed stardom through
hit TV shows like Sing My Song
and The Voice of China.
“World-music performers
have become an important
part of mainstream music
platforms,” says Ilchi.
This year’s music festival
brought a diverse range of
bands and singers, including
Japanese tribal punk band Tur-
tle Island, Japanese musician
OKI and western Chinese con-
temporary folk band Travelers.
“Turtle Island aspires to inte-
grate traditional and modern
Japanese culture into their
music so that people pay more
attention to the past,” Ilchi says.
“China hosts various ethnic
cultures. Many young Chinese
musicians have been working
to preserve traditional folk
music. We want to show them
some successful foreign coun-
terparts through the festival.”
The festival is not only a
place for music exchanges but
also a platform for emerging
performers to showcase their
talents.
The five-member band Mar-
mota has been devoted to dis-
covering and preserving
Mongolian folk music since
2009. Its lyrics are in Mongoli-
an and Tuvan.
“I got to know some excellent
world-music performers here,”
the lead singer Danpel says.
“It’s a great platform to dis-
cover world-music talent in
China and promote the coun-
ty’s ethnic music.”
Chinese musician Dangih
Nurlan from the Kazak ethnic
group performed a solo show
on the first day.
Dangih Nurlan hails from
Tacheng in the Xinjiang Uygur
autonomous region and plays
ethnic Kazak music that has
been passed down over centu-
ries.
“My music depicts tradi-
tional nomadic herders’ lives
and such natural splendors as
grasslands, mountains and
bodies of water,” Dangih Nur-
lan says.
“The world-music festival is
a place where different ethnic-
music genres can coexist.”
Dangih Nurlan makes his
living in Beijing playing Span-
ish music in restaurants as
this kind of music is more suit-
able for these settings.
“The music festival provides
me with a platform to play the
music I truly love,” he says.
“Kazak music is the music of
my ethnicity, which is very
important to me.”
Hanggai, the Mongolian
word for a place with beauti-
ful pastures, mountains and Singers from the band Kawa (left) from Yunnan province and Rid (right) from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region perform at Yangxin’s
rivers, is considered a “Chi- world-music festival. PHOTOS BY ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
nese representative” of
world music. The group
developed the idea for the travelers and boosts the local
Water and Pear Blossoms economy,” Liu says.
World Music Festival from “Local people get to enjoy
observations it made while high-quality world music in
touring overseas. their hometown. It cultivates
“There are many music fes- their musical tastes and
tivals overseas — a great varie- enriches their lives.”
ty. What makes a music Yangxin resident Ge Yon-
festival stand out is its unique gling, who also participated in
characteristics and attitude,” last year’s festival, says the
Ilchi says. event is popular among locals.
“Here, we want people to be “There’s a surge of people
immersed in nature and expe- joining,” she says.
rience diverse cultures “This festival showcases
through music.” musical styles from China and
And the event benefits the the world. I feel extremely
county. proud that we are holding this
The venue was a garbage event.”
dump before the event was
first staged last year, Yangxin’s Contact the writer at
mayor Liu Jinyi says. zhangzefeng@ The Water and Pear Blossoms World Music Festival in Shandong province’s Yangxin county is
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20 L I F E | Culture
All roads lead to the capital in May for the 18th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival,
which is set to take on a distinctly Italian flavor this year. Chen Nan reports.
The Black Velvet String Quartet is among nearly 800 artists from 44 performing arts groups from 19 countries and regions, who will perform in the capital’s largest annual
festival, Meet in Beijing Arts Festival. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
T
he capital’s largest
annual celebration of
dance, music, drama
and art, the Meet in
Beijing Arts Festival, will bring
nearly 800 artists from 44 per-
forming arts groups from 19
countries and regions to Bei-
jing.
With 130 performances,
three art exhibitions and a
number of public-art educa-
tion activities, the festival —
which is now in its 18th year —
will kick off on April 27 and run
through May 31. It will provide
audiences with a lavish and
diverse choice of events.
Italy will be the guest coun-
try of honor at this year’s festi-
val, the organizers announced
on April 3. Picking a main
guest country each year has
been a festival tradition since it
started in 2000.
This year, the opening show
will be held on April 27 at the
National Center for the Per-
forming Arts, which will see
the Beijing Symphony Orches-
tra play tunes from classic Ital-
ian operas and Chinese songs,
including Overture to Il Bar-
biere di Sivigli by Gioacchino
Rossini and excerpts from Il
Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
under the baton of Chinese
conductor Tan Lihua and Ital-
ian composer and conductor
Andrea Molino. Well-known
Chinese violinist Lyu Siqing
and Italian singers mezzo-so-
prano Daniela Pini and sopra-
no Anna Roberta Sorbo will
join the concert.
“This is the first time that
Italy will be the main guest
country during the Meet in
Beijing Arts Festival and we
will bring a series of Italian
artists, some of whom will be
making their debut perform-
ances in the capital,” says
Franco Amadei, cultural coun-
selor of the Italian embassy in
China.
One of the highlights will be
TeoTronico, a pianist robot
invented by Italian classical
pianist Roberto Prosseda in
2012. TeoTronico, who per-
formed with Chinese pianist
Lang Lang on CCTV in 2017,
will play with his “father” at
the Beijing Concert Hall on
May 31 and June 1.
Italian musicians, including
the Nous Quartet, pianist Axel
Trolese and pianist Leonora
Armellini, will also perform
shows during the festival.
The piano, which evolved
from the harpsichord in the
early 1700s, was first invented
by Italian instrument maker
Bartolomeo Cristofori. An
exhibition titled The Italian
Keyboard: From Cristofori to
Modern Times, which will run
A SHOW OF
CREATIVITY
from May 15 to June 2 at the
China Millennium Monu-
ment Hall of Modern Arts, will
display keyboards made in
Italy between the 1700s and
the 1950s, and instrument
makers will be on hand to
demonstrate the process of
making keyboards.
Two other exhibitions, Art,
Culture and Daily Life in Ren-
aissance Italy, which will run
from March 26 to June 22 at
the Capital Museum, and
Double Screen: A Survey of
Artists’ Film and Video in Ita-
ly, which runs from May 19 to
20 at the Central Academy of
Fine Arts Museum, will show-
case the development of Ital-
ian culture and art with a
display of precious fine-art
pieces from more than 10
institutions, including the
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Antica in Rome and the
Museo Nazionale del Bargello
in Florence.
Li Jinsheng, president of
the China Arts and Entertain-
ment Group, the festival’s
organizer, says that since
2000, the Meet in Beijing Arts
Festival has attracted over
30,000 artists from 120 coun-
tries and regions. More than
4.2 million audience members
have attended over the years.
Li also notes that 2018
marks the fifth year of the Belt
and Road Initiative, which
was first proposed by China in
2013, with the aim of building
an economic and cultural net-
work connecting Asia with
Europe and Africa along
ancient trade routes.
Besides Italy, which “is an
important country along the
Silk Road”, Li says, the festival
will also feature international
artists from countries like the
United States, the United King-
dom, Poland and Greece.
Among the many programs
at the festival, five-time Gram-
my Award-winning group, The
Swingle Singers, which was
formed in 1962 by US vocalist
and jazz musician Ward Lamar
Swingle, will perform at the
Beijing Concert Hall on May
19. String performance group
the Black Velvet String Quar-
tet, which features four young
US musicians, will perform at
the National Library Arts Cen-
ter on May 11.
To mark the 250th anniver-
sary of the birth of the modern
European circus, French per-
formance company Cheptel
Aleikoum and its musical off-
spring, Circa Tsuica, will bring
their new circus show, Opus 7,
on May 13 to the Mong Man
Wai Concert Hall at Tsinghua
University.
Art troupes from China will
The National Theater’s acclaimed West-End play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
will be staged at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center from May 24 to 27 during the 18th Meet in Beijing
Arts Festival.
Franco Amadei, cultural counselor of the Italian embassy in China, talks to the media at the opening
ceremony of the 18th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival.
three plays, The Lawyer, The
Gin Game and Li Bai, at the
Capital Theater.
Four young Peking Opera
(Italy) will bring a actresses — Li Li, Jiang Xiao-
yue, Yang Xiaoyang and Yin
series of Italian Chanjuan — will give a show at
Beijing’s Tianqiao Performing
artists, some ... Arts Center on May 6. As the
will be making students of Zhang Huoding,
one of the country’s best
their debut known Peking Opera stars,
these actresses will interpret
performances in classic Peking Opera roles once
performed by Zhang, such as
the capital.” Bai Suzhen from The Legend of
White Snake and Zhu Yingtai
Franco Amadei, cultural counselor from Butterfly Lovers.
of Italy’s embassy in China To mark the conclusion of
this year’s Meet in Beijing Arts
also share the stage with inter- Festival, the dance drama,
national artists. The Beijing Confucius, which will be pro-
People’s Art Theater will stage duced and performed by the
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 C H I N A DA I LY H
China National Opera and
Dance Drama Theater, will be
staged at Beijing’s Tianqiao
Performing Arts Center from
May 29 to 31.
Directed and choreo-
graphed by Kong Dexin, a
77th-generation direct
descendent of Confucius, the
dance drama follows the leg-
endary scholar’s journey. Pre-
miered in 2013, the show was
staged at the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts
and the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts in the US last
year. In 2018, the dance drama
will tour 15 Chinese cities,
including Hangzhou, Shang-
hai and Chongqing.
Contact the writer at
chennan@chinadaily.com.cn
Tuesday, O N10,
April G 2018
Left: Conductor Lyu Jia, who is also the opera director of NCPA.
Right: Chinese composer Lei Lei talks about the festival.
NCPA festival to
stage 26 opera
shows this year
By CHEN NAN
chennan@chinadaily.com.cn
Richard Wagner’s only
comic opera, Die Meisters-
inger von Nurnberg — a
coproduction of China’s
National Center for the Per-
forming Arts, the Royal
Opera House and Convent
Garden from London and
Opera Australia — will head-
line the NCPA Opera Festi-
val.
The opera will be staged in
Beijing from May 31 to June
7.
The joint production is
directed by Kasper Holten
and choreographed by Signe
Fabricius. It will feature the
NCPA Orchestra and NCPA
Chorus under the baton of
Chinese conductor Lyu Jia.
Composed between 1845
and 1867 and first staged at
the National Theatre
Munich in 1868, Die Meis-
tersinger von Nurnberg is
based on the life of German
poet and composer Hans
Sachs. The opera also helped
to reflect Wagner’s reform-
ing of German arts.
According to Lyu, Die
Meistersinger von Nurnberg
is the fifth Wagner operatic
production by the National
Center for the Performing
Arts. It’s the second opera to
be produced by the NCPA in
collaboration with the Royal
Opera House. Italian com-
poser Umberto Giordano’s
Andrea Chenier, which was
staged in 2015, was the first.
Lyu, who is also the opera
director of the NCPA and
principal conductor of the
in-house orchestra, notes
that in its 10th year, the
NCPA Opera Festival, which
will be held from April 13 to
July 26, will showcase 26
performances of nine opera
productions, mostly from
China.
From July 18 to 22, the
NCPA will premier its new
production of the five-act
French romantic opera,
Romeo et Juliette, by French
composer Charles-François
Gounod to celebrate the
200th anniversary of his
birth.
“There is a growing energy
around opera as an art form
despite the fact that it was
imported to China from the
West. Since the opening of
the NCPA in 2007, we have
been devoted to promoting
opera among Chinese audi-
The NCPA’s original opera production, The Dawns Here Are
Quiet, will open the upcoming NCPA Opera Festival.
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ences and producing origi-
nal operas as well as Western
classics,” says Lyu, adding
that the NCPA has produced
about 60 operas.
The NCPA’s original opera
production, The Dawns Here
Are Quiet, will open this
year’s opera festival. It
debuted at the NCPA in
2015. The opera, composed
by Tang Jianping, with
libretto by Wan Fang, is
based on Russian writer
Boris Vasilyev’s novel of the
same title. It tells the story of
five female soldiers fighting
German troops during
World War II.
There is a
growing energy
around opera as
an art form.”
Lyu Jia, conductor of the
National Center for the
Performing Arts
The opera was staged on
the 70th anniversary of the
end of the war, and it has
been presented at the NCPA
around five times. A film
related to the opera will be
shown at the upcoming festi-
val, with the aim of further
popularizing opera in China.
Besides the operas pro-
duced by the NCPA, four Chi-
nese opera companies will
stage their productions dur-
ing the festival, including the
China National Opera
House’s Manas, which is
based on the Kyrgyz epic
Manas, a folk masterpiece;
the Ningbo Performing Arts
Group’s Tu Youyou, based on
the story of Tu Youyou, the
Chinese Nobel laureate in
medicine; The China Opera
and Dance Drama Theatre’s
Liu Sanjie, which is about a
folk singer of the Zhuang
ethnic group; and the Hubei
Opera and Dance Drama
Theater’s historical piece,
King Zhuang of Kingdom
Chu.
Apart from the perform-
ances at the NCPA, 11 opera
films will be screened at uni-
versities in Beijing and
NCPA opera consultant
Giuseppe Cuccia will give
lectures.
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Crossword Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
Feelings will be shared, even if you aren’t ready to hear what 保密
someone has to say. Your best response is to listen and then
contemplate the choices you’ve been given.


Maintain secrecy; confidentiality
Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)
例：这事对外要绝对保密。
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Getting the facts straight before you move forward will help you
avoid making a mistake. This is strictly confidential.

Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20) 安慰

 
An opportunity looks amazing, but you should first do your due
diligence and get the lowdown on what’s expected of you and
Be comforted; comfort
what you will receive in return.
例：有女儿在身边，她能得到一点安慰。
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She feels a little better, with her daughter keeping her
Limit your spending. Protect your money and possessions. Offer
your guidance, experience and time. Discipline will be necessary company.
when dealing with health issues.
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Parade one’s wealth; be ostentatious and extravagant
from trying too hard or interfering with someone who isn’t going
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Spend more time working on a professional or passion project. If gant.
you slap something together, it won’t stand the test of time. Hard
work and discipline will help cut costs. Don’t divulge personal 保有
secrets.

Possess; have
Cancer (JUNE 21-JULY 22)
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entailed. You’ll be taking on more than you bargained for if you  
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Don’t let emotional stress take the reins. Keep life simple and
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spend time with people who appreciate you and what you have Reward; remuneration; pay for a service or use of an
to offer. Learn from experience to avoid a mishap.
object
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Mothers of 64 Boredom 27 Stupid responsibilities. Focus on doing your own thing.
Planting trees and flowers is my duty, and I don’t want any
car, briefly payment.
8 What ignorance Invention 65 Sup 28 Passionately
is, they say 34 WSW’s opposite 66 Florida senator brainy, say Libra (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23)
13 One might end 35 Jazzy Fitzgerald Marco 29 Chicken ___ 悲愁
“Q.E.D.” 36 Colorful aquari- 67 Band with the king
Attend networking functions or participate in events that interest
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15 A pitcher wants um swimmers 2000 hit “Bye 31 Fashion house pique your imagination. A partnership looks promising. Sad and worried
a low one, for 37 “___ my words” Bye Bye” founded in Milan
short 39 You are here 68 Just for Men 32 Emotion causing Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22) 例：她成天乐呵呵的，不知道什么叫孤独和悲愁。
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strange disap- refused a drink Down show) fare. sadness or worry.
pearances at a bar 1 Alert to squad 36 It’s in the strato-
20 Michael who 46 Opposite of cars, for short sphere Sagittarius (NOV. 23-DEC. 21)
played both Bat- bright 2 Arduous walk 38 Hold on to
Taking a day trip or making plans with someone you enjoy col-
man and Bird- 47 Four-time M.L.B. 3 Ripped 40 Weight unit on a laborating with is encouraged. A change of attitude will make a From The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Chinese – English Edition), Foreign Lan-
man All-Star José 4 Start of a play- bridge sign difference to how things get done. guage Teaching and Research Press.
21 Aid for a lost 48 Excellent service ground joke 43 From east of the
driver, 50 Terse 5 Denim fabric Urals
for short 52 “That feels 6 Trump’s “The 45 One placing a
22 Big laugh so-o-o-o nice!” ___ of the Deal” telephone call
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24 Former British 56 Amazement say Janet Yellen,
P.M. Tony 57 Water down 8 Victoria’s informally Sam Ewing, a former
Secret measure- 49 “Button your major league baseball player
Yesterday’s solution ment lip!” 山寨店太多网红蛋糕鲍师傅起诉维权
51 Tango require- who batted left-handed but
9 Chaney of hor- threw right-handed, said,
ror ment
10 Azalea of rap 53 Store sign that “Computers are like bikinis.
11 Lieutenant on might be flipped They save people a lot of
the original at 9 am guesswork.” 由于山寨门店太多，
“网红”
糕点店鲍师傅决定用法律
U.S.S. Enterprise 54 Inmates Bridge players dislike 的武器来维权。
12 “___ and ye shall 55 Wee guesswork, but on some
find” 57 Lavish care (on) deals it is unavoidable. Look
14 Hopeless 58 Instrument that at the South hand in today’s
18 Iditarod vehicle makes the diagram. With only the Master Bao, a Beijing-based pastry chain, filed cases
19 Hoppy brew, for cheeks puff out opponents vulnerable, part- against hundreds of shops across the country that are
short 59 Clapton who ner opens one diamond, and West could have found the operating illegally under its brand. Courts in Beijing, Nan-
24 Nonsense, as sang “Layla” jing and Hangzhou have accepted the cases.
61 Habit wearer East overcalls four spades. lethal club lead. Even if East
the Irish might What should South had doubled five hearts,
say 62 “No” vote
25 “Darn!” 63 “Just kidding!” respond? most experts would treat
Obviously, South is wonder- that as showing a strong 北京蛋糕连锁店鲍师傅对国内数百家冒用其品牌经营
ing about a slam — but which four-spade bid, not as a lead- 的店铺发起诉讼，
北京、南京和杭州三地的法院已经受
one? Or can East-West take directing Lightner double. 理。
Comics two immediate heart tricks? Instead of five hearts, South
On this deal, six of either might have bid four
DILBERT minor can be made, but get- no-trump. This ought not to
ting to one of them is not easy. be Blackwood, but showing at “山寨”一直是知识产权领域的一个顽疾， 市场上卖的
South bid five hearts, least two places to play. Here, 各种“山寨产品”可以用knockoff或者copycat表示，
which was passed out. West North would rebid five clubs, 比如， that so-called new product was just a copycat of
led a spade. Declarer won giving South another guess: their rival ’
s latest product(那个所谓的新产品只不过
with dummy’s ace and dis- Should he raise to six clubs? In 是山寨了对手的新品而已)。
carded a club from his hand. six clubs, declarer should
Then came the heart eight. work to take these 12 tricks:
East took the trick and one spade, five diamonds, five
tapped declarer with a clubs and a spade ruff in the 所以， 这里的“鲍师傅山寨店” 我们也可以用knockoffs
spade. But South just played South hand. Yes, if diamonds of Master Bao pastry 来表示。鲍师傅糕点创始人鲍才
trumps from the top and break 4-1, the play gets more 胜表示， 目前他们公司在北京开设的鲍师傅门店只有
could not be defeated. complicated. The curious may 14家， 全国也才26家(there are only 26 authentic Master
F-MINUS East then wondered how work it out. Bao outlets nationwide)。但是，
仅北京地区山寨的鲍师
傅就有200余家。

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22 SPORTS | Running Tuesday, April 10, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION

MARATHON
Number of full marathon finishers

Gender 2014 110,000

Male distribution 2015 146,690
72.84% of runners 2016 243,100
in 2017 2017 268,900

CRAZE GAINING Female 27.16%

Top five provincial and municipal
race hosts in 2017

MORE MILEAGE
Focus shifts to improving race-day experience, Sun Xiaochen reports
Cross-
country
race 28.3%
Proportion
of different
races
Half
marathon
22.0%

Full
Beijing 69

Jiangsu 149
Shanghai 63
in 2017 Zhejiang 152
marathon
15.7%
Guangdong 103

C
hina’s marathon boom shows no
Shorter-distance
sign of abating but, spurred by Source: Chinese Athletics Association
The increase in number of road race 34.0%
new government guidelines, the TIAN CHI / CHINA DAILY
industry’s focus is now on provid- races (including full marathons
ing runners with an improved race-day and shorter-distance races)
experience. and participants
Even with a spring chill and intermit-
= ten thousand
tent smog in the air, Beijing’s dedicated
army of runners pack the tracks and trails

2013
of Olympic Forest Park on weekends.
“It’s been part of my weekend routine,”
said Hao Liang, a regular runner at the
park, where a 10 km plastic runway encir-
cles a lake, a legacy of the 2008 Olympics.
“If I missed the running exercise with 39
my fellow club mates on Saturday, I would races
feel like I’ve missed the whole weekend.
750,000
“It’s not just about staying fit, it’s more participants
important to hang out with same-minded
guys to escape from your life pressure at
least for a while. It’s addictive,” said Hao,
who has completed 22 marathons and is a
co-founder of Beijing-based Maker Run
club.
Hao is typical of the health-conscious 2014
urbanites who have caught the running
bug in major cities such as Beijing, Shang-
2017
hai and Guangzhou.
According to the Chinese Athletics 51
races
Association (CAA), nearly 5 million peo-
ple took part in 1,102 registered running 900,000 1,102
events in China last year, almost 20 times participants races
the 2014 number.
This Sunday, at least 40 races across the
country will start at roughly the same
time, indicating that the marathon calen- 5,000,000
dar is becoming increasingly crowded. participants

Numbers game
Meeting the demand for race spots can
be an issue, with online lotteries often
used to determine the starting lists.
For the March 25 Wuxi Marathon in
Wuxi, Jiangsu province, 91,000 runners
2015
had signed up for the 30,000 spots two 134
months before the starting gun. races
Shui Tao, director of the CAA’s mara-
thon management office, hopes new races 1,500,000
can help soak up the soaring demand. participants
“I don’t think it’s time to cool it off,” Shui
told China Daily at the launch of the Fairy
Coast International Marathon, which will
be held on July 1 in Haiyang, Shandong 2016
province.
“All the events we are overseeing now
only cover half of the cities in the country.
We still have new territories to explore on
328
races 2020(expected)
the country’s running map.”
Figures in China still pale in compari- 2,800,000
participants
son to participation levels in countries
such as the United States, however.
According to Running USA’s annual
report, 1,100 marathons were held in the
US in 2016, finished by 507,600 runners. 1,900
The respective figures in China were only races
173 and 268,900 last year.
The central government’s call to
expand its mass fitness campaign has
simplified the approval procedure for
hosting grassroots sporting events, allow-
ing more diversified races to be organized
10,000,000
participants
at regional level, said Shui.

Accessible addiction
Running’s accessibility, affordability
and sociability are key to its popularity,
according to experts.
“No other sport has a lower entry
requirement than running,” said Shi
Chunjian, a former CAA official and now a
race organizing consultant.
“All you need is a pair of running shoes
and you can go hit the road, regardless of
age or gender.
“There’s a strong sense of accomplish-
ment after finishing a run, whether it’s a 5
km or a marathon, and that’s proving
highly contagious thanks to social media.
Once you take up running, it’s easy to con-
tact like-minded enthusiasts on social
networking platforms such as WeChat or
Weibo.”
Bragging about your latest marathon
feat has become a thing on social media,
as evidenced by the 100 million-plus
views of photos and posts bearing the
hashtag #Wuxi Marathon# on Weibo on
the day of this year’s race.
Meanwhile, local governments are
using races, especially televised ones, to
promote tourism in their respective areas.
“Nothing compares to a marathon in
terms of showcasing local landscape for
as long as three hours on national TV, so
no wonder more and more second- or
third-tier cities are keen to land races,”
said Wu Hongtao, a senior executive at
Infront China, a major sports organizing
and promoting agency.
Challenges ahead
A number of embarrassing, and even
deadly, incidents have underlined the
importance of quality control.
After last year’s Beijing Marathon, a
photo of three runners with the same bib
number went viral, exposing long-existing
issues of people fabricating IDs or trading
entry spots illegally to run without regis-
tration. All three runners have been
banned from signing up for the race again.
Cheating can also have serious conse-
quences.
During a half-marathon in Xiamen,
Fujian province in December 2015, a run-
ner who was later found to be competing
under someone else’s name, died of a
heart attack after medical treatment
based on the original participant’s infor-
mation failed to revive him.
Fearing a repeat incident, some elite
races are now using face and fingerprint
recognition technology to stamp out iden-
tity cheats.
Lax management and poor services can
also pose problems.
During the 2013 Beijing Marathon,
photos of competitors urinating on the
walls of the Palace Museum (aka Forbid-
den City) sparked online furor.
The following year organizers added
another 160 mobile toilets around the
start and finish areas to prevent a repeat.
Providing proper services, such as suffi-
cient hydration, energy supplies and toi-
let facilities, is just as important as course
design and traffic control, according to
race consultant Shi.
In January, the General Administration
of Sport of China, with support from 10
other ministries, issued a long-term
guideline for marathon development,
aimed at raising standards of race organi-
All you need is a pair of
running shoes and you
can go hit the road,
regardless of age or
gender.”
Shi Chunjian, race organizer and consultant
zation, services, security, medical support
and logistics.
“We are still in the early stage of devel-
opment. The lack of awareness and edu-
cation in running and organizing races is
still an issue to be addressed,” said the
CAA’s Shui.
The CAA has worked with Shanghai
University of Sport to offer training pro-
grams and certificates for domestic orga-
nizers.
This year’s first three-day workshop for
marathon management and organization
opened at the university on Monday.
The guideline report forecasts that by
2020, around 1,900 races will attract 10
million runners annually, while the dis-
tance-running industry is expected to
generate revenue of 120 billion yuan
(about $19 billion) from running gear
sales, training, broadcasting, endorse-
ment and tourism.
Off the beaten track
Marathons are synonymous with cities, but more and
more races are now being staged away from concrete
jungles as natural beauty and remote cultural attrac-
tions increasingly become selling points for events.
From scenic beaches on China’s eastern coast to eth-
nic villages near Lhasa on the country’s southwestern
Tibetan plateau, unique courses and local tourist attrac-
tions are helping events stand out from the competition.
“As marathon becomes much more accessible, it’s up
to the diverse attractions of races to cater to specific
demographics and earn positive feedback,” said Shi
Chunjian, a marathon organizer and consultant with the
Chinese Athletics Association.
“Distance, volunteers, rewards ... standard protocols
are all the same for a certain type of race. What leaves a
deep impression on participants will be what they see,
experience and even eat in the host areas.”
The Fairy Coast Haiyang International Marathon, held
in Shandong province’s coastal city Haiyang, is a case in
point.
The annual race, which will kick off its third edition on
July 1, features a back-and-forth route along 20 km of
coastline.
“Not necessarily every runner has to be a serious
contender pushing for a personal best. Our race will
appeal greatly to those who want to enjoy some sun-
shine and breeze on the beach while running for fun,”
said Lin Yutao, major of Haiyang.
Meanwhile, the Huangyaguan Great Wall Marathon is
extremely popular with overseas runners, who are pre-
pared to endure the pain of an undulating route along
the Huangyaguan section of the wall in Jixian, Tianjin, to
take in views of one of the wonders of the world and the
breathtaking vistas of the surrounding landscape.
“At the end of the day, what runners tell each other
and what keeps them returning to a race matter a lot for
an event’s reputation,” said Shi. “Diversity is the key.”
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GOLF

Tiger still the

A GOOD
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AUGUSTA, Georgia — tive endorsement deals. Also

IS TOUGH Tiger Woods was unable to

conjure up his old magic at
the Masters, but that didn’t
erased from memory was last
year’s DUI arrest that pro-
duced a droopy-eyed book-

TO PUT dampen the enthusiasm sur-

rounding his return to
Augusta National.
ing photo.
And the fact that Woods
began his round 18 shots

Patrick Reed lets out a triumphant shout after winning the Masters by one stroke over Rickie Fowler on Sunday in Augusta, Georgia.
‘Captain America’ captures first
major with gritty performance
AUGUSTA, Georgia — Pat-
rick Reed became famous
playing for his country. He
won for himself on Sunday
and became a Masters cham-
pion.
It was never easy, just the
way Reed likes it.
Rory McIlroy came after
him early. Jordan Spieth roar-
ed to life with a final-round
charge and briefly caught
Reed with a 35-foot birdie
putt.
The last challenge came
from Rickie Fowler, who bird-
ied the last hole to leave Reed
no room for error.
Reed never flinched
throughout a raucous after-
noon at Augusta National.
Clinging to a one-shot lead,
his 25-foot putt down the slip-
pery slope on the 18th green
ran three feet by the hole as
Reed pressed down both
hands, begging it to stop.
From there, the 27-year-old
Texan calmly rolled in the par
putt for a 1-under 71 and a one-
shot victory.
“To have to par the last hole
to win my first major, it defi-
nitely felt right,” Reed said
from Butler Cabin, right
before Sergio Garcia helped
him into a green jacket.
The loudest cheers were for
everyone else.
Reed earned their respect
with two big birdie putts on
the back nine, one crucial par
putt and plenty of grit. He also
had a little luck when his
80-foot putt across the 17th
green hit the hole, keeping it
only six feet away. He made
that for par to stay in control.
Reed won for the sixth time
in his PGA Tour career, though
he was best known for the tro-
phies he shared at the Ryder
Cup and Presidents Cup.
He is ferocious in match
play, especially the team varie-
ty, and his singles victory over
McIlroy at Hazeltine in the
2016 Ryder Cup led to his nick-
name, ‘Captain America’.
“He’s not scared. I think you
guys have seen that previous
from the Ryder Cups and the
way he plays,” said Fowler,
who closed with a 67.
“He won’t back down. I
don’t necessarily see him as
someone that backs up and
will let you come back into the
tournament. You have to go
catch him.”
Fowler did his best with
three birdies in a four-hole
DOWN
stretch, and an eight-foot bird-
ie on the final hole.
It still wasn’t enough. Fowl-
er was runner-up for the third
time in a major. He left the
scoring cabin when Reed
tapped in for par.
“Glad I at least made the last
one, make him earn it,” Fowler
said with a grin as he waited to
greet the newest major cham-
pion.
“You had to do it, didn’t
you?” Reed told him as they
exchanged a hug. “You had to
birdie the last.”
Spieth put up the most
unlikely fight and was on the
verge of the greatest comeback
in Masters history.
The young Texan started
nine shots behind going into
the final round, and was inches
away on two shots from a
chance at another green jacket.
His tee shot on the 18th
clipped the last branch in his
way, dropping his ball 267
yards from the green. His
eight-foot par putt for a
record-tying 63 missed to the
right as he settled for a 64.
“I think I’ve proven to
myself and to others that you
never give up,” Spieth said.
“I started the round nine
shots back and I came out with
the idea of just playing the
course and having a lot of fun
and try to shoot a low round.
“I wanted to finish strong
DAVID GOLDMAN / AP
and see what happens, if
something crazy happens.”
McIlroy, meanwhile, will
have to wait another year for a
shot at the career grand slam.
Trailing by three shots to
start the final round, he closed
to within one after two holes.
That was as close as he came.
McIlroy’s putter betrayed him,
and he was never a factor on
the back nine. He closed with a
74 and tied for fifth.
The gallery was clearly
behind McIlroy, even though
Reed led Augusta State to a
pair of NCAA titles and briefly
lived in Augusta.
He was met with polite
applause on the first tee. The
throaty cheer was for McIlroy,
and it looked as though the
28-year-old from Northern
Ireland atoned from shooting
80 in the final round and los-
ing a four-shot lead.
Reed scrambled for a bogey
on the opening hole. He failed
to get up-and-down from a
bunker on the par-5 second as
McIlroy had a four-foot eagle
putt to tie for the lead.
McIlroy missed badly, a sign
of what was to come. He
missed four putts inside 10
feet on the front nine, and
blew a three-foot par attempt
on the 14th.
Different about this victory
for Reed was the fuchsia shirt
he wore as part of a Nike
script. Reed always wears
black pants and a red shirt
because that’s what Tiger
Woods does, and Reed has
long modeled his mental game
after Woods. “Be stubborn,” he
once said about learning by
watching Woods.
Reed went to the back nine
with a four-shot lead over four
players, and they all had their
chances. That included Jon
Rahm, the 23-year-old from
Spain, whose chances ended
when he went after the flag on
the par-5 15th and came up
short in the water. He shot 69
and finished fourth.
Reed’s only bogey on the
back nine was at No 11 from a
tee shot into the trees. He
answered with a 25-foot birdie
on the 12th, and a shot into
eight feet at No 14 for a birdie
that broke the tie with Spieth.
He made all pars from there.
That’s all he needed.
He became the fourth
straight Masters champion to
capture his first major.
Reed once claimed after
winning a World Golf Champi-
onship at Doral that he was a
top-five player in the world,
which subjected him to ridi-
cule. This victory moves him
to No 11. It also comes with a
green jacket, which earns far
more respect and notoriety.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Woods, despite no chance
of getting into contention on
the final day of the year’s first
major, was given a warm
reception whenever patrons
caught a glimpse of the four-
time Masters champion navi-
gating the course in his
traditional Sunday red.
For Woods, who battled
back issues for years and had
spinal fusion surgery last
April, this marked the first
time he competed in any of
golf’s four major champion-
ships since 2015.
“It’s disappointing that I
didn’t hit the ball well
enough,” Woods said after cap-
ping his final-round 69 with a
three-putt bogey at the 18th.
“But to be able to just be
out here competing again, if
you had said that last year at
this particular time I would
have said you’re crazy.”
Woods is only six tourna-
ments into his comeback
from injury and while he was
unable to display the type of
form that had him touted as
one of the favorites this year,
he remains upbeat for what
lies ahead.
“Things are progressing,”
said Woods. “I just didn’t do a
good enough job this week ...
but to be able to compete out
here and to score like I did, it
feels good.”
With hours to go before
the final pairings teed off,
Woods was by far the main
draw on a cool morning at
Augusta National, with fans
offering words of encourage-
ment each step of the way.
Long forgotten was the sex
scandal that dogged Woods
late in 2009 and ultimately
cost him a number of lucra-
Tiger Woods tracks his shot from the ninth tee in the final round
of the Masters on Sunday. PATRICK SMITH / GETTY IMAGES / AFP
behind overnight leader Pat-
rick Reed was also not
enough to spoil the party for
supporters of the former
world No 1.
“For some reason when
you are front row in front of
Tiger Woods ... you don’t
even want to look at him
because you are so scared,”
Patrick Keim, a 22-year-old
student from Auburn, Ala-
bama, said as Woods made a
par putt at the par-three sixth
hole.
“The intimidation and the
intensity is undeniable.”
Ever the competitor, Woods
was still intent on making a
move up the scoreboard and
posted his lowest score of the
week — a 3-under 69.
While not able to consist-
ently produce the type of
shots he once conjured on
command, Woods twice trig-
gered loud roars when he
nearly aced the par-3 fourth
and then again at the par-5
15th when his second shot
stopped 29 feet from the pin
before he converted the eagle
putt.
The way Woods, a 79-time
winner on the PGA Tour,
tamed what was one of the
most difficult holes all week
is why some of his supporters
feel the greatest golfer of his
generation is far from done.
“It’s positive what he’s
doing,” Ryan Godsey, a
41-year-old teacher from
Greenville, South Carolina,
said as Woods made birdie at
the par-three fourth.
“I think he showed he will
win again. It’s just a matter of
time.”
REUTERS

Scoreboard
BASEBALL x-Portland 48 32 .600 — SOCCER Atalanta 31 13 9 9 47 34 48 Davis Cup
Utah 47 33 .588 1 MOTOR CYCLING Torino 31 11 12 8 46 38 45 World Group quarterfinal results on weekend:
Results of the Major League Baseball games on Oklahoma City 46 34 .575 2 English Premier League Bologna 31 10 5 16 35 43 35 At Genoa (clay)
Sunday (home team in CAPS): Minnesota 45 35 .563 3 Argentina MotoGP Results on Sunday: Genoa 31 9 8 14 24 31 35 Italy 1 France 3
Baltimore 8 NY YANKEES 7 (12 innings) Denver 45 35 .563 3 TERMAS DE R HONDO, Argentina - Argentina Arsenal 3 (Aubameyang 28, Welbeck 38, 81) Udinese 31 10 3 18 39 48 33 At Valencia (clay)
BOSTON 8 Tampa Bay 7 Pacific Division Grand Prix results on Sunday: Southampton 2 (Long 17, Austin 73) Sassuolo 31 7 9 15 21 51 30 Spain 3 Germany 2
CLEVELAND 3 Kansas City 1 y-Golden State 58 23 .716 — MotoGP Chelsea 1 (Azpilicueta 36) West Ham 1 (Hernan- Chievo 31 7 8 16 29 51 29 At Varazdin (clay)
Detroit 1 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 0 1. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/LCR Honda) 40:36.342, 2. dez 73) Cagliari 31 8 5 18 28 51 29 Croatia 3 Kazakhstan 1
LA Clippers 42 38 .525 15½
HOUSTON 4 San Diego 1 Johann Zarco (FRA/Yamaha Tech3) at 0.251sec, SPAL 31 5 12 14 30 52 27 At Nashville (hard)
LA Lakers 34 46 .425 23½
Seattle at MINNESOTA, ppd 3. Alex Rins (ESP/Suzuki) 2.501, 4. Jack Miller GP W D L GF GA Pts Crotone 31 7 6 18 29 56 27 USA 4 Belgium 0
Sacramento 26 54 .325 31½
Toronto 7 TEXAS 4 (AUS/Ducati Pramac) 4.390, 5. Maverick Vinales Man City 32 27 3 2 90 24 84 Verona 31 7 4 20 26 62 25
Phoenix 20 61 .247 38
PITTSBURGH 5 Cincinnati 0 (ESP/Yamaha) 14.941, 6. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/ Man United 32 22 5 5 63 25 71 Benevento 31 4 1 26 26 73 13
Miami 6 PHILADELPHIA 3 x-clinched playoff spot Liverpool 33 19 10 4 75 35 67
Ducati) 22.533, 7. Tito Rabat (ESP/Ducati A1vintia)
Chicago Cubs 3 MILWAUKEE 0 y-clinched division Tottenham 32 20 7 5 64 27 67
23.026, 8. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Suzuki) 23.921, 9.
Arizona 4 ST. LOUIS 1 z-clinched conference Chelsea 32 17 6 9 54 31 57 Scottish Premiership
Hafizh Syahrin (MAL/Yamaha Tech3) 24.311, 10.
Atlanta 4 COLORADO 0 Arsenal 32 16 6 10 61 43 54 Results on Sunday:
Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati Pramac) 26.003
LA ANGELS 6 Oakland 1 GOLF Burnley 32 13 10 9 31 28 49 Hamilton 1 (Bingham 18) Celtic 2 (McGregor 3,
Selected others
LA Dodgers 2 SAN FRANCISCO 1 (10 innings) Leicester 32 11 10 11 48 45 43 Griffiths 46)
US Masters 15. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Ducati) at 42.274, 18. Marc
NY Mets 6 WASHINGTON 5 (12 innings) Everton 33 11 8 14 38 53 41
Final-round scores on Sunday from the 82nd Marquez (ESP/Honda) 43.860, 19. Valentino Rossi
Newcastle 32 10 8 14 33 41 38 Spanish La Liga
Masters at par-72 Augusta National Golf Club: (ITA/Yamaha) 52.082
BASKETBALL Overall world championship standings
Bournemouth 33 9 11 13 41 53 38 Results on Sunday:
273 - Patrick Reed (USA) 69-66-67-71 Watford 33 10 7 16 42 59 37 Levante 2 (Coke 35, Campana 90+2) Las Palmas 1
Results of the National Basketball Association 274 - Rickie Fowler (USA) 70-72-65-67 1. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/LCR Honda) 38 points, 2.
Brighton 32 8 11 13 29 43 35 (David Garcia 50)
games on Sunday (home team in CAPS): 275 - Jordan Spieth (USA) 66-74-71-64 Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 35 pts, 3. Johann
West Ham 32 8 10 14 40 58 34 Real Madrid 1 (Ronaldo 53) Atletico Madrid 1
Atlanta 112 BOSTON 106 277 - Jon Rahm (ESP) 75-68-65-69 Zarco (FRA/Yamaha Tech3) 28, 4. Maverick Vina- Swansea 32 8 8 16 26 45 32 (Griezmann 57)
PHILADELPHIA 109 Dallas 97 279 - Cameron Smith (AUS) 71-72-70-66, Bubba les (ESP/Yamaha) 21, 5. Marc Marquez (ESP/ Huddersfield 33 8 8 17 26 54 32 Real Sociedad 5 (Canales 11, Januzaj 35, Oyarza-
Indiana 123 CHARLOTTE 117 Watson (USA) 73-69-68-69, Henrik Stenson (SWE) Honda) 20, 6. Jack Miller (AUS/Ducati Pramac) 19, Crystal Palace 33 7 10 16 33 52 31 bal 71, 85, Juanmi 88) Girona 0
MEMPHIS 130 Detroit 117 69-70-70-70, Rory McIlroy (NIR) 69-71-65-74 7. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati Pramac) 17, 8. Val- Southampton 32 5 13 14 31 50 28 Valencia 1 (Rodrigo 7) Espanyol 0
TORONTO 112 Orlando 101 280 - Marc Leishman (AUS) 70-67-73-70 entino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 16, 9. Alex Rins (ESP/ Stoke 33 6 9 18 30 63 27
Utah 112 LA LAKERS 97 281 - Tony Finau (USA) 68-74-73-66, Dustin John- Suzuki) 16, 10. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Suzuki) 15 West Brom 33 3 12 18 26 52 21 P W D L Gf Ga Pts
Golden State 117 PHOENIX 100 son (USA) 73-68-71-69 Barcelona 31 24 7 0 79 16 79
282 - Charley Hoffman 69-73-73-67, Justin Rose MOTOR SPORTS Atletico Madrid 31 20 8 3 51 15 68
(ENG) 72-70-71-69, Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 71-71- French Ligue 1 Valencia 31 20 5 6 59 31 65
EASTERN Results on Sunday:
CONFERENCE 71-69 Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix Real Madrid 31 19 7 5 77 34 64
283 - Paul Casey (ENG) 74-75-69-65, Russell Hen- Results of the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday: Nice 1 (Plea 17) Rennes 1 (Bourigeaud 27) Real Betis 31 15 4 12 52 53 49
Atlantic Division
ley (USA) 73-72-71-67 1. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) 1hr 31min Metz 0 Lyon 5 (Marcelo 1, 21, Depay 65, Traore 68, Villarreal 30 14 5 11 40 34 47
W L Pct GB
284 - Justin Thomas (USA) 74-67-70-73, Tommy 59.491sec, 2. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Mercedes) at Mariano Diaz 86) Sevilla 31 14 4 13 39 50 46
z-Toronto 58 22 .725 —
Fleetwood (ENG) 72-72-66-74 0.699sec, 3. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) Marseille 0 Montpellier 0 Girona 31 12 8 11 44 48 44
x-Boston 54 26 .675 4
285 - Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 73-71-72-69 6.512, 4. Pierre Gasly (FRA/Toro Rosso) 1:02.234, Celta Vigo 31 12 7 12 50 43 43
x-Philadelphia 50 30 .625 8
286 - Webb Simpson (USA) 76-73-70-67, Frances- 5. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/Haas) 1:15.046, 6. Nico German Bundesliga Eibar 31 11 7 13 36 45 40
New York 28 52 .350 30
co Molinari (ITA) 72-74-70-70, Jimmy Walker Huelkenberg (GER/Renault) 1:39.024, 7. Fernando Results on Sunday: Getafe 31 10 9 12 35 30 39
Brooklyn 27 53 .338 31 Real Sociedad 31 10 7 14 56 52 37
(USA) 73-71-71-71, Jason Day (AUS) 75-71-69-71 Alonso (ESP/McLaren) 1 lap, 8. Stoffel Van- Borussia Dortmund 3 (Pulisic 38, Batshuayi 48,
Southeast Athletic Bilbao 30 8 12 10 30 34 36
287 - Branden Grace (RSA) 73-73-74-67, Adam doorne (BEL/McLaren) 1 lap, 9. Marcus Ericsson Philipp 59) Stuttgart 0
Division Leganes 31 10 6 15 26 39 36
Hadwin (CAN) 69-75-72-71, Kim Si-woo (KOR) (SWE/Sauber-Ferrari) 1 lap, 10. Esteban Ocon Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Jovic 49) Hoffenheim 1
x-Miami 43 37 .538 — Espanyol 31 8 12 11 26 38 36
75-73-68-71, Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 70-73-72-72 (FRA/Force India) 1 lap, 11. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/ (Gnabry 56)
x-Washington 42 38 .525 1 Renault) 1 lap, 12. Sergio Perez (MEX/Force Alaves 31 11 2 18 28 45 35
288 - Ryan Moore (USA) 74-72-72-70, Satoshi Kod-
Charlotte 35 46 .432 8½ India) 1 lap, 13. Brendon Hartley (NZL/Toro Ros- Levante 31 6 13 12 28 45 31
aira (JPN) 71-74-71-72, Kevin Kisner (USA) 72-75- Italian Serie A
Orlando 24 56 .300 19 so) 1 lap, 14. Charles Leclerc (MON/Sauber) 1 lap, Deportivo 31 5 8 18 29 63 23
69-72, Matt Kuchar (USA) 68-75-72-73 Results on Sunday:
Atlanta 24 57 .296 19½ 15. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Haas) 1 lap, 16. Lance Las Palmas 31 5 6 20 22 63 21
289 - Tiger Woods (USA) 73-75-72-69, Adam Scott Crotone 1 (Nwankwo 25) Bologna 0
Central Division Stroll (CAN/Williams) 1 lap, 17. Sergey Sirotkin Malaga 31 4 5 22 19 48 17
(AUS) 75-73-70-71, Daniel Berger (USA) 73-74-71- Napoli 2 (Milik 89, Diawara 90+3) Chievo 1 (Ste-
x-Cleveland 49 31 .613 — 71, Li Haotong (CHN) 69-76-72-72 (RUS/Williams) 1 lap
x-Indiana 48 33 .593 1½ pinski 73)
290 - Phil Mickelson (USA) 70-79-74-67, Zach Championship standings TENNIS
x-Milwaukee 43 37 .538 6 Torino 1 (Ljajic 36) Inter Milan 0
Johnson (USA) 70-74-74-72 Drivers
Detroit 38 42 .475 11 Verona 1 (Romulo 36-pen) Cagliari 0
291 - Bryson DeChambeau (USA) 74-74-72-71, 1. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 50 pts, 2. Lewis Hamil- WTA Charleston
Chicago 27 53 .338 22 Udinese 1 (Lasagna 13) Lazio 2 (Immobile 26,
Rafael Cabrera Bello (ESP) 69-76-74-72, Bernhard ton (GBR) 33, 3. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 22, 4. Fernan- Results on Sunday (x denotes seeding):
Alberto 37)
Langer (GER) 74-74-71-72, Fred Couples (USA) do Alonso (ESP) 16, 5. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) 15, 6. Final
WESTERN AC Milan 1 (Kalinic 86) Sassuolo 1 (Politano 75)
72-74-73-72, Jhonattan Vegas (VEN) 77-69-72-73, Nico Huelkenberg (GER) 14, 7. Pierre Gasly (FRA) Kiki Bertens (NED x12) bt Julia Gges (GER x5) 6-2,
CONFERENCE
Matthew Fitzpatrick (ENG) 75-74-67-75 12, 8. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) 12, 9. Kevin Mag- P W D L Gf Ga Pts 6-1
Southwest
292 - Ian Poulter (ENG) 74-75-74-69, Brian Harman nussen (DEN) 10, 10. Max Verstappen (NED) 8, 11. Juventus 31 26 3 2 74 18 81 Semifinals
Division
(USA) 73-74-76-69, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) 6, 12. Marcus Ericsson Napoli 31 24 5 2 66 21 77 Kiki Bertens (NED x12) bt Madison Keys (USA x7)
z-Houston 64 16 .800 —
79-70-72-71, Tyrrell Hatton (ENG) 74-75-73-70 (SWE) 2, 13. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) 1, 14. Esteban 6-4, 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/5); Julia Gges (GER x5) bt
San Antonio 46 34 .575 18 Lazio 31 18 6 7 75 40 60
294 - Martin Kaymer (GER) 74-73-74 Ocon (FRA) 1 Anastasija Sevastova (LAT x8) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3
New Orleans 46 34 .575 18 Roma 31 18 6 7 50 26 60
295 - Vijay Singh (FIJ) 71-74-79-71 Constructors
Dallas 24 57 .296 40½ Inter Milan 31 16 11 4 50 22 59
296 - a-Doug Ghim (USA) 72-76-74-74, Xander 1. Ferrari 65 pts, 2. Mercedes 55, 3. McLaren 22, 4. WTA Monterrey
Memphis 22 58 .275 42 AC Milan 31 15 7 9 43 36 52
Schauffele (USA) 71-78-72-75 Red Bull 20, 5. Renault 15, 6. Toro Rosso 12, 7. Results on Sunday:
Northwest Fiorentina 31 14 8 9 44 33 50
297 - Kyle Stanley (USA) 72-74-75-76 Haas 10, 8. Sauber 2, 9. Force India 1 Final: Garbine Muguruza (ESP x1) bt Timea
Division Sampdoria 31 14 6 11 50 46 48
298 - Chez Reavie (USA) 76-71-75-76 Babos (HUN x4) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
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